2. Wherever Freehold or Leasehold Property has been or
hereafter shall be acquired by any Congregation or Society or Body of Persons
associated for Religious Purposes or for the Promotion of Education, as a
Chapel, Meeting House, or other Place of Religious Worship, or as a Dwelling
House for the Minister of such Congregation, with Offices, Garden, and Glebe,
or Land in the Nature of Glebe, for his Use, or as a Schoolhouse, with
Schoolmaster's House, Garden, and Playground, or as a College, Academy, or
Seminary, with or without Grounds for Air, Exercise, or Recreation, or as a
Hall or Rooms for the Meeting or Transaction of the Business of such
Congregation or Society or Body of Persons, and wherever the Conveyance,
Assignment, or other Assurance of such Property has been or may be taken to or
in favour of a Trustee or Trustees to be from Time to Time appointed, or of any
Party or Parties named in such Conveyance, Assignment, or other Assurance, or
subject to any Trust for the Congregation or Society or Body of Persons, or of
the Individuals composing the same, such Conveyance, Assignment, or other
Assurance shall not only vest the Freehold or Leasehold Property thereby
conveyed or otherwise assured in the Party or Parties named therein, but shall
also effectually vest such Freehold or Leasehold Property in their Successors
in Office for the Time being and the old continuing Trustees, if any, jointly,
or if there be not old continuing Trustees, then in such Successors for the
Time being wholly, chosen and appointed in the Manner provided or referred to
in or by such Conveyance, Assignment, or other Assurance, or in any separate
Deed or Instrument declaring the Trust thereof, or if no Mode of Appointment be
therein set forth, prescribed, or referred to, or if the Power of Appointment
be lapsed, then in such Manner as shall be agreed upon by such Congregation or
Society or Body of Persons upon such and the like Trusts and with, under, and
subject to the same Powers and Provisions, as are contained or referred to in
such Conveyance, Assignment, or other Assurance, or in any such separate Deed
or Instrument, or upon which such Property is held, and that without any
Transfer, Assignment, Conveyance, or other Assurance whatsoever, anything in
such Conveyance, Assignment, or other Assurance, or in any such separate Deed
or Instrument, contained to the contrary notwithstanding: | Property conveyed for Religious or Educational
Purposes to vest in Successors without Conveyance. |
3. For the Purpose of preserving Evidence of every such
Choice and Appointment of a new Trustee or new Trustees, and of the Person and
Persons in whom such Charitable Estates and Property shall so from Time to Time
become legally vested, every such Choice and Appointment of a new Trustee or
new Trustees shall be made to appear by some Deed under the Hand and Seal of
the Chairman for the Time being of the Meeting at which such Choice and Appointment
shall be made, and shall be executed in the Presence of such Meeting, and
attested by Two or more credible Witnesses, which Deed may be in the Form or to
the like Effect of the Schedule to this Act annexed, or as near thereto as
Circumstances will allow, and may be given and shall be received as Evidence in
all Courts and Proceedings in the same Manner and on the like Proof as Deeds
under Seal, and shall be Evidence of the Truth of the several Matters and
Things therein contained. | Appointment of new Trustees to be made to appear by
Deed. |
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MEMORANDUM Of the Choice and Appointment of new Trustees of
the [describe the Chapel, School, or other Buildings and Property]
situate ............................................. in the Parish [or
Township] of ..................................................... in the
County [Riding, Division, City, or Place] of
............................................... at a Meeting duly convened
and held for that Purpose [in the Vestry of the said Chapel] on the
[25th] day of [April 1850], A.B.
................................ of
....................................... Chairman.
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Names and Description of all the Trustees on the
Constitution or last Appointment of Trustees made the
................................ day of .....................................
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Adam
Bell of
.................................................................................................................
Charles Dixon of ............................................................................................................
Edward Foster of
...........................................................................................................
George Hurst of .............................................................................................................
John Jackson of
............................................................................................................
Kenneth Lucas of ..........................................................................................................
Matthew Norman of
........................................................................................................
Octavius Parker of .........................................................................................................
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Names and Descriptions of all the Trustees in whom the said
[Chapel] and Premises now becomes legally vested.
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First.-Old
continuing Trustees:
John
Jackson, now of ....................................................................................................
Matthew Norman, now of
.................................................................................................
Octavius Parker, now of .................................................................................................
Second.-New
Trustees now chosen and appointed:
Benjamin
Adams of
........................................................................................................
Charles Bell of
...............................................................................................................
Jonathan Edmonds of
....................................................................................................
Richard Baxter of ...........................................................................................................
John Home of
................................................................................................................
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Dated this ...................................... day of
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Godfrey Higgs, (L.S.)
Chairman of the said Meeting.
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Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said Godfrey Higgs,
as Chairman of the said Meeting, at and in the Presence of the said Meeting,
on the Day and Year aforesaid, in the Presence of
.........................................................
C.D.
......................................................... E.F.
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[The Blanks and
Parts in Italics, to be filled up as the Case may be.]
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