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of any Act respecting the inspection of flour and meal, or of any other article subject to inspection, and the said Examiners and Inspectors shall also be subject to all conditions, requirements, oaths, matters and things (touching their offices) set forth in the

said Acts.

allowed in

23. Any person who may, by law, in other cases, make a Affirmation sloemn affirmation instead of taking an oath, may make such stead of oath. solemn affirmation, in any case, when by this Act an oath is required; and any person hereby authorized to administer an oath, may, in such cases as aforesaid, administer such solemn affirmation: and any person who shall wilfully swear or affirm falsely in any case in which an oath or solemn affirmation is required or authorized by this Act, shall be guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury.

24. Nothing in this Act shall affect any rights of Her Majesty, rights of the Saving of her heirs, or successors, or of any party or person whomsoever, Crown. such rights only excepted as are herein expressly mentioned and affected.

SCHEDULE.

FORM OF A SUBMISSION TO THE BOARD OF ARBITRATION.

and the

Know all men, that the undersigned undersigned (if there be more parties, that is, more separate interests, mention them,) having a difference as to the respective rights of the said parties, in the case hereunto subjoined, have agreed and bound themselves under a penalty of dollars.

to perform the award to be made by the Board of Arbitration of the Board of Trade of the town of St. Catherines, in the case aforesaid, under the penalty aforesaid, to be paid by the party refusing to perform such award to the party ready and willing to perform the same.

In witness whereof the said parties have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals at the town of St. Catherines, on the day of A.D., 18

A.B.,

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TO BE TAKEN BY MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ARBITRATION.

I svear that I will faithfully, impartially and diligently perform my duty as a member of the Board of Arbitration of the Board of Trale of the town of St. Catherines; and that I will in all

cases

cases in which I shall act as arbitrator, give a true and just award according to the best of my judgment and ability, without fear, favor or affection of or for any party or person whomsoever. So help me God,

Preamble

In crporation.

CAP. XLVII.

An Act to incorporate the Board of Trade of the town of
Chatham.

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[Assented to 14th June, 1872]

HEREAS James Lamont, R. Pegley, John D. Ronald, Charles Northwood, A. B. McIntosh, William McKeough, Rufus Stephenson, Robert Lowe, Augustus W. Smith, Joseph Northwood, John Smith, John B. Stringer, W. J. Howard, Edward Randall, D. K. McNaughton, William Northwood, Hugh Malcolmson, D. R. VanAllen, Robert N. Rogers, Thomas Cross, Thomas Bennett, J. J. Birdsey, Andrew Northwood, J. Marx, C. H. Rose, W. E. Gardiner, C. Hunter, William S. Ireland, Archibald Lamont, Phillip Coate, Peter E. McKerral, J. Morris, Gilbert Taylor, Lubin Kent, John Hyslop, Salem Traxler, Herman J. Eberts, Samuel Barfoot, Thomas H. Taylor, Malcolm Lamont, Hector Lamont, John Wall, William Ball, H. F. Cumming, C.D. Williamson, A. G. Mess, Henry Weaver, A. B. Baxter, Willam Sutherland, Edwin Gammage, Grandison Boyd, Thomas Stone, Henry Smyth, James Higgins, John Northwood, E. Scane, J. J. Thompson, Edward Robinson, Duncan Lamont, John Morton, J. R. Ridley, D. Cameron, Henry Eberts, G. O. Freeman, C. E. Pegley, Robert S. Woods, R. O. Smith, George W. Husson, Thomaz McCrossan, William Berry, J. W. Brunger, L. A. Blackburn, W. P. Baker, Charles P. Rolls, and R. O. Miller, residents in the town f Chatham, in the County of Kent, in the Province of Ontario, hav, by their petition represented that they have associated thenselves together for some time past, for the purpose of promoting such measures as they have deemed important, towards developing the general trade and commerce of Canada, and the town of Chatham in particular, and have further represented that he said Association would be more efficient in its operations shaald an Act of incorporation, conferring certain powers on them ind their successors, be granted; and whereas it is expedient thatthe prayer of the said petition should be granted: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. The said James Lamont, R. Pegley, John D. Ronald, Clarles Northwood, A. B. McIntosh, William McKeough, Rufus Stephenson, Robert Lowe, Augustus W. Smith, Joseph Northwood, John Smith, John B. Stringer, W. J. Howard, Edward Randall, ). K. McNaughton, William Northwood, Hugh Malcolmson, D. F. Van

Allen,

Corporate

Allen, Robert N. Rogers, Thomas Cross, Thomas Bennett, J. J. Birdsey, Andrew Northwood, J. Marx, C. H. Rose, W. E. Gardiner, C. Hunter, William S. Ireland, Archibald Lamont, Phillip Coate, Peter E. McKerral, J. Morrish, Gilbert Taylor, Lubin Kent, John Hyslop, Salem Traxler, Herman J. Eberts, Samuel Barfoot, Thomas H. Taylor, Malcolm Lamont, Hector Lamont, John Wall, William Ball, H. F. Cumming, C. D. Williamson, A. G. Mess, Henry Weaver, A. B. Baxter, William Sutherland, Edwin Gammage, Grandison Boyd, Thomas Stone, Henry Smyth, James Higgins, John Northwood, E. Scane, J. J. Thompson, Edward Robinson, Duncan Lamont, John Morton, J. R. Ridley, D. Cameron, Henry Eberts, G. O. Freeman, C. E. Pegley, Robert S. Woods, R. O. Smith, G. W. Husson, Thomas McCrossan, William Berry, J. W. Brunger, L. A. Blackburn, W. P. Baker, Charles P. Rolls, and R. O. Miller, and such other persons, residents of the town of Chatham, as are or shall be associated with the persons above named for the purposes of this Act, in the manner hereinafter provided, and their successors, shall be and are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The Chatham Board of Trade," for the purposes mentioned in the preamble, and may, come and by that name, sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer general and be answered, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and powers, equity, and all other places whatsoever, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, matters and causes whatsoever; and by that name they and their successors shall have perpetual succession and may have a common seal, and the same may make, alter and change at their will and pleasure; and they and their successors by their corporate name shall have power to purchase, take, receive, hold and enjoy, any estate whatsoever, real or personal, and alienate, sell, convey or otherwise dispose of the same, or any part thereof, from time to time, and as occasion may require, and other estate, real or personal, to acquire instead thereof: Provided always, that the clear annual value of the real estate Proviso: real held by the said corporation, at one time, shall not exceed Five Property limited. Thousand Dollars; and provided also, that the said corporation Proviso; as to shall not have or exercise any corporate powers whatsoever, except such as are expressly conferred on them by this Act, or may be necessary for carrying the same into effect, according to its true intent and meaning.

name

corporate

powers.

funds of cor

2. The funds and property of the said corporation shall be Application of used and applied to and for such purposes only as may be calcu- poration. lated to promote and extend the lawful trade and commerce of Canada generally, and of the town of Chatham in particular, or as may be necessary to attain the objects for which the said corporation is constituted, according to the true intent and meaning of this Act.

service of process.

3. The usual place of meeting of the said corporation shall be Domicile and held to be the legal domicile thereof; and service at such place of any notice or process of any kind addressed to the said corporation,

shall

Council, of whom to consist.

Provisional
President,
Vice-Presi-

dent, and the

members of the Council.

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Council.

35 VICT. shall be held to be sufficient service of such notice or process on the corporation.

4. For the management of the affairs and business of the said corporation there shall be a Council, to be called "The Council of the Board of Trade," which shall, from and after the first election hereinafter mentioned, consist of a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary, and twelve other members of the said Council, all of whom shall be members of the said corporation, and shall have the powers and perform the duties hereinafter mentioned and assigned to the said Council.

5. The said Augustus W. Smith shall be President; the said A. B. McIntosh shall be Vice-President; the said R. Pegley, the Secretary, and the said James Lamont, William McKeough, Hugh Malcolmson, John B. Stringer, John D. Ronald, Thomas Bennett, D. R. VanAllen, W. J. Howard, Charles Northwood, Robert Lowe, Rufus Stephenson and John Smith, the other members of the Council, until the first election to be had under the provisions of this Act; and the Council hereby appointed shall, until the said election, have all the powers assigned to the Council by this Act.

6. The members of the said corporation shall hold a general tion of officers meeting every three months, that is to say, on the second Monday in January, April, July and October, at some place within the town of Chatham, of which notice naming the time and place, shall be given by the Secretary of the Council for the time being, at least three days previous to such meeting, through one newspaper or otherwise as may be thought necessary by the said Council; and at the general meeting on the second Monday in the month of January, the members of the said corporation present or a majority of them, shall then and there elect, in such way as shall be fixed by the by-laws of the corporation, from among the members of the corporation, one President, one Vice-President, and the Secretary, and twelve other members of the Council, who, with the President, Vice-President and Secretary, shall form the Term of office. Council of the said corporation, and shall hold their offices until others shall be elected in their stead, at the next general meeting in the month of January, as aforesaid, or until they shall be removed from office, or shall vacate the same under the provisProviso in ions of any by-laws of the corporation: Provided always, that if case of failure the said election shall not take place on the second Monday in the month of January, as aforesaid, the said corporation shall not thereby be dissolved, but such election may be had at any general meeting of the said corporation, to be called in the manner hereinafter provided, and the members of the Council in office shall remain members until the election shall be had.

of election.

Filling vacancies.

7. If any member of the said Council shall die or resign his office, or be absent for four months continuously, from the meetings of the said Council, it shall be lawful for the said Council, at any meeting thereof, to elect a member of the said corporation, to

be

be a member of the said Council in the place of the member so dying or resigning or being absent; and such new member shall be so elected by a majority of the members of the said Council Term of office present at any meeting of the same, in case there is a quorum of member filling the present at such meeting, and the member so elected shall hold vacancy. office until the next annual election and no longer, unless reelected.

corporation to

8. At any annual or general meeting of the said corporation, Majority of whether for the purpose of electing members of the Council or for have full any other purpose, a majority of members present at such meeting powers. shall be competent to do and perform all acts which, either by this Act, or by any by-law of the said corporation, are or shall be directed to be done at any such general meeting.

members.

9. Any member of the said corpcration intending to retire Retirement o therefrom or resign his membership, may at any time do so, upon giving to the Secretary, in writing, ten days' notice of such intention, and discharging any lawful liability which may be standing the books of the said corporation against him at the time of such notice.

upon

10. It shall be lawful for the said corporation or the majority Power of of them present at any general meeting, to make and enact laws, for what such by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of the purpose. said corporation, providing for the admission and expulsion or the retirement of members, and for the management of its Council officers and affairs, and for the guidance of the Board of Arbitration hereinafter mentioned, and all other by-laws in accordance with the requirements of this Act or the laws of Canada, as such majority shall deem advisable; and such by-laws shall be binding on all members of the said corporation, its officers and servants,, and all other persons whomsoever lawfully under its control: Provided that no by-law shall Proviso: be made or enacted by the said corporation without notice in writ- posed bying thereof having been given by one member and seconded by another member at a previous general meeting, and duly entered in the books of the said corporation as a minute of the said corporation.

notice of pro

laws.

come members

11. Each and every person then resident in the town of Who may beChatham, and being or having been a merchant, trader, mechanic, of the corpora manager of a bank or insurance agent, shall be eligible to become tion and how. a member of the said corporation: and at any general meeting of the said corporation it shall be lawful for any member of the said Council or of the said corporation, to propose any such person as aforesaid as a candidate for becoming a member of the said corporation; and if such proposition shall be carried by a majority of two-thirds of the members of the said corporation, then present, he shall thenceforth be a member of the corporation, and shall have all the rights and be subject to all the obligations which the other members possess or are subject to: Provided always, that

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