Directors. Agencies. Meetings. Forfeitures. Registers of shares and transfers. Minutes. Audit. Dividends. Power to increase capital. 1. To fix and determine the number of Directors; the manner of filling up vacancies that may occur prior to the annual election, how many Directors shall constitute a quorum, and generally the manner in which their powers shall be exercised, including the establishment of agencies in the Dominion and elsewhere: 2. The manner of calling meetings as well of the Directors as of the shareholders, and fixing the time for annual meetings: 3. The forfeiture of shares in arrear in respect of a call or calls, and the conditions and manner on and in which such forfeiture shall be declared: 4. The keeping of registers and transfer books for shares prescribing the manner in which such transfers shall be made and the conditions, in respect to the previous payments of calls or unpaid balance of stock, on which transfers shall be allowed: also the vouchers and evidence required to be lodged with the Company in case of transmission of shares by marriage, bequest, inheritance, bankruptcy or otherwise than by sale, and the forfeiture of shares for non-payment of anything due thereon or in respect thereof: 5. The keeping of minutes of the proceedings and the accounts of the said Company, and rectifying any errors which may be therein; the auditing of accounts and appointment of auditors: 6. The declaration and payment of profits of the said Company, and dividends in respect thereof. 17. The Directors may, if they see fit, at any time after the whole capital stock of the Company shall have been subscribed and paid in, pass a by-law for increasing the capital stock of the Company to any amount not exceeding five million dollars in all, they may consider necessary to carry out the objects of the Company; but no such by-law shall have any force whatever, until it shall have been sanctioned by a vote of not less than twoConfirmation thirds in amount of all the shareholders at a general meeting by sharehold- of the Company called for the purpose of considering such bylaw, nor until a copy thereof duly authorized shall have been fyled as hereinafter mentioned with the Secretary of State of Canada. ers. Further formalities. 18. The Company may, within three months after a duly authen ticated copy of such by-law has been fyled with the Secretary of State of Canada, and after the said Secretary of State of Canada has caused a notice to be inserted in the "Canada Gazette" that such by-law has been passed and fyled as aforesaid, publish a notice stating the number and amount of the shares of the new stock authorized, and the amount actually subscribed and paid in respect thereof; and from the date of such notice, the capital stock stock of the Company shall be increased to that amount, and in the manner and subject to the conditions set forth in such by-law. 19. The Company may, from time to time, borrow money, Power to either by mortgage bonds issued on the security of the immoveable borrow money. property of the Company or by debentures; and such mortgage bonds or debentures may be for such sums, either in sterling or in currency, as the Company may think proper,-those in sterling not being for any sum less than one hundred pounds, and those in currency not being for any sum less than five hundred dollars each: Provided always, that every such loan shall be regulated Proviso, by a special by-law, setting forth the terms and conditions on which such loan shall be effected; and in the course of its general business, the Company may become a party to promis- Bills and sory notes, bills of exchange and cheques; but no such promissory notes. note or bill of exchange shall be for a less sum than one hundred dollars, or be payable to bearer, or be intended to be circulated as money, or as the note of a bank. Proviso. limited. 20. No shareholder in the Company shall in any manner Liability of be held liable to, or be charged with the payment of any debt shareholders or demand, due or owing by the Company beyond the amount remaining unpaid upon his or her subscribed shares in the capital stock thereof. CAP. CXVI. An Act to amend "An Act to incorporate the Managers of the Ministers' Widows and Orphans Fund of the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in connection with the Church of Scotland." W [Assented to 14th June, 1872.] HEREAS the Managers of the Ministers' Widows and Preamble. of Canada in connection with the Church of Scotland have prayed that the Act of the late Province of Canada, passed in the session c. 103. held in the tenth and eleventh years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to incorporate the Managers of the Ministers' Act of Canada Widows and Orphans Fund of the Synod of the Presbyterian 10 & 11 Vict., Church of Canada in connection with the Church of Scotland" may be amended so as to give the said corporation power to purchase and receive and hold property, money and goods, not to exceed in yearly value the sum hereinafter mentioned; and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore Her Majesty, Corporation may hold any pro Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and 1. Notwithstanding anything contained in the first section of the said Act, the Corporation shall have full power and authority perty not ex- to purchase and receive and hold all property, money and goods eeeding $20,000 in yearlyvalue, as mentioned in the said Act, provided the same shall not at any time exceed in yearly value the sum of twenty thousand dollars. Preamble, Certain persons incorporated. CAP. CXVII. An Act to incorporate the Missionary Society of the WE [Assented to 14th June, 1872.] HEREAS the persons hereinafter named and others associated with them, now constituting the Missionary Society of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada, have for a long time been endeavouring to further the objects of the Society as hereinafter set forth under an unincorporated association entitled the Wesleyan Methodist Auxiliary Missionary Society in Canada; and whereas the said parties find great inconvenience frequently to arise from the want of corporate powers; and whereas the said parties by their Chairman and Secretary have petitioned for an Act of Incorporation for the said Society under the name and style of The Missionary Society of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada: and whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The Reverends William Morley Punshon, M.A., Enoch Wood, D.D., Egerton Ryerson, D.D., Anson Green, D.D., Ephraim Evans, D.D., Lachlan Taylor, D.D., S. S. Nelles, D.D., and the Reverends Richard Jones, Alexander Sutherland, George R. Sanderson, Samuel Rose, Edward Hartley Dewart, Samuel D. Rice, D.D., James Brock, Geo. McRitchie, Wellington Jeffers, D.D., E.B. Ryckman, M.A., J.W. McCallum, E. B. Harper, M. A., Charles Lavell, M. A., K. Creighton, F. Berry, G. Goodson, William Scott, I. B. Howard, G. H. Davis, H. F. Bland, J. A. Williams, David C. McDowell, James C. Slater, William Stephenson, George Douglass, L.L.D., James Elliott, William Hansford, George Young, George McDougall, William Pollard, James Gray, John Borland, John Gemley, John Douse, John Carroll, Thomas Cosford, William S. Griffin, George Cochran, and the Honorable J. C. Aikins, John MacDonald, A. W. Lauder, MP.P., Richard Brown, Alfred Dredge, Samuel Rogers, William Thomas Mason, and Samuel Alcorn, of the City of Toronto, Esquires, Edward Edward Jackson and Joseph Lister, of the City of Hamilton, Esquires, the Honorable James Ferrier, William Clendinning and John Torrance, of the City of Montreal, Esquires, William Sawyer and James McPherson of Stanstead,, Esquires, J. P. Bull, of Downsview, Zenas B. Lewis, of Clifton James Scarff, of the Town of Woodstock, Alexander Johnson, of the City of London, Thomas Coke Renwick, of Romney, Joshua Adams, of Sarnia, Robert Hay, of Hollen, A. S. Fisher, of Clinton, J. W. Armstrong, of Flesherton, David Morrow, of the Town of Barrie, J. J. Pearson, of Newmarket, W. H. Gibbs, of Oshawa, Dr. Beatty, of the Town of Cobourg, Dr. Norris, of Omemee, M. P. Roblin, of the Town of Belleville, Dr. Lavell, of the City of Kingston, W. A. Schofield, of the Town of Brockville, Thomas Elliott, of Arnprior, Esquires, John Deacon, Judge of the County Court of the County of Renfrew, Esquire, W. H. Walker, of the City of Ottawa, James Patton, junr., of the City of Montreal, W. H. Lambly, of Inverness Corners, Erastus Lawrence, of Lawrenceville, Esquires, together with such persons as may become associated with them under the provisions of this Act, and who now are, under the provisions of the revised constitution of the Missionary Society of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada, as now existing, members of the Wesleyan Methodist Auxiliary Missionary Society in Canada, are hereby constituted and declared to be a body corporate and politic by the name of "The Missionary Society of the Wesleyan Methodist Corporate Church in Canada; and by that name shall have perpetual suc- general cession and a common seal, with power to break and alter such powers. seal; and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts whatsoever. name and corporation. 2. The objects of the said Society are religious and charitable, Objects of the designed to diffuse the blessings of Christianity and useful knowledge; to promote and support Christian missions and missionary schools throughout the Dominion of Canada and other countries, as set forth in the constitution to be recorded in a register to be kept by the Secretary, a copy whereof, certified by the Secretary to be a true copy, with the seal of the corporation thereto affixed, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts of the contents thereof. 3. The said Society by the name aforesaid, may receive a Real estat voluntary conveyance of, and may purchase, hold and convey such real estate as the purposes of the said Society shall require; but the annual value of the said real estate shall not at any time exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars; and such conveyance shall be subject to the laws relating to the conveyance of real estate to religious corporations which are in force at the time of such conveyance, in the Province in which such real estate is situate. 4. The management and disposition of the affairs and property Constitution of the said Society shall be vested in a General Committee, to be appointed and elected according to the constitution of the said Missionary Society of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada, now existing as aforesaid. General committee. Society may take by devise to a certain amount. Proviso. Revisal of constitution. Proviso 5. The persons named in the first section of this Act shall be the members of the first General Committee of the said Society hereby incorporated, and shall hold office until others shall be appointed and elected in their places. 6. The said Society shall be capable of taking, holding and receiving any real or personal estate by virtue of any devise contained in any last will and testament of any person whatsoever, but the clear annual value of such real estate shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars: Provided always that such devise of real estate shall be subject to the laws respecting devises of real estate to religious corporations which are in force at the time of such devise in the Province in which such real estate is situate. 7. The said Society shall have power to alter, vary and add to the provisions of the revised constitution of the Missionary Society of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada, now existing as aforesaid, and which is to be held to be as binding upon the Society hereby incorporated as if the same had been embodied in this Act: Provided that such alterations, variations and additions shall not be inconsistent with the limitations imposed by this Act and the laws of the Dominion of Canada. Preamble. A.G.P.Dodge naturalized on taking the oath of allegiance within a W CAP. CXVIII. An Act to Naturalize Anson Greene Phelps Dodge. [Assented to 14th June, 1872] HEREAS Anson Greene Phelps Dodge, residing at Keswick, in the Township of North Gwillimbury, in the County of York, Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, lumber merchant, has by his petition represented that he is desirous of becoming a permanent resident of the said Dominion, and, in order to be relieved from the legal incapacity under which he labors as an alien, has prayed that he may be naturalized as a subject of Her Most Gracious Majesty; and whereas it is just and expedient to grant such prayer: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The said Anson Greene Phelps Dodge shall be deemed, to be deemed adjudged and taken to have obtained all the rights and capacities of a natural born British subject within the Dominion of Canada, and to have, hold, possess and enjoy the same within the limits thereof, upon, from and after the passing of certain time. this Act: Provided always that the said Anson Greene Phelps Dodge, shall within three months after the passing of this Act, take and subscribe before the judge of the County of York, who |