privileges of incorporation, and in order to obtain the sanction of the supreme authority of the Imperial Parliament for the establishment and incorporation of the said Gaspé Fishery and Coal Mining Company: May it therefore please Your Majesty, that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in the present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the said Charles Cunningham, Richard Norman, Samuel Amory, and such and so many other person or persons as have become or shall hereafter be come Subscribers of or for the Capital Stock of the said Company in the said Provincial Act mentioned and provided for, and their respective successors, executors, and administrators and assigns, or such other person or persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, as shall from time to time be possessed of or entitled to such shares in the said Company as in the said Provincial Act are provided for, shall be a Body Politic or Corporate, as well in the Province or Colony of Canada as in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in deed and in name, by the name of the "Gaspé Fishery and Coal Mining Company," and by that name shall and may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, as well in the Province or Colony of Canada as in the said United Kingdom, and in other Provinces and Colonies of the British Empire, and their dependencies, and shall, during the continuance of the said Provincial Act, have uninterrupted succession with a Common Seal. II. And be it enacted, That before this Act or the said Provincial Act shall have their full effect, and the said Corporation be operative in the said Province of Canada or elsewhere, evidence satisfactory to the Governor, or person adminis tering the Government of Canada, for the time being, shall be laid before him, showing that the requirements of the said Provincial Act have bona fide been complied with, and that one half at least of the said capital sum of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, sterling, has actually been paid up by the Subscribers or Stockholders of the said Company, and is at the disposal of the Directors thereof for the purposes of the said Company, in accordance with the said Provincial Act, and notice thereof has been given by Proclamation, or otherwise, in such manner as His Excellency shall deem advisable. III. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted, That unless the amount of Capital hereby and by the said Provincial Act required to be paid up, shall be so paid up within three years from the time when this Act shall be approved of and confirmed by the Provincial Parliament of Canada, as hereinafter provided, the said Provincial Act and this Act shall become and be utterly void and of no effect, as if the same and every part thereof had never been enacted. IV. Application of Capital. Capital Stock of the Com pany. Public Act. Act not to have effect until confir med by an Act cial Parliament of the Provin of Canada. IV. And be it enacted, That the Capital or Joint Stock of the said Company to be raised pursuant to the provisions of the said Provincial Act, shall be used and applied in establishing and carrying on the undertakings, and for the purposes in the said Provincial Act mentioned; and that the shares and advantages, profits and undertakings of the said Company, shall be and be deemed personal estate and moveable property in the Province or Colony of Canada, and shall also be deemed personal estate in other parts of the British Empire. V. And be it enacted, That all sums of money paid and received in respect of the shares of the said Company, together with all acquisitions or investments whatsoever, whether real or personal, immoveable or moveable, or wheresoever lying and being and situated, whether vested in the said Company in their own name or in the names of Trustees, or in what manner soever the same shall be vested, shall form and constitute the Joint or Capital Stock of the said Company and their successors, and shall be liable and answerable for the debts, liabilities and engagements of the said Company; and no Shareholder of the Company shall be liable for or charged with the payment of any debt or demand due from the Company, beyond the extent of his or her share in the Capital of the Company, not then paid up. VI. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Act as well in the said Province or Colony of Canada, and its dependencies, as in the other Provinces or Colonies of the British Empire, and their dependencies, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all the Judges, Justices and others, in the United Kingdom, and in the said Provinces or Colonies, and their dependencies. VII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That this Act shall not be in force or in any manner have effect or operation in the said United Kingdom, or in Canada, or elsewhere, until the same has been approved of and confirmed by an Act passed 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 said Province of Canada, in Provincial Parliament assembled. MONTREAL:-Printed by STEWART DERBISHIRE and GEORGE DESBARATS, An Act to Incorporate the Members of the Quebec Library Associa. tion. [17th March, 1845.] WE HEREAS an Association hath been formed in the city of Quebec, in this Preamble. Province, by divers persons resident in that city and the neighbourhood thereof, under the name of The Quebec Library Association, for the purpose of forming a Library and Reading Room, and for organizing a system of instruction, by means of Lectures, for the use and benefit of the Members of the said Association, and of such persons as may hereafter become members thereof; And whereas the persons hereinafter named office bearers of the said Association, and acting on behalf of the members thereof, have by their petition to the Legislature, represented that they have purchased and acquired a valuable collection of books and other necessary property, and have, agreeably to the objects of the said Institu tion, caused lectures to be delivered in various branches of knowledge necessary or advantageous to the said associates in their pursuits in life, and have further represented that the benefits derivable from such an Association to the community of which they form a part would not only be secured but greatly enhanced by the incorporation of the members thereof, and have prayed to be so incorporated; And whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petitioners, subject to the provisions and enactments hereinafter set forth and made in that behalf: 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, That named. Corporate powers. First members That the Honorable William Walker, Honorable René Edouard Caron, Honorable George Pemberton, John Charlton Fisher, (Legum Doctor), James Gibb, William Bennett, Abraham Joseph, John Lachlan Mackirdy, Samuel Newton, Henry Stewart Scott, Thomas McLeod Clark, William Wurtele, Pierre Gingras, Junior, Isidore Thibaudeau, George Honoré Simard, Joseph Cauchon, William Kimlin, John Incorporation. Greaves Clapham, Junior, and William White, with all such other persons as now are, or being duly competent may hereafter be associated with them for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, and their successors for ever, shall be one body politic and corporate, in deed and in name by the name and style of The Quebec Library Association, and shall by that name have perpetual succession and a Common Seal, and shall have power from time to time, to alter, renew or change such Common Seal at their pleasure, and shall by the same name from time to time and at all times hereafter be able and capable to have, take, receive, purchase, acquire, hold, possess and enjoy to them and their sucessors aforesaid, to and for the uses and purthey property poses of the said Corporation, any messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments, of what nature, kind or quality soever, situate, lying and being within this Province, not exceeding in value the sum of fifteen hundred pounds, currency; and also to take, receive, purchase, acquire, have, hold and possess (provided the same do not exceed a like sum in yearly value) to and for the same uses and purposes, any goods, chattels, gifts or benefactions whatsoever, and shall and may by the same name, be able and capable to sue in law, and to be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto in all courts of law and places whatsoever, in all and singular actions, causes, pleas, suits, matters and demands whatsoever, in as large, ample and beneficial a manner and form as any other body politic or corporate, or any persons able and capable in law, may or can sue, implead or answer, or be sued, impleaded or answered in any manner whatsoever. What Power to sue and be sued. Domicile of the Annual meetings of the Corporation. II. And be it enacted, That in all and every suit or suits at law, which may hereafter be instituted against the said corporation, service of Process at the place where the Library of the said Corporation may be deposited, shall be sufficient to compel the said Corporation to appear and plead to such suit or suits; any law, custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. III. And for the better accomplishment of the purposes hereinbefore mentioned, Be it enacted, That the members of the said Corporation and their successors for ever, shall on the second Tuesday of January, in each and every year hereafter, meet at some convenient place to be appointed by the said Corporation, (or the major part of those who shall be present at any general meeting) between the hours of Proceedings at ten in the forenoon and ten in the evening; and that they or the major part of such of them as shall be there present, shall choose one President, four Vice-Presidents, one Secretary, one Treasurer and twelve Directors, and such other officers and Election of Ŏfficers. servants Failure of any annual meet ing provided for. servants as they, or such major part of them, shall deem expedient to serve in the said offices during the year then next ensuing; which said office bearers may do and transact all matters and business relative to the interests of the said Corporation; and if by reason of any matter or thing soever, the election so to be had and made on the second Tuesday of January as aforesaid shall be prevented or shall not be had or made, then and in every such case it shall be competent to the members of the said Corporation, and their successors, or to the major part of such of them as may be present at a meeting to be called by the President, or Vice-President for the time being, in the manner hereinafter prescribed and held as soon after as shall be convenient, to proceed to and make the Election of a President, four Vice-Presidents, one Secretary, one Treasurer and twelve Directors and officers and servants as aforesaid; and the elections so made shall be as valid and affectual as if they had been made on such second Tuesday of January, and the President and other officers of the said Corporation theretofore elected, shall continue in office, until others shall be elected in their stead, anything hereinbefore contained to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that the President, four Vice-Presidents, Time of entry Secretary, Treasurer and Directors as aforesaid, to be elected at any general election of officers under and by virtue of the provisions of this Act, shall not enter upon nor act in the discharge of their respective offices until the Tuesday next ensuing, after such general election. IV. And be it enacted, That until the first election of officers shall take place as herein provided, the present officers of the said Association, shall be and continue to be the officers of the Corporation hereby created; and that the President, or in his absence from the city of Quebec, any of the Vice-Presidents of the said Corporation, shall within three months after the passing of this Act, cause notice to be given to such members of the said Corporation as shall be then resident in the City of Quebec, by public advertisement to be published ten days at least previously in one or more newspapers at Quebec, to meet at such place and time as he shall, in and by such notice appoint; and the said members, or the major part of such of them as shall be present, shall at the time and place so appointed proceed to the Election of a President, and of four Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, a Treasurer and twelve Directors, and of such other officers and servants as to them shall seem meet; which said officers, from the time of their election to their respective offices shall continue therein until the second Tuesday of January then next ensuing, and from thenceforth until others be chosen in their places in the manner aforesaid. V. And be it enacted, That if at any time or times it shall happen that any of the persons chosen to fill the said offices respectively, shall die or be removed from the said offices, or resign the same during the period for which they shall have been respectively elected, then and in every such case, it shall be lawful and competent for the remaining officers of the said Corporation, or the major part of such of into office. Election for the first year sing of this Act provided after the pas for. Vacancies among the Of be filled up. ficers how to |