Preamble Incorpora tion. Corporate name. Head office. General powers. 54-55 VICTORIA. CHAP. 128. An Act to incorporate the Anglo-Canadian Electric W [Assented to 31st July, 1891.] HEREAS a petition has been presented praying for the incorporation of a company for the purpose of manufacturing, selling and leasing secondary batteries, and for other purposes, as hereinafter set forth, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The Honourable Francis Clemow, Charles H. Mackintosh, John Alexander Gemmill, John W. McRae, the Honourable William McDougall, C.B., and C. C. Ray, all of the city of Ottawa, in the Province of Ontario, and Arthur Shippey and Henry Woodward, of the city of London, England, together with such persons as become shareholders in the Company hereby incorporated, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name of "The Anglo-Canadian Electric Storage and Supply Company," hereinafter called the Company. 2. The head office of the Company shall be in the city of Ottawa, in the Province of Ontario, or such other place in Canada as the Company from time to time determine. 3. The Company may (a.) Manufacture, sell, deal in and let on hire, secondary batteries and dynamo machinery, cables, wires. batteries, electric motors, electric balloon signals, miners' electric safety lamps, transformers, meters, instruments, fittings, and other electric appliances used for producing, storing, supplying and transmitting electricity or electric currents for the purposes of light, heat, power, telegraphs, telephones, printing, or any other electrical purposes, and for the supply of electricity to railways, tramway cars, cabs, carriages, carts, boats, ships, maritime and other purposes; and may establish generating and central stations throughout Canada, to produce and supply electricity or electrical currents or force; (b.) Construct, operate and maintain telpherage lines for the carriage of passengers and freight, the motive power of which shall be electricity; (c.) Purchase or otherwise acquire or obtain any inventions or letters patent, or like privileges, for any inventions relating to, or which may be deemed to be of use in connection with the production, supply or use of electricity, or electrical currents or force, or any part or share or interest therein, or any license to exercise or use any such inventions or patent rights, and may make or cause to be made such experiments and investigations as are considered desirable in relation to any such matters; and may grant licenses for the use of, and turn to account in any way any such inventions or patent rights, or apparatus and things made in accordance with any such inventions; (d.) Purchase, lease, hire or otherwise acquire any lands, water powers, factories, buildings, rights or privileges, or other property necessary or expedient for the Company's business; (e) Sell, mortgage or dispose of all or any property of the Company, and may make any sale or disposition in consideration (wholly or partially) of shares, stock or debentures of any other company,-and may make a sale of the business, property and assets of this Company, by way of amalgamation with any company carrying on, or formed for carrying on any business comprised in the objects of this Company,-and may make a sale of any shares, debentures, or interests in, or securities of, any other company possessed by this Company, with or without any guarantee by this Company as to dividends, interest, redemption of capital or otherwise; but no such sale or mortgage shall be valid without the authority of the shareholders, given in the manner set forth in section nine of this Act; (f.) Purchase or otherwise acquire or carry on and administer, as principals or agents, the whole or any part of the business of any person, firm, company or association carrying on, or formed for carrying on any business comprised in the objects of this Company, and may purchase any such business, with all or any part of the property and assets of the vendor, and, in connection with such purchase or acquisition, may undertake all or any of the liabilities of the vendor; (g.) Contract and agree, in consideration of services to be rendered to this Company, or of patents or other rights or benefits, or property, real or personal, to be acquired by this Company, to pay or allow a proportionate part of the receipts, or of the gross or net profits of this Company, to any person or company; (h.) Enter into any arrangements for partnership, sharing profits, union of interests, co-operation, joint adventure, reciprocal concession or otherwise, with any person, firm or company carrying on or about to carry on and engage in any business or transactions which this Company is authorized to carry on Erection of lines. or engage in, and may lend money to guarantee the contracts of, subsidize or otherwise assist any such person, firm or company; (i.) Subscribe for, purchase or otherwise acquire, and may hold or dispose of the whole or any part of the shares, debentures or securities of any company carrying on, or formed for carrying on any business comprised in the objects of this Company, and may promote or establish, or assist in the promotion or establishment of any such company, and may make and carry out all such financial arrangements in relation thereto as are deemed expedient. 4. With the consent of the municipal council having jurisdiction over the roads or streets of any city, town or municipality, the Company may construct, erect and maintain its wires along the sides of and across or under any public highway, streets, public bridges, water-courses or other such places, in Canada, and may, by its servants, agents or workmen, enter upon any street, public road, public bridge, water-course or highway, in any city, incorporated town, village, county or municipality, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining its wires along the sides of, or across or under the same; and may construct, erect and maintain such and so many poles or other works and devices as the Company deems necessary for making, completing and supporting, using, working and maintaining its systems, and may stretch wires thereon, and from time to time, as often as the Company, its agents, officers or workmen think proper, break up and open any part whatsoever of the said roads, streets, highways or water-courses, subject, however, to the following provisions, that is to say: (a.) The Company shall not interfere with the public right of travelling on or using such roads, streets, highway or watercourses, and shall not do any unnecessary damage, nor in any way obstruct the entrance to any door or gateway or free access to any building erected in the vicinity; (b.) The Company shall not affix any wire less than twentytwo feet above the surface of the street or road, nor erect more than one line of poles along any road or street, without the consent of the municipal council having jurisdiction over the roads or streets of the municipality; (c.) In any such municipality the poles shall be as nearly as possible straight and perpendicular, and shall, in cities, be painted, if so required by any by-law of the council; (d.) Whenever, in case of fire, it becomes necessary for its extinction or the preservation of property, that the poles or wires should be cut, the cutting under such circumstances of the poles or any of the wires of the Company, under the direction of the chief engineer or other officer in charge of the fire brigade, shall not entitle the Company to demand or claim compensation for any damage thereby incurred; (e.) The Company shall be responsible for all damage which its agents, servants or workmen cause to individuals or property in carrying out or maintaining any of its said works; (f.) The Company shall not cut down or mutilate any shade, fruit or ornamental tree; (g.) In all municipalities the opening up of streets for the erection of poles, or for carrying the wires under ground, shall be subject to the direction and approval of the engineer or such other official as the council appoints, and shall be done in such manner as the council directs; the council may also direct and designate the places where the poles are to be erected in such municipality, and the surface of the street shall, in all cases, be restored, as far as possible, to its former condition by and at the expense of the Company: 2. No Act of Parliament requiring the Company, in case efficient means are devised for carrying wires under ground, to adopt such means, and abrogating the right given by this section to continue carrying lines on poles through cities, towns or incorporated villages, shall be deemed an infringement of the privileges granted by this Act: 3. No person shall labour upon the work of erecting or repairing any line or instrument of the Company without having conspicuously attached to his dress a medal or badge on which shall be legibly inscribed the name of the Company, and a number by which he can be readily identified : 4. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Company, their servants, workmen or agents, to enter upon any private property for the purpose of erecting, maintaining or repairing any of their works, without the previous assent of the owner or occupant of the property for the time being. 5. The first five persons named in the first section of this Provisional Act shall be provisional directors of the Company, four of whom directors. shall form a quorum; and they may open stock books and procure subscriptions of stock, and shall deposit the payments thereon in a chartered bank in Canada and withdraw the same for the purposes of the Company only. 6. The capital stock of the Company shall be three hundred Capital stock. thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and may be called up from time to time by the directors as they deem necessary; but no one call shall exceed ten per cent on the shares subscribed. 7. The annual general meeting of the shareholders shall be Annual gen held on the first Tuesday of February in each year. eral meeting. 8. At such meeting the subscribers for the capital stock Directors. assembled, who have paid all calls due on their shares, shall choose five persons to be directors of the Company, of whom three shall form a quorum, and one or more of whom may be paid directors of the Company. Borrowing powers. Limitation of time. Grants in aid of works. Agreements with other companies. R.S.C., c. 118. 9. The directors may, when authorized by a by-law for that purpose, passed and approved of by the votes of at least two-thirds of the holders in value of the subscribed stock of the Company, present in person or represented by proxy at a special general meeting called for considering such by-law, borrow such sum of money, not exceeding the paid up capital stock of the Company, as the shareholders deem necessary, and issue bonds or debentures therefor, in sums of not less than one hundred dollars each, at such rates of interest, and payable at such times and places as are determined, for the purpose of carrying out any of the objects of the Company, 10. The Company shall begin operations within three years from the passing of this Act, otherwise the powers granted by this Act shall cease and be null and void. 11. The Company may receive from any Government, or from any person, or body corporate, municipal or politic, having power to make or grant the same, in aid of the construction, equipment and maintenance of the said works, grants of lands, premises, loans, gifts of money, guarantees and other securities for money, and may hold and alienate the same. 12. The Company may enter into working and other agreements and arrangements with any other company or companies, Government or Governments, person or body corporate, municipal or politic. 13. Sections eighteen and thirty-nine of "The Companies Clauses Act" shall not apply to the Company. OTTAWA Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most |