2. The said Corporation may purchase and hold or receive lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in fee simple or otherwise, and rents, moneys, securities for money, mortgages and securities on real or personal property, and also to sell and convey lands, or mortgage, demise, or let the same, as may be found necessary for the purpose of emigration.

3. The said Corporation shall not hold or possess any lands at any one time within this Province to a greater extent than one hundred thousand acres, and shall not lend money by way of discount, nor engage in any Banking transaction whatever.

4. At any meeting of the said Corporation five of the members thereof shall be a quorum, and shall elect a Chairman, who shall have a casting vote in all cases of equality of votes; and such meeting shall have full power, by a majority of votes, to admit new members and to transact all other business of or relating to the said Society, subject only to the provisions of this Act and of the said Act of the Imperial Parliament.

5. Such meeting shall have full power, by a like majority, to make such bye laws as may be necessary as well for the management of the said Society, and the lands, estates, mortgages, goods, and other property thereof, and for raising money for the purposes of the said Society on the security of any lands or other property thereof, and for the regulation of any members or contributors to the funds thereof, or of any settlers on the lands that may belong to the said Corporation, and as shall from time time be required for the good government thereof, and any subsequent meeting may alter and amend the same from time to time as occasion may require, provided that no such bye law shall be contradictory or repugnant to the laws of this Province; provided also, that no such bye law shall have any power or effect until it shall have been submitted to and approved by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, and published in the Royal Gazette.

6. The said Corporation shall have power and they are hereby authorized to carry on a Fishing establishment or establishments in this Province, and for this purpose may have, hold, and employ such vessels and property as may be necessary for carrying on the same, as effectually as a private individual or Company might do, but in their corporate name and capacity, and under the same provisions and liabilities, and

with the same privileges as other property held by them, or other powers given to them for emigration purposes.

7. The joint property of the said Corporation shall alone be liable for the debts or engagements of the same.

17th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 48.

An Act to incorporate the Saint John Seamen's Friend Society.

WHEREAS a number of well disposed persons in the City of Saint John have formed themselves into a Society for the purpose of improving the moral and social condition of the numerous body of Seamen frequenting that Port, and such Society has established a "Seaman's Home," which has been eminently successful to the extent of its accommodation, but has been found wholly inadequate to the wants of the Port: And whereas more extensive premises have been purchased in the said City, on which it is proposed to erect a large and suitable building for such "Seaman's Home," to include also a Savings Bank, Nautical School, and Sailor's Institute, as also a large Hall to be used on the Sabbath for Bethel purposes: And whereas the members of the said Society are desirous of becoming incorporated for the purpose of holding the said real and personal estate in trust for the useful and laudable purposes aforesaid ;

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. The persons hereinafter named, that is to say, Charles Simonds, John Robertson, Edward Allison, Benjamin Smith, John Wishart, John Owens, Thomas G. Hatheway, Charles M'Lauchlan, Stephen Wiggins, Thomas Vaughan, Henry Vaughan, James Reid, Robert Reid, Francis Ferguson, A. A. Couglan, James A. Crane, Charles Brown, A. ML. Seely, James Kirk, Junior, and George Worall, I. L. Bedell, William Carvill and George Carvill, R. L. Hazen, B. Leavitt, A. N. Henry, John Walker,

Francis Ruddock and Samuel Ruddock, A. C. Trentowsky, A. M'Lean, Isaac Woodward, George Salter, J. W. M. Irish, Thomas M'Henry, Thomas E. Millidge, John Fisher, John Sandall, John W. J. Bell, Alexander Sime, William Olive, M. D. Purdy, George Thomas, Captain R. Wright, William Wright, Benjamin M. Thomas, James Nevins, William Potts, Z. King, Hiram Hunt, Henry Chubb, Charles Doherty, C. Whittaker, L. H. DeVeber, John M'Donald, Isaac Olive, Joseph Fairweather, James L. Dunn, Walker Tisdale, Thomas E. G. Tisdale, R. Salter, Robert Robertson, Joseph Sulis, M. H. Fisher, Robert Bayard, J. H. Gray, James Ruddock, C. C. Vaughan, John Wiswell, E. N. Harris, W. H. Travis, F. E. B. Crosby, William Scovil, William Short, and R. Easty, their associates, successors, and assigns, are hereby erected into a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The Saint John Seamen's Friend Society," and by that name shall have all the general powers and privileges made incident to a Corporation by law in this Province, for the purposes of carrying out the objects mentioned in the Preamble of this Act.

2. The said Corporation shall have power to hold real and personal estate to an extent not exceeding thirty thousand pounds, and for the purpose of raising money to purchase such estate and conduct the business of the Corporation, may issue any number of shares, not exceeding three thousand, of the value of ten pounds each, the whole amount of each share being paid up at the time of issuing the same.

3. The first meeting of the said Society may be called by the Reverend Edward Nathan Harris, or any three of the Corporation herein named, at which meeting thirteen Directors of the said Society shall be chosen by the holders of shares therein, each of such Directors being a holder of at least ten shares in the said Society.

4. The Directors at their first meeting shall choose one of their number President of the Society, and he and they shall continue in office until others are elected in their stead.

5. The Directors may appoint a Secretary, Treasurer, Chaplain, and such other officers as may be necessary for carrying out effectually the objects of the Society.

6. There shall be an annual general meeting of the shareholders of the Society held in the City of Saint John, at which

Directors shall be chosen and a general statement of its affairs in every respect shall be submitted. In the choice of Directors, and on all occasions when the votes of the shareholders are given, each share shall entitle the party holding it to one vote. 7. No greater rates of interest or dividend shall be allowed or paid on the said shares than six per cent. per annum.

8. The joint stock and property of the said Corporation shall be alone responsible for the debts and engagements of the same, and the shares in the same shall be deemed and taken to be personal estate.

9. The said Corporation may receive, take, and hold real and personal estate by gift, grant, devise, or bequest, to any amount not exceeding thirty thousand pounds, and hold the same in trust for the objects of the said Corporation.

10. All matters relating to the management of the said Corporation not provided for by this Act, shall be regulated by bye laws of the same; but all bye laws shall be submitted to the Lieutenant Governor in Council, and may be disallowed by order in Council within sixty days after the same are so submitted, but not afterwards.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTES.

2nd VICTORIA-CHAPTER 18.

An Act to incorporate the Saint John Mechanics' Institute.

Section 1.-Incorporation of Institute.

Passed 23rd March 1839.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. There shall be established and located in the City of Saint John, an Association by the name of "The Mechanics' Institute of Saint John," for the purpose of instructing Mechanics and others in popular and useful science, and Beverley Robinson, John Duncan, George D. Robinson, M. H. Perley, John G. Sharp, William Jack, Alexander Lawrence, and such other persons as are or may become members of the said Institute, shall be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate for that and no other purpose, by the name aforesaid, with all the general powers and privileges incident to Corporations by Act of Assembly in this Province; provided always, that the real estate which the said Corporation may at any time hold shall not exceed five thousand pounds.

8th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 50.

An Act to incorporate the King's County Mechanics'

Institute.

Section 1.-Incorporation of Institute.

Passed 27th March 1845.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. There shall be established and located at Hampton Ferry, King's County, an Association by the name of "The Mechanics' Institute of King's County," for the purpose of instructing Mechanics and others in morality, literature, and the different branches of useful science, and S. Z. Earle, Oliver Hallett, James D. Perkins, Gildford Flewelling, Isaac Hoyt, James Stark, S. Z. Earle, Junior, M. D., and such other persons as are or may become members of the said Institute, shall be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate for that and no other purpose, by the name aforesaid, with all the general powers and privileges incident to Corporations by Act of Assembly of this Province; provided