21. Any officer or agent of the company who assumes on behalf of the company to enter into any written agreement relating to any matter connected with the insurance shall be deemed prima facie to be the agent of the company for the purpose.

22. Every action or proceeding against the company for the recovery of any claim under or by virtue of this policy shall be absolutely barred unless commenced within the term of one year next after the loss or damage occurs.

23. Any written notice to a company for any purpose of the statutory conditions, where the mode thereof is not expressly provided, may be by letter delivered at the head office of the company in the North-West Territories, or by registered post letter addressed to the company, its manager or agent, at such head office, or by such written notice given in any other manner to an authorised agent of the company.

1903

CHAPTER 17

An Ordinance respecting Agricultural Societies.

[Assented to June 19, 1903.]

THE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and

consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows:

SHORT TITLE.

Short title

Interpretation

Objects of societies

1. This Ordinance may be cited as Societies Ordinance." 1889, c. 14, s. 1.

INTERPRETATION.

"The Agricultural

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires1. The expression "department" means the Department of Agriculture;

2. The expression "commissioner" means the Commissioner of Agriculture;

3. The expression "society" means any Agricultural Society organised or continued under this Ordinance. 1899, c. 14, s. 2.

OBJECTS OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.

3. The objects of a society shall be to encourage improvement in agriculture, horticulture, arboriculture, manufactures and the useful arts—

1. By holding meetings for the delivery of lectures and for the discussion of subjects connected with the theory and practice of any of the said industries;

2. By promoting the circulation of agricultural, pastoral, horticultural, arboricultural and mechanical periodicals, and by the formation and maintenance of a reference library on such subjects for the use of its members;

3. By importing and otherwise procuring seeds, plants and animals of new or valuable kinds ;

4. By holding exhibitions as hereinafter provided at which prizes may be awarded for

(a) Excellence in the raising or introduction of live stock. (b) The invention or improvement of agricultural machines or implements.

(c) The production of grains and all kinds of vegetables,
plants, flowers and fruits, home manufactures and
works of art; and generally for excellence in any
agricultural production or operation;

5. By offering prizes for essays on subjects relating to agriculture, including the prevention of prairie tires and the eradication of noxious weeds;

6. By taking action to eradicate poisonous and noxious weeds and to exterminate such animals as are found to injure or impede agriculture;

7. By carrying on experiments in the growing of crops, the feeding of stock or any other branch of agriculture or by testing any system of farming;

8. By affiliating and co-operating with associations organised to improve live stock or encourage grain growing, dairying, forestry or fruit growing, or promote the study of plant life or the destruction of injurious insects and plants. 1899, c. 14, s. 3. .

4. The funds of agricultural societies, howsoever derived, Expenditure shall not be expended for any objects inconsistent with those of funds authorised by this Ordinance.

2. Such funds shall be deposited from time to time to the credit of the society in a chartered bank or other banking house; and all cheques shall be signed by the president or a vice president and the treasurer or secretary treasurer of the society. 1899, c. 14, s. 18.

EXISTING SOCIETIES CONTINUED.

5. All agricultural societies established and in operation at Existing the time of the coming into force of this Ordinance shall be societies continued as agricultural societies under and subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and the present officers of such societies shall continue to hold office as such until the next annual meeting of the society. 1899, c. 14, s. 4.

ORGANISATION OF SOCIETIES.

6. An agricultural society may be formed under the provi- Organisation sions hereof in the following manner :

1. An application in form A in the schedule hereto and containing the information indicated as required thereby shall be signed by not less than fifty persons all being over eighteen years of age and residents of the Territories and not being members of any other agricultural society;

2. Every person signing the said application shall pay at least one dollar as or as part of his first annual subscription to the funds of the proposed society and such moneys shall be paid to and be held by one of the subscribers in trust for the society;

First meeting of members

Report to

be sent to department

3. The application shall be verified by an affidavit of one of the subscribers in the form appended to said form A;

4. The application so verified shall be transmitted to the commissioner who, if he approves thereof, shall declare the subscribers thereto to be organised into a society under the name of "The Agricultural Society," and shall issue a certificate of such organisation in form B in the schedule hereto and thereupon the society shall be deemed to be formed and it shall be a corporation and in addition to its other rights as such it shall have the power to hold real estate necessary for the objects of the society: but any society may, subject to the permission of the commissioner, change its name at any time. 1899, c. 14, s. 5.

7. As soon as practicable after the formation of the society a meeting of the subscribers and of such other persons as may desire to become members thereof, which shall be the first .annual meeting of the society, shall be held at the call of such person as the commissioner may nominate for that purpose and at such time and place and with such prior public notice as he may direct. 1899, c. 14, s. 6.

8. A report of the said meeting certified by the president and secretary which shall contain a statement of the number of members and a list of the officers elected and appointed shall be sent by the secretary to the department within one week after the meeting.

Persons eligible for

MEMBERSHIP.

9. Any person who would have been qualified to sign an membership application for the formation of a society may become a member thereof at any time on payment to the treasurer of a membership fee of not less than one dollar.

Officers

(2) Payment of the said fee shall entitle the person paying it to the privileges of membership for the year for which it is paid.

(3) At the time of payment of his membership fee every member shall give to the treasurer the post office address to which all notices of meetings and other notices shall be sent.

(4) Subject to the bylaws of the society a firm or an incorporated company may become a member of any society by the payment of the regular fee, but the name of one person only shall in any one year be entered as the representative or agent of such firm or company and that person only shall exercise the privileges of membership in the society. 1899, c. 14, s. 8.

SUPERINTENDENT OF FAIRS.

10. The commissioner may from time to time appoint a commissioner superintendent of fairs and institutes and such other officers as

appointed by

may be required to carry out the provisions of this Ordinance and may appoint an inspector to examine the books and accounts of any society and may confer on him any or all of the powers which may be conferred on a commissioner appointed under the provisions of An Ordinance respecting Inquiries concerning Public Matters. 1899, c. 14, s. 28.

OFFICERS OF SOCIETY.

11. The officers of the society shall consist of a president officers and two vice presidents who shall be ex-officio directors and nine, twelve or fifteen additional elected directors as may be determined by the society, a secretary and a treasurer or a secretary treasurer and two auditors. 1899, c. 14, s. 9; 1900, c. 21, s. 1.

12. The persons qualified to vote for officers or to be elected Qualification shall be only those members who have paid their membership and officers fee for the year in which the election is held. 1899, c. 14, s. 22.

13. At the first annual meeting all of the officers except the officers to be secretary and the treasurer or the secretary treasurer shall be elected at first elected by ballot. 1899, c. 14, s. 9.

annual
meeting

of president

14. The president, vice presidents, directors and auditors Term of office elected at the first or any subsequent annual meeting shall hold elected at first office until the next following annual meeting.

meeting

treasurer

15. The board of directors may from time to time appoint Secretary a secretary and a treasurer or a secretary treasurer who may be a director or directors and who shall hold office during pleasure. 1899, c. 14, s. 10.

treasurer

16. The treasurer or secretary treasurer of every society, Security to be before entering upon the duties of his office and within one given by month after his appointment, shall give such security as the board of directors may deem necessary for the faithful performance of his duties, including the due accounting for and payment over of all moneys which may come into his hands, and it shall be the duty of the directors to inquire into the sufficiency of such security and to report thereon to the department forthwith after its completion.

(2) No grant shall be paid to any society under this Ordinance unless and until the directors shall have reported that the security of the treasurer or secretary treasurer has been approved by them. 1899, c. 14, s. 17.

17. In the event of an officer of an agricultural society Vacancy in dying or resigning office, or in any other way vacating his office office during the period for which he has been elected, the board of directors shall appoint an eligible person to fill the office for the unexpired term of the person so vacating office, 1899, c. 14, s. 15.