Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Fredericton, the Venerable and Reverend George Coster, the Honorable Neville Parker, the Honorable Robert Parker, the Honorable George Frederick Street, the Honorable William Black, the Honorable William Crane, the Honorable John R. Partelow, the Honorable John Ambrose Street, the Honorable Robert Duncan Wilmot, the Honorable Edward B. Chandler, the Honorable Robert L. Hazen, the Honorable William F. W. Owen, the Honorable John S. Saunders, the Honorable A. Edwin Botsford, the Honorable Thomas H. Peters, the Honorable Charles Simonds, and Frederick A. Wiggins, Esquire, and such other persons as are now members of the said Society, according to the constitution, bye laws, rules, and regulations thereof, and such other persons as shall from time to time hereafter become members of the Society, shall be and are hereby declared to be a body corporate and politic in name and in deed, by the name of "The Diocesan Church Society of New Brunswick," and by the said name the said Society shall have all the general powers and privileges made incident to a Corporation by Act of Assembly in this Province. 2. The constitution, bye laws, rules, and regulations hereinbefore recited, shall and the same are hereby declared to be the constitution, bye laws, rules, and regulations of the said Corporation, and shall and may from time to time, as occasion may require, be rescinded, abrogated, repealed, altered, extended, or amended in the manner therein and thereby directed, provided the same be not repugnant to the laws and statutes of the Province. 3. The property, both real and personal, moneys, funds, securities, and assets of every description of the said Society, whether in possession, remainder, reversion, or expectancy, shall from and after the passing of this Act be and the same are hereby declared to be absolutely vested in the said Corporation by the name aforesaid, for the like objects and purposes, and no other, for which the same were held by the said Society, and by the said Corporation shall be appropriated and applied in like manner as the same were required to be appropriated and applied by the said Society; and shall and may from time to time be sued for and recovered by all lawful ways and means to and for the uses aforesaid; and all the liabilities of the said Society, both in law and equity, shall in like manner, from and after the passing of this Act, devolve upon the said Corporation by the name aforesaid, to the same extent as the said Society would have been held liable for had this Act not been passed. 4. This Act shall not take effect unless and until it is accepted by a majority of members present at any meeting of the Society to be called for that purpose at Fredericton, by the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, after two months notice to be given by advertisement in the Royal Gazette, and unless it receive the sanction of the Lord Bishop, to be given at or before such meeting. 1st WILLIAM 4th-CHAPTER 11. An Act to incorporate the Minister and Elders of the Kirk of Scotland in the Town of Newcastle, and for the purposes therein mentioned. Section. 1. What land vested in Minister, &c. Section. 2. What persons incorporated. Passed 25th March 1831. WHER HEREAS sundry inhabitants of the Town of Newcastle and its vicinity, in the County of Northumberland, being of the Protestant profession of worship approved of by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, have by voluntary contributions erected a large and handsome building for a place of worship, which it is intended shall be in connexion with the said Church of Scotland: And whereas the title to the parcel of land on which the said Church has been erected, being part of the lot number two, and bounded as follows, that is to say,Beginning at the north side of the highway running through Newcastle aforesaid, one rod distant from the western boundary of the County lot or grant number three; thence running twenty three rods and one half of a rod along the said western boundary of the said lot number three, one rod distant from the said boundary; thence at a right angle westerly nine rods; thence at a right angle southerly twenty six rods and one half of a rod, or until it meets the said highway; thence along the said highway easterly until it meets the first mentioned boundary, containing in the whole one acre and one half of an acre, is now in sundry inhabitants of the said Town of Newcastle and its vicinity, in trust and for the use of the persons of the profession aforesaid: And whereas the said persons are desirous that the said title to the said parcel of land should be transferred to and vested in the Minister and Elders of the said Church; which said Minister and Elders have been duly appointed and chosen according to the usages of the said Church of Scotland, and the said Minister has been duly licenced to officiate in the said Church; Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. The Minister and Elders of the said Church, commonly called and known by the name of "The Kirk of Scotland," shall be deemed and taken to be in all Courts of law and equity the proprietors of the said parcel of land, instead of the said persons now having title thereto as aforesaid, and the said title to the said parcel of land shall henceforward be transferred to and vested in the said Ministers and Elders, and their successors, for ever, being so elected and appointed, and approved and licenced as aforesaid, to have, hold, use, and enjoy the same for the use and intent aforesaid; saving nevertheless, the right of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and of all bodies politic and corporate, and of all other persons, to the said parcel of land, except the said persons in whom the title is vested as aforesaid, for the use aforesaid. 2. The said Minister and Elders shall be and they are hereby incorporated by the name of "The Minister and Elders of the Kirk of Scotland, in the Town of Newcastle," and shall by that name have perpetual succession, and be enabled to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, and to receive, take, and hold gifts and grants of land and real estate the annual income of which shall not exceed the sum of five hundred pounds, and also to accept of and receive donations for the endowment of the same. 2nd WILLIAM 4th-CHAPTER 18. An Act to repeal all the laws now in force relating to Saint Andrew's Church, in the City of Saint John, and for incorporating certain persons pewholders of the said Church and of the several Churches erected or to be erected in this Province in connexion with the Church of Scotland. Section. 1. Repeal of Acts. 2. Trustees, how incorporated. 3. What lands vested in Trustees. 4 & 5. Repealed. 6. Minister, how chosen. Section. 7. Minister, &c., how to hold offices, &c. Passed 9th March 1832. WHEREAS according to the forms and usages of the Church of Scotland as by law established, the spiritual and temporal affairs of the said Church are kept separate and distinct: And whereas the present Acts of Incorporation vesting the temporal affairs of Saint Andrew's Church, in the City of Saint John, in connexion with the Church of Scotland, in the Minister and Elders of the said Church, is at variance with the forms and usages of the said Church of Scotland: And whereas it appears to be the desire of the Members of the said Church in Saint John, and of a large majority of the Churches now established in this Province in connexion with the said Church of Scotland, to be incorporated in strict conformity with the forms and usages aforesaid, and to enable them to manage their temporal affairs in accordance therewith ;— Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. An Act made and passed in the fifty sixth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to enable the Minister and Elders for the time being of the Church in communion with the Kirk of Scotland lately erected in the City of Saint John, to hold the same to them and their successors for ever, and for other purposes therein mentioned; and an Act passed in the fifty eighth year of the same Reign, intituled An Act to extend the powers of the Minister and Elders of the Kirk of Scotland in the City of Saint John, be and the same are hereby repealed. 2. The present committee of management in the said Church, consisting of twelve members, namely, Thomas Walker, Robert Rankin, John Wishart, John Robertson, James Kirk, Robert Keltie, James Burns, Henry Hood, William Parks, William Walker, James Robertson, and Daniel Leavitt, elected on the fifteenth day of August last, together with the Elders of the said Church, namely, John Paul, Robert Robertson, Thomas Nisbet, William Hutchinson, Angus M Kenzie, and John Gillies, be and they are hereby declared to be Trustees for the said Church until the election and appointment of twelve other Trustees as hereinafter mentioned; and the above named Trustees and their successors, (the said twelve Trustees to be chosen and appointed in manner as hereinafter directed, and their successors) for ever, shall be a body politic and corporate in deed and name, and shall have succession for ever by the name of "The Trustees of Saint Andrew's Church, in the City of Saint John," and by that name shall be enabled to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto in all Courts and places whatsoever within this Province; and shall have full power and capacity to purchase, receive, take, hold, and enjoy, for the use and benefit of the said Church, as well goods and chattels, as lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and improve and use the same for the benefit of the said Church according to their best discretion, and the true intent and meaning of the donors when the same shall be given, devised, or bequeathed to the use and benefit of the said Church, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding; provided always, that the amount of annual rents, profits, and receipts of such lands, tenements, goods, chattels, and hereditaments, shall not exceed the sum of five hundred pounds. 3. The several lots of land forming a block on which the said Church is built, situate in Queen's Ward of the said City, and fronting on Germain Street, together with a lot of land situate in the Parish of Portland, whether the same are now legally vested in the present Corporation of the said Church by the title of "The Minister and Elders of the Church of Scotland, in the City of Saint John," or are still standing out in the original Trustees to whom they were conveyed for the use and benefit of the said Church, according to their full metes and boundaries, together with the said Church thereon erected, shall be and remain fully and absolutely vested in the said Trustees of Saint Andrew's Church, in the City of Saint John, and their successors, for ever, as a good and absolute estate in |