Power to sue, &c. Service of process. Directors may nies and III. Under the said corporate name of the "Lachute College," the said Corporation may sue and be sued in any Court of Law or Equity in this Province, and for the purposes of such suits or actions, service of process may and shall be made upon the President of the said Corporation, and not otherwise. IV. The Directors of the said Corporation for the time being, appoint Attor or a majority of them, in such manner as shall be provided by Teachers, &c. their By-laws, shall have power to appoint such Attornies as Administrators of the property of the Corporation, and such persons as they shall think proper for the purposes of Education, and to grant them respectively such salary or remuneration as they shall think proper, and entrust such persons with the duty of teaching on such charges and conditions, and in such forms and under such system as they shall deem preferable : May enter into and the Directors of the Corporation may enter into an agreement with the School Trustees of their School Municipality, and the said Trustees, under this Act, may also enter into an agreement with the said members of the Corporation, so as to unite their efforts and resources in order to place the Elementary Schools in connection or in relation with the College, and thus favour Elementary Education. agreements with School Trustees. Directors how chosen. V. Seven of the said members of the Corporation created under this Act, to be elected before the first of October next, Term of office. shall act as Directors for the space of three years, except that after the first Election of the Board of Directors, two of them, (to be determined by lot) shall go out of office at the end of one year, and two more (to be determined in like manner) shall go out at the end of two years, and the remaining three at the end of three years to be computed from the day on which the first meeting of the members of the Corporation shall take place, at which meeting they shall be elected, and which may be called at any time after the passing of this Act, by any three of the President, &c. above named members; and the said Directors so chosen, shall, from their number, elect a President and Secretary-Treasurer; and the said Board of Directors shall always be composed of seven members, and no more, and four of whom shall form a Replacing, Quorum; and the Directors shall, on retiring from office, be retiring Mem- replaced by others, to be elected at the General Annual Meeting of the said Corporation. Election. Quorum. bera. Casual vacancies how filled. As to re elec VI. If one or more vacancy shall happen among the Directors, by reason of permanent absence from the District, death, or incapacity by sickness, or otherwise, they shall be replaced by the members of the Corporation called together for that purpose by order of the President, at which meeting, he may, or, in his absence, any one of the Directors may be chosen to preside. VII. No Director shall be re-elected, except by his own contion of Direct- sent, during three years next after his going out of office. VIII. ers. ture. VIII. The said Corporation shall, when required by either Returns may of the three branches of the Legislature, transmit a Return, be required by shewing the amount of real or other property held by them the Legislaunder the provisions of this Act, and the income derived therefrom, together with a List of the Directors and officers of the said Corporation, a Copy of the By-laws, and a Statement of the course of Study pursued. IX. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. CXXXIII. An Act to amend the Act incorporating the Order of the Sons of Temperance in Canada West. [Assented to 1st July, 1856.] Public Act. W fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty's Reign, 14 & 15 V. HEREAS the Act passed in the Session held in the Preamble. "to incorporate the Grand Division and Subordinate Divisions c. 159. competent I. Each and every member of the Corporation of "the Grand Members of "Division of the Order of the Sons of Temperance in Canada the Corpora "West," created by the Act referred to in the Preamble of this tion to be Act, or of any subordinate Division of the said Order, incorpo- witnesses in rated under the provisions of the said Act, shall be competent suits where it to be examined as a witness for or on behalf of or against any is a party. party in any suit, or proceeding either at law or in equity, to which the Corporation of which he is a member may be a party; any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. II. This Act shall be a Public Act. CAP. CXXXIV. An Act to authorize the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Chancery, for Upper Canada, to admit Geoffry Hawkins to practise as an Attorney and Solicitor therein respectively. [Assented to 1st July, 1856.] Public Act. WHEREAS it appears that Geoffry Hawkins, of the City Preamble. of Toronto, Gentleman, hath been duly admitted, and now is an Attorney of Her Majesty's Courts of Common Law The said Courts may, in their dis cretion, admit G. Hawkins to practise. Public Act. Preamble. The said Courts may, in their dis at Westminster, and a Solicitor in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery in England, and that the said Geoffry Hawkins hath been in actual service, not under articles, for upwards of one year with practising Attornies in Upper Canada; And whereas the said Geoffry Hawkins hath presented his petition, praying that the Court of Queen's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, and the Court of Chancery for Upper Canada, may be authorized in their discretion to admit him to practise as an Attorney and Solicitor therein respectively, and it is reasonable and expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition : Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: I. It shall and may be lawful for the Court of Queen's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, and the Court of Chancery in Upper Canada, respectively, in their discretion to admit the said Geoffry Hawkins to practise as an Attorney and Solicitor therein respectively, any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding. II. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. CXXXV. An Act to authorize the Courts of Queen's Bench, Chancery, and Common Pleas, in Upper Canada, to admit Benjamin Walker to practise as an Attorney and Solicitor therein respectively. [Assented to 1st July, 1856.] HEREAS Benjamin Walker, of the City of Toronto, W Gentleman, bath, by his petition, represented that he is duly admitted and enrolled as an Attorney of the Court of I. It shall and may be lawful for the Court of Queen's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, and the Court of Chancery, in Upper Canada, respectively, in their discretion to admit the said Benjamin Walker to practise as an Attorney and Solicitor cretion, admit therein respectively; any Law or Statute to the contrary not- B. Walker to withstanding. II. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. CXXXVI. An Act to authorize the Court of Chancery, and the W [Assented to 1st July, 1856.] practise. Public Act. HEREAS by an Act of the Legislature of Upper Canada, Preamble. passed in the second year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, An Act to repeal part of Act of U. C., and amend an Act passed in the thirty-seventh year of His late 2 G. 4, c. 5. Majesty's Reign, intituled,' An Act for the better regulating 'the practice of the law,' and to extend the provisions of the same, it is amongst other things enacted, That from and after the passing of the said Act, no person shall be admitted by the Court of King's Bench to practise as an Attorney unless upon an actual service under articles for five years with some practising Attorney; And whereas it appears by the Petition of Thomas Wright Lawford of the Town of London, in the County of Middlesex in this Province, gentleman, and by certificates and documents attached thereto and produced in support thereof, that the Petitioner was duly articled to John Jackson Price, of Swansea, in the County of Glamorgan, in the United Kingdom, then a practising Attorney of Her Majesty's Courts of Exchequer, Queen's Bench and Common Pleas, as also a Solicitor in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery in England, and studied with the said John Jackson Price, for the term of two years and a half, and was then assigned to Edward Lawford of the City of London, in England, also an Attorney of all Her Majesty's said Courts, and remained with the said Edward Lawford, for a further period of two years and a half, making in all five years; And whereas it also appears that the Petitioner has taken the usual oaths of allegiance for admission, and was duly admitted and is now an Attorney of Her Majesty's Courts of Exchequer, Queen's Bench and Common Pleas, and also a Solicitor of the High Court of Chancery in England; And whereas it also appears that the Petitioner came into this Province in the month of September last, and settled in the Town of London, with the intention of practising his profession; And whereas the said Petitioner is desirous of practising in the Courts of Law and Equity in this Province, and it is expedient to relieve him from the disability imposed by the said Act: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: Courts of Q. B, C. P. and may, in their discretion, admit T. W. Lawford to practise there in. Public Act. Preamble. I. It shall and may be lawful for the Courts of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas in Upper Canada, in their discretion, to admit the said Thomas Wright Lawford, without further servitude or oath of allegiance, to practise as an Attorney of the said Courts; and it shall also be lawful for the Court of Chancery in Upper Canada, in its discretion, to admit the said Thomas Wright Lawford to practise as a Solicitor in the said Court of Chancery, without further oath of allegiance or servitude; any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. II. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. CXXXVII. An Act to authorize the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas and Chancery in Upper Canada, to admit Hewitt Bernard to practise as an Attorney and Solicitor therein. [Assented to 1st July, 1856.] WHEREAS Hewitt Bernard, of the Town of Barrie, in the County of Simcoe, in this Province, hath by his Petition set forth, that after a period of five years' service under articles of Clerkship, he hath been admitted an Attorney of Her Majesty's Supreme Court of Judicature of the Island of Jamaica, and a Solicitor of Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery for that Island; And whereas by the certificates produced by the said Hewitt Bernard it appears that the said Hewitt Bernard was admitted as such Attorney as of October Term in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-six; And whereas the said Hewitt Bernard hath been under articles of Clerkship to a practising Attorney or Attornies of Her Majesty's Courts of Queen's Bench and Chancery of Upper Canada, since the fourteenth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and hath served for a period of nearly four years under such articles in this Province; And whereas by a certain Act of the Parliament of Upper Canada, passed in the seventh year of the Reign of King William the Fourth, intituled, An Act of U. C., Act to amend the Law for the admission of Barristers and At7 W. 4, c. 15. tornies, and to provide for the further relief of William Conway Keele, it is enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Court of King's Bench, in its discretion, to admit any duly admitted Attorney or Solicitor of His Majesty's Courts of Law or Equity in England or Ireland, or any writer to the signet or Solicitor before the Higher Courts in Scotland, to practise as an Attorney of the Court of King's Bench in this Province, upon sufficient proof being given that such Attorney, Solicitor or writer to the signet aforesaid, has served under articles of Clerkship to a practising Attorney in this Province for the space of three years; And whereas the said Hewitt Bernard is now desirous that the privilege of such admission should be extended to him, and that |