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CAP. LXVI.

An ACT, to incorporate the Woodstock and Fredericton Stage Coach company.

Passed 16th March, 1836.

 

 
WHEREAS it is thought that the running of Stage Coaches on the great roads in this Province will be highly beneficial and great accommodation to the public, and that it would be essential to the success of the undertaking that an Act of Assembly incorporating a Company for that purpose should be granted;

Persons herein named, their associates, successors and assigns incorporated with the privileges incident to a Corporation.

 

 
I.   Be it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Legislative Council, and Assembly, That Henry Jones, John Teggert, George E. Ketchum, Hiram Gould and Allen Munson, and all and every such other person or persons as shall from time to time become proprietors of shares in the Corporation hereby established, their successors and assigns, shall be and they are hereby erected into a Company, and declared to be a body politic and corporate by the name of the Woodstock and Fredericton Stage Coach Company, and by that name shall have all the general powers and privileges made incident to a Corporation by Act of Assembly in this Province.

Coaches between Fredericton and Woodstock to run to and from the Court House in Carleton, and stop five minutes on the north side of the Meduxnikick creek.

 

 
II.   And be it enacted, That any line of Coaches established by the said Company or any Coach or Coaches run by the said Company between Fredericton and Woodstock, shall run to and from the Court House in the said County of Carleton, stopping not less than five minutes each and every time the said Coaches run between Fredericton and Woodstock aforesaid, at some convenient place or places on the north side of the Meduxnikick creek near the bridge in the said Parish of Woodstock, for the purpose of landing or receiving passengers, luggage, or delivering or receiving for carriage letters, papers and all other things.

Capital to be £1000.

 
III.   And be it enacted, That the capital stock of the said Corporation shall be one thousand pounds, the whole amount of the said stock to be divided into one hundred shares of ten pounds each.

Act to be void if one half of the capital be not invested within three years.

 

 
IV.   Provided always and be it enacted, That unless one half of the said capital stock shall be actually paid in for the purposes of the said Corporation, and a certificate of such payment signed and verified on oath by the Directors of the said Corporation or a majority of them, which oath any Justice of the Peace is hereby authorized to administer, shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Province before the expiration of three years after the passing of this Act, the operation of this Act shall cease and the existence of the said Corporation be terminated at the expiration of the said three years.

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C. 66. Anno VI. Wm. IV.   A. D. 1836.


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