CHAP. 100. An Act to confer on the Commissioner of Patents certain powers for the relief of the Frost and Wood Company, Limited. [Assented to 7th July, 1900.] WHEREAS the Frost and Wood Company, Limited, having Preamble. its place of business at the town of Smiths Falls, in the province of Ontario, has, by its petition, represented that on and prior to the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, it was, by certain mesne assignments, the holder and owner of letters patent under the seal of the Patent Office, dated the sixth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, for new and useful improvements in disc harrow and pole attachments, being patent number fortythree thousand one hundred and thirty-five; that on or before the expiration of the first six years of the said letters patent, which were granted for a term of eighteen years, only the partial fee for the first six years being paid upon the issue thereof, the said company was entitled, upon application therefor, to a certificate of payment of the additional fee provided by section 22 of The Patent Act, chapter 61 of the Revised R.S.C., c. 61, Statutes, as amended by section 5 of chapter 24 of the statutes 8. 22; 1892, of 1892, and section 3 of chapter 34 of the statutes of 1893; 1893, c. 34, that the said company and others had, prior to the said s. 3. twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, invested large sums in the perfecting of the details of the manufacture of the said invention and the extension and advertising of the business dealing in the machines. covered by the said letters patent; that the clerk in the office of the said company whose duty it was to have obtained the renewal of the said letters patent inadvertently omitted to make such application before the sixth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, but soon after the omission was observed made application to pay the said fee, at which date such application could not be entertained, as the Commissioner of Patents could not then accept the additional fee and grant a certificate of payment thereof; and whereas the said company has, by its petition, prayed that it be enacted as c. 24, s. 5; Commissioner of Patents may extend duration of hereinafter set forth, 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. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in The Patent Act, or in the letters patent mentioned in the preamble, the Commissioner of Patents may receive from the Frost and letters patent. Wood Company, Limited, the application for a certificate of Rights of preserved. payment and the usual fees upon the said letters patent for the remainder of the term of eighteen years from the date thereof, and may grant and issue to the said company the certificate of payment of fees provided by The Patent Act, and an extension of the period of duration of the said letters patent to the full term of eighteen years in as full and ample a manner as if the application therefor had been duly made within six years from the date of the issue of the said letters patent. 2. Any person who has, within the period between the third persons sixth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and the extension hereunder of the said letters patent, acquired by assignment, user, manufacture or otherwise any interest or right in respect of such improvements or invention shall continue to enjoy the same as if this Act had not been passed. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. 101. An Act to incorporate the Holiness Movement Church in Canada. [Assented to 14th June, 1900.] JHEREAS the persons hereinafter named have, by their Preamble. petition, prayed that it be enacted as hereinafter set forth, 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. Ralph C. Horner, George Comerford, Edwin Claxton, IncorporaWilliam J. Nesbitt, George S. Paul, Emery F. Smith and tion. William J. Dey, together with such persons as become members of the Movement, are hereby incorporated under the name of "The Holiness Movement Church in Canada," hereinafter Corporate called "the Movement." name. Movement 2. The Movement shall consist of the bishop, clergy, and of whom members elected according to the constitution hereinafter composed. provided for. 3. The Movement may meet in general conference, and may Powers. adopt and frame constitutions and make regulations for organization, for membership and for enforcing discipline in the Movement, and for the appointment, deposition, deprivation or removal of any person bearing office therein, and for the convenient and orderly management of the property, affairs, and interest of the Movement in matters relating to and affecting only the Movement. 4. The first general conference after incorporation shall First general consist of the following ordained ministers of the Movement: conference. Ralph C. Horner, George Comerford, Edwin Claxton, William J. Nesbitt, George S. Paul, Emery F. Smith, William J. Dey, Albert T. Warren, Harvey Caverly, Robert Collins, Asa B. Van Camp, Asa McIntosh, Wesley Trotter, Robert J. Dey, Power to acquire property. Sale, etc., of property. Samuel J. Shields, Robert Radford, Isaac B. Johnson, Allan Moore, Herbert E. Randall, Edward Bishop, George A. Moran and Thomas McShea, together with such ministers as may be ordained after the passing of this Act and before the holding of such conference. 5. The Movement may, from time to time, acquire and receive conveyances of such lands, moneys, mortgages and securities or other property as may be required for the purpose of chapels, colleges, schools or other educational purposes connected with the Movement, or for the purpose of a conference hall, or for the purpose of printing and publishing houses in connection with the Movement and carrying on the business of such printing and publishing houses, and for the purposes of endowing and supporting such chapels, colleges and schools and such printing and publishing houses and any book depository in connection therewith; and may also receive the benefit of any gift or devise by will or otherwise in its corporate name for the uses and purposes of the Movement: Provided, that the annual value of real estate which the Movement may possess in any one municipality shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars; and provided also that the Movement shall, within seven years after its acquisition of any real estate, dispose of and alienate so much of the said real estate as is not required for the use and occupation of the Movement. 6. The Movement may, in addition to the powers conferred upon it by the next preceding section and subject to the provisions thereof, sell, exchange, alienate, mortgage, lease or demise any lands, tenements and hereditaments held by the Movement, whether simply by way of investment for the uses and purposes set forth in the next preceding section or not, and the Movement may also, from time to time, invest Investments. any of its funds and moneys in and upon any mortgage security of lands, tenements and hereditaments, and in debentures of municipal or public school corporations or in Dominion or provincial stock or securities in any part of Canada, and for the purposes of such investments may take, receive and accept mortgages, or assignments thereof, whether such mortgages or assignments be made and executed directly to it in its own corporate name, or to some other company or person in trust for it, and shall have and enjoy the same; and furthermore, may sell, grant, assign and transfer such mortgages, to any person, company or body capable of receiving an assignment thereof, and may release and discharge such mortgages either wholly or partly. Execution of documents. 7. All conveyances and instruments of the Movement shall be executed by affixing the corporate seal of the Movement and the signatures of the bishop and secretary for the time being of the Movement. 8. The Movement shall at all times, when required, make Return as to a full return under oath, showing the property, real and per- property. sonal, held by it, for the purposes mentioned in section 5, or any of them, the income derived from such property, and such other information relating thereto, as is required by the Governor in Council, or either House of Parliament. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. |