Shares to con stitute a vote.

Officers and

appointed.

V. At any general meeting of the said Company, every proprietor or shareholder having paid up all calls then due and payable, under the by-laws or rules of the Company, shall be entitled to vote as follows: The owner of one share shall have one vote; the owner of five shares, two votes; the owner of ten shares, or more, to have three votes, and no more, and may give such vote or votes, by his or her proxy, duly constituted in writing-such proxy being a shareholder and entitled to vote.

VI. The directors, for the time being, shall servants, how have power to appoint such officers, clerks and servants, as they or the major part of them shall think necessary for carrying on the business of the said corporation, and shail allow them such compensation for their respective Expenses, how defrayed services as to them shall appear reasonable—all which, together with the expense of buildings, house rent, and all other contingencies, shall be defrayed out of the funds of the corporation; and the said directors shall likewise exercise such other powers as shall be prescribed by the by-laws and rules of the Company, and shall have power to call a general meeting (other than the annual) whenever they deem it for the interest of the Company, of which meeting, at least ten days notice shall be given, in one of the newspapers published in Charlottetown.

Extra meetings.

VII. At any extraordinary general meeting of the said corporation, it shall be lawful for the shareholders of the said Company, then present, to transact any business which may have failed to be transacted at the annual meeting.

Debts and li- VIII. The said joint stock, and real and personal estate of the said Company, shall be

abilities of

members.

liable for, and subject to the payment of all debts contracted by the said Company, and that none of the present or future members of the said Company shall be liable for the payment of any debt contracted beyond the amount of share or shares so held by such individual member.

CAP. XVI.

An Act to define the Law with regard to Seaweed and Kelp on the Sea Coast or outside shores of this Island.

W

(Passed June 29, 1872.)

HEREAS it is deemed expedient to de- Preamble. fine the law with regard to the right of persons to gather and collect Seaweed and Kelp cast up and lodged, or floating on or about the Sea Coast and outside shores of this Island, between ordinary high and low water mark.

to become

I. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieuten- Seaweed, &c. ant Governor, Council and Assembly, that all public prosuch Seaweed and Kelp shall, from and after perty excopt on bays and the passing of this Act, be held to be the pro- rivers. perty of the public, so that any person or persons shall, and lawfully may gather and take away, Seaweed and Kelp found, cast upon, lodged on, or floating over, or being on any part of the outside or sea shores of this Island, between ordinary high and low water mark provided always, that this Act shall not be held Suits pending to apply to any of the shores of the Bays and Rivers in this Island, nor to any suit or suits, action or actions at law, now pending in the Supreme Court of Judicature of this Island, nor to any person or persons, or the property

saved.

Duration of

Act.

Suspending clause.

of any person or persons holding grants from the Crown, granting unto such person or persons the right and privilege of the land in such grants named, up to low water mark.

II. This Act shall continue and be in force for the space of two years from the passing thereof, and from thence to the end of the then next session of the General Assembly, and no longer.

III. Nothing in this Act contained shall be of any force or effect, until Her Majesty's pleasure herein shall be made known, and notification thereof published in the Royal Gazette newspaper of this Island.

.

CAP. XVII.

An Act to prohibit interment in the Protestant
Burial Ground, in the Fifth Ward of the
City of Charlottetown.

W

[Passed June 29, 1872.]

HEREAS it is essential to the salubrity. of the city and health of the inhabitants, that the interment of human dead bodies in the burial ground hereinafter mentioned, should be prohibited.

I. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Legislative Council and Assembly, that from and after the first day of January next, one thousand eight hundred and seventyfour, after the passing hereof, it shall not be lawful to inter any dead body in the Protestant Burying Ground, on the Malpeque Road, in the Fifth Ward of this City.

law.

II. Each and every transgression of the pro- $20 penalty hibitions of the preceding section shall be pun- for breach of ished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, currency, to be recovered with costs, before a court of competent jurisdiction, from the party or parties offending, or who may be engaged in the interment of any dead body, contrary to the said section.

III. Every action for the recovery of fines Her Majesty under this Act shall be brought in the name of to be plaintiff Her Majesty the Queen, and proof of the offence shall be made by the oath of one or

more credible witness or witnesses.

closed.

IV. No Cemetery or Burial Place shall, Cemeteries, after the passing of this Act, be opened within when to be the bounds of the City, nor within two miles of the boundaries thereof, on the north side of the Hillsborough River.

V. All fines recovered under this Act shall belong to the Corporation of the City of Charlottetown, and be paid to them.

CAP. XVIII.

An Act to incorporate the New Glasgow Lime
Company.

W

(Passed June 29, 1872.)

HEREAS the persons hereinafter named have formed themselves into a company for the making and burning of Lime, and it is expedient that such company should be incorporated.

I. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows,

Preamble.

others, con

Alex. Laird, that is to say :-Alexander Laird, William Orr, Wm. Orr, and Benjamin Bulman, James Laird, the younger, stituted a bo- William Laird and Robert Crawford Orr, their dy corporate. associates, successors and assigns, shall be, and

May take lands, &c.

defend at law

&c.

the same are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name of "The New Glasgow Lime Company," and they shall be as such body corporate, able and capable in Law, to have, get, receive, take, possess and enjoy, houses, lands, ships, wharves, kilns, tenements, hereditaments and rents, in fee simple or otherwise, and also goods and chattels, and all other things real, personal and mixed, and also to give, grant, let or assign the same, or any part thereof, and to do and execute all other things in and about the same, as they shall think necessary for the benefit of the said corporation; and also, they shall, by such corporate name, May sue and be able in law and capable to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in any Courts of Law and Equity, or any other places whatsoever, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, demands, pleas, causes and matters whatsoever, in as full and ample a manner as any individual person or persons is or are in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, and also that they shall have one common seal to serve for the ensealing all and singular their grants, deeds, conveyances, contracts, bonds, articles of agreement, assignments, powers and warrants of attorney, and all and singular their affairs and things touching and concerning the said corporation, and shall, at all times, have full power, authority and licence to constitute, make, ordain and establish such by-laws and ordinances as may be thought necessary for the good rule and government of the said corporation, provided that

May make by-laws.