General Con ference of M. E. Church to have control over the Cor poration. dist Episcopal Church in Canada; they may also effect such loans and accept such trusts and deposits as shall accrue to the benefit of said mission work; and the said Corporation may by the name aforesaid, receive and hold any gift, devise, or bequest of any lands, tenements, securities, money or other property, or interest or interests therein, and may dispose of the same by any legal process whatsoever; Provided as before, that the proceeds in all the cases accrue to the benefit of said Mission work; Provided also, that any gift, devise or bequest of lands, tenements, or interests therein shall be made at least six months before the death of the testator making the same: Provided also, that the said Corporation shall not take or hold any lands, tenements, or interests therein by gift or devise so as that the annual value of the same at any one time exceeds 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 seven years after the acquisition thereof; and within such period they shall respectively be absolutely disposed of by the said Corporation, who shall have power in the name thereof to grant and convey the said lands to any purchaser, 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; otherwise such lands, tenements, or interests therein, or such part thereof as has not within the said period been so disposed of, shall revert to the person from whom the same were acquired, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns. 3. The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada as aforesaid, as it is now constituted, or shall hereinafter be constituted under discipline of said Church, shall have full power and control over the constitution of said Missionary Society, and over the by-laws and regulations thereof, to the entire extent that such power and control existed before the passing of this Act, so as to settle the terms and conditions of membership in said Society, to appoint the officers of said Society, and to fix their remuneration when necessary as heretofore, to determine what shall be the number of members in the Missionary Board, who shall compose it, and how they shall be elected, designated or appointed; whether it shall be a Joint Board or otherwise; what shall be its powers, functions, duties and limitations; to regulate in all respects the order and manner of succession in the Corporation established by this Act, and in any and all Missionary Boards appointed to operate under its provisions and generally to direct all measures and to define the powers and duties of all officers and Boards of the Missionary Society incorporated by this Act, as, under the constitution and discipline of the said Methodist Episcopal Church, was vested in the said General Conference before the passing of this Act; the said General Conference shall also have full power power to change its agencies in this mission work, to substitute for the Missionary Board any other form of administration at pleasure, and to regulate all internal affairs of said Missionary Society. 4. The aforesaid Rev. A. Carman, Rev. W. D. Hughson, Provisional Rev. S. G. Stone, Rev. S. Morrison, Rev. E. Lounsbury, Rev. W. Board. Benson, Rev. W. Pirritte, Rev. T, Argue, Rev. I. B. Aylsworth, Rev. W. Brown, and Messrs. A. Buck, M.D., of Palermo, J. C. Huffman, of Napanee, and J. R. Neff, of St. George, as also the aforesaid Rev. J. Gardiner, Rev. J. Curts, Rev. D. Wilson, and Messrs. E. S. Whipple, of Hamilton, S. M. Thomas, of Brooklyn, and Chas. Lane, of Napanee, shall till the next ensuing session of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada, constitute the Joint Missionary Board of the aforesaid Missionary Society, with the powers, functions, and duties of the Missionary Board as prescribed in the present existing constitution of the Missionary Society incorporated by this Act, and with full control of all the officers, agents, means and measures of the aforesaid Missionary Society and mission work of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada, unto and up till the next ensuing session of the said General Conference, General or Special; at which time, and on which occasion all power, management, and control shall fall into the hands of said General Conference as aforesaid. CHAP. 62. An Act to amend the Act incorporating The Upper [Assented to 2nd March, 1877.] WHEREAS the Board of Directors of The Upper Canada Preamble Bible Society has, by its petition, represented that the said The Upper Canada Bible Society has for many years made contributions in money to the British and Foreign Bible Society, to enable the said Society to circulate the Bible not only throughout the Province of Ontario, but also throughout the rest of the world, and that doubts have been expressed as to the powers of the said The Upper Canada Bible Society to make such grants, and that it is desirable to amend the Act of incorporation so as to remove such doubts and to give the Board of Directors of the said The Upper Canada Bible Society power to make grants of money to the British and Foreign Bible Society, and to make grants of money and of Bibles, and portions of Bibles to any other society which has for its object the circulation of the Bible in any part of the world; And whereas the said board has, by its said petition, also represented that it is desirable to give the said The Upper Canada Directors may Society may acquire property. Canada Bible Society certain additional powers to take real estate and personalty, including what is not pure personalty by devise, bequest, grant, gift, and purchase, and to dispose of the same with a view to increase the property of the said Society and enable it thereby to extend its benefits; And whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petitioners; 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 Board of Directors for the time being of the said The Upper Canada Bible Society to make grants of money to the British and Foreign Bible Society, and to make grants of money and of Bibles and of portions of Bibles to any other society which has for its object the circulation of the Bible in any part of the world. 2. It shall and may be lawful for the said The Upper Canada Bible Society, from time to time, to take or hold by gift, devise, or bequest, any lands or tenements or interests therein, if such gift, devise, or bequest be made at least six months before the death of the person making the same, but nothing in this clause contained shall authorize the said The Upper Canada Bible Society to take or hold by any gift, devise, or bequest so as that the annual value of any lands or tenements or interests therein, so to be taken or held by gift, devise, or bequest under the authority of this clause, shall at any one time in the whole exceed the annual value of one thousand dollars; and no lands or tenements or interest therein acquired by gift, devise, or bequest under the authority of this clause, shall be held by the said The Upper Canada Bible Society for a longer period than seven years after the acquisition thereof; and within such period they shall respectively be absolutely disposed of by the said The Upper Canada Bible Society, who shall have power to grant and convey the said lands to any purchaser, 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 The Upper Canada Bible Society; 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. Act not to in- 3. This Act shall not be construed so as in anywise to repeal terfere with take from or diminish any of the rights, powers, or privileges existing rights under 18 V. c. granted to the said The Upper Canada Bible Society by its Act of Incorporation, but on the contrary any rights or privileges conferred by this Act shall be construed as supplementary and in addition to those conferred by said Act of Incorporation. 230. How funds 4. The funds of the said Society may and shall be used for shall be used. the purposes authorized by its Act of Incorporation and by СНАР. this Act. CHAP. 63. An Act to amend the Act of Incorporation of the [Assented to 2nd March, 1877.] W HEREAS the Canadian Literary Institute of Woodstock Preamble, have prayed to be empowered to raise a sum of money, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, on property held by the Corporation, and for other amendments to their Act of Incor- 20 V. c. 217. poration; and whereas it is expedient to grant their prayer; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: 1. The Trustees of the Canadian Literary Institute, by by- Trustees. law, sanctioned by a vote of at least three-fifths in number of the said Trustees, may declare that the number of the Trustees of the said Corporation shall, from a date to be stated in the said by-law, be increased to twenty-one, and from such date the number of such Trustees shall be twenty-one; and at the next election to be held after such by-law goes into effect, the subscribers to the funds of the Institution who are eligible to vote shall, in addition to the other five Trustees to be elected, elect six other Trustees of whom two shall hold office for one year, two for two years, and the other two for three years; and at every subsequent annual meeting seven Trustees shall be elected in the manner prescribed by the said Act of Incorporation, and shall hold office for three years. 2. Two-thirds of the said Trustees shall belong to the deno- Two-thirds of mination of Christians called Regular Baptists. Trustees to be 3. Hereafter the annual meetings of the subscribers of the Annual said Institution shall be held at such time and place as the meetings. Trustees shall from time to time by by-law appoint. 4. The said Corporation may from time to time raise, by Loan not to exway of loan, any sum of money they may require for the pur- ceed $10,000. poses of the said Corporation, provided that the total amount borrowed shall not at any time exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars, and for securing the repayment of such borrowed money the Corporation may, under their corporate seal, grant a mortgage or mortgages on their property, anything in the said Act of Incorporation to the contrary notwithstanding: The mortgagee or mortgagees shall not be bound to see to the application of the money lent. 20 V. c. 217 amended. 27-28 V. c. 5. The first section of the said Act of Incorporation being chapter two hundred and seventeen of the statutes of the late Province of Canada, passed in the twentieth year of Her Majesty's reign, is hereby amended by striking out the words " by the name of the Trustees of the Canadian Literary Institute," where they occur in the twenty-first and twenty-second lines of the said section, and substituting the words "by the said name in lieu thereof. 6. The Act passed in the Session of the Parliament of the 143, repealed. said late Province, held in the twenty-seventh and twentyeighth years of Her Majesty's reign, chapter one hundred and forty-three, intituled "An Act to amend the Act of Incorporation of the Canadian Literary Institute of Woodstock," is hereby repealed. CHAP. 64. Preamble. An Act to Incorporate Alma College, at St. Thomas. [Assented to 2nd March, 1877.] WHEREAS upon the petition of the Reverend Albert Carman, D.D., Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada; Rev. W. G. Brown, Rev. James Gardiner, Rev. W. D. Hughson, and Rev. John N. Elliott, ministers of said Church; and D. Hughes, Esq., of St. Thomas, in the County of Elgin, of the Province of Ontario, and Judge of the said County; C. Monroe, Esq., Sheriff, and A. McLachlin, Esq., Registrar of said County, and A. Wilcox, Esq., of Springford, it is set forth that it is the purpose of the said Methodist Episcopal Church, in Canada, to establish a Ladies' College at St. Thomas, in the County of Elgin, Province of Ontario, with a view to an enlargement in the future by the addition of a school for boys: And whereas the Niagara Annual Conference of said Church, at its regular Session in Hamilton, in April, 1876, affirmed said purpose and appointed a Provisional Board for said College: And whereas this action was officially approved and concurred in by the other Annual Conferences of the said Methodist Episcopal Church, in Canada: And whereas under the authority of the said Provisional Board, a site for said College has been secured and an agent has been employed to raise the means to erect the necessary buildings and to maintain the school: And whereas it is the prayer of the petitioners, in behalf of said Conferences and Provisional Board that for the encouragement of the project and the efficiency of the College, corporate powers be conferred: And whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore |