the said Corporation, service of process at the domicile of the President or Secretary of the said Corporation, shall be held to be a sufficient service for all legal purposes; but the powers of Purposes to the Corporation shall extend only to the purposes and objects which the promentioned in the Preamble, to which only its property and perty, &c., means shall be applied. shall be ap plied. laws. II. The said Corporation shall have power and authority to Power to make By-laws, Rules and Regulations not contrary to law or make Byto the provisions of this Act, for the government and management of the said Corporation, and of the officers, members, affairs and property thereof, and for the admission, demission and qualification of members thereof, and for all purposes relating to the well-being and interests of the said Corporation, and the same to amend, alter or repeal from time to time as shall be deemed necessary or expedient. III. The affairs of the said Corporation shall be managed by Board of a Board of Directors, consisting of not less than ten or more Directors. than twenty members, who shall be elected from time to time by the members of the Corporation, in the manner prescribed by the By-laws of the said Corporation, and who shall remain in office during such term as shall be fixed by the said Bylaws; Provided always, that the present Directors shall remain Proviso: in office until others shall be duly elected in their room and Present stead. Directors. Quorum. IV. The said Board of Directors shall have power to meet Meetings from time to time for the transaction of the affairs of the said Corporation, and at any such meeting five Directors shall be a quorum competent for the transaction of business, and the President. said Directors shall from time to time elect one of their number Secretaryto be President of the said Corporation, and another one to be Treasurer. Secretary-Treasurer. for Associa V. All and every the estate and property, real and personal, Corporation of the said Association, and all property held in trust for it substituted at the time of the passing of this Act, and all debts due to, or tion. rights or claims possessed by the said Association, shall be and the same are hereby transferred to and vested in the said Corporation, which shall be liable in like manner to and for all debts due by or claims upon the said Association. be united VI. It shall and may be lawful for the said Directors of the Common said Corporation, and the School Commissioners for the Muni- Schools may cipality of the Village of Abbottsford, at any time to enter into with the Acaan agreement with each other, having for its object the union demy. of one or more or all of the Common Schools in the Municipality with the said Academy; And during the existence of such agreement the said School Commissioners shall ex officio be Directors of the said Corporation; And it shall and may be lawful for the said School Commissioners at any time to pay Corporation to make a yearly return of its property and doings to the Governor. Public Act. to the Directors of the said Corporation such sums of money as the said Commissioners might pay to the Teachers of such Common School or Schools, if the same had not been united with the Academy. VII. The said Corporation shall make a Return to the Governor in the month of January in each year, giving a detailed statement of the number of the members of the said Corporation, the number of Teachers employed in the various branches of instruction, the number of scholars under instruction, and the course of instruction pursued, and of the real or immioveable property or estate, and of all personal estate or property, held by virtue of this Act, and of the revenue arising therefrom. VIII. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. CAP. CCXLIII. Preamble. An Act to amend the Act of Incorporation of the Roman Catholic Institute of St. Roch's, Quebec. W [Assented to 30th May, 1855.] HEREAS it is just and necessary to amend the Act passed in the Session held in the sixteenth year of Her Majesty's 16 V. c. 265. Reign, intituled, An Act to incorporate the Roman Catholic Institute of St. Rock's, Quebee: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows: Section 2, amended. Quorum at Public Act. I. The word "twenty" in the second paragraph of the se cond section of the said Act shall be struck out, and the word eighteen" inserted in lieu thereof; the word "eight" shall be inserted after the word "twenty" in the third paragraph of the same section; the words "from among and" || Shall be inserted before the word "by" in the fourth paragraph of the said second section. II. The Quorum at General Meetings is hereby reduced to the number of "forty" members instead of "sixty," as required by the fifth section of the said Act of Incorporation. III. This Act shall be a Public Act. CAP. An Act for the relief of certain Practitioners of Medicine and Surgery in Lower Canada. [Assented to 19th May, 1855.] 14 & 15 V. c. HEREAS it is expedient to extend the Act to amend Preamble. the Act incorporating the Members of the Medical Profession in Lower Canada, fourteenth and fifteenth Victoria, 105. chapter one hundred and five, so as to afford relief to certain other persons hereinafter named, not included in the said Act of amendment, and who are justly entitled to the benefit thereof; Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows: extended to I. John E. Bangs and Reuben Trumbull Monroe Welles, of Benefit of the the West Riding of Missisquoi, Frederick A. Cutter, of the Act cited in East Riding of Missisquoi, Richard Hutchinson, of the County the Preamble of Shefford, and John Joseph Loy, of the County of Soulanges, certain perwho were practising as Physicians and Surgeons in Lower sons. Canada, on and for a long time prior to the twenty-eighth day fees. of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, when the 10 & 11 V. e. Act to incorporate the Members of the Medical Profession be- 26. came law, and whose names were omitted to be included as Members of the said corporation, shall be from and after the passing of this Act, exempted from incurring any liability to prosecution, and shall not be subjected to any penalty for prac- They may tising and continuing to practise physic, surgery and midwifery out being practise withwithin this Province, in the same manner and to the same extent subject to any as the members of the said Corporation are now exempted from penalty, and such liability, and are not subjected to any such penalty; and may recover that the said herein above named persons shall have power to sue at law, and maintain any action or suit for the recovery of fees for services rendered or medicines furnished as such Physicians, or Surgeons or as Accoucheurs, as fully and in the same manner as if they were members of said Corporation: Provided neverthe- Proviso: less that they, and each of them, shall submit to a regular exa- They must mination before the Provincial Board of Examiners, as provided amination by the Act passed in the Session held in the tenth and eleventh under 10 & 11 years of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to incorporate the Members of the Medical Profession in Lower Canada, and to regulate the Study and Practice of Physic and Surgery therein, and shall thereupon be duly licensed to practise Physic or Surgery or Midwifery in Lower Canada. II. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. 65* САР. submit to ex V. c. 26. Public Act. Preamble. Marriages solemnized and declared valid. CAP. CCXLV. An Act to confirm certain marriages solemnized by the late Revd. Alexander McWattie, and to provide for the proof thereof, and of other acts performed by him as a Minister of the Presbyterian Church. W1 [Assented to 19th May, 1855.] HEREAS the late Reverend Alexander McWattie did for many years officiate as a Presbyterian Minister of the Church of Scotland at South Georgetown, in the Seigniory of Beauharnois, in the District of Montreal, and did, while so officiating, solemnize marriage, administer baptism and bury the dead, and keep Registers of the marriages, baptisms and burials by him performed, which were many; And wherea since the decease of the said Reverend Alexander McWattie doubts have been raised as to his having been regularly or dained a Minister of the Church of Scotland or entitled to keep such Registers as aforesaid; And whereas the Registers so kept by the said Alexander McWattic are informal and irregular in many respects, and a large number of the inhabitants of the said Seigniory and others who have been married or baptised by him, or whose relatives were buried by him, and who are deeply interested in the validity of the Registers so kept by him, have prayed that his official acts as such Minister, and the Registers thereof so kept by him, may be confirmed, and it is just and right that their prayer be granted: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Govern ment of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows: I. That all marriages between persons capable of contracting Registers kept marriage together by law, solemnized by the said Reverend by the Rev. Alexander McWattie, shall be and shall be held to have been a: A. McWattie the time of the solemnization thereof, legal and valid; and all the provisions of the Act of the Legislature of Lower Canada, passed in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of King George the Provisions for Third, and intituled, An Act to establish the forms of Registers remedying omissions, &c. of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, to confirm and make valit in Registers in law the Register of the Protestant Congregation of Chris extended to Mr. McWat Church, Montreal, and others which have been informally ke tie's Registers, and to afford the means of remedying omissions in former Reg35 G. 3, c. 4. ters, for remedying informalities or omissions in Register kept before the passing of that Act, shall be and are hereby ex tended to the Registers of baptisms, marriages and burials ker by the said Reverend Alexander McWattie, as aforesaid, the period of five years limited in the thirteenth section of the said Act, being reckoned from the passing of this Act, for the purposes thereof: Provided always, that nothing herein contained Proviso: not shall affect or destroy any rights that may have been claimed to affect perdby any legal proceeding taken or commenced before the passing ings. of this Act. II. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. ing proceed Public Act. An Act to authorize Jacob Hespeler, his heirs or assigns, to erect a Dam or Breakwater on the Grand River at or near the Village of Preston, in the County of Waterloo. W [Assented to 19th May, 1855.] HEREAS the erection of a Dam or Breakwater, with Preamble. the necessary buildings and appurtenances, for milling, manufacturing, mechanical or industrial purposes, on the Grand River, at or near the Village of Preston, in the County of Waterloo, would be of great public benefit to the surrounding country; And whereas Jacob Hespeler, of the said Village of Preston, Esquire, is disposed to undertake the same, if properly authorized so to do: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled, An Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lover Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows: authorized. I. It shall and may be lawful to and for the said Jacob Construction Hespeler, his heirs or assigns, to erect a Dam or Breakwater of a Dam or on the said Grand River, extending, if desired, from the lands Breakwater now possessed or from any lands hereafter to be possessed by him or them, at or near the said Village of Prestou, to any point on the opposite bank of the said Grand River, but not beyond the edge of the river, nor upon or beyond the boundary line of the lands of the proprietor or proprietors on such opposite bank Provided always, that it shall not be lawful to or for the Proviso. said Jacob Hespeler, his heirs or assigns, by the means of such Dam or Breakwater, to flood any land lying above the same, without the consent of the owner or owners thereof first had and obtained. II. The said Jacob Hespeler, his heirs or assigns, shall from Hespeler and time to time and at all times, be held to possess and be his assigns to beneficially |