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CAP. VI.

An ACT to confirm the Charter of the Madras School in New Brunswick and to extend the powers of the Governor and Trustees of the same.

Passed the 20th of March, 1820.

Preamble.

 

 

 
WHEREAS by His Majesty's Royal Charter, or Letters Patent under the Great Seal of this Province, bearing date the twenty-third day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred annd nineteen, and in the fifty-ninth year of His Majesty's Reign, a Corporation was erected, and created, with perpetual succession, by the name of "The Governor and Trustees of the Madras School in New Brunswick," with certain powers, rights, and privileges, as are in the same Royal Charter or Letters Patent expressed and contained;

The Charter of the Corporation of the Madras School declared to be good and valid in Law.

Ratified and confirmed.

 
I.   Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council, and Assembly, That the same Charter or Letters Patent be, and the same are hereby declared to be good, valid, perfect, authentic and effectual, in the Law, and shall stand, and be taken, reputed, deemed, and adjudged, good, perfect, sure, available, authentic, and effectual in the Law, according to the tenor and effect of the same Charter or Letters Patent; and that the same be, and are to all intents and purposes hereby ratified and confirmed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special meetings of the Governor and Trustees may be held at the Seat of Government.

 

Clerk and Treasurer may attend in person or by deputy.

 

 
II.   And whereas in and by the said Charter or Letters Patent, it is declared, "that it shall be the duty of the said Governor and Trustees of the Madras School in New Brunswick, (among other things) to hold and keep the Central School always in the City of Saint John, and to extend the benefits of the Institution to every other part of the Province, from time to time, and as often as the funds and means of the said Corporation will enable them so to do."   And whereas provision may hereafter be made for the establishment of Branches of the said Provincial School, to be held and kept at the Seat of Government of the said Province, in Fredericton, and other parts of the Province:   Be it therefore further enacted, that special meetings of the same Governor and Trustees of the Madras School in New Brunswick, may be summoned and held in the manner as pointed out in and by the said Charter and Letters Patent, at the said Seat of Government of the said Province, solely for the regulation and government of any such other Schools as may hereafter be established in the Province, under the direction of the said Governor and Trustees of the Madras School in New Brunswick; at which said special meetings the Clerk and Treasurer of the said Corporation may severally attend, either in person or by deputy, as they shall from time to time find the same to be convenient.

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C. 6. Anno LX. Geo. III.   A. D. 1820.


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