4. The Society shall within ten years after its acquisi- Disposal of tion of any real estate, sell or otherwise dispose of and alienate real estate. so much of such real estate as is not required for the purposes of the Society; and provided that any devise of real estate shall be subject to the laws respecting devises of real estate to religious corporations, in force at the time of such devise in the province or territory in which such real estate is situate, so far as the same apply to the said Society.

5. The officers of the Society shall be a president and three Officers. vice-presidents, one from each of the Maritime Provinces, a secretary, a treasurer, and three provincial secretaries; and the business may be managed by an executive committee consisting of the officers of the Society and such number of delegates as the Society from time to time by by-law ordains. The executive committee shall report their doings to the Report of Society at the annual meeting; at which meeting the report executive of the executive committee may be adopted, rescinded, modified, or altered.

committee.

6. The officers mentioned in the first section of this Act Provisional shall be the provisional officers of the Society, and shall hold officers. office as such until the appointment of their successors at the first meeting of the Society.

7. The Society shall hold a meeting annually for the trans- Annual meetaction of business and the appointment of officers and com- ing. mittees, at such time and place in either of the provinces, as the Society or executive committee appoints. The first meeting Time of holdof the Society shall be held at Bridgetown, in the county of ing first meetAnnapolis, in the province of Nova Scotia, at some time during the meeting of the Baptist Convention of the Maritime Provinces in the month of August now next.

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laws.

S. The Society shall make rules and by-laws for the guidance Rules and byand direction of the executive committee, and for the ordering of the business of the Society, the appointment of officers and the fixing of the quorum, the appointment of sub-committees and auditors, and for regulating all and any matter and thing necessary for the good order and management of the Society and the prosecution of its business, and may, from time to time, cancel, alter and annul any such rule or by-law.

OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty.

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55-56 VICTORIA.

CHAP. 77.

An Act to confer on the Commissioner of Patents certain powers for the relief of Carl Auer von Welsbach and others.

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[Assented to 9th July, 1892.]

HEREAS Carl Auer von Welsbach, of Vienna, Austria, Doctor of Philosophy, has by petition represented that he obtained letters patent under the great seal of Canada, dated the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, and numbered twenty-three thousand five hundred and twenty-three, in the name of one Frederick de la Fontaine Williams, of the city of London, England, merchant, (his assignee for that purpose) for a new and useful improvement in illuminating appliances for gas and other burners invented or discovered by him, and, in his own name, also obtained letters patent under the great seal of Canada, dated the seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, and numbered twenty-six thousand one hundred and sixty-two, for a new and useful method of obtaining compounds of the rarer metals from their earths for use as incandescent bodies for illuminating purposes, also invented or discovered by him, the said inventions constituting together the complete invention of the said Welsbach, known as the incandescent gas-burner; that each of these patents was granted for a term of fifteen years from the date thereof, but only the partial fee for the first five years was paid upon the issue of each of the said patents, the patentee being entitled under the twentysecond section of The Patent Act to an extension of each patent for the remaining ten years upon application therefor, and upon payment of the fee provided by the said section, before the expiration of the said first five years; that the right to use the said inventions, under the said patents, for the provinces of Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, was in the year eighteen hundred and eightynine disposed of by the patentee and the said Williams to certain persons in the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, and elsewhere, now constituting the Welsbach Incandescent Gas Light Company (Limited), of Halifax, with the condition that the said

purchasers should attend to everything that was necessary to keep the said patents in force in Canada; that the said Welsbach and Wiliiams have always been and still are resident in Europe and occupied there in introducing and developing their patents, and, relying on the said condition in the said partial sale of their rights under the said patents, gave no attention to the keeping of the said patents in force; that until the month of April of this present year they believed the said patents to be still in force, but then found that by inadvertence on the part of the said Company's officers the said renewals had not been obtained; that it was wholly owing to the mistaken impression and belief of the said Company's officers that the said patents were to continue in force for fifteen years instead of five years that they did not apply for the said renewals within the proper time; that the said Company's officers only became aware of their mistake about the first day of the said month of April, and that immediately steps were taken to obtain a renewal of the said patents from the Commissioner of Patents, but the said Commissioner could not then under the statute grant a renewal; and whereas there has been expended by the said Company in Canada, prior to the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, a sum exceeding forty thousand dollars under the said patents, in developing, introducing and manufacturing the said inventions; and whereas the persons and Company herein before named have petitioned for an Act authorizing the Commissioner of Patents to receive their applications and the fees for the remainder of the terms of fifteen years for which the said letters patent were conditionally granted, and to grant and issue to the said patentees respectively the certificates of payment provided by The Patent Act, and extensions of the terms of the said letters patent, in as ample a measure as if applications had been duly made within five years from the dates of such letters patent; and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

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patent.

1. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Commissioner Patent Act of 1872, and the Acts in amendment thereof, or in may renew The Patent Act, being chapter sixty-one of the Revised Statutes, certain letters or in the said letters patent, the Commissioner of Patents may receive from the said Carl Auer von Welsbach and the said Frederick de la Fontaine Williams, respectively, the applications and usual fees for renewals or extensions of the said letters patent for the remainder of the terms of fifteen years from the respective dates thereof, and grant and issue to the said Welsbach and the said Williams the certificates of payment or of renewal provided by The Patent Act, and extensions of the period of the duration of the said letters patent to the full term of fifteen years, in as full and ample a manner as if applications

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therefor had been duly made within five years from the respective dates of the issue of the said letters patent.

2. Any person who has, within the period between the third persons second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninetyone, in respect of the patent first above mentioned, or the seventh day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninetytwo, in respect of the patent last above mentioned, and the date of the extensions or renewals hereunder of the said letters patent respectively, acquired by assignment, user, manufacture or otherwise, any interest or right in respect of such improvements or inventions, shall continue to enjoy such interest or right as if this Act had not been passed.

OTTAWA Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty.

55-56 VICTORIA.

CHAP. 78.

An Act for the relief of James Albert Manning Aikins.

[Assented to 9th July, 1892.]

WHEREAS James Albert Manning Aikins, of the city of Preamble. Winnipeg in the county of Selkirk in the province of Manitoba, barrister-at-law, has by his petition humbly set forth that on the tenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, he was duly married under license to Mary Bertha McLelan, spinster, at the city of Ottawa in the province of Ontario; that after the solemnization of the said marriage they lived together and cohabited at the said city of Winnipeg until about the month of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety; that there were issue of the said marriage two children, one of whom is still living with him; that in the month of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, the said Mary Bertha Aikins deserted her said husband and has not since resided with him; that after she deserted her said husband as aforesaid, he discovered as the facts were, that the said Mary Bertha Aikins had been leading an irregular life, and in or about the early part of the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety had committed adultery with one Charles Melville Waddell Blanchard in the province of Nova Scotia and on divers occasions thereafter, and in or about the month of August of the same year had, with the said Charles Melville Waddell Blanchard gone to and stopped at several places in the state of New York, one of the United States of America, cohabiting with the said Charles Melville Waddell Blanchard as his wife, and that in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one the said Mary Bertha Aikins had committed bigamy with the said Charles Melville Waddell Blanchard in the said state of New York, and thereafter for a long time openly resided there with the said Charles Melville Waddell Blanchard as his wife committing adultery with him; that ever since the said month of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and since the said James Albert Manning Aikins discovered that the said Mary Bertha Aikins had committed adultery, he has lived separate and apart from her and not cohabited with her, and that he has not in any way condoned the said adultery, desertion or