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AN ACT 
 
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ANNO DUODECIMO 
 
 VICTORIiE REGIN^. 
 
 CAP. CLIV. 
 
 An Act to incorporate The Minister 
 AND Trustee^ of St. Andrew's 
 Church, Montreal. 
 
 [ 'SOth May, 1849. ] 
 
 HEREAS the ground in St. Peter Preamble, 
 Street, Montreal, upon which the 
 )hurch for the Public Worship and exercise 
 )f the religion of the Church of Scotland, in 
 the City of Montreal, commonly called St. An- 
 Irew's Church, is erected, was purchased by the 
 late Alexander Rea and William Hunter, as 
 ^rustees for the Congregation worshipping in 
 the sajd Church, under a Deed executed in De^ <!?" ai« 
 their favour on the third day of May, one thou- ^*^ ^rf^ 
 ^and eight hundred and five, before Guy and &c.,'cit«i.' 
 larron. Notaries Public, and held by them 
 'the said Alexander Rea and William Hun- 
 5r,) according to their declaration of date 
 fourteenth of July, one thousand eight hundred 
 md six, made before the aforesaid Notaries, 
 tor the benefit and behoof of the said Church 
 md the Congregation thereof, and for no other 
 >urpose whatsoever, and is particularly des- 
 sribed in the aforesaid Deed of sale and decla* 
 ration : And whereas the said Congregation of 
 
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 hM^orikr**" *^® ^^*^ Church, did, on the twelfth day of 
 May, 1835, May, OHC thousand eight hundred and thirty- 
 TrtteJ!"" °* five, in a General Meeting of the Congregation 
 duly summoned from the Pulpit for the purpose 
 of electing Trustees for holding the said pro- 
 perty along with the said William Hunter, the 
 then surviving Trustee, did duly elect the Re- 
 verend Alexander Mathieson, Minister of the 
 said Church, John Smith, William Ritchie, 
 Donald Mackay, and James Fleming, and did 
 declare that the aforesaid Reverend Alexander 
 Mathieson, John Smith, William Ritchie, Do- 
 nald Mackay and James Fleming, along with 
 the aforesaid William Hunter, and their succes- 
 sors for ever, shall be constituted Trustees of 
 the said Church, and shall have a perpetual 
 succession : And whereas the ^aid Congrega- 
 tion of the said Church did, according' to the 
 provisions of the Constitution of the said 
 Church, on the fifteenth day of June, one thou- 
 sand eight hundred and forty, elect William 
 Stewart Hunter to be a Trustee of the said 
 Church in the room and stead of William 
 Hunter, deceased ; And whereas the saic' Wil- 
 liam Stewart Hunter and the said Do > aid 
 Mackay have, since their said appointmept, de- 
 parted this life, and the said William Ritchie 
 having removed from the Province, and the 
 said James Fleming having left the City of 
 Montreal, John Boston, William Edmonstone, 
 John Frothingham and James Gilmour were, 
 accoi*ding to the provisions of the Constitution 
 of the said Church, duly appointed Trustees 
 for the purposes aforesaid, in the room and 
 stead of the said William Stewart Hunter, Do- 
 nald Mackay, William Ritchie and James 
 Fleming, and are now, together with the said 
 Reverend Alexander Mathieson and John 
 
Smith, Trustees of the said Church ; And JJ^OeccmUr. 
 whereas the said Reverend Alexander Mathie- i8i7. 
 son, John Smith, John Boston, William Ed- 
 monstone, John Frothingham and James Gil- 
 mour, as such Trustees as aforesaid, by Deed 
 passed before J. J. Gibb and Colleague, Nota- 
 ries Pul^lic, bearing date at Montreal aforesaid, 
 the fourth day of December, one thousand 
 eight hundred and forty-seven, acquired by 
 purchase from M. Edwin Atvvater, of the 
 said City of Montreal, merchant, " Those Description of 
 
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 certam two Lots qi Land, situate, lymg and la.id conveyed 
 being in the said City of Montreal, form- ^y^S!"*^"^ 
 ing part of the * Beaver Hall Property, ' 
 known and distinguished on the plan of the 
 said Beaver Hall Property, as Lots num- 
 bers one and three, bounded in front by La- 
 gauchetiere Street, in rear by a new Street 
 marked * A ' on the said plan, on one side 
 by Beaver Hall Terrace, and on the otiier 
 side by property belonging to the heirs La- 
 mothe ; the boundary line on Beaver Hall 
 Terrace consists of a curved line whose 
 radius is about seventy-six feet four inches ; 
 the range line of the Streets, Beaver Hall 
 Terrace and Lagauclieti^re, when carried out 
 to their points of intersection, give on Bea- 
 ver Hall Terrace one hundred and sixty- 
 three feet six inches, on Lagauchetidre 
 Street one hundred and fifteen feet eight in- - 
 ches, on the line adjoining the property of 
 the heirs Lamothe one hundred and eighty- 
 three feet three inches, and on the new 
 Street aforesaid one hundred and fifteen feet 
 four inches, the whole English measure, 
 without warranty of precise measurement, 
 together with a house thereon," as described 
 in the said Deed, for the use and behoof of the 
 
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 said Congregation of the said Church, and on 
 which there is now being built a Church suit- 
 able for the increased numbers of the said 
 Want of eor> Congregation : And whereas the said Trustees 
 
 S'c'^'^reSrA"' ^^ ^^* ^ ^^y corporate, and have only a life 
 estate in the said lots of ground and buildings 
 thereon erected, holden by them as aforesaid, 
 which is transmissable to their successors, to 
 be elected according to the provisions of the 
 Laws and Constitution of the said Church ; 
 And whereas the election of Successors to the 
 said Trustees from time to time on their death, 
 removal or necessary absence, is subject to 
 many difficulties and delays, and is attended 
 Prtition to the with much cxpcnsc ; And whereas the Reve- 
 LegiBiature. Yeud Alexander Mathieson, Doctor in Divinity, 
 Minister ol the said Church of St. Andrews 
 in Montreal, John Smith, John Boston, Wil- 
 liam Edmonstone, John Frothingham and 
 James Gilmour, Esquires, of the said City of 
 Montreal, Trustees of the said Church, by their 
 humble Petition have represented the inconve- 
 niences resulting from the want of a corporate 
 capacity in them the said Trustees to enforce 
 by legal process the payment of the rents 
 payable by the holders of Pews in the said 
 Church, and that it has now become necessary 
 to sell the present Church in St. Peter Street 
 aforesaid, and provide a larger building for the 
 accommodation of the said Congregation : Be 
 it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Ex- 
 cellent Majesty, by and with the advice and 
 consent of the Legislative Council and of the 
 Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ca- 
 nada, constituted and assembled by virtue of 
 and under the authority of an Act passed in 
 the Parliament of the United Kingdom of 
 Great Britain and Ireland, and intituled : An 
 
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 A€t to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and 
 Lower Canada, and for the UovernmerU of 
 Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the au- 
 thority of the same, That the said Keverend TmitMi aod 
 Alexander Mathieson, John Smith, John Bos- Jj^' 'SSJJir 
 ton, William Edmonstone, John Frothingham ated. 
 and James Gilmour, and the successors for ever 
 of the said Reverend Alexander Mathieson, 
 John Smith, John Boston, William Edmon- 
 stone, John Frothingham, and James Gilmour, 
 to be elected in the manner hereinafter 
 irected, shall be and they are hereby con- 
 stituted and declared to be a body corporate 
 nd politic in name and in deed by the 
 ame and style of " The Minister and 
 Trustees of St, Andrew's Church, Montreal,** 
 nd shall be a perpetual Corporation, and shall Corporate 
 lave perpetual succession, and a Common Seal, ^Xa**"* 
 ni\i power to break, change and alter the 
 iaine from time to time at pleasure, and shall 
 in law capable of suing and being sued, 
 >leading or being impleaded, defending or being 
 lefended, answering or being answered unto, 
 all Courts of Judicature, in all manner 
 ^factions, suits, complaints, matters and causes 
 whatsoever, and also of contracting and 
 jing contracted with, relative to the funds of 
 le said Corporation, and the business and pur- 
 poses for which it is hereby now constituted 
 
 hereinafter declared ; and may make, esta- By-laws. 
 ^lish and put in execution, alter or repeal such 
 >y-law8, Rules, Ordinances and Regulations, as 
 lall not be contrary to the constitution and 
 iws of this Province or to the provisions of 
 lis Act, or to the constitution of the Church 
 Scotland, as in that part of the United 
 angdom of Great Britain and Ireland called 
 fcotland now by law established, and as may 
 
ProvMo: as to 
 Quorum, 
 
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 appear to the said Corporation necessary or 
 expedient for the interests thereof; Provided 
 always, that three of the members of the said 
 Corporation shall form a quorum for all mat- 
 ters to be done and disposed of by the said 
 Corporation. 
 
 Lotsofground, 
 &c., veflted in 
 Corporation. 
 
 II. And be it enacted, That the several lots 
 of ground aforesaid, together with the buildings 
 thereon erected, held by the Trustees aforesaid, 
 shall be holden by the said Corporation to 
 stand and be possessed thereof for ever to and ; 
 for the several limitations, trusts, provisions i 
 and uses declared and expressed in respect of j 
 the same in and by the above referred to deeds | 
 of sale and declaration by the said Alexander 
 Rea and William Hunter, as also by the terms 
 under which the said Trustees are elected. 
 
 Corporation 
 may accept 
 and hold real 
 estate to a cer- 
 tain amount : 
 may sell certain 
 land. 
 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 III. And be it enacted, That it shall and 
 may be lawful for the said Corporation to ac- 
 cept any real estate which hereafter may be 
 gratuitously given, granted or bequeathed, for 
 the use of the said Church, as shall not, together 
 with that already holden by the said Trustees 
 as aforesaid, exceed in value, and yield at any 
 time more than a clear net yearly income of 
 five hundred pounds ; and that the said Corpo- 
 ration be and are hereby authorized and em- 
 powered to sell the lot of land and buildings 
 thereon, situated in St. Peter Street aforesaid, 
 and the price or purchase money thereof to 
 apply to the completion and paying for the 
 lot of land and the Church now building as 
 aforesaid on the said lot of land situated on 
 Beaver Hall, and in the preamble hereof lastly 
 above described ; Provided, nevertheless, that 
 
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 may b| 
 ^ley 
 4o raij 
 lots ol 
 |hereo| 
 lerty, , 
 
Bsary or 
 rovided 
 
 the said 
 all mat* 
 
 the said 
 
 ireral lots 
 }uildings 
 Eiforesaid, 
 ration to 
 er to and 
 )rovisions 
 aspect of 
 i to deeds 
 Alexander 
 the terms 
 ected. 
 
 shall and 
 ion to ac- 
 jr may be 
 jathed, for 
 t, together 
 I Trustees 
 3ld at any 
 income of 
 lid Corpo- 
 l and em- 
 buildings 
 aforesaid, 
 thereof to 
 g for the 
 ►uilding as 
 tuated on 
 reof lastly 
 eless, that 
 
 [the purchaser shall not be liable for or bound 
 ' to see to the application of the consideration 
 I money of any part thereof, and that the receipt 
 for the same shall be a full discharge to him ; 
 jand further that the said Corjioration shall be oihor inn.i 
 
 powered to sell or alienate the whole or any "S .m ?•<!?" 
 [portion of the property held in trust by them, tain conditions. 
 [but they shall not be empowered to alienate or 
 jell the property or any part thereof, except 
 m a requisition signed by three fourths of the 
 proprietors of pews in St. Andrew's Church 
 ^^.foresaid of at least one year's standing, not in 
 irrear of rent, and at the time residing within 
 the Parish of Montreal ; and no sale or aliena- 
 ion shall be valid, unless sanctioned by three 
 fourths of the proprietors, qualified as afore- . * 
 
 lid ; the proceeds of any sale or alienation, so 
 lade and sanctioned, shall be the property of 
 the Church and Congregation, and solely ap- 
 plicable to the maintenance of the public 
 worship of God according to the form of the 
 Istablished Church of Scotland, or the erection 
 Lud endowment of a school or schools in con- 
 nection with the said Church ; Provided Proviso, 
 always, that no portion of real estate belonging 
 |o the said Congregation, shall be disposed of 
 fbr the purpose of secular education, until such 
 ||ime as- the net annual income of the said 
 Church shall amount to at least three hundred 
 |)ounds, current money of this Province. 
 
 / IV. And be it enacted. That it shall and corporation 
 3piay be lawful for the said Corporation, and may raise mo- 
 ^ley are hereby authorized and empowered gage/tsSr " 
 io raise by way of mortgage on the said two 
 ^ts of land or either of them, or any portion 
 '%iereof known as part of the Beaver Hall Pro- 
 jferty, and hereinbefore described, or the 
 
Church and Building thereon erected or here- 
 after to be erected and built thereon, such sum 
 or sums of money as may be deemed necessary 
 for the erection and completion of the said 
 Church and its appurtenances, provided that 
 the like consent shall be first had and obtained 
 to mortgage for the purposes aforesaid as is 
 hereinbefore in the next preceding clause pro- 
 vided for the sale of the trust property. 
 
 Provision with ^' -^^^ ^® ^^ euactcd, That when any va- 
 respect to the caucy or vacaucles shall happen in the said 
 tRiJi"facanc1es Corporatlou by death, or the removal or 
 incorporation, change of residence of any of the members 
 thereof from the Parish of Montreal, or other- 
 wise, the said vacancies shall be supplied in 
 the manner hereinafter mentioned, as follows, 
 to wit : when a vacancy shall happen by the 
 death, removal or change of residence, or other- 
 wise, of the said Reverend Alexander Mathie- 
 son or his successor in the ministry of the said 
 Church, from the said Parish, District or other- 
 wise, the same shall be supplied by his suc- 
 cessor. Minister of the said Church ; and when 
 a vacancy or vacancies shall happen by the 
 death or removal, or change of residence of 
 the said Reverend Alexander Mathieson, John 
 Smith, John Boston, William Edmonstone, ^nurcj 
 John Frothingham, and James Gilmour, or of fihurcl 
 their successors from the said Parish, or other- the senj 
 wise from time to time, the same shall be sup- Tented 
 plied by such person or persons as shall be W if sol 
 elected to fill the same, by a majority of the iiiembej 
 votes of the proprietors of one year's standing, ftereatl 
 to wit, of pews in the said Church, not in arrear Aall bl 
 of pew rent, at a meeting to be convened as tile SesI 
 hereinafter mentioned. vote. 
 
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 VI. And be it enacted, That whenever a Proceedings 
 'acancy shall happen by the death, or removal, *°' ^"'"g. '^ , 
 
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 "^r change of residence of the Minister of the office of mmis- 
 iaid Church, it shall be the duty of the Kirk ^^^^^^ 
 ISession, within eight days from the time of 
 IBvery such vacancy happening, to require by 
 it notice or requisition to be published as the 
 Baid Session shall determine, a meeting of the 
 i)roprietors, pew holders, and members of the 
 laid Church, not in arrear of rent, to assemble 
 in the said Church on a day not more than ; 
 
 i|ight days after the day of such notification, 
 |it a convenient hour, for the purpose of taking 
 §he steps necessary for supplying such vacancy 
 ^s aforesaid, by electing a Committee of nine, 
 ►y a plurality of votes (seven to form a qvjo- 
 im), of whom six shall be proprietors of at 
 jast one year's standing, and in full commu- 
 |ion with the said Church, and the remaining 
 iree may be pew holders who have paid rent 
 ►r three years preceding their election, and 
 re in full communion with the said Church, 
 irho shall have full power to take such steps 
 as to them may seem best adapted for speedily 
 oJ)taining a Minister to the said Church, a re- 
 
 filarly ordained Minister or Licentiate of the 
 hurch of Scotland or of the Presbyterian 
 hurch of Canada in connection with the 
 hurch of Scotland ; and at which meeting 
 %.Q senior member of the Session, if not pre- 
 |tented by illness or other cause, shall preside, 
 lar if so prevented, then the senior of the other 
 Hiembers of the Session present shall preside 
 Ifeereat; and if at any such election there 
 l^all be an equality of votes, the Member of 
 tile Session so presiding shall have the casting 
 
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 Projeedings 
 fur fillling 
 vacancies 
 among other 
 nicmbers. 
 
 VII. And be it enacted, That when any I Puhli 
 vacancy or vacancies shall happen in the said Egj.g x 
 Corporation by death, or the removal ^^^f^wh 
 change of residence of any of the members 4 
 thereof from the Parish of Montreal, or other- § jy 
 wise, other than in respect of the Minister of m^ ' j 
 the said Church for the time being, it shall be ||, p • 
 the duty of the said Minister, within three ca- CgcQ-f p 
 lendar months froni the time of every suchMjj(j fj.p 
 vacancy happening, to require by a notice orm^j^i^^jj i 
 requisition from the pulpit of the said Church, |Lqjj r 
 on two successive Sundays, to be published at 
 such time in the forenoon service as he shall 
 see fit, a meeting of the proprietors (not in 
 arrear of rent) to assemble in the said Church 
 at a convenient hour on a day not exceeding 
 ten days after the day of such publication, foi^Sdinff 
 the purpose of supplying such vacancy or va-m^ g^|^ 
 cancies as aforesaid, by a person or personsM^^Qj^ ^ 
 who are proprietors in communion with theJC^j^g^ 
 said Church, and who shall cease to be mem-S ]^g ^ 
 bers of the said Corporation, if ever they cease^,^^j.y 
 to be members of the said Church by joininglfcjg^j.j^ 
 in communion with any other church or reli-EQjj|.jj 
 gious society ; at which meeting the said Mi- ■;||^ 
 nister, if not prevented by illness or other 
 cause, shall preside, or, if so prevented, then, 
 the senior of the other members of the said 
 Corporation present, shall preside thereat, and |^ 
 if at any such election there shall be an equa-||j|(j j.^^ 
 lity of votes, the Minister or other member soJCucg 
 presiding, shall have the casting vote. 
 
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 ^ VIII. And be it enacted. That on a requisi- 
 
 holders how to tiou Signed by twenty proprietors or pew hol| 
 
 be called. ^ •!» • ji i • i. A.^ i • • " 
 
 ders, specitymg the object they have in view,! 
 it shall be the duty of the said Session to call | 
 
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 it shall be 
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 Public Meeting of proprietors or pew hol- 
 lers, to be held in the Church, within ten days 
 after the receipt of the said requisition. 
 
 nionts. 
 
 / IX. And be it enacted, That there shall be a Rfgi^^ter to 
 Opened and kept by the said Corporation recording pm- 
 ii Register in which shall be entered and cecdings, &c. 
 , tecorded, from time to time, the proceedings 
 
 very such ij^^ transactions of the said Corporation, and 
 , notice or %hich Register shall be open to the inspec- 
 d Church, |jqjj ^^ every proprietor or pew holder not 
 bushed at |j^ arrear of rent, at all seasonable times ; and Registration of 
 is he shall 0^^^ ^jj gygj-y election to supply such vacan- *'^''*'" *"*"'"" 
 rs (not in |igg ^g aforesaid, the same shall be declared 
 id Church |^y g^j^ instniment to be forthwith made and 
 exceedmg ^ecuted under the hands of the member pre- 
 ication, lor ||cling thereat, and three of the members of 
 LUcy or va- p^^ g^j^j meeting, which said instrument decla- 
 or persons i^tQjy of such election shall, at the diligence 
 1 with the pf f^Q person elected at such meeting, be caused 
 3 be mem- ^kk be enregistered in the Office of the Protho- 
 • they cease Jotary of the Court of Queen's Bench for the 
 by joining J) jgti.j(.t of Montreal, within one calendar 
 rch or reli- l^Qiith from the day of such election, which 
 he said Mi- ^^iregistration the said Prothonotary is hereby 
 Iquired to make at the request of the bearer 
 the said instrument ; and for which enregis- 
 tion and the certificate thereof, the said 
 othonotary shall be entitled to demand 
 d receive the sum of two shillings and six 
 nee, currency, and no more ; And in default Conseqi 
 the enregistration of the said instrument °^ '^''(^"•^ *** 
 thin the time aforesaid, the said election *°'''^'^ 
 all be absolutely null and void, and the said 
 rporation shall proceed de novo to another 
 ction, and in the same manner as if no such ' 
 ction had taken place. 
 
 ;s or other 
 ented, then- 
 of the said I 
 thereat, andi 
 be an equa-j 
 member so 
 )te. 
 
 Ill a requisi- 
 or pew hoi- 
 ave in view, 
 ssion to call 
 
 mcnces 
 
Deeds of gift, 
 &.C. to Corpo- 
 ration to be 
 en registered 
 within 12 
 months after 
 eX(H)ution. 
 
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 X. And be it enacted, That all deeds of gift 
 and conveyance of real estate, which shall be 
 made to the said Corporation, shall be en- 
 registered within twelve calendar months after 
 the execution thereof respectively, in the Office 
 of the Prothonotary of the Court of Queen's «< 
 Bench for the District, and also in the Registry v 
 Office of the District where such real estate 
 shall be situate; which enregistration the said,^ 
 Prothonotary is hereby required to make at^^ 
 the request of the bearers of such deeds 
 respectively, and for every such enregistration 
 the said Prothonotary shall be entitled to 
 demand and receive at and after the rate of six 
 pence, currency, for every hundred words that 
 the said deeds shall respectively contain, 
 together with two shillings and six pence cur- 
 rency, for the certificate of such enregistration, 
 and no more ; and in default of such enregis- 
 tration as aforesaid, of any such deed or deedsj 
 as aforesaid, within the time aforesaid, the 
 same shall be absolutely null and void, and of| 
 no more force or effect than if the same had 
 not been made or executed. 
 
 Her Majesty's XI. And be it cuactcd. That nothing hereinl 
 Rights saved, contained shall aflfect or be construed to afFectl 
 in any manner or way the rights of Her Ma- 
 jesty, Her Heirs and Successors, or of any' 
 person or persons, or of any body politic or; 
 corporate, such only excepted as are herein] 
 mentioned. 
 
 Public Act. Xn. And be it enacted. That this Act shall! 
 be deemed a Public Act, and shall be judiciallyj 
 taken notice of as such by all Judges, Justicesl 
 of the Peace, and Ministers of Justice andl 
 other persons whomsoever, without being] 
 specially pleaded. 
 
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ds of gift 
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 the Office 
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 •eal estate 
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 jgistration 
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 rate of six 
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