All the Com missioners to be elected by the bondholders. How and when to be elected: 31 V. c. 79 to apply. 1. The powers and rights conferred and the duties assigned to the Quebec Harbor Commissioners by the Acts above mentioned, shall be vested in and exercised by five Commissioners all of whom shall be elected by the holders of Bonds of the Quebec Harbor Commissioners, as hereinafter provided; and such Commissioners so elected, are hereby substituted for and shall be held to be the Commissioners mentioned in the said Act. 2. The said five Commissioners shall be elected at the time in each second year, for the period, and in the manner provided by the second and third sections of the Act of the Parliament of Canada, thirty-first Victoria,chapter seventy-nine and all the provisions of the said sections with respect to the votes of the Bondholders, the quorum at the meeting, and generally with respect to the election of Commissioners under the said Act shall apply to elections under this Act, except that the notice of the meeting for the election shall be given by the Secretery-Treasurer of the Harbor Commissioners Proviso: first for the time being; provided always, that the next meeting of the Bondholders for the election of Commissioners, shall be held on the first Monday in September, in the present year 1869, and the right to vote at such election shall be established by the production of the bonds of the Commission. election. Prosent Com 3. The present Commissioners shall continue to hold office as missioners to such until replaced by Commissioners elected under this Act, but the present Commissioners or any of them may be re-elected. remain until replaced. Sales of deep water lots. Property missioners in cution. 4. The sale of any deep water lot forming part of the property vested in the Quebec Harbor Commisssioners, shall not be valid or effectual until sanctioned by the Governor in Council. 5. The property vested in the Corporation of the Quebec vested in Com- Harbor Commissioners by the Acts above cited in trust as therein trust not to be mentioned, and all other property now belonging to the said Jiable in exe Corporation of the Quebec Harbor Commissioners, shall continue to be vested in the said Corporation as constituted by this Act, in trust for the holders of Bonds of the Quebec Harbor Commissioners, and for the other purposes in the said Acts mentioned, and shall not be liable for any debt or subject to execution or any other legal process based on any judgment or debt due or alleged to be due by the Corporation, except that nothing in this section contained shall affect or diminish any right of any existing creditor of the Corporation other than a Bondholder, or any right of any Bondholder founded on any judgment obtained, or on any suit pending, before the passing of this Act. Exception. Income to be held in trust for Bond holders, &c. 6. The dues, tolls, duties and other revenues and profits collected and received by the Commissioners shall also be held by the Corporation in trust for the said Bondholders, and for the other purposes in the said Acts mentioned, and shall after the payment of expenses of collection of the same and other prior charges authorized authorized by law, be applied for the benefit of the Bondholders in such manner as the commissioners may from time to time appoint, but subject to the provisions hereinafter contained. Bondholders reduction of Fund. 7. Upon a requisition to the chairman of the Commissioners Power of signed by holders of bonds to the amount of not less than one at a special hundred thousand dollars, the chairman shall, by advertisement meeting to published in French and English for four weeks at least, in the agree to a Canada Gazette, in the Quebec Official Gazette, and in at least two interest and newspapers published in each of the cities of Quebec and Montreal, a Sinking call a special meeting of the holders of bonds of the Quebec Harbor Commissioners to be held at Quebec; and at such meeting, any number of Bondholders present in person or by proxy who shall represent three fourths in value of the said Bonds, may resolve by their vote given at such meeting that the rate of interest payable on the said bonds shall be reduced and that a sinking fund shall be created to provide for the redemption of the said Bonds, and they may by such vote and resolution, fix the new rate of interest to be so paid, and the amount to be added annually in the sinking fund; and such vote and resolution being certified to the Commissioners by the Chairman and Secretary of the meeting (such Chairman and Secretary being respectively one of the Commissioners and the Secretary-Treasurer of the Commissioners) shall be binding on all the Bondholders and shall be acted upon by the said Commissioners; Provided always, that inasmuch as the bonds issued by the Commissioners, bear different rates of interest, such several rates shall all be reduced in like proportion, that is by an equal percentage on or aliquot part of each rate. 8. So much of any of the Acts hereinbefore mentioned as is Repeal. repugnant to or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act is hereby repealed. 9. This Act shall be construed as one Act with the other Acts for the improvement and management of the Harbor of Quebec. CAP. XLV. An Act to alter the limits of the Counties of Joliette and Act how conrtrued. [Assented to 22nd June, 1869.] W HEREAS it is expedient to change the limits of the Elec- Preamble. toral Districts of the Counties of Joliette and Berthier, for electoral purposes, as respects certain portions of the parishes of St. Felix de Valois and St. Jean de Matha, in the Township of Brandon, in the County of Berthier: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: Certain paragraphe of Sect. 1, Cap. 75 of Con. Stat. L. as to the said C. amended, Counties. Repeal. 1. Subsections. seventeen and twenty of the first Section of chapter seventy-five of the Consolidated Statutes for Lower Canada, intituled: An Act respecting the division of Lower Canada into Counties-and the boundaries of certain Cities and Towns for the purposes of representation in the Legislature, shall, so far as they relate to the election of Members of the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada, be read and construed as though no part of the said parishes of St. Felix de Valois and St. Jean de Matha were in the said township of Brandon, and as though the part of the said township of Brandon, which lies within the limits of the said parishes of St. Felix de Valois and St. Jean de Matha had been re-united and annexed to the County of Joliette for electoral purposes. 2. Any law or any part of any law inconsistent with this Act, is hereby repealed. CAP. XLVI. Preamble. Doncaster detached from Montcalm and annexed to Terrebonne. An Act to detach the Township of Doncaster from the W [Assented to 22nd June, 1869.] HEREAS it is expedient, in so far as relates to the election of members of the House of Commons of Canada, to detach the Township of Doncaster from the County of Montcalm, and attach the same to the County of Terrebonne : Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. From and after the passing of this Act, the sixteenth subsection of section one of chapter seventy-five of the Consolidated Statutes for Lower Canada, intituled: An Act respecting the division of Lower Canada into Counties, and the boundaries of certain cities and towns for the purpose of representation in the Legislature, shall be read and construed, in so far as relates to the election of members of the House of Commons of Canada, as if the Township of Doncaster therein mentioned had never formed part of the County of Montcalm, and the said township, so detached from the County of Montcalm, shall be attached to the County of Terrebonne, for the electoral purposes hereinbefore set forth. CAP. CAP. XLVII. An Act to amend the Act of Incorporation of the Board of Trade of the City of Toronto. W [Assented to 22nd June, 1869.] HEREAS the Board of Trade of the City of Toronto have Freamble. by their petition requested that certain amendments should be made to their Act of Incorporation and it is expedient that the prayer of the said petition should be granted: Therefore Her Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 24 Sec. 1 1. Section one of the Act incorporating the Board of Trade of Act of Canada, the City of Toronto, chapter twenty-four of the Acts of the Legis-3 Vic. Chap. lature of the late Province of Canada, passed in the eighth year amended. of Her Majesty's Reign, is hereby amended by striking out the words "using trade," in the said section, and substituting therefor "who are or have been engaged in trade." . Section six of the said Act is hereby repealed, and the fol- Section 6 lowing section shall be substituted therefor: amended. be held. thereat. "That the members of the said Corporation shall hold a general Annual meetannual meeting in January in each year, and quarterly and other ing, when to meetings when considered necessary by the Council, of which due notice shall be given by the secretary; and the members of the said Corporation, assembled at such annual meeting, shall then Proceedings and there choose from a list of names previously agreed on at a General Meeting of the Board specially called for the purpose of nominating officers, and from that list only, by separate ballot or in such other way as shall be fixed by the By-Laws of the Cor- Election of poration, elect from among the members of the Corporation, one Officers. President, one Vice-President, one Treasurer, and twelve other members of the Council, who with the said President, Vice-President, and Treasurer, shall form the Council of the said Corporation and shall hold their respective offices until others shall be elected at the next general meeting in January, in their stead, or until they shall be removed from office, or shall vacate the same under the provisions of any By-Laws of the Corporation; Pro- Proviso in vided always, that if the said election shall not take place in the is not held." said month of January in any year, the Corporation shall not thereby be dissolved but such election may be had at any general meeting of the Corporation to be called in the manner hereinafter provided, and the members of the Council then in office shall remain so until the election shall be had; And provided further, Further that no person shall be capable of being re-elected to the office of Proviso. President, Vice-President, Treasurer or member of Council for the current year, if he shall have been absent from more than onehalf of the meetings of Council held in the preceding year, without leave of absence obtained from the President." case meeting Section 9, amonded. Sec. 10, amended. Section 16, repealed. New Section. Meeting of Duties of Preamble. 3. Section nine of the said Act is amended by striking out the words "of any chartered Bank therein, and having resided in the said City of Toronto continuously for not less than two years" in the said section and substituting therefor the following, "Manager or Director of any Financial institution Railway or Insurance Company." 4. Section ten is amended by substituting the words "two days" for the word "week" in the said section. 5. Section sixteen is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor: "The meetings of the members of the Council shall be open to all other members of the Corporation who may attend at the same, but who shall take no part in the proceedings thereat; and minutes of the proceedings at all such meetings and all general meetings of the Corporation shall be entered in registers to be kept for that purpose by the Secretary, and such minutes shall be read at the following meeting and if approved of be signed by the President and Secretary or their substitutes, and such Registers shall be open at all seasonable hours to any member of the Corporation free of any charge and also to all other persons on payment of a fee of twenty-five cents to the Secretary." CAP. XLVIII. An Act to incorporate the St. Thomas (Ont.) Board of WH [Assented to 22nd June, 1869.] HEREAS, Thomas Arkell, John King, John Ardagh Roe, James Carrie, William Coyne, Henry Brown, Marwood A. Gilbert, Charles G. Rich, James McAdam, Archibald McLachlin, Donald McKenzie, James H. Still, Thomas Eedson, Peter Couse, Alonzo J. Burns, John Blake, Wm. E. Youmans, George Rowley, J. Ord Kains, Peter Roe, John Midgley, W. F. Campbell, H. B. Pollock, Nelson W. Moore, Robert Pringle, John A. Kains, Charles W. Harte, and John R. Smellie, residents in the Town of St. Thomas, in the Province of Ontario, have by their petition represented that they have, as a Board of Trade, associated themselves together for some time past for the purpose of providing such measures as they have deemed important towards developing the general trade and commerce of Canada, and the town of St. Thomas, Ontario, in particular, and have further represented that the said Association would be more efficient in its operations, should an Act of Incorporation conferring certain powers on them and their successors be granted; and whereas it is expedient that the prayer of the said petition should be granted: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: |