CHAP. 106. An Act respecting the Calgary Irrigation Company. [Assented to 23rd July, 1894.] WHEREAS the Calgary Irrigation Company, incorporated Preamble. by chapter seventy-one of the Statutes of 1893, has by its petition represented that the provisional directors named in the said Act, having procured subscriptions exceeding twenty-five per cent of the capital stock of the said Company and received an amount exceeding ten per cent thereon which was duly deposited in the office of a chartered bank of Canada to the credit of the said Company, did proceed with the completion of the plans of the proposed works and the construction of the same and acquired certain privileges with respect to lands required by the Company for its purposes as provided in the said Act, and in so doing expended the moneys of the Company without calling a meeting of the shareholders in the terms of The Railway Act in that behalf, and that such meeting has since been held at which all the shareholders of the Company were represented, and unanimously ratified and adopted all the actions and proceedings of the provisional directors, as well as a certain agreement made with the promoters and others in settlement of their claims against the Company, and providing for additional subscriptions of the stock of the Company; and whereas doubts have been expressed as to the validity of such actions and agreement, and the Company has by its petition. prayed that such doubts be removed and that the said Act be amended in certain respects; and it is expedient to grant in part 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: ment confirm 1. The agreement bearing date the fifth day of March, one Proceedings thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, made between the and agreeCompany and Peter Turner Bone and others, and filed in the ed. office of the Secretary of State on the nineteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, and which was duly ratified at the meeting of the shareholders held on the said fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninetyfour, is hereby confirmed and declared to be valid and binding to all intents and purposes. 1893, c. 71, 8. 4 amended. Section 6 amended. Section 7 amended. Section 7 fur ther amended. Section 7 fur 2. Section four of the Act incorporating the Company, being chapter seventy-one of the Statutes of 1893, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the words "provided however that the directors may, so soon as the whole of the said amount has been subscribed and fifty per cent paid up thereon, increase the capital by by-law to a sum not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars." 3. Section six of the said Act is hereby amended by striking out the words "three persons " in the second line thereof and substituting the words "not less than three and not more than five persons." 4. Section seven of the said Act is hereby amended by adding after the word "water" in the third line thereof the words "or power ; and paragraphs (a) and (b) of the said section are hereby repealed and the following substituted in lieu thereof : "(a.) excavate, construct, maintain and operate an irrigation ditch or ditches, canal or canals, from some point or points on the Elbow River or the Bow River, or both, or on the tributaries thereof, in townships twenty to twenty-six inclusive between ranges one and nine both inclusive west of the fifth initial meridian, to any lands which are sufficiently low to enable water to be applied thereon for irrigation purposes, and for the purpose of supplying water and developing water power so long as the use of the said water for such power does not interfere with its use for irrigation purposes; and may excavate, construct, maintain, lay and operate all cross or brauch ditches, canals, flumes, pipes, aqueducts or other works necessary for all or any of such purposes; and may transmit such power by electricity or otherwise; "(b.) construct works in and draw off the waters of the above named rivers or tributaries or any natural streams of water intercepted by any ditch, canal, or other work by this Act authorized to be constructed for the purposes of the Company; and discharge into and conduct along any natural channel or watercourse any quantity of water so drawn off, and afterwards draw off the same from any such natural channels or watercourses." 5. Paragraph (d) of the said section seven is hereby amended by substituting the word "fifteen" for the word "ten" in the second line thereof. 6. Paragraph (f) of the said section seven is hereby amended. ther amended. by adding the following words at the end thereof: "And the Company may dispose of the said water power by sale or lease or otherwise on such terms as may be arranged, or use the same for any purpose of the Company." 7. The Company shall in the exercise of the powers granted Compensation for damages. it under the provisions of the said section seven, as amended by this Act, do as little damage as possible, and shall make full compensation to all persons interested for all damage by them sustained by reason of the exercise of such powers and for which they are entitled to compensation. 8. Section eleven of the said Act is hereby repealed and the Section 11 refollowing substituted therefor : pealed. bonds. "11. The Company may issue bonds or debentures to the Issue of amount of forty thousand dollars and for any further sum not exceeding double the amount of its capital stock paid up in excess of twenty thousand dollars." repealed. 9. Section fourteen of the said Act is hereby repealed, Section 14 and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that the said works and the works hereby authorized shall be completed within ten years from the passing hereof, otherwise the powers conferred by the said Act and this Act shall cease and be null and void as respects so much of the said works as then remain uncompleted. Time for con struction. 10. Section fifteen of the said Act is hereby repealed and Section 15 the following substituted therefor : repealed. gation Act. "15. Any general Act passed by the Parliament of Canada General Irriand in force from time to time respecting irrigation, shall apply, and the powers, regulations and restrictions therein contained shall extend, to this Company and its undertaking as if the same were incorporated herewith." telephone 11. The Company may, for the purposes of its undertaking, Telegraph and construct, acquire and operate a line or lines of telegraph or lines. telephone. amended. 12. Paragraph (b) of section sixteen of the said Act is hereby Section 16 repealed and the following substituted therefor : 66 defined. (6.) Wherever in The Railway Act the expression rail- "Railway" way' occurs it shall, unless the context otherwise requires, in so far as the said Act applies to the provisions of this Act or to the Company hereby incorporated, mean the canal or ditch or other works hereby authorized to be constructed." 13. The directors may (by by-law) appoint one or more of Pa'd officers. their number as paid officer or officers of the Company. pany. 14. Should the shareholders of the Company resolve that Directors may the interest of the Company would be best promoted by en- act for comabling one or more of the directors to act for the Company in any particular matter or matters, its hall be lawful for the directors after such resolution to confer such power on one or more of their number. OTTAWA Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 107. An Act to incorporate the French River Boom Company (Limited). W [Assented to 23rd July, 1894.] HEREAS the persons hereinafter named have by their Preamble, petition prayed for the incorporation of themselves and others as a company under the name of "The French River Boom Company (Limited)," with the powers hereinafter mentioned, 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: tion. 1. Herman Henry Cook, John Waldie, James Scott, of the Incorporacity of Toronto, William Irwin, of the town of Peterborough, in the province of Ontario, Temple Emery, of Bay City, Michigan, one of the United States, Frank R. Potter, of Saginaw, in the said state of Michigan, Arthur H. Fleming, of Detroit, in the same state, Joseph Turner, of Bay City, in the same state, Spencer O. Fisher, of West Bay City, in the same state, Albert Pack, of Alpena, in the same state, William J. Shepherd, of Orillia, in the province of Ontario, George McCormack, of the same province, James L. Burton, of the town of Barrie, in the same province, Charles Beck, of the town of Penetanguishene, in the same province, and George J. Cook, of the said city of Toronto, together with such persons as become shareholders in the Company hereby incorporated, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name of "The French River Boom Company (Limited)," here- Corporate inafter called "the Company." name. 2. The head office of the Company shall be at the city of Head office. Toronto or at such other place in Canada as the Company may from time to time by by-law determine. 3. The capital stock of the Company shall be fifty thousand Capital stock. dollars divided into one thousand shares of fifty dollars each, and shall be allotted between the above named Canadian and |