28th day of October, 1884, entitled, "A by-law to authorize the assessment for city and school purposes in the City of Winnipeg, for the current municipal year," shall be and is hereby declared to be legal and binding to all intents and purposes, as a by-law, notwithstanding, that the said paper, writing, or by-law, was not signed by the mayor, and countersigned by the city clerk or the corporate seal attached thereto in conformity with the law in that behalf made and provided, and notwithstanding any other defect whatever, and the whole proceeding in regard thereto is hereby legalized and confirmed in every respect as well in regard to the said assessment at the time done and all proceedings thereunder and all subsequent and further Acts in carrying out the same. legalized. 15. That the election of the present Council of the City Election in preof Winnipeg is hereby legalized and confirmed, and all sent Council their acts not contrary to law are hereby legalized and confirmed, notwithstanding that the by-law authorizing the said election was not signed and sealed in conformity with the law in that behalf made and provided. amended. 16. Clause one hundred and sixty-four of said Act is Clause 164 hereby amended by adding the words "except on every Saturday when the offices shall close at one o'clock, p.m." for arrear of for ward one. 17. The City of Winnipeg shall have full power and Power to sell authority to sell all lands for arrears of taxes accrued due taxes for 1882 in what is now known as number one ward of the said City for the year 1882, and all subsequent years, whether the said taxes were levied upon the said lands composing the said ward in the year 1882, prior to the date of the said ward becoming part of the said City or after that date, and whether the said taxes were assessed or levied against the said lands by the Council of the said City or by the authority existing over the area of land comprising the said ward prior to it becoming part of the said City, and according to law to carry out the said sales and make good deeds for the said lands sold as aforesaid. s. 18. Sub-section five of section one hundred and fifty-Sub-section 5 of nine of the said Act is hereby amended by striking out 159 amended. the words "Thirty-first day of December and" substituting therefor the "Thirtieth day of April." of sec. 161 19. Sub-section thirteen of section one hundred and Sub-section 15 sixty-first named in this Act is amended by striking out amended. the word "January' in the second line thereof and substituting the word "May" therefor. S. 179 amended. lice Commis 20. Section one hundred and seventy-nine of the said Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words: "The said Police Commissioners shall hold Meetings of Po- twelve meetings during the year, for which each Commissioners and re- sioner shall receive remuneration not exceeding five dollars for each attendance at such meetings, and the Corporation shall determine the amount of the gross expenditure in connection with the Police Department. gulation of expenditure. S. 209 amended. Tannery, &c., not to be erected within one mile of Main Street. Collector's roll. Some Acts repealed or amended. 21. That section two hundred and nine be amended by adding the following words, "provided that no such purchase shall be consummated without first having received the assent of a majority of the votes cast for a bylaw submitted to the ratepayers for that purpose. 22. That no tannery, hide house, slaughter-house or soap or candle factory shall be erected or allowed to exist or continue within one mile of Main Street in the limits of the city. 23. The Clerk of the city shall make out a Collector's Roll for the City, on which he shall set down the name of every person assessed, the assessed value of his real and personal property and the amounts with which the party is chargeable in respect of sums ordered to be levied by the Council and any other particulars that may be necessary, and the collector, upon receiving his collector's roll, shall proceed to collect the taxes therein mentioned. 24. All sections and sub-sections of Cap. 50, 38 Vic., being Consolidated Act of Incorporation of the City of Winnipeg for 1882, and all other Acts and sections of Acts concerning the incorporation or charter of the said city are hereby repealed or amended in so far as the same are needful or requisite, in order to conform to the repeals or amendments mentioned in this Act. CAP. XLVII. An Act to Incorporate the Religious Ladies under the name of "Faithful Companions of Jesus." [Assented to May 2nd, 1885.] WHEREAS, there exists in this Province of Manitoba Preauble. a community of religious ladies known under the name of "Faithful Companions of Jesus," whose object is the instruction of youth and the practice of the works of Christ an charity. And whereas, the said community, through the Lady Superior and the Sisters hereinafter named, have by their Petition to the Legislative Assembly now in Session, set forth that the incorporation of the said community would enable them to attain more effectually their object, and that they have asked to be incorporated in conformity with the dispositions hereinafter mentioned. Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows: poration. 1. The Reverend Sisters Mary Augustin Rees, Lady Names of CorSuperior of the said community; Mary Catherine Kent; Elizabeth Graham; Eleanor Quinn, and such other persons who may hereafter become members of such community, shall be, and are hereby incorporated as a body politic, and corporate under the name of "Faithful Companions of Jesus." Corporate name. red. 2. Such Corporation shall have perpetual succession, Corporate shall and may forever have a corporate seal, and the said powers conferseal may from time to time be changed, broken, altered or made anew, as the said Corporation may deem proper, and the said corporation by and under its said corporate name may contract and be contracted with, and may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, defend and be defended against, answer and be answered, in all and every the courts of law and equity, which are now or may hereafter be established within the Province of Manitoba. 3. The temporal affairs of said corporation shall be Rules may be directed and represented by a chapter of three sisters of made. the aforesaid community, composed of the Superioress for the time being and two other Sisters chosen and named by the said Superioress from time to time, which chapter Power of Corporation as to real and per shall have full power to devise and establish such rules and constitutions not being contrary to the provisions of this Act, as they shall deem useful and necessary, as well concerning the benefit of education as for the practice of Christian charity and the conduct and government of the community, and for the superintendence and management of all real and personal estate belonging to or which shall hereafter belong to the said corporation. 4. The said corporation and their successors shall have the power to acquire, have, take, hold, enjoy and possess sonal property for the objects of the community, whether by purchase, exchange, demise, gift, bequest, donation causa mortis, or by will, and whether directly or through trustees, all land property, moveable and immoveable, which may be hereafter sold, ceded, exchanged, given, bequeathed or granted to the said corporation, or to sell, alienate, convey or lease the same, if need be; provided always, that such real estate so held by the corporation, shall not exceed two Amount limit- thousand five hundred acres in extent, over and above the real estate, lands and tenements, held and enjoyed by the said community at the passing of this Act. ed. Property held in trust for to. 5. It shall and may be lawful for all persons incorporbe convey tedated or otherwise to grant, assign, transfer and convey by good and sufficient deeds and instruments to the said corporation any and all real or personal estate now or heretofore acquired or held, for the use and benefit of the aforesaid community, whether a trust of the same shall have been declared or not, any such grant, assignment, transfer or conveyance may be for nominal consideration, and shall Registration be duly filed or registered, as the case may require, in accordance with the laws of the said Province of Manitoba. Returns to The Council 6. It shall be the duty of the said corporation, when Governor-in- they may be called upon to do so by the LieutenantGovernor-in-Council of this Province, to render an account of their property for the preceding year in which will be set forth the property moveable and immoveable and all other property possessed in virtue of this Act; the income by them derived from such property, the number of members of the said corporation; the number of pupils that frequent the schools of the said reverend ladies, and the number of the schools taught by them. Public Aet. 7. This Act shall be deemed a public Act. CAP. XLVIII. An Act to legalize certain By-laws of the Town of Neepawa and Municipalities of Osprey and Rosedale authorizing the issue of Debentures. W [Assented to May 2nd, 1885.] HEREAS, the corporation of the Town of Neepawa Preamble. did pass a by-law numbered seventeen of the by-laws of said town, authorizing the issue of debentures to the extent of four thousand dollars; And whereas, the corporation of the Municipality of Osprey did pass a by-law numbered twenty-one of the by-laws of said municipality, authorizing the issue of debentures to the extent of two thousand five hundred dollars; And whereas, the corporation of the Municipality of Rosedale did pass a by-law numbered eleven of the by-laws of said municipality, authorizing the issue of debentures to the extent of four thousand five hundred dollars; And whereas, doubts have arisen as to the validity of said by-laws, and the said municipalities have petitioned to have said by-laws and the debentures issued or to be issued thereunder legalized, and it is deemed expedient to grant the prayer of said petition; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, enacts as follows: 21, and 11 of ity of Osprey ity of Rosedale debentures is under legalized. 1. The said by-laws mentioned in the preamble of this By-laws No. 17, Act, and set forth in the schedules marked A, B and C, Town of Neepaherewith annexed, and every clause, matter and thing wa, Municipaltherein contained, are hereby legalized and confirmed, and Municipaland are made binding on the respective corporations confirmed and passing the same as fully to all intents and purposes as sued therethe same could be if such by-law had been passed pursuant to statutory provisions and powers in that behalf, and as if the same had been enacted by the Legislature of the Province of Manitoba, and each and every debenture issued under the said by-laws, and the coupons to each such debenture, shall be legal and binding upon the said councils and corporations of Neepawa, Osprey and Rosedale respectively, according to the terms and |