Oath of alle benefitting, obligatory. 2. Provided that no such minister shall be entitled to giance by the the benefits hereby granted, unless he shall have taken the oath of allegiance before the clerk of the peace of the district in which he shall reside, which said oath the said clerk of the said peace is authorized and required to administer, and the same to certify in duplicate, under his signature, whereof one copy shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the peace of the district, the cost of which said filing shall not exceed one dollar, and the other copy shall remain in the possession of the said minister; nor unless such minister shall, at the time of making such oath, produce to the said clerk of the peace, the certificate of his ordination, or a legally attested copy thereof; and provided also, that the registers which shall be so kept and the several entries therein, according to the laws in force in this province, as well as authentic copies of such entries, shall, to all intents and purposes, be good and available in law, as if the said registers had been kept pursuant to any act, statute or law in force in this province, in relation to registers of baptisms, marriages and deaths. Duplicate of the registers, to be the property of the congregation. Laws upon of Registers, apply. 3. The duplicate of the registers to be kept by any such minister, shall be the property of the congregation, and whenever the connection between such minister and the said congregation shall cease, such registers shall be deposited with the deacons or churchwardens thereof, to be kept by the successor of such minister for the use of the said congregation. 4. The said minister shall, in all respects, comply with the keeping and be governed by the acts, statutes and laws in force in this province, in the keeping of the said registers, and shall, in case of disobedience to the requirements thereof, be liable to the penalties in like cases thereby imposed, which penalties shall be paid, recoverable, applied and accounted for in the same manner, as the penalties imposed by them, are therein directed to be recovered, paid, applied and accounted for. Act in fo.ce. 5. This act shall come into force on the day of its sanction. CAP. LXIX. An act to extend the powers granted to the Provincial Synod of the Anglican Church by the Act of the late Province of Canada, 29 and 30 Vict., Chap. 15, to the Diocesan Synod of Quebec, in so far as it relates to Church property in the said Diocese. [Assented to 31st October, 1879.] HEREAS the Synod of the Church of England of Preamble. the Diocese of Quebec, has, by its petition represented that it is desirable, in the interest of the Church of England, within the said Diocese, that certain provisions of the act passed by the Parliament of the late Province of Canada, in the 29th and 30th years of Her Majesty's reign, chap. 15, intituled: "An act to make further provisions, in relation to the temporalities of the United Church of England and Ireland in this Province," should be extended to the Synod of the said Diocese, and has, moreover, asked for further provisions in connection therewith, and whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: certain acts. 1. The Bishop, Clergy and Laity of the Church of Power to England in the Diocese of Quebec, assembled in Diocesan modify Synod, under the provisions of the act passed in the nineteenth and twentieth years of Her Majesty's reign, chapter one hundred and forty one, section two, shall have power and authority, from time to time, by any by-law or canon, by them adopted, to make such repeal, change or amendment of, and in all or any of the acts recited in the preamble of the said act, 29 and 30 Vict, chap. 15, as they shall deem advisable and necessary for the better and more uniform regulation and management, sale and disposal of all or any of the temporalities of the said church, in the Diocese of Quebec, and every such canon or by-law shall have effect accordingly; provided that such canon or by-law shall not have effect Proviso. until it shall be approved by the Lieutenant Governor in council 2. The incumbent and church wardens of every Management church or congregation, in the Diocese of Quebec, who of the shall have been duly appointed in virtue of the canons property. of the Diocese, shall constitute a corporation for the purpose of managing the property belonging to the Church, or congregation, for which such incumbent and such churchwardens shall have been appointed. Act in force. 3. The present act shall come into force on the day of its sanction. CAP. L X X. Preamble. Power to borrow. Certain hypothec, declared valid. Part of 18 V. c. 65, inconsistent repealed. Act in force. An act to enable the Trustees and Members of Zion Church, Montreal, to further Hypothecate certain property of the said Church [Assented to 31st October, 1879.] WHEREAS the Trustees of Zion Church have by their petition, represented that it is desirable and necessary, in the interest of the said Church, that power be granted them to further Hypothecate the property of said Church; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: 1. It shall be lawful for the said Trustees or their successors in office, whenever authorized to that effect, by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the said Church, to borrow any sum or sums of money, not exceeding in all, with the amount of the hypothecs heretofore granted on the property of the said Church, twenty thousand dollars, current money of Canada, for the use and relief of the said Church, and to give security by hypothec on the real estate of the said Church, and to sign such deed or deeds as may be required, and as such Trustees, which shall thereupon, to all intents and purposes, be a valid hypothec and security upon the said real estate. 2. The hypothec of four thousand dollars granted on the property of the said Church by deed passed before C. Cushing, Notary Public, on the twenty-ninth day of January last, is hereby declared good and valid. 3. So much of the act 18 Vict., chap. 65, as is inconsistent with this act, is hereby repealed. 4. This act shall come into force from the day of its sanction. CAP. LXXI. An act to incorporate "The Montreal College of W [Assented to 31st October, 1879.] WHEREAS John Kerry, Henry Lyman, Alexander Preamble. Manson, Nathan Mercer, Henry R. Gray and William A. Dyer, have, by their petition to the legis lature of the province of Quebec, represented that, for the past ten years, they associated themselves and established and formed an association which has been known as "The Montreal College of Pharmacy," the object of which was, has been and is, the providing of lectures for students in pharmacy, chemistry, materia medica and botany, and have by their said petition, prayed that the powers of a corporation be conferred upon the said association, and whereas, in view of the advantages which may result therefrom, it is expedient to grant such prayer; Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows: 1. The said association, composed of the said petitioners Incorporaand such other persons as are now members or shall tion. hereafter become members of the said college, under the rules and regulations of the said college, shall be and is hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate in deed and by the name of "The Montreal College of Name. Pharmacy." 2. The said corporation may have a common seal, with Seat. power to alter, change and renew the same, when and so often, as it shall deem expedient. &c. 3. The said corporation may sue and be sued in all Power to sue, courts of justice in this province, in the same manner as any other body politic and corporate. 4. The said corporation may, at any time, purchase, acquire, hold, possess, occupy, have, take and receive for itself and its successors, for the use of the said corporation, all lands, tenements, hereditaments, moveables and immoveables whatsoever, and it may sell, alienate, transfer and assign the same and purchase others in lieu thereof; provided always that the net rents or revenues arising from the real estate of the said corporation, may not, at any time, exceed the annual sum of ten thousand dollars. General power of the corporation. Power to make by laws. Officers of the 5. The majority of the members of the said corporation shall have power and authority to make and pass such rules, orders, by-laws and regulations, not contrary to the laws in force in this province, as it shall deem to be useful or necessary for the interests of the said corporation, or for the government thereof, or for the admission or expulsion of its members, and for the scale of fees to be paid by students, and it may, at any time, modify, repeal and alter the said rules, orders, by-laws and regulations or any of them. 6. The said corporation shall consist of a president, corporation. vice-president and treasurer, and a committee of management of not less than five members (in addition to the president, vice-president, and treasurer), to be elected at the annual meeting of the said corporation to be held on the first Thursday of the month of May of each year, in the city of Montreal. Secretary. Members of 7. The said committee may also nominate and appoint a secretary either from among themselves or otherwise, as they may deem expedient. 8. Every licentiate of the pharmaceutical association of the college. the province of Quebec, shall be eligible as a member of the college. Instructions therein. 9. Instruction shall be given in the said college accordto be given ing to "The Quebec Pharmacy Act," 38 Vict., chap. 37, and the said corporation shall generally be conducted according to the provisions of that act. Act in force. 10. This act shall come into force on the day of the sanction thereof. Preamble. CAP. LXXII. An act to incorporate the "Montreal Diocesan [Assented to 31st October, 1879.] WHEREAS the Right Rev. William Bennet Bond, M. A. L. L. D., Lord Bishop of Montreal, the Venerable Arch Deacon Leach, the Rev. Canon Baldwin, Canon Henderson John Empson, C. J. Brydges, Esq, and others have, by petition, prayed that an act of incorporation be passed for the purpose of incorporating the "Montreal Diocesan Theological College," for the educa |