the same are changed at the special instance and request, and with the express consent of them, their heirs, or representatives. OTTAWA: Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. CHAP. CHAP. 126. An Act to incorporate the Collingwood General and WH [Assented to 23rd June, 1887.] HEREAS Thomas Long, merchant, Herbert Young Preamble、 Telfer, merchant, Charles Gamon, barrister, William John Frame, merchant, Charles Macdonell, miller, David Gibson Cooper, mill manager, William Basil Hamilton, gentleman, and William Taylor, mill foreman, all of the town of Collingwood, in the county of Simcoe, and Province of Ontario, have, by their petition, represented that it is their intention to establish an hospital in the said town of Collingwood, for the assistance, benefit and relief of persons sick or injured by accidents, and have prayed that corporate powers may be conferred upon them; and whereas 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 said Thomas Long, Herbert Young Telfer, Charles Certain per Gamon, William John Frame, Charles Macdonell, David sons incorporated. Gibson Cooper, William Basil Hamilton and William Taylor, and all other persons who, under the provisions of this Act, become members of the said institution, shall be and are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate in deed and in name, by the name of "The Collingwood General Corporate and Marine Hospital." name. as to real 2. The said Corporation may obtain any money or per- May hold prosonal estate, and may purchase, acquire and hold any real perty; limit estate within the said Province of Ontario; provided that estate. the annual value of the real estate held by it at any one time does not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars and the said Corporation shall have the right to appoint and remove at pleasure such physicians, officers and servants as may be deemed advisable. 3. The said Corporation shall have power, from time to May sell real time, to sell, lease or otherwise alienate, dispose of and con- estate not required. vey any real estate which they do not require for their actual use and occupation. Meetings and by-laws. Election of 4. The said Corporation may, from time to time, hold meetings of the members of the said Corporation, and the majority of those present at any of the meetings of the said Corporation may make and ordain any by-laws, rules and regulations, not being contrary to the laws of Canada or to this Act, as they deem useful and necessary for the election of a committee of management or trustees, and generally for the conduct or government of the said institution, and may from time to time abrogate, repeal, change or alter the same as may be found expedient. 5. At any meeting of the said Corporation to be held in new members. such manner and at such hour and place as shall be directed by the said by-laws, rules and regulations, the members of the said Corporation may elect such persons to be members thereof as they or a majority of them then present see fit: Provided, that no act done or authorized to be done at any such meeting of the said Corporation shall be valid unless six members at least be present and a majority of them consent thereto. Quorum. As to estate 6. The estate, real and personal, of the said institution, already held. when this Act takes effect, shall vest in and become the property of the Corporation hereby created. Provisional officers or trustees. Annual re ment and 7. The first officers or trustees of the said Corporation shall be the said Thomas Long, Herbert Young Telfer, Charles Gamon, William John Frame, Charles Macdonell, David Gibson Cooper, William Basil Hamilton and William Taylor, who shall continue to be the officers and managing committee of the said Corporation until others are elected in their stead under the by-laws, rules and regulations of the said institution. 8. The said Corporation shall render to both Houses of turn to Parlia- the Parliament of Canada, and to the Auditor General, Auditor-Gen- annually, a return of the affairs of the Corporation and of the real and personal property held by them,-which return shall be made within the first twenty days of each session of the said Parliament. eral. OTTAWA: Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most CHAP. W CHAP. 127. An Act for the relief of Suzan Ash. [Assented to 22rd June, 1887.] HEREAS Dame Suzan Ash, of the city of Montreal, Preamble. in the Province of Quebec, wife of William Manton, formerly of the city of Kingston, in the Province of Ontario, but now of parts unknown in the United States of America, hath, by her petition, humbly set forth, that on the twentyfourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixtyeight, she was lawfully married to the said William Manton; that they lived and cohabited together as husband and wife until about the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight; that the said William Manton, on the third day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, went through the form of marriage with one Mary Ford Hatch; that the said William Manton, since his alleged marriage with the said Mary Ford Hatch, has lived and cohabited with her; that no issue was born of the marriage between the said William Manton and the said Suzan Ash; and whereas the said Suzan Ash has humbly prayed that the said marriage may be dissolved, and be declared henceforth null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever; and that it may be declared and enacted lawful for the said Suzan Ash at any time hereafter to marry any other man whom she might lawfully have married in case said marriage had not been solemnized'; and that it may be declared and enacted that in the event of the said Suzan Ash hereafter marrying she and the man she so marries, and the issue, if any, of any such marriage, shall have and possess the same rights in every respect as if the marriage with the said William Manton had never been solemnized; and whereas it is expedient that the prayer of the said petition should be granted: 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 marriage between the said Suzan Ash and Marriage the said William Manton, her husband, is hereby dissolved, dissolved. and shall be henceforth null and void to all intents and. purposes whatsoever. Suzan Ash may marry again. Rights in such case. 2. It shall be lawful for the said Suzan Ash, at any time hereafter, to marry any other man whom she might lawfully marry in case the said marriage had not been solemnized. 3. In the event of the said Suzan Ash hereafter marrying, she and the man whom she so marries and the issue, if any, of any such marriage, shall have and possess the same rights in every respect as if her said marriage with the said William Manton had never been solemnized. OTTAWA Printed by BROWN CHAMBERLIN, Law Printer to the Queen's Most CHAP. |