(b) to make and enter into contracts, bonds, engagements and agreements to collect all moneys due it or that may become due it, to sue and be sued in its corporate name for all claims and demands due to or owing by said corporation; (c) to acquire, purchase, take, own, lease, hold, repair, improve, maintain, alter, and enjoy real estate and personal property for the purposes of the corporation, and to mortgage, sell, lease, assign or otherwise dispose of the same as may be deemed expedient by the corporation; (d) to carry on and maintain the Martime Home for Girls as a reformatory, foster home and training school for delinquent and neglected girls in accordance with the provisions of the Juvenile Delinquents Act (Canada), the Children's Protection Acts of the Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, and all other Acts of the Parliament of Canada or said Provinces in relation to juvenile delinquency; (e) to borrow or raise money by the issue of bonds, debentures, debenture stock, or other obligations or securities of the corporation, or by mortgage or charge of all or any part of the property of the corporation; and to purchase, redeem, or pay off any of the same; (f) to draw, make, accept and indorse, discount, execute, and issue promissory notes, bills of exchange, cheques and other negotiable or transferable instruments; (g) to invest and deal with the moneys of the corporation not immediately required in such manner as may from time to time be determined; (h) to do all or any of the above things as principals, agents, trustees or otherwise, and by or through trustees, agents or otherwise; (i) to do all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects; and the objects specified in each para graph shall be in no wise restricted by reference (j) to elect an Executive Committee which shall have authority to conduct the business of the Board of Governors in intervals between Annual Meetings in harmony with the by-laws and regulations of the corporation, and the policies adopted by the Annual Meeting. lity. 6. No member of the corporation shall be liable Limited liabifor the debts of the corporation unless he shall have rendered himself personally liable therefor. from taxation. 7. Such read estate and personal property of the Exemption corporation as may be used exclusively for the purposes of the corporation shall be exempt from municipal taxation. ing. 8. The Annual Meeting of the corporation for the Annual Meetpresentation of reports and the election or appointment of officers, executive and other committees, shall be held in the month of January in each year at such time and place as may be determined by the Executive Committee. CHAPTER 134. Incorporation. Objects. Powers. An Act to Incorporate the Maritime Oddfellows' Home. (Passed the 23rd day of April, A. D., 1923). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: 1. Robert H. MacKay, manufacturer, New Glasgow; John A. Craig, druggist, Yarmouth; Peter A. Macgowan, railway employee, Moncton, N. B.; Charles H. Black, merchant, Charlottetown, P. E. I.; William A. MacKay, agriculturist, Truro, N. S.; Annie McBean, housewife, Inverness, N. S., and Agnes Davies, housewife, Halifax, and such other persons as may hereafter from time to time be appointed or elected by the Grand Lodge of Independent Order of Oddfellows of the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Members of the Board of Trustees, hereinafter mentioned, are hereby constituted a body corporate under the name of the Maritime OddFellows' Home, and shall have the right to sue and be sued. 2. The objects of the Corporation shall be to provide a home for the maintenance and support of aged, infirm or indigent members of the Independent Order of Oddfellows of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, and for their wives, widows and children, and for members of the Daughters of Rebekah in connection with said Grand Lodge, their children and such other indigent members of the Order as the Board may direct. 3. (a) The Corporation shall have power to take, acquire, purchase, have, hold, sell, convey, mortgage, lease, use and utilize real estate and personal property and all interests and easements therein, and shall have power to build, erect, furnish, maintain, lease, let, rent or hire any building or buildings or real estate by it held; (b) The Corporation shall have power to engage in the business of farming, fruit growing and the raising of live stock and poultry; (c) the Corporation shall have power to conduct a boarding house and restaurant and afford bed, board and lodging to visiting or transient members of the Order or their dependents. 4. The affairs of the Corporation shall be managed Management. by a Board of Trustees, not less than seven, and not more than ten in number. Two of these shall be elected or appointed by the Rebekah Assembly of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, and the remainder by the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Oddfellows of the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Such Trustees or a majority of them in regular meeting assembled may exercise all the powers of the Corporation and act in its name and behalf and use its seal, subject to any provisions touching the exercise of such powers in the by-laws provided. 5. Such Corporation may make by-laws not in- By-laws. consistent with the laws of the Province for all purposes relative to the affairs and business of the Corporation and for the management of the Home, subject to the approval of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Oddfellows of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, and subject to the approval of the Governor-in-Council. Trustees. 6. The incorporators named in Section One of this Provisional Act shall be the first or provisional trustees and shall hold office until their successors are appointed. Any failure to elect trustees on any day appointed or as by the by-laws directed shall not cause a dissolution of the Corporation, but the trustees then in office shall continue until their successors are appointed. of By-laws evid 7. In any action to which the Corporation may be a Certified Copy party a copy of any by-law bearing the seal of the ence. Corporation and the signature of what purports to be the signature of the Secretary or some person purporting to have affixed such seal by authority, shall be prima facie evidence of such by-law. CHAPTER 135. An Act to Incorporate The Mic-Mac Amateur Aquatic Club. (Passed the 23rd day of April, A. D., 1923). Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows: Incorporation. 1. Frank W. Walker, Merchant; Walter C. Bishop Merchant; William C. Borrett, Ronald S. Findlay, Clerk; Gerald G. Gladwin, Clerk; Lorraine F. Heisler, Wharfinger; William H. Nichols, Plumber; and George W. Young, Merchant, all of Dartmouth, in the County of Halifax, and such other persons as now are members or shall hereafter become members of the Club, are hereby constituted and shall be a body corporate under the name of "The Mic-Mac Aquatic Club," for the promotion and enjoyment and encouragement of all forms of aquatic sports, including, but nor restricting the generality thereof, rowing, canoeing and swimming. Powers. Real estate vested. Real estate not By-laws. 2. The Club shall have the power to purchase, acquire, lease, hold, rent, possess and enjoy lands and tenements and real and immovable estate, situate and being in the Town of Dartmouth, and in the County of Halifax, necessary for the purposes for which the said Club is created; and to enter into any contract or contracts for the acquirement of such real estate or immovables, or for the leasing or renting of any land, building or buildings which may be required by the said Club. 3. All real estate, when so acquired by the Club, shall vest in the said Club, and may be sold, leased or otherwise disposed of by the said Club when so desired. 4. The value of real estate acquired by the said Club shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars. 5. The Club shall have power to make by-laws not inconsistent with this Act or the laws of the Province, and also shall have power to repeal and |