CHAPTER 123. An Act to Incorporate St. Mary's Hospital (Passed the 19th day of March, A. D. 1926.) Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Assembly as follows: I. Rev. A. L. MacDonald, Rev. J. B. Kyte, Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart, John Y. McNeil, Simon Doucet, John A. McLeod, Felix LeBlanc, A. G. McDonald, Alexander B. Gillis, Archibald J. Campbell, E. J. Brasset, Donald MacLennan, Isaac MacDougall, M. P., Alexander J. MacDonald, all of Inverness, in the County of Inverness, and John Alex. Gillis, of Inverside, in the County of Inverness, and their successors in office, together with such other persons as are appointed from time to time by the Government of Nova Scotia, the Municipality of the County of Inverness, the town of Inverness, and such other persons as are appointed from time to time, as hereinafter provided, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic under the name of St. Mary's Hospital Board. Incorporation. 2. The establishment and objects of the Cor- Objects. poration shall be the conducting of a General Hospital, and a training School for Nurses, and the conducting of such other institutions and the carrying on of such other works of mercy as may be found practicable and expedient in connection therewith. 3. The Board shall, until its number is chan- Boards. ged, consist of fifteen members, twelve of whom shall be appointed by the members of the Board, one appointed by the Government of Nova Scotia, one appointed by the Municipality of the County of Inverness, and one appointed by the town of Inverness. The number of the said Board may from time to time be increased by a resolution of the Board passed at a special meeting called for the pur Term of office of Members. pose by the votes of the majority of the Board present at said meeting. Five members shall constitute a quorum. 4. The Board may from time to time prescribe the duration of the term of office of the members of the Board hereby appointed or of any future members of the Board, and provide for the retirement from office of a fixed number of the Board each year, and the appointment of their suc cessors. Vacancies. 5. If any member of the Board dies or resigns, or retires, or otherwise vacates his office, the Board shall at its next regular or special meeting appoint a suc Property vested Bequests, etc. cessor. 6. The Board shall take over, acquire, control, manage and maintain all the property, real and personal, now vested in St. Mary's Hospital, in the town of Inverness, and all property, real or personal, which may hereafter become the property of St. Mary's Hospital Board, either by purchase, gift, devise, bequest, donation or otherwise, and the legal title to or in such property is and shall be vested in this Board, and may establish, erect and maintain such other buildings and may purchase, acquire, or otherwise obtain real or personal property for the said purposes, and dispose of the same in any way howsoever, and generally to do such other things as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to the operation and management of St. Mary's Hospital and training school and institutions incidental thereto. 7. The Board shall have power notwithstanding any Act, or Law, respecting mortmain and charitable uses, to take by donation, deed, devise, bequest, lease, gift, grant, or otherwise, real and personal property of any and every description, and to sell, lease, mortgage, hypothecate or invest the same, and may continue to hold lands, or tenements or interests therein, and the Board may execute and carry out any trusts and term upon which any lands or interests therein or personal property may be devised, bequeathed granted or conveyed to it. Privileges. 8. The Board hereby created shall have perpetual Powers and succession and a common seal, and is hereby invested with all the powers and granted all the privileges necessary and incidental thereto or in connection therewith, as may be deemed necessary. 9. Negotiable The Board shall have power to borrow money instruments. for the purposes of the Board, and to secure the repayment of the same by any form of debenture, bond' mortgage, hypothecation, promissory note or other security, and the Board shall have power to make, execute, issue and endorse bills of exchange, cheques, promissory notes, hypothecation forms, or such other instrument as may be found necessary or convenient. be sued. IO. The said Board may sue and be sued in May sue and their corporate name, in connection with all matters affecting the property of the Board, and in all and every matter in which the said Board may be directly or indirectly interested. and Regula The Board may make and pass by-laws, and By-laws, Rules may make and pass resolutions, rules and regula- tions. tions, not contrary to law or to the provisions of this Act, with respect to the conduct and management in all respects of the purposes and affairs of the Board and the exercise of the powers hereby conferred, including among all other matters, the calling of meetings of the Board, the appointment of such committees as may be deemed necessary or convenient, and the delegation to such committee or committees of such powers and duties as may be deemed expedient, the procedure in all things at such meetings, the appointment, functions, duties and removal of the medical staff, all officers, agents and servants, the management and administration of the hospital and training school and institutions incidental thereto, and of all matters and things connected therewith; and the Board may confer upon the officers and persons employed in connection with its undertakings, such powers of administration and discipline as it may think necessary; and the Board may make such rules and regulations and by-laws governing the medical staff as may be deemed necessary in connection Property ex empt from taxation. Conveyances, execution of. Liability of Investment of surplus funds, etc. with the medical and surgical work of the hospital and institutions in connection therewith. All bylaws shall be subject to the approva of the Governor-in-Council. 12. The real and personal property of the corporation, used for the purposes of the hospital and training school for nurses and institutions in connection therewith, shall be exempt from taxation. 13. Any deed, mortgage, lease, assigment of mortgage, bond, debenture, promissory note, bill of exchange or other document or security, that in the course of business may have to be executed by the Board, may be signed by the president or the vice-president, and the secretary, or by any officer or member that the Board may authorize in that behalf by resolution, regulation or by-law, and the sea of the Board shall only be necessary on such documents as would require to be sealed if executed by private individuals. 14. No member of the Board shall be personally liable for the debts or liabilities of the Board, but the property, real and personal, of the Board, shall be liable for the same. 15. The Board shall invest money belonging to it, not immediately required, in any security in which trustees are by law from time to time permitted to invest, and may retain any investment, bequest, devise or gift in the form in which the same may come into its hands, so long as it shall deem proper, and may re-invest the proceeds of the same, or any part thereof, in similar securities, and hold any property, real or personal, subject to and upon any trusts, terms or conditions imposed in the acquisition thereof. CHAPTER 124. An Act to Incorporate the Valley Cemetery Company. (Passed the 19th day of March, A. D. 1926.) Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Assembly as follows: Charles Finnigan, Reuben Thurber, Carmen Incorporation. Nase, Alton McNeill and George Lent, their successors and associates, are hereby constituted a body corporate, under the name of "The Valley Cemetery Company". take over ceme port. 2. The said corporation is authorized and em- Corporation to powered to take charge and possession of that certain tery at Freelot or parcel of land situate at Freeport, in the County of Digby, now used as a cemetery and known as Lot No. 5 and bounded and described as follows: On the North-west and North-east by lands for the purpose of owning, managing and conducting a cemetery in the Village of Freeport aforesaid, to be known as the Valley Cemetery Company, and all other lands which may hereafter be acquired by the corporation for cemetery purposes, and the said corporation shall take such measures as may be necessary for the proper care, protection, improvement and management of said lands for cemetery purposes. 3. The corporation may sue or be sued in its May sue or corporate name. be sued. members; Ass holders. Every person owning a lot in the cemetery Lot holders are shall be a member of the corporation. A majority essment of lot of the lot holders at any annual regular meeting, or any special meeting called for the purpose, shall have power to assess themselves rateably in proportion to the number of lots held by them for any money |