meeting may be called in like manner for the purpose of filling such vacancy, and at such meeting a new trustee or new trustees (as the case may require) shall be appointed by the votes of the majority of the members then present. The notice calling a meeting for the purpose of declaring or filling a vacancy or vacancies in the office of trustee shall be read from the pulpit by the minister or person officiating as minister, at the request of any trustee, or of any seven members of the congregation, and every such meeting may be adjourned from time to time by the vote of the majority of the members present. During any vacancy in the office of trustee, the remaining trustees, not being fewer than three in number, shall have all the powers of the full board. A majority of the trustees shall form a quorum, save when the number of trustees exceeds nine, in which case five shall form a quorum. The majority of the trustees shall be members of The United Church of Canada. A minute of every such appointment of a trustee shall be entered in a book to be kept for the purpose, and signed by the person presiding at the meeting, and such minute so signed shall be sufficient evidence of the fact that the person or persons therein named was or were appointed and elected at such meeting, but any omission or neglect to make or sign such minute shall not invalidate such appointment or election. And it is hereby further declared that in case there shall be at any time fewer than three trustees, the presiding officer or clerk of the presbytery within whose bounds and under whose jurisdiction the said congregation shall be, shall with the remaining trustee or trustees, be the trustees under these presents until the full board is duly appointed, and at any time thereafter the presbytery may cause notice to be given from the pulpit on two consecutive Sundays requiring the said congregation to proceed with the appointment of new trustees. And if the said congregation shall not in the meantime have appointed new trustees in the manner hereinbefore provided, it shall be lawful for the said presbytery at any time after four weeks from the last giving of such notice, by resolution duly entered in the minutes of the presbytery, to appoint new trustees. Such appointment shall be communicated to the congregation by notice from the pulpit as soon as conveniently may be thereafter, and from the time of such communication the trustee or trustees so appointed shall be a trustee or trustees hereunder. And it is further declared that if at any time there shall cease to be an organization entitled to the use, benefit and enjoyment of the said lands, it shall be lawful at any time or times for the said presbytery to fill any vacancy in the number of trustees, and the said lands shall henceforth be held subject to such trusts and for such purposes for the benefit of The United Church of Canada as the conference within the bounds of which the said lands are situate may determine under the by-laws, rules and regulations of the General Council. shall not be involuntary 10. A trustee shall not be responsible for the failure of 10. Trustees any investment or security made or taken by the trustees or liable for for anything done in connection with the trust estate except loss for his own acts and to account for any moneys coming into his own hands, and shall not be liable for injury done by others to the said trust premises, or to any part thereof. 11. In congregations existing previous to the Union which have not adopted the plan of organization prescribed for pastoral charges as provided by the Basis of Union, the words "Official Board" and "Committee of Stewards" and "Session" in this schedule shall mean such board or committee or other body respectively discharging similar functions in such congregations, as to which in case of doubt the opinion of the presbytery to which such congregation belongs shall be final and conclusive. SCHEDULE B. Robertson College (Edmonton). 1924 CHAPTER 42. An Act to amend the Acts constituting The Edmonton Charter and to Validate Certain Local Improvement By-laws of the City of Edmonton. (Assented to April 12, 1924.) WHEREAS a petition has been presented by the City of Edmonton for the amendment of The Edmonton Charter and the validation of certain local improvement by-laws of the City of Edmonton; And whereas it is reasonable that the prayer of the said petition should be granted; Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Edmonton Charter is hereby amended 1. By adding to section 481 the following: frontage sewers "(2) The council may also assess, levy and collect a Special frontage rate or tax on all properties fronting or rate for abutting on any street, lane, square or other public place in, through or along which sewers may hereafter be laid. Such rate or tax shall be a uniform one of a certain amount (not exceeding ten cents per foot of the frontage) to be assessed, levied and collected as part of and along with the ordinary municipal taxes and shall be a lien upon the lands affected and shall be collectable in the same way as ordinary municipal taxes. The amount of such rate or tax, the lands to be affected, the mode of adjustment of the rate in respect of lands of peculiar shape or size or different depth or lands fronting or abutting on more than one such street, lane, square or place, shall be ascertained and determined by such authority and in such manner as shall be directed by the council. A copy of the report of such authority shall be filed with the official in whose charge the collector's rolls are prepared. The latter shall enter the amount of such rate or tax in such rolls against the respective lands affected in the same manner as and as part of the ordinary municipal rates and taxes. Such rates or taxes may be so assessed, levied and collected irrespec Authorizing issue of interim debentures Section 309, tive of whether such lands are vacant or are not connected with the sewer in or along the abutting street, lane, square or other public place or have not drainage thereto. "(3) In the event of any sewers hereafter being constructed by the council as 'local improvements' and of the issue of debentures to meet the whole or any part of the cost of such construction, then the whole of such portion of such frontage rate or tax above authorized as may be required to meet the annual payments on such debentures shall be applied to such purpose. Provided that where such frontage charge is assessed it shall not be necessary to also levy the sums required to be raised under the local improvement bylaw or by-laws in respect of the works in regard to which the frontage rate or tax is assessed." 3. By repealing subsection 5 of section 404. 4. By inserting therein the following section: "295a. Pending the issue of debentures the council may direct the issue of interim certificates to the purchasers thereof. Such certificates may be assigned by endorsement thereon and shall be delivered up upon delivery of the debenture or debentures representing the same, and upon delivery shall be cancelled by the city treasurer or such other officer as the council shall appoint." 5. By amending subsection 6 of section 309 added to The subsection 6. Edmonton Charter by section 43 of chapter 52, 1918, as amended Council may fix dates for payment of taxes and impose penalties. follows: (1) By inserting between the words "has" and "been" in the first line thereof the words "at any time." (2) By striking out the words "from the time of the issue of the securities first issued and so to be retired" in lines 17 and 18 thereof. (3) By inserting after the word "paid" at the end of line 22 thereof the following: "Pending the issue and sale of any such debentures, the council may by resolution authorize the Mayor and Treasurer to raise money by way of a temporary loan from any bank or banks on such debentures or intended debentures to the full amount of the issue or proposed issue." (4) By striking out from line 30 thereof the words "from the time of the issue thereof." 6. By striking out the principal section of 368 as printed in chapter 90 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1922, and by substituting therefor the following: "The council may by by-law require any or all taxes or any instalment thereof to be payable on a certain day or days and may by way of penalty impose such additional |