Name Index
Alley, Jerome
Campbell, George F.
Chandler, James W.
Dunn, John
Frye, Samuel
Getty, Samuel
Hatch, Harris
Hatch, Wellington
Hatheway, Charles R.
Maclean, William
MacMaster, Daniel
O'Neil, Henry
Pagan, Robert
Paul, Alexander T.
Scott, Christopher
Smith, Adam W.
Strang, John
Turner, Thomas
Walton, Joseph
Williams, Lawrence
Wilson, John
Wyer, Thomas |
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10th VICTORIA - CHAPTER
23.
An Act to incorporate the Charlotte County Agricultural
Society.
Section.
1. Incorporation of Society.
2. Annual meeting for election of officers. |
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Section.
3. What officers to continue. |
Passed 12th March 1847.
WHEREAS Samuel Frye, John Strang,
Robert Pagan,
Christopher Scott, Thomas Wyer, Harris Hatch, Jerome
Alley, John Dunn, Daniel MacMaster, John Wilson, Joseph
Walton, Lawrence Williams, and others, inhabitants of the
County of Charlotte, did in the year one thousand eight hun-
dred and twenty, form themselves into a Society for the pro-
motion of Agriculture in the said County, which Said Society
as been ever since in active and useful operation: And
whereas the said Society, from not being incorporated, is sub-
ject to many inconveniences, and has in consequence thereof
been found unable in many instances efficiently to carry out
the intentions and promote the objects of the Society ;-
Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1.Samuel
Frye, Thomas Wyer,
Harris Hatch, Joseph Walton, John Wilson, George F.
Campbell, Samuel Getty, Thomas Turner, Adam W. Smith,
James W. Chandler, William Maclean, Charles R. Hatheway,
Wellington Hatch, Alexander T. Paul, Henry O'Neil, and all
such other persons as are now or may hereafter be admitted
members of the said Society, their associates and successors,
be and they are hereby erected into a body corporate, under
the name and style of “The Charlotte County Agricultural
Society," for the purpose of promoting and encouraging Agri-
culture, and rural and domestic economy and industry within
the said County, and for these purposes shall have and enjoy
all general powers made incident to Corporations by the Act
of the General Assembly of this Province made and passed in
the sixth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William
the Fourth,
2. There shall be a general meeting of the members
of the
said Corporation, to be annually holden on the second Tuesday
in January in each and every year, at Saint Andrews, in the
said County ; at which annual meeting there shall be chosen
by a majority thereof, one President, two Vice Presidents, a
Treasurer, Secretary, and nine Committee men, who shall con-
tinue in office for one year, or until others are chosen in their
room ; in the choice of which, each member of the said Cor-
poration shall have one vote for each of the aforesaid officers,
and every member may vote by proxy, provided such
proxy be a member, and previously to voting produce a suffi-
cient authority in writing from his constituent or constituents.
3. And whereas at a general meeting of the members
of the
Society hereby incorporated, held at Saint Andrews, in the
County of Charlotte aforesaid, one President, two Vice Presi-
dents, a Treasurer, Secretary, and nine Committee men, were
elected by the votes of the said members for the current year;-
The said officers so elected as aforesaid, are hereby declared
to be the officers of the said Corporation until the second
Tuesday in January next, or until others be chosen in their
stead. |
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