evidence.

arrears the secretary's book shall be prima facie evidence.

5. The production of the minute book conMinute book taining the minutes of the proceedings of any meetings of the congregation of said Church, or of the trustees thereof, and purporting to be signed by the secretary of such meeting, shall be conclusive evidence of all the facts therein stated to have been done at such meeting.

Expenses, &c.

6. The trustees shall pay out of the funds af the said corporation all reasonable costs, charges and expenses, incurred by them in and about the conduct and management of the business of the said corporation.

7. Whereas by Indenture bearing date the fourth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, made between Peter Nicholson and Mariar Nicholson, his wife, of the one part, and Robert S. Findley, John McLeod, and Donald Ross, of the other part, and recorded in the office of the Registrar of Deeds for said Island, on the seventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and sixtyfour, in Liber eighty-two, folio 554, the said Peter Nicholson, for the consideration therein inj Trustees. mentioned, did grant unto the said Robert S. Findley, John McLeod and Donald Ross, and their successors, all the land and premises therein particularly described, to hold the same unto the said Robert S. Findley, John McLeod and Donald Ross, trustees of the Presbyterian Church at Orwell, and their successors; and whereas the said Church is hereby incorporated, and it is desirable that the said land should be vested in said corporation, therefore, from and

Lands vested

after the passing of this Act the said tract of land and premises particularly described in the said part recited indentures shall be and the same are hereby vested in fee simple in the trustees herein before named, and their successors, to hold the same unto the said trustees and their successors in office subject to the trusts and uses and for the interests and purposes of the said corporation and Church.

CAP. XV.

An Act to further amend the Act to Incorporate the Charlottetown Gas Light Company and the Acts in amendment thereof.

B

(Assented to, 7th May, 1887.)

E it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Preamble.
Council and Assembly, as follows:-

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1. The Charlottetown Gas Light Company Company emis hereby authorized and empowered after the furnish light, consent and approval being first obtained from a majority of the shareholders at an annual general meeting, or at a special general meeting of shareholders called for that purpose, to furnish light, heat or motive power to persons or corporations within the City of Charlottetown by means of magnetic, galvanic or electric currents, either in connection with or as a substitute for the gas now supplied by the said Company, and for that purpose to erect and place the necessary machinery, poles, wires, and other appliances, subject at all times to the approval of the city or town surveyor, or other officer having supervision of the streets of the City of Charlottetown.

gas, &c.

May supply 2. The Company may also supply gas for heating and motive power, or any other useful purpose.

3. The Company shall have power to borMay borrow. row at such rate of interest not exceeding six per cent. per annum as the Directors may from time to time agree upon such sums of money as shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars; and they may issue bonds or debentures for the payment thereof out of the joint stock and real and personal estate of the said Company in such manner as to the Directors shall appear most expedient, provided, however, that no such bond or debenture be made or issued for a less sum than one hundred dollars, and provided further that no such bond or debenture be issued until after the consent thereto of a majority of the Shareholders being first obtained at a general annual meeting or at a special general meeting of the Shareholders called and held for that purpose.

Act in force.

Preamble.

4.

This Act shall come into force on the day of its sanction.

CAP. XVI.

An Act to Incorporate the Cornwall Creamery Company.

BE

[Assented to 7th of May, 1887.

E it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor,
Council and Assembly as follows:

1. That Samuel Hyde, John W. Crosby, George L. Scott, James Kellow, Alexander H.

B. Macgowan, Henry Drake, Malcolm Murchi-on, and all other persons who may hereafter become holders of stock in the Company to be by this Act created, are hereby constituted and declared to be a body corporate by the name of the "Cornwall Creamery Company," and may in such name sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any Court of Law or Equity in this Province, and shall have power to take, Corporation. acquire, hold possess, and enjoy in fee simple or otherwise, any lands, tenements, hereditaments, real and personal estate, as it may require for the purposes of its business in connection with the manufacture, purchase and sale of butter and cheese, and may sell, lease. mortgage, or otherwise dispose of the said property as it may deem proper, and generally to transact such other business as may be deemed expedient in the interest of the Company.

2. The said Company may have a common Seal. seal, which they may alter at pleasure, and may elect in such manner as they may deem proper all necessary directors and officers, fix their compensation and define their duties, and make by-laws and regulations for the government and management of its affairs.

3. The first meeting of the Company shall First meeting be called by notice to be published for at least one week in a newspaper published in Charlottetown, and such notice shall be signed by one or more of the persons named in this Act, and shall set forth the purposes of the meeting and the time and place the same is to be held.

4. The capital stock of the said Company Capital stock. shall be five thousand dollars, divided into

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Liability.

shares of forty dollars each, but it shall be lawful for the Company from time to time to increase the capital stock to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars by a resolution adopted by a majority of the votes of the Shareholders at a meeting convened for that purpose, provided always that the said Company may commence operations so soon as fifteen hundred dollars are subscribed.

5. Each Shareholder shall be individually liable to the creditors of the said Company for the debts and liabilities thereof to the amount unpaid on the stock held by him and no further. Each Shareholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share held by him in his own name upon which all calls then due shall have been paid up.

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votes.

CAP. XVII.

Preamble.

An Act to Incorporate the Abegweit Athletic Association.

WH

[Assented to 7th May, 1887.]

HEREAS several persons have formed themselves into an Association for the encouragement of athletic sports and physical culture and desire to be incorporated into a Company.

Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows:

1. That William A. Weeks, junior, Arthur A. Bartlett, George E. Robinson, Daniel J. Macdonald, Eneas A. Macdonald, Otto R.