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     An Act to Incorporate the Queen’s County 
     
     Agricultural Society- 
     
     [Passed 19th April, 1869.] 
     
    

    
     HEREAS, Robert Poore Haythorne, 
     
    

    
     George Beer, Henry Longworth, Charles 
     
     Palmer, James Colledge Pope, Alexander Robert- 
     
     son, William Swabey, \Villiam S. McNeill, 
     
     John Johnston, and David Mutch, and others, 
     
     desirous of forming an Association, having for 
     
     its object the improvement and furtherance of 
     
     agriculture, in Queens County, in Prince Ed- 
     
     ward Island, by holding Exhibitions of Live 
     
     Stock, Grain, Seeds, Roots, Agricultural Imple- 
     
     ments and other objects, offering premiums, 
     
     disseminating accurate information affecting the 
     
     interests of agriculture, and generally for pro- 
     
     moting all other objects for the encouragement 
     
     of rural and domestic economy, within the said 
     
     County: Be it therefore enacted, by the Ad- 
     
     ministrator of the Government, Council and 
     
     Assembly, as follows :— 
     
    
   
   
    
     I. The said Robert Poore Haythorne, George 
     
     Beer, Henry Longworth, Charles Palmer, James 
     
     Colledge Pope, Alexander Robertson, IVilliam 
     
     Swabey, William S. McNeil], John Johnston, 
     
     and David Mutch, and such other persons as are 
     
     now subscribers to this proposed society, or who 
     
     may hereafter become subscribers thereto, ac- 
     
     cording to such regulations and by-laws as shall 
     
     be adepted by the said Society, in manner 
     
     hereinafter enacted, are hereby declared to be a 
     
     body politic and corporate, under the name of 
     
     the “ Queen’s County Agricultural Society,” 
     
    

    
     'by which name they shall be a perpetual corpo- 
     
     ration, and shall have succession for ever, and a 
     
     common seal, with full power and authority to 
     
     alter, vary, break and renew the same at plea- 
     
     sure, and by the same name shall sue and be 
     
     sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be 
     
     answered, in all Courts, both of Law and Equity, 
     
     and be for ever able and capable, in the law, to 
     
     purchase, receive, possess and enjoy, to them and 
     
     their successors, any lands or hereditaments, 
     
     goods and chattels whatsoever, and to act in all 
     
     the concerns of the said body politic and cor— 
     
     porate for the businesses and purposes for which 
     
     it is hereby constituted as aforesaid, and shall 
     
     have power, from time to time, in manner 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     hereinafter mentioned, to make such bye—laws 
     
     and regulations for the better government of 
     
     the said society as shall be required or seem 
     
     necessary and beneficial, and to alter and repeal 
     
     the same and make others in their stead ; pro- 
     
     vided always, that the same be not contrary to 
     
     the Laws of this Island or the provisions of this 
     
     Act. 
     
    
   
   
    
     II. The first general meeting of the said 
     
     Society shall be held within sixty days after the 
     
     passing of this Act, at Scott’s Hall, in Kent 
     
     Street,,in Charlottetown, or at such other place, 
     
     and on such other day and time, as a majority 
     
     of the above named persons shall nominate and 
     
     appoint, and of which said meeting ten days’ 
     
     previous notice of the time and place shall be 
     
     given, by publishing such notice in two of the 
     
     local newspapers published in Charlottetown. 
     
     And at such general meeting there shall be 
     
     chosen, by a majority present at such meeting, 
     
     and entitled to vote, a President, three Vice- 
     
     l’residents, and twelve Committee men, which 
     
     said Presidents and Committee, and their suc- 
     
     cessors in office, shall have power to appoint a 
     
     Secretary and Treasurer, who shall receive and 
     
     be paid such sum as the said President and 
     
     Committee shall see fit, and such Secretary and 
     
     Treasurer shall be removeable at pleasure, and, 
     
     unless removed, shall remain in office until the 
     
     next annual meeting of the Society. 
     
    
   
   
    
     III. The President, Vice-Presidents and 
     
     Committee shall hold office for the year then 
     
     next ensuing, or until the then next annual meet- 
     
     ing of the Society. 
     
    

    
     IV. Seven members of the Committee shall 
     
     be a quorum. 
     
    
   
   
    
     V. There shall be a general meeting of the 
     
     members of the said Society held annually, on 
     
     the Tuesday next preceding Easter Sunday, in 
     
     every year, unless another day be nominated by 
     
     the Committee, who shall have power to change 
     
     the day of such annual meetings as they may 
     
     think fit. Twenty days previous notice of all 
     
     annual meetings shall be given by publishing 
     
     the same in any two local newspapers published 
     
     in Charlottetown. 
     
    

    
     VI. At the first general meeting of the said 
     
     Society, a code of Bye-laws shall be made and 
     
     adopted by a majority of members or persons 
     
     present entitled to vote, and no bye-law or 
     
     bye-laws shall afterwards be made, altered, 
     
     amended, or repealed, except at a general