CAP. XVII.

An Act to Consolidate and Amend the several Acts Incorporating the City of Charlottetown.

[Assentcd to 30th April. 1903.)

HEREAS it is deemed expedient to consolidate and amend the Acts incorporating the City of Charlottetown.

Preamble

Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Province of Prince Edward Island, as follows:

1. That the inhabitants of the said City of Char- The City of lottetown and Common, and their successors, inhabi- Charlottetown tants of the same, shall be and they are hereby appointed a Body Corporate and Politic, in fact and in name, by and under the name, style and title of the “City of Charlottetown," and as such shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to break, renew and alter the same at pleasure ; and shall be capable of suing and being sued, and of impleading and being impleaded in all Courts of Law and Equity and other places, in all manner of causes actions and matters whatsoever; and of accepting, taking, purchasing and holding goods and chattels lands and tenements, real and personal property and estates; and of granting, selling, alienating, assigning, demising and conveying the same; and of entering into and becoming a party to contracts, and of grant- ing and accepting any bills, bonds, judgments or other instruments or securities for the payment or securing of the payment of any money borrowed or lent, or for the performance or securing the performance of any other duty, matter or thing Whatever, and to do and execute all Acts, and possess and enjoy all powers and immunities incident to such a Corporation, or which may be for the benefit and advantage thereof, subject to the regulations hereinafter provided.