conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts previously contracted or purchased at judicial sales upon levy for such indebtedness or otherwise purchased for the purpose of avoiding a loss to the college in respect thereof or of the owner thereof. 7. The said Alberta College shall be under the management and administration of a board of governors to be called the Board of Governors of Alberta College which shall consist of not more than thirty-two members nor less than twentyfour. 8. The Reverends L. Gaetz, D.D., John McDougal, D.D., C. H. Huestis, M.A., A. R. Aldridge, J. M. Harrison, T. C. Buchanan, J. H. Riddell, M.A., Senator James A. Lougheed, and Messrs. H. C. Taylor, M.A., W. T. Henry, A. B. Cushing, B.A., A. T. Cushing, B.A., A. Patterson, C. W. Mathers, P. E. Butchart, John A. McDougall, Thomas M. Turnbull, William Short, Thomas Bellamy, Alexander C. Rutherford, C. T. Daykin, R. J. Houston, W. T. Rush, M.D., R. L. Gaetz, Arthur G. Harrison, Walter Galbraith, M.D., John Dixon, A. F. Grady, William Craig, John Sommerville, W. H. Parsons and J. F. Fowler shall be considered the first board under this Ordinance, and shall hold office until their successors are appointed as hereinafter provided. 9. The board shall have full power from time to time to appoint and as they shall see occasion to remove the principal or other head, the professors, tutors and masters, and all officers, agents and servants of said college and the board shall have full power from time to time to make and alter or vary any bylaws and regulations touching and concerning the time and place of holding ordinary board meetings notices thereof and for the good ordering and government of the said college, the performance of divine service therein, the number, residence, duties, salary, provision and emolument of the principal, professors, tutors, masters, officers, agents and servants of the said college respectively and all other matters and things which to them may seem good, fit and useful for the well ordering, governing and advancement of said college; and all such bylaws when reduced into writing and after the common seal of the college hath been affixed thereto shall be binding upon all persons members thereof; provided that no such bylaw shall be repugnant to the laws of the Territories or of the Dominion of Canada; provided also that no religious test or qualification shall be required of or appointed for any person on his admission as a student or scholar into the said college. 10. It shall be the duty of the board to keep proper records and minutes of all their proceedings and to keep proper books of account of the financial affairs of the college and present a report of the said college accompanied by a duly audited financial statement to each general conference of the Methodist church. 11. The members of the said board shall retire from office Board holds every four years or so soon thereafter as their successors shall four years be appointed but shall be eligible for re-election. office for 12. For ordinary business seven members shall constitute a Quorum quorum of the board and nine members a quorum of the senate. 13. Vacancies in the board shall be filled by the remaining Vacancies members of the board ad interim. general 14. The said general conference of the Methodist church Board shall by itself every four years in conference assembled at such appointed by time as to them may seem fit or through annual conference or conference conferences under its jurisdiction according to its directions appoint the college board as aforesaid: Provided always that at least seven must be residents of the town of Edmonton. 15. The board shall elect one of their number to preside as Chairman chairman over all meetings in the absence of the general superintendent of the Methodist church and to affix the college seal and sign all deeds, papers and instruments in writing for and on behalf of such body corporate as may be necessary. rules 16. All questions shall be decided by the majority of Majority vote members present at board meetings. The chairman shall not vote except in the case when a casting vote is necessary. committee 17. The board of governors shall have power to appoint an Executive executive committee of which the principal of the college shall be a member to which it may assign such business as it deems necessary or expedient. 18. The members of the college board and the principal and Senate professors of the various faculties of the said college shall constitute the senate of the said college and shall have power and authority to direct the studies, lectures, examinations and exercises of the students and shall have the management and supervision of such affairs of the college as shall from time to time be assigned them by the college board. senate 19. The principal of the college shall call and preside at all Chairman of meetings of the senate and in his absence a chairman shall be chosen by the members present. 20. All questions which may come before the senate shall Majority vote be decided by a majority of the members present. In case of rules equality of votes the principal or chairman shall have a casting vote. 21. The head office of said corporation shall be the city of Head office Edmonton. Preamble Incorporation Constitution, rules and regulations 1904 CHAPTER 26 An Ordinance to incorporate The Alberta Club of the City of Calgary. [Assented to October 8, 1904.] HEREAS the persons hereinafter named and others in the city of Calgary 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 Alberta Club of the city of Calgary in the North-West Territories and it is expedient to grant their prayer ; Therefore the Lieutenant, Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows: 1. R. J. Hutchings, I. S. G. Van Wart, J. Emerson, T. S. J. Skinner and D. J. Young, merchants and W. M. Davidson and G. C. Porter, journalists and all such other persons as are now or hereafter 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 Alberta Club and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall have power from time to time and at all times hereafter to be able and capable to purchase, acquire, hold, possess and enjoy and to have, take and receive to them and their successors to and for the actual use of the said corporation any lands, tenements, hereditaments and real and immovable property and estate and also movable and personal property situate, lying and being within the said city of Calgary or any extension of the limits thereof and the same to sell, alienate, exchange or otherwise dispose of or incumber whensoever the said corporation shall deem it proper so to do and by the said name shall and may be capable to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto in any matter whatsoever. 2. The constitution, rules and regulations touching the administration of the said corporation shall be formulated at a general meeting thereof called for that purpose and of which at least five days 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 exchange such constitution, rules and regulations in the manner therein provided. 3. The said corporation may from time to time borrow money Borrowing not to exceed in the whole the sum of $25,000 at such rate of power 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. mortgages, etc. 4. Any such mortgages, bonds, debentures or other instru- Execution of ments shall be signed by the president of the said corporation and countersigned by the secretary or such other officers as may be designated. of moneys 5. The moneys authorised to be raised under section 3 of Application this Ordinance shall be applied exclusively in the purchase of borrowed 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 tmes. liable for debts 6. No member of the corporation shall be in any way liable Members not for or chargeable with the payment of any debt or demand due of club 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 or otherwise indebted to the 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 endorse all cheques, bills of exchange and promissory exchange, etc notes necessary for the purposes of the said corporation under the hands of the president and secretary thereof or such other officers as may be designated 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 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. Power to rent 8. Notwithstanding anything herein contained the said corporation shall have power to rent any portions of the real estate held by the said corporation upon such terms and for such period as may be agreed upon. Short title 9. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Alberta Club Ordinance." |