deducted from

16. The directors may deduct from the dividends Calls may be payable to any shareholder all such sums of money dividends. as may be due from him to the Company on account of calls or otherwise.

ings.

17. At all meetings, of the shareholders each share Votes at meetshall entitle the holder to one vote, which may be given in person or by proxy, but no one who is not a shareholder shall act as such proxy, and no shareholder shall be entitled either in person or by proxy to vote at any meeting upon any share or shares in respect of which any call is in arrear.

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18. When a vacancy occurs by the death or resig- Vacancy in nation of a director, the vacancy shall be supplied by tors. the remaining directors at a subsequent meeting appointing by resolution a director or directors in the place or stead of the director or directors so having died or resigned.

19. The directors may from time to time make, By-laws. alter, amend or repeal by-laws, rules or regulations as they may deem necessary and proper for the management of the affairs of the Company generally, but every such by-law and every repeal, amendment or re-enactment thereof, unless in the meantime confirmed at the general meeting of the Company duly called for that purpose, shall only have force until the next annual meeting of the Company, and in default of confirmation thereat shall at and from that time only coase to have force. Provided, always, that the directors or one-fourth part in value of the shareholders of the Company shall at all times have a right to call a special meeting thereof for the transaction of any business specified in such written requisition and notice as they may issue to that effect, and ten days' notice of every such special meeting shall be given by such notice being mailed, postage prepaid and registered, to each shareholder.

post.

20. A notice or other document served by post by Service by the Company on a member shall be taken as served at the time when the registered letter containing it would be delivered in the ordinary course of post; to prove the fact and time of service it shall be sufficient to prove that such letter was properly addressed and

Transfers of shares to registered.

be

Refusal to register transfer when in arrears.

Head office and offices.

Power to hold real estate. etc.

"Limited."

registered and was put in the post office, and the time that it was put in and the time requisite for its delivery in the ordinary course of post.

21. No assignment or transfer of any share shall be valid or effectual until such, transfer be entered and registered in a book to be kept for that purpose by such officers as the directors may from time to time designate. Provided that whenever any shareholder shall transfer in manner aforesaid all his stock or shares in the said Company, such shareholder shall cease to be a member of the said corporation.

22. The directors may decline to register any transfer of shares belonging to any shareholder who is indebted to the Company.

23. The Company shall at all times have an office in the town or village in which their chief place of business shall be, which shall be the legal domicile of the Company in Nova Scotia, and notice of the situation of that office and of any change therein shall be advertised in the Royal Gazette one issue, and they may establish such other offices and agencies as they may deem expedient.

24. The said Company shall have power to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire and hold all such real estate, easements therein or rights thereon, as may be from time to time deemed requisite for the purposes of the Company, and also to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of, to mortgage, pledge or incumber such real estate or any part or parts thereof from time to time and in such manner and on such terms as they may deem fit, and the directors may at their discretion, acquire real and personal property, including easements in real estate, patents, franchises and electrical instruments, telephone lines and equipments or other property, and pay for them in the stock of the Company, and stock so issued shall be deemed fully paid.

25. The Company shall paint or affix, and keep painted or affixed its name with the word "Limited" after it or forming part of said name on the outside of every office or place in which the business of the Com

pany is carried on, in a conspicuous position, in letters easily legible, and shall have its name with the word limited after it, or forming part of its name, mentioned in legible characters in all notices, advertisements and other official publications of the Company, and on all bills of exchange, promissory notes, checks, orders for money or goods purporting to be drawn, made, signed, given or endorsed by or on behalf of the Company, and in all bills, invoices, receipts, letters and other writings used in the transaction of the business of the Company, and the Company shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars for every neglect or omission of the name of the Company with the word "Limited'' after it or forming part of said name in any of the above cases.

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26. If any person, firm or corporation supplied by Service may be the Company with any telephonic instruments or any rears. telephonic service neglects to pay the rents or charges due or payable to the Company at any time when the same or any portion thereof shall become due, the Company or any person acting under its authority on giving three days' previous notice may stop the said electrical service by cutting off the service wires or conductors and may recover the rent, rate or charge or the rateable portion thereof due, owing, payable or accruing up to such time, in any competent court, notwithstanding any contract to furnish for a longer time.

may be re

27. In any case where the Company shall have cut Instruments off the conductors entering the premises of any sub-moved. scriber and shall have stopped the telephonic service, the said Company or its duly authorized agent or workmen, upon giving twenty-four hours' previous notice to the person in charge or the occupier thereof, may enter the house, building or premises between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and four o'clock in the afternoon, making as little disturbance and causing as little inconvenience as possible, and may remove and take away any wire, conductor or telephonic instrument or apparatus, the property of or belonging to the said Company, and any servant of the Company duly authorized thereto may, between the hours aforesaid, enter into any house where any of its instruments or apparatus or wires may be, for the purpose of renewing, repairing or

No distress,etc, upon instruments, etc.

Damage to property of Company.

Penalty for damage, etc.

Tapping of wires.

making good such instruments, wire or apparatus used for the purpose of said telephonic service without let or hindrance by the proprietor or occupier of said building.

28. No telephonic instrument, wire, apparatus or material of or belonging to the said Company, supplied or placed upon the premises of any person, firm or corporation by the said Company for the purpose of its said business, shall be subject to distress for rent of the premises where the same may be used, nor shall the same be taken in execution under any warrant or process for the collection of taxes against the person in whose possession the same may be or be subject to any mechanic's lien.

29. No person shall without the authority of the Company break, molest, injure or destroy any instrument, wire, fuse or fitting, post, line, material or property of or belonging to the said Company or shall in any way obstruct, disturb or impede the action, operation or working of any line or instrument of the said Company, or in any way interfere with any workman or employee of the said Company in the due execution of any duty, authorized by the said Company or by the provisions of this Act and the amendments thereof. And any person moving a building or doing any other lawful thing which will require the temporary cutting or taking down the wires or poles of the Company shall notify the Company of their intention so to do.

30. Any person who wilfully or maliciously violates the provisions of sections twenty-seven and twenty-nine of this Act shall for each offence, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine not exceeding forty dollars or imprisonment not exceeding one month or both at the discretion of the justice or justices of the peace before whom the conviction is had.

31. No person shall lay or cause to be laid any conductor, the communicator of which shall communicate with any conductor belonging to the Company, or in any way obtain, utilize or use the wires or electric current or telephonic service of the said Company without the consent thereto of the Company.

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32. Any person who wilfully or maliciously violates Penalty for the provisions of the last preceding section shall, for wires." each offence, incur a penalty of one hundred dollars and also a further sum of forty dollars for each day during which such communication remains, which penalty, together with the costs of suit in that behalf incurred, may be recovered on complaint of any officer or member of the Company.

victions Act to

33. The penalties imposed by section 32 of this Act Summary conmay be collected and recovered under the provisions of apply. Chapter 161, Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia, cited as the "Nova Scotia Summary Convictions Act."

go into effect.

34. This Act shall not go into operation until thirty Act, when to per cent. of the capital stock is subscribed and twentyfive per cent. of the said capital stock is paid up.

Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assem

bly, as follows: