CHAP. 129. An Act to incorporate the Vancouver Dock and Ship [Assented to 31st July, 1891.] HEREAS a petition has been presented praying for the Preamble. incorporation of a company to construct and operate a dry dock and ship building and repairing yards 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. Imrie Bell, of the city of Glasgow, Scotland; Walter IncorporaCharles Cutbill, of the city of London, England, and George F. tion. Chipman, of the city of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, together with such persons as become shareholders in the company hereby incorporated, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name of "The Vancouver Dock and Corporate Ship Building Company," hereinafter called the Company. name. 2. The head office of the Company shall be in the city of Head office. London, England, or such place in Canada as the Company from time to time determine by by-law. 3. The Company may lay out, construct and operate a dry Powers, dock and ship building and repairing yards in Burrard inlet in the neighbourhood of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia; and the undertaking hereby authorized is declared to be a work for the general advantage of Canada. 4. The persons named in the first section of this Act shall Provisional be provisional directors of the Company, two of whom shall directors. form a quorum; and they may open stock books and procure subscriptions of stock; and they shall deposit the payments thereon in a chartered bank in Canada, and withdraw the same for the purposes of the Company only. 5. The capital stock of the Company shall be two million Capital stock. dollars and may be called up from time to time by the directors, Annual meet ing. Election of directors. Borrowing powers. Security. Time for commencing and completing works. Gifts in aid. Agreements with other companies. as they deem necessary; but no one call shall exceed ten per cent on the shares subscribed. 6. The annual general meeting of the shareholders shall be held on the first Monday of February in each year. 7. At such meeting the subscribers for the capital stock 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 may be paid directors of the Company. 8. The directors may, when authorized by a by-law for that purpose, passed and approved by the votes of at least twothirds of the holders in value of the subscribed stock of the Company, present in person or represented by proxy at a special general meeting duly called for considering such by-law, borrow such sum of money, not exceeding the amount of the paid up capital 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 is determined, for the purpose of carrying out any of the objects of the Company. 2. The Company may secure the repayment of any moneys so borrowed, or of any other moneys owing by the Company: in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as are agreed upon, and, in particular, by the mortgage, pledge, hypothecation or charge of or on all or any of the assets and property of the Company. 9. The said dry dock and yards shall be commenced within two years and completed within four years from the passing of this Act, otherwise the powers granted by this Act shall cease and be null and void. 10. The Company may receive from any Government or from any person, or body corporate, municipal or politic, who may have power to make or grant the same, in aid of the construction, equipment and maintenance of the said dock and yards, grants of land, premises, loans, gifts of money, guarantees and other securities for money, and hold and alienate the same. 11. 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. R.S.C., c. 118. 12. 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 Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 130. An Act to amend the Act to incorporate the Empire [Assented to 10th July, 1891.] WHEREAS the Empire Printing and Publishing Company Preamble. (Limited) has, by its petition, prayed for the passing of an Act to empower the Company to increase the number of its directors, 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: 50-51 V., c. 1. Section nine of the Act passed in the session held in the Section 9 of fiftieth and fifty-first years of Her Majesty's reign, chapter one 123, repealed. hundred and twenty-three, intituled "An Act to incorporate the Empire Printing and Publishing Company (Limited),” is hereby repealed, and the following substituted therefor : "9. The directors shall be not less than five nor more than Number of nine in number, as is, from time to time, determined by by-law directors. of the Company; and no person shall be eligible for election, or be elected or appointed as a director, unless he is a share- Qualification. holder owning stock absolutely in his own right to the amount of not less than one thousand dollars, and is not in arrear in respect of any call thereon." OTTAWA: Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most Preamble. 54-55 VICTORIA. CHAP. 131. An Act to confer on the Commissioner of Patents certain powers for the relief of Jay Spencer Corbin. [Assented to 28th August, 1891.] HEREAS Jay Spencer Corbin, manufacturer, having his chief place of business at the town of Prescott, in the Province of Ontario, has, by petition, represented that on and prior to the twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, he was the holder of letters patent under the Great Seal of Canada, dated the twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five, for improvements in combined harrows and seeders, being patent number twenty-one thousand four hundred and eighty-one; that on or before the expiration of the first five years of the said letters patent, which were granted for a term of fifteen years (only the partial fee for the first five years being paid upon the issue thereof), the said Jay Spencer Corbin was entitled upon application therefor to a certificate of renewal of the same, as provided by the twenty-second section of "The Patent Act," chapter sixty-one of the Revised Statutes of Canada; and whereas the said Jay Spencer Corbin and others had, prior to the said twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, invested the sum of twenty thousand dollars and upwards in the purchase of buildings, the equipment of a factory and the establishment of an incorporated company, to wit, the St. Lawrence Manufacturing Company, for the manufacture of the said patented article; that the treasurer of the said Company, carrying on business at Prescott aforesaid, was charged with but inadvertently omitted to make such application, but, so soon as the omission was observed, application by the said Jay Spencer Corbin was made on the twenty-seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and ninety following, less than one week after the time by law appointed, at which date such application could not be entertained, as the Commissioner of Patents could not then accept the further fee and grant such renewal certificate; and whereas the said Jay Spencer Corbin has petitioned for an Act authorizing the Commissioner of Patents to receive his application and the fee for the remainder of the term of fifteen years for which, the said letters patent were conditionally granted, and to grant and issue to him the certificate of payment provided by "The Patent Act," and an extension of the term of such letters patent in as ample a manner as if application had been duly made within five years from the date of such letters patent, 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: may renew 1. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Patent Commissioner Act of 1872, and amending Acts thereto, or in "The Patent of Patents Act," being chapter sixty-one of the Revised Statutes of Canada, certain letters or in the said letters patent, the Commissioner of Patents may patent. receive from the said Jay Spencer Corbin the application and usual fee for a renewal or extension of the said letters patent, for the remainder of the term of fifteen years from the date thereof, and grant and issue to the said Jay Spencer Corbin the certificate of payment or of renewal provided by "The Patent Act," and an extension of the period of the duration of the said letters patent to the full term of fifteen years, in as full and ample a manner as if application therefor had been duly made within five years from the date of the issue of such letters patent. 2. Any person who has, within the period between the Rights of twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and third persons ninety, and the extension or renewal hereunder of the said letters patent, acquired, by assignment, user, manufacture or otherwise, any interest or right in respect of such improvements or invention, shall continue to enjoy the same as if this Act had not been passed. OTTAWA: Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most |