the said Company shall not be compelled to keep their Boom open to receive timber, logs, and other lumber floating down the River Nashwaak in any year that the said Company may determine not to operate, the determination and resolution of the Company in that respect in each year to be published in two Newspapers published in Fredericton, and at or near the Nashwaak Mills, on or before the first day of March in each and every year hereafter.

2. Nothing in the said recited Act or in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to prevent the owner or owners of any timber, logs, or lumber to collect together and raft the same anywhere below the lower mills on the Nashwaak River, if they see fit so to do.

3. In the rafting timber, logs, and other lumber within said Boom, it shall be the duty of said Company to raft the timber, logs, and other lumber of the several owners separately, according to the marks furnished to them for the purpose.

4. This Act, together with the Act made and passed in the eighth year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled An Act to incorporate the Nashwaak Boom Company; and also another Act made and passed in the eleventh year of the same Reign, intituled An Act to amend the Act to incorporate the Nashwaak Boom Company; except so far as hereby altered and amended, be and the same are severally continued until the first day of May which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

14th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 3.

An Act to continue an Act to empower the owners of certain Saw Mills on Hammond River, in King's County, to erect and keep up a Boom or Booms for the securing of Saw Logs on the said River.

Section 1.-Continuance of Act.

Passed 15th March 1851.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. An Act made and passed in the ninth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to empower the owners of certain Saw Mills on Hammond River, in King's County, to erect and keep up a Boom or Booms for the securing of Saw Logs on the said River, be and the same

is hereby continued and declared to be in force until the first day of May which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six.

15th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 74.

An Act to continue an Act to incorporate the Saint Stephen Upper Mills Boom Company.

Section 1.-Continuance of Act.

Passed 7th April 1852.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. An Act made and passed in the twelfth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to incorporate the Saint Stephen Upper Mills Boom Company, be and the same is hereby continued and declared to be in force until the first day of May which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven.

15th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 77.

An Act to incorporate the Saint Stephen Middle Boom

WHEREAS the erection and maintenance of Booms between the Upper Mills and Mill Town, in the Parish of Saint Stephen, in the County of Charlotte, on the Saint Croix River, have been of great benefit to persons engaged in the lumber business, by enabling them to secure timber, masts, logs, and other lumber floating down the said River, at a moderate expense: And whereas it is deemed expedient to incorporate a Company for the purpose of managing said Booms;

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. William Todd, Japhet H. M'Allister, William E. M'Allister, Joseph E. Eaton, Henry F. Eaton, John M'Adam, George A. Boardman, Daniel Hill, Junior, and Nathaniel Lamb, their associates, successors, and assigns, being mill and log owners on said River, in said Parish, below the said Upper Mills, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name of "The Saint Stephen Middle Boom Company," and shall have all the general powers made inci

dent to a Corporation by Act of Assembly in this Province, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining Booms, Piers, and other works connected therewith, between the Upper Mills and Mill Town, in the Parish of Saint Stephen, for the more convenient collecting, picking up, securing, and rafting timber, logs, masts, or other lumber intended to be manufactured below the said Upper Mills, and for carrying on and managing the same; provided always, that the real and personal estate which the said Corporation may at any time hold, shall not exceed the sum of one thousand pounds.

2. The Booms shall be so constructed as to admit the passage of rafts and boats, and to preserve the navigation of the river. 3. Nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to authorize and empower the said Corporation, or any of their agents or servants, to enter in and upon the lands or tenements of any person whomsoever, unless the consent of the owner or owners, lessee or lessees thereof, be first had and obtained in writing.

16th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 58.

An Act to revive and continue an Act to incorporate the Tobique Boom Company.

Section.

1. What Act revived.

2. Act, what shall terminate it.

Section.

3. What of old Act repealed.
4. Limitation.

Passed 3rd May 1853.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. An Act made and passed in the ninth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled An Act to incorporate the Tobique Boom Company, be and the same is hereby revived and declared to be in full force and effect.

2. Unless a good and efficient Boom is erected, and the fact thereof verified in all respects as is provided for in and by the seventh Section of the hereinbefore recited Act, the existence of the said Corporation shall terminate.

3. All the provisions of the said Act inconsistent with this Act, are hereby repealed.

4. This Act shall continue and be in force until the first day of November which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty five.

WHEREAS the erection of a Boom or Booms at or near the mouth of the Narkawickac River, in the County of York, will be beneficial to persons engaged in the lumber business, by enabling them to secure timber, logs, and other lumber floating down the said River, and it is deemed expedient to incorporate a Company for that purpose ;

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. John Guiou, John Manual, James Coulter, Solomon M'Farlane, and William Calder, and their associates, successors, and assigns, be and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name of "The Narkawickac Boom Company," and shall have all the general powers made incident to a Corporation by Act of Assembly in this Province, for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a Boom or Booms at or near the mouth of the said River Narkawickac, and any other necessary works on the shores thereof connected with such Boom, for the more convenient collecting, securing, and rafting timber, logs, and other lumber floating down the said river, and for otherwise managing the operations of the said Company.

2. The capital stock of the said Company shall be two hundred and fifty pounds currency, and shall be divided into fifty shares of five pounds each.

3. The first meeting of the said Company, for the purpose of organizing the same, shall be called by John Guiou, or in case of his death, inability, or refusal to act, by any two of the said Company, by giving twenty days notice of the time and place thereof, in a Newspaper printed and published in the City of Fredericton, and also by notices to be posted up in two public places in each of the Parishes of Queensbury and Southampton, and the meeting shall be held at the time and place mentioned in such notice.

4. The subscribers for stock in the said Company shall,

previous to the first meeting thereof, pay to such person as the persons named in the first Section of this Act, or the majority of them, shall appoint, such deposit or instalment on the capital stock of the said Company, subscribed for by them, as the persons incorporated, or the majority of them, may determine, due notice being given at the time of the notice calling the first meeting of the Company of the time or several times when, and the place or places where, and the person to whom such deposit or instalment shall be paid.

5. The deposit or instalment paid by any subscriber shall be taken and allowed as part of the capital stock required to be paid in under this Act, and any subscriber neglecting or refusing to pay the deposit or instalment pursuant to such notice, shall be incapable of voting at such first meeting of the said Company for the choice of Directors, or from otherwise taking any part in the proceedings thereof.

6. The Company shall not be authorized to enter upon the lands of any person without the consent of the owner or occupier thereof.

7. The Boom or Booms to be erected by the Company shall be kept open and in a proper state to receive timber, logs, and other lumber floating down the River Narkawickac from the opening of the River in the Spring until the first day of November in each year.

8. The said Company shall be entitled to receive a sum not exceeding one shilling per ton for each ton of square timber, and a sum not exceeding three shillings and three pence per thousand for every thousand superficial feet of logs or other lumber floating or being in the said river which they may secure and raft in joints in a substantial manner, fit to be put in large rafts for transportation to Saint John, and which shall be ready to be delivered from the said Boom to the owner or owners of such timber, logs, or other lumber.

9. If any joints or rafts of timber, logs, or other lumber shall run into the said Boom or Booms by accident, or by the force of the current, the said Company shall protect such joints or rafts, and shall be entitled to receive therefor at the rate of three pence per ton for every ton of timber, and six pence per thousand for every thousand superficial feet of logs or other lumber.