Corporation to have power to make By-laws to be binding on the members thereof. And to alter or repeal them and make others. Proviso. Notice of alteration or repeal to be given. Proviso. Individual members not liable for any of the acts of them as may be present at any duly appointed meeting, to choose a Member or Members of the Corporation to fill the office or offices so vacated: Provided always, that the person or persons who may be thus elected, shall retain the said office or offices, only until the next ensuing annual election of officers as hereinbefore provided, and no longer. VI. And be it enacted, That the Members of the said Corporation, or the major part of them who shall be present at any general meeting of the said Corporation held according to the requirements and provisions of this Act, shall have power and authority to frame and make Bye-laws, rules and regulations, touching and concerning the good government of the said Corporation, and the income and property thereof, and any other matter or thing relative to the same, which to thein may seem fit or expedient for the effectual attainment of the objects of the said Corporation, and the administration of its concerns; and also from time to time by such new Bye-laws, rules and regulations as to them shall seem meet, to alter or repeal those so made as aforesaid: Provided always, that no such repeal or alteration shall be valid, unless notice of the motion for such repeal or alteration shall have been placed in some conspicuous part of the usual place of meeting of the said Corporation for at least one calendar month previous to the general meeting at which such motion shall be made and considered: Provided also, that no such Statutes, Bye-laws, rules or orders shall be contrary or repugnant to the laws of this Province, or to the provisions of this Act. VII. And be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall have the effect of rendering all or any of the said several persons hereinbefore mentioned, or all or any of the Members of the said Corporation, or any person whatsoever, indiviof the Corpo- dually liable or accountable for or by reason of the said Corporation, or for or on account or in respect of any matter or thing whatsoever relating to the said Corporation. ration. Accounts of the revenue and expendi ture of the Corporally laid before the Legislature. Public Act. VIII. And be it enacted, That the said Corporation shall be bound to transmit yearly to each of the three branches of the Legislature during the first fifteen days of the Session thereof, a detailed account of their revenues and expenditure, shewing also the nature and extent of the immoveable property possessed by them and the revenue derivable therefrom. IX. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be held and considered to be a public Act, and as such shall be judicially taken notice of, held and considered in all Courts of Justice, and by all Judges and Justices of the Peace, and by all others whom it may concern, without being specially pleaded. MONTREAL :-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE and GEORGE Desbarats, An Act to authorize the Community of Ladies, called Les Fœurs de la Congrégation Notre Dame de Montréal, to acquire and hold additional real or personal property to a certain amount. W [17th March, 1845.] HEREAS the Community of Ladies known by the name of Les Saurs Preamble. de la Congrégation Notre Dame, established at Montreal, have by their Petition to the Legislature, prayed that the said Community may be empowered to hold property to a certain amount over and above that which they now possess; And whereas by reason of the great usefulness of the said Institution it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said Petition: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, intituled, An Act to Re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall be lawful for the Superior of the said Community and her Successors in office to acquire and receive, by donation, devise, or otherwise, and to hold for the use of the said Community, by the name of Les Soeurs de la Congrégation de Notre Dame de Montréal, and according to the Rules and Bye-Laws of that Institution, any kind of real property whatever lying within this Province, or any constituts or ground rents secured upon any such property, or any sums of money in the public funds of the United Kingdom or secured by debentures on the public revenue of this Province, or any other species of property whatsoever, producing in the whole a fixed and permanent income not exceeding five thousand pounds, Limitation of currency, per annum, over and above all property legally held by or for the use of the amount, the munityemporered to hold a The said comrel larger amount than heretofore. of property Proviso. Proviso, the said Community at the time of the passing of this Act, and to sell or alienate the said property (as well such as the Community now hold as such as may be acquired as aforesaid hereafter,) and to purchase and acquire other property of what kind soever in lieu thereof, provided the whole amount of income derived from the property to be so holden under the authority of this Act shall not at any time exceed the said sum of five thousand pounds, currency; any thing in the laws commonly called the Laws of Mortmain, or in any Act or Law, to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided also, that a detailed account of the property hereafter so holden under the authority of this Act, and of the revenues arising therefrom shall be submitted every year to each of the three branches of the Legislature, during the first fifteen days of each session thereof. MONTREAL:-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE and GEORGE DESBARATS, An Act to Incorporate Le Petit Séminaire de Sainte Thérèse de Blainville, in the District of Montreal. W [17th March, 1845.] THEREAS it has been represented to the Legislature of this Province by Preamble, the Reverend Charles Joseph Ducharme, Curé of the Parish of Sainte Thérèse de Blainville, proprietor of the Educational Institution in the said Parish, known by the name of Le Petit Séminaire de Sainte Thérèse, by him founded and supported, that it is necessary to endow the said Institution and to give it stability and permanence by an Act incorporating the Members thereof, and enabling the property belonging to the Institution to be holden in mortmain for the use thereof, offering in that case, and on certain conditions, to endow the Corporation to be so formed with all his real property, (the value of which is estimated at fifteen hundred pounds currency, of this Province,) as the same may be in the possession of the present proprietor thereof at the time when the law shall come into operation, and according to the agreement which he will then enter into with the said Corporation; And whereas the passing of an Act for the purposes aforesaid would be highly advantageous to the progress of education in this Province: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to Re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That there shall be, and there is hereby constituted and established, at the Parish of Sainte Thérèse de Blainville aforesaid, and in the said Petit Séminaire, a Body Politic and Corporate, under the name of The Corporation of the Petit Séminaire Sainte Thérèse, which said Corporation shall consist of firstly, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal; secondly, of the Superior of the said Petit Séminaire; thirdly, of the Curé of the said 77 * Parish The Petit Séminaire incor porated. Who shall be members of the Corpora tion Corporate ed. Bye-Laws, Parish of Sainte Thérèse de Blainville; fourthly, of all Members who may be regularly admitted (aggrégés) into the said Corporation, provided their number should not exceed thirty; And the said Corporation shall have perpetual succespowers grant-sion and may have a common seal, with power to change, alter, break and renew Common Seal. the same when and so often as they shall think proper; And the said Corporation may, by the said name, sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, prosecute and be prosecuted, in all Courts of Law now established in this Province, and shall have full power and authority to make such and so many Bye-Laws, Rules and Regulations (not being contrary to the laws of this Province) as they shall deem useful and necessary, as well concerning the system of education in, as for the conduct and government of the said Petit Séminaire and of the said Corporation, and the superintendence, advantage and improvement of all the property, moveable or immoveable, belonging to or which shall hereafter belong to the said Corporation; and shall have power to take under any legal title whatsoever, and perty, real and to hold for the said Petit Séminaire without any further authorization or Letters of Mortmain, all land and property, moveable and immoveable, which may hereafter be sold, ceded, exchanged, given, bequeathed, or granted to the said Corporation, or to sell and alienate the same if need shall be: Provided always, that the net rents, issues and profits arising from the immoveable property and territorial acquisitions of the said Corporation, shall not at any time exceed the yearly sum of Attornies may four thousand pounds, current money of this Province; and the said Corporation be appointed. shall further have the right of appointing an Attorney or Attornies for the management of their affairs, and, generally, shall enjoy all the rights and privileges enjoyed by other Bodies Politic and Corporate recognized by the Legislature. To acquire and hold pro personal. Proviso. Amount of real property limited. The revenues of the Corporation to be applied to the purposes of Education in the said Semi naire exclusively. Public Act. Saving of rights not ex II. Provided always and be it enacted, That all the property which shall at time belong to the said Corporation as well as the Revenues thereof, shall any at all times be exclusively applied and appropriated to the advancement of Education in the said Petit Séminaire and to no other object Institution or Establishment whatsoever. III. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Act by all Judges, Justices of the Peace and Officers of Justice, and by all other persons whomsoever, and shall be judicially taken notice of by them without being specially pleaded. IV. And be it enacted, That this Act shall not extend to weaken, diminish, or pressly affect extinguish the rights and privileges of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, nor of any person or persons, Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate, excepting only such rights as are hereby expressly altered or extinguished. ed, MONTREAL-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE and GEORGE DESBARATS, |