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Un des symboles suivants apparaftra sur la darnlAre image de cheque microfiche, selon le cas: le symbols —»• signifie "A SUIVRE", le symbols V signifie "FIN". Mapa, piatea, charts, etc., may be filmed at different reduction ratioa. Thoae too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed beginning in the upper left hand comer, left to right and top to bottom, as many frames aa required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: Lee cartes, planchea, tableaux, etc., peuvent Atre filmte A dea taux da reduction diff Grants. Lorsque le document est trop grand, pour Atre reproduit en un seul clichA, il est film* A partir de I'angle supArieur gauche, de gauche A droite, et de haut an baa, ^n prenant la nombre d'imagea nAcassaira. Las diagrammas suivants illustrant la mithoda. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 TH R WINNIPEG BENEML TEUSTS COMPANY. Prospectus. The Winnipeg General Trusts Company . Incorporated by Special Act of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. ReceiTed Royal Assent, 19th April, 1880. Prospectus. Capital, - - $ 200, ooo^^First Issue, - %ioo,ooo, A lUhorized Capital $500,000 \ in Shares of $50 each. PROVISIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS. COLIN INKSTER, Esq., Sheriff E. J. District, Chairman. HON. JOHN SUTHERLAND, Senator. GEORGE J. MAULSON, Esq., Grain Merchant. KENNETH MACKENZIE, Esq., President Board of Trade. JOHN B. McKILLIGAN, Esq., Financial Agent. W. REDFORD MULOCK, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. Manager and Secretary- Treasurer : JOHN B. McKILLIGAN. Bankers : THE BANK OF MONTREAL. Solicitors : MESSRS. BAIN, MULOCK, PERDUE & MORPHY. Head Office. Winnipeg, Manitoba. PROSPECTUS -OF THE- Winnipeg General Trusts Company. Incorporated by Special Act of Parliament, 19th April, 1886. The Act incorporating this Company was carefully prepared and embodies the bf.st and latest features of Trust Companies acting under the laws of the Dominion of Canada and of the United States of America. General Trusts Companies have proved beyond doubt their usefulness, and are now recognized by business men as necessities in all large commercial centres. However trustworthy any agent, executor, guardian or assignee may be he is liable to sick- ness or death, when the trusts in his hands must pass to others, perhaps less worthy and capable. Estates and property entrusted to the care of a corporation like this, capably officered and with a board of directors selected from our most reliable men, cannot but be carefully and jndiciously managed, and ought to afford to the public a sense of security une(|ualled by that of any private agency. A skilled manager and directorate, whose daily duty is the^ management of trusts and other estates, can much more Judiciously inanage such matters than a private individual or firm, who often have no special training. In New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis, and other American cities there are several Trusts Companies, doing a large and lucrative business, and in Toronto, Canada, one com- pany is also employed to a large extent. All the companies have the confidence of the public, and the fact that these com- panies have been carrying on a successful business for years causes the promoters" of The Winnipeg General Trusts Company to think that the time has now arrived when a com- pany similar in its character should be formed in Manitoba. Although comparatively a new country, it has for the past ten years been growing into vast importance as a suitable field for investments, and its rich agricultural and mineral resources are now a subject of world-wide knowledge. Manitoba is fast becoming the home of thousands of well-to-do people from the more populous regions of older countries. rhe profits ttc'cruin<,' to Tru.sts Coiiipniiies, in tlio slinpo of com- ssioiiH, fees, &e., always attbrd a good diviilcnd to the share- The missions, tees, &e., always attorcl a got . - holders; juid tin; cluu'i^^os for nianaj^nMiu'iit of cstatt's, investments, ^'C, are fair and reasonable, and fall m(»re lij^htly u[)on the pro- perties nnder a company's caie than if mana»iiiy. jui.l [)roiiiint'iit lunoriu' its provisions for tlit; safctv of its patrons, is its deposit OK ir> vku cknt. of its subscrilxMrenpitul, t'itlitT in cash or si'curitias, with the Treasurer of the I'rovin-je of Manitoba. Upon thr amount so deposited the Government are to allow .') i)(>r eent. per annum, half yeai-Jv. To thosr who can- not know the Company's OtRcers and IMrectors personjillv, this <:uaranh>e is a suhstantial assurance that they will he'fairlv tlealt with, and that they can therefore safely* avail themselves of the services of the Company. Business and Objects of the Company, The Company is authorized : — To take, accept and hold l»y order of any court, or hy nift_ grant, assignment, transfer, or otherwise, from any public or pri- vate coi'poration or person, any real estate or personal propert}" upon ti'usts created in accordance with law, and to execute and perform such trusts upon such conditions as may be iniposed. To accept from and execute for and on behalf of married ^vomen trusts in respect to their separate property, and to act as agents for them in the management of their propeity. To act as agents for the purpose of transfering, issuing, regis- tering or countersigning certificates of stock, b(mds, coupons" or other evidences of debt, of any corporation, association, person, city, county, judicial board, pi-ovince, or other authority, or to receive and pay out moneys in redemption of the bonds, coupons, or evidences of such indebtedness. To act as trustee, assignee, liquidator, or receiver of any estate. To act as guardian of the estates of minors, or of the estate of any lunatic, imbecile, spendthrift, habitual drunkard, or other person discpialiiied or unable from any cause to manao-e their estate. * " To act as the general agent and attorney-in-fact for any per- son or corporation, in the management and control of any real estate or personal property, its sale or conveyance; in the nego- tiation of and sale of mortgages or other securities, and to cfis- charge the same ; in the collection of interest, rents, payment of taxes, and generally to act for persons or corporations under powers or letters of attorney in all respects as a natural person could do. fl T<^ '^uaranto*^ any investments tinulf l»y tlieiii, where in tlje opinion of the Hireetors they can witli safety ent, must soon form an important pait of he Company's business. In acting as executor, trustee or ad- ministrator the C(»mpany will he pei-forming its regular and appointed husiness for which it is fitted, and with which it is more familiar hy actual experience than any individual executor or administrator, who to accommodatt; a friend or because there seems to he no one else better fitted foi' it than he, consents to as.sume a responsibility foi- which he has had no previous training and with duties of which he is not familiar. A corporation of this character must employ the ablest and most careful legal counsel especially (lualified, properly to attend to the business of the Company and tlie interest of its patrons. Although Manitoba is comparatively a new country, still there are a great number of the older settlers who have left con.siderahle property and whose estates are now being administered hy friends, who will gladly avail themselves of the opportunitit!s afforded hy a thoroughl}- relialde Company to take the burden ofi' their hands. There are a nund)er of cases where estates of infants and others are under the control of the Court of Queen's Bench, and upon this Com- pany being accepted hy the Lieutenant-Governor as a Tru.sts Company for the purposes of such Court, a constantly increasing business from this source may be anticipated. The charter of the Company provides for thisi appointment under certain regula- tions. As soon as the Company is in operation it is expected that it will he employed in many ways as agent for investt)rs and capitalists. Many a man who has a few^ thousands to invest out- side of his ordinary business, will he glad to obtain the services of the Company to manage his savings for him ; and to those who depend solely up'Mi the interest on their investments it will be a relief to them to know that a responsible Company will ii)iina<>'e it to the very 1>e.st aflvant'igo ivithout any trouble to them." The Company will attend to the payineiit of taxes for r(!si,lont.s. and non-residents, the payment of tire insurance premiums, the collection of rents, interest, dehts, &c. Safe Vault Deposit Business, Tliis department of husincss, which has become an actual ne- cessity in many places, and proved of tin; greatc.'st value to the ]:)OS3essor of valuable papers, money, bonds, coupons, wills, &c., and wiiich has also become a i ood paying investment for other companies, will be eonnnenced by this Company as soon as the demands of the public warrant it. It is not the intention at present to erect a building with vaults, but to engage in that portion of th" Company s business which can be carried on with the least outlay consistent with efficiency, until the Company has been some time h\ operation. Head Offices and Location, The Head Offi.-s of the Company will be at Winnipeg, the Capitnl of the Province of Manitoba, ami the field of its opera- tions is the Province, containing an area of 123,200 square miles. The whole of this vast territory is now being settled ))y a con- stant stream of emigration from older countries. It v\'ould be superfluous to noint out what is now a fact of universal know- ledge, the importance that the Province of Manitoba^ is likely to assuuic during the next quarter Oi a century. Testimony froni newspapers, from scientific men of all nations, members of par- liament, doctoi-s, lawyers, political economists, farmers, and com- mercial men could be (pioted to fill volumes. Tlie