Agricultural Society of New South Wales Incorporation Act 1869 No asn (NSW)

ANNO TRICESIMO TERTIO

V I C T O R I A E REGINAE.

An Act to incorporate a Society to be called " T h e Agricultural Society of New South

Wales." [13th November, 1869.]

WHEREAS a Society called " The Agricultural Society of New South Wales" has under certain rules and by-laws been formed

at Sydney in the Colony of New South Wales for the encouragement

and improvement of Agriculture and for promoting the success of Pastoral and Earming pursuits in the said Colony and also for holding exhibitions of live-stock of agricultural horticultural and pastoral produce of minerals and of arts and manufactures And whereas it is expedient that the said Society should be incorporated and should be invested with the powers and authorities hereinafter contained Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows :—

1. For the purposes of this Act the following words in inverted

commas shall unless the context otherwise indicate bear the meanings
set against them respectively.

Society become members thereof shall be for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned

" Corporation"—The Society hereby incorporated.

" Council"—The Members of the Council at any meeting thereof at which a quorum according to the by-laws at the time being shall be present.

"Secretary"—The Secretary of the Society for the time being.

2. The President Vice-presidents Governors and Members of the said Society for the time being and all persons who shall in manner provided by the rules and by-laws for the time being of the said

mentioned a body corporate by the name or style of the "Agricultural

Society of New South Wales" and by that name shall and may have

perpetual succession and a common seal and shall and may enter into contracts and sue and be sued plead and be impleaded answer and be answered unto defend and be defended in all Courts and places what­ soever and may prefer lay and prosecute any indictment information and prosecution against any person whomsoever and any summons or other writ and any notice or other proceeding which it may be requisite to serve upon the Corporation may be served upon the Secretary or if there be no Secretary or if he be absent from the Colony then upon the President or any of the Vice-presidents.
3. The present rules and by-laws of the said Society shall be deemed and considered to be and shall be the rules and by-laws of the said Corporation save and except in so far as any of them are or shall or may be altered varied or repealed under the powers for that purpose therein contained or are or may be inconsistent or incompatible with or repugnant to any of the provisions of this Act or any of the laws now or hereafter to be in force in the said Colony.
4. The Corporation shall have power to purchase acquire and hold lands and any interest therein and also to sell and dispose of the said lands or any interest therein and all lands tenements hereditaments and other property of whatever nature now belonging to the said Society under the said rules and by-laws or vested in trustees for them shall on the passing of this Act be vested in and become the property of the said Corporation subject to all charges claims and demands in anywise
affecting the same.
5. The ordinary business of the Corporation shall be managed by the Council and it shall not be lawful for individual Members to interfere in any way in the management of the affairs of the Corpora­ tion except as by the rules and by-laws for the time being shall be

specially provided.

6. The Council shall have the general management and super­ intendence of the affairs of the Corporation the appointment of all
officers and servants required for conducting its business and may

define their duties and fix their salaries The Council may also subject as aforesaid alter vary or repeal the rules or by-laws or make any new rules or by-laws The Council may also purchase or rent land houses or offices and erect buildings or other structures for any of the purposes

for which the Society is hereby incorporated and may borrow money for

the purposes of the Corporation on mortgage of the real and chattel property of the Corporation or any part thereof or may borrow money

without security provided that the amount so borrowed without
security shall never exceed in the aggregate the amount of the income

of the Corporation for the last preceding year and the Council may

also settle and agree to the covenants powers and authorities to be
contained in the securities aforesaid.

7. In the event of the funds and property of the Corporation being insufficient to meet its engagements each member thereof shall in addition to his subscription for the then current year be liable to contribute a sum equal thereto towards the payment of such engage­ ments but shall not be otherwise individually liable for the same and no member who shall have commuted his annual subscription shall be so liable for any amount beyond that of one year's subscription.

8. The Council shall have the custody of the common seal of the Corporation and have power to use the same in the affairs and business of the Corporation and for the execution of any of the securities aforesaid and may under such seal authorize any person without such seal to execute any deed or deeds and do such other matters as may be required to be done on behalf of the Corporation

but

but it shall not be necessary to use the said seal in respect of the ordinary business of the Corporation nor for the appointment of their

Secretary Solicitor or other officers.

9). The production of a printed or written copy of the rules and by-laws of the Corporation certified in writing by the Secretary to be
a true copy and having the common seal of the Corporation affixed

thereto shall be sufficient evidence of such rules and by-laws.

10. In case any of the elections directed by the rules and by-laws

for the time being of the Corporation to be made shall not be made at

the times required it shall nevertheless be competent to the Council or to the members as the case may be to make such elections respectively at any ordinary meeting of the Council or at any annual or special general meeting held subsequently.

11. The Secretary may represent the Corporation in all legal proceedings and may for and on behalf of the Corporation make such affidavits and do such acts as are or may be required to be done by the
plaintiff or complainant or defendant respectively in any proceedings to

which the Corporation may bo parties.