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two ., .istices to proceed to hear and determine the said com— plaint according to the rules of the said Somety : and In case the said Justices shall adjudge any sum of money to he paid by such person against whom such eemplaint shall be made. {did if such person shall not pay such sum of money to the person. and at the time specified by such JustiCes, they shall wroeeed to enforce their award in the manner liereinhefin'c directed. to be used in case of any neglect to comply with the decision of the arbitratin‘s appointed under the authority Of. this Act. '

XXIII. A minor

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Sceietv and shall be empowered to execute all im-ztruments, *

give all necessary acquittainws, and enjoy all t e privileges and be liable to all the 1't-s1*‘ii>ii*siliilities appertaining to mem- bers of matured age, notwithsfhmiing his or her incapacity or disability in law to act fur himself or herself: l'irovided always that such minor be admitted into such Society by and with the consent of his or her parents, masters or guardians.

XXIV. It shall and may be lawful to and for any such Society to have and receive, from any member or members thereof, any sum or sums, by way of bonus, on any share or shares for the privilege of receiving the same in advance prior to the same being realized, and also any interest for the share or shares so received on any part thereof, Without being subject or liable on account thereof to any of the forf'eitures or penalties imposed by any of the Act or Acts of the

General Assembly of this Island.

XXV. The rules of every such Society shall provide that the Trustees, Treasurer, or other principal officer thereof, shall once in every year, at least, prepare, or cause to be prepared, a general statement of the funds and efi'ects of or belonging to such Society, specifying in whose custody or possession the said funds or effects shall be then remaining, together with an account of all and every the various sums of money received and expended by or on account of the said Society since the publication of the preceding periodi- cal statement ; and every such periodical statement, shall be attested by two or more members of such Society appoint- ed auditors f’or that purpose, and shall be countersigned by the Secretary of such Society; and every member shall be entitled to receive from the sa1d Society a copy of such periodical statement on payment of such sum as the rules of such Society may require, not exceeding the sum of six- encc.

XXVI. On the trial of any action, indictment or other proceeding, respecting the property of any Society enrolled under the authority of this Act, or in proceedings before any Justice of the Peace, any member of such Society shall be a competent witness, and shall not be objected to on account of any interests he may have as such member in the result of such action, indictment or other proceeding.

XXVII. If any person shall consider himself or herself aggrieved by any sentence, order and adjudication made or given by any such Justices under this Act, it shall and may be lawful for such person to appeal to the next sittingof the Supreme Court of Judicature to be holdcn in the County in which such Justice or Justices shall have jurisdiction; provided always that such appeal shall be applied for, and every thing relating thereto shall be had and done in like manner as is appointed for appeals from the jud ments of Justices of the Peace, under the revisions of the ct of the Assembly of this Island, passe in the nineteenth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, chapter twenty-nine, intitulcd, “ An Act to facilitate the perform- ances of. the duties of Justices of the Peace with respect to summary convictions and orders ;” and in every such ap- peal the J ustices of the said Supreme Court are required to affirm, quash or otherwise vary such sentence. order or ad- judication as may seem to them meet, and, to enforce judg- ment in manner and form prescribed by the Act of the twenty-third year of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria chapter sixteen, intituled, “ An Act relating to the recovery of Small Debts, and to repeal certain Acts therin mentioned,” or by any other Act for the recovery of Small Debts then in force. '

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XX\'ll I. .\ll lilllltllll; Societies hereafter to be estal,»lish- ed shall be entitled to the protection and benefit of this Act; but no such Society shall be entitled thereto until their rules shall have been certified and dep0sited in the manner hereinbeforc directed by this Act.

XXIX. livery person or persons who shall execute a mortgage. or further charge to the Trustees of such Society, shall also execute. under his or their hands and seals. a momorial thereof. which memorial shall specify the nature of the instrument. the names and additions of the parties thereto, the day and year when the same bear date, the de- scription of the messuages. lands. tenements. hereditaments and premises comprised in and effected by such mortgage or further charge. the amount of money secured thereby, the amount of and the date when the last instalment is due and payable, whether such instruments contain a power of sale, and when such power of sale may be exercised, and which said memorial shall be in the form prescribed in the schedule to thislAet an nexed marked (B), or as near thereto as circum- stances pcrmit, and which said memorial shall be witnessed by one or more witnesses; provided always, that it shall not in any case be necessary for the Wife of any mortgagee, who may have executed any such mortgage or further charge, to execute or join in such memorial.

XXX. The memorial of such mortgagee may be registered in the office of the Registrar of Deeds, at Charlottetown, upon the oath of the su )scribing witness or the acknowledg- ment of the parties who have executed the same; and the Registrar shall thereupon, and upon the back of each memorial, certify the proof or acknowledgment thereof in the form prescribed in the schedule to this Act, marked (C); provided always that no memorial be registered by the Registrar of Deeds, as aforesaid, unless the mortgage, or further charge referred to in the said memorial, be produced t0.the said Registrar of Deeds, which said mortgage shall be endorsed across the face thereof by the said Registrar, in the form of the schedule to this Act annexed marked ( D) , and shall be delivered to the party producing the same; and such mortgage, or further charge, of which a memorial shall have been so registered, shall in all respects be held to come within the provisions of the Act of the General Assembly, passed in the third year of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, chapter ten, intitulcd “ An Act to regulate the registry of Deeds and instruments relating to the title of land,” and all other Acts relating thereto or affecting the same, as though such mortgage, or further charge, had been duly entered and recorded under the provisions of the said last mentioned Act or Acts; and the Registrar of Deeds shall take and receive for the recording of such memorial and such certificates as aforesaid, the sum of one shilling.

XXXI. Nothing herein contained shall authorize any Building Society, established under this Act, to invest its funds, or any part thereof, in any Savings Bank.

XXXII. Whenever in this Act, in describing or referring to any person, the word importing the singular number or the masculine gender only is used, the same shall be understood to include and shall be applied to several per— sons or parties, as well as one person or party, and females as well as males ; and the words mortgage and further charge, shall be held to apply to any instrument taken to secure the payment of any sum to such Society, unless in all such cases there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction.

XXXIII. The officers of any such Society shall and may receive and send by the General Post from and to laces within this Island, all letters and packets, having re ation to the business of such Society, free from the dut of postage, provided that such letters and packets as shal be sent to such officers, be directed to them as such, specifying the office held by such officer on the covers thereof; and all such letters and packets as shall be sent by any of the officers, having relation t) the business of such Society, shall have written or printed on the covers thereof the name of the office held by such officer sending the same, and shall be signed on the outside thereof with the name of such officer, (such name to be from time to time transmitted to the