making the same, and hold real and personal property, or movables, for the purposes of the congregation, and to alienate the same at pleasure, and shall also vest in a majority of the members of the congregation the power to bind the others by their acts; and shall exempt the individual members of Effect of the corporation from personal liability for its debts or obliga- incorporation tions or acts, provided they do not violate the provisions of this Act, and for the purpose of this section the majority of any properly constituted meeting shall be deemed to be the majority of the congregation. "17. Any certificate of the incorporation of the congregation given by the registrar of joint stock companies under his seal of office shall be conclusive evidence that all the requirements of the Act in respect of registration, and of matters precedent and incidental thereto, have been complied with. (2) Any certificate of the incorporation of any congregation given by the registrar shall be received in evidence as if it were the original certificate; and any copy of or extract from any of the documents kept and registered at the office for registration of joint stock companies, if duly certified to be true copy of extract under the hands of the registrar and his seal of office, shall for all purposes be received in evidence as of equal validity with the original document. certificate of To be received as evidence incorporation members to be "18. The duplicate declaration of incorporation, or a certi- Declaration of fied copy thereof, and a list of the members of the congrega- and list of tion, shall be kept in the church or meeting house of the con- kept in church gregation and shall be presented at any properly constituted meeting called to transact business, and shall at all reasonable times be open to the inspection of any person lawfully Inspection attending worship therein, and the names of all persons who from time to time shall become members of the congregation, or who having been members removed from the congregation, shall be added to or struck from the said list from time to time, as the occasion requires by the proper officers of the congregation. Correction meeting 19. A meeting of the congregation to consider any pro- Notice of posed dealing with the property thereof shall be called by notice of not less than two weeks (including two Sundays) next before the date of the meeting, which notice shall state the time, place and particular object for which the meeting is called, and shall be posted at the church or meeting house of the congregation and shall be read at all intervening services held in the church or meeting house. "20. Instruments dealing with the property of the congre- Instruments gation shall be executed under the corporate seal, and attested by the signatures of not less than two officers thereof, and shall have endorsed thereon or attached thereto an affidavit How granted by some other officer of the congregation capable of swearing positively to the facts that the execution of such instrument To be attested by affidavits To be conclusive Trustees may execute transfer For failure to keep list of members Returns Power to cancel incorporation was authorized by the congregation at a meeting thereof duly called for the purpose and may be in the form C hereto. "21. Any instrument so executed shall be conclusive evidence that all the requirements of the declaration of incorporation and all matters precedent and incidental thereto have been complied with. "22. Where any congregation that has previously acquired lands or other property, the title to which is vested in trustees, becomes incorporated pursuant to the provisions of this Act, the trustees of the congregation, or in case of the death or removal of any of the trustees, a majority of the trustees of the congregation, may execute a transfer of the church property to the congregation in the corporate name thereof, and such transfer shall be registered without further or other proceedings, and the land shall thereupon become and be vested in a body corporate for the purposes of the congrega tion in question subject to the provisions hereof. "23. Any officer of any such incorporated congregation who, being charged with that duty, fails (a) to present for inspection at any properly constituted meeting; (b) to add to or take from the list of members of the congregation, as the case may require; or (c) to make any return herein required, shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. "24. Every such corporation shall make a written return verified by affidavit of its property, membership and officers when required so to do by the Provincial Secretary. "25. The Lieutenant Governor in Council for cause may at any time cancel and annul the incorporation of any congregation incorporated under this Act, and upon notice of such cancellation being mailed to the said corporation it shall cease to exist as such; provided however that nothing in this section contained shall be construed to impair the recourse of any creditor or claimant of the said corporation. And in any such case the Lieutenant Governor in Council may appoint such person as he thinks fit to wind up the affairs of such congregation, and distribute its assets among the members thereof, and may provide for the remuneration of such person out of the assets of the congregation or otherwise as he thinks fit." FORM A. DECLARATION OF INCORPORATION. Pursuant to Chapter 22 of the Acts of the Legislative Ordinance respecting the Holding of Lands in Trust for Religious Societies and Congregations." The congregation of the (here set forth the particular congregation or religious denomination, with the post office address or other location, which may be either the village, town or city, or section, township and range where situated, or other ocal designation, as shall be most convenient) desires incorporation pursuant to the said Act, upon the terms following, that is to say: 1. The said congregation belongs to (here set forth the par ticular church or religious denomination). 2. The persons who, according to the rules of the congregation, are entitled to vote in respect of church business are (set them out). 3. The proposed corporate name is (set it out). 4. The officers who shall exercise the powers of the body corporate in any dealing with the property thereof are (set them out). 5. The rules to be complied with before any of the property of the congregation shall be dealt with by the officers thereof are as follows: (set them out). 6. (Number of members constituting a quorum) members shall constitute a quorum of the congregation, a majority of whom may deal with the matters coming before the meeting. (Here set forth any further provisions that may be decided upon.) I, A.B., of Alberta FORM B. in the Province of make oath and say: 1. That I hold the office of (set out office) in the congregation of (name of congregation) and have a personal knowledge of the facts in question herein. 2. That the foregoing (or annexed) declaration of incorporation was passed at a duly constituted meeting of the said congregation held in (place of meeting) on the 190 (date of meeting). day of 3. The said meeting was held upon due notice of the time, place and object thereof, and the transaction in and about the incorporation of said congregation was and is bona fide. Sworn before me at in the Province of Alberta, this day of 190 C.D., A Comm'r in and for the Province of Alberta. A.B. FORM C. I, A.B., of in the Province of Alberta, make oath and say: 1. That I hold the office of (set out office) in the congregation of (name of congregation), and have a personal knowledge of the facts in question herein. 2. That the execution of the foregoing (or annexed) instrument was authorized by the congregation at a meeting thereof duly called for the purpose. day of in the Province of Alberta, this Sworn before me at 190 A Comm'r in and for the Province of Alberta. 1907 CHAPTER 23. An Act to Incorporate the Historical Society of Alberta. (Assented to March 15, 1907.) W HEREAS the persons hereinafter named and others have associated themselves together and have formed a society under the name of "The Historical Society of Alberta"; And whereas the said persons have prayed to be incorporated under the name of "The Historical Society of Alberta" and it is expedient to grant their prayer; Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. His Honour George H. V. Bulyea, Hon. Frank Oliver, Hon. A. C. Rutherford, Hon. W. H. Cushing, Hon. C. W. Cross, Hon. W. T. Finlay, John A. McDougall, H. B. Round, R. H. Alexander, George Roy, William Short, Hon. A. L. Sifton, Hon. D. L. Scott, Hon. Horace Harvey, Hon. Chas. A. Stuart, Hon. C. W. Fisher, W. F Bredin, A. S. de Rosenroll, John R. Boyle, John T. Moore, E. H. Riley, T. Allan Brick, T. W. Telford, Malcolm McKenzie, J. B. Holden, John R. McLeod, W. C. Simmons, C. Hiebert, John A. Simpson, J. B. Walker, A. J. Robertson, H. W. McKenney, John A. McPherson, J. P. Marcellus, W. F. Puffer, J. W. Woolf, F. A. Walker, J. R. Cowell, A. G. Harrison, George Harcourt, W. A. Griesbach, N. D. Beck, George J. Kinnaird, F. T. Fisher, E. B. Edwards. St George Jellett, George A. Reid, Louis Madore, William Pearce, Rev. J. C. Herdman, John F. Boyce, George A. Ings, Rev. John McDougall, D.D., James Bannerman, Rev. Leo. Gaetz, Sage M. Bannerman, William Cousins, C. A. Magrath, R. L. Nasmith, C. F. P. Conybeare. F. W. G. Haultain, Richard B. Bennett, Dr. R. G. Brett, Howard Douglas, William Whyte, J. S. Dennis, Leverett G. De Veber, Richard A. Wallace, John Herron, James D. Lafferty, A. B. Watt, A. A. Nicholls, Laurence Adamson, Alex Taylor, J. McCaig, J. W. Wallbridge, K. W. McKenzie, T. M. Turnbull, D. W. McDonald, A. M. Calderon, W. S. Robertson, P. E. Lessard, H. A. MacKie, E. C. Pardee, John R. McIntosh, A. F. Ewing, Ernest Brown and John S. Hall, and all other persons who are now and who shall from time to time be and become members of said society are hereby declared to be a body corporate and politic under the name of "The Historical Society of |