sign unto the said

Section

of

do hereby convey and aspresent accepting

that certain Lot of land in the Cemetery of the Mount Royal Cemetery Company, Parish of Montreal, designated on the plan of the ground and in the books of the Company as Lot No. , containing superficial feet, together with all the rights and privileges thereunto belonging, subject however to the By-Laws and regulations from time to time made by the Company.

An Act to cancel part of the Letters Patent for the endowment of a Rectory in the Township of Warwick.

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[Assented to 1st July, 1856.]

HEREAS lot number twenty-five, in the first concession Preamble. south of the Egremont Road, in the Township of Warwick, was by mistake set apart as an endowment for the first Rectory of the said Township, constituted on the twenty-first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six ; And whereas before the issue of the Letters Patent so setting apart the said Lot together with other lands, the said Lot was regularly sold to one R. H. Alison, through whom and from whom one James Shaw now claims the same; And whereas it is expedient to cancel so much of the said Letters Patent as regards the said lot: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

a new Patent

I. After the passing of this Act, so much of the said Letters Patent for the Patent as relates to Lot number twenty-five in the first conces- said lot 25 sion south of the Egremont Road, in the Township of Warwick, cancelled, and shall be and be taken to be cancelled to all intents and purposes, may issue. so that the Governor in Council may cause a new Patent to be issued instead thereof to the party or parties justly entitled thereto.

CAP.

Preamble.

18 V. c. 58.

Section 1 of

the said Act, repealed.

Ministers of

the said perhave the benefit of the Act of U. C., 11 G.

suasion to

4, c. 36, although not

vided they

CAP. CXXX.

An Act to amend the Act to enable Ministers of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in this Province to solemnize Matrimony and to keep Registers of Marriages, Baptisms and Burials.

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[Assented to 1st July, 1856.]

HEREAS it is expedient to amend the Act passed in the eighteenth year of Her Majesty's reign, intituled, An Act to enable Ministers of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in this Province to solemnize Matrimony and to keep Registers of Marriages, Baptisms and Burials; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

I. The first section of the Act mentioned in the preamble of this Act is hereby repealed; and the following section shall be substituted in lieu thereof, and shall be held to be the first section of the said Act:

"In Upper Canada, all the powers, privileges and advantages by the Act of the Legislature of the late Province of Upper Canada, passed in the eleventh year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, and intituled, An Act to make valid certain Marriages heretofore contracted and to provide for the future solemnization of Matrimony in this Province, conferred subjects of Her upon or vested in any Clergyman or Minister of any of the Majesty, pro- several religious denominations mentioned in the third section take the oath of the said Act, shall be and the same are hereby conferred of allegiance upon and vested in any Clergyman, Minister, or Pastor of the and otherwise said Religious denomination called The Evangelical Lutheran comply with the said Act. Church, whether he be or be not a subject of Her Majesty by birth or naturalization, (provided he shall take the oath of allegiance to Her Majesty and otherwise comply with the requirements of the fourth section of the said last cited Act,) as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes, and upon the same conditions and restrictions with respect to his ordination, constitution and appointment as such Clergyman, Minister or Pastor, as if the Evangelical Lutheran Church aforesaid had been among the number of religious denominations mentioned in the said third section, and subject to all the penalties imposed by the said Act for any contravention of the provisions thereof."

Public Act.

II. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act.

CAP.

САР. СХХХІ.

An Act to incorporate the Society called the Union of St. Joseph of Montreal.

[Assented to 1st July, 1856.]

WHEREAS an Association under the name of the Union Preamble.

of St. Joseph of Montreal, has existed for several years in the City of Montreal, having for its object the aid of its members in case of sickness, and the ensuring of like assistance and other advantages to the widows and children of deceased members; And whereas the members of the said Association have prayed to be incorporated, and it is expedient to grant their petition: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

ated.

eral powers.

I. Louis Leclaire, S. T. Rathé, Jacques Alexis Plinguet, Certain perDavid Leblanc, Antoine Bazinet, J. B. Duplessis, L. Théophile sons incorporLescarbeau, Michel Cyr, Louis Chabot, C. A. Rochon, Alexis Favreau, Louis Longpré, together with such other persons as now are members of the said institution, or may hereafter become members thereof, in virtue of this Act, shall be, and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, in fact and in name, under the name of the Union of St. Joseph of Montreal, Corporate and by that name shall have power from time to time, and at name and genany time hereafter to purchase, acquire, possess, hold, exchange, accept and receive for themselves and their successors, all Amount of lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all real or immoveable real property estate, being and situated in Lower Canada, necessary for the limited." actual use and occupation of the said Corporation, and the said property to hypothecate, sell, alienate and dispose of, and to acquire other instead thereof for the same purposes; and any Majority to majority whatsoever of the said Corporation, for the time being, make Byshall have full power and authority to make and establish such laws. rules, regulations and by-laws, in no respect inconsistent with this Act, nor with the laws then in force in Lower Canada, as they may deem expedient and necessary for the interests and administration of the affairs of the said Corporation, and for the admission of members thereof; and the same to amend and repeal, from time to time, in whole or in part, and also such regulations and by-laws as may be in force at the time of the passing of this Act; such majority may also execute and Further administer, or cause to be executed and administered all and powers of every the other business and matters appertaining to the said majority. Corporation, and to the government and management thereof, in so far as the same may come under their control, respect being nevertheless had to the regulations, stipulations, provisions and by-laws to be hereafter passed and established.

II. Provided always, that the rents, revenues and profits Appropriation arising out of every description of moveable property belonging

to

certain purposes only.

Property of
Association

to the said Corporation, shall be appropriated and employed exclusively for the benefit of the members of the said Corporation, and for the erection and repair of the buildings necessary for the purposes of the said Corporation, and for the payment of expenses legitimately incurred in carrying out any of the objects above referred to.

III. All real and personal estate at present the property of the said Association, or which may hereafter be acquired by transferred to the members thereof in their capacity as such, by purchase, Corporation. donation or otherwise, and all debts, claims and rights which they may be possessed of in such capacity, shall be and they are hereby transferred to the Corporation constituted by this Act, and the said Corporation shall be charged with all the liabilities and obligations of the said Association, and the rules, regulations and by-laws now or hereafter to be established for the management of the said Association, shall be and continue to be the rules, regulations and by-laws of the said Corporation, until altered or repealed in the manner prescribed by this Act.

Also liabili ties.

Corporation to appoint Officers, &c.

ture.

IV. The members of the said Corporation, for the time being, or the majority of them, shall have power to appoint administrators or managers for the administration of the property of the Corporation, and such officers, managers, administrators or servants of the said Corporation, as may be required for the due management of the affairs thereof, and to allow to them respectively a reasonable and suitable remuneration; and all officers so appointed shall have the right to exercise such other powers and authorities for the due management and administration of the affairs of the said Corporation, as may be conferred upon them by the regulations and by-laws of the said Corporation.

Annual Report V. The said Corporation shall be bound to make annual to the Legisla- reports to both Branches of the Legislature, containing a general statement of the affairs of the Corporation, which said reports shall be presented within the first twenty days of every Session of the Legislature.

Public Act.

VI. This Act shall be a Public Act.

Preamble.

CAP. CXXXII

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An Act to incorporate the Lachute College.

[Assented to 1st July, 1856.]

HEREAS a number of the principal inhabitants of the Village of Lachute and others in the County of Argenteuil, have represented that in order to the well working of a certain educational and agricultural establishment commenced in the Village of Lachute, and for the greater advantage of Education

Education in the said County, it is desirable that certain persons should be incorporated under the name of the "Lachute College"; And whereas it is expedient to grant their prayer, inasmuch as such incorporation would be advantageous to the welfare and progress of Education, as well in the said localities in particular, as for the country in general: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows:

rents.

I. John Meikle, Thomas Christie, the Rev. Thomas Henry, Certain perthe Rev. Walter Scott, the Rev. James Bishop, Thomas Lockie, sons incorporThomas Pollock, John McAllister, and Thomas Morrison, all ated. of the Village of Lachute, in the County of Argenteuil, and such other persons as shall, under the provisions of this Act, succeed them in the offices, duties and obligations which they shall perform and hold under this Act, shall be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate in deed and in name, by the name of the "Lachute College," and shall, by Corporate the same name, from time to time and at all times hereafter, name and general powers. be able and capable to enter into contracts generally, and to purchase, acquire, hold, possess, exchange, sell, accept and May hold real receive for them and their successors, to and for the uses and property and purposes of the said Corporation, any lands, tenements, here- constituted ditaments situate in this Province, and required for the actual use and occupation only of the said corporation, or any constituted rents in money, also in this Province, and to sell, and alienate the same, and acquire others by any title whatsoever for the same purposes; and they shall have full power and By-laws. authority to make and establish such By-laws, Rules and Regulations as they shall think proper for the government of the said College, which shall not be altered or repealed otherwise than in such manner and by such number of votes as they shall have determined in making and establishing the same, at the general meetings of the Corporation, which are to be called by the Secretary-Treasurer, (hereafter to be appointed,) by order of the President or three of the Directors, and at which any Quorum of seven members shall form a Quorum, and be entitled to pass Directors. Resolutions and give decisions, adopt plans and measures, and put the same into execution, in order to promote and advance Education, for which purpose they are constituted a Corporation as aforesaid: Provided always, that nothing in the Proviso.. aforesaid By laws, Rules and Regulations, Decisions, Plans and Measures, shall be contrary to this Act or the laws in force in this Province.

II. Provided always, that all the rents, revenues, issues and Funds to be profits whatsoever, of the said Corporation, shall be appro- devoted solely priated and exclusively applied to the support of the said Col- to education. lege, the welfare of Education, and to the construction, repairing and renting of buildings necessary for the purposes of the Corporation, and in such manner as the members of the Corporation shall judge best to attain the said purposes, which shall not be other than those of Education.