Bill 5 (Legislature 13, Session 5)

L13 S5 6025

Alberta — Bills

No.5 5th Session, 13th Legislature, Alberta 7 Elizabeth II, 1959 BILL 5 A Bill to Incorporate The General Hospital (Grey Nuns) of Edmonton MRS. WILKINSON Printed by L. S. WALl .. , Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, Edmonton, Alberta, 1959

Explanatory Note The purpose of this Bill is to incorporate The General Hospital (Grey Nuns) of Edmonton.

BILL No.5 of 1959

An Act to Incorporate The General Hospital (Grey Nuns) of Edmonton (Assented to , 1959)

WHEREAS a petition has been presented praying for the

Preamble incorporation of an association of religious women as a body politic and corporate in deed and in name by the name of The General Hospital (Grey Nuns) of Edmonton, and

Whereas it is expedient to grant the said petition: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and con sent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1.

Sister Alice Gauthier, s.g.m., Sister Anna Beaulac, Incorporation s.g.m., Sister Marguerite Arseneau, s.g.m., Sister Annette Bergeron, s.g.m. and such other persons as are now or may hereafter become, under the provisions of this Act, members of the said corporation, shall be and are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate in deed and in name by the name of General Hospital (Grey Nuns) of Edmonton for the purposes and objects hereinafter set out. 2.

The corporation shall have power to conduct charitable ~~r';~~~ti~~l institutions of any kind or nature whatsoever, and without in any way restricting the generality of the foregoing, shall have power to conduct schools, boarding schools, hospitals, dispensaries, homes for the aged, and convents, and to im- part education and moral training to students. 3.

The corporation shall have perpetual succession and a Idem common seal, and may at all times hereafter contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded in any matter whatsoever in all courts and places whatso ever in the Province of Alberta. 4. The head office of the corporation shall be at the City Head office of Edmonton, in the Province of Alberta, or at such other places in the Province as may from time to time be de- termined by the by-laws of the corporation. 5.

The corporation shall have power from time to time Bequests and at all times hereafter to acquire by gift, devise, bequest, transfer, purchase or otherwise for the benefit of the corpor- ation any land or real or personal estate and the corporation

2 may from time to time dispose of the same or any part thereof by sale, transfer or mortgage, lease, exchange or otherwise, and with the proceeds therefrom may acquire other lands, tenements, hereditaments and other property, real or personal, or invest the same in any security whatso ever for the use of the corporation. 6.

The corporation shall have power to erect, construct, Buildings equip and maintain buildings, and other erections for the proper carrying on of its educational, hospital and other charitable works and to do all other matters and things necessary for the carrying out of the objects that the corporation may become engaged in or occupied with. 7.

The rents, revenues and profits of all property, real or Profits personal, held by the corporation and the assets and property of the corporation shall be appropriated and applied to the maintenance of the members of the corpora- tion and the construction and maintenance of the institu- tions carried on by the corporation, and the construction and maintelnance of buildings and the acquisition of property, real or personal, requisite for the advancement of charity and benevolence and for the furtherance of any or all the objects and works in which the corporation may engage. 8.

The corporation in addition to all other powers shall ~g~e~,:.in~tc. have power (

a) to borrow or raise or secure the payment of money by negotiable instruments and by the issue of de bentures or debenture stock, bonds, mortgages or obligations, charged upon the property of the corporation, and to extend the period for payment of the same, and to purchase, redeem or payoff any such securities in whole or in part, (

b) to invest its funds, or any portion thereof, either directly in the name of the corporation, or indirectly in the name of trustees, in the purchase of such securities as it may deem advisable, and also may lend its funds or any portion thereof on any such securities, (

c) to ensure or give any guarantee for payment of any loan, mortgage, bond or debenture issue, obligations or securities made or issued by the corporation situate within the Province of Alberta, and (

d) to mortgage or charge all or any part of the pro perty of the corporation either for the payment of security for a debt or otherwise. 9. It shall be lawful for the corporation to make by-laws, By-laws rules, orders and regulations for the government and proper administration of the property, affairs, and interest of the said corporation, and to repeal and amend the same from

3 time to time, including the enforcement of discipline and the admission and retirement of members, the appointment, deposition or removal of any persons as members of the corporation, or bearing office therein and generally for the internal government of affairs of the said corporation. 10. Until otherwise directed by by-laws the incorporators Officers mentioned herein shall be the officers of the said corporation. 11.

The corporation may exercise any activity that may Maintenance help it to maintain its institutions and may bargain and sell the products of the same provided it conforms to the laws of the Province of Alberta. 1!2. Upon presentation to the Registrar of the proper Vesting land titles office of any transfer or other instrument where- of title by any land or interest in land situate in Alberta is being transferred from "The Sisters of Charity (Grey Nuns) of Alberta" being a corporation incorporated by

chapter 114 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1957, to the corporation hereby created, the Registrar may without fee or charge therefor do all things necessary to vest such land or interest therein in the name of the corporation, subject to all such en cumbrances or charges as may be registered against the title thereof. 13. The corporation shall at all times when called upon Accounting to do so by the Lieutenant Governor in Council render an account in writing of its property and affairs. 14. The powers herein granted shall be subject to the General laws general laws of the Province now in force or hereafter enacted. 15. This Act may be cited as uThe General Hospital

Short title (Grey Nuns) of Edmonton Act". 16. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it ~~~lr~ce is assented to.

No.5 FIFTH SESSION THIRTEENTH LEGISLATURE 7 ELIZABETH II 1959 BILL

An Act to Incorporate The General Hospital (Grey Nuns) of Edmonton Received and read the First time ............................ . Second time ......... Third time. MRS. WILKINSON Title: 1959 (13th, 5th) Bill 5,

An Act to Incorporate The General Hospital (Grey Nuns) of Edmonton

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Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L13 S5 6025
Type	bill
Volume / chapter	L13 S5 6025
Language	en
Format	json
Source	PROVINCIAL
Identifier	7544df23f58b13564503bdadaa6547c5177be9b1

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