2. No transferee of any share shall be entitled to any Effect of rights or privileges as a member or to a voice in the affairs of transfers. the Club until he has been duly elected a member of the Club.

10. Any member of the Club ceasing to be a shareholder Member ceasin the Club shall thereupon cease to be a member of the Club. ing to be

shareholder.

inembers.

11. Except as regards the original incorporators herein, no Election of person shall be a member of the Club until duly elected to such membership in such manner as is prescribed by the by-laws of the Club.

12. The directors may from time to time make by-laws By-laws. regulating the conduct of the members of the Club when on the Club premises, and fixing the terms upon which visitors may be admitted to the privileges of the Club.

13. All questions proposed for the consideration of the Voting at shareholders shall be determined by the majority of votes, the meetings. chairman presiding at such meeting having the casting vote in case of an equality of votes. With this exception, no member shall be entitled to more than one vote at any meeting of the Club.

14. The shareholders of the Club, by a majority of four- Increase of fifths, may at any time after the whole capital stock of the capital stock. Club has been paid up make a by-law for increasing the capital stock of the Club to any amount which they consider requisite for the due carrying on of the business of the Club, but so that the total capital stock is not increased beyond the sum of one hundred and four thousand dollars; and each share of such increased capital stock shall be eight thousand dollars, and may be called up from time to time in the like manner as is provided herein for calling up the original authorized capital stock.

15. Sections nine, eighteen, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty- R.S.C., c. 118. eight, thirty-nine and forty-one, and paragraphs (c), (d) and (f) of section eleven of The Companies Clauses Act shall not apply to the Club.

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CHAP. 94.

An Act to incorporate the Domestic and Foreign
Missionary Society of the Church of England in
Canada.

[Assented to 28th June, 1895.]

HEREAS the Provincial Synod of the Church of England Preamble. in Canada, representing the dioceses of Nova Scotia, Fredericton, Quebec, Montreal, Ontario, Toronto, Niagara, Huron and Algoma, by canon number nineteen of the canons of the said synod, created a society called the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada, consisting of all the members of the said Church in the said dioceses, and placed the said society under the control of a general board of management constituted as provided in the said canon; and whereas the object of the said society is the collection and administration of the general missionary funds of the said Church in the said dioceses, in connection with missions in the northwestern part of Canada and the diocese of Algoma, and missions in foreign lands; and whereas it will assist and promote the work of the said society if it is incorporated, and the said society has by its petition asked that it be incorporated and have conferred on it the powers of a corporation, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the IncorporaChurch of England in Canada, as at present constituted under tion. canon number nineteen of the provincial synod of the Church of England in Canada, as set out in the schedule to this Act, is hereby constituted a body corporate under the name and style of "The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada," hereinafter called "the Corporate Society."

name.

of the Society.

2. The Society shall be governed and controlled, and the Government board of management of the Society shall be constituted, as provided by the said canon number nineteen; and the said

Repeal, etc.,

of canon

canon shall continue to govern the Society and shall remain in force until repealed, altered or amended by the said provincial synod.

3. The said provincial synod may at any time repeal, alter governing the or amend the said canon number nineteen, and may substitute other provisions for the management and control of the Society.

Society.

Power to hold property.

4. The Society may acquire, hold, take and receive gifts, conveyances, devises and bequests of land or of personal property or of any estate or interest therein in any province of Canada, and may use, sell or dispose of the same or any part thereof, and may apply the proceeds of such property for the purposes for which the Society has been organized; and any devise of real estate shall be subject to the laws respecting the devises of real estate to religious corporations in force, at the time of such devise, in the province in which such real estate is situate.

SCHEDULE.

CANON XIX. OF THE DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY
OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN CANADA.

Adopted, 12th Session, 1883.

Art. I. This Society shall be called the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada. Art. II. This Society shall consist of all persons who are members of this Church.

Art. III.-The Society shall be under the control of a general board of missions, consisting of the bishops of this ecclesiastical province, and the clerical and lay delegates for the time being of the provincial synod, together with the board of management as hereinafter described.

On the third day of each triennial session of the provincial synod, the business of the synod shall be suspended, to allow the business connected with this Society to be transacted.

Art. IV. There shall be a board of management which shall consist of all the bishops of this ecclesiastical province and the secretary and treasurer of the board, members exofficio, together with two clergymen and two laymen from each diocese, to be appointed by the general board on the nomination of each diocesan synod, which nomination shall be made by such synod at the meeting next preceding the triennial session of the provincial synod, and this board shall have, as far as possible, the collection and administration of the general missionary funds of the Church (subject to the provisions hereinafter set forth), and shall remain in office until their successors are appointed, and shall have power to fill any vacancies that may occur in their number. Eight members shall constitute

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stitute a quorum. This board of management shall, when the general board is not in session, exercise all the powers of the general board, and shall report to the general board of missions on or before the third day of such triennial session of the provincial synod. The board shall meet at such times and places as they shall think fit.

Art. V.-The board of management is authorized to appoint such committees as it may deem desirable, and such officers as shall be needful for carrying on its work, and may frame such rules and regulations (not inconsistent with the constitution and canons of the provincial synod) as may be necessary for the transaction of its business.

Art. VI.-It is recommended that the funds collected in the several dioceses for mission work under this canon be sent in to the board, and the appropriations therefrom on behalf of domestic missions shall be made in gross, to be disbursed by the local authorities of dioceses to which such appropriations shall have been made.

Appropriations on behalf of foreign missions shall be made to the great missionary societies of the mother church in England, or in such other manner as the board of management may direct, provided that contributions specially appropriated shall be paid in strict accordance with the wishes of the donors. Nothing in this canon, however, shall be held in any wise to interfere with or affect the several diocesan mission funds, or with any other existing agreements made by any parish for special missionary aid.

Art. VII. In connection with the board of management there shall be in each diocese of the province a corresponding committee, or board of missions, to be constituted as such diocese may determine, who shall report all statistics and other information relating to the general purpose for which the Society is organized.

The diocesan board of missions, as at present constituted, shall be the corresponding committees, or boards, until other committees, or boards, shall have been appointed under the provisions of this canon.

The first board of management shall be appointed by the provincial synod at this session.

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