it shall be lawful for the Board of Governors, to proceed, at their first Annual Meeting thereafter, to the election, by ballot, of one Governor to fill each such vacancy as aforesaid. for certain purposes. VI. It shall and may be lawful for the Board of Governors, Governors to from time to time, to make By-laws and Rules, for the admission make By-laws into, and for the internal management and regulation of the said Hospital, or for the leasing or management of such of the lands or property of the said Hospital as may not be required for the immediate use thereof, and generally to make such By-laws and Rules for the internal management and regulation of the said Hospital, as shall to them seem meet and expedient; Pro Proviso: for vided always, that such By-laws or Rules shall be laid before approval of the Governor of this Province, in Council, for his approval, By-laws. within thirty days after the same shall have been made or adopted, and may be by him disallowed within one month after the same shall be received when transmitted by the said Board of Governors; And provided always, that if no notifica- Proviso. tion of approval or disapproval be received by the said Board within one month after the same shall have been transmitted to the Governor in Council, then such By-laws and Rules shall be deemed to have been approved, and shall then forthwith be in force. VII. Any five of the said Governors shall form a quorum for Quorum. the transaction of business. VIII. The annual general meeting of the Board of Governors General meetshall be held on the first Monday of November in each and ing. every year: The first meeting to be held on Wednesday, the First meeting. fifth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six. IX. The said Governors shall at each Annual Meeting to be Appointment held as aforesaid, appoint a Chairman to hold office for the then of Chairman. ensuing year; the Chairman of the preceding year shall hold office till the appointment of his successor. X. The said Board of Governors shall have power to appoint Appointment a Secretary and such other officers for the proper management of Secretary, of the Hospital as they shall consider necessary, with power to &c. remove the said Secretary or any such officer at pleasure, and to appoint another or others in his or their places. XI. It shall be the duty of the Clerk or Secretary, to attend Duties of Seall meetings of the Board and to keep minutes of their proceed- cretary. ings, and to communicate vacancies as herein before provided, and generally to perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board in a By-law for regulating his office. XII. It shall be the duty of the said Board of Governors to Governors to invest in good, safe and sufficient securities, all moneys which invest Hospi may tal moneys. Governor of may at any time come into their hands, for the use and support of the said Hospital, which may not be required for the immediate expenditure of the same; and from time to time, when To account to required so to do by the Governor of this Province, to render an this Province. account in detail of all moneys received by them as Governors of the said Hospital, specifying the sources from which the same have arisen or been received, and the manner in which the same have been invested or expended, and all such particulars as may be necessary to shew the state of the funds or Reports to endowment, if any, of the said Hospital; and the said Board Legislature. of Governors shall also lay an annual statement of the affairs of the Hospital before both Houses of the Legislature, within thirty days after the commencement of each session. Additional powers to Board of Go vernors. Medical Stud XIII. The said Board of Governors, by the corporate name aforesaid, shall have, in addition to the powers conferred by the "Interpretation Act" aforesaid, power to distrain for any rent or rents of any lands or buildings, or any account whatever, and to distrain for rents when the same are in arrear and unpaid, and to act in all matters touching the collection and control of the funds of the said Hospital, and the management and disposition of any lands belonging to the same, as shall appear to them to be most conducive to the interest of the said Hospital. XIV. It shall and may be lawful for any Medical Student in ents may visit the said City of Kingston to visit the wards of the said Hospithe Hospital. tal and attend them, upon the payment of such fees, and under such regulations and instructions as the said Board of Gover nors shall and may by any By-law from time to time direct and appoint, and with the sanction of the attending Medical Officers. XV. Neither the repeal of the Act hereinbefore repealed, nor the change hereby made in the corporate name of or in the composition of the Corporation thereby constituted and hereby continued, shall in any wise affect contracts or any proceedings heretofore bona fide made or had pursuant to the provisions of the said Act, or any other Act relating to the said Hospital. XVI. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. XVII. The Interpretation Act shall apply to this Act, except wherever the provisions of this Act are inconsistent therewith. CAP. CAP. CVIII. An Act to enable the Town Council of the Town of [Assented to 1st July, 1856.] HEREAS the Town Council of the Town of St. Catharines, Preamble. in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, purchased a part of Lot number seven in the seventh concession of the Township of Grantham, for the purpose of a Public Cemetery; And whereas the said Council subsequently acquired another tract of land more advantageously situate for the purpose of a Public Cemetery, and has expended a large sum of money in preparing the said last mentioned tract of land for Cemetery purposes; And whereas the said Council no longer requires the said land so purchased as aforesaid, and desires to be authorized to dispose thereof: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: I. The said Town Council of the Town. of St. Catharines Town Council shall have full power and authority to sell and dispose of that may dispose of part of Lot number seven in the seventh concession of the the said lot. Township of Grantham, in the County of Lincoln, heretofore purchased by the said Council for the purpose of a Public Cemetery, and to convey the same in fee simple to such person or persons as may be desirous of purchasing the same. II. This Act shall be a Public Act, and the Interpretation Act Public Act. shall apply to it. САР. СІХ. An Act to alter the survey of that part of the Third Concession of the Township of Onondaga, commonly called "Martin's Bend," and to confirm a new survey thereof, and for other purposes. [Assented to 1st July, 1856.] WHEREAS the Lots laid out in that part of the Third Con- Preamble. cession West of Fairchild's Creek in the Township of Onondaga in the County of Brant, commonly called Martin's Bend, being part of the Indian Lands on the Grand River, according to the survey of the said Township made by James Kirkpatrick, Deputy Provincial Surveyor, are not adapted to the peculiar topographical position of the land in the said Bend; And whereas all the land in the said Bend has been settled upon, and the settlers have made improvements upon the lands 26 occupied Lands at Mar occupied by them without reference to the shape or boundaries of the lots as defined by the said survey, and such settlers are desirous of purchasing the lands held by them without reference to such survey; And whereas a survey of the said Bend has been made by Lewis Burwell, a Deputy Provincial Surveyor, and a diagram thereof bearing date the thirty-first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fiftythree, subdividing the said Bend in accordance with the respective possessions of the several settlers in the said Bend, has been submitted to His Excellency the Governor in Council, and is now among the plans in the Indian Department; And whereas the settlers in the said Bend have petitioned to be allowed to purchase the lands held by them in accordance with the said survey of the said Lewis Burwell, and that the several roads marked on said diagram should be established and confirmed as public highways; And whereas it is expedient that the said survey of the said James Kirkpatrick, as far as the same relates to lots numbers twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twentyeight, twenty-nine, thirty and thirty-one of the said third Concession of the Township of Onondaga, being the Lots contained in the said Bend, should be set aside, and that the said survey of the said Lewis Burwell should be adopted in the place thereof: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: I. It shall and may be lawful for the Superintendent Genera tin's Bend may of Indian affairs to sell and dispose of and cause to be granted be granted ac- all or any of the lands in the said Bend lying and being to the cording to the south-west of the limit between Lots numbers twenty and Survey of Lewie Bartwenty-one, and embracing lots from twenty-one to thirty-one, well. both inclusive, in the said Third Concession of the said Township of Onondaga, in accordance with the survey of the said Lewis Burwell, and without reference to the survey of the said James Kirkpatrick or the boundaries of Lots thereby established. Survey of Burwell subthat of Kirkpatrick. stituted for Certain roads Plan confirm II. From and after the passing of this Act, the said survey of the said James Kirkpatrick, as far as the same relates to the subdivision of the said Bend south-westerly from the said limit between lots numbers twenty and twenty-one, shall be superseded by the said survey of the said Lewis Burwell, and the said survey of the said Lewis Burwell, as far as the lands in the said Bend are concerned, shall have the same force and effect as and shall for all purposes be deemed and taken to be the original survey of the said concession. III. The roads marked on the said diagram of the said Lewis on Burwell's Burwell in red, the one running from the Grand River opposite the Village of Newport, between lots G. and H. F. and J. and D. and E., and through lots B. and A., and the other from the last mentioned Road, near the centre of lot D., south-easterly ed. through through C. and part of the lot commonly called the "Mission Lot," to the Grand River, shall be established and are hereby confirmed of the width of forty feet as public highways. IV. And whereas the allowance for Road between lots Recital. numbers nineteen and twenty in the said Third Concession of A certain road the Township of Onondaga, from the River's edge, south- allowance may easterly to the present travelled road running across the said Lots be granted to W. N. Alger, nineteen and twenty, is by reason of the nature of the ground on his giving unsuited and impracticable for a road; And whereas William other land for N. Alger of the said Township of Onondaga, Esquire, is seized the road. in fee of the said lots nineteen and twenty, and is willing to lay out a road along the northern eastern limit of the said lot number nineteen, in the place of the said original allowance for Road between lots numbers nineteen and twenty; therefore it shall and may be lawful for the Governor in Council to cause to be granted to the said William N. Alger, his heirs and assigns for ever, the said original allowance for road between lots nineteen and twenty, from the said travelled road to within one chain of the River's edge, as an equivalent for the road to be opened by him along the north-eastern limit of the said lot" nineteen. River. be V. For and notwithstanding any Act, law, usage or custom to Certain lands the contrary thereof, it shall and may be lawful for the Superin- in Cayuga tendent General of Indian affairs to cause to be sold or granted any Town may of the Indian lands not already granted in the Town of Cayuga, out reservagranted within the County of Haldimand, lying to the west of Ouse Street, tion of right and south of the Bridge across the Grand River at King Street, of way to the in the said Town or Cayuga, without any reservation of right to the public or any individual to cross such lands to the River's edge, or any manner of reservation whatsoever, except any right way already acquired by the public or by any individual; Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall authorize Proviso. or be construed to authorize the selling or granting of any lands laid out as streets or allowance for streets upon the plan of the said Town of Cayuga. of VI. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. САР. СХ. An Act to vest in the Agricultural Societies of Mid- W purposes, with [Assented to 1st July, 1856.] Public Act. HEREAS the Agricultural Society of the County of Preamble. day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, 26* Letters |