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5. The company shall be governed and managed Number of by a board of directors, five in number, to be selected at the annual meeting, under the provisions of the by-laws to be made and adopted as herein provided. The directors shall select from themselves one of their number to be president and one of their number to be vice-president. All necessary officers of the company, except as hereinbefore provided, shall be appointed by the directors.

debts.

6. No member of the company shall be liable for Liability for any of the debts of the company unless he shall render himself liable therefor.

adopted.

7. At the first annual meeting by-laws for the By-laws to be government of the company shall be adopted.

directors.

8. Until the first meeting of the company, the Provisional persons named in the first section hereof shall be the provisional directors of the company.

9. The company shall have power to make by-By-laws. laws not inconsistent with this act or the laws of the province, and also shall have the power to repeal and modify the same, and the directors may from time to time, as circumstances require, repeal, amend or re-enact such by-laws, but such by-laws, and every repeal or amendment or re-enactment thereof, unless in the meantime confirmed by a general meeting of the company called for the purpose, shall only have force until the next annual meeting of the company, and in default of confirmation thereat shall at and from that time only cease to have any force, but all such by-laws, and every repeal, amendment or re-enactment thereof shall be subject to the approval of the Governor-in-Council.

10. The capital stock of the company shall be five Capital stock. thousand dollars, divided into five hundred shares

of ten dollars each.

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Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

Incorporation 1. W.

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By-laws.

W. Huntley Macdonald, Henry H. Crerar, Courtney M. Henry, Robert M. Gray, Charles S. Agnew, W. Perley Cunningham, Arthur W. Gerroir, and Stanley Copeland, all of Antigonish, in the County of Antigonish, and such other persons as now are members or shall hereafter become members of the club, are hereby constituted and shall be a body corporate under the name of "The Antigonish Curling Club" for the promotion, enjoyment and encouragement of the game of curling.

2. The corporation shall have the power to purchase, acquire, lease, hold, rent, possess, and enjoy all lands and tenements and all real and immovable estate, situate and being in the County of Antigonish, necessary for the purposes for which the said club is created; and to enter into any contract or contracts for the acquirement of such real estate or immovables, or for the renting of any building or buildings which may be required by the said club.

3. All real estate, when so acquired, and all personal property so acquired by the said club, shall vest in the said corporation, and may be sold, leased, or otherwise disposed of by the said club, when so desired.

4. The value of real estate acquired by the said club shall not at any one time exceed five thousand dollars.

5. The company shall have power to make by-laws not inconsistent with this act or the laws of the

province, and also shall have the power to repeal and modify the same, and the directors may from time to time as circumstances require, repeal, amend or reenact such by-laws, but such by-laws, and every repeal or amendment or re-enactment thereof, unless in the meantime confirmed by a general meeting of the company called for the purpose, shall only have force until the next annual meeting of the company, and in default of confirmation thereat shall and from that time only cease to have any force, but all such bylaws, and every repeal, amendment or re-enactment thereof shall be subject to the approval of the Governorin-Council.

to be held.

6. The first annual meeting of the club shall be First annual held at Antigonish on or before the 1st day of May, meeting, when 1909, and the persons named in the first paragraph of this act shall act as provisional directors until the first annual meeting shall elect a board of directors.

7. The board of directors shall consist of seven Number of members, to be elected at the annual meeting.

directors.

8. The club shall have power to sue and be sued in Power to sue the corporate name of the club.

9. No member of the club shall be liable for the Liability. debts of the corporation, unless he shall have made himself personally liable therefor.

10. It shall not be necessary for the club, in entering Seal not into any contract, to use the corporate seal of the necessary. club, but such contract shall be valid and binding on the said club if entered into in the name of the said club, under the hand and seals of the president and secretary for the time being of the club.

CHAPTER 125.

An Act to Consolidate and Amend the Acts Relating
to the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation

of Antigonish.

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Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

Incorporation. 1. The Right Reverend John Cameron, and his successors, being the Catholic Bishops from time to time of the Diocese of Antigonish, in Nova Scotia, and being natural born or naturalized subjects of His Majesty, shall be a body corporate, by the name of the "Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Antigonish,' for the purpose of holding personal and real estate in the Island of Cape Breton, and within the Counties of Pictou, Antigonish and Guysborough, in the Province of Nova Scotia.

Administration of diocese.

Corporation

may hold real estate.

Persons may

convey property.

2. In the event of the Bishop of Antigonish for the time being, through absence from the Province or from any cause, being incapacitated from performing his duties within the diocese, or during the interval between the death of one Bishop and the appointment of his successor, then the clergyman administering the affairs of the diocese, being a natural born or naturalized subject of His Majesty, shall be the corporation for the time being, and shall exercise the powers conferred by this act.

3. The corporation may hold real estate for the eleemosynary, ecclesiastical and educational purposes and uses of the Catholic Church within the Diocese of Antigonish, or any portion thereof.

4. Persons now or hereafter holding real estate in the Island of Cape Breton, or within the three

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counties aforesaid, in trust or otherwise for the benefit of the Catholic Church, or institutions in connection with said church, may from time to time convey the same to the corporation, to be held by such corporation for the same uses and trusts.

how vested.

5. All real estate and personal property in the Real estate, Island of Cape Breton and in said counties, which is now used as the property of the Catholic Church, shall henceforth be, and the same are hereby vested, in the said Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Antigonish, to have and to hold the same to the said corporation for eleemosynary, ecclesiastical and educational uses of the Catholic Church within the said diocese, but the funds or property belonging to or held in trust for one county or parish shall not be expended for the benefit of any other county or parish, saving and excepting all just rights of third parties.

etc.

6. The corporation may sell, convey, mortgage or PowerIto sell, lease such real estate or any part of it by deed under the corporate seal, and signed by the Bishop, a VicarGeneral of the diocese, and two Catholic clergymen within the diocese, or in the absence or other incapacity of all the Vicars-General (or in the event of the office of Vicar-General being vacant) by the Bishop and three Catholic clergymen within the diocese,, or in the event of the death, absence or other incapacity of the Bishop, by the person administering the affairs of the diocese, as provided by section two of this act, and three other Catholic clergymen within the dio

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brought.

7. All actions relating to any part of the real estate Actions, how vested in the Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Antigonish, whether the cause of such actions may have arisen before or shall arise after the passing of this act, may be brought in the name of the said corporation, and the said corporation shall have in respect of the said real estate all the remedies which a private person holding real estate might exercise and enjoy; and the said corporation shall have power to contract, in the manner in which it may execute a deed as provided for in section 6 hereof, for the purchase or sale of any real estate, the erection, alteration, repair,

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