limited. de Bonsecours, at Montreal, and by that name shall, from time to time and at all times hereafter, be able and capable to purchase, acquire, hold, possess and enjoy, and to have, take and receive, to them and their successors, to and for the uses and purposes of the said corporation, any lands, tenements and hereditaments, and real or immoveable property and estate, Real property situate, lying and being within Lower Canada, not exceeding at any time the yearly rent or revenue of Two Hundred Pounds currency; and the same to hypothecate, sell, alienate and dispose of, and to purchase others in their stead, for the same purpose; and any majority of the Corporation for the time being shall have power and authority to make and establish such By-laws, orders and regulations, not being contrary to this Act, nor to the laws in force in Lower Canada, as shall be deemed useful or necessary for the interests of the said Corporation and for the management thereof, and for the admission of members into the said Corporation, and from time to time to alter, repeal and change the said By-laws, orders and regulations, or any of them, or those of the said Institution in force Further pow at the time of the passing of this Act; and shall and may do, execute and perform all and singular other the matters and things relating to the said Corporation and the management thereof, or which shall or may appertain thereto, subject nevertheless to the rules, regulations, stipulations and provisions hereinafter prescribed and established. Power to make By. laws. ers. To what purposes only the revenues of the Cor II. Provided always, that the rents, revenues, issues and profits of all property, real and personal, held by the said Corporation, shall be appropriated and applied solely to the mainporation shall tenance of the members of the Corporation, the construction be applied. and repair of the buildings requisite for the purposes of the said Corporation, and the payment of the expenses to be incurred for objects legitimately connected with or depending on the purposes aforesaid. Property of association vested in Cor poration. Corporation may appoint Attorneys, III. All and every the estate and property, real and personal, belonging to or hereafter to be acquired by the members of the said Association as such, and all debts, claims and rights whatsoever, due to them in that quality, shall be and are hereby vested in the Corporation hereby established, and the said Corporation shall be liable for all the debts owing by the said Association; and the By-laws, orders and regulations now made or to be made for the management of the said Association, shall be and continue to be the By-laws, orders and regulations of the said Corporation until altered or repealed in the manner herein provided. IV. The members of the said Corporation for the time being or a majority of them, shall have power to appoint such AtOfficers, Ser- torney or Attorneys, administrator or administrators of the property of the Corporation, and such officers, managers, deputies and servants of the said Corporation, as shall be necessary for vants, &c. the the well conducting of the business and affairs thereof, and to allow to them such compensation for their services respectively as shall be reasonable and proper; and ail oflicers so appointed shall be capable of exercising such other powers and authority for the well governing and ordering of the affairs of the said Corporation as shall be prescribed by the rules, orders and regulations of the said Corporation. V. The said Corporation shall make annual returns to both Annual return Houses of the Legislature shewing the general state of the affairs to be made to of the Corporation, which said returns shall be presented Legislature. within the first twenty days of each session of the Legislature. VI. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. CCXXXV. An Act to incorporate the Director and Trustees of the W [Assented to 30th May, 1855.] Public Act. HEREAS an Association has been formed in the City of Preamble. Montreal for the purpose, among others, of providing for destitute orphans of the said City; And whereas certain members of the said Association, and others interested in its welfare, have by their petition represented that the said Association would be more efficient by giving to it the character of a corporation: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows: named and I. The Reverend Patrick Dowd, Charles T. Palsgrave, Thomas First DirecBeil, Francis Macdonell, Thomas O'Brien, Michael O'Meara, tor and Charles Curran, Patrick Lynch, Patrick Brennan, Thomas Trustees Ryan, James Sadlier, and all others who may be from time incorporated. to time elected to succeed them as trustees, in the manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be and they are hereby nominated and constituted a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the "Director and Trustees of the Montreal St. Patrick's Corporate Orphan Asylum.” name. II. The said Reverend Patrick Dowd shall be the first First Director. Director of the said Corporation. III. The corporation shall at all times consist of ten members Number of in addition to the Director, and not more. 64* Directors. IV. Who may be Trustees. What shall vacate the office. Filling vacancy. Corporate powers. Proviso: real Property limited. Quorum of Trustees must fill vacancies IV. Members of the Saint Patrick's Congregation in the City of Montreal, resident in the Parish of Montreal, and they only, shall be eligible to be elected as Trustees of the said Corporation; and any absence from the said Parish for two years or upwards, or from the meetings of the Corporation during six months, or resignation, shall vacate the office of any Trustee, and he shall be replaced by another elected by the remaining Trustees. V. The said Corporation shall have perpetual succession, and may have a common seal, with power to break, change and renew the same, when and as often as they shall think proper; and may under the same name contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, prosecute and be prosecuted, in all courts and places whatsoever in this Province; and by the same name they, the said Directors and Trustees, and their successors, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, shall be able and capable to have, take, roceive, purchase and acquire, hold, possess, enjoy and maintain, to and for the use of the said Corporation, and the buildings necessary there for only, all lands and property, moveable and immoveable, which may hereafter be sold, ceded, exchanged, given, bequeathed, devised or granted to the said Corporation, and to sell, alienate, convey or lease the same, if need be; and all property now held by the said association, or by any Trustee or other party for the said association, shall, from and after the passing of this Act, be vested in the said Corporation; Provided that the annual income to be derived from such property shall not exceed the sum of One Thousand Five Hundred Pounds Currency. VI. No act done by the said Trustees shall be valid and effectual, unless the Director for the time being, and three of such Trustees, at the least, shall be present, and the major part of them consent thereto. VII. The said Trustees shall fill up all vacancies which as they occur. may occur in their body, when and as often as the same shall happen, whether by absence from the Parish of Montreal during two years, change of residence from the same, absence from the meetings of the Corporation during six consecutive months, death or resignation. Power to make By. laws. VIII. The Corporation shall have full power to frame and establish such by-laws, orders and regulations (not being con trary to the laws of this Province or to this Act) as they shall deem useful or necessary for the conduct or government of the institution; and from time to time to alter, repeal and change the said by-laws, orders and regulations, or any of them. IX. The said Corporation shall have power to appoint from Committee of time to time a Committee of Management, whose duty it shall Management, be to send out to service and apprentice thereto, or to any and its pow ers to ap healthy trade or business, all youths, male or female, having prentice the protection or aid of the said institution, and being Orphans, youths, &c. or if not with the consent of their Parents or Guardians to such person or persons, and upon such terms as to the said Committee of Management may seem fit and proper; and, for that purpose, shall have power, on behalf of and for such youths and themselves, to enter into and make, with any person or persons with whom such youths may be placed by the said Committee of Management, Articles of Apprenticeship and Agreement; and Enforcing such Articles of Agreement may be enforced as well by action Articles of Apprenticeat law or in equity, for breach thereof warranting any ship. action, as by summary application to a Magistrate or Justice of the Peace, (who is hereby authorized and empowered to act thereon,) on any such occasion as would, according to the laws of this Province, warrant the interference or adjudication of any one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace, in disputes between masters and apprentices: Provided always, that a Proviso: copy of the Articles or Indenture apprenticing such youth, shall, Copy of Inwithin three days from the time when such Articles or Inden- dentures to be ture were executed, be lodged with the Secretary of the Corporation who is hereby required to file such copies. such filed. until another X. Any Committee of Management which may have been Prescut Comappointed by the said Association and now acting as such, mittee to act shall have the like powers and be considered as Managers of is appointed. the Corporation, until such time as a Committee of Management shall be appointed under the provisions of this Act. Annual Re XI. The said Corporation shall be bound to make annual returns to the Governor or person administering the Government turn to the of this Province for the time being, showing the amount of Governor. their receipts and expenditure during the then next preceding year, and of the real and personal estate held and enjoyed by the said Corporation. XII. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. CCXXXVI. An Act to amend an Act to incorporate the Toronto W [Assented to 19th May, 1855.] Public Act. HEREAS by an Act passed in the eleventh year of the Preamble. Reign of Her Majesty, intituled, An Act to incorporate 11 Vict. c. 16. the Toronto Athenæum, power was given to certain persons therein named to form themselves into an Association for the formation of a Public Library and Museum; And whereas an Association was formed accordingly; And whereas a Royal Charter Power to transfer books Charter has been granted to an Association called the Canadian Institute for purposes of a similar character; And whereas the said two bodies are desirous of, and have agreed upon a union thereof upon certain conditions; And whereas a portion of the Members of the Toronto Athenæum are desirous of continuing incorporated under the name of the Toronto Commercial News Room: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows: I. The Members of the Toronto Athenæum shall have power &c., to Cana- to transfer and convey to the Canadian Institute, such and so dian Institute. much of the books, minerals, and other property of the said Toronto Athenæum, whether held absolutely or in trust, as they may decide upon so conveying, and upon such conditions as they may think advisable, which conditions, if accepted by the said Canadian Institute, shall be binding. Upon such transfer, the name, &c., of the Corporation may be changed. Public Act. Preamble. II. Upon such transfer being completed, the members of the Toronto Athenæum shall have power to change the name of the Association to the Toronto Commercial News Room, and to retain the rules of the Toronto Athenæum, or to alter the same, and to make regulations for their government, in the same way as if such name had not been changed, and to change the times of meeting and the number and names of the officers, and to enjoy all the rights and privileges heretofore enjoyed by the Toronto Athenæum, subject to the conditions of the agreement with the Canadian Institute aforesaid. III. This Act shall be held to be a Public Act. CAP. CCXXXVII. An Act to incorporate St. Michael's College in the W [Assented to 19th May, 1855.] HEREAS it has been represented to the Legislature of this Province, that the Roman Catholic Bishop of Toronto has founded a College in the City of Toronto, under the style and title of "St. Michael's College," which is already in full operation with upwards of sixty students, and embracing all classical studies; And whereas it would tend greatly to advance and extend the usefulness of the said College, and to promote the purposes for which it was established, that it should be incorporated: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most 1 |