Corporate

name, and powers.

and District of Montreal, under the name of "Les Dames Religieuses du Sacré Cœur de Jésus," for the Instruction and Education of young persons of the female sex, and has, at great expense, provided suitable buildings for the said purpose, and has instructed and educated a great number of young persons, many of them gratuitously, and the remainder at very moderate rates; And whereas the said Ladies have, by their petition, prayed that the said Association may be Incorporated, and in consideration of the great benefits which must arise from the Institution, it is expedient to grant their prayer; 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, 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, that Certain Ladies Marie Michelle, Ursule Sallion, Séraphine Constantine, Josephte Avignon, Claire Incorporated. Henriette de Kersaint, Mary Anne Roche, Euphrosine Emélina Lévèque, and Johana Alphonsine Shannon, and such other persons as shall, under the provisions of this Act, become members of the said Institution, shall be and are hereby declared to be a Body Politic and Corporate in deed and in name, by the name of of "Les Dames Religieuses du Sacré Cœur de Jésus," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and a Common Seal, and shall have power from time to time to alter, renew or change such Common Seal at their pleasure, and shall by the same name, 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, situate, lying and being within this Province, not exceeding in yearly value the sum of three thousand pounds currency, and the same to sell alienate and dispose of, and to purchase others in their stead for the same purpose; and by the said name shall and may be able and capable in Law, to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto in all Courts of Law and places whatsoever, in as large, ample and beneficial a manner as any other Body Politic or Corporate, or as any persons able or capable in Law may or can sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in any manner whatsoever; and any majority of the members of the Corporation, for the time being, shall have power and authority to make and establish such Rules, Orders and Regulations, not being contrary to this Act nor to the Laws in force in this Province, 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 Rules, Orders and Regulations, or any of them, or those of the said Associa

By-Laws.

To what purposes the Revenues of the

Corporation shall be applied.

Property of the present Ass0

ciation vested in the Corpora

tion, and its By-Laws

made those of

theCorporation until altered.

Corporation may appoint

tion in force 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.

II. Provided always, and be it enacted, that the rent, revenues, issues and profits of all property, real or personal, held by the said Corporation, shall be appropriated and applied solely to the maintenance of the members of the Corporation, the construction and repair of the buildings requisite for the purposes of the Corporation, and to the advancement of Education, and the payment of the expenses to be incurred for objects legitimately connected with or depending on the purposes aforesaid.

III. And be it enacted, that all and every the estate and property, real and personal, belonging to, or hereafter to be acquired by the said 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 Rules, Orders and Regulations now made, or to be made for the management of the said Association, shall be, and continue to be the Rules, Orders and Regulations of the said Corporation, until altered or repealed in the manner hereinbefore provided.

IV. And be it enacted, that the Members of the said Corporation, for the time Attornies, Of being, or a majority of them, shall have power to appoint such Attorney or Attor

ficers, &c.

Individual members not to

be liable for the

neys, Administrator or Administrators of the property of the Corporation, and such Officers and Teachers and Servants of the said Corporation as shall be necessary for 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 all Officers 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. And be it enacted, that nothing herein contained shall have the effect or be construed to have the effect of rendering all or any of the said several persons hereinbefore mentioned, or all or any of the Members of the said Corporation, or any person whatsoever, individually liable or accountable for, or by reason of any debt, contract or security incurred or entered into for or by reason of the said Corporation, or for or on account or in respect of any matter or thing whatsoever relating to the said Corporation.

Crown saved.

VI. And be it enacted, that nothing herein contained shall affect or be construed Rights of the to affect, in any manner or way, the rights of Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, or of any person or persons, or of any Body Politic or Corporate, such only excepted as are hereinbefore mentioned and provided for.

Act to be

VII. And be it enacted, that this Act shall be deemed a public Act, and shall be publicly taken notice of as such by all Judges, Justices of the Peace, and other public Act. persons whatsoever, without being specially pleaded.

CAP. LV.

1

An Act to authorize the Superior and Directors of the Seminary of Quebec, to acquire and hold a certain amount of property, in addi. tion to that now held by them.

W

[16th November, 1843.]

HEREAS the Superior and Directors of the Seminary of Quebec, have by their Petition to the Legislature, prayed that they may be authorized to acquire and hold to and for the use of the said Seminary, a certain amount of property, in addition to that now held by them: And whereas by reason of the great public utility of the said Institution, it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said Petition; 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, that it shall be lawful for the Superior and Directors of the Seminary of Quebec, for the time being, and for their successors in office, to acquire or take by donation, devise, or otherwise, and to hold to and for the use and for the purposes of the said Institution, any property real or immoveable in this Province, or any constituts, or rentes foncières secured on such property, or any money or shares in the Public Funds of the United Kingdom, or secured by any Debentures on the Public Revenue of this Province, or any other property whatever, yielding a fixed and permanent income or revenue not exceeding one thousand pounds, currency, per annum, in addition to such property as at the time of the passing of this Act they shall lawfully hold for the use and purposes of the said Seminary, and when need shall: 'be

Q

Preamble.

The Semina

ry of Quebec ampovered to hold additional certain annual value.

acquire and

property to a

Capital paid

to the Semina

ry may be re

invested.

be to receive payment of the Capital of any sum of money secured as aforesaid, and to invest the same in other property of any of the kinds aforesaid, producing an annual income, provided the total amount of the annual income derived from property so held at any time under the authority of this Act, shall not exceed the sum of one thousand pounds, currency, aforesaid; any thing in the Laws commonly called the Laws of Mortmain, or in any other Law or Statute whatsoever, to the contrary notwithstanding.

Preamble.

Act of L. C.

CAP. LVI.

An Act to renew and continue for a certain time, the privileges
granted by a certain Act of Lower Canada therein mentioned, to
Alexis Gosselin and his heirs and assigns, with regard to a certain
Bridge over the River Boyer, in the County of Bellechasse.

[9th December, 1843.]

HEREAS, by the third section of the Act of the Legislature of Lower

52 G320, King George the Third, and intituled, An Act to grant to Alexis Gosselin, a right of Toll over the Bridge erected on the River Boyer, in the County of Hertford, it was among other things enacted, that the Tolls granted by the said Act should be vested in the said Alexis Gosselin, his heirs and assigns, for the space of twenty-five years from the passing of the said Act, and that at the expiration of that period the possession and property of the Bridge, Toll-house, Toll-gate, and other dependencies of the Bridge in the said Act mentioned, and the Roads leading to and from the same, should belong to His said Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and be free for public use, without His said Majesty, His Heirs or Successors being in any way held to indemnify the said Alexis Gosselin, his heirs or assigns for the same; And whereas the said term of twenty-five years hath expired: And whereas, before the expiration thereof Marie Elizabeth Gosselin, wife of Alexander Fraser, of the County of Bellechasse, in the District of Quebec, cultivator, had become the proprietor of the said Bridge, Tolls, and other property aforesaid, by virtue of and assignment thereof, to her made by the said Alexis Gosselin, and the said Alexander Fraser hath by his Petition prayed that the privileges granted by the said Act may be renewed and continued for a certain time in favor of his said wife, her heirs and assigns, and the said Bridge being now fallen into decay, and in need of considerable repairs, which the said Marie Elizabeth Gosselin is willing to cause to be made, it will be advantageous to the

The privi

legche granted renewed for 20 years in fathe party to

by said Act

the period of

vor of the representative of

were granted

public that the prayer of the said Petition be granted; 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, 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, that the Tolls in and by the said Act established, (except as hereinafter provided,) and all the privileges and advantages thereby granted to the said Alexis Gosselin, shall be and are hereby renewed in favor of and vested in the said Marie Elizabeth Gosselin, her heirs and assigns, for and during the space of Twenty Years from the passing of this Act, as fully and effectually as if by the third section of the Act first cited, they had been vested in the said Alexis Gosselin, his heirs and whom they assigns, until the end of the term herein last mentioned; and until the end of the by the said said twenty years from the passing of this Act, the said Marie Elizabeth Gosse- Act. lin, her heirs and assigns, shall accordingly have possession of the said Bridge, Toll-house, Toll-gate, and other dependencies, and the roads leading to the same, the property whereof shall nevertheless continue to be vested in Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and shall at the end of the said term of twenty years be free for public use, without Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors being in any way held to indemnify the said Marie Elizabeth Gosselin, her heirs or assigns, for the same: Provided always, that to entitle themselves to the benefit of this Act, the said Marie Elizabeth Gosselin, her heirs or assigns, shall, within one year from the passing of this Act, make the said Bridge and Roads safe and passable for travellers and carriages of all kinds, otherwise the privileges granted to them by this Act shall wholly cease and determine, and shall maintain the same thereafter in repair, in the manner provided by the Act first above cited, subject to all the provisions thereof, and under the penalties and forfeitures therein inentioned, in case of their default.

II. Provided always, and be it enacted, that at any time before the expiration of the said term of twenty years, it shall and may be lawful for Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors to assume the possession of the said Bridge, and of the dependencies thereof, and the Tolls thereon, upon paying to the said Marie Elizabeth Gosselin, her heirs or assigns, the full and entire value which the rights and privileges hereby granted to her and them, may be worth for that portion of the said term of twenty years then remaining unexpired, such value to be ascertained, in case of difference of opinion, in the manner provided by law with regard. to Property taken by the Board of Works for the public service.

Proviso.

Her Majesty

may assume

poesi the Bridge and Tollshen of the then unexpired term.

ing value

Certain alterations in the

III. Provided also, and be it enacted, that instead of the Tolls appointed by the Act herein first above cited, to be taken on the Vehicles hereinafter men- Tolis made.