devise or bequest, shall at any one time in the whole exceed the annual value of one thousand dollars; and no lands or tenements, or interests therein, acquired by gift, devise or bequest, shall be held by the said corporation for a longer period than And sell. seven years after the acquisition thereof; and within such period they shall respectively be absolutely disposed of by the said corporation, so that it no longer retain any interest therein; and the proceeds on such disposition shall be invested in public securities, municipal debentures, or other approved securities, not including mortgages, for the use of the said corporation; and such lands, tenements, or interests therein, or such thereof which may not, within the said period have been so disposed of, shall revert to the person from whom the same was acquired, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns. 2. The corporation shall not hold any property except such Limit as to as shall be derived from, or purchased with funds derived from powers. the following sources, that is to say: the life, annual and other subscriptions of members, donations, bequests or legacies made to the corporation, and such other moneys or property as may be acquired by or from the ordinary transactions of the corporation, or may now belong to the existing association, and the moneys arising from fines and forfeitures lawfully imposed by their by-laws; and the society shall have power to prescribe by any by-law what portion of its funds or property shall constitute the permanent fund of the corporation, which shall be held for its permanent use, and what portion shall be applied to the By-laws as to defraying of the current expenses of the corporation, and the disposition. relief of such persons as the corporation may deem proper objects of such relief, according to their by-laws then in force and to the provisions of this Act. 3. The affairs and business of the corporation shall be managed Management. by such officers and committees, and under such restrictions as touching the powers and duties of such officers and committees as the corporation may from time to time by by-laws ordain; and the corporation may assign to any of such officers such remuneration as it may deem requisite. make. 4. The corporation may make such by-laws, not contrary to By-laws, law, as it shall deem expedient for the administration and powers to government of the corporation and of such asylum or other charitable institution as it shall maintain; and may repeal or amend the same from time to time, observing always, however, such formalities as by such by-laws may be prescribed to that end, and generally shall have all the corporate powers necessary to the ends of this Act. 5. The present by-laws of the said Association not being Present bycontrary to law, shall be the by-laws of the corporation hereby laws. constituted, until they shall be repealed or altered as aforesaid. Present offi cers. Subscription, penalties, withdrawal. Return to 6. Until others shall be elected according to the by-laws of the corporation, the present officers of the Association shall be those of the corporation. 7. All subscriptions and all penalties due to the corporation under any by-law may be recovered by suit in the name of the corporation; but any member may withdraw therefrom at any time on payment of all amounts due by him to the corporation inclusive of his subscription for the year then current. 8. The corporation shall at all times when thereunto reGovernment of quired by the Lieutenant-Governor or by the Legislative Assemproperty, &c. bly of Ontario, make a full return of its property real and personal, and of its receipts and expenditure, for such period and with such details and other information as the said Lieutenant-Governor or the said Legislative Assembly of Ontario may require. Preamble. CAP. CXV. An Act to amend the Act to incorporate the County of Carleton General Protestant Hospital. W [Assented to 2nd March, 1872.} HEREAS the Trustees and Directors of the County of Carleton General Protestant Hospital have by their petition represented that grave inconvenience has resulted from the existence of two distinct governing bodies in connection with the said Hospital, and have prayed that the Act passed in the session held in the fourteenth and fifteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and chaptered thirty-three, incorporating the said Hospital, may be amended, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of their petition; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: Hospital pro- 1. From and after the passing of this Act, all the property, perty vested in the Directors, real and personal, pertaining to the County of Carleton General Protestant Hospital, and in any way thereto belonging, shall vest in and be held by the Directors of the said Hospital for the time being for the use and benefit of the said Hospital, and all the rights, powers, privileges and duties conferred on and assigned to the Trustees of the said Hospital by the hereinabove cited Act, are transferred to and vested in the Directors of the said Hospital for the time being. Powers of the 2. Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed as impairing pairing, or in any way diminishing the powers and privileges corporation conferred, by the herein-above cited Act, upon the corporation retained. of the said Hospital; but all such powers and privileges may be as fully and freely exercised and enjoyed by the Directors of the said Hospital, as they have heretofore been by the Trustees and by the Directors thereof. CAP. CXVI. An Act to amend an Act respecting Companies for the Establishment of Cemeteries in Upper Canada. [Assented to 2nd March, 1872.] WHEREAS it has been found difficult to procure a suffi- Preamble. cient subscription and payment of capital stock of cemetery companies formed under the Act of the Consolidated Statutes for Upper Canada, chaptered sixty-seven, to enable the company to pay the purchase money of the land acquired by them, without obtaining time for such payment, and also to make such a present expenditure in enclosing, laying out, improving and embellishing the said lands as is desirable; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: interest on land. 1. Notwithstanding anything in the said Act contained, it Shareholders shall be lawful for companies, formed under the provisions of may receive the said Act, from and out of the proceeds of the sales of burial stock not rep. sites made by the company, to pay to shareholders of the com- resented by pany, who may not desire to take land in the cemetery to the full extent of the stock subscribed for and paid by them, interest on their paid up stock not represented by land in the cemetery at such rate as may be agreed on, not exceeding eight per centum per annum, and also to repay to such shareholders the amount of paid up stock held by them not represented by land in the cemetery. shareholders land. 2. Every such shareholder of the said company shall be taken Rights of to be a shareholder, and shall be entitled to all the rights of with stock not shareholders in respect of the shares of the capital stock of the represented by company held by him and fully paid up and which are not represented by land in the cemetery, until such shares shall be repaid to him by the company; and upon the repayment to him of any share he shall cease to be a shareholder in respect of such share. САР. CAP. CXVII. An Act to authorize the Law Society of Ontario to admit Edward Stonehouse as a Barrister-at-law. [Assented to 2nd March, 1872.] HEREAS Edward Stonehouse has by his petition set forth and represented that in Trinity term in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, he passed the necessary examination and was admitted an Attorney of the Courts of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas and a Solicitor of the Court of Chancery in Upper Canada (now the Province of Ontario) and has been ever since actively engaged in the practice of his profession; And whereas, it was decided in the month of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, that attornies could not act as advocates in County Courts or Courts of co-ordinate jurisdiction, whereby he was precluded from practising as an advocate in said County Courts or Courts of co-ordinate jurisdiction; And whereas, for the reasons aforesaid the said Edward Stonehouse has prayed that an Act may be passed to enable the Law Society of Ontario and the Benchers thereof to place his name upon the roll of the members of the said society, and to call him to the bar of Ontario; 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 Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario enacts as follows: 1. It shall and may be lawful for the Law Society of Ontario in their discretion, and upon payment of the usual fees therefor, at any time to call the said Edward Stonehouse to the degree of Barrister-at-law on passing such primary and final examinations as may be prescribed by the said society without his compliance with any further requirements or other rules and regulations of the said society in that behalf, any law, custom, or usage tothe contrary notwithstanding. CAP. CXVIII. An Act to authorize the Courts of Queen's Bench, [Assented to 2nd March, 1872.] HEREAS William Henry Lockhart Gordon, of the City of Toronto, hath by his petition set forth that in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight he gradu ated ated with honours at the University of Cambridge, England; and that in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine he was duly admitted a member of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple of the City of London, England; and that he was duly called to the bar of the Superior Courts in England in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine; and that he still remains a member of the bar on the rolls of the said courts; and that he came to reside in the Province of Ontario in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy; and that he was duly called to the bar of Ontario in Hilary Term one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one; and that his name now remains upon the books of the Law Society of Ontario as a barrister thereof; and that from the time he was first admitted to practise as a barrister in England and Ontario he has been continually engaged in the practice of his profession both in England and Canada and is still so engaged; And whereas, the said William Henry Lockhart Gordon by his petition further sets forth that he was articled to a practising attorney and solicitor immediately after he was admitted a member of the Law Society of Ontario; and that he has done everything in his power to qualify himself to be admitted to practise as an attorney and solicitor but that owing to the profession of barrister and solicitor being distinct and separate in England, and owing to it being the custom in that country that no member of the bar shall practise as an attorney and solicitor or be articled to an attorney and solicitor, he was altogether prevented and precluded from becoming an attorney or solicitor or being articled to an attorney or solicitor before he came to reside in the Province of Ontario and was admitted a member of the Law Society of Ontario; And whereas, the said William Henry Lockhart Gordon is desirous of being admitted to practise as an attorneyat-law and solicitor in chancery; and has prayed that an Act may be passed to enable the Courts of Queen's Bench and Common Pleas and the Court of Chancery for Ontario to admit him to practise as an attorney and solicitor of the said courts respectively, notwithstanding that he has not been articled to a practising attorney and solicitor for the full period of three years; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: mitted as an 1. That it shall and may be lawful for the Courts of Queen's w. H. L. GorBench and Common Pleas and the Court of Chancery for On- don may be adtario respectively, on sufficient proof being given that the said attorney and William Henry Lockhart Gordon has duly been called to prac- solicitor of the tise at the bar, and that he still remains a member of the bar Courts on cerSuperior on the rolls of the Superior Courts in England, and has had the tain condidegree of barrister-at-law conferred on him by the Law Society of Ontario, and that his name now remains on the books of the said society, and that he has duly and properly served under articles of clerkship to a practising attorney and solicitor from the tions. |