Excerpt from The Shareholders' and Directors' Manual: Containing a Compendium of the Laws Relating to Joint Stock Companies, and Information as to the Steps to Be Taken in Applying for Charters of Incorporation and Licenses Under the Acts of the Dominion of Canada and of the Provinces Thereof Owing to the extraordinary expansion in mining, manufacturing and other industries, and the large num ber of companies that have been formed to carry on these industries, the Fifth edition of this work, published in 1898, was exhausted a few months after its issue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.