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Un dee symbolee suhrsnts epparaltra sur fa darnlAre imege do cheque microfiche, eelan le cas: le symbole -^ eignifie "A 8UIVRE". le symbols ▼ slgnifie "FIN". IMaps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed et different reduction retios. Those too ierge to be entirely included in one exposure ere filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: Lee cartes, planches, tabiaeux, etc.. peuvent itre filmto ik dee taux da reduction dlff^ents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour ttra reproduit en un eeul clich*. il eet film* A partir da I'angia sup^rieur geuche, de gauche i droite, et de haut en bee. en prenent le nombre d'images nAcessaira. Lee diegrammes suSvante iliustrent le mAthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 BY-LAWS, "V RULES AND REGULATIONS, OF THE BROCKVILLE AND OTTAWA RAILWAY COMPANY, ADOPTED BIT THB BOARD OF DXREOTiORS nOVEBBER 29^181 BROCKVILLE D. WYLIE, PRINTER, RECOR' 1854. •■>.' ■ • . '•»: , . • ' > ...-.i-: ' " ■''' -I'l^t V';;??r GENERAL BY-LAWS, RULES, &o. :!i--' The Directors of Tu£ Baockville and Ottawa Railway Company, in pursuance of the powers in them vested by the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act, and the special Act, do hereby make and enact the following By-Laws, Rules, Orders, and Regulations ; that is to say : OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS. '-'I* ',:r.". Annual General Meetings shall be called to order by the President or Vice President of the Board of Directors for the time being, and shall then proceed to the nomination of a Chairman and Secretary, and in case of a diiTerence of opinion, the nomination shall be decided by the votes of the Shareholders present, — each Shareholder having only one vote ; and in case of a tie, the President or Vice President calling the meeting to order, shall have a second or casting vote. II. i;-;; ., ,;'>.'l-"'.T:^ '.,",:,■. ;:.■•) , ■■■■'■ ' -J-' ^--r.i.^-.v ^.r^y The Meeting shall then in like manner nominate two Scrutineers to receive votes, and the Scrutineers shall forthwith open a Ballot for the choosing of Directors. This Ballot shall be kept open from twelve o'clock noon, until three o'clock P. M., as soon after which hour as possible, the Scrutineers shall deliver to the Secretary of the Company for the time being, a Report, in writing, of the names of the qualified proprietors having the greatest number of votes for the Directorship, and in case of there being a tie of votes given for any person, so as that to the extent of the number of Directors to be elected, there shall not be a majority of votes given, a new Ballot shall be opened by the same Scrutineers, for the Election of Directors, to supply the defect arising from such tie of votes. , .. 4 III. Immediately after the Nomination of the Chairman and Secretary of the Meeting, and of the Scrutineers, the Directors shall submit a general statement of the affairs of the Company, and give to the Meeting such further information as they may deem useful to the interests of the Company as moy be reqnired of them by &e Meeting. IV. Every motion shall be submitted to the Chairman in writing, and on being seconded may, by common consent, be decided by a show of bands ; but in case any Proprietor shall dissent from that mode of decision, the votes ahall be taken, and the motion decided agreeably to the 11th clause of the Ipeoial Act incdiporating The Brockville and Ottawa Hallway Company. 1^ As soon as convenient after the Election of Directors shall be declared, tho Seototaiy of the Company for the time being shall call a meeting of them. OF DIRECTORS. Mo&thty MdetiifgA «f ^6 Board shall be held on the last legal day of (Mi6h menth, at the hoot of Teb o'clock A. M.j at ihe Company's office, for thtt tntneaetiofi ef bUsiheis ; and Adjoimied Meetings may be held at snob iiaMs«i« q«k>iittft of DkieotMi a»y «vdeFk VII. The President shall have power to call Special Meetings of the ■DdrMtOM When necessio^) U sfieh time as he cdudl appoint, and it diall be hik dttty to call snch Special Misetings wh^ any three of the Directors diaU tttpm hitt i& HM^g SO te dO) Mating the objeet «f sneh Meetitag.. YUti tn file ftbtekiod nS &<9 President and Vice Prerident» a qvorom of Directors may appoint one of themselves as Chairman, to |>reside at the taeetkig for which he shall be appointed Chairman, and an snch Chairman •hall, for the purpose of such Meeting, be invested wiUi the powers and authority of the President. The Piesident^ ViiM Fi«sident« egr Diro^tte ib \l prasidingy shall vote m a DireoUVy mi, in oaae of aa equality \ t No bosiness shall be transacted or entered npon at any meeting of the Board of Directors until the minutes of the preceding meeting shall have been read, approved, and signed by the President, Vice President, or presiding Director for the time being, and tiie Secretary. « The following shall be the order of bosinesa:— ' Beading Minutes. - Reading Gommtmioations. Referring Communications. Notices of Motion. Reports of Committees. C(mBiderati .•.•■•' '....>, 1 ■, ;:• ■, . ■ XIX. •■ ■' ■';•* ■.''•'" ' " " ■ . . , . , ' r.-. •• , ■ , . ■ •..■■„■. ' _( ,v.' ■'■ ^ .-..i ■ V ;,. t The Treasurer shall give security by bond or bonds to the satisfaction of the Directors, to such an amount and with such i^ureties as to the Directors may seem fit, for the faithful discliarge of the trust and duties of his OfKco, which bonds shall be placed in the custody of the President of the Company, lie shall receive all calls, assessments, incomes, monies, and securities for money due, owing, or belonging to the Company, and shall deposit the same to the credit of, and in the name of the Company, in such Bank or Banks as the Directors from time to time, by a Resolution made and entered upon the Minutes of the Board, shall appoint. He shall give receipts in such form as shall, from time to time, be approved or prescribed by the Directors, for all monies and securities, for money received by him on behalf of the Company, and he shall in like manner take receipts from all persons to whom he shall deliver any cheques, when countersigned by him, as required by the By-Laws of the Company. He shall keep a regular set of Books, containing the accounts of the Company, and of all its funds which may pass through or come into his hands; and whenever required by the Directors, he shall furnish a detailed statement of all such accounts ; and he shall make and deliver, for the use of the Board, a complete settlement and balance of the Books and Accounts of the Company, made up to the thirty-first day of December and the thirtieth day of June, respectively, inclusive, in each year ; or at any other time that the Board may require the same. He shall counter- sign all cheques which shall have been previously signed by the President, or, in his absence by the Vice President. Two of the Directors shall be appointed, whose duty it shall be to ex- amine and audit the whole accounts of the Company generally, at least once in the six months, la accordance with a resolution of the Board of Directors directing the same to be prepared and iiaued, and ahall oaow due entriea thereof to be made in the book* previoua to iisuing the same. XXI. The Secretary shall give security to the satisfaction of the Board of Directors ; he shall take charge of all deeds or contracts made by or with the Company, depositing the same whh the Bankers or such other person as may be appointed by the Board of Directors. He shall in a proper book or books^ enter and keep a true and perfect account of the names, places of abode, pro- fessions or occupation of the several proprietors of shares in the capital stock of the said Company, and of the seveml Corporations which shall from time to time become original proprietors of, or entitled to any shares ol the said capital stock. He shall keep a registry of the transfer of all shares which shall be mode in the books of the Company in accordance with the By-Laws of the Company. He shall countersign and enregister all certificates of stock which shall be issued from the Company's Office, after the same have been signed by the President. He shall, when required, sign certificates of the forfeitures of all shares which shall be, in due course of Law, declared (or- foited. He shall receive and submit to the Board of Directors all tenders for oontraots. Whenever calls shall be made, he shall cause the same to be duly advertised as required by the Board and the Acts of Incorporation. He ahall attend at all the meetings of the Board and of Committees, and keep the entries and minutes of their proceedings. He shall carry on or enter all the correspondence of the Company. He shall receive and lay before the Board of Directors all applications for demands upon the funds of the Company. He shall lay before the Board at its monthly meetings all conununications received by him subsequent to each preceding meeting ; and he shall, in like manner, submit a statement of all matters passing in his Office during the monUu He shall prepare the drafts of ell reports of Committees when required so to do by the Respective Chairmen of such Committees. He shall prepare all cheques, when the amounts for which the same shall be prepared shall have been approved by the Board of Directors, and shall present them to the President for his signature, testifpng the same to have been approved. He shall deliver the same to the several parties entitled to receive the same after they shall have been countersigned by the Treasurer and entered in the books of the Company. He ^all transmit to the Treasurer, for entry, all estimates and accounts after the same shall have been approved and ordered to be paid. He shall summon all meetings of Committees, whenever re- quested to do so by the Chairman of a standing Committee, or the mover of a special Committee, or by any two IVfombers of either of such Committees. He shall convey the instractions of the Board to all of the Ofiicers of the Com- pany; and generally he shall discharge all such other duties as shall be im- posed.on himf from time, to time, by resolution of the Board ; provided that mmm.id tiwi;rt6anoe.<»iUaea»ottho Seoietaiyt his duties abaU bepeilianned • • t by a Secretary pro Um., to be appointed by reaolution of the Board of Directors. XXII. Books for the Registty of Transfers of Shares shall be kept by the Secretary at his Office and in such other custody and place as may be from time to time directed by the Board, and shall be closed twice in each year, from the first day of January until the first day of February, and from the first day of July until the first day of August. New certificates for such stock so transferred may be issued by the Secretary if required, upon the delivery and cancelling of the former certificates. . ^^ , i.lTl XXIII. The Scrip or Certificates of ownership of Shares shall be in the foiin following, viz : — No. it'), i' THE BROCKVILLE AND OTTAWA RAILWAY COMPANY. We Certify that [are or is] the [holder or holdera] of one Share, No. — — of the amount of £5 in the Capital Stock of the Brockville and Ottawa Railway Company, upon whioh Share there has been paid the sum of — — Pounds Shil- lings, Currency; the said Share being transferrable at the Ofiloe of the Secretary of the Company, in manner and form pre- scribed by the Acts of Incorporation and the By Laws of the Company. Dated this day of 185 Coontersigned and Entered, Fremdent. Seorataqr vd Ti$uam^ Hie Bimdi of the dutptaij to be ehaU bf in the fotm «|^pMiT0dti9r ihe FMii( >-x U^'-''^^''- Cfi^^Ujh*^'^ 10 lution of the Board paf?peilon the twenty-eighth day of October last, mid the same shall, as often as required, be signed by the President and countersigned by the Treasurer of the Company, and shall have the Corporate Seal of the Company affixed thereto, and the coupons for interest thereto attached shall be signed by the Treasurer, and the same shall be engraved on plates in sums of XlOO Sterling with interest at the rate of Jt'C per cent, per annum, payable half-yearly on the first days of January and July in each year. notice toamt I caune enact Lord Presi XXV. All payments to be made out of the Funds of the Company shall be made by cheques upon the Bankers of the Company, in such form and man- ner as by resolution of the Board of Directors, duly entered in the minutes shall from time to time be provided. Such cheques shall be payable to the order of the party or parties entitled to receive the amount to be specified in such cheques respectively, or his, her, or their duly authorized agent ; and snch cheques shall be signed by the President, or, in his absence, by the Vice President, or in the absence of both of them, then by the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the time being, and countersigned by the Treasu- rer ; and unless so signed and countersigned, the same shall not be payable or be paid by the Bankers of the Company. And no cheques shall be issued out of the OfHce of the Secretary unless nor until the purpose and the amount for which the same shall have been prepared shall have been ap- proved by resolution of the Board of Directors, duly entered on the minutes of the Board ; and the Treasurer shall place before the Directors at their monthly meetings, the Bank Book in which the cheques and deposits of the Company shall have been duly entered, and an abstract of the cash receipts and dis- bursements of the month. y XXVI. The Seal of the Company shall be ker.t in the custody of the Secretary. XXVII. The Salaries of the Officers of the Company shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the Board of Directors, and the Salaries heretofore fixed by resolution of the Board are hereby confirmed and ratified until otherwise provided. , ;, ,%- XXVIII. These By-Laws may be altered or cancelled from time to time at the pleasure ol the Board of Directors ; prcvided that not less than two weeks' the ?ned the fhall ps in Bum, • 11 notice shall be given in writing, at a meeting of the Board, of any resolution to amend the same. TX TESTEflOlVir HTHERCOF the said Directors have caused these By-Laws, Rules, Orders and Regulations, adopted, made and enacted as aforesaid, the twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, to be signed by the President the day and year aforesaid. OEORGE CRAWFORD, President, Brookville & Ottawa Railway Company. DAVID WTLIXi VaiVTXRf BROCKVILLBy C. W.