CHAPTER 114. An Act to Incorporate the Amherst Amateur Athletic Association. (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. A. W. Moffatt, merchant; James A. Hanway, Incorporation, barrister; W. T. M. MacKinnon, optician; R. K. Smith, barrister; Frank Scott, accountant; C. H. Carter, bank manager; C. D. Shipley, insurance agent; Victor E. Silliker, clerk; J. D. Collins, insurance clerk, and such other persons as may become associated with them, members of the Association hereby incorporated, according to the rules and bylaws thereof, are hereby created and constituted a body corporate under the name, "The Amherst Amateur Athletic Association." 2. The objects of the Association shall be the pro- Objects. motion of athletic sports and pastimes, and the improvement, moral, physical and social, of the young men of Amherst Town. and personal 3. The corporation may purchase, take, lease, hold May hold real and enjoy real estate and personal property to the property. value not exceeding $15,000 and may mortgage, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of the same as may be deemed expedient. and be sued. 4. The corporation shall have a common seal, and Seal; may sue shall have power to make contracts for the purpose of the Association; to sue and be sued in the corporation name, and the corporation is hereby empowered to sue for and collect all entrance fees, subscriptions, assessments and all other accounts and moneys due the Association, and all debts, moneys and accounts due the Amherst Amateur Athletic Association before the passing of this Act, and the same shall be due and payable at the time fixed by and according to the terms of the future by-laws, rules and regulations of the Association. members. Assessment of 5. The corporation shall have the power to assess the members thereof to meet any financial difficulties that may occur, and for any sums that may be necessary for the successful carrying on of the affairs of the Association; provided, that a resolution directing such assessments be passed at any meeting called for that purpose by a two-thirds vote of the members present at such meeting. Limited liability. Provisional directors. 6. No member of the corporation shall be liable for the debts of the corporation unless he shall have expressly made himself liable therefor. 7. The parties named in Section 1 of this Act shall be provisional directors of the Association until their successors be appointed. As soon after the passing of this Act as may be convenient, the said provisional directors shall call a meeting of the Association for the appointment of directors and for the purpose of organizing under this Act. By-laws, rules 8. The members of the Association convened in and regulations. general meetings shall have power to make by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of the Association and may from time to time, at general meetings called for the purpose, add to, amend, alter and repeal the same; provided, that such by-laws do not conflict with any of the provisions of this Act or the laws of the Province, and after the said by-laws have been approved by the Governor-in-Council they shall have the force of law. Property vested. Act ceases and determines. 9. Upon the passing of this Act all the property now belonging to or held in trust by the Association hereby incorporated shall vest in and belong to the said corporation. 10. This Act shall cease and determine unless the Association shall commence and continue active operations under it within two years from the date of its passing. CHAPTER 115. An Act to Incorporate The Antigonish County Farmers' Association. (Passed the 18th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. James Thompson of Cloverville, in the County Incorporation. of Antigonish, farmer; F. R. Irish of Bayfield Road, in said County, farmer; Rev. Hugh McPherson of Antigonish, in the said County, Doctor of Divinity; Cameron Chisholm of Salt Springs, in the County of Antigonish, farmer; Henry Baxter of Addington Forks, in the County of Antigonish, farmer; Charles Manson of Lochaber, in the County of Antigonish, farmer; James B. McIsaac of Dunmore, in the County of Antigonish, farmer; Thomas F. Macdonald of Antigonish, in the County of Antigonish, farmer; and such other persons as are now, or hereafter may become associated with them and become members of the Corporation hereby created, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name of "The Antigonish County Farmers' Association." 2. The objects of the Corporation shall be: (a) the encouragement of agriculture in all its various relations, the encouragement of horticulture, arboriculture and animal husbandry in their various relations, and to promote the dissemination of useful, practical knowledge connected with or incidental to the best interests of the various matters concerning practical farming industry in the County of Antigonish aforesaid; (b) to encourage the raising of cattle, horses, sheep, swine and all kinds of poultry and any other matters incidental to such industries; (c) to encourage the dairy interest and matters connected therewith; Objects. |