ince of Alberta, barrister and solicitor, do hereby declare: 1. That the signature hereto is my proper handwriting; 2. That I now reside at 3. That I vote for the following persons as benchers of the law society: 4. That I have signed no other voting paper at this election; 5. That this voting paper was executed on the day of the date thereof. Witness my hand this A.D. 19 day of 1907 CHAPTER 21. An Act respecting King's Counsel and Precedence at the Bar. (Assented to March 15, 1907.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant Governor in Council by letters patent under the great seal of the province to appoint from among the members of the bar of Alberta such persons as he may deem right, to be, during pleasure, provincial officers under the names of His Majesty's counsel, learned in the law, for the Province of Alberta. 2. No person shall be appointed to such an office who has not been entitled during ten years to practice in the Superior Court of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or of any province of Canada or of the North-West Territories or for a portion of such period in one, and for the remaining portion of such period in the other or others of the said courts. 3. The following members of the bar of this province shall have precedence in the courts of the province in the following order: 1. The Minister of Justice for Canada for the time being; 2. The Attorney General for Alberta for the time being; 3. The Solicitor General for Canada for the time being; 4. The members of the bar of this province who have filled the office of Attorney General for Canada or Attorney General for the province, according to seniority of appointment as such Attorney General; 5. The members of the bar of this province, who have filled the office of Solicitor General for Canada; 6. The members of the bar of this province who were before the first day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five appointed His Majesty's counsel, learned in the law, by the Governor General in Council, so long as they are such counsel according to seniority of appointment as such counsel. 4. The Lieutenant Governor in Council, by letters patent under the great seal of the province, may grant to any member of the bar of Alberta a patent of precedence in the courts of the province. 5. Members of the bar of Alberta from time to time appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council to be His Majesty's counsel, learned in the law, for the province or to whom from time to time patents of precedence are granted shall severally have such precedence in the courts of the province as is assigned to them by letters patent issued by the Lieutenant Governor in Council under the great seal. 6. The remaining members of the bar of Alberta shall, as between themselves, have precedence in the said courts of the province in the order of their call to the bar of this province. 7. No person to whom a patent has been issued under the provisions of this Act to be one of His Majesty's counsel, learned in the law, shall while he holds such patent appear in any of the courts of the province as counsel for any party litigating with the Crown, or as counsel for any defendant in any prosecution for an offence against any Act of the Parliament of Canada or of the Legislative of Alberta, or against any Ordinance of the North-West Territories in force in the province, unless and until he has obtained a license from His Majesty in the right of the province to act as such counsel, which license may be granted by the Attorney General as representing the Crown. 8. Nothing in this Act contained shall in any wise affect or alter any rights of precedence which might appertain to any member of the bar of Alberta when acting as counsel for His Majesty or any Attorney General of His Majesty in any matter depending in the name of His Majesty or the Attorney General before the said courts, but such rights and precedence shall remain as if this Act had not been passed. 9. This Act shall come into force upon the proclamation thereof by the Lieutenant Governor in Council. 1907 CHAPTER 22. An Act to Amend Chapter 38 of the Consolidated Ordinances of the North-West Territories, 1898, intituled “An Ordinance respecting the Holding of Lands in Trust for Religious Societies and Congregations." (Assented to March 15, 1907.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Congregations Holdings Act of 1907." 2. Chapter 38 of The Consolidated Ordinances of the NorthWest Territories is hereby amended by adding thereto the following sections: Procedure may be incor "12. Where the congregation of any church or religious Congregation denomination not otherwise incorporated, desires to be incor- porated porated for the purpose of holding and dealing with real and personal property, they may proceed as follows: 1. A meeting of the congregation shall be called for the purpose of considering the proposed incorporation. incorporation 2. A majority of those present at such meeting, who by the Declaration of constitution or practice of such church or religious denomination are entitled to vote in respect of church business, and hereinafter, for the purposes of this Act, called members, shall pass a declaration of incorporation in the form A hereto, or to a like effect, which shall set forth: (a) The particular church or religious denomination to Name of church which the congregation seeking incorporation be longs; (b) A statement of those persons who, according to the Who may vote (c) The proposed corporate name, which shall include Corporate name Officers Quorum Dealing with property Signature of declaration Declaration to be filed with registrar of joint stock companies Certificate of Name not to conflict Incorporation when to take effect Members of congregation to be body corporate Powers Majority to govern (d) The officers who shall exercise the powers of the body corporate in dealing with the property thereof; (e) The number of members that shall constitute a quorum and as such lawfully entitled to transact any business of the congregation; (f) The rules to be complied with before any property of the congregation shall be dealt with by the officers thereof, and such further provisions as may be de cided upon. "13. Such declaration of incorporation shall be signed by the chairman and secretary of the meeting at which the same was passed, and shall be verified by affidavit in the form B or to the like effect by any officer of the congregation present at the meeting. "14. Such declaration of corporation shall thereupon be delivered in duplicate to the registrar of joint stock companies, along with a fee of fifty cents, and if the same is in substantial compliance with section 12 hereof, and if the proposed corporate name does not conflict with that of any other congregation already incorporated, the registrar shall certify under his hand and seal of office that the congregation is incorporated, and shall endorse a certificate to the same effect upon, or attach the same to the duplicate of the declaration of incorporation and return the same to the body corporate. (2) If the proposed corporate name conflicts with that of any other congregation already incorporated the registrar may require such modification as will suit the case, and if the officers of the congregation who sign the declaration and affidavit are satisfied therewith the name shall be modified accordingly or a new meeting of the congregation may be called to decide upon another name, as shall appear most expedient. (3) The registrar may require such modification as in the last preceding subsection hereof mentioned to be made as well after as before the incorporation of any congregation under the provisions of this Act. "15. The incorporation of the congregation shall take effect upon the date of incorporation mentioned in the certifi cate of incorporation. 16. The members of the congregation, together with such other persons as from time to time become members thereof, shall thereupon be a body corporate under the name contained in the declaration of incorporation, capable forthwith of exercising all the functions of a body corporate, with power to sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with by their corporate name; to have a common seal, and to alter or change the same at their pleasure; and to have perpetual succession; and with power to purchase, acquire by gift, devise or bequest if made at least six months before the death of the person |