SCHEDULE. TABLE OF DUTIES OF CUSTOMS INWARDS. Articles. All Articles which immediately before the coming into force of this Act were subject to a Duty of 12 per cent. and not hereinafter specifically excepted or charged with any other duty, for every £100 value..... Duty Currency. £ 8. d. .... 15 0 0 Leather Manufactures and India Rubber Manufac- Snuff, the lb.... Manufactured Tobacco, the lb..... Spirits and strong waters of all sorts, for every gallon of any strength not exceeding the strength of proof by Sykes' Hydrometer, and so in proportion for any greater strength than that of proof and for any greater or less quantity than a gallon, viz: Brandy, the gallon. . . . . . . · ·.· Cordials, the gallon... Gin and other Spirits and Strong Waters not being Rum, the gallon.... Whiskey, the gallon........ Wine, in wood, not exceeding in value £10 per Over £15 in value per pipe, the gallon.... Over 20s., and not exceeding 40s. in value per Over 40s. in value per dozen, the dozen bottles.... Wine in pint bottles, in like proportion, the dozen bottles.... Molasses, the gallon. Green Coffee, the lb... Dried Fruits, the lb..... 3s. 9d., 5s. and 0 6 3 0 0 21 Mustard, Cloves, Cassia and Cinnamon, the lb........ 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 4 .. 0 14 0 Spices unenumerated, the lb....... cwt..... Raw Sugar and all Sugar of any kind not equal in quality to any of those above mentioned, the cwt. Rice.... Wrought Burr Stones To be admitted free. CAP. XI. 0 10 0 076 An Act for the punishment of the Officers and Servants of Railway Companies contravening the By-laws of such Companies, to the danger of person and property. W [Assented to 16th May, 1856.] HEREAS it is necessary to adopt means for preventing, Preamble. as far as possible, the great risk and damage to life and property which frequently arise from the non-observance by the officers and servants of Railway Companies of the By-laws and Regulations made for their guidance: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: Servants, con I. If any officer or servant of, or person employed by, any Punishment of Railway Company, shall wilfully or negligently contravene any Officers or By-law or Regulation of such Company lawfully made and in travening Byforce, and of which a copy shall have been delivered to him, laws, to the or shall have been posted up or open to his inspection in some injury or danplace where his work or his duties, or any of them, are to be ger of persons or property. performed, then if such contravention shall cause injury to any property or to any person, or shall expose any property or any person to the risk of injury, or render such risk greater than it would have been without such contravention, although no actual injury shall occur, such contravention shall be a misdemeanor, and the person convicted thereof shall be liable, in And if such danger. the discretion of the Court before whom the conviction shall be had, and according as such Court shall consider the offence proved to be more or less grave, or the injury or risk of injury to person or property to be more or less great, to be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both, so as no such fine shall exceed one hundred pounds, nor any such imprisonment the term of five years and such imprisonment, if for two years or upwards, shall be in the Provincial Penitentiary. And if such contravention shall not cause injury to any procontravention perty or person, nor expose any person or property to the risk does not cause of injury, nor make such risk greater than it would have been such injury or without such contravention, then the officer, servant or other person guilty thereof, shall thereby incur a penalty not exceeding the amount of thirty days' pay, nor less than fifteen days' pay of the offender from the Company, in the discretion of the Justice of the Peace before whom the conviction shall be had; and such penalty shall be recoverable with costs before any one Justice of the Peace having jurisdiction where the offence shall have been committed, or where the offender shall be found, on the oath of one credible witness other than the informer; and one moiety of such penalty shall belong to Her Majesty for the public uses of the Province, and the other moiety to the informer, unless he be an officer or servant of, or person in the employ of, the Company, in which case he shall be a competent witness and the whole penalty shall belong to Her Majesty for the uses aforesaid; and the Company may in all cases. under this Act pay the amount of the penalty and costs, and recover the same from the offender or deduct it from his salary or pay. ties for con travention of By-laws. Company may II. It shall be lawful for any Railway Company by any By impose penal law to be hereafter made, to impose upon any officer or servant, or person employed by the Company, a forfeiture to the Company of not less than thirty days' pay of such officer or servant, for any contravention of such By-law, and to retain any such forfeiture out of the salary or wages of the offender; provided he shall, before such contravention, have had cognizance of such By-law, which may be proved by And deduct the proving the delivery of a copy thereof to him, or that he signed a copy thereof, or that a copy thereof was posted in some place offender's pay. where his work or his duties, or some of them, were to be performed; and such proof, with proof of the contravention, shall be a full answer and defence for the Company in any suit for the recovery from it of the amount so retained, and such forfei ture shall be over and above any penalty under the preceding section. same from САР. CAP. XII. An Act to amend the Act to provide for the formation of incorporated Joint Stock Companies, for Manufacturing, Mining, Mechanical or Chemical purposes. [Assented to 16th May, 1856.] HEREAS it is expedient to provide for increasing in Preamble. certain cases, the Capital Stock of the Joint Stock Companies formed under the provisions of an Act passed in the Session of the Provincial Parliament, held in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to 13 & 14 V. provide for the formation of incorporated Joint Stock Com- c. 28. panies for Manufacturing, Mining, Mechanical or Chemical purposes, and also of another Act passed in the Session held in the sixteenth year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to 16 V. c. 172. amend the Act for the formation of incorporated Joint Stock Companies for Manufacturing and other purposes, and otherwise to amend the law relating to such Companies: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: Trustees may call a meeting for increasing the Capital Stock. I. Whenever the Trustees of any such Company which has been and shall continue to be, or which shall hereafter be incorporated under the provisions of the said above recited Acts, or either of them, shall by a resolution to be passed by the votes of a majority of them, declare that the Capital Stock of such Company is insufficient for the purposes thereof, it shall and may be lawful for them to call a General Meeting of the Stockholders of the said Company, giving at least thirty days' notice Notice. of such Meeting, by a written notice signed by the Secretary and addressed to each of the Shareholders or their representatives and transmitted through the Post Office, and by advertisement thereof in a public newspaper published nearest to the place where the said Company's affairs are transacted, and continued to be so published until the day of such Meeting; and it shall be lawful for the said Meeting, by the votes of a majority of all the Stockholders holding a majority of the shares in the Company given thereat in person or by proxy, to pass a By-law for resolution authorizing the Trustees of the Company to increase effecting such the Capital Stock thereof to such amount as they shall deem increase if necessary for the purposes of the Company, the amount whereof shall be expressed in such resolution, and thereupon it shall and may be lawful for the said Trustees to pass a By-law for the purpose of increasing the said Capital Stock, to the amount mentioned in the resolution of the said General Meeting of Stockholders, and for declaring the number of shares into which such Capital Stock shall be divided, and the time, amount and manner of payment of the several calls to be made for the payment of such new Stock. decided on. new Stock. Declaration to II. Upon the passing of the said By-law it shall and may be be signed by lawful for all persons who shall desire to become holders of any subscribers for share or shares of such new Stock, to make and sign a declaration, in which shall be set forth the amount of such new Stock, the total amount of the Company's Capital Stock, including such addition, the number of shares of such new Stock, and the total number of old and new Shares of such Stock, and which declaration shall also contain a column, wherein shall be set in figures opposite to the signature of each subscriber the number of Shares for which he shall subscribe; which declaration shall be so signed in duplicate, and acknowledged before the County Registrar or his Deputy, and shall be certified and How filed and filed in the office of the Provincial Secretary and the County Registry Office, in the manner mentioned in the second Section of the Act first herein recited, which said declaration shall be proved in evidence, in the manner mentioned in the third Section of the said first recited Act. proved. Not until one half is subscribed. New Stock holders to be entered on Company's books, &c. Rights of stock. III. The said declaration shall not be so filed, or certified in manner aforesaid, until at least one half of such new Stock shall be subscribed. IV. When the said declaration shall be so filed, the name of every Stockholder contained therein shall forthwith be entered in the books of the said Company as that of a Stockholder, with the date of subscription, and number of Shares subscribed for; and so long as any of the said Stock remains unsubscribed for, it shall be lawful for any person desirous of becoming a Stockholder to subscribe his name to the said declaration filed in the Registry Office, for one or more of such unsubscribed shares, and the name of such subscriber shall forthwith be entered in the books of the said Company in manner aforesaid. V. Upon the performance of the several Acts mentioned in holders of new the fourth Section of this Act, every such Stockholder whose name shall be subscribed to the said declaration, shall immediately thereupon become a member of such Corporation, and from thenceforth shall have and enjoy the same rights and privileges, and shall be subject to the same conditions, restrictions and liabilities to which the original Stockholders shall thenceforth be entitled or liable; and such new shares of Stock shall from thenceforth be subject to all the provisions of the said above recited Acts, in the same manner as if they had formed a part of the Stock originally subscribed. Trustees of VI. The Trustees of any such Company, shall have power to Company may make and enact By-laws for the following purposes, in addition make By-laws to those mentioned in the Act first above cited, namely: for certain pur poses. Trustees. 1. For appointing the number of Trustees of such Company, not to exceed nine nor to be less than three; |