the authority of the same, that from and after the passing of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Honorable Adam Ferrie, of the City of Montreal, Esquire, Merchant, in his capacity of Chairman of one of the said Committees duly appointed, according to the terms of the said articles of Association, and for his successors in office, to be hereafter in like manner duly appointed, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in all Courts and places, and in all actions and complaints whatsoever, according to the terms, intent and meaning of, and for all and every the purposes set forth and mentioned in the said articles of Association, for which the Chairman, for the time being is, by the said articles of Association, empowered to act, and that any judgment rendered against such Chairman acting as aforesaid, shall be deemed to be a judgment binding against the members of the said Company, and upon which execution may issue against all or any of the members of the said Company, as upon a judgment against him or them in his or their private capacity.

This Act to

be a Public

II. And be it enacted, that this Act shall be deemed a Public Act, and as such shall be judicially noticed by all Judges and Justices of the Peace, and all Act, and to be other persons whomsoever, without being specially pleaded.

CAP. LX.

An Act to amend the Charter of the Cataraqui Bridge Company.

W

[9th December, 1843.] ·

THEREAS a certain Act was passed by the Legislature of the late Province of Upper Canada, in the eighth year of the Reign of His late Majesty, King George the Fourth, and intituled, An Act to incorporate certain persons therein mentioned, under the style and title of The Cataraqui Bridge Company; And whereas the said Act of Incorporation is in several respects incomplete, and the said Bridge being nearly worn out, and a new one about to be erected, it is expedient to alter and amend certain Sections of the said Act; Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that the Toll-keeper, or the person appointed to receive the Tolls at the said Cataraqui Bridge, shall hereafter open the Draw-bridge, which,

by

noticed accordingly.

Notices calling General Meetings of the Company,

by the third section of the said Act, the said Company are bound to construct for all vessels demanding passage through the same, and for every neglect or refusal, the said Toll-keeper or person appointed to receive the Tolls, shall forfeit and pay to the party so detained, the sum of twenty five shillings, currency.

II. And be it enacted, that so much of the tenth section of the said Act, as requires that notices for annual meetings be advertised in all the several newspapers in the Town of Kingston, shall be and is hereby repealed, and that henceforhow to be ad- ward notice in the Canada Gazette, or one other newspaper of the said town, shall be sufficient for calling any public meeting of the said Cataraqui Bridge Company.

vertized.

Under what authority of. fenders against

III. And be it enacted, that so much of the twenty-fourth section of the said Act, as relates to the levying of fines for offences against the said Act, and the said Act refers the Magistrate in such cases for authority to the fifth section thereof, shall shanbe prose- be and is hereby repealed; and that henceforward, the provisions set forth in the sixth section of the said Act, shall be the authority under which the Magistrate shall act in all manner of things relating to such offences.

cuted.

CAP. LXI.

Preamble.

An Act to alter and amend the Act of Incorporation of the Kingston
Marine Railway Company.

W

[9th December, 1843.]

THEREAS the Kingston Marine Railway Company have, by their Petition, prayed for certain amendments in the Act of the Legislature of the Province of Upper Canada incorporating them hereinafter mentioned, and whereas it is expedient to grant the same; Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and Marine it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that the Corporation known powered to by the name of the Kingston Marine Railway Company, established by an Act take, hold and of the late Province of Upper Canada, passed in the first year of Her Majesty's Real Estate, to Reign, and intituled, An Act to incorporate sundry persons under the name of The 1 limited a Kingston Marine Railway Company, are hereby authorized and empowered, and ly value. shall be by law capable of purchasing, having and holding to them and their suc

ston

The King

Railway em

depart with

a

mount in year

cessors, any estate, real personal or mixed, to and for the use of the said Company, and of letting, conveying, and otherwise departing with, for the benefit and account of the said Company, the said real, personal or mixed estate, or such part thereof as may not be required for the purposes of the said Company, from time to time, as they shall deem necessary and expedient: Provided always, that all such real estate or property to be at any time held by the said Company, shall not exceed in its yearly value the sum of five thousand pounds, currency.

II. And be it enacted, that all purchases and grants of real estate heretofore made to and by the said Company, and all deeds, conveyances, leases, agreements and contracts heretofore made, executed or entered into by the said Company, are hereby declared to be as good and valid in the law to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as if the powers and authorities conferred by this Act had been conferred by the Act above mentioned, and as if the said deeds, conveyances, leases, agreements or contracts had been made by, with or in the name of the said Corporation.

III. And be it enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for the said Company, and they are hereby empowered to erect and build in and upon any of the lands now owned by the said Company, or any which they may hereafter acquire for the purposes of this or the above recited Act, any wharves, piers, store-houses, dwellings and buildings which may from time to time be found necessary and expedient for the improvement of the property of the said Company, and for carrying on the business thereof.

to carry on bu

Engineers.

IV. And be it enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for the said Company, The Compa and they are hereby authorized to make, construct, erect and build all and all ny authorized manner of Vessels, Steamboats, Barges, and other craft, and the engines, rig-siness as Shipging and appurtenances thereto belonging, and to carry on the business of Ship-builders and building and repairing in all its branches, and to enter into contracts and agreements with any person or persons for and in respect of any matter or thing relating to the same : Provided always, that nothing in the said herein before mentioned Act, or in this Act contained, shall be held to authorize or warrant the said Corporation to act as bankers, or to issue or keep in circulation notes in the possess banknature of bank notes, or to make such notes valid in law, if issued by or in the name of the said Corporation.

But not to

ing privileges.

R R

САР.

CAP. LXII.

Preamble.

Certain part

An Act to authorize the several Banks therein mentioned to open Books for the transfer of a certain portion of their Stock, in the City of London,

WH

[9th December, 1843.]

HEREAS it is desirable that the President, Directors and Company of the Commercial Bank of the Midland District, the Bank of Upper Canada and the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the Niagara District, should be respectively authorized to set apart a certain portion of their Capital Stock now unsubscribed for, to be transferable in the City of London, in that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, and should be enabled to open offices in the said City of London, in which the holders of the Stock of the said Institutions should be authorized and empowered to transfer any share or shares thereof; Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that it shall be lawful for the President, Directors and Company of the Commercial Bank of the of the Capital Midland District, and for the Bank of Upper Canada, by any By-law of the said tain Chartered Corporations, respectively, to be passed for that purpose, to set apart an amount Banks to be not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand pounds of the Capital Stock of English Stock, each of the said Banks, now unsubscribed for, to be known and distinguished as the "English Stock" of the said Banks, respectively; and for the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the Niagara District, by any By-law of that Corporation, to be passed for that purpose, to set apart an amount not exceeding fifty thousand pounds of the Capital Stock thereof, to be known and distinguished as the "English Stock" of the said Bank,-and that the shares of the Capital Stock of the said Banks, respectively, so set apart as English Stock shall be assignable and transferable, according to the form of Schedule A., annexed to this Act, in the City of London, only, under such rules and regulations as the Directors, or a majority of the Directors of each of the said Banks, respectively, may deem advisable for that purpose: Provided always, that no such assignment or transfer, shall be valid and effectual, unless made and registered in a Book or Books to be kept for that purpose in the respective offices of such Banks in the said City of London, but being so made and registered, it shall be valid and

Stock of cer

set

aside as

and to be tranferable in London.

Proviso.

binding,

binding, even though the party transferring be at the time of the transfer a debtor of the Bank, of the shares or stock of which any such transfer shall be made: Provided always that it shall be lawful for the Directors of the said Banks, respectively, to make the Instalments of and the Dividends, upon such English Stock, payable in the City of London, and also to accept for any shares in such stock an equal number of shares of the old stock of the same Bank, and to hold and dispose of the shares so received in exchange, any thing in the Acts hereinafter mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.

II. And be it enacted, that so much of the Act passed in the session held in the fourth and fifth years of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to incorporate sundry persons under the style and title of the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the Niagara District, or of the Act passed in the sixth year of Her Majesty's Reign, and intituled, An Act to extend the Charter of the Commercial Bank of the Midland District, and to increase its Capital Stock, or of an Act passed in the sixth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to extend the Charter of the Bank of Upper Canada, and to increase the Capital Stock thereof, or of any other Act or Law, as may be inconsistent with or repugnant to the provisions of this Act, shall be and is hereby repealed.

shillings, current

pounds,

(on each of which has been paid the sum of pounds,
money of the Province of Canada, amounting to the sum of
shillings, like currency,) in the capital stock of [name of the Bank], in the said
Province, subject to the Rules and Regulations of the said Bank.

Witness my [or our] hand [or hands] at the Office of the said Bank, establish
ed for the transfer of shares of the Capital Stock thereof, in the City of London,
day of
in the year one thousand, eight hundred and

this

I [or we] do hereby accept the foregoing assignment of

[SIGNATURE.]

shares of the Ca

pital Stock of the [name of the Bank,] assigned to me [or us,] as above mentioned,

at the Office aforesaid of the said Bank, this eight hundred and

day of

one thousand,

[SIGNATURE.]

CAP.