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CHAPTER 81.

An Act to incorporate "The Children's Hospital of Winnipeg."

WHER

[Assented to March 10th, 1911.]

HEREAS the Children's Hospital of Winnipeg has Preamble. been heretofore incorporated under the provisions of "The Charitable Associations Act," and has petitioned for enlarged powers and for incorporation under this Act, and it is advisable to grant the prayer of the said petition,

Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

1. Mesdames Annie Alice Bond, Mary Evelyn Grant, IncorporaMary Walker, Helen Mary Strathy, Marion Williams, Margaret Tupper, Abigail Amanda Wilson, Alice M. Stephen, Mary Alice Macara, Kate McKechnie, Harriett Strang, Kittie M. Merrick, Jean S. Hughes, Bridget de Sherbinin, Owena Read, Annie Inkster, Kathleen W. Jansen, Esther H. Brown, Mary McArthur, Lottie G. Moss, Mary Gillespie, Christina Steinkopf, Kathleen Osler, Ellen Parrish and Harriett A. Walker, being the present directors of The Children's Hospital of Winnipeg, incorporated as aforesaid, and such other persons as may from time to time become members of the Incorporasaid corporation in the manner hereinafter provided, shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic by and under the name of "The Children's Hospital of Winnipeg," with power and authority to acquire all the property and assets of the Children's Hospital of Winnipeg, incorporated as aforesaid, both real and personal.

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2. The said corporation shall have perpetual succession Powers in and a corporate seal, and may from time to time and at all times purchase, acquire, receive, accept, build, hold, possess, enjoy, mortgage, sell, dispose of and convey for them and their successors any lands, tenements, hereditaments and real and moveable property and estate, together with such grants, demises, gifts, devises and bequests as may be made by any corporation, person or persons whatsoever, for the sole use and benefit of the hospital.

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Powers of the board of directors.

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Creation of an endowment fund.

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Investments.

Borrowing powers.

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3. The affairs of the said corporation shall be entirely managed by a board of directors, consisting of not less than five members, and the persons aforesaid shall constitute a first board of directors, and shall hold office until their successors are appointed in accordance with the by-laws of the corporation.

4. The board of directors shall have power and authority to make by-laws, rules and regulations not contrary to law for all purposes relating to the government and management of the corporation and its affairs, with power to amend, repeal or re-enact the same from time to time; and, until altered or amended, the by-laws, rules and regulations now in force of the Children's Hospital of Winnipeg, so incorporated as aforesaid, shall be the by-laws, rules and regulations of this corporation.

5. All annual subscribers or life members who shall pay such sums as may be fixed by the by-laws of the said board of directors, and whose names shall appear in a book kept for that purpose, shall be members of the corporation and shall have the right to take part in the meetings of the said corporation and to be elected directors thereof.

6. The said corporation is hereby authorized to create and maintain an endowment fund and to devote the same and the income thereof to the purposes of the corporation, and is authorized to accept gifts, devises or bequests of money, lands or securities from any corporation, person or persons whatsoever, and from time to time to sell and dispose of the same, and to invest all moneys or the proceeds of such lands or securities so taken for such endowment fund in mortgages upon lands or the debentures of cities, towns, villages or rural municipalities, or rural school districts, or public school boards of this Province, or securities in which trustees are authorized by law to invest trust funds, and to assign, transfer, discharge or otherwise deal with such securities, or any of them, and to sell, transfer, grant, lease or otherwise deal with any lands so mortgaged which may become vested in such corporation, whether by foreclosure, transmission or quit claim.

7. The board of directors may from time to time borrow money, at such rate and upon such terms as they may think proper, and may for such purpose make, execute or issue mortgages, bonds, debentures or other instruments, which shall operate as a mortgage and charge against the lands and effects of the corporation.

8. The board of directors shall have power to draw, make, accept or indorse all bills of exchange and promissory notes

exchange and

necessary for the purpose of the corporation, under the hands bills of of its president and treasurer, and in no case shall it be neces- promissory sary that the seal of the corporation be affixed to any such bill notes. or note, nor shall the president or treasurer, or any other person or persons appointed in their place or stead, and so signing as aforesaid, be personally or individually responsible therefor.

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9. Any deed, transfer, mortgage, charge or other instru- Execution of ment relating to or dealing with real estate in the Province gages, etc. of Manitoba, or any interest therein vested in the corporation, shall be deemed to be and be duly executed, and shall be sufficient for the purposes for which the same is intended, if there is affixed thereto the seal of the corporation attested by the signatures of its president and secretary, or such persons as may be duly authorized by the directors, and the production Evidence of such a document accompanied by a copy of what purports to be a by-law of the directors, verified by the seal of the corporation and attested by the signatures of any officers of the corporation, shall be conclusive evidence that such document is the act of the corporation for the purpose for which it purports to be intended.

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10. The Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act shall not Mortmain apply to any land, or interest in or arising out of land, grant- apply to ed, given, devised or bequested to or in trust for this corpora- gifts to the tion.

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This Act shall be deemed a public Act and shall come into force on the day it is assented to.

corporation.

CHAPTER 82.

An Act to amend "An Act to incorporate 'Le Club Belge.'"

Preamble.

Capital increased.

[Assented to March 10th, 1911.]

WHEREAS Le Club Belge was incorporated by letters

patent under the great seal of the Province of Manitoba, under "The Manitoba Joint Stock Companies Act," with a capital stock of $5,000, divided into twelve hundred and fifty shares of four dollars each, and the shareholders of said association were further incorporated under the authority of chapter 54 of the statutes passed by the Legislative Assembly for the Province of Manitoba in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of His late Majesty King Edward VII, intituled "An Act to incorporate Le Club Belge," with the same capital stock, namely, $5,000, divided into twelve hundred and fifty shares of four dollars each; and whereas the said Le Club Belge has by its petition represented that it is desirous that the capital stock of such association should be increased from $5,000 to $15,000 by the issue of two thousand five hundred shares at four dollars each, for the more effectually carrying out the aims and objects of the association,

Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

1. That the capital stock of Le Club Belge be increased from five thousand dollars ($5,000) to fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000), by the issue of twenty-five hundred shares of four dollars each.

2. That this Act shall come into force on the day it is assented to.

CHAPTER 83.

An Act to amend "An Act to incorporate the Colonial Investment
Company of Winnipeg."

[Assented to March 24th, 1911.]

W HEREAS the Colonial Investment Company of Win- Preamble. nipeg have, by their petition, represented that they are incorporated under the authority of chapter 56 of the statutes passed in the first year of His Late Majesty's reign, and amendments thereto, and have prayed for certain further amendments to the said Act of incorporation, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition,

Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

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1. Section 15 of chapter 56 of 1 Edward VII, being "An s. 15 Act to incorporate The Colonial Investment Company of Winnipeg," is hereby amended by adding the words and stock in incorporated companies" after the word "estate" in the third line.

2. This Act shall come into force on the day it is assented to

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