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Society respectively; and one of suclrtranscripts, when Certified by the Attorney General, shall be re- turned to the Sobiety, and the other of such tran- scripts shall be transmitted by the Attorney General to the Supreme Court of Judicature, at Charlotte- town, during the term next alter the time when such transcript shall have been so certified as aforesaid; and the Justices of the said Supreme Court are hereby authorized and required, upon motion of Counsel, to allow and confirm the same; and such transcript shall be filed by the Prothonotary of the said Court, with the Records of the said Supreme Court in his custody, without fee or reward; and that all rules, alterations and amendments thereof, from the time when the same shall be certified by the Attorney General, shall be binding on the several members and officers of the said Society, and all persons having interest therein.

IV. In case the Attorney General shall refuse to certify all or any ofthe rules, so to be submitted for his perusal and examination, it shall then be lawful for any such Society to submit the same to the said Supreme Court, together with the reasons assigned by the Attorney General, in writing, for any such rejection or disapproval of any one or more such rules; and that the said Supreme Court shall and may, if deemed fit, confirm and allow the same, not- withstanding any such rejection or disapproval by the Attorney General.

V. The Attorney General shall be entitled to no further fee for or in respect of any alteration or amendment of any rules upon which one fee has been already paid to the Attorney General, within the period ofthree years; provided also, thatif any rules, alterations or amendments are sent to the Attorney General, accompanied with an affidavit of being a c0py of any rules or alterations or amendments of the rules of any other Society which shall have been already enrolled under the provisions of this Act, the Attorney General shall certify and return the same, as aforesaid, without being entitled to any fee for such certificate.

VI. No such Society, as aforesaid, shall have the benefit of this Act unless all the rules for the manage- ment thereof shall be entered in a Book to be kept by the Secretary of such Society, and which Book shall be open at all seasonable times for the inspec- tion of the members of such Society; but, neverthe- less, nothing contained herein shall extend to prevent any alteration in or amendment of any such rules, so entered and transmitted and filed as aforesaid, or repealing or annulling the same, or any of them, in the whole or in part, or making any new rules for the management of such Society, in such manner as by the rules of such Society shall from time to time be provided; but such new rules, or such alterations in or amendments of former rules, or any order an— nulling or repealing any former rules in the whole or in part, shall not be in force until the same respectively shall be entered in such book as aforesaid, and cer- tified, when necessary, by the Attorney General, and until a transcript thereof shall be transmitted to the Supreme Court as aforesaid, and the Prothono- tary shall file and certify the same as aforesaid.

VII. All rules from time to time made andin force

forthe management of such Society as aforesaid,

and duly entered in such book as aforesaid, and confirmed by the said Supreme Court as aforesaid, shall be binding on the several members and officers of such Society, and the several contributors thereto and representatives, all of whom shall be deemed and taken to have full notice thereof, by such entry and contribution as aforesaid; and the entry of such rules in such book as aforesaid, or the transcript thereof, transmitted to the said Supreme Court, and filed with the Prothonotary thereof, as aforesaid, or a true copy of such transcript examined with the original, and proved to be a true copy, shall be re- ceived as evidence of such rules respectively in all cases; and no legal process whatever shall be brought or allowed to remove any such rules into any Court of Law or Equity within this Island; and every copy of any such transcript, transmitted and filed as afore- said, shall be made without fee or reward, except the actual expense of making such copy.

VIII. No rule confirmed by the Supreme Court as aforesaid, shall be altered, rescinded or repealed unless at a general meeting of the members of such Society as aforesaid, convened by public notice, written or printed, signed by the Secretary or Presi- dent of such Society, in pursuance of a requisition for that purpose by seven or more of the members of such Society; which said requisition and notice shall be publicly read at the two usual meetings of such Society, to be held next before such general meeting, for the purpose of such alteration or repeal, unless a Committee of such members shall have been nomi- nated for that purpose at a general meeting of the members of such Society, convened in manner afore- said; in which case such Committee shall have the like power to make such alterations or repeal, and unless such alterations or repeal shall be made with the concurrence and approbation of three-fourths of the members of such Society then and there present, or by the like proportion of such Committee as afore- said, if any shall have been nominated for that purpose.

IX. The rules of every Society, formed under the authority of this Act, shall specify the place or places at which it is intended such Society shall hold its meetings, and certain provisions with respect to the powers and duties of the members at large, and of such committees or ofiicers as may be appointed for the management of. the affairs of such Society; provided always, that it shall and may be lawful for any such Society to alter their place or places of meeting whenever they may consider it necessary, upon giving notice thereofin writing to the Supreme Court during the next term before or after such re- moval, and signed by the Secretary or other principal officer, and also by three or more ofthe members of the said Society; and which said notice shall be' filed in like manner as is hereinbefore directed concerning the said rules, or the alterations or amendments.

X. That every such Society shall and may, from time to time, at any of their usual meetings, or by their Committee, if any such shall be appointed for that Society, elect and appoint such person into the office of Trustee, President, Secretary, Surveyor or Treasurer of such Society as they shall think proper, and also shall and may, from time to time, elect and appoint such other officers as shall be deemed neces-