17th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 13.

An Act to incorporate the Dorchester Agricultural Society.

Section.

1. Society incorporated.

2. General annual meeting for choice of officers.

Section.

3. Present officers to continue in office unt others chosen.

Passed 20th March 1854.

WHEREAS certain Farmers and other inhabitants of the Parish of Dorchester, in the County of Westmorland, have formed themselves into a Society for the encouragement of Agriculture in the said County, and they are desirous of being incorporated, to enable them more effectually to carry out the objects of the said Society ;

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. William Wilson, Thomas T. Sayer, Thomas Keillor, John Robb, John Hickman, Junior, Silas C. Charters, Reuben Taylor, Abiel Hick, Cook Smith, John G. G. Layton, and Albert J. Smith, their associates and successors, be a body corporate, under the name and style of "The Dorchester Agricultural Society," for the encouragement of Agriculture; and for this purpose shall have and enjoy all the powers made incident to Corporations by law.

2. There shall be a general meeting of the said Corporation annually holden on the first Thursday in January in each and every year, at Dorchester, in said County, at which meeting there shall be chosen by a majority of the members, one President, two Vice Presidents, one Treasurer, one Secretary, and five Directors, who shall continue in office one year, or until others are chosen in their stead; in the choice of which, each member of the Corporation shall have one vote for each of the aforesaid officers.

3. The officers chosen at a general meeting of the said Society holden at Dorchester aforesaid on the first Thursday in January last, shall be the officers of the said Society until the first Thursday in January next, or until others are chosen in their stead.

FARMERS' LIBRARY SOCIETY.

14th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 2.

An Act to incorporate the Woodstock Farmers and Mechanics' Library Society.

Section 1.-Incorporation of Society.

Passed 15th March 1851.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. The Farmers and Mechanics' Library Society now established and located at the Upper Village of Woodstock, in the County of Carleton, for the purpose of procuring Books on agricultural, mechanical, historical, and other subjects, to form a Library for the use of the members of the said Society, be incorporated; and Joseph Harvey, Senior, James H. Brodrick, William Wiley, Ralph Ketchum, James Edgar, Asahel M. Brodrick, Anthony Kearney, Wingate Weeks, Lewis P. Fisher, David Munro, and such other persons as are or may become members of the said Society, shall be and 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 always, that the real estate which the said Corporation may at any time hold shall not exceed in value one thousand pounds.

BARRISTERS' SOCIETY.

9th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 48.

An Act to incorporate the Barristers' Society of New Brunswick.

Section.

1. Incorporation of Society.

2. Bye laws, &c., when and how passed. 3. Bye laws, how enforced and approved.

Section.

4. Library, in whom vested.
5. Society's room.

Passed 11th April 1846.

Be it enacted, &c.-1. From and after the passing of this Act, the Honorable Charles J. Peters, Honorable William B. Kinnear, John Ambrose Street, Honorable Edward B. Chandler, Honorable Lemuel A. Wilmot, William End, Honorable John W. Weldon, William Wright, Alfred L. Street, Francis A. Kinnear, William Carman, Honorable Robert L. Hazen, Charles Fisher, John H. Gray, William J. Ritchie, George Botsford, David S. Kerr, James W. Chandler, George J. Thomson, Richard M. Andrews, George D. Street, D. Ludlow Robinson, James Peters, Junior, George J. Dibblee, Moses H. Perley, George Kerr, Richard Carman, William Jack, Alexander Campbell, William H. Odell, and all other Barristers of the Supreme Court of this Province, or that shall hereafter become Barristers, and who shall signify their assent in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation, shall and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The Barristers' Society of New Brunswick," and by that name shall have all the general powers, authorities, and privileges made incident to a Corporation by Act of Assembly, for the purpose of establishing order and good conduct among themselves, and of securing to the Province and the Profession a learned and honorable body, and of procuring and maintaining a Library for the use of the Corporation.

2. All bye laws and regulations which the said Society shall make and ordain by the authority of this Act, shall be passed at some or one of the Terms of the Supreme Court at Fredericton, at a meeting of its members then and there to be holden, and by a majority of the persons present, being members, at such meeting, which meeting shall be composed of at least thirteen members; the manner of summoning such Bar

meetings, together with the order to be preserved in attending the same, and the manner of holding a Bar meeting for ordinary business, (which shall consist of not less than nine members) shall also be regulated by bye laws for that purpose from time to time to be made; the first regular Bar meeting for the purposes aforesaid to be held on the first Friday in next Trinity Term, in the Library room.

3. The bye laws and regulations which the said Society shall be entitled to make, may be enforced by such moderate and reasonable fines not exceeding for any one breach thereof the sum of two pounds, as in such bye laws and regulations may be specified, the same to be sued for and recovered by the Treasurer or other officer of the Society, in the name of the Corporation, in such manner as in and by the same or any other bye law or regulation may be ordained; and the said fines when received by the said Treasurer or other officer as aforesaid, shall be appropriated by the said Society in keeping up the said Library, and for the general purposes of the said Corporation; provided always, that no bye law or regulation whatever made by the said Corporation, shall be of any force or effect until the same shall be sanctioned by the Judges of the Supreme Court of this Province, or any three of them.

4. The property of the Law Library already purchased, with all the furniture and other chattels now in the Library room of the Province Building, shall be and hereby is vested in the said Corporation.

5. It shall and may be lawful for the said Barristers' Society of New Brunswick to occupy and enjoy the use of the room in the Province Building now used as a Law Library, and to have the sole direction and control of the same; provided always, that it shall and may be lawful for the Administrator of the Government for the time being, by and with the advice of the Executive Council of the Province, at any time to resume the possession of the said room.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

17th VICTORIA-CHAPTER 27.

An Act to incorporate the Saint John Chamber of Commerce.

Section.

1. Their incorporation.

2. Funds and property, how applied. 3. Place for serving process.

4. Council, its formation.

5. Officers of Council prior to first election. 6. Meeting of Council, time and place; choice of officers, &c.

7. Vacancy, how supplied.

8. Quorum for business

Section.

12. Power of general meeting to make bye laws.

13. Power of Council to make bye laws.
14. Subscriptions to whom paid.

15. Meeting of Council open to members.
16. Board of arbitration, how elected; their

powers.

17. Board to be sworn.

18. Who may be member of the board.

9. Qualification for membership, and mode 19. Powers and duties of arbitrators.

of election.

10. General meeting, how called.
11. Additional powers of the Council.

20. Affirmation, same as oath.

21. Continuation of Act.

22. The rights of Her Majesty not affected.

Passed 1st May 1854.

WHEREAS the Honorable John Robertson, John Duncan, John V. Thurgar, and others hereinafter named, Merchants, carrying on trade in the City of Saint John, have by their petition to the Legislature represented that they have associated themselves together for some time past, for the purpose of promoting such measures as they might upon due consideration deem calculated to advance and render prosperous the lawful trade and commerce of this Province, and of the said City of Saint John more particularly; and have further represented that having already experienced the good effects of their said association, and being convinced that the advantages arising from it would be greatly extended and increased if they and their associates and successors were incorporated, and if certain powers were conferred on them, they pray the Legislature so to incorporate them and grant them such powers: And whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition ;

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. The said Honorable John Robertson, John Duncan, John V. Thurgar, and John Wishart, William Parks, William H. Street, Frederick A. Wiggins, Charles Ward, Edward Allison, Robert Jardine, Thomas E. Millidge, Daniel J. M'Laughlin, Frederick W. Wood, John Ward, Stephen Wiggins, Robert Reed, William Wright, Charles Brown, James Smith, Charles M'Lauchlan, George Carvill, John W. Cudlip, Thomas Hanford, Leverett H. Deveber, Alexander M'L. Seely, Isaac Woodward, Samuel L. Tilley, James McFarlane, William G. Lawton, John M. Walker,