Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from By-Laws, Rules and Regulations of the Hospital for Sick Children, College Street, Toronto, and the Lakeside Home for Little Children, Lighthouse Point, Toronto Island: As Revised and Amended January, 1907
Whereas the Hospital for Sick Children, _carrying on its work at the city of Toronto, is an institution incorporated under the provis ions of the Act respecting Benevolent, Provident and other Societies; and whereas the said corporation has represented by petition that its operatiolns have been greatly increased since its foundation, that voluntary contributions, bequests and legacies from those interested in the welfare of the institution are the principal means of raising the large amount of money necessary for the maintenance of the hospital in the city of Toronto, and The Lakeside Home on Toronto Island, and that by reason of the enlargement aforesaid of the work of the said charity, it is desirable to obtain a special Act of incorporation providing for the more efficient management of the affairs of the said institution, and enlarging its powers of taking gifts, devises and be quests made for the benefit of the said institution; and whereas the present corporators, namely, Messrs. John Ross Robertson, Edmund Boyd Osler, George Albertus Cox, Alexander Mortimer Smith, and Samuel Rogers, have by their petition set forth the facts aforesaid. And have prayed for a special Act of incorporation; and whereas the ladies' committee formerly managing the affairs of the said hospital have assented to the provisions of this Act; and whereas it is expe dient to grant the prayer of the said petition.
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