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Thoae too large to be entirely included in one expoaure are filmed beginning in the upper left hand comer, left to right and top to bottom, aa many framea aa required. The following diagrama illustrate the method: Un des symboles suivants appara(i;ra sur la demiAre image de cheque microfiche, selon ie caa: le symbols — ^ signifie "A SUIVRE ", le symbols V signifie "FIN". Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre filmto A dsa taux de rMuction diff Arents. Lorsque le document est trop grsnd pour itrs reproduit en un seui clichA, il est filmA A partir de Tangle sup4risur gauche, de gauche i droite, et de h)9ut en bas. en prenant le nombre d'images n^cesssire. lies diagrammes suivants illustrent la m^thode. 1 2 3 1 32X 4 ■'vfiii&^\y. AN ACT TO INCOEPORATB THE HOUSE UF INDUSTRY or TOROISTTO. 14-15 Vict., Cap. 35. ■ «»f • L AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE HOUSE OF INDUSTRY OF TORONTO. [Passed 2nd August, 1861.] Whereas an Institution supported by voluntary con. Preamble, tributions aud by grants from the Legislature, has long subsisted in the City of Toronto, called and known as " The House of Industry," the object and purposes of which are to provide for the destitute poor of the said City, and to promote and encourage habits of honest industry in the young who have sought its pro- tection : and whereas the management of the said In- stitution has hitherto been vested in three Trustees and a Committee selected annually at a public meeting of the inhabitants of the said City of Toronto ; And whereas the Rev'd Henry Jamec Grasett, M.A,, Clerk, William Cawthra, Esq., and Joha Ewart, Esq., are at present Trustees of the said Institution and acting in the management and the government of the same : And whereas the said Trustees and others^interested in* the welfare of the said Ir'-dtution have by their petition represented th«fc the said Institution would be rendered much more efficient by giving to it the cha- racter of a Cor[)oration : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and cons nd be it enacted, That the said Trustees andEooi<»^rt^ Manai^ers shall keep or cause to be kept in a book to be and ..o^^ opened for that purpose, a list of all subscnbe.-s to the siid Institution, and that a meeting of *esaad sub- scribers shall be held annually on the second Wednes- a™-', day in the month of January in each year, (the 6rst ot snch meetings to be on the second Wednesday in Jan- uary next,) at such time and place as the IVustees and Managers for the time being shall, by not.ce thei-eof riven in some newspaper published in the C.ty of To- ronto, appoint; and at each such meeting a report m r,e„ort. writing of the affairs and management of the said In- stitution, and of all moneys received and expended and . of all property, movable and immovable, then held by the Institution, and also of the number of persons . received into, or discharged from the honse, and of all persons relieved out of the house, under their proper heads, shall bo exhibited by the Trostees and Managers for the year then past. And at such meetings vacancies vac«.c.« shall be filled up in the number of Trustees which may have occuned during the year by resignations, absence for twelve months from the City, neglecting to attend to anv of the business of the Institution for_six con- 6 Managers to be elected. Proviso. Trustees may appren- tice out youths re- ceiving tlie protection of the Institu- tion. Proviso. secutive months, when not absent from the City, or death. And also, at the same meeting, the persons then present who shall be respectively subscribers of a sum not less than Ten Shillings annually, or donors who shall have contributed at any one time a sum of money not less than Twelve Pounds Ten Shillings, or shall have given lands to the value of Twenty-five Pounds, shall elect from the subscribers or donors of like amounts, twenty-five fit and pro[)er persons as Managers of the said Institution, who with the Trustees shall be the oroverning body of the Institution : Provided always, that if from any cause such meeting shall not take place at the time aforesaid, such meeting may be called as aforesaid at any subsequent time. IV. And be it enacted. That the said Trustees and Managers shall and may send out to service and appren- tice thereto, or to any healthy trade or business, all youths, male or female, having the protection or aid of the said Institution, to such persons or person, and upon such terms as the said Trustees and Managers may seem fit and proper, and for that purpose, on be- half of, and for such youth and themselves, to enter in- to and make with any persons or person with whom such youth may be placed by the said Trustees and Managers, articles of apprenticeship or agreement ; and such articles or agreement may be enforced as well by action at law or in equity for breach thereof, war- ranting any such action, as by summary application to a Magistrate or Justice of the Peace, (who is hereby authorized and empowered to act thereon,) on any such occasion as would according to the laws of this Pro- vince warrant the interference or adjudication of any one or more Justice or Justic?s of the Peace in disputes or difficulties between Masters and Apprentices : Pro- vided always, that a copy of the articles of indenture ap- prenticing such youth shall, within three days from the time that such articles of indenture were executed, be lodged with the Clerk of the Common Council of the City of Toronto, who is hereby required to file such • . copies. V. And be it enacted, That all property which Jo what pur- shall at any time belong to tLe said Institution, as well 'j^n^sjr^e as the revenues thereof shall at all times be appropriated ^^y^^^ »P- and applied exclusively to provide for the destitute poor and to promote and encourage habits of honest industry in the young, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever. VI. And be it enacted, That the persons now acting Person now as the Committee or Board of Management of the said sidered ^ Institution, shall have the like powers, and be considered for^the pre- as Managers of the Corporation for and until the second Wednesday in January next, or till such time as Man- agers shall be appointed, as provided for by this Act, VII. And be it enacted, that the said Corporation statemen^ts shall be bound, when required by the Governor or jhen r^e^^"«. person administering the Government of this Province Governor for the time being, to render true statements of their receipts and expenditures, and of the real and personal estate held and enjoyed by the said Corporation. VIII. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be a Public Act. public Act. ^-^r^>^^