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     EDWARD REILLY, QUEEN’S PRINTER. ; 
     
    
   
   
    
     No. .36. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ‘ Charlattetown’ Prince Edward Island. Thursday, August—29; 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     LAWS OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     An Act to Incorporate the Minister and Trus- 
     
     tees of the Baptist C‘hurch, Long Creek. West 
     
    
   
   
    
     River. 
     
    

    
     WHEREAS it is desirable, for the efficient 
     
     management of the temporal affairs of the 
     
     Baptistcongregation of Long Creek, West River, 
     
     that its Minister and Trustees be an incorporate 
     
     body. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieuten- 
     
     ant Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows, 
     
     that is to say ;. . , g  \ 
     
     _ I. The Reverend Malcolm Ross, ea: aficio, 
     
     John Darrach, Hugh McPhee, Alexander Mc- 
     
     . Neill, Duncan McCannell, Malcolm McNeill, 
     
     Neil McLean and Archibald Darrach, and their 
     
     successors in office, shall be, and are hereby 
     
     constituted and declared to be a body corporate, 
     
     under and by the name of the Minister and 
     
     Trustees of the Baptist Church of ‘ Long Creek, 
     
     West River, and they and their successors in 
     
     office shall have a cemmon Seahwith power to 
     
     break, change, and alter the same from time to 
     
     time, as may be found requisite, and shall be in 
     
     law capable of suing, pleading, defending and 
     
     answering, and of being sued, impleaded, de- 
     
     fended and answered unto, in all Courts of 
     
     Judicature, in all manner of actions ; and also, 
     
     of contracting and being contracted with rela- 
     
     tive to lands and funds of said corporation, and 
     
     . the other purposes for which it is constituted, 
     
     as hereinafter deelared, and may establish, put 
     
     in execution, alter or repeal such by-laws and 
     
     regulations as shall not be contrary to the 
     
     constitution and laws 'of this’ Island, or the 
     
     provisions of this Act, as may appear to the 
     
     said corporation necessary and expedient for 
     
     the interest thereof, and for these purposes 
     
    
   
   
    
     [Pass ‘d April 24, 1868.] 
     
    
   
   
    
     four membersbeing a quorum in all matters to 
     
     be done and disposed of by thelsaid corporation. 
     
    

    
     II. When any vacancy in the trustees shall 
     
     arise by death, resignation or otherwise, then 
     
     the minister of the said church shall give notice 
     
     that a congregational meeting of the said 
     
     church shall beheld on a given day for the 
     
     election of one or more trustees to fill the said 
     
     vacancy or vacancies, and the said notice 
     
     shall be given in the said church of Long Creek, 
     
     West River, immediately after divine service, 
     
     on ‘a Sabbath, at least ten days previous to the 
     
     said meeting, and the choice of said. trustee or 
     
     trustees shall be determined by the vote of the 
     
     majority of the adherents in the congregation, 
     
     being of the age of twenty-one years, who may 
     
     be contributing from six shillings and upwards, 
     
     annually, and not in arrears, and any male ado 
     
     herent in the congregation, being of the age of 
     
     twenty-one years, and who may be contributing 
     
     annually, from fifteen shillings and upwards, 
     
     and not in arrears, shall be eligible to hold 
     
     olfice as a trustee. W . 
     
    

    
     III. The seal of said congregation, and all 
     
     deeds, books, minutes, vouchers, subscriptions, 
     
     obligations and securities for moneys, and, all 
     
     and every description of property really and 
     
     truly belonging to the congregation, shall, im- 
     
     mediately after the passing of this Act, pass 
     
     into the custody and possession of the above 
     
     named trustees, and shall be by them trans- 
     
     ferred to their successors immediately following 
     
     them in office as trustees. ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     IV- It shall .and may be lawful for the said 
     
     corporation to contract for and purchase, or in 
     
     any lawful mode, whether-by demise, bequests, 
     
     or otherwise, to acquire or obtain either in fee 
     
     simple, for life, or for any term of years, tor the 
     
     benefit of the said church, messuages, lands, 
     
     tenements, buildings, real or personal estate 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     whatsoever, in this Island, and to take and re- 
     
    
   
   
    
     appoint their own chairman and other eliicers, ceive the necessary legal conveyances, securi-