least once in every year at such time and place as the trustees may determine and special meetings may be called by the trustees at any time and shall be called by the trustees whenever they are requested to do so by any seven members of the Corporation. The trustees shall give notice of time and place of all meetings to lot owners by posting up the same in not less than three public places in the District of Margaretville at least one week before the date fixed for such meeting. 6. The affairs of the Corporation shall be managed Trustees, by trustees who shall be elected annually by the lot holders at the annual meeting. The number of trustees shall be five and the five persons first named in the first section of this Act shall be provisional trustees and shall hold office until the first meeting of the Corporation, when regular trustees shall be appointed. If at any time there should be no legal trustees any seven members of the Corporation may, by giving notice in the manner provided by Section 5 of this Act, call a special meeting for the purpose of electing trustees; and the persons elected as trustees at such special meeting shall be the legal trustees until the next annual meeting. Secretary 7. The trustees shall appoint one of their number President and shall also appoint a Secretary-Treasurer Treasurer. who shall keep the funds and the accounts of the Corporation, render a detailed account at the annual meeting of all receipts and expenditures, keep a plan of the lots with the name of each lot holder indicated thereon, and perform such other duties as the trustees may direct. of lots. 8. Any person owning a lot in the cemetery may Improvement fence and improve the same, erect monuments, set out trees and plants thereon, subject to the by-laws of the Corporation and the approval of the trustees. 9. The Corporation may receive any gift, devise Gifts, devises or bequest of money or other property and shall apply and bequests. the same in accordance with the terms of the said gift, devise or bequest. Assessment. 10. A majority of the lot holders at any regular annual meeting or at any special meeting called for that purpose shall have power to assess themselves rateably in proportion to the number and dimensions of the lots held by them for any money required for protecting, enlarging, fencing or improving said cemetery or for other necessary purposes connected with the management thereof; and the said Corporation in its corporate name may sue for and recover the amount of such assessment as a private debt from a lot holder or from the personal representative of any deceased lot holder; provided, that no larger sum than two dollars shall be assessed against any one lot holder or personal representative in any one year. By-laws, rules and regulations. 11. The Corporation at any regular meeting called under this Act shall have power to make by-laws, rules and regulations not inconsistent with this Act or with the laws of the Province and relating to matters connected with the management of the Corporation, and all such by-laws, rules and regulations, when approved by the Governor-in-Council, shall have the force of law. Lands vested. CHAPTER 118. An Act Respecting Lands of Dumaresq. (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. All the estate, right and title of William A. Dumaresq of Dartmouth, painter, deceased, in those lots of lands conveyed by William Crowe, trustee of Edward Jost, senior, to the said William A. Dumaresq, by Deed recorded at Halifax in Book 358, page 348, are hereby declared absolutely vested in Vera Dumaresq, Lawrence Dumaresq and Rita Dumaresq, children of the said William A. Dumaresq subject, however, to the dower, if any, of the widow of the said William A. Dumaresq, such children to inherit share and share alike. CHAPTER 119. An Act to Incorporate Friendship Lodge, Number 122, (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Asassembly, a follows: 1. Herman Harris, Louis V. Harris and Willard P. Incorporation. Brinton, all of Bear River, in the County of Annapolis; Lindley Sproul of Clementsvale, in the County of Annapolis; Cebra D. Rice and Rupert A. Harris, of Bear River, in the County of Digby, and such other persons as are or shall become members of the Lodge hereby incorporated, according to the rules and by-laws thereof, are created a Body Corporate under the name of "Friendship Lodge, No. 122, Independent Order of Oddfellows," for the purpose of holding the property and managing the affairs of the Lodge, and by that name shall have succession and a common seal, and may sue and be sued and implead and be impleaded, in any Court or Courts of law or equity. 2. The constitution and by-laws of the said Lodge Constitution by this Act incorporated are hereby declared to be and by-laws. the constitution and by-laws of the said corporation, and the said corporation may, from time to time, make, alter and repeal by-laws to carry into effect the objects of the said corporation. 3. The Corporation may collect all arrears and Arrears and moneys now due the Lodge or hereafter to become moneys due. due, under the by-laws of the Lodge or under the constitution and by-laws of the Corporation. 4. All the real and personal estate of the Lodge, or Property in which the said Lodge has any right, title or interest, vested. and all property now or formerly held by any person in trust for the said Lodge, and all debts and claims due to the said Lodge, are hereby vested absolutely in the Corporation hereby created. May acquire and convey real estate. Limited liability. 5. The Corporation shall have power to make contracts for the purposes of the Lodge, and may purchase, take and hold real estate and may sell, mortgage, lease or otherwise dispose of the same, as may be agreed upon by a resolution of the Lodge hereby incorporated, and may invest its funds on mortgage of real estate, or in any other manner it thinks proper. 6. No member of the Lodge shall be personally liable for any of the debts or liabilities of the Lodge, in a greater sum than is found to be due by him to the Lodge, unless he shall have expressly agreed to become answerable therefor in writing, by indorsement or otherwise. Preamble. CHAPTER 120. An Act to Vest Certain Lands in Cape Breton County in Arthur S. Kendall. (Passed the 29th day of April, A. D., 1922). WHEREAS, William McArmick, of the Island of Cape Breton, by deed dated November 3, 1794, and recorded in the office of the Registrar of Deeds, Sydney, in Book B, page 157, conveyed certain lands to one James Remon on certain conditions in said deed particularly set out; And Whereas, the said conditions were not fulfilled and by deed dated May 8th, 1874, and recorded in the office of the Registrar of Deeds, Sydney, in Book N N, page 69, the devisee and heir-at-law of the said William McArmick conveyed the said lands to R. J. Ingraham and the said R. J. Ingraham by deed recorded in the office of the Registrar of Deeds, Sydney, in Book N N, page 72, conveyed the same to Murray Dodd, who in return conveyed the same lands to Arthur S. Kendall, by deed, dated July 2, 1888, and recorded in the office of the Registrar of Deeds, in Book XX, page 390; And Whereas, doubt has arisen with reference to the title of the said Arthur S. Kendall in said lands, due to the interpretation of the condition in the said hereinbefore mentioned deed; And Whereas, there is no recorded conveyance from James Remon of the said lands or record of any dealings by or through him with the same; And Whereas, the said Arthur S. Kendall has held undisburbed and undisputed possession of the said lands since the date of the above mentioned deed to him; Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. That certain lot, piece or parcel of land on the Land vested. south side of Sydney River, in the County of Cape Breton, and being that part or point of Cornishtown Bar, now knows as South Bar, situate, lying and being to the westward of the Barrachois which lies on the said Bar and being the same land described in the deed from William McArmick to James Remon, dated Nov. 13, 1794, and recorded in the office of the Registrar of Deeds, Sydney, in Book B, page 157, is hereby vested in Arthur S. Kendall in fee simple. 2. All claims, rights and interests of all persons in All claims respect to the said lands are forever barred. barred. |