OF THE

PROVINCE OF MANITOBA,

PASSED IN THE SESSION HELD IN THE

FORTY-SIXTH AND FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY,

QUEEN VICTORIA,

BEING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FIFTH LEGISLATURE OF MANITOBA,

BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT WINNIPEG, ON THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF MAY, 1883, AND ENDING ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF JULY FOLLOWING.

THE HONOURABLE JAMES COX AIKINS,

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.

VOL. II.

LOCAL AND PRIVATE ACTS.

Winnipeg:

RICE M, HOWARD, QUEEN'S PRINTER.

A. D. 1883.

46 & 47 VICTORIA.

CAP. LIII.

An Act to incorporate the Manitoba Dental Association.

[Assented to 7th July, 1883.]

Whereas the profession of dentistry is extensively practised Preamble. in the Province of Manitoba and it is expedient for the protection of the public that a certain standard of qualification should be required by each practitioner of said profession and that certain privileges and protection should be afforded to such practitioners.

Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

Association.

1. The following persons, that is to say: James Lee Benson, Members of Samuel Fowell Buxton Reid, Robert Ardea Harvie, John C. Bowers, H. D. Burritt, George F. Bush, Major C. Clark, Robert R. Dalgleish, Archie Doherty, Edward William Emmons, T. J. Jones, James A. McCausland, Daniel McPhee, Jule Witham Norton, Robert Hutcheson Robertson, J. B. Visburgh, J. Johnson White, Nicholas Franklin White, and every other person who holds a valid and unforfeited certificate of license to practice dentistry which has been granted to him by any board of directors, duly elected under this Act, shall form the Dental Association of the Province of Manitoba.

privileges.

2. The said association is hereby incorporated under the Corporate name and style of "The Manitoba Dental Association," and name and the said association shall be deemed to be a body corporate and politic and by the same name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal with power to break, alter, change or make new the same and by the name aforesaid may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto in all courts and places whatsoever, and may have, hold,

Board of directors, composition of.

Members of first board.

Subsequent elections.

Qualification of voters.

Ballot.

board.

receive, enjoy, possess and retain, for the purposes of said corporation, all such sums of money as may at any time be given or bequeathed to and for the use of the same, and by the said name purchase, take, hold and enjoy any real estate or any estate or interest, derived or arriving out of real estate for the purpose aforesaid and for no other purpose, and may sell, grant, lease or otherwise dispose of the same, but the real estate so held by the said corporation shall at no time exceed in annual value the sum of five thousand dollars.

3. The board of directors of said association shall consist of five members who shall hold office for three years; any member may at any time resign by letter directed to the secretary and in the event of any such resignation or a vacancy occurr ing by death or otherwise, the remaining members of the board shall elect some fit and proper person from among the licentiates, being members of this association, to supply such

vacancy.

4. The first board of directors shall be composed of the following persons: James L. Benson, Samuel T. B. Reid, and Robert J. Harvey, dentists, of the city of Winnipeg, H. D. Burret, of the town of Emerson, and J. Johnston White, of the town of Portage la Prairie, and their terms of office shall continue for three years from the passing of this Act.

5. Every subsequent election of directors shall be held in the city of Winnipeg on the second Tuesday of January in every third year, and one month's notice by circular of such intended election shall be given by the secretary to each member of the association.

6. The persons qualified to vote at the said election shall be those licentiates who have obtained certificates of license under the provisions of this Act.

7. The election of directors shall be by ballot, and the licentiates receiving the highest number of votes shall be the directors for the then ensuing term.

Publication of 8. The secretary of the association shall publish in the Manitoba Gazette the names of those persons who have been elected members of the board of directors, such publication to be in two successive issues of said Gazette next after the said election shall be held.

Meetings of board.

9. The board of directors shall meet once a year on the second Tuesday in January in the city of Winnipeg, and such meeting may be continued by adjournment from day to day until the business of the board is finished, but no session shall exceed one week.