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Preamble

Incorporation

1903

CHAPTER 41

An Ordinance to Incorporate "The Macleod Club."

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[Assented to June 19, 1903.]

HEREAS the persons hereinafter named and others in the Town of Macleod and vicinity have associated themselves together for the establishment of a club for social purposes; and

Whereas the said persons hereinafter named have prayed to be incorporated by the name of "The Macleod Club" of the Town of Macleod in the North-West Territories and it is expedient to grant their prayer;

HEREFORE the Lieutenant Governor by and with the

Tadvice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the

Territories enacts as follows:

1. G. A. Kennedy, J. B. Bright, Duncan J. Campbell, Charles D. T. Beecher, C. E. D. Wood, R. N. Wilson, E. H. Maunsell, T. H. Cowdry, R. G. Mathews, Francis W. B. George, B. C. Johnson, C. W. E. Gardiner, D. J. Grier, A. B. Macdonald, R. G. Macdonnell, Edward P. McNeill, F. W. G. Haultain, George Lane, W. F. Cochrane, J. E. M. Leeds, John Franklin, W. R. Stewart, A. C. Kemmis, Frederick J. Boulton, John Cowdry, G. F. Beere, R. B. Barnes, Malcolm McKenzie, C. C. Rhodes, William Renwick, S. DeRinzy, C. H. Baker, A. McDougall, W. C. Ives, H. M. Hatfield, C. M. O'Brien, J. R. Craig, J. C. Patterson, R. O. Sykes, H. Maunsell, F. W. Elliott, D. F. Johnston, A. R. Springett, J. C. Metge, Dr. O. C. Edwards, James Wilson, D. Browning, A. Browning, and all such other persons as are now or hereinafter shall become members of the said association shall be and are hereby declared to be a body corporate and politic in deed and in name by the name of "The Macleod Club" and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall have power from time to time and shall 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 and to and for the actual use of the said corporation any lands, tenements, hereditaments and real and immovable property and estate situate lying and being within the said Town of Macleod and the same to sell, alienate, exchange and otherwise dispose of or incumber whensoever the said corporation shall deem it proper so to do and by the same name shall and may be capable to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto in any matter whatsoever.

rules and

2. The constitution, rules and regulations touching the Constitution, administration of the said corporation shall be formulated at a regulations general meeting thereof called for that purpose and of which at least ten days notice shall be given by public advertisement or otherwise to all the members thereof; and the constitution, rules and regulations then adopted shall have full force and effect in so far as the same shall not be inconsistent with the laws in force in the Territories and the provisions of this Ordinance :

Provided always that the said corporation may from time to time alter, repeal and change such constitution, rules and regulations in the manner therein provided.

3. The said corporation may from time to time borrow money not to exceed in the whole the sum of $10,000 at such rate of interest and upon such terms as they may deem proper and may for such purpose make, execute or issue any mortgages, bonds, debentures or other instruments under the seal of the said corporation.

Borrowing

power

4. Any such mortgage, bond, debenture or other instrument Execution of shall be signed by the president of the said corporation and mortgages, ete countersigned by the secretary.

5. The moneys authorised to be raised under the provisions Application of section 3 of this Ordinance shall be applied exclusively in gorrowed the purchase of a site for the club buildings and in the purchase, improvement or erection of a club house and dependencies thereon together with necessary furniture or for the purchase of any freehold interest therein and in the payment of any mortgage or charge thereon and for the redemption of the said debentures and reissues as they become due respectively from time to time and at all times.

not liable for

6. No member of the corporation shall be in any way liable Members for or chargeable with the payment of any debt or demand debts of club due by the said corporation beyond the extent of the entrance fee and annual subscriptions remaining unpaid by said member and for any unpaid accounts he may have incurred to the corporation for articles ordered by him in said club; and any member of the said club not so indebted to the said corporation may retire therefrom and will cease to be a member on giving notice to that effect in such form as may be required by the constitution, rules and regulations of the said club and thenceforth shall be free from liability for any debt or engagement of the corporation.

7. The said corporation shall have power to draw, make, Bills of accept and indorse all bills of exchange and promissory notes exchange necessary for the purposes of the said corporation under the hands of the president and secretary thereof after authority of the committee of the said corporation so to do; and in no case shall it be necessary that the seal of the corporation be affixed

Power to lease

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to any such bill or note nor shall the president or secretary be individually liable or responsible therefor:

Provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorise the corporation to issue notes or bills of exchange payable to bearer or intended to be circulated as money or as notes or bills of a bank.

8. Notwithstanding anything herein before contained the said corporation shall have power to lease any portions of the real estate held by the said corporation upon such terms and for such period as may be agreed upon.

9. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Macleod Club Ordinance."

1903

CHAPTER 42

An Ordinance to incorporate the Bishop of the Russo-
Greek Catholic Orthodox Church, and the
Parishes and Missions of the said Church.

[Assented to June 19, 1903.]

THEREAS the Bishop of the Russo Greek Catholic Ortho- Preamble dox Church for North America and the Aleutian Islands, has petitioned that he, his successors in office having iurisdiction over the said church in Canada, and each of the duly authorised parishes and missions in the Territories be incorporated; and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition;

HEREFORE the Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows:

1. The Bishop of the Russo-Greek Catholic Orthodox Church for North America and the Aleutian Islands and his successors Incorporation in office, having jurisdiction in Canada, is hereby incorporated for the purposes mentioned in this Ordinance, under the name of "The Bishop of the Russo-Greek Catholic Orthodox Church," (hereinafter called the corporation sole) with all powers and privileges contained in paragraph 38 of section 8 of chapter 1 of The Consolidated Ordinances 1898.

property

2. The corporation sole may receive and hold property of Power to any kind for the uses and purposes of the Russo-Greek Catholic hold real Orthodox Church, in the North-West Territories, including the uses and purposes of any parish or mission, institution, college, school or hospital, now or hereafter connected with the RussoGreek Catholic Orthodox Church, and that it may receive any devise by will, gift, deed, conveyance of land or any estate or interest therein and sell, alienate, mortgage or lease any lands, tenements and hereditaments held by it.

3. The corporation sole may exercise all its powers by Executive and through an executive committee, or such boards or com-committee mittees as the bishop from time to time appoints for the management of any of the affairs of the said bishopric in the North-West Territories, but in accordance only with the trust relating to any property upon or for which the same is held.

4. The corporation sole shall appoint and fix at least one Service of place in the Territories where service of process may be made papers

Execution
of documents

Incorporation

of parishes

upon the corporation sole in respect to any cause of action
arising within the Territories, and may afterwards from time
to time change such place. And a certificate fixing or changing
any such place, under the seal of the corporation sole, and
verified by the signature of the bishop of the said church, for
the time being, shall be deposited in the office of the Registrar
of Joint Stock Companies for the Territories.
And if any
cause of action shall arise against the corporation sole within
the Territories and any writ or process be issued against the
corporation sole thereon out of any court in the Territories,
service of such process may be validly made upon the corpora-
tion sole at the place within the Territories so appointed and
fixed; but if the corporation sole fail to appoint and fix such
place, or to deposit, as herein before provided, the certificate
in that behalf above named, any such process may be validly
served upon the corporation sole by service of the same upon
any priest or officer in charge of the religious, educational or
charitable institution, instituted under the provisions of this
Ordinance, nearest to the place where such cause of action

arose.

5. Instruments executed by the corporation sole shall be verified by the signature of the bishop or a member of his consistory, for that purpose by him in writing appointed.

6. The priest in charge and trustees of any parish or and missions mission in the North-West Territories now or hereafter duly organised according to the constitution of the Russo-Greek Catholic Orthodox Church shall be a body politic and corporate and they and their successors, under the name of "The RussoGreek Catholic Orthodox Parish (or Mission) of (here insert the particular designation of the parish or mission in question), hereinafter called the corporation aggregate, with all powers and privileges contained in paragraph 38 of section 8 of chapter 1 of The Consolidated Ordinances of 1898. .

Power to hold real property

Execution of documents by corporation aggregate

7. Each corporation aggregate may receive and hold property of any kind for religious, educational and charitable uses and may receive by will, gift, deed, conveyance of land or any estate or interest therein, and sell, alienate, mortgage or lease any land, tenements and hereditaments held by it:

Provided that in the administration of real property as regards selling, exchanging, alienating, mortgaging or leasing (except as regards the sale of burial plots in any cemetery for which consent shall not be necessary), the corporation aggregate shall first obtain the consent of the bishop of the said church for the time being having jurisdiction over such parish or mission.

8. Instruments executed by the corporation aggregate shall be verified by the signature of the priest in charge and trustees constituting the body corporate, and the consent to such dealing by the bishop as aforesaid, shall be verified by

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