CHAP. 136. An Act respecting a patent of Edgar Webster Summers and Hadley Herbert Summers. WE [Assented to 22nd March, 1907.] WHEREAS Edgar Webster Summers, of the city of Pitts- Preamble. burgh in the state of Pennsylvania, one of the United States, and Hadley Herbert Summers, of the city of Portsmouth, in the state of Ohio, one of the United States, have by their petition represented that they are the owners of a patent, number sixty-six thousand nine hundred and fourteen, dated the fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred, issued under the seal of the Patent Office, for new and useful improvements in railway cars; and whereas the said Edgar Webster Summers and Hadley Herbert Summers have by their petition prayed that it be enacted as hereinafter set forth, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: may extend R.S., c. 61. 1. Notwithstanding anything in The Patent Act, or in the Commissioner patent mentioned in the preamble, the Commissioner of Patents of Patents may receive from the holders of the said patent an application duration of for certificate of payment of further fees and the usual fees for patents. one or more terms for the said patent, and may grant and issue to such holders certificates of payment of further fees, provided by The Patent Act, granting extensions of the term of duration of the said patent in as full and ample a manner as if the application therefor had been duly made within the first six years from the date of issue of the said patent. rights saved. 2. If any person, other than any licensee, has, in the Certain period between the expiry of six years from the date of the said patent and the twenty-seventh day of October, one thousand nine hundred and six, commenced to manufacture, use Proviso. and sell, in Canada, the invention covered by the said patent, such person may continue to manufacture, use and sell such invention in as full and ample a manner as if this Act had not been passed: Provided that the exemption shall not extend to any person having commenced the construction or manufacture of the said invention before the expiry of the patent, without the consent of the holders of the said patent. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 137. An Act respecting the Temiscouata Railway Com pany. [Assented to 22nd March, 1907.] 1887, c. 71; 1897, c. 63; 1904, c. 40; 1904, c. 129. WHEREAS the Temiscouata Railway Company, hereinafter Preamble. called "the Company," has by its petition represented that none of the consolidated mortgage income bonds authorized by chapter 129 of the statutes of 1904, intituled An Act respect- 1885, c. 58; ing the Temiscouata Railway Company, hereinafter called "the 1893. c. 61 Act of 1904," have been issued, and that it is desired by the 1895, c. 65; Company and by the holders of the larger part of the main line 1899, c. 91 bonds and St. Francis Branch bonds in the said Act mentioned, that the issue of consolidated mortgage income bonds should be further postponed, that the Company be authorized to issue scrip certificate or certificates to the persons entitled under the Act of 1904 to receive consolidated mortgage income bonds, that such scrip certificate shall be transferable by delivery and be capable of registration in the books of the Company, that the holders of such scrip certificates, or the registered owners thereof, shall be entitled to receive interest, to vote at all meetings of the Company and be elected as directors; and whereas the Company has by its petition prayed for the passing of an Act for the purposes hereinafter set forth, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: for bonds. 1. Pending the issue of the said consolidated mortgage bonds Issue of scrip the Company may issue to any person consenting thereto, who certificates under the Act of 1904 is entitled to receive consolidated mortgage income bonds or fractional certificates, a scrip certificate, or scrip certificates, certifying that the bearer is entitled, on delivery up at any time of the certificate, to the number of consolidated mortgage income bonds and to the fractional certificate therein stated, 327 Transfer and registration to certificates. stated, being the number of bonds and the fractional certificate to which the person receiving the same is entitled under the Act of 1904. 2. The scrip certificates shall be transferable by delivery of, and rights but shall be capable of registration in the books of the Company, appertaining and shall confer on the bearer or, if registered, on the registered holder, a right to receive the same interest as would be payable on, and shall be receivable in the same way and constitute the same charge or lien as, the bonds and fractions of bonds in respect of which they may be issued, and shall be valid without registration. Rights, privileges, and of holders. 3. At all general meetings of the Company the holders of scrip certificates who have, one month previous to the day of qualifications meeting, registered their scrip certificates or transfers thereof, shall have, while the scrip certificates remain registered, the same rights, privileges, and qualifications for voting and for being elected as directors, as they would have had if registered as the holders of shares of the same nominal amount as the consolidated mortgage income bonds represented by the certificates registered in their names or in respect of which transfers to them have been registered. Production of certificate not voting thereon. 4. The directors may, from time to time, make such arrangeessential for ment as they deem fit, by the deposit of scrip certificates in England or in Canada, or otherwise, to facilitate voting on scrip certificates without requiring their production at the meetings. Mode and extent of transfer. Recall of existing certificates. 5. Registered scrip certificates may be transferred by instrument in writing subject to such regulations as the directors of the Company may think fit, and a transfer may be of a scrip certificate in so far as it relates to the whole or any number of the consolidated mortgage income bonds represented thereby. 6. The Company may at any time by advertisement in The Canada Gazette and in The Times of London, England, call in the scrip certificates outstanding. Such advertisement shall state the time on and after which, and the place at which, Exchange of consolidated mortgage income bonds and fractional certifi bonds, etc., for certificates. cates will be exchanged for scrip certificates; and the scrip certificates shall become exchangeable and be exchanged accordingly; and, as from the expiration of three calendar months from the appearance of such advertisements, all rights Cessation of conferred by the scrip certificates, except the right to receive the bonds and fractional certificates therein mentioned, shall be at an end. rights. OTTAWA Printed by SAMUEL Edward DawSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. |