188 CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 



vary, break, and rene-w tlie same at their discretion, and by tlie same name to sue 

 aud be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in every 

 eouH, of us, our heirs aud successors, and be forever capable in the law to pur- 

 chase, receive, possess, and enjoy to tliem and their successors, any goods and 

 chattels whatsoever, and also to be able and capable in law (notwithstanding the 

 Statutes of Mortmain) to take, purchase, possess, hold and enjoy, to them and 

 their successors, a Hall or House, and any Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or 

 Hereditaments whatsoever, the yearly value of which, including the site of the 

 said Hall, shall not exceed in the whole the sum of Two thousand pounds, com- 

 puting the same respectivelj' at the rack rent which might have been had or gotten 

 for the.eanie respectively at the time of the purchase or acquisition thereof, and 

 to act in all the concerns of the said body politic and corporate for the purposes 

 aforesaid as fully and effectually, to all intents, effects, eoustruntions, and purposes 

 whatsoever, as any other of our liege subjects or any other body politic or 

 corporate in our said Province of Canada, not being under any disability, might 

 do in their respective eoncerus. 



And we do hereby gTanf our especial license and authority unto all and every 

 person and persons, bodies politic and corporate, otherwise competent, to grant, 

 sell, alien, and convey in Mortmain unto and to the use of the said Society and 

 their eufcessore any Messuages, Lands, Tenements,- or Hereditaments not exceed- 

 ing sueii annual value as aforesaid. And our will and pleasure is, and we further 

 grant and declare, that there shall be a General Meeting of the Menibers of the 

 said body politic and corporate, to be held from time to time as hereinafter men- 

 tioned, and that tJiere shall always be a Ooimcil to direct and manage the concerns 

 of the said body politic and corporate, and that the general meetings of the 

 council shall have the entire direction and )>ianagement of the same in the manner 

 and subject to the regulations hereinafter mentioned. But oiu' will a!id pleasure 

 is, that at all C+eneral Meetings atid Meetings of tlie (.'ouncil, the majority of the 

 me!nbei-s present, and having a right to vote tliereat res{)ectively, shall diicide 

 upon the matters prf^poumled at such meetings, the person jiresiding then^iii hav- 

 ing, in ease of an equality of numbers, a second or easting vote. 



And we do hereby also will, arrant, and declare that the Council shall consist of 

 a President, not more than three nur less than one Viee-i're.sident, and no! more 

 than eleven nor less than three other Members, to be elected out of the members 

 of the said bod}'- politic and corporate, and that the first Meinbers of the Council, 

 exclusive of the President, shall be elected within six calendar months after the 

 date of this our Charier, and that the said William E. Logan shall be the lirst 

 President of the said body politic and corporate. 



And we do hereby furtlier will, grant and declare that it shall be lawful for the 

 members of the said body politic and corporate hereby established to hold General 

 Meetings once in the year or oftener, for tlie purposes hereinafter luentioneJ — viz., 

 that the General Meeting shall choose the President, Vice Presidents, and other 

 Members of the Council; that Goiieral Meetings .shall make and establish 

 Bueh by-laws as they f;haU deem to be u-ofiil and necessary for the reguhition of 

 the said body politic and corporate, for the admission of members, the (establish- 

 ment of Braneh Societies, the }nanagement of the estate, goods, and bu.siness of 

 ib& said body politic and corporate, and for fixing and determining the manner of 



