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     or persons willing to become bound to keep up 
     
     or maintain the same, or such part thereof as 
     
     the said Lieutenant Governor, or other Adminis- 
     
     trator of the Government, in Council, shall 
     
     require to be contracted for, and, in such case, 
     
     the privileges and monOpolies hereby granted 
     
     to the said Company shall have no force or 
     
     operation as against any such other person or 
     
     persons who may contract or become bound as 
     
    
   
   
    
     aforesaid. 
     
    
   
   
    
     V. Nothing in this Act contained shall affect 
     
     or be construed to affect or interfere with 
     
     any rights or privileges granted to “ The Gulf' 
     
     EXpress and Telegraph Company,” under and 
     
     by virtue of the Act of the twenty-fourth Vic- 
     
     toria, Chapter four, except in so far as relates 
     
     to the rights or privileges granted to the New 
     
     York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph 
     
     Company, under and by virtue of the Act of the 
     
     seventeenth Victoria, Chapter four, and which 
     
     are referred to and recognized in the tenth 
     
     section of the said Gulf Express Act, of the 
     
     twenty-fourth Victoria, Chapter four, and are 
     
     hereby again confirmed, restored and given to 
     
     the said New York, Newfoundland and London 
     
     Telegraph Company by the provisions of this 
     
     Act, and save and except in so far as relates 
     
     to the provisions respecting the erection of 
     
     telegraphic posts for an extension of the land 
     
     telegraphic lines to Alberton or Cascumpec 
     
     contained in this Act. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VI. In order to enable the Government to 
     
     carry out in good faith any arrangement re- 
     
     specting telegraphic communlcatlon already 
     
     made or negotiated, or which may hereafter be 
     
     made or negotiated, with the said New York, 
     
     Newfoundland and London Telegraph Com- 
     
     pany, or any other Company, person or per- 
     
     sons in connection with or within this Island, 
     
     A or any point or points therein, Whether herein- 
     
     be-fore named and specified or not, it shall be 
     
     lawful for the Lieutenant Governor, with the 
     
     advice of the Executive Council, from time to 
     
     time, if it appear advisable, to alter, change, 
     
     relax or dispense with and again, if need be, 
     
     to require to be performed any of the services in 
     
     respect of telegraphic communication required 
     
     to be performed by the first section of this 
     
     Act, and, also, from time to time, if need be, 
     
     to make such further or other arrangements 
     
     respecting telegraphic communication as shall 
     
     be found necessary and advisable, and to apply 
     
     the sum of money hereby granted to defray 
     
     the costs of such altered arrangements so far as 
     
     the same can extend or provide for the same. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     GAZETTE. 
     
    
   
   
    
     An Actto incorporate the New Glasgo—;T‘e1n- 
     
     pcrance Hall Company. 
     
     [Passed April 19, 1869.] 
     
    
   
   
    
     E it enacted by the Administrator of the 
     
     Government, Council and Assembly, as 
     
     follows :— 
     
    

    
     I. That James Laird, senior, Andrew Dickie- 
     
     son, William Laird, James Dickieson, junior, 
     
     George Smith, and all and every such person or 
     
     persons as now are or is or shall hereafter 
     
     become proprietors of shares in the Com- 
     
     pany and Undertaking hereby established, and 
     
     their respective successors, executors, adminis- 
     
     trators and assigns, shall be and they are hereby 
     
     declared to be a body politic and corporate, by 
     
     the name of “ The New Glasgow Temperance 
     
     Hall Company,” and by that name shall and 
     
     may sue and be sued and have perpetual suc- 
     
     cession. 
     
    

    
     II. That the said Company shall and may 
     
     take, purchase and hold any lands or real 
     
     estate, in fee simple or otherwise, and, also, 
     
     rents, moneys, securities for money, goods and 
     
     chattels whatsoever, and may sell, let, demise, 
     
     exchange or mortgage the same, in such man- 
     
     ner as maybe necessary, provided that the said 
     
     Company shall not, at any one time, hold or 
     
     possess real estate to a greater value than one 
     
     thousand pounds currency. 
     
    

    
     III. That the capital of the said Company 
     
     shall be divided into shares of ten shillings each, 
     
     and such shares shall be assignable and transfer- 
     
     able in such manner and upon such terms as 
     
     the by-laws may provide. 
     
    

    
     1V. That every person who holds the number 
     
     of three or more shares shall be eligible as a 
     
     director, and every shareholder who has paid 
     
     up calls then due on his shares, shall be entitled 
     
     to vote for directors, in the following manner, 
     
     one share one vote, three shares two votes, 
     
     seven shares three votes, twelve shares four 
     
     votes, eighteen shares five votes, and for every 
     
     ten shares over that number one vote. 
     
    

    
     V. The shareholders shall annually appoint 
     
     five of their number as directors, of whom three 
     
     shall form a quorum; they shall also choose 
     
     from their number a President, Secretary and 
     
     Treasurer. 
     
    

    
     VI. The directors shall be appointed annually 
     
     by ballot, and each shareholder may vote either 
     
     1n person or by proxy, said proxy being also 
     
     a shareholder, and shall produce, in writing, 
     
     his authority before voting ; and in case of 
     
     vacancy or vacancies occuring in the Board of 
     
     Directors, by death, resignation or otherwise,