Sec. 1, 41 Vic. cap. 25 amended. CAP. XXII. An Act to amend "An Act respecting Statute Labor in [Assented to 25th June, 1879.] HER MAJESTY by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, enacts as follows; I. Section number one of the Act passed in the fortyfirst year of Her Majesty's reign, chapter twenty-five is hereby amended by adding the words "and fifty cents" after the word "dollar" in the third line. CAP CAP. XXIII. An Act for the better maintenance of the Provincial [Assented to 25th June, 1879.] HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows: society. I. The objects of this society are the encouragement Objects of and promotion of agriculture, industrial, and manufacturing pursuits within the Province, and with a view to such end the society may procure and experimentalize with new or improved grains, plants, or trees; may procure animals, award prizes for the introduction and breeding of animals of superior kind, for excellence in agricultural productions and work, for excellence in development and maintenance of manufactories and industries, and generally may do everything that can contribute to the progress and advancement of agricultural and industrial pursuits in the Province, and the funds of the society raised by private subscription or public grants shall not be used for other than the aforementioned purposes. -power to to approval II. The Provincial Agricultural and Industrial So- Corporation ciety of Manitoba heretofore existing as a corporation, purchase shall continue and remain as such, under the same land subject style. under the provisions of this Act with power to of Lt.-Gov. in acquire by purchase or lease iands and premises for purposes intended by this Act and to dispose of the same, subject to the approval of the Lieutenant-Goveinor in Council. council. compose the III. The Provincial Agricultural and Industrial So- Who shall ciety of Manitoba shall consist of all persons who shall society. pay into the treasury of the society annually the sum of one dollar, Canada currency, such sum to be paid on or before the first day of January in each year and the proof of mailing such sum to the treasurer in due time shall be held a proof of membership. Affairs-how to be man aged. Treasurer IV. The affairs of the society shall be managed by a council consisting of the following: twenty members of council, and from such twenty members of council they shall at a meeting of Council to be held immediately subsequent to the annual general meeting elect from among themselves in such manner as may be prescribed by by-law, a president and vice-president, and shall appoint a secretary and a treasurer, and such secmay or may retary and treasurer may or may not be a member of Council, the whole to be elected at the annual general meeting of the Society, to retire annually but to be eligible for re-election; in the event of the death or resignation of any, the seat may be filled up for the remaining portion of the annual term, by such person as may be elected at the ensuing meeting of Council, and the Minister of Agriculture for the Province, shall be ex-officio a member of the Council. not be a member of council. Secretary, treasurer and to be annual two auditors ly elected. Annual meeting. Term of office of council and officers. Proviso. There shall be a treasurer, a secretary and two auditors annually elected, subject to re-election-of the members of the Council, three at least, must be elected from members of the Society, resident in the five counties of the Province respectively, and three for the City of Winnipeg: Provided always, that in the event of the creation of additional counties, for each such added county there shall be an increase of three members of Council who must be resident in the so added county or counties; and every president of a duly recognized Agricultural Society in Manitoba shall be ex-officio a member of Council of the same. V. The annual meeting of the Society for the adop tion of the report of the retiring Council, for the elec tion of Council and officers for the ensuing twelve months and for the transaction of general business shall be held in the City of Winnipeg at noon of the third Wednesday of February in each year, (or being a sta tutory holiday, at the same hour on the next day) and due notice of the place of meeting shall be given in accordance with the by-laws of the Society; and at such meeting a full and audited financial statement of the affairs of the Society shall be presented. VI. The term of office of the Council and officers of the Society shall be from the third Wednesday of February Provided such day is not a statutory holiday in such case it will be held on the following day in each year year to the same date in the following year or until the appointment of their successors, and the period from the first of January to the thirty-first December shall be considered the fiscal year of the Society. of three Governor VII. On the president, or in his absence, the vice- on certificate president and the treasurer and at least three members members of of Council certifying to the Minister of Agriculture council, Lt.for the Province as to the number of the members shall cause to be paid, etc. forming the Society, and the amount of subscriptions and private grants received the previous year, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council shall grant and cause to be paid to the Society an amount equal to twice the value of such subscriptions and grants, provided always that such grant from the public funds shall not be less than two thousand dollars or in excess of three thousand dollars in each year. Proviso. have the copy to be Minister of VIII. The Council of the association shall and may By-laws to at meetings duly convened for the purpose, frame, re- effect of lawpeal or alter by-laws for the government of the society, furnished and such by-laws not being inconsistent with this Act, Agriculture. shall have the effect of law, and a copy of all such bylaws shall, after adoption, be furnished to the Minister of Agriculture and be fyled in his office. The by-laws as aforesaid shali contain amongst their provisions, regulations as to quorums, meetings, notices, mode of election, and duties of officers. The place and date of exhibitions shall be determined on by the council of the Society. IX. No county society shall hold an exhibition in county sothe same year in the same county in which the Pro- ciety. vincial Exhibition is held. X. The elections which have taken place under the Elections. Acts previously regulating this Society are hereby confirmed; and the date of office for the current period shall continue up to the next annual meeting. XI. Such portions of the Act intituled: "An Act for the establishment of Agricultural and Arboricul tural Societies in Manitoba," and of Acts in amend ment thereto, which relate to the Provincial Agricultural and Industrial Society of Manitoba are hereby repealed. 21 CAP. Body corporate. Name of society. Powers. Proviso. CAP. XXIV. An Act to incorporate the Historical and. Scientific [Assented to 25th June, 1879.] WHEREAS the persons hereinafter named have formed themselves into a Society and have petitioned for an Act of Incorporation for such Society; therefore, HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows: I. The Hon. E. B. Wood, William Cowan, M. D., Alexander McArthur, Rev. Professor George Bryce, Alexander Begg, S. R. Parsons, Rev. Canon John Grisdale, Donald Codd, A. H. Whitcher, James H. Rowan, E. W. Jarvis, John F. Bain, James Stewart, the Hon. John Norquay and the Hon. Joseph Royal, and all other person or persons as are now or shall from time to time, become members of the said Society shall be united into a Society and shall be one body corporate and politic, by the name of "The Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba," and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal with power to break and alter the same, and by that name to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts whatsoever, and to hold any estate, real or personal, or mixed, and the same to grant, sell, lease, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of, for the use and benefit of the said Society, and to receive by bequest, donation or purchase property real or personal, and shall hold the same in perpetuity as a sacred trust for the uses and purposes of the said Society: Provided always, that no member of said Society shall be in any way liable or chargeable with the payment of any debt or demand due by the said Society beyond the extent of the entrance fee and the annual subscriptions remaining unpaid by the said member. |