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the objects and purposes of the said Society. And whereas for the more 
effectual management of the affairs of the said Society and the l^etter main¬ 
tenance care and control of the property both real and personal of the said 
Society it is desirable that the said Society should Iw incorporated : Be it 
therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty and by and with 
the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Lcgi.slative Assembly 
of Victoria in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the 
same as follows that is to say-*- 
0hort title. 1.—This Act may for all purposes be cited as “The Zoological and 
Acclimatisation Society Incorporation Act 1884.” 
Interpreta- 2.—In this Act— 
tion The term “Corporation ’’ means the Zoological and Acclimatisation 
«lauie. Society of Victoria by this Act incorporated. 
The term “Council” means the Council for the time being of the 
Corporation. 
The term “ building” means an)’ house outhouse stable shed cage 
fence or other building or erection of any description whatever 
standing or being or which may hereafter stand or be upon any 
land for the time being held by or vested in the Corporation. 
Incorpora- 3.—All persons who are now or may hereafter lieconie immibers of the 
tion of the Society or Association of persons known as the Zoological and Accliniatisa- 
Sooicty. tion Society of Victoria and hereinafter in this Act referred to as the “.said 
Society” shall be a boily jKiliiic and corporate by the name of “The Zoo¬ 
logical and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria” and shall by that name 
have perpetual sucession and shall adopt and have a common seal and shall 
by the .same name sue and lx? .sued plead and he impleaded ati.‘?wer and bo 
answered unto in all courts and places whatsoever and .shall liavc power to 
compound or to prove in any competent court all debts due to the Corpora¬ 
tion and shall be capable in law of taking purchasing and holding all goods 
chattels and personal property whatsoever ami shall also l>eablc and capable 
in law of taking purchasing and holding for zoological and acclimatisation 
purposes lands tenements and hereditaments of all kinds wliat.soever and 
wheresoever situate and as regard.s such lands tenements and hereditaments 
not included in the First and Second Schedules hereto shall have power and 
be capable in law of selling exchanging granting demising letting or other¬ 
wise disposing of the same or any part thereof. 
personal 4.—All real and personal property chattels and effects which at the time ' 
property to the p3.ssing of this Act are held by the siiid Society or by any tKU vSon or 
vest in the persons in trust for the .same including the land described in the First and 
Corpora- Second Schedules hereto shall be and the same are hereby transferred to and 
tion. vested in the Corporation for the purpose of this Act but notwithstanding 
First and transfer the lands de.«cribed in the said schedules of this Act shall be 
Second Upon and subject to the same tnisLs limitations and restrictions as those 
Sobednles. which the lands described in the First Schedule are now subject. 
Executive 
officers 
of the Cor¬ 
poration. 
Existing 
rules and 
regulations 
to remain 
in force. 
5. —The Corporation shall be governed by a Council of twelve members 
to include a lYcsident two Vice-Presidents and an Honorary Treasurer. 
Nine of the members of the .said Council shall be elected by the members of 
the Corporation, Three of the members of the said Council shall be ap¬ 
pointed by the Governor in Council. The time of election term of office 
resignation and all matters relating to the office of the elected members of 
the Coiiticil .shall subject to the provisions of this Act be provided for by the 
regulations of the Corporation made a.s hereinafter provided but no elected 
or appointed member shall hold office for a longer period than three years, 
but shall be eligible for re-election. The meml>ers of the Council of the said 
Society acting as such at the time of the i)a.ssing of this Act shall be the 
Council of the Corporation until the annual meeting of the members of the 
Corporation which shall be held in the month of February One thousand 
eight hundred and eighty-five. 
6. —.All rules and regulations of the said Society in force at the time of 
the pas.sing of this Act shall be and be deemed to be nilcs and regula- 
tions of the Corporation until the same are repealed, by regulations made in 
pursuance of the provisions of this Act. 
