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amount to be raised for that purpose, after deducting the costs of management chargeable to that service.

" 537h/), The members of the committee of management or board of directors of the association are jointly and severally responsible for any payment made in contravention of the preceding article, and may be condemned to reimburse to the association any sum so paid upon suit brought by any member of such association."

3. Article 5390 of the said Revised Statutes is amended by adding after the word : " Statutes,' in the second line the word : " or under a special charter."

4. Articles 5391 and 5392 of the said Revised Statutes are repealed.

S. This act and the laws thereby amended apply as well to associations and companies now doing business as to those that may he hereafter formed.

2. Associations and companies falling under the provisions of article 5375a are granted a delay of six months, from the coming into force of this act, to comply with the provisions of this act. l;. This act shall come into force on the day of its sanction.

4—MANITOBA LEGISLATION.

Statutes of 1892, Chapter 4, An Act to amend the Foreign Corporations Act. (Assented to 20th April, 1892).

Her Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the province of Manitoba, enacts as follows :-

1. Section 2 of chapter 24 of the Revised Statutes of Manitoba, is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor

2. Any company, institution or corporation duly incorporated under the laws of Great Britain or Ireland or of the Dominion of Canada, or of the late province of Canada, or of any of the provinces of Canada, or of any State of the United States of America, or of any other foreign state or country duly authorized to carry out or effect any of the purposes or objects to which the legislative authotity of the Legislature of Manitoba extends, may obtain a license from the Lieutenant-Governor in Council authorizing it to carry on its business within the province of Manitoba on compliance with the provisions of this Act, and said company, institution or corporation shall thereupon have the same powers and privileges in Manitoba as if the same were incorporated under the provisions of a statute of the province of Manitoba : Provided, however, that the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may restrict such license in any manner that may seem desirable.

(2). This section shall not apply to, or in ally way affect any institution or corporation, incorporated and now existing or hereafter incorporated, the powers and objects of which are the acquiring, purchasing, holding and receiving property, real or personal, for the use or uses of any particular congregation or congregations, or mission station or stations in connection with any church or religious denomination, or the lending of money on the security of real or personal estate, and with or without interest, for the purchase or erection of churches, chapels, manses or parsonages and buildings connected therewith for the use or uses of any particular congregation or congregations, or mission station or stations, in connection with any church or religious denomination ; and it shall not be necessary for any such institution or corporation to obtain a license authorizing or enabling it to exercise the powers or carry out the objects for which it has been or may hereafter be, incorporated or any of them.

2. Section 4 of said chapter is hereby amended by striking out all the words from and including the word "provided" in the sixth line thereof.

3. The said chapter is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section.

17. The Lieutenant-(lovernor in Council may at any time revoke any license granted under this Act or under any Act or Acts for which this Act has been substituted on account of the violation by any such company, institution or corporation of any of the provisions of this Act. Any such license revoked shall be null and void as to any matter occurring subsequent to such revocation.

Statutes of 1893, Chapter 5. An Act to amend the Foreign Corporations Act. (Assented to March 11th, 1893.)

Her Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the province of Manitoba enacts as follows :

1. Section .i of chapter 24 of the Revised Statutes of Manitoba, is hereby repealed.

2. Paragraph (a) of section 10 of said chapter 24 is hereby amended by striking out the word " seven " in the fourth line of said paragraph and by substituting therefor the word " ten'

3. The said chapter 24 is hereby further amended 1)y adding thereto the following section.

15. Any such company, institution or corporation, may on obtaining a license under this Act hold in perpetuity one parcel of land not exceeding one acre, in any city, town or village, providing the said lands have been acq aired fiuse,yel for the purpose of erecting or occupying buildings thereon or on any part thereof for the purposes of the company. This section shall apply to lands already acquired.

4. This Act shall come into force on the clay it is assented to.