Subscribers to furnish address.

Branch offices.

Shareholders.

ing on the objects of the said corporation, and at such rates of interest as they may deem proper, and to issue bonds, debentures or other securities for the sum so borrowed, and to make the same payable, either in currency or sterling, and at such place or places within the Province or elsewhere as may be deemed advisable, and to sell the same at such prices as may be deemed expedient; and to hypothecate, mortgage or pledge the lands, mines and other property of the company for the due payment of the said sums and the interest thereon; but no such debentures shall be for a less sum than one hundred dollars; and such bonds, debentures and securities shall be made and signed by the president or vice-presidant of the said company and countersigned by the secretary of the said company, and under the seal of the said company;

Provided that the said company shall not be authorized to borrow a sum exceeding one half of the amount of the capital stock then paid up.

17. It shall be incumbent upon persons subscribing or who may have subscribed for stock in the said company to furnish to the secretary of the said company an address in writing to which all notices shall be sent, and it shall be sufficient to send to that address all notices relating to calls and forfeitures or cancellations of stock and all other notices, and if such address be not given such notices shall be deemed sufficiently served if inserted in the Manitoba Gazette, and once in each week for three consecutive weeks in a daily newspaper published in the city of Winnipeg.

18. The directors shall have authority to establish places or offices for the business of the company in such place or places as to them shall seem proper, and to have books at such places for the subscription and transfer of shares and for the transaction of any business of the company thereat, including shareholders' meetings if the shareholders themselves shall so approve, and to employ agents for that purpose. The principal office of the company shall be within the Province of Manitoba.

19. It shall also be lawful for the said company, upon making sales or leases of real or personal property, or mining or manufacturing arrangements with any body corporate or politic, to take in consideration therefor, stock and debentures or bonds in such bodies corporate or politic.

20. The shareholders of the said company shall consist of the persons in the fourth paragraph hereof referred to, and of such other persons as may subscribe to any stock that may be hereafter issued by the said company, who shall have fully paid up all calls upon the said shares, together with the amount of any premiums on stock that may be fixed as afore

said, and every shareholder shall be entitled to a vote for every share which he shall hold.

to be relieved

21. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as reliev- Company not ing the said company from any obligations existing on the from certain part of the said association or individual members thereof in obligations. respect of the said mineral location and mining operation or of any matter connected therewith.

CAP. LXXXVIII.

An Act to Incorporate the Brandon General Hospital.

[Assented to 7th July, 1883.]

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent Preamble. of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

corporators.

1. Richard Spencer, M. D., Alexander Fleming, M. D., John Names of McDiarmid, M. D., F. W. Shaw, M. D., L. M. Moore, M. D., Rev. J. Boydell, Rev. John Ferries, Rev. Thomas Lawson, Hon. J. W. Sifton, J. E. Woodworth, M. P. P., William Winter, T. Mayne Daly, jr., L. M. Fortier, James A. Johnson, William J. White, D. M. McMillan, the mayor of the city of Brandon, and the warden of the municipality of the county of Brandon for the time being, and such other persons as may from time to time become members of the said corporation in the manner hereinafter provided shall be and are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by and under the name of the "The Brandon General Hospital."

corporation.

2. The said corporation by the name of "The Brandon Gen- Powers of eral Hospital" shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and by such name may from time to time and at all times purchase, acquire, receive, accept, build, hold, possess and enjoy for them and their successors any bonds, tenements and hereditaments, real and personal property and estate within this Province together with such grants, devises, gifts and bequests as may be made by and received from the government of the Dominion of Canada, the government of the Province of Manitoba, the mayor and council of the city of Brandon, the municipality of the county of Brandon, or any other corporation, person or persons whatsoever for the sole use and benefit of the said hospital; provided always that the annual value of such real estate so held as aforesaid does not at any one time exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars.

Directors.

Appointment of chairman, etc.

Quorum.

Powers of directors.

Right to

3. The affairs of the said corporation shall be managed by a board of directors, consisting of eighteen members, and Richard Spencer, M. D.; Alexander Fleming, M. D.; John McDiarmid, M. D.; F. W. Shaw, M. D.; L. M. More, M. D.; Rev. J. Boydell; Rev. John Ferries; Rev. Thomas Lawson; Hon. J. W. Sifton; J. E. Woodworth, M. P. P.; William Winter; T. Mayne Daly, Jr.; L. M. Fortier; James A. Johnson, William J. White; D. M. McMillan; the mayor of the city of Brandon, and the warden of the municipality of the county of Brandon shall constitute the first board of directors, and shall continue to hold office and act as such directors until their successors are appointed, as hereinafter provided, but the mayor of the city of Brandon and the warden of the municipality of the county of Brandon for the time being respectively shall continue to hold office as two of the said board of directors.

4. The board of directors shall every year at their first meeting after election appoint from among themselves a chairman and seeretary-treasurer.

5. The said board of directors shall have power to meet from time to time for the transaction of the affairs of the said corporation, of whom seven shall form a quorum; and in the absence of the chairman or secretary-treasurer, any director present may be appointed for the time being to act as such chairman or secretary-treasurer.

6. The said board of directors shall have power to make bylaws, rules and regulations not being contrary to law or to the provisions of the Act for all purposes relating to and bearing on the well being and interests of the said corporation and power to amend or repeal the same from time to time.

7. All annual subscribers who shall pay such sum as may membership. be fixed by the by-laws of the said board of directors, and whose name shall appear in a book kept for that purpose, shall be members of said corporation and shall have the right to take part in the annual meeting of said corporation.

Life membership.

Qualification for director.

Time of

8. The donation of thirty dollars or upwards at any one time prior to the passing of this Act, and of sixty dollars or upwards subsequent to the passing thereof, shall entitle the donor to life membership.

9. All members who shall have paid the annual subscription fee as provided for in section seven, shall be eligible for election as directors.

10. There shall be a general annual meeting of the memgeneral annual bers of the said corporation on the third Monday of January each year at an hour and place to be named by the directors,

meeting.

and notice thereof shall be given by the secretary in one or more of the daily newspapers at least fourteen days previous to the day of such meeting.

remain in

11. Provided that if from any cause such general meeting Directors to shall not be held on the third Monday in January in any year office until the directors and officers of the said corporation then in office successors shall continue in office until such general annual meeting is held and their successors duly appointed as hereinafter provided.

appointed.

meeting not

appointed.

12. If such general annual meeting shall from any cause Provision in not be held on the day herein before appointed, the directors case annual then in office shall decide upon another day for the holding of held on day a general annual meeting, which day shall be within one month after the time when the same should have been held and such meeting shall be called in the same manner as if it had been called upon the proper day, and at such meeting all business may be transacted and all things done in the same manner as the same might have been transacted and done if such meeting had been held on the day aforesaid.

13. A full report shall be submitted by the directors to said Report of general meeting for its consideration and approval, showing general meetthe condition of the affairs of said corporation, including the treasurer's report, the steward's report, receipts, disbursements and all other matters bearing on the interest of the said corporation, also a list showing the names of members.

directors.

14. The members present at the annual meeting shall pro- Election of ceed to elect the directors for the ensuing year by ballot, and the sixteen members receiving the highest number of votes, together with the mayor for the time being of the city of Brandon and the warden for the time being of the municipality of the county of Brandon, shall be the directors for the ensuing year.

15. The said general meeting shall elect one auditor for the Auditors and ensuing year and the board of directors at their first meeting their duties. thereafter shall also appoint one auditor, and it shall be the duty of the said auditors to examine and report upon all accounts affecting the said corporations or relating to any matter under its control or within its jurisdiction for the year previous, and they shall prepare an abstract of the receipts, expenditures and liabilities of the corporation, and shall submit the same to the directors on or before the thirty-first day of December in each year.

Statement of

16. It shall be the duty of the said corporation, on or before the twenty-fifth day of January in each year, to transmit to affairs. the department of agriculture and statistics a return of the

affairs of such corporation showing in detail the assets and liabilities and the number of sick persons received and attended to during the preceding year in the said general hospital, and to give with or in such return or in any other return which the Lieutenant-Governor in council shall, and is hereby authorized to ask for, and receive at any other time such other information in regard to the management and affairs of the said corporation as may be required by the said LieutenantGovernor in council.

17. This Act shall be deemed a public Act.

Preamble.

Power to dispose of lands.

CAP. LXXXIX.

An Act to enable the "Dufferin Park Association" to sell certain lands in the city of Winnipeg.

[Assented to 7th July, 1883.]

Whereas, the "Dufferin Park Association" became incorporated under the "Manitoba Joint Stock Companies Letters Patent Act, 1875," and were by the said letters patent authorized to acquire and hold lands in or near the city of Winnipeg for the purpose of holding thereon outdoor atletic games and sports and public and private exhibitions.

And whereas, owing to the rapid growth of the city of Winnipeg, it is desirable that the said association should have the power to sell their interest in the lands now held by or for or vested in them, and apply the proceeds of such sales in such way as they may deem expedient:

Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

1. Notwithstanding anything in the said letters patent, incorporating the said association, or in the Acts of the legislature of the Province of Manitoba under which said association was incorporated or any amendments thereof contained, the said association shall at such time or times, and in such manner as they may deem expedient have the absolute right, power and authority to sell, grant, convey, depart with and dispose of all their interest of every nature and kind, legal or otherwise, in any real or personal estate now vested in them or held or owned by or for them, whether in their own name or otherwise, and receive the purchase monies and grant valid