one of the Subscribers to the above declaration, hereby certify that the suni of at least one dollar has been paid by each of the above Subscribers, as his first annual subscription, to the proposed Agricultural Society of (insert proposed name of Society); and that I hold, on behalf of the said proposed Society, the several amounts so paid. We, A.B., President of the Agricultural Society of and C.D., Secretary-Treasurer of the said Society, certify and declare that the said Society is now regularly organized, that the actual number of Members is and that the sum of been subscribed, by and is now at the disposal of the said society. A.B., President. C.D., Secretary-Treasurer. has No. 9 of 1888. AN ORDINANCE TO INCORPORATE COMPANIES FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CEMETERIES. [Passed 16th November, 1886.] Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of the NorthWest Territories, in Council, as follows: 1. Any number of persons, not less than twenty, may form themselves into a company for the purpose of estab lishing one or more public cemeteries without the limits of any town or city, unless permission be given therefor by by-law of said town or city. 2. Subject to the preceding section, when any number of persons, not less than twenty, (a) Subscribe stock to an amount adequate to the purchase of the ground required for such a cemetery and (b) Execute an instrument according to the form in the next section contained, and (c) Pay to the treasurer of the intended company twentyfive per cent. of the capital stock intended to be raised, and (d) Register such instrument at full length, together with a receipt from the treasurer for the first instalment of twenty-five per cent., with the Registrar of the Land Registration_District in which the ground is situate, the company shall thenceforth become and be a body corporate, by the name designated in the instrument so regis tered, and may take, hold and convey the land to be used exclusively as a Cemetery or place for the burial of the dead. 3. The instrument referred to may be in the form following: "Be it remembered that on this day of in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and , we, the undersigned shareholders, met in the Provisional District of eighty in the North-West Territories, and resolved to form ourselves into a Cemetery Company, to be called a ccording to the provisions of Ordinance No. 9 of the of dollars each, entitling the holder to one hundred superficial feet; and we, the undersigned shareholders, do hereby agree to accept and take the number of shares set by us opposite our respective signatures; and we do hereby agree to pay the calls thereon according to the provisions of the said Ordinance and the rules and regulations and by-laws of the cor pany, to be made in that behalf." NAME. NO. OF SHARES. AMOUNT. 4. The company shall, by walls or other sufficient fences, enclose every part of the Cemetery held by them. 5. The company shall also, out of the monies received by virtue of this Ordinance, keep the Cemetery and the buildings and fences thereof in complete repair, and in good order and condition. 6. The company shall nake all proper and necessary sewers and drains in and about the cemetery for draining it and keeping it dry; and they may, from time to time as occasion requires, cause any such sewer or drain to open into an existing sewer, with the consent in writing of the persons having the management of the street or road, and with the like consent of the owner or occupier of the land through which, or part of which, the opening is intended to be made, doing as little damage as possible to the street, road or land, wherein the same is made, and restoring it to the same or as good condition as it was in before being disturbed. 7. If the company at any time causes or suffers to be brought to or to flow in any river, spring, well, stream, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, pond or watering place, any offensive matter from the Cemetery, whereby the water is fouled, the company shall forfeit, for every such offence, five hundred dollars. 8. The said penalty, with full costs of suit, may, by a civil action in any Court of competent jurisdiction, be recovered by any person having a right to use the water; but the penalty and costs shall not be recoverable unless sued for during the continuance of the offence, or within six months after it has ceased. 9. In addition, to the penalty of five hundred dollars, (and whether the same has been recovered or not), any person having a right to use the water, may sue the com pany, in a civil action, for any damage specially sustained by him by reason of the water being fouled, or, if no special damage is alleged, then for the sum of ten dollars for every day during which the offensive matter has continued to be brought or to flow, after the expiration of twenty-four hours from the time when the notice of the offence was by such person served upon the company. 10. Nobody shall be buried in a vault, or otherwise, under any Chapel or other building in the Cemetery, nor within fifteen feet of the outer wall of any such Chapel or building. 11. The company shall make regulations to ensure all burials within the Cemetery being conducted in a decent and solemn manner. 12. The company shall furnish graves for strangers, and for the poor of all denominations, free of charge, on the certificate, in the latter case, of a minister or clergyman of the denomination to which the deceased belonged, that the relatives of the deceased are poor and cannot afford to purchase a lot in the Cemetery. 13. That the real estate of the company, and the lots or plots, when conveyed by the company to individual proprietors for burial sites, shall be exempt from taxation of any kind, and shall not be liable to be scized or sold under execution. 14. When a lot has been sold by the company for a burial site, the conveyance shall not require to be registered for any purpose whatever, and shall not be affected by any Registry Act, nor shall any judgment, mortgage or incumbrance subsist on any lot so conveyed. 15. The deeds from the company shall be in the following form: |