ROYAL CHARTER OF INCORPORATION. XI 



meetings of the Council shall have the entire direction and management 

 of the same in the manner and subject to the regulations hereinafter 

 mentioned. But our will and pleasure is, that at all General Meetings 

 and Meetings of the Council, the majority of the members present, and 

 having a right to vote thereat respectively, shall decide upon the matters 

 propounded at such meetings, the person presiding therein having, in 

 case of an equality of numbers, a second or casting vote. 



And we do hereby also will, grant, and declare that the Council shall 

 consist of a President, not more than three nor less than one Vice-Presi- 

 dent, and not more than eleven nor less than three other Members, to be 

 elected out of the members of the said body politic and corporate, and 

 that the first Members of the Council, exclusive of the President, shall 

 be elected within six calendar months after the date of this our Charter, 

 and that the said William E. Logan shall be the first President of the 

 said body politic and corporate. 



And we do hereby further will, grant and declare that it shall be law- 

 ful for the Members of the said body politic and corporate hereby 

 established to hold General Meetings once in the year or oftener, for the 

 purposes hereinafter mentioned — viz., that the General Meeting shall 

 choose the President, Vice-Presidents, and other Members of the 

 Council ; that the General Meeting shall make and establish such by- 

 laws as they shall deem to be useful and necessary for the regulation of 

 the said body politic and corporate, for the admission of members, the 

 establishment of Branch Societies, the management of the estate, goods, 

 and business of the said body politic and corporate, and for fixing and 

 determining the manner of electing the President, Vice-Presidents, and 

 other Members of the Council, and the period of their continuance in 

 office, as also of electing and appointing a Treasurer, two Auditors, and 

 two Secretaries, and such other officers, attendants, and servants, as shall 

 be deemed necessary or useful for the said body politic and corporate, 

 and such by-laws from time to time shall or may alter, vary, or revoke, 

 and shall or may make such new and other by-laws as they shall think 

 most useful and expedient, so that the same be not repugnant to the laws 

 of England, to these presents, or to the laws and statutes of this our 

 Province of Canada, and shall and may also enter into any resolution 

 and make any regulation respecting any of the affairs and concerns of 

 the said body politic and corporate as shall be thought necessary and 

 proper. 



And we further will, grant and declare that the Council shall have the 

 sole management of the income and funds of the said body politic and 

 corporate, and also the entire management and superintendence of all 

 the other affairs and concerns thereof, and shall and may — but not 



