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For all other services, same as fixed by law in civil cases before Justices of the Peace.

To Witnesses.

Attendance and travel, same as in civil cases

before Justices of the Peace.

To Jurors.

Each Juror sworn on Inquiry,

I, A. B., of appoint C. D. of

SCHEDULE D.

FORM OF PROXY.

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do hereby nominate, constitute, and to be my proxy, in my name and in my absence to vote, or give any assent to or dissent from any business, matter, or thing relative to the Magaguadavic Railway Company, in such manner as he the said C. D. shall think proper and for the benefit of the said Company.

In witness whereof, I, the said A. B. have hereunto set my hand (or if a Corporation, say the Common Seal of the Corporation) the A. D. one thousand eight

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17th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 53.

An Act to revive and amend the Act to incorporate the Grand Falls Railway Company.

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Passed 1st May 1854.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. The Act to incorporate the Grand Falls Railway Company, made and passed in the thirteenth year of Her present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to incorporate the Grand Falls Railway Company, is hereby declared to be revived and in full force and effect, except such parts thereof as are hereinafter repealed or altered, although the Railway therein mentioned has not yet been fully completed; and all acts, matters, and things heretofore done or effected by the shareholders or Directors of the said Company, are hereby declared valid and effectual; and all property acquired or possessed by the said Company shall be held and enjoyed by them as fully as if the said Railway had been made and completed and opened for traffic.

2. The time for completing the said Railway is hereby extended to the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven, and if such Railway is not then completed and opened for traffic, the said Act of Incorporation and this Act shall cease and become utterly null and void.

3. The fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty fourth, twenty ninth, and thirtieth Sections of the said Act of Incorporation are hereby repealed.

4. The annual meeting of shareholders instead of being held on the first Tuesday in January at Woodstock, may be held on any day of the year in any part of the Province, and the day and place of such annual meeting shall be regulated by bye law of the Company.

5. At such annual meeting the shareholders shall choose seven Directors, and such other officers as may be necessary for the management of the affairs of the Company; the Directors so chosen shall remain in office one year or until others are chosen in their stead, and at the first meeting after their election, shall choose one of their number President of the Company; provided always, that not less than four Directors shall form a quorum for the transaction of business, and in case of the absence of the President, the Directors shall have power to appoint a Chairman for the occasion.

6. No shareholder shall be eligible as a Directer unless he

holds at least ten shares of the capital stock of the Company, and is of the full age of twenty one years.

7. If a shareholder shall fail to pay the amount of any call upon his shares at the time appointed, with interest, if any, the Directors may thereafter, if they see fit, advertise all such shares to be sold at public auction, giving at least thirty days notice of the time and place of sale; and all shares upon which any call is not then paid, with interest from the time the same became due, shall be sold to the highest bidder, and after retaining the amount of call and interest, and the expense of advertising and sale, the residue, if any, shall be paid over to the former owner, and a new certificate of the shares so sold shall be made out and delivered to the purchaser.

8. All meetings of the Company shall be called by public notice being given of the time and place of meeting, in the Royal Gazette and in one Newspaper published in the City of Saint John, at least fourteen days before the time of such meeting; and special meetings may be called by the Secretary under the authority of the Directors, or by shareholders representing not less than two hundred and fifty shares of stock, on giving the like notice, provided that in all cases the notice of a special meeting shall specify the object of such meeting.

9. The said Company shall have power from time to time, to increase its capital stock by the issue of shares at twenty pounds each, to an extent not exceeding ten thousand pounds; and such new shares when issued shall be apportioned among the shareholders of the Company, in proportion to their respective interests in the same, or disposed of at public auction, as may be deemed most expedient.

10. The said Company may employ its stationary steam power, when not required for the purposes of the Railway, in sawing lumber, and may also engage in other manufacturing pursuits.

11. Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to affect any rights, property, or interest acquired by or accrued to any person or persons since the expiration of the period to which the said Act was limited, but all person or persons shall, notwithstanding the passing of this Act, be vested and clothed with all the rights and powers to which they would have been entitled if this Act had not been passed.

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.

11th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 55.

An Act to incorporate the New Brunswick Electric Telegraph Company.

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WHEREAS the speedy transmission of information by means of the Electric Telegraph has become a matter of great importance, and it is highly desirable that lines of communication by such Telegraph should be established in this Province, and that the same should be connected with other lines in Nova Scotia, Canada, and the United States: And whereas certain persons are desirous of being incorporated for the purpose of establishing such communication ;

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. Thomas Leavitt, Charles Ward, William M'Lauchlan, John Duncan, Robert Jardine, John V. Thurgar, Israel D. Andrews, Francis O. J. Smith, Nathan Cummings, and Amos Kendall, their associates, successors, and assigns, shall be and they are hereby erected into a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The New Brunswick Electric Telegraph Company," and by that name shall have all the general powers and privileges made incident to a Corporation by Act of Assembly in this Province, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining, and working lines of communication, by means of the Electric Telegraph, within the Province of New Brunswick, as hereinafter more particularly set forth.

2. The capital stock of the said Corporation shall not be more than the sum of twenty five thousand pounds, and shall be divided into two thousand five hundred shares of ten pounds each, to be paid in at such times and in such instalments as the business of the said Company shall require; provided always, that the money so to be raised as aforesaid, is hereby directed and required to be laid out for and towards the making, com

pleting, and maintaining the said Electric Telegraph, and other purposes therewith connected, and to no other use or purpose whatsoever.

3. It shall be lawful for the said Company, and they are hereby authorized and empowered by themselves, their deputies, agents, officers, and workmen, to make and complete a single or double line of Electric Telegraph, communicating from the boundary line between this Province and Nova Scotia, by way of Sackville, Dorchester, Moncton, Sussex Vale, and Hampton, to the City of Saint John, and thence to Saint Andrews and Saint Stephen, in the County of Charlotte; and also with power to extend branches from such main line of communication, by Electrical Telegraph, from the City of Saint John to Fredericton, in the County of York, and thence to Woodstock, the Grand Falls, and the Canadian boundary in that direction; and from Fredericton to Miramichi; with such other branch lines within this Province as the increase of business, the establishment of Rail Roads, or the settlement of the country may render necessary or expedient; and for the purposes of the said main line and the several and respective branches thereof, to make such erections as may be necessary, and to purchase and acquire such machinery and contrivances, and real or movable property, as may be necessary for the making, maintaining, and working the said Electrical Telegraphic communication, and may use, hold, and possess the land over which the said Electrical Telegraph is to pass, in the manner and under the provisions hereinafter set forth.

4. It shall and may be lawful for the said Company, their deputies, agents, servants, and workmen, to enter upon the side or sides of all or any of the public roads, bridges, streets, or highways in this Province, and on the same to set up, erect, and construct such and so many posts or other works or devices, as they in their discretion may deem necessary for making, completing, supporting, using, and maintaining the said Electric Telegraph; and from time to time, as often as the said Company, their deputies, agents, officers, or workmen shall think proper, to break up and open any part whatsoever of the said road, streets, or highways, not interfering with that part of the same appropriated for the use of carriages, wagons, or horses, and to keep the same open during the time neces

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