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     Supreme Court for the County where the prin- 
     
     cipal place of business of the society is held. 
     
    

    
     III. No such society shall be deemed to be 
     
     formed until a certificate or minute containing 
     
     the particulars mentioned in the last preceding 
     
     section set forth, signed by the members there- 
     
     of, before a Justice of the Peace, be registered 
     
     in the office of the Prothonotary or Deputy 
     
     Prothonotary of the Supreme Court as aforesaid, 
     
     in a book to be kept for that purpose, and 
     
     which shall be open to public inspection. 
     
    

    
     IV. Notice of the formation of such society 
     
     shall be published in the Royal Gazette news- 
     
     paper of this Island, for at least three inser- 
     
     tions, signed by at least three members of said 
     
     society, and such society shall thenceforth be 
     
     deemed in operation, and incorporated with the 
     
     powers and authority hereinafter mentioned. 
     
    

    
     V. On the due registry of said certificate or 
     
     minute, executed and attested as aforesaid, the 
     
     persons named in such certificate or minute, as 
     
     well as all future members of such society, shall 
     
     be, and they are hereby declared a body cor- 
     
     porate, and shall have perpetual succession and 
     
     a. common zeal, and the name of such society set 
     
     forth in such certificate or minute as aforesaid, 
     
     shall be the corporate name of sueh'society or 
     
     body corporate, and the said society shall in 
     
     such name sue and be sued, implead and be im- 
     
     pleaded in any Court of law or equity, and be 
     
     for ever capable in the law to purchase, receive, 
     
     possess and enjoy to them and their successors 
     
     any goods and chattels whatsoever, and to act 
     
     in all the concerns of the said body corporate, 
     
     for the business or purposes for which it is 
     
    
   
   
    
     hereby constituted as aforesaid, and also, that; 
     
    
   
   
    
     any such society, so formed as aforesaid, shall 
     
     from time to time, and at all times hereafter, 
     
     have full power and authority to make and or- 
     
     dain such by-laws, rules and regulations as may 
     
     be deemed necessary for the good rule and go- 
     
     vernment thereof, and for the management and 
     
     transaction of the affairs and business of the 
     
     said society, provided that such by-laws, rules 
     
     and regulations be not repugnant to the laws of 
     
     this Island or this Act. 
     
    

    
     VI. At the expiration of thirty days from 
     
     the due registry of such certificate or minute 
     
     as aforesaid, and from time to time thereafter, 
     
     as may be determined by the by-laws of such 
     
     s0ciety, the members thereof, so registered, shall 
     
     hold a meeting at a time and place to be noti- 
     
     fied by at least three members of such society, 
     
     for the election of officers,the enactment of by- 
     
     laws and regulations, the admission of new 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     members and the transaction of such business 
     
     as may be necessary for putting the said society 
     
     in effective operation. 
     
    

    
     VII. No more than the share or quantity of 
     
     grain belonging to each member in such society 
     
     shall be liable to be attached or taken in execu- 
     
     tion for the debts of any member of such so- 
     
     ciety ; Provided always, that when such share or 
     
     quantity does not exceed twenty bushels, it 
     
     shall not be so liable to be attached or taken in 
     
     execution as aforesaid, nor in any case shall 
     
     any greater amount of the share of any one share- 
     
     holder be taken in execution or attachment 
     
     than the surplus amount of his share over and 
     
     above twenty bushels, thus always allowing to 
     
     each shareholder to retain twenty bushels in the 
     
     fund. 
     
    

    
     VIII. Any quantity of grain delivered out 
     
     on credit by such society, or the authorized a— 
     
     gent or officer thereof, may be sued for in any 
     
     Court for the recovery of small debts in this Is- 
     
     land, in the same way and manner as small debts 
     
     are now recovered under the laws of this Island 
     
     relating to small debts, and conformable to any 
     
     by-law or laws, rules or regulations of the said 
     
     society, not inconsistent with this Act or the 
     
     laws of this Island. 
     
    

    
     IX. It shall be lawful for the said society to 
     
     acquire and hold lands and immovable or real 
     
     and personal prOperty, provided that the real 
     
     estate to be held by the said society, shall at no 
     
     time exceed in value the sum of one thousand 
     
     pounds, and it shall be lawful for the said soci- 
     
     ety- to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the 
     
     said property and estate as they may see fit. 
     
    

    
     X. The l rothonotary or Deputy Prothono— 
     
     tary shall be entitled for registering the certifi-u 
     
     cate aforesaid, to a fee of one shilling for every 
     
     hundred words, and for a certificate of such 
     
     registery the sum of two shillings and three- 
     
     pence. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     An Act for the better security of the Crown 
     
     and Government of the United Kingdom 
     
    
   
   
    
     within this Island. 
     
     [Iassed April 24, 1868.} 
     
    
   
   
    
     BE it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, 
     
     Council and Assembly as follows :— 
     
    

    
     I. The Act of the General Assembly of this 
     
     Island passed in the twenty-ninth year of the 
     
     reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, 
     
     Chapter nine, shall be, and the same is here- 
     
     by repealed. 
     
    

    
     II. If any person whatsoever after the pass- 
     
     ing of this act shall within this Island compass, 
     
     imagine, invent, devise, or intend to deprive,