Power to dis pose of pictures, &c., by lot notwithstanding cap. 95, Con. Stat. Canada. Public Act encouragement of the fine arts ;" and whereas the said association, in their corporate capacity, have by petition set forth that it is desirable in order to enable them more efficiently to foster and encourage the fine arts, that they be authorized to establish an Art Union as one of the subsidiary undertakings aforesaid; and it is expedient to grant their prayer: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. It shall be lawful for the said association to purchase or otherwise acquire pictures or other works of art, and distribute the same among the members of such association, or subscribers or contributors to its funds, by lot or chance, under by-laws enacted or to be enacted to regulate such distribution; anything contained in chapter ninety-five of the Consolidated Statutes of Canada, intituled: An Act respecting Lotteries, or any other law, custom or usage to the contrary, notwithstanding. 2. This Act shall be deemed to be a Public Act. CAP. CXLIII. Preamble, Power to bor Mortgage. Proviso: An Act to amend the Act of incorporation of the W [Assented to 30th June, 1864.] HEREAS the Canadian Literary Institute of Woodstock have prayed to be empowered to raise a certain sum of money, not exceeding four thousand dollars, on the property held by the corporation, and to change the day for holding the annual meeting of the corporation; and it is expedient to grant their prayer: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The said corporation may raise, by way of loan, for the row money on purposes of the said corporation, any sum of money they may from time to time require for the purpose of completing their buildings or otherwise improving or enlarging the same, or for paying or continuing any loan; Provided always that the amount limit- total amount of such debt shall not at any time exceed the sum of four thousand dollars; and for securing the re-payment of such borrowed money the corporation may grant a mortgage or mortgages on their property, by deed, under the corporate seal thereof; anything in the Act incorporating the said Institute to the contrary notwithstanding. ed. Mortgagees not bound, &c. 2. The mortgagees under this Act shall not be bound to see to the application of the money lent. 3. The day for holding the annual meeting of the subscribers Day of anand contributors to the said institution, is hereby changed from nual meeting the Thursday next before the twenty-fifth of December in each changed. year, as provided in the third section of the Act incorporating the said Institute, to such day in the month of July in each year as the board of trustees may from time to time determine. 4. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. CXLIV. An Act to amend the Act of Incorporation of the W [Assented to 30th June, 1864.] Public Act. HEREAS, by the fourth section of the Act of Incorporation Freamble. of the Iberville Academy, passed in the twenty-second year of Her Majesty's reign, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, chapter seventy, the School Commissioners of the town of Iberville are authorized to enter into an agreement with the members of the said corporation, for the union of the Elementary School with the said Academy; and the said Commissioners have agreed to pay to the said Academy the sum of five hundred dollars a year for ten years, by deed passed before Philibert Baudoin and his colleague, notaries, dated the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and the said Academy, in consideration of such sum, has bound itself to take under its control and to keep the Boy's Elementary School of the said town during the aforesaid period of time; and whereas doubts have arisen as to the right of the said Commissioners to enter into an agreement for a period of time longer than their term of office: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The fourth section of the Act, intituled: An Act to incor- 22 V. c. 70. porate the Iberville Academy, twenty-second Victoria, chapter sec. 4, exseventy, has always been intended to confer and has conferred plained. on the said School Commissioners and the corporation of the said Academy, the right to enter into agreements in their quality aforesaid, for themselves and their successoss, for the purpose mentioned in the said Act, for one year or for a longer period of time. 2. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. Public Act. 39* CAP. CAP. CXLV. Preamble. Corporate name. An Act to incorporate the Children's Industrial School of the City of Hamilton. W [Assented to 30th June, 1864.] HEREAS an institution has for some time existed in the city of Hamilton, supported by voluntary contributions and having for its object the education of destitute children of the said city and training them to habits of industry and virtue; and whereas the management of the affairs of the said institution has hitherto been vested in a committee consisting of twenty-four ladies as directresses, treasurer, secretary and managers, elected annually; and whereas the ladies comprising the said committee have by their petition represented that the said institution would be rendered much more efficient by giving it the character of a corporation, and have prayed that an Act may be passed for that purpose, and it is expedient to grant their prayer: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: Incorporation. 1. Jane O'Reilly, and Helen Rae, directresses, Jane R. Ewing, treasurer; Kate E. Young, secretary; Emma MacKeand, Eliza Osborne, Catherine Young, Helen Edgar, Mary Bickle, Margaret Robb, Agnes Buchanan, Barbara MacNab, Emily Lisber, Olivia Hunter, Susan Geddes, Elizabeth A. Boice, Eliza Bickle, Hughina MacDonald, Jessie Greer, Elizabeth MacKelcan and Catherine Ferrie, managers, and all others who now are or may, from time to time, be elected to succeed them in manner hereinafter mentioned as directresses, treasurer, secretary and managers, shall be and they are hereby nominated and constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of The Children's Industrial School of the City of Hamilton, for the education of destitute children of the said city of Hamilton, and training them to habits of industry and virtue, and shall, by that name, have perpetual succession, and all the rights vested by the Interpretation Act in corporations generally, and shall from time to time and at all times hereafter, be able and capable to have, take, receive, purchase and acquire, hold, possess, enjoy and maintain, to and for the use of the said corReal property. poration, all lands, tenements and hereditaments which may hereafter be sold, ceded, exchanged, given, devised or granted to the said corporation, or to sell, alienate, convey, let or lease Proviso: va- the same if need be; provided that the annual income to be derived from such real property shall not exceed two thousand dollars; and the said corporation shall further have the right to make and establish so many by-laws, orders and regulations (not being contrary to the laws of this Province or to this Act) as they shall deem useful and necessary for the conduct or government of the said institution; provided always, that no lue limited. By-laws. Proviso. act act done by such directresses and managers shall be valid and Quorum of effectual unless five of such managers, and one of the said managers, directresses or office-bearers, at the least, shall be present and &c. the major part of these consenting thereto. 2. The said directresses, office-bearers and managers shall List of memkeep or cause to be kept in a book to be opened for that pur- bers. pose, a list of all subscribers to the said institution; and a Annual meetmeeting of the said subscribers shall be held annually on the ing. first Wednesday in the month of May in each year (the first of such meetings to be held on Wednesday the sixth day of July next), at such hour and place as the directresses and managers for the time being shall, by notice thereof given at least one week beforehand in some newspaper published in the city of Hamilton, appoint; And at each such meeting a report in Reports to be writing of the affairs and management of the said institution, submitted. and of all moneys received and expended, and of all property, real and personal, then held by the institution and also of the number of children of each sex received into the institution, and of the number sent out for adoption or to service, shall be exhibited under their proper heads by the directresses, officebearers and managers for the year then past; and at such Election of meeting the ladies then present who are respectively subscribers managers and of a sum not less in amount than one dollar annually, or donors officers. at any one time of not less than twenty dollars, or of lands to an amount of not less in value than one hundred dollars, shall elect from the subscribers or donors of like amounts, not fewer than twelve fit and proper persons as managers of the said institution, and also a secretary, a treasurer, and a first and second directresses, and the said directresses, treasurer, secretary and managers shall be the governing body of the institution, and all vacancies which may occur in the interval between Vacancies. the annual meetings, in their number, from death, resignation or otherwise, may be filled up at a special meeting of the subscribers called for the purpose, by a notice given in a similar manner to that required to be given for the annual meeting; provided always, that if from any cause such annual or special Proviso: in meeting shall not take place at the time appointed by the case of failure notice, such meeting may be called as aforesaid at any subse- of election. quent time. 3. The said directresses, office-bearers and managers shall Power to apand may send out to service and apprentice thereto or to any prentice. healthy trade or business, all children having the protection of Children. the institution aforesaid, to such person or persons and upon such terms as to the said directresses, office-bearers and managers shall seem fit and proper, and for that purpose and on behalf of and for such child and themselves, may enter into and make with any persons or person with whom such child. may be placed by the said directresses, office-bearers and managers, articles of apprenticeship or agreement, and such Articles in articles or agreement may be enforced as well by action at law such case. or Proviso. Proviso. Power of parents given to directresses, &c. Property to be applied to objects of corporation. Present officebearers to continue until or in equity for breach thereof warranting such action, as by summary application to a magistrate or justice of the peace (who is hereby authorized and empowered to act thereon), on any such occasion as would, according to the laws of this Province, warrant the interference or adjudication of any one or more justice or justices of the peace in the disputes and difficulties between masters and apprentices; provided always, that a copy of the articles of indenture apprenticing such child shall, within six days from the time such articles were executed, be lodged with the clerk of the common council of the city of Hamilton, who is hereby required to file such copy; and provided further that all persons desirous of obtaining any child for the purpose of service and apprenticeship or adoption, shall deposit in the hands of the treasurer of the said institution, for the benefit of such child, not less than three dollars a year. 4. The said directresses, office-bearers and managers may exercise over and with respect to the children having the protection of the said institution, such powers as their parents or guardians would have or might exercise. 5. All property which shall at any time belong to the said institution as well as the revenues thereof, shall at all times be appropriated and applied exclusively to the object and purposes mentioned in this Act. 6. The directresses, managers, secretary and treasurer of the said institution shall be and continue to be directresses, new election. managers, secretary and treasurer of the said corporation until others shall be elected in their stead, as provided by this Act; And the by-laws, rules, orders and regulations of the said institution shall be and continue to be the by-laws, rules orders and regulations of the said corporation until altered or repealed. Present bylaws conti nued. Returns to 7. The said corporation shall present to the Governor and Government. both Houses of the Provincial Parliament, within the first fifteen days of each session of the said Parliament, a full return of all property, real and personal, held by them, and of their receipts and expenditure for the past year. Public Act. 8. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. Preamble, CAP. CXLVI. An Act to incorporate the Humane Society of Canada. [Assented to 30th June, 1864.] HEREAS sundry persons have by their petition represented, that they desire to be incorporated under the name of The Humane Society of Canada, for the purpose of rewarding |