for interment of the dead; and may appoint committees of one or more of their number to execute the orders of the said board. 5. The board of directors shall every year at their first meeting after election appoint a secretary and a treasurer or a secretary-treasurer; and shall at such meeting appoint from among themselves a president and a vice-president; and in the event of any vacancy occuring in such office the said board shall have power to fill such vacancy. 6. The said board of directors shall have power to meet from time to time for the transaction of the affairs of the said corporation; and in the absence of the chairman or secretary any director present may be appointed to act for the time being as such chairman or secretary. 7. The said board of directors shall have power to make bylaws, rules and regulations not being contrary to law and power to amend or repeal from time to time the same for all purposes relating to and bearing upon the well being and interest of the said corporation. 8. All annual subscribers who shall have paid such sum as may be fixed by the bylaws 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 said corporation. 9. A donation at any time of fifty dollars or upwards shall entitle the donor to life membership. 10. All members who shall have paid their annual subscription as provided in section 8 and all life members shall be eligible for election as directors. 11. There shall be a general annual meeting of the members of said corporation on the second Tuesday 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 shall be published in one or more of the newspapers published in the town of Maple Creek at least fourteen days previous to the day of such meeting. 12. Provided that if from any cause such general meeting shall not be held on the said second Tuesday of January the directors and officers of said corporation then in office shall continue in office until such general annual meeting is held and their successors duly appointed as hereinafter provided. 13. If such general annual meeting shall from any cause not be held on the day hereinbefore appointed for the same then it shall be lawful for the directors then in office to decide upon another day for the holding of a general 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 is provided by section 11 for the general annual meeting; and at such meeting all business may be transacted and all things done in the same manner as the same would have been transacted and done if such meeting had been held on the day provided by section 11 for holding the general annual meeting. 14. A full report shall be submitted by the directors to the said general meeting for its consideration and approval showing the condition of the affairs of said corporation including the treasurer's report, the steward's and matron's report, receipts and disbursements and all other matters bearing on the interest of the said corporation including a list of members. 15. At the annual meeting in 1905 the five directors last above named shall retire from office and five directors shall be elected as hereinafter provided to succeed them; at the annual meeting in 1906 the six directors first above named shall retire from office and six directors shall be elected as hereinafter provided to succeed them; all directors elected at an annual meeting shall hold office for two years from the time of their election and until their successors are elected; at each annual meeting after 1905 directors shall be elected to succeed those whose term of office expires. 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 this section; and the members receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. 16. 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. 17. The said general 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 year previous; and they shall prepare an abstract of the receipts, expenditure and liabilities of the said corporation and shall submit the same to the directors not less than three days before the said general annual meeting. 18. 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 North-West Territories such returns as the Lieutenant Governor may from time to time direct. 19. 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 Territories) 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.: (a) For the vaccination by a qualified person attached to such hospital at the expense of the same of all poor persons and (at their own expense) of all other persons who may attend at such hospital for that purpose on one day in each week of such period; the fee to be charged for such vaccination not in any case to exceed seventy-five cents; and the moneys derived from such fees shall be used and applied for the benefit of the hospital. 20. The said corporation shall in its management be always nondenominational. 21. The directors of the said corporation shall have power to borrow money upon the security of the property of the said Maple Creek General Hospital either by mortgage, debenture or otherwise as they may deem proper. 22. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Maple Creek General Hospital Ordinance." 1904 CHAPTER 23 An Ordinance to incorporate The Lady Minto Hospital in the Town of Indian Head. [Assented to October 8, 1904.] HE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and THEO enacts as follows: Minto Indian Head 1. James Harvey Francis, Angus MacKay, Asa Markham The Lady McLane, Francis Leys MacKay, Harry H. Campkin, Joseph Hospital Glenn, George Thompson, William Robert Boyd, Edwin Jack-in the town of son Brooks and such other persons as may from time to time incorporated become members of the corporation to be incorporated shall be and are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by and under the name of The Lady Minto Hospital in the Town of Indian Head. land 2. The said corporation by the name of The Lady Minto Power to hold Hospital in the town of Indian Head shall have perpetual succession and a common seal; and by such name may from time to time and at all times purchase, acquire, receive, accept, build, hold, possess and enjoy for them and all their successors any lands, tenements, hereditament and real and movable property and estate within the Territories together with such grants, devises, gifts and bequests as may be made by and received from the Government of the Dominion of Canada, the North-West Territories, the town of Indian Head and any other corporation, person or persons whatsoever for the sole use and benefit of said hospital: Provided always that the actual value of such real estate so held as aforesaid does not at any one time exceed the sum of forty thousand dollars. directors 3. The affairs of the said corporation shall be managed by a Board of board of directors consisting of nine members of whom five shall constitute a quorum; and the said James Harvey Francis, Angus MacKay, Asa Markham McLane, Francis Leys MacKay, Harry H. Campkin, Joseph Glenn, George Thompson, William Robert Boyd and Edwin Jackson Brooks shall constitute the first board of directors and shall hold office as such directors until their successors are appointed as hereinafter provided. 4. The board of directors shall employ proper persons to Care of sick attend the sick placed in the said public hospital and provide for the interment of the dead; and may appoint committees of Officers Meetings Bylaws be members one or more of their number to execute the orders of the said board. 5. The board of directors shall every year at their first meeting after election appoint from among themselves a chairman, secretary and treasurer. 6. The said board of directors shall have power to meet from time to time for the transaction of the affairs of the said corporation; and in the absence of the chairman or secretary any director present may be appointed to act for the time being as such chairman or secretary. 7. The said board of directors shall have power to make bylaws, rules and regulatlons not being contrary to law and power to amend or repeal from time to time the same for all purposes relating to and bearing upon the well being and interest of the said corporation. Subscribers to 8. All annual subscribers who shall have paid such sum as may be fixed by the bylaws 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 said corporation. Life membership Qualification of directors Annual meeting Directors to hold office 9. A donation at any time of fifty dollars or upwards shall entitle the donor to life membership. 10. All members who shall have paid their annual subscription as provided in section 8 and all life members shall be eligible for election as directors. 11. There shall be a general annual meeting of the members of said corporation in the first week in February 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 shall be published in one or more of the newspapers published in the town of Indian Head at least six days previous to the day of such meeting. 12. Provided that if from any cause such general meeting until annual shall not be held in the first week in February the directors meeting held and officers of said corporation then in office shall continue in office until such general annual meeting is held and their successors duly appointed as hereinafter provided. Deferred annual meeting 13. If such general annual meeting shall from any cause not be held on the day hereinbefore appointed for the same then it shall be lawful for the directors then in office to decide upon another day for the holding of a general 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 is provided by section 11 for the |