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electing the President, Vice-President, and other Members of the CouDcil, and the 

 period of their continuance in ofHce, as also of electing anci appointing ;\ Treasurer, 

 two Auditors, and two Secretaries, and such other ofKcers, attendants, end servants', 

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

 8uch by-hfws from time to time shall ov may alter, vary or reToke, and shall and 

 may make such new and other by-laws as th?y shall think most useful and expe- 

 dient, so that the same be uot repugnant to the laws of England, to these presents, 

 or to the laws and statutes of this our Province of Canada, and shall anfl may also 

 enter into any resolution and make any regulation respecting any of the affairs 

 and concerns of the said body politic and coi-porate as shall be thought necessary 

 and proper. 



And we further will, grant and declare that the Council sliall 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 con- 

 cerns thereof, and shall and may — but not inconsistently with or contrary to the 

 provisions of this our Charter or any existing by-law, the laws of England, or the 

 laws and statutes of our said Province of Canada — do all such acts and deeds as 

 shall appear to them necessary or essential to be done for the purpose of carrying 

 into effect the objects and views of the said body politic and corporate. 



And we further will, grant and declare that the whole property of the said 

 body politic and corporate shall be vested, and we do hereby vest the same, solely 

 and absolutely in the members thereof, and that they shall have full power and 

 authority to sell, alienate, charge or otherwise dispose of the same as they shall 

 think proper ; but that no sale, mortgage, incumbrance, or other disposition of any 

 Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments belonging to the said body politic 

 and corporate shall be made, except with the approbation and concurrence of a 

 General Meeting. 



And we lastly declare it to be our royal will and pleasure that no resolution or 

 by-law shall on any account or pretence whatsoever be made by the said body •. 

 politic and corporate in opposition to the general scope, true intent and meaning 

 of this our Charter, the laws of England, or the laws and statutes of this our said 

 Province of Canada, and that if any such rule or by-law shall be made, the same 

 shall be absolutely null and void to all intents, effects, constructions and purposes 

 whatsoever. 



In testimony whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patent, and 

 the Great Seal of our said Province to be hereunto affixed. 



"Witness our Right Trusty and Right Well-beloved Cousin James, Earl of Elgin 

 and Kincardine, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, 

 Governor General of British North America, and Captain General and Governor- 

 ia-Chief in and over our Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and 

 the Island of Prince Edward, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c. <fec., at Quebec, 

 this fourth day of November, in the year of Our -Lord One Thousand Eight Hun- 

 dred and Fifty one, and in the tifteenth year of our reign; 



W, B. Richards, 

 By Command, - Attorney Cfeneral. 



E. A. Meeedith, 



Assistant Secretary, 



