aforesaid; and in all cases, except for money paid and received in respect of any mortgage or sale of the said hereditaments and premises, or any part or parts thereof, as aforesaid, the receipt and receipts of any one or more of the said trustees for the time being, or any one or more of the stewards or treasurers for the time being, by the said trustees for the time being, or the major part of them, duly authorized to sign and give receipts, shall be a full discharge to the person and persons entitled to such receipt or receipts, his, her and their heirs, executors and administrators, for all moneys (except as aforesaid) therein respectively expressed and acknowledged to have been received by any such trustee, steward or treasurer, as aforesaid.

19. That pur

chaser or mortbe bound to inquire as to the

gagee shall not

19. And it is hereby declared that it shall not be incumbent upon any mortgagee or mortgagees, purchaser or purchasers of the said parcel or tract of land, church or place of religious worship, hereditaments necessity of sale and premises, or of any part or parts thereof, respecor mortgage. tively, to inquire into the necessity, expediency or propriety of any mortgage, sale or disposition of the said parcel or tract of land, church or place of religious worship, hereditaments and premises, or of any part or parts thereof made or proposed to be made by the said trustees or trustee for the time being, or the major part of them, as aforesaid, or whether any such notice or notices, as aforesaid, was or were duly given, or was or were valid or sufficient, or whether any steward or stewards, treasurer or treasurers, was or were duly authorized to sign and give receipts as aforesaid; nor shall it be incumbent upon any such mortgagee or mortgagees, purchaser or purchasers, or any of them, or for any other person or persons, his, her or their heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, paying money to such trustees or trustee, or to their steward or stewards, treasurer or treasurers, for the time being, as aforesaid, to see to the application, or to be answerable or accountable for the loss, mis-application or non-application of such purchase or other money, or any part thereof, for which a receipt or receipts shall be so respectively given, as aforesaid.

accountable for

20. That trus- 20. And it is hereby declared that the said trustees tees shall not be or trustee for the time being shall not, nor shall any involuntary loss. of them, their or any of their heirs, executors or administrators, or any of them, be chargeable or accountable for any involuntary loss suffered by him, them or any of them, nor any one or more of them, or any other or others of them, nor for more money than shall come to their respective hands, nor for injury done by others to the said trust premises, or to any part or parts thereof.

21. That number

not be less than five nor more

cies are to be

21. And it is hereby declared to be the true intent of trustees shall and meaning of this indenture and of the parties thereto, that the full number of the trustees of the than twenty-one, said trust shall not be less than five (5) nor more than and that vacan- twenty-one (21), and that when and so often as any filled and numone or more of the said trustees or of their successors ber increased by in the said trust shall die, resign office as trustee, by nomination and and with the consent of a two-thirds vote of the coappointment. trustees, or withdraw from or cease to be a member or members of the said Methodist Church, according to the rules and discipline of the said Church, or shall remove to such distance as shall in the opinion of his co-trustees, expressed by a two-thirds vote of said co-trustees, render it inexpedient for him to remain in said trust, the place of the trustee or trustees so dying, resigning, withdrawing, ceasing to be a member or members of the said Church, or removing as aforesaid, shall thereupon become vacant, subject, however, to the provisos next hereinafter set out, and shall be filled with a successor or successors, being a member or members of the said Church, of the full age of twenty-one years, to be nominated and appointed as follows, that is to say, to be nominated by the Methodist Church minister having charge, for the time being, of the circuit or station in which the said hereby conveyed premises shall be situate, and thereupon appointed by the surviving or remaining trustee or trustees of the said trust, or a majority of them, if he or they shall think proper to appoint the person or persons so nominated; and in case of an equal division of the votes of the trustees present at any meeting of the trustees held for the purpose of such appointment, the minister so in charge of the said circuit or station shall have a casting vote in such appointment: Provided always, that no such consent as aforesaid shall be given while any vacancies remain unfilled, nor shall the trustees consent to the resignation of more than one trustee by any one vote: Provided also, that notwithstanding the withdrawal by a trustee from his membership in the said Church, his powers and liabilities as a trustee shall not cease unless his place in the trust shall be declared vacant by a two-thirds vote of the remaining trustees, which declaration it shall be in their power to make, on their being convinced that he has withdrawn as aforesaid, provided that no prior vacancy remain then unfilled, and provided that not more than one vacancy shall be declared by any one vote; and if at any time it shall be deemed advisable to increase the number of trustees to & number greater than that appointed hereby, not exceeding twentyone, then the person or persons whom it is desired to appoint as such new trustee or trustees shall be nominated and appointed as is next herein before provided for the filling of vacancies; and if it shall

happen at any time that there shall be no surviving or remaining trustee of the said trust, in every such case it shall and may be lawful for the minister aforesaid to nominate, and the quarterly meeting of the circuit or station, if they approve of the person or persons so nominated, to appoint, the requisite number of the trustees of the said trust, by the vote of the majority of the members of the said meeting then present; and in case of an equal division of their votes, the chairman of the said meeting shall have the casting vote in such appointment, and the person or persons so nominated and appointed trustee or trustees in either of the said modes of nomination and appointment shall be the legal successor or successors, co-trustee or co-trustees, of the said above-named trustees, and shall have, in perpetual succession, the same capacities, powers, rights, duties, estates and interests as are given to the abovenamed trustees in and by these presents, and in and by any Statute or Statutes which may, for the time being, be in force affecting the

same.

22. To fix quorum, &c.

22. It is hereby declared that a majority of the said trustees shall form & quorum, all having been duly notified; and when a majority or two-thirds vote may be required for any purpose, it shall be held to mean a majority or two-thirds, as the case may be, of any such meeting.

23. To fix time

for placing financial statement

23. A full and acurate financial statement, duly audited, shall be laid before the first quarterly official before quarterly meeting after the first day of January in each year. official meeting.

APPENDIX V.

RULES OF ORDER.

1. The President shall take the chair at the hour to which the Conference may stand adjourned, and cause the same to be opened by the reading of the Scriptures, singing and prayer.

2. The following shall be the order of business :—1. Reading the minutes of preceding session. 2. Communications. 3. Memorials. 4. Reports of Standing Committees. 5. Reports of Special Committees. 6. Motions of which notice has been previously given. 7. Notices of motions. 8. Questions of which notice has been given. 9. Miscella

neous.

3. On the call for Reports of Committees, all reports that are ready shall be called in before action is taken on any one of them.

4. The President shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Conference; but in case of such appeal the question shall be taken without debate. When a member rises to a point of order, or the President calls any member to order, in either case the point of order shall be distinctly stated.

5. No member shall remain standing during debate, except the member addressing the President.

6. The President shall nominate all Committees not otherwise specially ordered by the Conference.

7. When a motion or resolution is moved and seconded, or a report is presented and is read by the Secretary or stated by the President, it shall be deemed in possession of the Conference; nor shall any motion be withdrawn by the mover after being debated, without the consent of the Conference.

8. All motions and resolutions shall be presented in writing by the

proposer.

9. The following motions are not debatable:—

a. For the previous question.
b. To lay on the table.

c. For indefinite adjournment.

d. For indefinite postponement.

10. No new motion or resolution shall be entertained until the one under consideration is disposed of, which may be done by adoption or rejection, unless one of the following motions shall intervene, which motions shall have the precedence in the order in which they are placed, viz.:— a. Adjournment.

b. Lay on the table.

c. Indefinite postponement.

d. Postponement to a given time.
e. Reference to a committee.

f. Amendment.

g. Amendment to the amendment.

11. When any member is about to speak in debate or deliver any matter to the Conference, he shall rise and address the President, and shall proceed only when the President announces his name and Conference.