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also have power to make and pass regulations and by-laws for the direction and management of the said Society, including all rules that may be deemed necessary for the maintenance of the honor and dignity of the profession.

3. The said Society shall be governed by a president, Government vice-presidents and council, to be constituted in such of the society. manner as may be provided by the by-laws hereafter to be made, and the persons named in the first section shall constitute such council, until such appointments are made.

4. A meeting of the said council shall be held within First meeting six months after the incorporation of the Society, for organi- for election of zation, making by-laws, the election of officers and the transaction of any other business that may arise.

5. The head office of the society shall be in the city of Head office. Montreal, or in such other place as may, from time to time,

be determined by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the Society.

OTTAWA: Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most
Excellent Majesty.

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CHAP.

J

Preamble.

Certain persong incorporated.

CHAP. 125.

An Act to incorporate the Royal Victoria Hospital.

[Assented to 23rd June, 1887.]

HEREAS the Honorable John J. C. Abbott, Alexander Paterson, and James Wentworth Buchanan have, by their petition, represented that a donation of one million dollars has been made by Sir George Stephen, Baronet, and the Honorable Sir Donald Alexander Smith, K.C.M.G., for the endowment of an hospital at Montreal, for the reception and treatment of sick and injured persons of all races and creeds, without distinction, and have prayed that an Act of incorporation be granted to such hospital, with the powers hereinafter mentioned, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of their 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 said Sir George Stephen, Baronet, the said Honorable Sir Donald Alexander Smith, K C.M.G., the Honorable John J. C. Abbott, Alexander T. Paterson, James Wentworth Buchanan, Richard Blagden Angus, Andrew Robertson and Thomas Davidson, all of Montreal, in Canada, together with such persons as are hereafter associated with them, are hereby incorporated under the name of the Royal Victoria Hospital, with power to establish an hospital at the city of Montreal, in Canada, to be called the Royal Victoria HosBranch hospi- pital, and also convalescent cottage hospitals, as branches

Name and object.

tals.

Real estate may be acquired.

Governors.

thereof, at Banff, in the North-West Territories, and at Caledonia Springs, in the Province of Ontario; and also to acquire by purchase, donation, devise, bequest, or otherwise, such real estate and securities as are requisite for the purposes of such Hospital and branches, and of providing the revenue therefor: Provided however, that the annual value of the real estate owned by the said corporation and held for revenue purposes only at any one time shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars.

2. There shall be fifteen governors of the said corporation, namely, seven persons holding office as such by reason of their official position, and eight persons individually ap First board; pointed or elected. The first board of governors shall conofficial gover- sist of the following official persons, namely, the Mayor of

nors.

Montreal,

Montreal, the president of the Board of Trade of the city of Montreal, the president of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, the president of the Bank of Montreal, the chief officer, resident at Montreal, of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, the principal of the University of McGill College, and the dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the said University, during their respective tenure of the said Individually offices, and of the following persons, namely: Sir George appointed. Stephen, Baronet; the Honorable Sir Donald Alexander Smith, K.C.M.G.; the Honorable John J. C. Abbott, Alexander T. Paterson, James Wentworth Buchanan, Richard Blagden Angus, Andrew Robertson and Thomas Davidson. The several persons, from time to time, holding the aforesaid Governors ex officio. offices shall be, ex officio, governors of the said Hospital, and the fact that any of the said individually appointed governors are also governors ex officio, shall not be held to create any vacancy in the said board.

make by

3. The governors of the said Hospital and their successors Power of Govin office, shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, have the ernors to power, from time to time, to make and, from time to time, laws, &c. to amend, by-laws, rules and regulations for the management and good government of the Hospital and its branches, and all its property and financial affairs,-to provide for and regulate the forms and proceedings incidental to the election of governors thereof, and the meetings and order of proceedings of the governors,-the internal and external management of the Hospital and its branches, including all matters and things incidental thereto, and necessary and expedient for the management and use thereof, as well in respect of the officials and surgical and medical attendants thereof, as of the patients admitted therein, the terms and conditions of the reception, treatment and dismissal of patients, the conduct and management of any dispensary therein or connected therewith, and of the medical, surgical, chemical or other scientific lectures, classes and other educational methods connected therewith, or under the control of the corporation thereof,-the appointment of all officials, internal and external, and the regulation of their powers, duties and obligations to the corporation,-the attendance upon the said Hospital and the patients thereof, by the members of medical or other scientific or educational bodies or faculties, the attendance and discipline of sick and hospital nurses, and their effective education and training as such for professional and other purposes, and finally, As to matters to provide for and regulate all matters and things falling provided for by this Act. within the powers of the said corporation, except as to matters and things for which provision is made in this Act.

4. Eight governors shall be required to constitute a Quorum, quorum of the board.

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5.

Associates.

5. In addition to the corporators hereby created, every person shall become an associate of the said corporation, who subscribes and pays to the general funds thereof, a sum not less than one thousand dollars, and pays annually towards By subscrip its support and maintenance the sum of not less than twenty dollars, or who pays to the general funds a sum not less than five thousand dollars, without any annual contribution; and also every person who establishes or endows, to the satisfaction of the board, any department, ward, bed or beds, or other sectional division of the Hospital, with an amount at least equivalent to either of the foregoing qualifications; By devise or and in the event of any devise or bequest by will of any

tion.

By endowment.

bequest.

Vacancies

among Gov

ernors.

'How filled.

Visitor may appoint in

certain case.

Objects of incorporation.

tendance.

contribution or endowment at least equivalent to one of the qualifications hereby established, the testator shall have the right to name a person to become an associate of the corporation by virtue of such contribution or endowment, as if such person himself were the donor of such contribution or endowment.

6. The office of governor shall become vacant by insanity, or other mental incapacity of the holder thereof, his insolvency, bankruptcy or conviction of any offence against the criminal law, or, in the case of an official governor, by the removal of his domicile from the Province of Quebec; and upon the occurring of any vacancy, the remaining gov ernors, acting as a board, shall have the power to appoint, and shall forthwith appoint, a governor to fill the vacancy, --which governor shall be appointed from among the persons professing some form of the Protestant religion, who have become associates of the corporation, if there be any such duly qualified; and if not, then from among the citizens of Montreal professing some form of the Protestant religion; and if any vacancy remains unfilled for a period of six months from the time of its occurrence, the Visitor hereinafter provided for may appoint a person to be a governor to fill such vacancy; and such person shall be appointed from among those who might have been lawfully so appointed by the board of governors, and shall thereupon become an associate.

7. The said Hospital is so hereby incorporated for the reception and treatment of sick and injured persons of all races and creeds without distinction, and mainly of those who are in indigent circumstances, and wholly or partially unable to provide medical or surgical treatment for themReligious at selves; and provision shall be made in the by-laws for the attendance, as far as is practicable, without interfering with medical or surgical treatment, upon patients in the Hospital of all creeds, by the ministers of religion of such creeds, respectively, upon terms of absolute equality as to all such ministers of all creeds and churches, and as shall be provided by the by-laws.

S. The Governor General of Canada for the time being, Visitor. or the high official who is at the head of public affairs in Canada, by whatever title he may be known, shall be the Visitor of the said corporation; and for the purpose of ascer- His powers taining the powers and duties of such Visitor, reference and duties. shall be had to the laws of England. In addition to his ordinary powers, the Visitor shall have the right to set aside and annul any by-law, rule or regulation made under the May annul provisions hereof, which in his opinion conflicts, or is incon- by-laws, &c. sistent, with the true intent and meaning of this Act, and with the intention of the founders of the said Hospital; and such powers may be exercised by him upon application in writing by any two of the governors of the Hospital, stating succinctly their objections to such by-law, rule or regulation, after the expiration of one month from the service Application upon the corporation of a copy of such application, and and notice in notice of the time and place of the intended presentation thereof, and after hearing any parties thereon who shall present themselves for that purpose. And the Visitor, upon such application, may, in his discretion, set aside and annul such by-law, and the same shall thereafter be annulled, and shall have no further force and effect; and his decision there- His decision on shall be final and absolute, and shall not be set aside or final. disregarded by any tribunal whatever. But nothing herein Certain rights contained shall be construed to prevent any interested person who contends that the enactment of any by-law, rule or regulation is illegal, from taking any lawful proceeding before any competent court to set aside the same.

such case.

saved.

with an other

9. The corporation shall have power to make arrange- Power to ments with any other hospital corporation for the acquisi- amalgamate tion thereof, or for the amalgamation thereof with and hospital. under the name of the corporation hereby created: provided that such terms and conditions shall not change or Conditions. modify in any respect the constitution of the governing body of the corporation hereby created, or the powers or duties of the Visitor hereby provided for, or the offices, qualities, religious belief or other characteristics, hereby provided for as requisite, in persons who may become governors thereof. And upon the completion of such amalga- This Act to mation, the amalgamated corporation shall be governed by govern. the provisions of this Act.

established as

10. The payment of the said sum of one million dollars Indissoluble to the corporation hereby created, and the acceptance and contract use thereof by the said corporation, shall be held to consti- between the tute an indissoluble contract between the said corporation donors and and the said Sir George Stephen and the said Honorable tion. Sir Donald Alexander Smith, their heirs, representatives and assigns, that the charter, constitution and franchises of the said Royal Victoria Hospital shall be and remain forever as provided in this Act, unless, and in so far only, as

the

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