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Logan, CHIEF OF THE CiOVEUNMENT SURVEY OK THE I'ASADAS. ALSO, ©III m\vitx nU i^-f nu'iS ^f tint Cfompnwji, WITH A LIST OK ITS OFFICEKS. BOSTON: PRESS OF GEC. C. RAND & AVERY, No. 3 CORNIIILL, 1803. I i >* PRESIDENT, JOSEPH H. CHADWICK, Of Boston. VICE-PKESIDENT, JAMES FOLEY, Of JVTontreal. THEASURER AND SECRETARY, CARLOS PEIRCE, Of Boston. ASSISTANT SECRETARY, JOSEPH WHYDDON, Of Montreal. DIRECTORS, JOSEPH n. CHADWICK, OF Boston. JAMES FOLEY, of Montreal. JAMES M. KEITH, of Boston. THOMAS CROSS, of Montreal. BENJAailN S. ROTCH, of Boston. )0N, Otm.. ^ MoaJ tfowctuni I /-J ■'nt ■, SI- Albans Uke f^:U7m \ y fernsburd 'irondack ¥^^ ^"Oi \ / ^ IJ \,i>IMh aBnndon \ flfutlind ^^ J^ Chester ^Selltm F'lli \ ^ Ibplton \ mittffim oComish /Vewport 'ONCOf^ a/em Jtason ipl t 1 1 ^■' J^ »l>*M*riW'HMM»«."Wt'^llill»iil i»«ii^ - --r* THE RAMSAY LEAD MINING AND SMELTING COMPANY. I The Ramsay Load Mining and Smelting Company is a cor- poration organized under a special charter of a most liberal character, granted by the Provincial Legislature of Canada, having a capital of five hundred tliousand dollars, divided into twenty thousand shares of twenty-five dollars each. The mine is located in the township of Ramsay, Canada West, within three-four tlis of a mile of the Carlton Place Sta- tion, on the Brockville '-ind Ottawa Railroad, and is connected by continuous lines of railway with Montreal, and also with New York and IJoston. The neighborhood is thickly populated, labor, provisions and fuel very cheap, and all facilities for mining opei-ations favorable. The property consists of one hundred acres of land, a smolting-iiouse, with furnaces, stacks. Hues, etc., dwelliiig-hous<'s for miners, blacksmith shop, store- house, offices and other buildings, together with two steam engines, — one fifty and one twelve horse-power, — crushers, pvuiips, and other necessary articles of equipment. A first- class [)rize medal has been awarded liy the commissioners of the London International Exhibition, for specimens of ore and lend sent from this mine. Tiie main loiio, which is j)rohounced by competent geologists to be a true lode, has been proved for more thai', a thousand feet in length, with a l»readth of two and a half to five feet or more. Tlie nuitrix of the ore is soft, yielding readily to the pick, and seldom reciuiring the aid of powder. The Ramsay Lend Mine, as an investment, oilers great ad- vantages, it is a property already tested and made productive, and therefore free from the risks and expenses which attend the opening and eipiijtment of an untried pro])erty. 4 Gentlemen : In accordance witli your request I have made such an exam- ination of and investigation concerning the Ramsay Lead Mine, situatf'd about one mile from Carleton Place, County of Lanark, Canada West, as the season and the state of the mine admitted. There are two distinct lead hearing veins (sulphuret of lead or galena) extending in a direction northwesterly and south- easterly, from two to five feet or more in thickness, with well defuied walls. The vein stono is calcareous spar. It is rich in ore, and easily mined and crushed. These veins occur in mag- ncsian limestone which overlies the Potsdam sandstone, the thickness of which will not prol)al)ly here exceed one hundred feet, and beneath will be found either limestone or gneiss. Tiiese are true mineral veins ; no limit can be fixed to their dei»th, and they will probably be found to grow richer in ore as they descend. They are of the same character, and belong to the same age as the Ilossie veins — are fiivorably situated for working, for smelting the ore, and for transportation of the products to any jjart of Canada or the United States. My rejiort will be drawn upon my return to Boston, and will contain all the information concerning the mine 1 have been able to obtain. In the mean time I trust that a brief expression of my opinion concerning it will be suHicicnt for your purpose. It is, that the lodes wliich have been prospected upon, and in some measui'c laid open, are true miiu'ral lodes, well dolined, and inexbaustil)le. That they can bo worked, and the ore dressi'd and smelted at moderate cost, and will allbrd an ample return, fully warranting tlie necessary expenditure for opeiang the mine to a great depth. Kvery indication warr'Uits fhy the valuable lleports of the Geological Survey of Canada, by Sir William E. Logan, and information derived from my interview with him, the result of my examiiuvtion has been more satisfactory to me than I liad reason to suppose it would be when I left Boston ; and it is with coulidence in the judgment 1 was able to form that I present to you the following brief Hki'okt : — The existence of a vein of galena^ suljihuret of lead, on the third lot of the sixth range of Ramsay, in Canada West, Avas ascertained by ^fr. Richardson in 18o3. In 1859 an Act of Incori)or{ition was granted to David Torrance, Esq., and others, his associates, in tl»e najue of " The Ramsay Lead Mining and Smelting Company," since wliich time the j)lacc has been known as the Ramsay Lend Klines. It is situated a little less than a mile froiii Carleton Place, in tlie county of Lanark, Canaila West, and is reached from ^lontreal !)y the Grand Trunk Rail- way to Rrockville, thence by the JJrockville and Ottawa Rail- way to Carleton Place. • At tlie Ramsay Lead Mines there are two distinct veins of calc-spar in which galena is disseniinaled, the one termed the lode, having a course northwest and soutlieast (X. 4^° to oO" W. ) ; the other known as the eounterlode, having a course nearly east and west. The latter Joins the former at an angle of alH)ut *20°, at a distance of a little more than six hundred feet from the main shiil't. in a northwesterly direction. These veins vary in tiiiekncss IVoni two (o live feet or more, and the ore is dissemiuati'd in tliem in a width ol from one inch t(» two feet. Tiie underlie of the veins is to the northeastward, about one fot)t in a fathom. They cut nearly iiori/ontal beds of dolo- mite belonging to the lower Silurian series. The base of this l'orniati(»n crops out altoul a mile from the shaft on the bearing of the mait\ lode, and is succcedeil by Potsdam sandstone, Ite- yond which the giuMss and crystalline limestone of the Lauren- tian nge is presented. ^ 6. } I hi' I The main shaft, which has hccu sunk upon the vein between six and seven fathoms, has reached the Potsdam sandstone, and in my interview with Sir William E. Logan, he expressed the opinion that if extended not exceeding se)?enty-five or a hun- dred feet lower, it Avill have passed through it and entered the gneiss or limerock beneath. According to Mr. Banfield, who for a time had charge of the mine, the sandstone is not over fifty or sixty feet thick. His judgment has weight, having been formed from borings made for an artesian W-dl, about a mile distant, and, as the strata lie nearly horizontal, it is not improb- able that his judgment is eoi'reet. The Ramsay veins arc of the same character, and belong to the same age, as the Rossie lodes which are parallel with them, the courses of the lodes of Ramsay and Rossie being about forty miles apart. In the latter the richest yield of ore was from below the sandstone, and there is good reason for suppos- ing that such will be found 1o bo the ease in the Ramsay veins. These veins have been traced on the surfiice about eighteen hundred feet, and tlie walls exposed, by three i)riiK'i]ial shafts which have been conuneneed ; by shaUow costeani'ig i)its, and a level driven ujion the vein, at a depth of sixteen feet from the surface, about one hundred and twenty feet northwesterly anil two hnndreil and seventy il'et soutiieasterly from the main shaft. The counterlode bids fair to prove to l)ea " strong lode," and it is not iniprobaltlc that it will bo found, after folhnving the course of the main lode, to resume its course and distinctive .'hai'acter. The thickness whei'e the two lodes come togetlier has not l»een determined, the hanging wall only having Iteeii laid bare. la June, 1S,")S, Mr. Richard Oatey, an experienced ('oi-nwall miner, conuneneed work on th(^ main lode for ^Ii'. Torrance and liis associates, wliieli was continued till tlu^ month of Octo- ber, the work progressing slowly, owing to liinite(l nuians and many olistaeles to lie overconu*. During this time his force consisted of three nuMt and four boys and girls ; and the result of his labor, besides connneneing the opening of tht! mini! and improvements made u[)on the surl'ace, wa:< a yield of twenty-si.K tons of dressed ore, containing eighty per cent, of lead. In the month of May of tlic following year, Mr. Oatey renewed work at tlie mine, and set up a small steam engine and pump, which had ))een condemned at the Rossie mines, and which was pur- chased for a trifling sum ; also apparatus for dressing and reducing the ore, on a small scale. Work was also carried on during this summer in suiking the maui shaft, in prospecting and in taking out ore from near the surface, not by stoping, hut underfoot work, regard being had to get at ore in sight in order to help pay the cxi)onses, without waiting for the mine to be properly opened and worked systematically, in view of greater results with greater economy. The work of this season (1859) was concluded in September, and the result, in addition to labor expended upon buildings, machinery, and sinking the shaft, was one thousand pigs of lend, averaging seventy-eight pounds each. The labor employed during this time consisted of from six to seven men and four to live boys and girls. Part of this labor was expeiuletl in drawing wood, and in drawing water from a considerable distance fin- dressing the (*re, the shaft not having been sunk deep enough, at that time, to furnish water on the spot. Nothing further was done till the month of June, of the fol- lowing year, when work was resumed f')r Messrs. Foley & Co., of Montreal, uiuler the supervision of Mr. Hantield, who, in a letter dated on the fifteenth of August, addressed to Messrs. Foley & Co., speaks of having just eonnnenced to use the en- gine and crusher. Previous to this, the most of his time, and the force employed l)y liim, hiid been expended in putting up a new steam engine, smoke stack, roasting oven, and crusher. The shaft Avas sunk by him only al)out four teet. His entire for''e consisted of six men, and the work was continued till SeptemlxM', at wliieh time he had taken out something over thirty tons of dressed ore, Tliis was smelted in October, and yielded twenty-four tons of lead, of very i)ure (piality, and brought in tlie market lour dollars jier ton more than English pig lead, owing to its greater softness. It appears that up to this time the ])roduct of the lode, in pig lead, was aliout 118,000 pounds, all of which came from I I i I i l\ ore obtained from an open cut on the surface, and a drift about sixteen feet from the surface, excepting what may have been obtained in sinking the shafts ; but none of it from any great deptli. Tlie ore is found in thin veins and bunches or pockets, the ore-])earing part of tlie main vein, so far as it lias been proved, varying Irom ciglit to twenty-four inclies in tliickness. Parts of tlie lode have yielded five tons of ore in a fathom, the cost of stoping it probably not exceeding ten dollars. 1 am in- formed by ilr. Oatey, in whose statements I have the fullest confidence, that during the last season when the mine was worked, three men, whose wages amounted to j£5 4s. Od. ($20.- 80), raised one ton and a half of 80 per cent, ore; and that four men, at a cost of £[) 10s. Od. ($88.00), took out of the mine five tons of 80 per cent. ore. I^Iy examination jiot only leads to a confirmation of these statements, l)ut leads me to believe that much l)etter results will be obtained when the lode is worked below the Potsdam sandstone. The I)ottom of the main shaft I was unaVtle to see, the shaft being partially filled with water ; but judging from what had been thrown out from the bottom, during the last workings, there is little doubt but that it is through the dolomite. Future operations should be mainly directed to sinking this shaft through the saiulstone, and into tlie rock of the Lauren- tian series beneath, when a rich return for the re(juisito expenditure may be anticipated. In the ujeantime, the work of driving and stojiiiig in tlie present level may be carried on, and a new level driven near the present bottom of the shaft ; ]>ut until the mine has been fairly ()])eiied, to a depth of forty or fifty fathoms, no additional exjiense need be incurred, cx- ce|)ting for raising water, and for tiiis a lilting jjump, with a cylinder of nine or ten inches in diameter, will be re(iuired,thc pumps at present in use being iiia(ie(|uate for tiie ]»urpose. The position of the mine is (iiv(n'abk', it being near a good road, and Ic-^s than a mile from a railway station. It also atlbrds facilities for surface-draining, and for rcuulily disposing of the waste from dressing the ore. Charcoal for smelting can lie procured lor five cents per bushel. Wood for from one # dollar to one dollar and a quarter per cord, and labor for eighty cents per diem for men, and about twenty cents per diem for children. Concerning the character of these veins there can be no doubt. They are true veins, filling cracks in the formation ; unconformable with the strata ; of undetermined extent and incalculable depth. The regularity of the courses, the well- defined walls, the great thickness, their richness in ore near the surface, the associate minerals, oxide and sulphuret of iron and sulphuret of zinc, the Gossan, Mundic and Black Jack, in miners' })hrase, all indicate strong and productive lodes, well worthy the cx{)enditure necessary for their further develop- ment. JOHN K. BLAKE. Boston, April 10th, 1863. 10 REPORT OP WILLIAM PLUMMER, ESQ., THE SURVEYOR TO THE RAMSAY LEAD MIXIXO AM) SMELTING COMPANY. Montreal, Scptcmbei- lOtli, 18(}1. Gentlemen : I have sxirvoyeil your Ramsay Lead Mines, near Carlton nae(\ county of Lanark, Canada West, and beg to hand you the tbUowinii' llei>ort : On your property tliero are two discovered lead veins. The main one, or that on which operations have been mostly cai-ried on, has been opened for a length of from twelve to fourteen hundred feet ; and throughout this length the lode has main- tained its course with the utmost regularity, and contains in many places specimens of rich galena. The bearing of this lode is from 48 to 45 deg. west, aiul its dip or underlie is north- east. To facilitate operations an engine shaft has been sunk to a depth (on the course of the lode) of 40 feet, from which ex- cavii lions have l)een made southeast some 4o fathoms, and northwest for twenty fathoms, averaging in depth from 20 feet at the engine-shaft to or 8 at the points sj)eciried to the north and south of it. Between these two points several branches or pockets of rich ore have liecn found in stoping away the lode, which alforded remuneration to tlie former propriet- W. 35 dcf. W. Tile lode does not ai)pear to be influenced by its turning to the west, l»ut maintains its usual size, which is strilcinsr evidence of its strength and vitality. At a point 750 feet W. W. of the engin- sh;.:t anotlier shaft has Itocn sunk in the course of the lode ; and here the lode is large and promising in its appearance. It is now sunk some 20 feet deep, and has yielded a (luantity of good ore. This shaft, I sliould remark, is altogether in sandstone, and the lode in it from to 8 feet wide, composed altogether of cpiartz, carl)onate of linh-, and lead ore. Peri)endicularly through the lode there are wedge-sliajKHl "■ /torses'" of sandstone. Having traced along the entire lengtli opened of the main lode, I liave to add tliat, in general, wliere it passes tlirougii the limestone, it average's from two to five feet wide, but the pro- ductive part of it is from a few inches to 2] feet wide. In addition to the lode jusl des('ril)ed, another has recently l>een found. Tiie bearing of it is nearly east iind west, and it falls into the main lode at or aliou.t tlie new shaft. Tin; lode has biHMi opi-ned by costeaning at several i)oints, and shows itself lavorable to tiie production of lead ore. At one place, I am informed, :? Ions of galena were raised, averaging from T.j per cent, to 80 per cent, of pure lead. The matrix of the lode is cide-spar, ant of the sixtli range of Ramsay, be- longing to Mr. J. McLean. An analysis of tlie oi-e was reported by the chemist of the snrvey, and specimens of it were shown in Montreal as jjart of the contribntion intended for the Paris Exhibition in IHoo. Tlie subsequent exhibition of specimens from the same locality in the Museum of the Survey has leil to a ])ractical trial of the vein during the last summer. A shaft of five fathoms in depth has been sunk on the lode, and about 75 fathoms in the plane of it having been excavated, they have yielded about 20 tons of galena, containing 80 per cent, of pure lead. The bearing of the lode is from X. 45 W. to N. 50 ^y., its underlie iieing to the northeast. The breadth varies fronx 2^ to 5 feet, and the ore-ijearing part from eight inches to occasionally two feet. Judging by tiie eye, the produce of the lode in galena of 80 pru- cent, may vary from nearly dead ground in some places to as much as nearly two tons to tlie fathom in others. The rock which the vein intersects is an arenaceous limestone, the fossils of whicii prove it to belong to that division of the lower siluriau series, which is known as the calciferous saiidrock. Ju the bearing of the lode the base of tills formation crops out altout a mile from the shaft, and it is succeeded by the Potsdam sandstone, which j)revails for three- quarters of a mile further, beyond whicli the gneiss and lime- stone of the Laurentian series present tliemselves. Founding his opinion on litliologieal characters and stratigrajjliical se- (jueiice, Professor llall is, 1 believe, disposed to regard the lead-ltearing rock of Missouri as of the age of the calciferous formation, lint the want of fossils in the Missouri rock must of course render the identiilcation somewhat uncertain. The Ramsay rock is undoulitedly the calciferous, but whether the Missouri be so or not, the masses of galena which occur in it as well as thos(> of Wisconsin, the rock of which, from fossil evi- dence, is considered to be of the Hudson River formation, are not the same in their mode of occurrence as those of Ramsay. The Wisconsin and Missouri masses, though considerable, ii 14 iiiil iiovcr run deep. As described by Mr. Witney, they do not occur in true veins, but fill up fissures, druses or vertical and horizontal caverns, which do not owe their existence to dislocations, and are confined in vertical ranjie to a certain set of strata of no very jrreat thickness. The Ramsay ore, on the contrary, occurs in a true vein, fillinjr a track witii a connected dislocation ; and, on a late visit to the mine, I had an op|)ortunity of observing a clear evidence of this in one of the walls of the lode (I»oth of which are well defined), in the parallel grooves occasioned by the grinding of the terminal edges of the strata on the opposite sides of the crack when the displacement happened. Whatever quantity of ore the lode may carry with it, there is Utile doubt of its great depth, a depth to ichieh, indeed, ito certain limit can be placed. In addition to the calciferous sandrock, the lode will intersect the Potsdam sandstone and the Laurentian series beneath, and in this respect resemble the Rossie lodes. Little hesitation can be felt in pronouncing it to be a lode of the same age as these, and the interesting fact i. now for the first time shown, that not only these lodes, but probaldy all the yet known lead veins of the Laurentian rocks, are newer than at least the calciferous formation, and [lossibly than some of the formations above it, thus extending consideraldy the area in which such veins may t)e looked for. There ai)pear t(j be indications of other lodes with nearly the same bearing as the one opened at Ramsay, not far removed from it. and it may Ijclong to a gron]), which, running parallel with Bedford and Rossie group, would be ahont forty miles dis- tant from it to the northeast. Additional excavations have been made on the Ramsay lode during the last summer (ISoO), and the company who have mined it have erected a smelting furnace and rednccd a large portion of the ore obtained. A ten horse-power engine is used to give blast to the furnace and pump the water from the mine. The shaft has been sunk to the depth of 7.^ fathoms, but a considerable spring of water having been struck, it will reipiire a much more powerful en- gine to make an effectual trial on the lode, of which it appears to me well worthy. CHARTER. ANNO VICESIMO-SECUNDO VICTORI.^E REOIISr^E CAP. CXI I. All Act to incorporate the Ramsay Lead Mining and Smelting Company. ^Assented to ith May, 1850 ] Whereas the several persons hereinafter named, Preamble, have hy their petition represented tliat they have asso- ciated themselves together witli divers others for the [(urpose of exploring for and working mines of lead and other ores, at Ramsay, in the county of Lanark, Canada West, and elsewhere, l»y articles of agreement entered into at the city of Montreal, and have raised l»y suijscription the ca[tital necessary effectually to he- gin their operations, hut that they experience great difiiculties in carrying out the ohjects for which they are associated without an act incorporating them, with the (towers hereinafter mentioned, and have prayed that such act may he passed ; therefore, ITer Alaiesty, hy and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assemhly of Canada, enacts as follows : 1(3 if. cortnin persons 1. David ToiTaucc, Tlicoflove Hai't, Henry Chap- iuuorporuti man, Thomas Kay and iidmund li. Parsons, the pres- ent trustees of the association meiitioncd in the pre- amble to this act, and their successors, and such and so many otlier persons or parties as have become or shall become shareholders in the capital stock herein- after menticmed, shall be and they are hereby consti- tuted a body politic and corporate, in fact and in name, c-oppornte 11.11110 bv the uauic of the " Ramsav Lead Mininp^ and Smelt- ma' Uompanv, and hv that name shall and mav sue and bo sued, implead and be inii)lcaded, answer and 1)0 answered unto, in all courts of law or e(piity what- soever, and shall have uninterrupted succession Avith a common seal, which may by them be changed or varied at their pleasure. cnpifai stock 2. The cai)ital stock of the said Corporation shall luiil shun-'. ,,.,.,, ,1.1. be iutr thousand ])ounds, and the same hereby is di- vided into lifty thousand shares of the value of one pound each. I.iiilillity of SImiohiJIdcis liiniti'd. 3. No shareh.older in the said Corporation shall bo in any manner wliatsocver lialtle for or charged with the payment of any del)t or demand due by the said Corporation, beyond the amount of his, her or their subscrilied share or shares in the ea[)ital stock of the saiil Corporation. \ M *'''",% ",''„.l"ll',It ■+• •^'"'- 'A'hereas the iiistidnK.'uts already paid or (^1 N Oi nHH Iv Mill * i p'or 'imrr.'' ''"'' <-'idle(l ill upou tlio stock already issuimI are (Mpial to (iv(( sliilhiigs currency per siiare : tiierefnrc, th»! calls to be hereafter made on tiie holders of tiie said stock shall not e.Kceed in the whoh^ sum (il'lfen sliilliiigs \n'v share, and the same shall be )>iiid iiy instahneiits when and in such maimer as shall be pi-eseribeil liy |1k' Di- rectors hereinafter UKMitioiied ; provided, also, that nolhing hennn contained shall exoiiei'ate, diiniuish, or relieve any party I'rom existing lial»ility to the said ! ' , - , 17 Company, whether the said liability relates to coiitri-P'-ov8o:Form- \ ,• 1 iPiii ,,, er liabilities not butions due or to fall duo upon stock already issued, *<'i'«a«"«''te(i. or otherwise, but on the contrary all such liability and contributions shall and luay be enforced in the same vray, and the said Corporation shall have the same remedy to enforce the payment of calls already made, and all other debts and sums now due and called for, ' as is hereinafter pi-escribed with respect to future calls and liabilities. )n shall bo ir<;cd with ly tlie said r oi' their ock of the y paid or L' e<|ual to '., the calls said stock llinji's pt'r enis when by Ihc l)i- also, tliat miiiish, or • I lie said I 5. All and every, the estate and property, real or certain proper- personal, I)elonging to tlie said Association formed c'orpwuuou*''" under the Articles of Association aforesaid, at the time of the passing of tliis Act, and all debts or claims due to or possessed by the said Association shall be and hereby are transferred to and vested in the Corporation herelty estahlished, which shall in like manner be lia- ble to and for all debts due by or claims upon the said Association ; and the trustees of the said Association, at the time of (he inissing of this Act, shall be Direc- tors of the said (corporation, as if elected under this Act, until their successors shall be elected as herein- after provided. erty piiirhased irom private individuals or from tht! ('rown (h> iKtt at a ly one time exceed twenty Ihowsiiiid pounds; ami i( shall be lawful for the said (!oi'porati(»n to sell, h'ase. or otherwise dispose of tlie said properly and estate as they may see lit. 7 It shall b.« hiwfiil for the 'aid Corporation to en- iinsinoss of the gage in and I'oHow (he oeciip:ili<,n and business (>f Jimr'''''""'*'' carrying on cvploratioi, Ibr and of niidiiig and getting lead and other ores, metals, and minerals, and of man- ufactiiring and disposing of the so me for the benefit of the said Corporation, and to do all things necessary for the pui'posos aforesaid, not inconsistent with the rights of any other parties or with the conditions of any grant or other title under which the said Corpora- tion may hold the 'ands in which such things arc to he done. f corponition ,^ jf 4],^ s,im gf flftv tiiousand pounds be found in- may increimc • » ^'!ji;'f"oJ„«t^^J'/° sufficient for the purposes of this Act, then and in rcnpy. ^^^jj ^j^g^ jj^ ^.j^j^jj j^g lawful for the members of the said Corporation, by a vote of not less than two thirds in number of the shareholders, representing not less than twenty thousai»d shares, at any general meeting to be expressly called for that piu-pose, to increase the capital stock of the said (\)rporation, cither by the ad- mission of new members as subscribers to the said undertaking or otherwise to a sum not exceeding in all the sum of two hundred thousand pounds cur- rency, including the said sum of fifty thousand pounds currency hereinbefore authorized to be raised, in such manner and u])on such terms and coiulitions and tuulor such regulations as shall be approved and agreed U])on ; and the capital so to be raisew ' shareholder of such new stock shall be a member of the said (Jorporatioii, and be entitled in all and every, th(^ same powers, privileges and rigiits as the persons who are now shan>iiold(M's, in ))roportion to the inter- est (»r number of shares wiruili he may ae(|uire, and to the amount of calls paid thereon ; antl shall also bo liable and subject to the same oltligations and stand interested in all the profits and losses of the said undertaking in proportiyn to the sum that lio shall subscribe and pay thereto, as fully and effecl\uilly to all intents ami purposes whatsoever as if such other or further sum had Iteen originally raised as a part of the 19 ..If; said first sum ot fifty thousand pounds ; anything herein contained to tlie contrary notwithstanding. 9. It shall be lawful for the said Corporation from corporation .,.,.,-,. , "•*? borrow time to time to borrow, cither in this Province or else- money from time to time. where, all such sum or sums of money not exceeding in all, at any one time, fifty thousand pounds cuiTcncy, as they may find expedient ; and to make the bonds, debentures, or other securities they shall grant for the sum so borrowed, payable eitlier in currency or in sterling with interest, and at such place or places within or without this Province as they may deem ad- ^'isable, and such bonds, debentures or other securities may be made payable to bearer, or transferable by simple endorsement or otlierwise, and may be in such form as the Directors for the time being may see fit ; and the said Directors may hypothecate, mortgage or pledge the land, I'cvcuues and other property of the said corporation for the due payment of the said sums and the interest thereon ; provided alwavs, that such tiio Hamr not . 1 II 1 11 1 "i to bo horrowi'd Corporation shall not m allowed to l)orrow any until ii.ii» the ' ^ „ . cii|iit«l lio puid part of such sum of fifty thousand pounds aforesaid up- until at least one half of the said capital stock of the said Corporation heroiiibofore authorized shall be paid up and uvailabh; for the use of the (Corporation. 10. The stock of tlu; said Corporation shall 1»l' f^J^IJ |,''^^^c';j^; deeni(!(l personal or moveable estate, notwithstanding the (ionversioii of any portictn of the funds constituting the siiine into lands ; and at all meetings of tbe share- Number oj " votes ol siiaro hohlers held in [)ursuanco of this Act, whether the ''"'^'''■''' *•■• same b(i general ov special, every shareholder shall be entitled to as many vott^s as he shall have shares in the said sto(!k ; ami such vott! or votes may be given in person or l»y proxy ; and all (piestions j)roposed or subinitied for the consideration of the said meetings shall be liiially determiiKMl l)y the majority of the votes, except in the case or cases otherwise provided for ; M Proxies. and provldeil also, that no person shall bo entitled to vote as proxy at any meeting unless he shall be a shareholder in the said Corporation, and produee writ- ten anthori^y as snch proxy in the form prescribed by the schednle A. Jt Proviflo:Bhares i|, 'file sliarcs in tlic stock in the said Corporation nf atnnlr tn tin * of Rtock to be issiRimbio by jjijall 1)0 assignable bv delivery of the certificates, to be lelivery of i«r- n , ,7 7 of schce prescribed by any b^'-law of the said Corporation ; and by such assign- ment the party acct^pting such tran^Ier shall thence- forth become in all res])(!cts a member of the said Corporation in respect of such share or shares in the ])lace of the party so transferring the same ; but no such transfer shall be valid or elfectual until all calls or instalments due on the shares pjirporting to be transferred, and all del)ts or i. onoys due to the said Corporation thereon, shall have l>een fully paid up and discharged ; and a certified copy of such transfer ex- tracted iVoni (he proper l)ook of entry, and purporting to l>e signed l»y the clerk, or otljer ollieer of the said Company duly auti»(n'i/ed thereto, shall lie sullicient prima fuvic. evidence of every such transfer in all courts in this Province. Kirmors iimy 12. Tlu! Directors of tiio said Company shall have in Kii!,'iiin.i iuuii)o\ver and authority to estaltlish and have a itlace ot tllf |!|lltf(i . . stiitcH for n- imsincss or oHice in the cities of liondon and liiver- t4iin piirpoitt'H. pool in England, and Ntnv York, IJoston, I'hiladdphia and Detroit ii) the United States (»f Amcn-ica, and to open books of subs4'riptioii in all or any of the said cities for the stot^k of the said Corporation, and re- ceive tluM'o subscriptions for the siiiil stock, transfei-a- ble there, lespectively, and to miike all such instal- ments called thereon, and dividends declni'ed th(^r((by, payable there, respectively. And the said Directors mmm % 21 V. *« m sliall also have power to name one or more Affent or Agents, and powers of Agents or Commissioners in all or any of the aforesaid "gents, cities, for all or an)'^ of the purposes aforesaid, and to allow to such Agent or Agents or Commissioners a reasoiuilde remuneration for his or their services, and all other uccessar}'^ expenses of the said office or offices ; and it shall also he competent for the said Directors to make all such rules and regulations, and to prescribe all such forms as to them may seem meet for the hotter and more satisfactorily managing and conducting the affairs and husiiu^ss of the said Cor- poration in all or any of tlie cities aforesaid, and for facilitating and rendering effectual the suoscription foi- and transfer of and ])aymcnts upon the said stock respectively, and for all other purposes connected tht>re\vith and incidental tiiereto : provided always. Proviso. that the said nirc{!tors may make hy-hiws j)rescrilting the mode in which any shares of the stock in all or any or either of the said cities may he made shares in Canada, or whereby any shares of the stock in Cana(Ui may be made shares in Hnglaud or in the Tnited States albresaid. I-?. For managing tlie affairs of the said Corjjora-rivc i>iroi-tor» , 1111/. • • 11 1. "^ Coriioratiou tion, fliere shall be Inim time to time elected out ot tn i.o oicrna to ■ 1 , i> 1 • I i-1 ... iimiiagc itH al'- the members ol tlie said Corporation live persons, fuirs. lu'ing cacli a proprietor of not less than lifty shares of th(^ said capital stock, to be Directors of tlm said Cor- ))oration. for orihiring, managing and ilireeting the alliiii's of the said Corporal ion ; and any three Direc-Tinv.Mo forma , ■ (luoriuu. tors shall lorni a (luornm of (lie IJoard, and any ma- jorily of such (|Uonim may excrcisi^ all the powers of the Directors: jn'ovidcd always, that unless at a nn'cl- ivovi>o. ing of a majority of the Directors, no by-law, rule, resolution or regulation for raising money or disposing of tlie real estate of the Corporation, shall be liiially passed, unless conlirnnMl at the next ni(>etiiig of the ]>irectors, lo take jdace upon due notice given ; pro- 7 1 1 ' Proviso, vided also, that no Director shall have more than one vote at any meeting of Directors, except the President or Chairman for the time being, who shall, in case of an equal division, have the casting vote, although he may have given one vote before ; and whenever any vacancy shall happen among the Dircctoi's by death, resignation, or removal out of the Province, such vacancy shall be filled up until the next general meet- ing of the shareholders, in such manner as may be nirectors may p»"cscribed by any by-law of the Corporation ; and the mafninl' "stock l^b'cctors shall \viYC full ])o\ver to dispose of such part o orporat on. ^^ ^j^^ stoclc of tlic Said Corporation as may remain to be disposed of, or as may from time to time be added to, or fall into the general mass either by forfeiture or otherwise, on such terms and conditions and to such parties as they think most likely to promote the inter- c«"» est of the said Corporation ; and they shall also have full power to make such calls for money from the sev- eral shareholders for the time being, as is hereinbefore provided for, and to sue for, recover and get in all such calls, whether already made or hereafter to be made, and to cause and declare the said shares to bo forfeited to the said Corporation in case of non-pay- ment, on such terms and in such way as they shall ProneoiiingB in SCO fit to i)i"escribo by any bv-law ; iind in anv action to aotlong or calls. . . , , , " , " , , . be brought to recover any money due on any call, it shall not 1)0 necessary to set fttrth the special matter in the (lochiratioii, but it sliidl be sullicieiit to allege that the dcleinhmt is a hohlor u[' one share or more in the said stock (stating the numlier of shai'es) and is in- debteil to the Corporation in the sum to whicli the calls in arroar shall amount (stating the numlier and amount of such calls), whereby an action hath accrued to the Corporation l)y virtue of this Act ; and it shall be sullicient to maintiiin such action, to prove l»y any one witness, that the defendant at the time of making such call was a shareholder in the number of shares alleged, and that the calls sued for were made ami r 23 § notice thereof given, in conformity with the by-laws of tlie said Corporation, and it shall not be necessary to prove the appointment of the Directors, nor any other matter whatsoever ; — the said Directors shall and may needs of the ' "^ Corporation. use and affix or cansed to be used and affixed the com- mon seal of the said Corporation to any documents which in their judgment may ix'tpiirc the same, and any act or deed bearing such seal and signed by the President (or by any two Directors) and countersigned by the vSccretary, shall be held to be the act or deed of the Corporation, — they may appoint such and so many agents, officers and servants of the said Corporation under them as to the said Directors may seem meet, and may fix the salaries and remuneration of such officers, agents and servants; — may make any pay- Mny appoint ' " ' •' J I J g„t.„ts and ofli- ments and enter into any contracts for the execution ccrr<, &c. of tlie purposes of the said Corporation, and for all other matters necessary for the transaction of its af- fairs ; — may generally deal with, treat, purchase, lease, siannRenieiit of sell, mortgage, let, release, and disi)ose of and exer- cise all acts of ownershij) over the lands, tenements, property and elTects of the said Corporation ; — may institute and defend in the name of the said Corpor- ation all suits at law ; — may from time to time dis- . ,■ place tlie oHicers, agents and sei-vants of tlie said Cor- poration, except as hereafter provided; and they General powers shall and may have power to do all things whatsoever which may be necessary or reciuisite to carry out the olijects of the Corjxtration, and to vest the present property and funds of the said Association in the Corporation herdiv erected ; — they shall declare div-sjinii .leWaro idends of tiie profits of the said Corporation, when and as oCtcMi as the stati; of the funds thereof may ])er- mit ; — may appoint wiien special meetings of the And uppohu shareholders shall l»e held, and deternnne on thecoipmiition. mode of giving notice thereof, and of the manner in which the sliareholdei's may call or requirt; such spe- cial meetings to be called ; — they shall have power to 24 M; carry into force and eftect all and every the provisions and stipulations contained in the articles of agreement in the first section of this Act referred to, with re- spect to the appropriation and allotment, whether con- ditional or otherwise, of the stocli of the said Com- pany, and also witli respect to all other matters and things in the said articles of agreement provided for, not inconsistent with this Act ; and they shall have power to make by-laws for the government and con- trol of the oflicers and servants of the said (Jorpor- Mny niRkc Ky- ation ; — they shall also have power to make and laws. *^ * frame all other Ity-laws, rules and regulations for the management of tlie business of the said Corporation in all its particulars and details, whether hcreinl)eforc s|)eciaUy enumeriited or not, and the same also at any time to alter, change, moilify and repeal ; which said liy-laws, rules and regulations shall l>c sulnnitted for approval, rej(\ction, or alteration Ity the stockhold- ers at the next general meeting, or at a special meet- ing to bo called by the said Dii-ectors; and when and as so ratified and confirmed, shall be i)Ut into writing, and duly recorded in tlte minutes of the said Cor- poration, and be liinding upon, and observed and taken notice of by all members of the said Corpora- rrooi of By- tiou ; and any copy of the said by-laws, or any of them laws. . " , jairporting to lie under the hand of the clerk, secre- tary, or otiur orticer of tlie said Company, and hav- ing the seal of the Corporation allixed to it, siiall be received as prima facie evidence of such by-law in Proviso : an to all courts in liiis Province; provided always, tliat of iJimtors. tlie stockholders may, at any general or special meet- ing, appoint sucli sidary or compensation to (he I'resi- (U'nt and Pirectors respectively as to them shall seem reasonal)le and proper. whou and 14. The lii'st general mec^tiny; of the shareliolders iii(Miiii"-.iiiiii ol the siiid ( oritonition shall lie held at the oiliee of 111' llclil. _ ' the said Corporation in the city of Montreal (at which 25 1 f place the said Corporation shall have its principal place of business), on the second Tuesday in May, one • thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine ; and at such time and place, and on the like day in every year thereafter, the said shareholders shall elect five fit and qualified persons to be Directors of the said Company in the place and stead of the five who shall retire ; and imtil such first election, and until they shall re- spectively retire as aforesaid, the Trustees of the Asso- cortnin peMons • • /• • 1 • m • 1 T-w • 1 m nppoiutcd flrBt ciation aiorcsaid, to wit: llie said David lorrance, Directors. Theodore Hart, Tliomas Kay, Henry Chapman and E. H. Parsons, and the survivors or survivor of them, shall be, and are hereby declared to be, and constituted Directors of tlie said Corporation ; and the said David navid Torrnnce '■ appointed flrst Torrance shall, until such day, l)e the President of the I'rcsident. said Corporation ; and they shall have and exercise all and every the powers, and shall be subject to all and every the clauses, conditions, lial>ility, and restrictions imposed on the Directors to be chosen under this Act ; provided always, that in all actions or suits, or other Proviso: ns to * •' 1 ■ 1 y-( Bervlco of pro- legal proceedings to be brought against the said Cor- cobs. poration, it shall be lawful and sufiicicnt for the plain- titFor complainant, or any other party, to cause process to be served at the office of the said Corporation in the city of Montreal, or personally ui»on the President, or on any one of the Directors, or on the .Secretary of said (corporation, at any other place. And provided Kiectimi of in • ,. 1 T • II I'lesi.lint and that at the first meef iiig ot the Directors to l)e elected vioo rresident. as aforesaid, to be holdon after the passing of this Act, the said Directors shall choose and elect from among themselves some one to be President, and also some one to be Vice-President of the said Corporation. to. At the first general ineetiiirations under this Act, unless they shall have first paid up >,lll 27 the sum of ten per cent, on the amount of their capital stock. 19. Nothing in this Act contained shall in anv ?'s.'>»8 of Her • Majt'Bty Httvud. manner derogate from or affect the rights of Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, or of any person or persons, body politic or corporate, excepting so far as the same may be specially derogated from or affected by the provisions of this Act. 20. This Act shall be deemed a public Act. PuWicAct. SCHEDULE A ;a ^ FORM OF PROXY. i I, A. B., ot , hereby appoint C. D., of , Form of proxy, to be my proxy, and to vote and act for me as sucli at all meetiiigs of the shareholdors of the Ramsay Lead Mining' and Smelting' Company, and in my name to do all things with regard to the business of the said Company, which I may by law do by proxy. Witness, my hand, this day of , eighteen hundred and A. B. SCHEDULE B. FORM OP TRANSFER. I, A. B., for value received, do hereby bargain, sell Formoftran»- and transfer to C. D., share [or shares] of the stock of the Ramsay Lead Mining and Smelting Com- pany, to hold to him the said C. D., his heirs, execu- tors, curators, administrators and assigns, subject to 28 the same rules and ortlers, and on the same conditions that I held the same immediately before the execution hereof. And I, the said C. P., do hereby agi-ee and accept of the said share [or shares], subject to the same rules, orders and conditions. Witness, our hands and seals, this day of , in the year A. B. CD. An Act to Amend an Act to incorporate the Ramsay Lead Mining' and Smelling" Company. [Assented to 9th June, 1862.] Preimbie. Wlicrcas the Ramsay Lead Mining and Smelting Company are desirous of being empowered to increase the capital of the said Company and to effect changes in its Act of Incorporation, and have prayed therefor, and it is expedient to grant their prayer : Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, en- acts as follows : Sec. 2 of 22 V. 1. The second Section of the said Company's Act ' ^"^''^ ^ ' of Incorporation shall l»c and is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the fi)llovvini- shall be considered, taken and read as the second section of the said Act, that is to say : Capital of the Company. / " 2. The capital stock of the said Corporation shall be one hundred thousand jmunds sterling, divided into twenty thousand shares of five pounds sterling each (such as shall be issued in England) or of six pounds five shillings currency each (such as shall be issued in Canada or the United States)." 29 2. The fourth section of the said Act of Incorpora-Sec. 4, repealed, tion shall be and is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following shall be considered, taken and read as the said fourth section, that is to say : '.' 4. The calls to be hereafter made on the holders Cbiis and in- . . , ^ stulmcnts on of the said stock shall be paid m instalments when and them, in such manner as shall be prescribed by the Directors hereinafter mentioned; provided, alr,o, that nothing ^.^^^.^^ herein ccMitained shall exonerate, diminish or relieve any party from existing liability to the said Company, whether the said liability relates to contributions due or to fall due upon stock already issued, or otherwise, but on the contrary all such liability and contributions shall and may be enforced in the same way, and the said Corporation shall liave the same remedy to er.force the payment of calls already made, and all other debts and sums now due and called for, as is hereinafter pre- scribed with respect to future calls and liabilities." 3. The sixth section of the said Act of incorporation scc. o amended, shall be and is hereby extended so as to enable the said Company to purchase real property as tlicr"in Keai property, mentioned to the amount of fifty thousand pounds currency, instead of the lesser amount therein men- tioned ; and the remainder of the said section shall remain applicable to such larger amount. 4. In lieu of the words " fifty thousand pounds " in see. s corrected, the first and twenty-sixth lines, and of the words " fifty thousand pounds currency," in the tenth and eleventh lines of the eighth section of the said Act of Incorpo- ration, the words " one hundred thousand pounds sterling," and in lieu of the word " twenty," in the fifth line of tlie said section of the said Act, the word " twelve," shall be and are hereby substituted so as to make such section read consistently with the second section. 30 Company )iare its may lienil 5. Tho said Company may hereafter, if deemed cx- ]J2J;j'^!fj'™'"»t '" j^edient, transfer its liead management to a Board of Directors in England, with or without a local Board in Montreal, with full or partial powers of management to the former, or with concurrent or limited powers certiiin sections to the latter, iu all wliicli cases the thirteenth, four- to appiy in siicli ,% r-n l^ • ^ n i • n i case. teentli, titteenth, sixteenth, or any other section of the said Act of Incorporation, or of this Act of amend- ment thereto, applicable to the appoiutmeiit, govern- ment, direction and duties of the Directors and Secre- tary of the said Company, shall be and are hereby declared to be Ijindiog and obligatory, and the same in all things as though the appointment of such Direc- tory in England, or local Board of Directors in Mont- real, with concurrent or limited powers, had been originally provided for iu the said Act of Incorpora- tion ; and upon such transfer of the head management, the Board of Directors in England shall be chosen pursuant to the forms and provisions of the said Act of Incorporation, by the shareholders in England, and the Board of Directors in Montreal, by the sharehold- ers ill Canada. I'libiio Act. 0. This Act shall be deemed a public Act. BY-LAWS. MEETINOS OF THE SHAREHOLDERS. A meotiiig of the shareholders shall be held annually, for the clioioc of Directors, on the second Tuesday in May of each year, nr''ce of which, in writing, stating the time and place of meeting, sliall be given by the Secretary personally, or sent by mail, post jjaid, to each shareholder, ten days at least before such meeting. Special meetings of the shareholders may bo called l»y vote of tlie Directors ou a lilic notice required for a general meeting. VACANCIES IN HOARD OE DIRECTORS. The Directors may fill any vacancies in their Board, the per- sons chosen by tliem to ilU such vacancies holding office for the unexpired term of the respective parties whose i)laces they shall l)e elected to fdl. HOARD MEETIN(iS. Tlie Directors may hold meetings of tlie Hoard either in Montreal or Boston, as they may deem best for tlie interests of the ('ompany. Such meetings to be called at tie discretion and under the direction of the acting President for the time being. DlJTIi:s OE PRESIDENT AND VICIO-I'RESIDENT. It shall Ik- tlie duty of tlie President, or in his altsence of the Vice-Prt>sitlent, to preside at all nuu'tings of the IJoard, to ("xecute all contracts entered int