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BY-LAWS
or THB
LITERARY AND HISTORICAL
QUEBEC
TO
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WHICH
IS
PREFIXES
COPY OF THF. ROYAL CHARTER Ol
INCORPORATION OF THE SOCIETY.
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VOK TUK LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIKIT
HY THOMAS CARY &
Co.
Fveemasons' Hall, Buadt Street,
1832.
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LIST OF
OFFICERS
FOR
1832.
P&aSIDXNT,
ANDREW STUART,
Esq
VICE-PnBSlDENTS,
WILLIAM SHEPPARD, Esq.
JOSEPH SKEY, Esq.
HON. A. W. COCHRAN,
CAPTN. BAYnELD, R. N.
RECORDING SECRETARY,
J. C.
FISHER, Esq. LL. D.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY,
JONATHAN WURTELE,
Esq.
TREASURER,
WILLIAM HENDERSON,
Esq.
LIBRARIAN,
REV. D. WILKIE, M.A.
COUNCIL SECRETARY,
WILLIAM LYONS,
Esq.
M. D.
CURATOR OP MUSEUM,
LIEUT. BADDELEY, R. E.
CURATOR OF APPARATUS,
G.
W.
WICKSTEED,
E«q.
CHARTER
or THE
LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ov
QUEBEC.
William the Fourth, by
United Kingdom
der of the Faith
whom
of
— To
the same
the
Grace of God, of the
Great Britain <tnd Ireland, King, Defenall to
whom
may concern
come or
Whereas an
these presents shall
Greeting
:
Association of divers of our loving subjects in the Province
of Lower Canada, has been formed in the City of Quebec in
our said Province, under the name of the
**
UliteVHty
an0
^i^torical i)Ortetp of H^UtbeCj" for the prosecuti >n of
researches into the early history of Canada, for the reco'ering, procuring, and publishing, interesting documents and
useful information, as
to the
Natural, Civil and Literary
History of British North America, and for the advancement
of the Arts and Sciences in the said Province of Lower
Canada, from which public benefit may be expected. And
whereas it has been represented to us that the advan*
tages to arise
from
the
Association,
would
be
increased and confirmed by the Incorporation of the
hers thereof,
greatly
Mem«
and an humble application has been made
A
to
us that
we would
be graciously pleased to grant our Royal
Charter of Incorporation for this purpose.
Now Know
Ye —that being willing and desirous to afford encouragement
to an Institution for objects so laudable
and
beneficial
:
We,
of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion,
have willed, ordained, granted, and appointed, and by these
and successors, do will, ordain,
and appoint, that George Earl of Dalhousie, Sir James
Kempt, John Adams, Edmund William Bomer Antrobus,
Charles Ardouin, Thomas Gushing Aylwin, Frederick Badpresents for us, our heirs
grant,
dely,
Henry
W.
Bayfield,
Francis Bell, Henry Black, Ed-
ward Bowen, William Brent,JosephBouchette, Robert Shore
Milnes Bouchette, Joseph Bouchette, junior, George Bourne,
Judge Burton, Edward Burroughs, John Caldwell, Hugh
Caldwell, Archibald Campbell, Charles Campbell, John Saxton
Campbell, John Cannon, Edward Caron, John P. Cockburn,
Andrew Wm. Cochran, Thomas Coffin, James Cuthbert,
John Davidson, William H. A. Dayies, Dominick Daly,
Jerome Demers, Edward Desbarats, Frederick Desbarats,
Robert D'Estimauville, William Dudley Dupont, William
Bowman
Felton,
John Charlton
Fisher,
John
Fletcher,
William Findlay, James B. Forsyth, John Eraser, John
Malcolm Eraser, Frangois Xavier Garneau, Augustin Germain, Manly Gore, William Green, Louis Gugy, John
Hale, James Hamilton, Andre Kemi Hamel, Joseph Hamel,
Victor Hamel, Aaron Hart, James Harkness, William Henderson, Frederick Ingall, William Kemble, William Kelly,
James Kerr,
son, Pierre
Pierre Laforce, Louis
Lagueux, William Lamp-
de Salles Laterri^re, Thomas Lee, junior, Joseph
Legare, Henry Lemesurier,
Thomas Lloyd, William Lyons,
Frederick Maitland, John McNider, William McKee, William King
McCord, Roderick McKenzie, John Langley
III
5
I
int
our Uoyal
Mills,
Now Know
ncouragement
neficial:
Augustus Patton,Fran9oisXavierPerrault, Joseph Francois
We,
Perrault, William Power, Francis
mere motion,
Price, Ilemi
and by these
Randolph
will, ordain,
3ie,
Sir
James
derick Bad-
Black, Ed^obert Shore
Jige
Bourne,
'well,
Hugh
John Saxton
.
Cockburn,
« Cuthbert,
inick
Daly,
Desbarata,
«, William
Fletcher,
'
aser,
John
ustin
Ger-
^gy»
pl»
John
Hamel,
I'am
Henam Kelly,
im Lamp.
^'i
Joseph
">
Lyons,
^ee,
I.
Quirouet,
Ward
Primrose, William
William Kees, John Richardson,
Roulh, William Sax, Jonathan Sewell, Wil-
liam Smith Sewell,
Edmund
Sewell, Robert S.
M.
William Sheppard, Peter Sheppard, Joseph Skey^
Antrojbus,
-»'
Thomas Moore, Joseph Morrin, George J. Mountain,
Henry Nixon, Charles Panet, Joseph Parent, Eiienne Parant,
Sewell,
William
J. Skewes, William Smith, James Smillie, William Stringer,
i
Charles James
Stewart Lord Bishop of Quebec, James
Stuart, David Stuart,
Andrew
Stuart,
Joseph Signay, Robert
Symes, Jean Thomas Taschereau, John Pyefinch Thirlwall,
Henry Trinder, Joseph Remi Valii^res de St. Real, George
Vanfelson,
Norman
Fitzgerald Uniacke, George Usborne,
George A. Wanton, Gustavus Wickstead, Daniel Wilkie,
George Willing, Thomas William Willan, George Wurtele,
and Jonathan Wurtele, and their successors for ever, to be
elected in the manner hereinafter directed, shall be one
body, politic and corporate, in deed, and in name, by the
name and style of the Literary and Historical Society of
Quebec ; and that by the same name they shall have perpetual succession,
and a common
their successors shall
seal
;
and
that they
from time to time, have power to
common
and
alter,
and pleasure
convenient,
and
that by the same
and as shall be found
name, they and their successors, from time to time, and at all
times hereafter, shall be able and capable to have, take,
receive, purchase, acquire, hold, possess, and enjoy, to them
and their successors, to and for the uses and purposes of the
renew or change such
said
seal at their will
Corporation, any messuages,
lands,
tenements and
Wil-
hereditaments of what nature, quality or kind soever, situate,
Langley
lying and being within our said Province of Lower Canada,
A
2
60 as the same do not exceed in yearly value the
hundred pounds, sterling money of Great
charges
;
and enjoy,
any goods,
And we do
and
and
to
for the
same
uses
and pur*
I
hereby grant and declare, that the said Literary
by the same name,
to sue in
all
chattels, gifts or benefactions, whatsoever.
Quebec, and
Historical Society of
ever,
above
and also to take, receive, purchase, acquire, have,
hold, possess
poses,
sum of five
Britain,
law,
and
shall
to be
answer and be answered,
their successors for
sel
and may be able and capable
sued, plead and be impleaded,
in all or
any Court or Courts of
Record, within our United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland,
and our
said Province
of Lower Canada, and other
and singular actions, causes, pleas,
suits, matters and demands whatsoever, in as large, ample
and beneficial manner and form, as any other body politic
or corporate, or any other our liege subjects, bein^ persons,
our dominions,
in all
able and capable in law,
may
or be sued, impleaded,
or answered, in any matter what-
And
soever.
aforesaid,
Literary
for the better
we do
and
grant,
accomplishment of the purposes
ordain and declare, that the said
Historical Society of Quebec,
cessors for ever, shall
yearly
or can sue, implead or answer,
and every
year,
and
on the second Wednesday
meet
at
their sucin
January
some convenient place
appointed by the said Society, or the major part of them
shall be present at
to
be
who
any General Meeting, between the hours
of eight and twelve in the morning; and that they or the
I
major part of such of them as shall then be present, shall
choose one President, on« or more Vice-Presidents, one or
more Treasurer or Treasurers, one or more Secretary or
Secretaries, and such other Officers and Servants as shall be
thought expedient, to serve
in
the said
offices
during the
year nfsxt ensuing, and if by reason of any cause, mattef or
n
n of five
kbove all
have,
e,
nd pur*
had and made on the second
thing, the Election so to be
Wednesday
in
the month of January, yearly as aforesaid,
should be prevented, or
and ordain
may
not be had or made,
(hat in every such case
it
shall
we
grant
be competent to
ilsoever.
the said Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, and their
Literary
successors or the major part of such of them, as
Bsors for
sent at a Meeting to be held as soon after as
capable
venient, to proceed to
may be premay be con*
and make Election of a President,
pleaded,
Vice-President or Vice-Presidents, Treasurer or Treasurers,
jurts
ain
of
and
Secretary or Secretaries, Officers and Servants, as aforesaid,
and the Elections so made,
other
id
shall
be as valid and effectual as
had been made on such second Wednesday in
month of January as aforesaid and we do hereby grant
if they
pleas,
,
ample
I
politic
lersons,
the
what-
irposes
le said
sue-
ir
inuary
to be
n who
hours
or the
shall
>ne or
y or
II be
I
Bf
the
or
that the Honorable Jonathan Sewell, our Chief
Justice of our said Province, and a
Member of our Executive
and
Legislative Councils of our said Province, shall be the
first
President of the said Society ; and that the said President
inswer,
r
;
and ordain
shall within six
months
after
the passing of the Charter,
cause notice to be given to the several Members of the said
Society herein before mentioned, to meet at such time
place as he shall appoint
such of them as
;
and that they or the major
shall then
be present,
shall
and
part of
proceed to the
Election of one or more Vice-President or Vice*President8,
one or more Treasurer or Treasurers, and one or more
Secretary or Secretaries, and such other Officers and Servants
as shall to them seem meet
;
which said
time of their Election to their respective
tinue therein until the second
Lord one thousand
eight
Wednesday,
Officers
from the
offices, shall
in the year
con-
of our
hundred and thirty-two, and from
thenceforth until others shall be chosen in their places in
manner
aforesaid.
that if at
any time or times,
And we do
it
further grant
shall
and ordain,
happen that any of the
;
persons chosen to the said offices respectively,
removed from the said
offices,
sha,ll die,
or be
or resign the same during the
period for which they shall have been respectively elected,
and in every such case, it shall be lawful for the
surviving and continuing President, or any one of the VicePresidents, to issue notice to the several Members of the said
then,
Corporation, to meet at the usual place at which the annual
Meeting of the said Society
shall
be
shall
be held, at such time as
specified in the said notice
of the said Corporation
who
shall
;
and
meet
notice^ or the major part of them, shall
Officer or Officers,
persons
(
i
who
removed as
do
shall
in
Members
pursuance of such
and may choose an
the room and place of the person or
have died, or resigned^ or have been
aforesaid, as to
further grant
(hat the
in
them
and ordain,
shall
seem meet.
And we
that the said Literary
and
Historical Society of Quebec, and
their successors, shall
and may on the second Wednesday
and every year, for ever hereafter, and
in every
require^
month, yearly
oftener if occasion shall
meet at some convenient place to be appointed
for
that purpose, to transact the business of the said Society
and
shall
and may
at
any meeting on such second Wednes^
day in the month^ elect such persons to be
Members of the
said Corporation, as they or the major part of them present,
shall think expedient.
pleasure
is
that
shall be valid
Provided always, and our will and
no act done
and effectual
Vice-Presidents,
at
any Meeting of the Society,
unless the President, or one of the
and eight other Members of the said Society
and the major part of them do consent to
at least be present,
and concur
therein.
And we do further
presents for us, our heirs
and
will,
successors,
and by these
do grant and
ordain, that the said Literary and Historical Society of
Quebec, and their successors, or the major part of them who
;
lie,
or be
be present ai the
firsi
ftnd
second Meeting of tho said
elected,
any Meeting on the second Wednesday in the
months of January, May and November in each and every
for the
year,
irtng the
Vice-
lie
Society, or at
and at no other Meetings of the said Society, shall have
to frame and make Statutes, By-Laws,
power and authority
the said
Rules and Orders, touchino^ and concerning the good govern-
annual
ment of the said Corporation, and the income and property
thereof, and any other matter or thing which to them may
i
time as
llembers
i
ishall
of such
seem
fit
and expedient,
for the
more
the objects of the said Corporation,
effectual attainment of
and
the administration of
from time to time, by new Statutes,
loose an
its
erson or
By-Laws, Rules and Orders, as to them may seem meet.
been
Provided always, 'that the said Statutes, By-Laws, Rules
ve
And we
and
ary
rs,
concerns
and
;
and Orders,
also,
shall not be repugnant to the
Laws of our
said
And
Province of Lower Canada or to this our Charter.
shall
provided also, that the said Statutes, By-Laws, Rules and
yearly
Orders, shall be subject to the approbation of our Governor,
ion shall
Lieutenant Governor, or person administering the Govern-
1,
ntedibr
ment of our
Society
forthwith after their adoption be transmitted for his conside-
Vednes-F
ration;
s
of the
present,
and
irill
and
said Province for the time being
in case
;
and
shall
he shall for us, or in our behalf) signify
his disapprobation thereof, in writing, within one year after
the same shall have been so as aforesaid
the same
made known
to him,
or such part thereof as shall be so disapproved,
Society,
shalljfrom the time of the signification of such disapprobation
e of the
to the President of the said Corporation, be utterly void
Society
of no
isent
to
»y
theia
nt
and
iety
m
of
who
shall
effect,
be and remain in
hereby for
us,
full
force
and
virtue.
And we do
command
our heirs and successors, charge and
that the said Statutes, By-Laws, Rules
made by the said
under and subject to the
aforesaid to be
Society,
and
but until such disapprobation be so signified,
and Orders, so as
and Historical
Literary
provisioni as aforesaid.