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ACT OF INCORPORATION.

22x0 Vio. Gap. OXXII.

An Act to ineorporate the British and Canadian School Society
of Montreal.

iMunted to Ath May, 1869.]

WHEREAS the Honorable Peter MeOill, and William Lunn, Jolin
Frothingham, Darid Torrance, John Torrance, David DaridsoQ,
Charles Phillips, Henry Thomas, Rc.ert Rsdaile, John Greenshields,
John G. Mackenzie and Benjamin Holmes, all of the City of Montreal,
Esquires, hare by petition set forth, that as long ago as the year one
thousand eight hundred aud twenty-two, divers of them, the said peti*
tioners, and others who by reason of death or otherwise have since cea-
sed to act with them the said petitioners in the premises, associated them-
selves together for the purpose of establishing and maintaining certain
public schools, under the designation of The BritUh and Canadian
School Society of Montreal, and ever since have, by voluntary contribu-
tions, raised considerable sums of money for that purpose, and have
mamtained certain Public Schools, to the great advantage of the public;
That in the year one thousand eii^ht hundred and twenty-six, partly
with moneys so raised, and partly with moneys granted from time to
time, by the Provincial Parliament ot Lower Canada, the parties asso-
ciated together acquired certain valuable real estate in the said City, .
in the names of the Honorable Louis J. Papinean, of Petite Nation, En-
quire, of the said William Lunn, and of the late Honorable Pierre de
Rocheblave, of the said City of Montreal, Esquire, as Trustees; that
there have since been erected on the said property valuable school buil-
dings, which have been and now are in use for the purposes of the said
' Public Schools ; that the said petitioners and their associates, neverthe-
less, have never been and now are not an incorporated body, and the
said property is consequently in danger of being diverted from such
use; that they are desirous to continue and extend their efforts in the cause
of education under the safeguard of an Act of incorporation ; and that
they therefore pray to be incorporated under the name aforesaid ; And
whereas it is expedient to grant their prayer : Therefore, Her Majesty,
by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and A»*
•embly of Canada, enacts as follows ;

1. Tb« Mid Pet«r McOiU, William Lunn, John Frotbiogham, Darid
Torrance, John Torrance, David Davidion, Charles Phillips, Henry
Thomas, Robert Esdaile, John Greensbiclda, John G. Mackenzie, Ben<
Jamtn HolmeS; and all other persons who maj by virtue of this Act
replace or be united with them, shall bo and they are hereby constituted
• body politic and corporate, under the name of The BrUi$h and Cano'
dian School Socitty of Montreal, and under the said name shall be, and
tbey hereby are declared to be, seized as proprietors of the said real es-
tate 10 heretofore held in trust as aforesaid, and may take from the said
trosteei or their representatives such deed thereof or evidence of title
thereto as may be deemed advisable, and shall have power to acquire
for tbemselves and their successors, under any legal title whatever such
other real estate as may be required and n<Tcs9ary fur the actual occupa-
tion of the Public Schools presently established or hereafter to be esta-
blished by them, and may sell and alienate any real estate held by them
and acquire other instead thereof for the purposes of this Act ; and for
the administration and government of the said Corporation and of the
Schools thereof they may make such By-laws not contrary to law as
tbey shall deem expedient, and may amend or repeal the same from time
to time, and generally shall have all necessary corporate powers for the
purposes of this Act. Provided always, that the said Corporation may
•cquire any other real estate or any interest therein, by gift, devise or
bequest, made six months or more before the death of the donor or tes-
tator, and may hold such estate for a period of not more than five years,
but the same or any part thereof or interest therein which may not with-
in the said period have been alienated, shall revert to the party from
whom the same was acquired, his heirs or other rep^'esentatives ; And
provided also, that the proceeds of such real estateas shall have been so
disposed of during the said period, may be invested in the public securi-
ties of the Province, stocks of Chartered Banks, mortgages or other ap-
proved securities, for the use of tlie said Corporation.

9. All the revenues of the said Corporation, from whatever source
they may be derived, shall be devoted exclusively to the maintenance of
the laid Corporation, and the furtherance of education in the schools
thereof, and the acquisition, improvement and repair of the buildings re-
quired to that end, and to no other purpose whatever.

8. The said Corporation shall have power to administer their affairs
by such and so many Directors and other officers, and under such res-
trictions in respect of their powers and duties, as by By-law in t^t be-
half they may from time to time ordain ; and tbey may assign to any
of inch officers such remuneration as they may deem requisite.

4. The Corporation shall, at all times, when thereunto required by
the Oovernor or by either branch of the Legislature, make a full return
of its property, real and personal, and of its receipts and expenditure
for such period, with such details and other information as the Gover-
nor or either branch of the Legislature may require.

ft. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act.

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OFFICERS, I860.

Prendent, WM. LUNN, Esq.

Vice-Pretident, JOHN FROTHINGHAM, Esq.

Secretary, JOHN GREENSHIELDS, Esq.

Treantrer, HENRY THOMAS, Esq.

DIRECTORS.

HON. JAMES FERRIER,
DAVID DAVIDSON,
WILLIAM HENRY ALLAN DAVIES,
JOHN WILLIAM DAWSON, LL.D.,
CHR13T0PHER DUNKIN,
JAMES MITCHELL,
THOMAS M. TAYLOR, and
DAVID TORRANCE, Esquires.

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BYE-LAWS.

[Adopted Dec. 8, 1869.]

1 . — All persons who at any one time shall have contributed to the Funds
of the Society Forty dollars or more, shall be Life Members thereof; and all
other persons who during the current or last expired financial year there of
shall have contributed to its funds Five dollars or more, shall be Ordinary
Members thereof, but not entitled to vote as such, unless they shall have
paid up such contribution for the current financial year.

2. — The Society shall hold an Annual meeting at such place and hour
as from time to time may bo ordained by the Board of Directors thereof,
on the first Wednesday of February, or in case of failure to meet on that
day, then on such subsequent day as may be ordained by the Board ; and
at such Annual Meeting, any description of business may be transacted.

3. — Special Meetings of the Society may be held at any time, at the
same place and hour, or at such other place and hour as the Board of
Directors may specially ordain, upon written requisition, either by the
President, or by any two Directors, or by any ten Members, for tran-
saction of such business only as may be specified in such requisition.

4. — Not less than three days' public notice shall be given, in at least
one Montreal newspaper, of every meeting of the Society, whether An-
nual or Special.

5. — ^At all Meetings of the Society, five Members qualified to vote shall
form a Quorum.

6. — All Meetii-; .• f the Society may be adjourned, by vote of a quo-
rum present, but not otherwise ; and if such adjournment be for a term
of more than one day, public notice shall be given thereof in the interval,
in at least one Montreal Newspaper.

7. — ^At every Annual Meeting of the Society, or in case of failure to
elect thereat, then at a Special Meeting to be held as soon as may be
thereafter, — there shall be chosen by the Members present and qualified
to vote, from among the Members of the Society, contributors to its
funds of five dollars or more, for the current financial year, such number
of Elected Directors not exceeding six as may be deemed expedient, to
serve for a term of two years and until their successors shall be elected ;
and the retiring Directors, if otherwise qualified, shall always be eligible
for re-election.

8, — Any pcreonB who pihall have contributed by donation to the fundfi
of tho iSoflic'ty on« liundrcd dolliirH or more, independently of yearly con-
tributioiiH, niiiy \ni conHtituted Life DlrectorH, by vote of the Roard of
DireclorH, HtOijeet to tho condition of their contributing to itn funds u
furthtsr yearly huui of five dollarn or more ; and may in iikts manner be
declared by vote of tho Board to luivo ceased ho to be, if at any time two
yearn in urrcar for hucIi contribution.

9. — In caHO of the death, renignation, or disqualification of any Elected
Director, it shall be in the discretion of the Board to name another qua-
lified Member of tho Society to serve in his stead for the unexpired
remainder of the term for which ho was elected.

10. — Meetings of tho Board of Directors shall be held whenever con-
vened by order of tho President or of any two Directors, at such place
and hour oh from time to time may bo ordained ; and may be adjourned
when necessary.

ll. — At least three days written notice of all such meetings shall be
given by the Secretary, to every Director.

12. — At all meetings of tho Board of Directors, three shall be a quo-
rum.

13. — As soon as conveniently may be after each yearly election of
Directors, there shall bo elected by the Board of Directors from among
themselves, a President, a Vice-President and a Treasurer of the Society,
to serve for the term of one year and until their successors shall be elect-
ed ; anf^. in case of tho death, resignation, or disqualification of such
President, Vice-President or Treasurer, the Board, as soon as convenient-
ly may be thereafter, shall elect another of themselves to serve as such for
the unexpired remainder of his term of office.

14. — The Corporate Seal of the Society shall be such as the Board of
Directors may from time to time ordain ; and shall be in the official
charge of the President.

15. — At all meetings, whether of the Society or of the Board of Direc-
tors, the President, or in his absence the Vice-President, or in default of
both President and Vice-President, the Senior Director present, shall
preside, and shiUl have a vote and a casting vote.

16. — The President shall in other respects exercise a general surveil-
lance over the afiairs of tho Society ; and in his absence, the Vice-Presi-
dent, and in the absence of both President and Vice-President, the
Senior Director, shall discharge his functions.

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17. — The Treasurer shall keep and submit for audit his nccnunts, mid
shiill receive, deposit and pay out monies, in all things ns the Hoard shall
ordain. The financial year of the Society shall correnixjud with the
calendar year.

18. — The Secretary of the Society, and all other Officers or nnplm/i'ii
thereof, shall be named from time to time, as f>ccu8ion shall rc((uir(>, by tiio
Uourd of Directors, to serve during their pleasure, and to discharge suuli
duties and receive such remuneration as they may prescribe ; and shall
be removable by the Board at pleasure.

in. — No Director of the Society shall receive any remuneration for the
discharge of any duty for the Society, whether as Director or otherwise.

20. — The Board of Directors shall at all times have full power in all
things to regulate and control the establishment, conduct ond oversight
of uU Schools of the Society, and to that end to promulgate and en-
force therein all such Standing Regulations, whether General or Special,
as they may see fit to ordain, and may amend all such Regulations at
pleasure ; but all such Regulations, and oil amendments thereof, shall be
laid before the Society, at latest, at the next Annual Meeting thereof af.
ter their promulgation, and if disallowed by the Society, shall thereupon
become and be null and void.

21. — The Board of Directors shall have full power to acquire real
estate for the Society, and to alienate the same ; provided only, that for
the acquiring of the real estate & litre onMux^ or for the alienating of
any real estate, so acquired, or of any real estate theretofore occupied for
school purposes, the concurrence of the majority of the whole Board shall
be requisite.

22. — Any Bye-Law of the Society may be repealed or amended, or
any new Bye-Law enacted, by vote of the Board of Directors sanctioned
by vote of the Society, at a meeting thereof. Annual or Special, and
not otherwise ; but no motion for the repeal or amendment of a Bye-
Law, or for the enactment of a new Bye-Law, shall be finally put to vote
at any meeting of the Board of Directors, unless in virtue of an order
to that effect made at a previous meeting of the Bctard ; and w^henever
such order shall have been made, the Secretary shall embody the terms
of such motion in the notice to be given to each Director, convening the
meeting whereat the same may have been ordered for final vote; and at
such meeting no amendment of such motion shall be allowed.

SCHOOL REGULATIONS.

(APPROVED BY TUB DlRBCTuRN. JULY 13TU, 1860.)

1. — Application for adniiHMion must bo made to tho teacher at the
sehoo], who ahall enter in a book kept for that purpose, the name and
addrcM of tho applicant, and the number of the claM ho in able to enter.

2. — In caso of a n incy in any claas, tho teacher will notify the appli-
cant for a place in thai olaM whoHo name oometi next in order ; procedunuo
being given to priority of application solely.

3. — Pupils muHt purchafio all books and stationery required for their
studies ; which wih be supplied by the teacher at the ordinary retail
prices.

4. — For any lesson or recitation the pnpil roust have with him the
necessary book, slate, &c., otherwise he shall lose the privilege of joining
his class at that lesson. He also loses any lesson if, through laziness or
otherwise, he is not ready to join his class at tho beginning of the lesson.

5. — The pupils are responsible for the neatness of their respective
chairs, desks, &c. Any serious and wilful disfigurement of school property
by a pupil shall be followed by his expulsion.

6. The doors of the school-hali or play-ground, are opened at 8^
A.M. The first bell rings a few minutes before 9, the pupils hold them-
selves ready to fall at onco into line when tho second bell rings, which is
precisely at 9 o'clock.

7. — When a lesson is to be closed, a class or division about to change
its place in school, or its work, the necessary orders shall be given by
certain uniform signals and words of command, to all of which prompt
and simultaneous obedience is required.

8. — In class the pupil must give his undivided attention to the work
in hand ; no whispering or communication of any kind between the
pupils shall be allowed unless, in special cases, permission has been given.

9. — If the pupil wishes to address his teacher in class he must hold
up his hand ; the teacher observing him, gives him permission to speak.
In and about school the pupils must at all times conduct themselves
civilly and respectfully toward their teachers. Any impertinence to an
assistant teacher, will be regarded as a serious offence.

10. — In their behaviour toward each other the pupils must shun all
annoying and offensive conduct, striving rather to secure and increase

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the gononi hirmony, than to eidto ill feeling nnd bittornew. No pnv
flinc or filthy langaago will bo tolerated.

11. — A pnpil of eaoh claw, either ho who has taken the highest place
in it, or on', oboaen by hb olaMmatoa, shall bo appoiutod to bo monitor
of the olaaa. It b hb duty to see to the gonond order and conduct of
hb elaw, to keep eorroetly and aa neatly as ho can, the rooonb of credit
and discredit raarka, to eoUeot ozoroiMw in the morning, and hand them
to the teaohor, to report abienoes Ac.

12. — Two of the pupils may be appointed to serve for a time as " ink
monitors," whose busineas it ^all bo to see that all the desks are supplied
with ink in the morning. A monitor may also be appointed to boo to
the hall in which caps or hats, eoats or shswla arc left. Other monitorH
may be oooasionally appointed for any special purpose.

13. — The monitor has no authority ororthe pupils other than through
reporting to the teacher, nor must ho let this d^norate into mere tale-
telling under penalty of losing his poeition.

14> — Booesses of 15 min^i'os during the forenoon, an hour at noon,
and 15 minutes during the afternoon, shall bo given for relaxation, and
to prevent the necessity of the pupils leaving their s^ats at other times
for any purpose. At all these times they ore marched out of the school-
room in regular order, and into it in the same manner as in the morning.

15. — Credit marks shall be given for exercises correctly done, for les-
sons perfootly recited, and for good oonduot during the day. Discredit
marks are given for neglect of exercises, for badly-recited lessons, and
for bad conduct. A record of these marks is kept, and given in the
terminal reports.

16. — The school roll shall be called every day, when the monitors
report absences, whether for a half day or a whole ; and pupils who have
been late, report themselves. When a pupil has been absent half a day,
or more, he must, when he returns, bring a note fVom his parents, or
guardian, accounting for his absence. Habitual lateness is, in no case,
tolerated. When school is dismissed in the evening, pupils must not
remain about the sohool-room or play-ground without special permission
from the teacher.

17. — At the end of each term an examination in every subject taught
in school shall be held. The same questions arc given to all in one
division, the answers are valued, and the number of marks gained by
each pupil determines his place in the division, whether for promotion or
depression. A report shall be made out for each pupil, giving the result

of the examination, the number of times he has been late and absent
during the term, his credit and discredit marks as compared with the
best and the worst in his class, his general conduct, progress, &c. These
reports are sent to the parenf^s of the pupils, and must be shown to the
teacher again with the signatures of the parents attached, to assure him
that the reports have really been delivered.

At the annual examination prizes shall be awarded to those who have
best conducted themselves, and to those who take the highest standing
in the different branches of study.

18. — Fees shall be received weekly or monthly in advance, and on
Monday morning only. If a seat is left unoccupied for a week, and
unpaid for, and the teacher is not notified of the reason, it shall be con-
sidered vacant.

19. — Every violation of rule or m^leot of duty, shall be punished,
but regard is had, as far as possible, to the spirit of the offender. No
punishment ought to be inflicted because the pupil has done something to
make the teacher angry, but because a wrong has been done and justice
demands that the penalty be paid. Corporal punishment is not ignored,
but must be resorted to as seldom as possible, and only when milder modes
have been tried without effect. Particular care is taken to prevent any
mode of punishment from becoming too common. The modes of pun-
ishment adopted shall be such as discredit marks, detention in school,
suspension from a lesson, special reports to parents, whipping, suspension
from school for a time, and expulsion.

Note, — The above School Begulations are taken, with Borae alterations, from
those of the McOill Model Schools, prepared by Mr. McGregor, master of the
Boys' Model School.

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