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Not repuguant to the laws of the Province;

description to be subject

Synod.

new statutes, rules or ordinances, to revoke, renew, augment or alter all, every or any of the said statutes, rules and ordinances, as to them shall seem meet and expedient: Provided always that the said statutes, rules and ordinances, or any of them, shall not be repugnant to the provisions of this Act, or to the laws and statutes of this Province: Provided also that the said statutes, rules and ordinances, in so far as they regard the perform- Statutes of a particular ance of Divine service in the said College, the duties of the Professors to the inspection of the in the Theological Department thereof, and the studies and exercises of the students of Divinity therein, shall be subject to the inspection of the said Synod of the Presbyterian Church, and shall be forthwith transmitted to the Clerk of the said Synod, and be by him laid before the same at their next meeting for their approval, and until such approval duly authenticated by the signatures of the Moderator and Clerk of the said Synod is obtained, the same shall not be in force.

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discipline;

IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so soon as there shall be a Principal and one Professor in the said College, the appointed for academicsi Board of Trustees shall have authority to constitute under their Seal the said Principal and Professor, together with three Members of the Board of Trustees a Court, to be called the College Senate, for the exercise of Academical Superintendence and discipline over the students, and all other persons resident within the same, and with such powers for maintaining order, and enforcing obedience to the statutes, rules and ordinances of the said College as to the said Board may seem meet and necessary: Provided always that so soon as three additional Professors shall be who Senate shall conemployed in the said College, no Trustee shall be a Member of the College Senate, but that such Principal and all the Professors of the College shall forever constitute the College Senate with the powers just mentioned.

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conferred.

X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever when degrees may be there shall be a Principal and four Professors employed in the said College," the College Senate shall have power and authority to confer the Degrees of Bachelor, Master and Doctor in the several Arts and Faculties.

XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That five of Five Trustees a quorum the said Trustees lawfully convened, as is hereinafter directed, shall be under certain exceptions. a quorum for the dispatch of all business, except for the disposal and purchase of real estate, or for the choice or removal of the Principal or Professors, for any of which purposes there shall be a meeting of at least thirteen Trustees.

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Chairinan, Secretary

and Treasurer, may be

appointed.

How vacancies in the board of Trustees to be filled up.

How meetings of
Trustees to be called.

Notice of time and place.

Governor may direct payment from the funds of King's College for a Theological Professor in

this University, in satis

faction claim to

instituting such Professor

in King's Colelge.

XII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Trustees shall have full power and authority, from time to time, to choose a Secretary and Treasurer, and also once in each year or oftener a Chairman, who shall preside at all meetings of the Board.

XIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Trustees shall have full power, by a majority of voices of the Members present, to select and appoint in the event of a vacancy in the Board by death, resignation or removal from the Province, a person whose name is on the list from which appointments are to be made, to fill such vacancy, choosing a Minister in the room of a Minister, and a Layman in the room of a Layman, and inserting the name of the person so chosen in that place on the roll of the Board in which the name of the Trustees in whose stead he may have been chosen stood.

XIV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Trustees shall have power to meet at the College upon their own adjournment, and so often as they shall be summoned by the Chairman, or in his absence by the Senior Trustee, whose seniority shall be determined by the order in which the said Trustees are named in this Act, or shall be elected hereafter: Provided always that the said Chairman or Senior Trustee shall not summon a meeting of the Corporation, unless required so to do by a notice in writing from three Members of the Board: And provided also that he cause notice of the time and place of the said meeting to be given in one or more of the public Newspapers of the Province of Upper and Lower Canada, at least thirty days before such meeting, and that every Member of the Corporation resident within the said Provinces, shall be notified in writing by the Secretary to the Corporation of the time of such meeting.

XV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so soon as the University of King's College, and the College hereby instituted, shall be in actual operation, it shall and may be lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or person administering the Government of this Province, to authorise and direct the payment from the Funds of the said University of King's College, in aid of the Funds of the College hereby instituted, of such yearly sum as to him shall seem just for the purpose of sustaining a Theological Professorship therein, and in satisfaction of all claim on the part of the Church of Scotland for the institution of a Professorship of Divinity in the University of King's College, according to the Faith and discipline of the Church of Scotland.

CHAP. XXXVI.
XXXVI.

AN ACT to authorise the temporary occupation, by the proposed University at Kingston, of the General Hospital at Kingston, upon certain terms therein-mentioned.

[Passed 10th February, 1840.]

WHEREAS a building was erected at Kingston, in the Midland District, by the voluntary contribution of certain of the Inhabitants, and by a Grant Preamble. from the Funds of the Province, for the purpose of a General Hospital, which, for want of the necessary endowment, has not been used for the object contemplated, and in consequence thereof, the Building is unoccupied and subject to damage and decay: And whereas it appears by the Petition of certain of the said subscribers, that they are desirous that the said Building, together with the grounds connected therewith, should be leased for a period of years to the Trustees of a College or University about to be established at Kingston, under the authority of an Act passed during the present Session, for the accommodation of the said University: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, entitled, "An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign, entitled, 'An Act for making more effectual provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America, and to make further provision for the Government of the said Province," and by the authority of the same, That it shall and may Governor may direct a be lawful for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or person administering General Hospital to the the Government of this Province for the time being, to direct and order University of Kingston; a lease to the Trustees of the said University of the said Buildings and Grounds, for such term of years, and for such Annual Rent for the occupation and use of the same, as His Excellency the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or person administering the Government shall deem proper.

of the Kingston

Terms how regulated.

for the General Hospital

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Annual Annual rent appropriated Rent to be paid by the Trustees of the said University, for the occupation at Kingston. and use of the said Building and Grounds, shall be collected by the Sheriff of the Midland District, and be by him paid into the hands of Her Majesty's

Treamble.

Receiver General, for the benefit of the said General Hospital, whenever it shall be put in operation.

CHAP. XXXVII.

AN ACT to extend the Limits of Port Darlington Harbour.
[Passed 10th February, 1840.]

WHEREAS by the fourth Section of an Act passed in the first Session

of the thirteenth Parliament of this Province, entitled, "An Act to Incorporate sundry persons, under the style and title of the President, Directors, and Company of the Port Darlington Harbour," it is provided that tolls shall be payable on all goods, wares and merchandize, shipped or landed on board or out of any vessel or boat from or upon any part of the Lake shore between the Eastern side of Lot number eight, and the Western side of Lot number fourteen, in the Township of Darlington: And whereas it appears by the Petition of H. S. Reid, and others, that the limits above mentioned are not sufficiently extensive to afford proper protection to the Stockholders who may undertake the construction of the said Harbour: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, entitled, "An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign, entitled, 'An Act for making more effectual provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America, and to make further provision for the Government of the said Province," Boundaries within which and by the authority of the same, That the tolls which may hereafter be collected for the said Company, may be collected between the Western side of Lot number five, and the Eastern side of Lot number eighteen, in the Broken Front of the said Township of Darlington, any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

tolls of the Port Darlington Harbour may be collected, enlarged.

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CHAP. XXXVIII.

AN ACT to attach certain Townships to the County of Huron.

[Passed 10th February, 1840.]

WHEREAS HEREAS by an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled, "An Act to form certain Preamble. Townships in the London District into a County, and to attach certain Townships to the Counties of Middlesex and Kent, in the London and Western Districts," it was enacted, "That the Townships of Williams, McGillivray, Stephen, Hay, Stanley, Goderich, Colborne, Hullet, McKillop, Tuckersmith, Hibbert, Logan, Fullarton, Usborne, Biddulph, Blanchard, Downie, Ellice, North East-Hope, and South East-Hope, do constitute and form the County of Huron, in the London District": And whereas by another Act passed in the first year of the reign of Her Majesty, entitled, "An Act to authorise the erection of the County of Huron, and certain other Territory adjacent thereto, into a separate District," it was enacted, that the said County of Huron should be erected into a separate District, and that on any future survey of the Territory lying to the Northward of the said County of Huron, one range of Townships lying immediately contiguous to the Northerly boundary of the said County, should be attached to and become part of the said intended New District: And whereas it is expedient that the said range of Townships, being part of the said intended New District, should be added to the County of Huron: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, entitled, "An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's reign, entitled, 'An Act for making more effectual provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America, and to make further provision for the Government of the said Province," and by the authority of the same, That the Township of Certain Townships Ashfield, and such other Townships as may hereafter be surveyed, being of Huron. the first range of Townships lying immediately contiguous to the Northerly Boundary of the said County, be attached to and form part of the County of Huron, in the said intended New District.

attached to the County.

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