of maintaining and operating the hospital during the current year, but such sum shall not exceed an amount equal to two mills on the dollar according to the last revised assessment roll of the city on the property liable to assessment for general purposes, and it shall be encumbent on the city to pay the amount so demanded to the board in the same manner as similar payments are made to school trustees.

12. The mayor of the city shall at all times be ex officio a member of the board with the same powers and privileges as the other members.

13. It shall be the duty of the said corporation on or before the first day of February in each year to transmit to the Lieutenant Governor for the information of the Legislature of the Province of Alberta a return of the affairs of the corporation showing in detail the assets, liabilities and the number of sick persons received and attended to during the preceding calendar year in the said hospital and specifying the natures of their diseases.

14. The managers of such corporation shall, if they have been requested to do so by the Lieutenant Governor in Council and provided that they are in receipt of public funds from the province, keep in such hospital at such times and for such periods as may be determined by the Lieutenant Governor in Council an adequate supply of vaccine for the purposes, viz.:

(a) For the vaccination, by a qualified person attached to the said hospital at the expense of the same, of all poor persons; at their own expense, of all other persons who may attend at such hospital for that purpose during one day in every week. The fee to be charged for such vaccination in no case to exceed seventy-five cents and to be used and applied for the benefit of the hospital.

15. The existing trustees of the corporation shall as soon as possible after the passing of this Act transfer to some trust company authorized to carry on business in the Province of Alberta and to be approved of by the City of Lethbridge, all funds now vested in them under section 20 of chapter 22 of the Statutes of 1909 by deed of gift, which shall provide that such trust funds shall be maintained intact and no part of the corpus of the same shall be used for any purpose whatsoever, but the income arising therefrom shall be paid to the board of management for the purpose of operating the hospital.

16. Any monies now in the hands of the Galt Hospital for the purpose of extension or building shall be held intact for the purposes for which they are so intended and shall not be diverted therefrom.

17. All lands now held by the corporation in the City of Lethbridge in connection with its hospital buildings shall be held intact and shall at no time be alienated, but this proviso shall not extend to any other lands which may be acquired by the hospital hereafter either by purchase, gift, bequest or devise, which may be disposed of from time to time by the board of management as they may see fit.

18. The board of management shall have no power or authority to incur any debt in or about the extension of the hospital or erection of new buildings therefor and in the event of any extensions or new buildings becoming necessary the same shall be done or constructed by and at the expense of the City of Lethbridge and for such purposes in addition to any other rights it may now or hereafter possess under its charter the city shall have the right to incur debenture indebtedness in the same manner and to the same extent as it would have for any other civic purpose.

19. Chapter 22 of the Statutes of 1909 is hereby repealed.

1913

CHAPTER 59.

An Act to Incorporate The Lady Minto Hospital at Islay.

WHEREAS the

(Assented to March 25, 1913.)

persons hereinafter named have petitioned for an Act constituting them a body politic and corporate with the powers and for the purposes hereinafter set forth;

And whereas 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 the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows:

1. Alexander Gilchrist, Harold A. Edwards, Christopher Howson, William B. Cairns, Neil McEachern, Sydney Hollingsworth, George Davison and Lillie Gilchrist, and such other person or persons as may from time to time. become members of the corporation to be incorporated, shall be and are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate under the name of the "Lady Minto Hospital at Islay."

2. The said corporation shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and by such name may from time to time and at all times purchase, receive, accept, build, hold, possess and enjoy, mortgage, sell, dispose of and convey, any land, tenement, hereditament and real and moveable property and estate within the Province of Alberta, together with such grant, devise, gift and bequest as may be made from time to time and received from the Government of the Dominion of Canada, the Province of Alberta, the Village of Islay and any corporation, organization, person or persons, whatsoever for the sole use and benefit of such hospital:

Provided always, that the actual value of such real estate so held as aforesaid does not at any one time exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars.

3. The affairs of the said corporation shall be managed by a board of directors consisting of eight members with power to add to their numbers, of whom five shall constitute

a quorum; and the said Alexander Gilchrist, Harold A. Edwards, Christopher Howson, William B. Carins, Neil McEachern, Sydney Hollingsworth, George Davison and Lillie Gilchrist shall constitute the first board of directors and shall continue to hold office and act as such until their successors are appointed as hereinafter provided.

4. At the annual meeting in 1913 the four directors first mentioned shall retire from office and four directors shall be elected to succeed them; at the annual meeting held in 1914, the second four directors shall retire and four directors shall be elected to succeed them; all elections shall be by ballot.

(2) The directors elected at the annual meeting in 1913 and at any annual meeting thereafter shall hold office for two years and until their successors are appointed.

5. The annual meeting of the said corporation shall be held on the second Monday of June in each year at an hour and place to be named by the said directors and notice in writing thereof shall be given by the secretary and shall be published in the newspaper published nearest the said Town of Islay at least two issues previous to date of such meeting.

6. If such annual meeting shall from any cause be not held on the day hereinbefore appointed, it shall be lawful for the Board of Directors then in office to decide upon another day for the holding of the general annual meeting which day shall be within two months after the time when the same should have been held, and such meeting shall be called as provided in section 5 hereof.

7. In the event of a director dying or resigning his office before the expiration of his term his successor shall be appointed by the Board of Directors to fill the vacancy until the next annual meeting following and at such meeting a director shall be elected for the unexpired term of any such director.

8. Retiring directors shall be eligible for re-election.

9. The board of directors shall every year at their first meeting after election appoint a secretary and treasurer, or a secretary-treasurer; and shall at such meeting appoint from among themselves a president and vice-president, and in the event of any vacancy occurring in such office the said board shall have power to fill such vacancy.

10. The board of directors shall have power to meet from time to time for the transaction of any business

connected with the said corporation; and in the absence of the president or the vice-president, who shall be chairman, any director present may be chosen as chairman for that meeting; in the absence of the secretary any director present may be chosen to act as secretary for such meeting.

11. The board of directors shall have power to make by-laws, rules and regulations not being contrary to law or to the provisions of this Act, and power to amend or repeal from time to time the same for all purposes relating to and bearing upon the well-being and interests of the said corporation.

12. All annual subscribers who shall have paid such sum 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 said corporation and shall have the right to take part in the annual meeting of the corporation.

13. At the annual meeting a report shall be submitted by the directors showing the condition of affairs of the said corporation, including the treasurer's report, the secretary's report, the auditor's report and abstract and all other matters bearing on the interests of the said corporation and also a list showing the names of the members.

14. An auditor shall be appointed at the annual meeting whose duty it shall be to examine and report upon all accounts affecting the corporation or relating to any matter under its control or within its jurisdiction for the current year and shall submit the same to the directors on or before the next annual meeting.

15. The board of directors shall have the power of appointment, disposition or removal of any person or persons as superintendent, matron or supervisor of the said hospital:

Subject however to the approval, rules or regulations in this behalf provided by the Victorian Order of Nurses; and also the power of appointment, disposition or removal of any person bearing office or position in the said corporation, and, generally, for the internal management and government of the same.

16. A donation of one hundred dollars or upwards shall entitle the donor to life membership in the said corporation.

17. No member of the said corporation shall be individually liable or accountable for the debts, contracts or securities of the said corporation.