4. At the annual meeting in 1907 the three directors last mentioned shall retire from office and three directors shall be elected by ballot to succeed them; at the annual meeting in 1908 the second three directors mentioned shall retire from office and three directors shall be elected by ballot to succeed them; at the annual meeting in 1909 the first three directors mentioned shall retire from office and three directors shall be elected by ballot to succeed them.

(2) The directors elected at the annual meeting in 1907 and at any annual meeting thereafter shall hold office for three years and until their successors are elected.

5. In the event of any director dying or resigning his office before the expiration of his term his successor shall be appointed by the board of directors to fill the vacancy until the next annual meeting; and at such annual meeting a director shall be elected for the unexpired term of any such director who has died or resigned.

6. Retiring directors shall be eligible for re-election.

7. The board of directors shall employ proper persons to attend the sick placed in the said hospital, and provide for the interment of the dead, and may appoint committees of one or more of their number to execute the orders of the said board.

8. The board of directors shall every year at their first meeting after election appoint a secretary and treasurer, or a secretary-treasurer; and shall at such meeting appoint from among themselves a president and vice-president, and in the event of any vacancy occurring in such office the said board. shall have power to fill such vacancy.

9. The said board of directors shall have power to meet from time to time for the transaction of the affairs of the said. corporation; the president or (in his absence) the vice-president shall be chairman, or (in the absence of both) any director may be chosen by the members present to act as chairman for that meeting; and in the absence of the secretary any director may be chosen by the directors present to act as secretary for such meeting.

10. The said board of directors shall have power to make by-laws, rules and regulations not being contrary to law or to the provisions of this Act, and power to amend or repeal from time to time the same for all purposes relating to and bearing upon the well-being and interests of the said corporation.

11. All annual subscribers who shall have paid such sum as may be fixed by the by-laws of the said board of directors and whose names shall appear in a book kept for that purpose

shall be members of the said corporation and shall have the right to take part in the annual meeting of the said corpora

tion.

12. All members who shall have paid their annual subscriptions as provided in section 11 shall be eligible for election as directors.

13. There shall be an annual meeting of the members of said corporation on the second Monday of the month of January in each year at an hour and place to be named by the directors; and notice thereof shall be given by the secretary by written notice and be published in one or more of the newspapers published in the Town of Lacombe at least six days previous to the day of such meeting:

Provided that if from any cause such annual meeting shall not be held on the said Monday in the month of January the directors and officers of said corporation then in office shall continue in office until such annual meeting is held and their successors duly elected as herein provided.

14. If such annual meeting shall from any cause not be held on the day hereinbefore appointed for the same, it shall be lawful for the directors then in office to decide upon another day for the holding of an annual meeting which day shall be within two months after the time when the same should have been held; and such meeting shall be called in the same manner as if called on the proper day, and at such meeting all business may be transacted and all things done in the same manner as the same might have been transacted and done if such meeting had been held on the day aforesaid.

15. A report shall be submitted by the directors to the said annual meeting for its consideration and approval, showing the condition of the affairs of the said corporation, including the treasurer's report, the secretary's report, the auditor's report and abstract and all other matters bearing on the interest of the said corporation, and also a list showing the names of members.

16. At least one week previous to each annual meeting a list of all members eligible to vote at such meeting shall be posted up in the office of the secretary-treasurer in the Town. of Lacombe.

17. The members present at the annual meeting shall proceed to elect the directors by ballot to fill the vacancies in the board as provided in section 4 of this Act and the members receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected.

18. The said annual meeting shall elect an auditor for the ensuing year and the board of directors at their first meeting thereafter shall also appoint an auditor; and it shall be the duty of such auditors to examine and report upon all accounts affecting the said corporation or relating to any matter under its control or within its jurisdiction for the current year and they shall prepare an abstract of the receipts, expenditures and liabilities and an inventory of the assets of the said corporation and shall submit the same to the directors on or before the next annual meeting.

19. It shall be the duty of the said corporation in each year to transmit to the Lieutenant Governor for the information of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta such returns as the Lieutenant Governor may from time to time direct.

20. The directors of such corporation shall (if they have been requested so to do by the Lieutenant Governor in Council and provided they are in receipt of public funds of the province), keep in such hospital at such time and for such period as may be determined by the Lieutenant Governor in Council an adequate supply of aseptic vaccine matter for the following purposes, viz.: For the vaccination by a qualified person at the expense of the hospital of all poor persons and (at their own expense) of all other persons who may attend at such hospital for that purpose during one day in every week; the fee to be charged for such vaccination not in any case to exceed seventy-five cents; and to be used and applied for the bcnefit of the hospital.

21. The said corporation shall in its management be always nondenominational.

1907

CHAPTER 48.

An Act to Amend Ordinance No. 27 of the Ordinances of the North-West Territories of 1889, No. 4 of 1891 and No. 31 of 1895, intituled "The Medicine Hat General Hospital Ordinance."

(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. Section 3 of Ordinance No. 27 of N. W. T. Ordinances 1889 is amended by adding the following subsection:

"(2) In each and every year in which the council of the City of Medicine Hat contribute a sum of not less than one thousand dollars towards the maintenance of the hospital, the said council shall be entitled to appoint one person to the board of directors in addition to the sixteen above provided for "

2. Section 5a of Ordinance No. 4 of N. W. T. Ordinances 1891 is hereby repealed and the following substituted there

for:

The directors of the said corporation shall have power1. To borrow money for current expenses of the hospital from time to time to an amount not exceeding $5,000.00;

2. To borrow money upon the security of the property of the corporation either by mortgage debentures or otherwise as they may deem expedient or necessary.

3. Section 6a of Ordinance No. 4 of N. W. T. Ordinances 1891 is hereby repealed.

4. Section 9 of Ordinance No. 27 of N. W. T. Ordinances 1899, is amended by adding the words, "and all life members under clause 8," between the figure "7" and the word "shall" where the same appear in the second line of the said section.

5. The board of directors shall employ a medical superintendent and nursing staff with such other proper persons as may be deemed necessary to attend the sick in the said hospital and provide for the seemly interment of the dead.

1907

CHAPTER 49.

An Act respecting the Methodist Church.

(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:

SHORT TITLE.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Methodist Church Act."

2. All the provisions of chapter 106 of 47 Victoria, being an Act of the Parliament of Canada intituled "An Act respecting the Union of Certain Methodist Churches therein named," are hereby declared to be in force and to have been in force in the Province of Alberta.

3. The said Act is in so far as the same is applicable to the Province of Alberta amended by adding the following provisions thereto :

(1) In all cases where the registrar of any land titles office in the Province of Alberta is satisfied by any evidence he may require that any real estate standing in the name of any individuals, whether such individuals or any of them be deceased or not, actually belongs to the trustees of any congregation upon the trusts mentioned in section 5 of said Act he may cancel the certificate of title standing in the names of such individuals and may issue a new certificate of title for said real estate in the names of the then trustees of said congregation.

(2) All deeds, transfers or mortgages heretofore or hereafter executed and purporting to be signed by the trustees of any congregation therein mentioned, or a majority of them, shall be in all courts in this province and in the land titles offices of said province deemed sufficiently executed to pass or grant or mortgage as the case may be the estate or interest thereby purported to be passed, granted or mortgaged, provided that the minister in charge of such congregation shall by affidavit certify that the persons executing such instruments were at the date thereof trustees for said congregation and in the absence or want of appointment or inability to act of any minister such certificate may with like effect be granted by the chairman of the district; the signature of the said minister or chairman of the district to be duly witnessed and verified by affidavit in the same manner as required by section 102 of