the use of members of the said corporation, for the erec-poration shall tion and repair of the buildings necessary for the purposes be employed. of the said corporation, and for the payment of expenses legitimately incurred in the carrying out of any of the objects above referred to. of the affairs of the corpora 3. The affairs and business of the said corporation shall Management be managed by a committee of management composed of the officers of the said corporation, consisting of a Roman tion. Catholic clergyman as director, a president, a first and second vice-president, a secretary, an assistant-secretary, a treasurer, a collecting-treasurer, an assistant-collectingtreasurer, a grand marshal and two assistants. said corpora 4. All the real and personal estate at present the property Property of the of the said association, or which may hereafter be acquired tion. by the members thereof in their capacity as such, by purchase, donation or otherwise, and all debts, claims and rights, which they may be possessed of in such capacity shall be and they are hereby transferred to the said corporation, and the said corporation shall be charged with all the liabilities and obligations of the said association; and the rules, regulations and by-laws, now or hereafter to be established for the management of the said association, shall be and continue to be the rules, regulations and bylaws of the said corporation, until altered or repealed in the manner prescribed by this act. be witnesses. 5. No person otherwise competent to be a witness in Members may any suit or prosecution in which the corporation may be engaged, shall be deemed incompetent to be such witness by reason of his being or having been a member or officer of the corporation. subscriptions. 6. All subscriptions and all penalties due to the cor- Recovery of poration under any by-law, or penalties incurred under penalties and any by-law, by any person bound thereby, and all other sums of money due to the corporation shall be paid to the treasurer thereof, and in default of payment may be recovered by suit in the name of the corporation; but any member may withdraw therefrom at any time, on payment of all amounts by him due to the corporation, and having given written notice of his intention to withdraw from the corporation to the secretary. 7. The corporation shall be bound to make annual re- Report to the ports to the legislature containing a general statement of legislature. the affairs of the said corporation, which said reports shall be presented within the first twenty days of every session of the legislature. CAP. LV. Preamble. corporated. Name. An Act to incorporate "The Caledonian Society of [Assented to 1st February, 1870.] HEREAS the persons hereinafter named have, by W petition, represented that for some years past they and others have composed, and by voluntary contributions have maintained, a certain association for the encouragement and practice of Scottish games, the cultivation of a taste for Scottish history, poetry and song, and to unite more closely Scotsmen and those of Scottish descent under the name of "The Caledonian Society of Montreal; and for the better attainment of the objects of the said association, have prayed that the same be invested with corporate powers, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: Association in- 1. Alexander A. Stevenson, Daniel Cunningham, Daniel Rose, David McGavin, Thomas Symington, John T. Henderson, William Murray, Charles T. Christie, Alexander Murdoch, William McRobie, Alexander N. Shewan, Humphrey Macfarlane, Wilson B. Allan, Charles Baillie, James Yuill, James Knox and Alexander McGibbon, and such other persons as are now members of the said association, or shall hereafter unite with them under the provisions of this act and the by-laws made under the authority thereof, and their successors, shall be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The Caledonian Society of Montreal," and may, by any legal title, acquire, hold and enjoy any estate whatever, real or personal, and may alienate, lease or otherwise dispose of the same or any part thereof, from time to time and as occasion may require, and other estate, real and personal, may acquire instead thereof; provided always, that the value of such estate to be held at any one time, shall not exceed the annual sum of two thousand dollars. 2. The corporation shall not hold any property except such as shall be derived from the following sources, or purchased with funds derived from the following sources, that is to say the property of the association hereby constituted as the said corporation, the life, annual and other subscriptions of members, donations, bequests or legacies made to the corporation, and the moneys arising from fines and forfeitures lawfully imposed by the by-laws. Property of the said corpora tion. of the corpora 3. The affairs and business of the corporation shall be Management managed by such officers and committees, and under such of the affairs restrictions, touching the powers and duties of such officers tion. and committees, as the by-laws, in that behalf, of the corporation may, from time to time, ordain, and the corporation may assign to any of such officers such remuneration as they deem requisite. 4. The corporation may make such by-laws not contrary Power to make to law, for the administration and government of the cor- by-laws. poration, and may repeal or amend the same, from time to time, observing always, however, such formalities as by such by-laws may be prescribed to that end, and generally shall have all the corporate powers necessary to the ends of this act. laws. 5. The by-laws of the said association, not being con-Existing bytrary to law, shall be the by-laws of the corporation hereby constituted, until they shall be repealed or altered as aforesaid. 6. Until others shall be elected according to the by-Present officers. laws of the corporation, the present officers of the association shall be those of the corporation. 7. All subscriptions and all penalties due to the corpo- Recovery of ration under any by-law, may be recovered by suit in the penalties and subscriptions. name of the corporation; but any member may withdraw therefrom at any time, on payment of all amounts by him due to the corporation, inclusive of his subscription for the year then current. 8. No person, otherwise competent to be a witness in Members may any suit or prosecution in which the corporation may be be witnesses. engaged, shall be deemed incompetent to be such witness by reason of his being or having been a member or officer of the corporation. 9. The corporation shall be bound to make annual re-Report to the ports to the lieutenant-governor and to both houses of the legislature. legislature, containing a general statement of the affairs of the said corporation, which said reports shall be presented within the first twenty days of every session of the legislature. CAP. LVI. An Act to amend the Act of the late Province of Canada, passed in the twenty-fifth year of Her Majesty's reign, intituled: "An Act to incorporate the Society of the Union St. Pierre of Montreal." [Assented to 1st February, 1870.] WHEREAS the society of the Union St. Pierre of Mont- Preamble. real, incorporated by an act passed in the twenty Establishment of a reservo fund. Disposal of such reserve fund. Power to increase such fund. Employment of fifth year of Her Majesty's reign, with a view of aiding and assisting its members in case of sickness, and of assuring similar relief and other advantages to the widows and children of deceased members, has, by petition, prayed for certain amendments to the act incorporating the same; and whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: 1. It shall be lawful for the said society of the Union St. Pierre of Montreal, in virtue of a by-law passed at a meeting of members of the said society, held after notice and according to the formalities required by the constitution and by-laws of the same, to establish a reserve fund the amount of which shall not be less than four thousand dollars, and to appropriate the whole or part of the funds of the said society, after payment of all charges and obligations of the said society, to the establishment of such fund, and to regulate the manner of levying from and out of the stock in fund and revenues of the said society, the necessary amounts for the completion of such reserve fund, as well as the time when the instalments on the same shall become payable. 2. The society shall determine how the said reserve fund shall be invested and disposed of by acquiring immoveable property, bank stock, government or municipal, bonds, building societies' stock, or by loans on mortgages, and may, from time to time, alter such investment and dispose of the same, as occasion may require, or when a safer or more advantageous investment of the same may be made; but the said society shall in no case and for no reason, spend annually, for the purposes of the said society, more than the interest on such fund or revenues derived therefrom, and shall have no right to encroach on the capital stock which shall be permanent. 3. The said society may, from time to time, and when deemed expedient, increase such permanent fund, and shall be invested with the same powers in reference to such increase of the said fund as for the original fund. 4. The revenues of the said society shall be employed the revenues of for the following purposes and in the following order: 1. The administration of the affairs of the society, the society. Employment of surplus. Expenditure limited. 2. Relief to widows, 3. Relief to orphans, 4. Relief to sick members of the society. 5. Any surplus shall be employed in establishing or increasing the permanent fund of the society. 6. The society shall only spend, in any year, to the extent of its annual receipts. determino 7. The society shall appoint during the months of Jan-Appointment uary and July in each year, four appraisers, two of whom of appraisers to shall be chosen from the members of the society and two amount to be from without it. Such appraisers shall determine, from given in relief. the receipts and expenses, the amount which may be respectivety granted during the then present half-year to the widows, orphans and sick members, who, at the time of and after the passing of this act, shall be entitled to relief, such relief not to exceed in any case the amount determined by the by-laws of the society; to that end, the said appraisers shall be entitled to examine the books and accounts of the said society. of a fifth ex 8. In case such four appraisers mentioned in the pre- Appointment ceding section should not agree as to the amount to be pert, in case of granted for relief, they shall appoint a fifth appraiser whose disagreement. decision shall be final, and in default by the same to appoint such fifth appraiser, or in case the said society should neglect or refuse to appoint one or more of them, any judge of the superior court may, on a petition signed by ten members of the said society, appoint the same. with other socioties. 9. The society may, at any time, join with any other Power to unite society or union of societies, existing within the city or parish of Montreal, established with the same view and for the same purposes, on such conditions as may be deemed expedient at a regular meeting of members of the said society. CAP. LVII. An Act to relieve the Union St. Joseph of Montreal. [Assented to 1st February, 1870.] benefit and benevolent society duly incorporated under the name of "L'Union St. Joseph de Montréal"; whereas, the contributions levied on the members of such society are too limited, and the benefits, especially those granted to the widows of deceased members, are by far too high; and whereas such disproportion between the contributions and the benefits has already reduced considerably the resources of the said society, remarkably encroached on its savings, and prevented the balancing of receipts and expenses, the latter having exceeded the former for more than three years; whereas, almost all the widows of deceased members, to wit, twenty-two out of twenty-six, have understood such state of affairs, and have come to the relief of the said society by agreeing to allow their weekly and life benefits to be lessened and to exchange the same Preamble. |