[Ord. 3 anno 1871.] against after No. LXXVIII. 3. In the event of any default on the part of any such Occupier Successor to being discovered, after he shall have ceased to hold such Office in Buch defaulting Occupier may any, such public Institution or such Management or Superintendence be proceeded of such Plantation, Estate, Farm, or Wood cutting Establishment, then and in any such case the proceedings under said Ordinance No. 10 of 1868, in respect of such default, may be instituted and prosecuted against his successor after fourteen days' notice in writing shall have been given to such successor to have such Birth registered in due course of law. notice. 4. Every Governor, Keeper, Master, Superintendent, or other Who may give chief Resident Officer, of any Gaol or Prison, or any School, notice of Birth Reformatory, Hospital, Asylum, or other public or charitable Instiform to be filled tution, and every Manager, or other Superintendent for the time or Death by a up. fault under this Ordinance being, of any Plantation, Estate, Farm, or Wood-cutting Establishment, who may be liable to give notice to any Registrar of any Birth or Death, may give such notice by filling in and forwarding to the Registrar of the division, a form to be prescribed by the Registrar-General, and at such times and in such manner as may be fixed by the Registrar-General; and the Registrar-General may from time to time, alter and vary such form, and such times and, manner of giving such notice 5. Every person in default of doing anything required to be done, Penalty for de- or prescribed by the Registrar-General to be done by him, under or in pursuance of the provisions of this Ordinance, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Dollars; and every such penalty shall be recoverable in manner provided for the recovery of penalties by Ordinance No. 10 of the year 1868. 6. Whenever from any cause whatsoever there shall be no Superintendent Registrar or Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths in any RegisRegistrars may tration Division, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent Registrar act as Registrars when of the District in which such Registration Division is situate to Office vacant perform the duties of Registrar of such Division, and receive the fees therefor, until a Registrar shall be appointed, and any copies of Registers forwarded from any such Division to the General Register office during any period in which a Superintendent Registrar is performing the duties of Registrar, shall be sufficiently certified by the signature of such Superintendent Registrar alone. 7. Whenever [Ord. 3 anno 1871.1 No. LXXVIII.-LXXIX. sence of other 7. Whenever the office of Superintendent Registrar for any Inspector of Registration District shall become vacant, any Inspector of Police Police, in ab whose District shall comprise the whole or any part of such Regis- appointment to be Superin. tration District, shall at once become Superintendent Registrar of tendent Regissuch whole or such part of such Registration District, and shall so remain until the appointment of a Superintendent Registrar to such Registration District. trar. with Ordinance 8. This Ordinance shall be construed with, and shall form part To be construed of, except in so far as it repeals, or is inconsistent with, Ordinances No. 10 and 27 Numbers 10 and 27 of the year 1868. of 1860. 9. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on Commence. the publication thereof. ment of Ordinance No. LXXIX. AN ORDINANCE DECLARATORY OF THE AUTHORITY OF TWO [Ord. 4 anno JUDGES TO SIT SEPARATELY AT THE SAME TIME AT ANY 1871.] INFERIOR COURT OF CIVIL JUSTICE. Enacted 9th May, 1871, published the 10th following, came into operation on publication. [JOHN SCOTT, Governor] WHEREAS by Ordinance No. 2 of the year 1853, it was enacted Preamble. that the Inferior Court of Civil Justice for the District of Demerary and Essequebo, aud the Inferior Court of Civil Justice for the District of Berbice shall be held by and before the Chief Justice or one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Civil Justice of British Guiana: And whereas it is expedient to remove doubts respecting the authority of the Judges to sit separately at one time at any such Session Be it therefore declared and enacted by His Excellency the Governor of British Guiana, with the advice and consent of the Court of Policy thereof, as follows: : 1. Each [Ord. 4 anno 1871.] Judges may sit separately in Inferior Civil Court. No. LXXIX.-LXXX. 1. Each Session of the said Inferior Courts respectively, may be held by and before the Chief Justice, or one or more of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Civil Justice sitting separately at the same time. 2. The distribution of the business before each Judge so sitting Distribution of separately, shall from time to time be regulated by the Chief tween Judges. Justice or the Senior Judge sitting separately at any such Session. business be. 3. The Officers of the Registrar's and Marshal's Offices shall Officers of Re attend the Judges so sitting separately, and shall perform their gistrar's and Marshal's Of respective duties, as and when they may be required by such Judges. fices to attend Judges. 4. This Ordinance shall come into operation and take effect on Taking effect the publication thereof. of Ordinance. No. LXXX. [Ord. 5 anno AN ORDINANCE TO INCORPORATE A COMPANY TO BE CALLED 1871.] “THE DEMERARY STEAM BAKING COMPANY, LIMITED.” Preamble. Enacted 9th May, 1871, published the 17th following, came into operation on publication. [JOHN SCOTT, Governor.] WHEREAS Etienne Auguste Manget, George Henry Oliver, Benjamin Stout Bayley, Richard Thomas Arrindell Daly and Edward Poulton Wells, have presented a Petition to the Governor and the Court of Policy, praying that an Ordinance may be passed for the incorporation of a Joint Stock Company, to be called the "Demerary Steam Baking Company, Limited," and whereas it is desir◄ able that the Prayer of the Petition be granted, and that a Company should be incorporated with limited liability: Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of British Guiana, with the advice and consent of the Court of Policy thereof, as follows:1. Etienne No. LXXX. [Ord. 5 anno 1871.1 tablished. 1. Etienne Auguste Manget, George Henry Oliver, Benjamin Stout Corporation es Bayley, Richard Thomas Arrindell Daly, Edward Poulton Wells, aud all other persons who have subscribed for, and have had allotted to them, and all other persons who shall hereafter become proprietors of shares in the Stock of the said Company, shall become aud remain associated as a Joint Stock Company for the purposes hereinafter set forth, and they are hereby incorporated by the name and style of the "Demerary Steam Baking Company, Limited," and by that name shall be a body corporate, and shall have succession for a term of thirty-one years from the date of the taking effect of this Ordinance, (unless sooner dissolved as hereinafter provided,) and may sue, and be sued, implead, and be impleaded, in all Courts whatsoever. 2. The Company is formed for the purpose of carrying on the Purpose of Company. General Business of a Pastry and Baking Establishment. 3. The capital stock of the Company shall consist of Thirty Amount of Ca pital and num. Thousand Dollars, divided into three thousand shares of ten dollars ber and value each. of Shares. ity of Share 4. No shareholder shall be answerable to any extent beyond the Limited liabil. amount of the share or shares subscribed for by him, in respect of holders. any claim whatsoever that may be made against the Company. and Directors. 5. The said Etienne Auguste Manget, George Henry Oliver, First Chairman Benjamin Stout Bayley, Richard Thomas Arrindell Daly, and Edward Poulton Wells shall be the first Board of Directors of the Company, and the said Etienne Auguste Manget shall be the first Chairman of the Board of Directors, and the said Board of Directors and Chairman shall continue in office until the half-yearly meeting of the Company in July next, and at such meeting the two Direc- Subsequent tors whose names shall be first drawn shall retire, and two others shall be chosen by the meeting to supply their places, and so on at each half-yearly meeting of the Company to be held in July. The retiring Directors shall be eligible for re-election. After the first election of Directors, they shall select from amongst themselves their own Chairman, and whenever a vacancy occurs among the Direc- Subsequent tors, they shall elect some qualified shareholder to fill such vacancy, choin Three Directors how chosen. Chairman how [Ord. 5 anno 1871.1 No. LXXX. Secretary and Three of the Directors shall constitute a quorum. The Directors servants to be shall have the power to appoint a Secretary and such servants appointed by Directors as they may think necessary, and to allow them reasonable remuneration. 6. No person shall be elected a Director who shall not be a Qualification holder of fifty shares in the Capital or joint stock of the Company. of Directors. Meeting of Shares. Deposit. 7. The Directors shall hold Meetings when and as often as they shall think fit. 8. The Directors shall, on application for shares, require a Application for deposit of one dollar on each share applied for, and shall also make a call of a like sum of one dollar per share on allotment. Whenever any allotment of shares shall be made, a Certificate of Allotment of Enrolment in the form in the Schedule hereunto annexed, and marked A, shall be given to the person to whom they shall be allotted. shares 9. The Directors may also from time to time make such further Cal's on Share. calls on the Shareholders as they shall see fit, until the whole holders, how amount subscribed for shall have been paid up; and every call notified. shall be advertised, in two newspapers published in Georgetown, for at least fourteen days before the day appointed for the payment of calls. Forfeiture. of such call. 10. If any shareholder shall be thirty days in arrear of the Non payment payment of any call, the share or shares held by him shall thereby be forfeited, and shall become the property of the Company; and the Directors may retain the same as the property of the Company, or may sell and allot the same, to any person or persons at such price as the Directors shall think fit. Disposal of forfeited shares rectors 1. The Directors shall conduct all the business of the Company, Powers of Di. and shall have power to hire on lease or otherwise, or to purchase, suitable premises for the purpose of carrying on the business of the Company, and to assign the lease of, or to transport, any such premises, and to acquire any other premises; and all leases, assignSignature of ments, or transports that may be necessary, shall be signed by any two of the Directors and the Secretary. certain docu. ments. 12. Any |