and the aiding of young men to study for the Ministry; And whereas the erection of a Corporation will best promote the purposes aforesaid: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: its Members general in trust. 1. The Reverend Alexander Mathieson, of Montreal, Doctor Corporation in Divinity; the Reverend John Cook, of Quebec, Doctor in constituted: Divinity; Hugh Allan, Esquire, of Montreal; John Thomp- and corporate son, Esquire, of Quebec; and the Rev. Hugh Urquhart, name. of Cornwall, Doctor in Divinity; and John Young, of Hamilton, Esquire; John Cameron, of Toronto, Esquire ; and Thomas Paton, of Montreal, Esquire, with four additional members, and their successors, to be elected in the manner hereinafter provided, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, in name and in deed, by the name of the "Board for the management Corporate "of the Temporalities Fund of the Presbyterian Church of Ca- name and "nada, in connection with the Church of Scotland," and for powers. the purposes herein aforesaid recited, by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and they and their successors, by the name aforesaid, may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in any Court of Record or place of Judicature in this Province; and Certain funds they and their successors shall be able, in law, to take, have vested in them and hold and enjoy, possess and retain, and shall henceforth have, hold, enjoy and possess, in trust, for the said Church, and for the aforesaid firstly hereinabove specified uses, all moneys, debentures, bonds, bank or other stocks and securities, which are now held by the said hereinbefore named parties as Trustees or Commissioners of the said Church, in trust for the said Church; but such holding is subject always to the special Condition on condition that the annual interest and revenues of the said which they moneys and fund now in their hands shall be and remain charged and subject, as well as regards the character as the extent and duration thereof, to the several annual charges in favour of the several Ministers and parties severally entitled thereto, of the several amounts and respective characters and durations as the same were constituted and declared at the formation of the said funds, and the joining of the same into one fund; And the said Board shall also have power without license of mortmain, or lettres d'amortissement, to have, hold, power to hold receive, take, enjoy and possess, by gift, voluntary conveyance property. devise, bequest, or otherwise, to them and their successors, any real or personal estate, to and for the use of the said Board for shall be held. Further any or either of the purposes aforesaid; Provided always, that Proviso: as to any real estate which may be so acquired, by the said Board, real estate. shall be sold within two years from the date of such acquisition thereof by the said Corporation, and the proceeds thereof invested in the public securities of the Province, Municipal Debentures, stock of the Chartered Banks, or other securities, for the uses aforesaid; And provided further, that any such Proviso: as to real certain real within a given time. Proviso as to : real estate which shall not be sold and alienated within two estate not sold years from the time when the same is received by the Corporation, shall revert to the party from whom the same came to the Corporation, or to his or her heirs, devisees or other representatives; And provided also, that no will shall be valid and devises to the sufficient to pass any real or personal estate to the said Corcorporation. poration, unless such will shall have been executed by the testator six calendar months prior to his decease; And such Board and their successors shall, moreover, have power to sell, dispose of, exchange, alter, vary, or renew any of the investments heretofore made by them, or hereafter to be made of the said funds, or such other funds, or any of them, and to re-invest any moneys arising there from, and acquittances, conveyances, transfers, releases, receipts and discharges to make and give as occasion may demand. Further powers. Annual members, and election of members in 2. At the first meeting of the Synod of the said Church hereretirement of after, there shall be elected by the said Synod seven members of the said Board, of whom four shall be laymen and three, ministers, all members of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in their places. connection with the Church of Scotland, in place of two laymen and one minister, members of the said Board, who shall then retire, but who shall be eligible, as shall all other retiring members, for re-election; and thereafter, two ministers and two laymen shall retire from the said Board annually in rotation, on the third day of the annual meeting of the Synod or other court of highest jurisdiction of the said Church, and their places shall be supplied by two ministers and two laymen, then elected by the said Synod; and the mode in which the said trustees hereby named shall retire, shall be defined by by-law of the said corporation, or in default thereof by the Synod, but the members of the Board who shall from time to time be elected in the stead of the afore-named members shall, after all the said eight members of the Board named in this Act shall have gone out, retire from office in the proportions aforesaid in rotation according to the seniority of their Casual vacan- election: In the event of the death, resignation, removal from cies how to be the Province, or leaving the communion of the said Church of any member of the said Board, the remaining members, or a majority of them present at any general meeting duly convened for that purpose, shall choose a minister or layman to fill such vacancy, subject however to the approval of the said Synod or other court at its next meeting, so that the said Board shall always consist of twelve members, of whom five shall be ministers and seven shall be laymen, all being ministers or members in full communion of the said Church; Provided always, that until such first annual meeting of its Synod as aforesaid and the election of the said seven members thereat, all the powers, rights and duties conferred upon the said Board by this Act, shall be exercised by the said eight persons named in this Act, as fully and effectually as if the said Board consisted of twelve members as aforesaid. filled. Provision until first meeting of the Synod. 3. The said Reverend John Cook, Doctor in Divinity, or in First meeting his default any other of the said eight persons named in this Act, of the Board. shall call a meeting of the said Board, within six months after the passing of this Act, at the City of Montreal, at which meeting the members of the said corporation then present, or a majority of them, shall then choose and elect from among the members of the said Board, a Chairman, holding office during the pleasure of the said corporation, and such Corporation shall elect successors to him as often as occasion may require or the by-laws of the said corporation shall prescribe; and at such meeting, and at all Quorum. other meetings of the Board, seven shall constitute a quorum : The said corporation shall further have power, if they see fit, Executive to appoint an executive committee of three members, defining and officers, Committee, their duties and powers by by-law or by-laws, and shall also &c. have power and authority to appoint on such terms as they may deem suitable, a Secretary, who shall not be a member of the Board, and such subordinate officers as may be necessary, and the same to dismiss or remove as they shall see fit, and shall further have power and authority to make and defray all necessary expenditure for and on behalf of the said corporation. 4. The said corporation or the majority thereof present at Power to any meeting of the said corporation duly convened, shall have make Stapower and authority to frame and make statutes, by-laws, rules laws, &c.--for and orders, touching and concerning the good government of what purthe said corporation, and the collection, administration, invest- poses. ment, application, appropriation and management of the funds aforesaid, and any other matter or thing which to them shall seem fit or expedient for the effectual attainment of the objects of the said corporation and the administration of its concerns, and for fixing, ascertaining and establishing the scale or rate of stipend from the said funds to the ministers or others entitled thereto under the provisions of this Act, subject however to the aforesaid original annual or other charges, and the scale or rate of annuities payable to superannuated or disabled ministers, and the same to vary, alter, repeal or make anew; Provided Proviso, always that all such by-laws shall be submitted to the first meeting of the Synod, or other supreme court thereafter, for confirmation, amendment or rejection, but in the meantime shall till then be operative as interim by-laws. 5. The said Board shall prepare and submit annually to the Annual report said Synod or other Supreme Court of the said Church, on to the Synod. the first day of the annual session thereof, a balance-sheet of the financial affairs of the fund, exhibiting the receipts and disbursements of the said corporation during the financial year next preceding such meeting, and also a report of their proceedings during such period. 6. The said Corporation shall hold their meetings at such Place of place or places within this Province as they shall from time to meeting. time direct and appoint. 7. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. САР. Public Act. CAP. LXVII. Preamble. Act 4, 5 Vic., сар. 37 amended. Board to con sist of twelve clergymen and twelve laymen. Trustees to be twelve, and four to retire yearly. Proviso. Visitors to be twelve. Provisions of 4 & 5 Vic, cap. 37, to continue to apply as heretofore. Public Act. An Act to amend the Charter of Victoria College. W [Assented to 24th July, 1858.] HEREAS it has been represented by the Board of Victoria College, in a Memorial addressed to the Provincial Legislature, that it is desirable on several grounds to increase the number of the members of that Board from fourteen to twenty-four, to consist of an equal number of Clergymen or Ministers and Laymen: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. The Charter of the Victoria College contained in the Act fourth and fifth Victoria, chapter thirty-seven, shall be and is hereby amended as follows: 1. The Board of the said College shall consist of twentyfour members, twelve of whom shall be Clergymen or Ministers, and twelve shall be Laymen, exclusive of the President of the Executive Council, the Speakers of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly, and the Attorney and Solicitor General for Upper Canada; 2. The Trustees of the said College shall be twelve, four of whom, in regular succession, shall retire from office annually, and their places be filled up in the manner provided in said Act fourth and fifth Victoria, chapter thirty-seven; Provided always, that each retiring Trustee shall be eligible for reelection to office as Trustee ; 3. The Visitors of the said College shall be twelve, (exclusive of the President of the Executive Council, the Speakers of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly, and the Attorney and Solicitor General for Upper Canada, who are exofficio Visitors by law,) to be elected annually in the manner provided in the Charter of the said College, but each Visitor shall be eligible for re-election to office. 2. All the provisions of the said Act fourth and fifth Victoria, chapter thirty-seven, shall apply to the Board and meetings of the Trustees and Visitors of the said College, as constituted by the foregoing provisions of this Act, in the same manner as they have hitherto applied to the said Board and meetings of the Trustees and Visitors of the said College under the said Act; and all the provisions of the said Act which are inconsistent with this Act, are hereby repealed. 3. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. САР. CAP. LXVIII. An Act to modify the personal composition of the [Assented to 24th July, 1858.] WHEREAS Monseigneur Pierre Flavien Turgeon, Catholic Preamble. Archbishop of Quebec, Monseigneur Charles François Baillargeon, Coadjutor of the said Archbishop, Charles Olivier Caron, Grand Vicaire of the District of Three-Rivers, and François Xavier Cóté, archiprêtre, curé of Ste. Geneviève, and the senior curé in the said District, the now members of the Corporation for the superintendence and administration of the Seminary of Nicolet, erected by Royal Letters Patent, issued at the Castle of St. Louis in Quebec, on the tenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, by His Most Gracious Majesty King George the Fourth, under the Great Seal of the Province of Lower Canada, and the hand of His Excellency George, Earl of Dalhousie, then Governor General of the said Province, have by their petition represented, that in consideration of the erection of a new Bishopric at Three-Rivers, and the great distance at which they reside from the said Seminary, it has become necessary to modify the personal composition of the Corporation, and it is expedient to grant their prayer: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: hereafter con 1. So much of the letters patent of the Seminary of Nicolet, Part of former granted as above mentioned by His Most Gracious Majesty King letters patent George the Fourth, as fixes the number of the persons, and the repealed. persons, who shall constitute and compose the said Corporation, shall be and is hereby repealed in that respect; And the of whom the said Corporation of the Seminary of Nicolet shall hereafter be said Corporaconstituted and composed as follows: 1st. Of the Roman Ca- tion shall tholic Bishop of Three-Rivers; 2nd. Of the Grand Vicar of the sist. said Bishop, residing in the town of Three-Rivers; 3rd. Of five resident members, that is to say, residing in the Seminary of Nicolet, which said five members shall be, Messieurs Thomas Caron, priest, Superior of the said Seminary of Nicolet; Louis Richer Lafleche, priest, Superintendent of Studies; Antoine Narcisse Bellemarré, priest, Director of the Students; François Xavier Côté, priest, procureur, and François Desaulniers, subdeacon, Professor of Philosophy, all residing and employed in the said Seminary of Nicolet, or their successors in office as such resident members of the said Corporation of the Seminary of Nicolet. dent members shall be re 2. When any one of the five resident members ofthe said Cor- How the resiporation shall vacate the said office of resident member, either by death or by resignation of the said office, or by ceasing to reside at |