and will, within six calendar months next after such request, under their hands and seal of office (but at the costs and charges in the law of the person and persons making such request,) execute a bond, in a sufficient penalty or other obligation, to indemnify the trustees or trustee so withdrawing, resigning, or removing, or ceasing to be a member or members of the said Methodist Church, or trust as aforesaid, and every of them, their, and every of their heirs, executors, and administrators, of, and from, and against the payment of all and every sum and sums of money, costs, charges, and expenses, which he, they, or any of them, his, their, or any of their heirs, executors, or administrators, either separately, or jointly with any other trustees or trustee of the said trust-premises, may be bound, engaged. or liable to pay, in respect to the said parcel or tract of land, church, or place of religious worship and premises, or in, or about the due execution of, the trusts of these presents; or, in place of such bond or obligation, shall procure the trustees or trustee so withdrawing, resigning, removing, or ceasing to be a member or members of the said Methodist Church or trust, to be effectually released and discharged, of, and from, and against the payment of, all such sum or sums of money, costs, charges, and expenses, as last aforesaid, and from all liability on account or in respect thereof, or in otherwise relating thereto : Provided always that nothing herein before contained shall be construed to prevent or disqualify any person or persons so withdrawing or ceasing to be a member or members as aforesaid, from being at any future time nominated, appointed and chosen (if then duly qualified) to be a trustee or trustees of the said parcel or tract of land, church or place of religious worship and premises under or by virtue of the powers or authorities in these presents contained or either of them, for appointing a successor or successors of the trustees of these presents: Provided always and it is hereby declared that from time to time, and at all times hereafter, upon the decease of any trustee or trustees for the time being of these presents, the surviving trustees or trustee for the time being of these presents shall and will, within six calendar months next after request request for that purpose in writing made to them or him by the legal representative or representatives of such deceased trustee or trustees (but at the costs and charges in the law of such legal representative or representatives) respectively execute a bond (in a sufficient penalty), or other obligation to indemnify the legal representative or representatives of each and every deceased trustee and trustees, who shall make such request as aforesaid, his, her, and their lands, tenements, goods and chattels of from and against all bonds, debts, covenants, obligations, notes, judgments, claims and demands whatsoever, which such deceased trustee or trustees had entered into or become subject or liable to, on account or in respect of the said parcel or tract of land, church or place of religious worship, hereditaments and premises, or otherwise on account or in respect of the due execution of the trusts of these presents or of any of them; or, in place or stead of such bond or other obligation of indemnity shall and will (at the choice and discretion of such surviving trustees for the time being, upon such request and at such cost and charges as last aforesaid), cause, or procure such legal representative or representatives as aforesaid, to be well and effectually released or otherwise discharged of, from and against all and every such bonds, debts, covenants, notes, judgments, claims and demands as last aforesaid, and of and from every of them, and every part and parcel thereof respectively. THIRD SCHEDULE. Declaration made in pursuance of Section one of an Act passed in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and chaptered KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that whereas we (setting out name of trustees or majority of trustees holding lands) do hold the lands and premises hereinafter set out as (give name of trustee board as contained in Deed granting to them), we in pursuance of the provisions of Section One of an Act thirtyfive Victoriæ chaptered , do hereby declare, that from and after the date of the registration hereof, we hold the said lands and premises under the provisions of the "Model Deed" of the Deed" as altered by the said Act under the name of The Trustees Congregation of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada in connexion with the English Conference, and the said lands and premises are described as follows, that is to say (insert description). In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this A. D., 187. day of 18 L. S. made KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that whereas by a deed bearing date the day of between (set out the parties), the lands and premises following, that is to say (setting out lands), were granted to (setting out names of trustees), as trustees (setting out name by which the trustee board is described in deed); And whereas (setting out name or names) has (or have) died (resigned, withdrawn, ceased to be a member, or removed to a distance), whereby his (or their) place (or places) has (or have) become vacant: or: And whereas it has been deemed advisable to increase the number of said trustees to (giving number), now we (setting out names of trustees or members of quarterly meeting, as the case may be) do hereby declare that we have appointed and do hereby appoint (setting out name or names of appointees) to be a trustee (or trustees) of the congregation of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada, in connexion with the English Conference, conjointly with (setting out names of trustee or trustees holding office), now holding office as trustees, of said congregation. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this day of 18 . Signed and sealed and delivered in duplicate in the presence of Preamble. CAP. CVIII. An Act to Incorporate the Trustees of the First Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Congregation of the township of Ellice in the County of Perth. [Assented to 2nd March. 1872,] WHEREAS George Ney, George Rohfritch and Albert Dietson, the present trustees of the First Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Congregation of the township of Ellice, in the the County of Perth, elected by the said congregation and others, members of the said congregation, have by their petition prayed that the said George Ney, George Rohfritch, and Albert Dietson and their successors in office may be incorporated under the name of The Trustees of the First Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Congregation of the Township of Ellice in the County of Perth, and that the property of the said congregation and of the original trustees thereof might be vested in the said corporation and that the said corporation should have the control and management of the finances and secular affairs of the said congregation; and whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the petitioners: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: tees. 1. All and singular that certain parcel or tract of land and Certain lands premises situate, lying and being in the township of Ellice, in vested in Trus the County of Perth and Province of Ontario, containing by admeasurement one acre and two roods, be the same more or less, being composed of a part of lot number twenty-five, in the first concession of the township of Ellice aforesaid, and butted and bounded as follows, that is to say, commencing at the southwesterly angle of the said lot, thence south sixty degrees east along the northerly limit of the Huron Road three chains to a post; thence north thirty degrees east five chains to a post; thence north sixty degrees west three chains more or less to the easterly limit of an allowance for road; thence south thirty degrees west along the same easterly limit of allowance for road five chains more or less, to the place of beginning, by one Jacob Seegmiller, of the town of Goderich, in the County of Huron, esquire, conveyed to George Pauli, of the township of Downie, Jacob Bronner, of the township of Ellice, and John Arbogast, of the township of Fullarton, all in the County of Perth and Province of Ontario, yeomen, by an indenture bearing date the first day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty is hereby vested in George Ney, George Rohfritch, and Albert Dietson and their successors in office, who are hereby incorporated under the name of "The Trustees of the Corporate first Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Congregation of the Town- name. ship of Ellice, in the County of Perth," under and subject to the trusts of the said indenture. Trustees. 2. On the first Monday in April next a meeting of the said First meeting congregation shall be held at the church erected on the said for election of land, at the hour of noon, for the purpose of electing three trustees in the place of the said George Ney, George Rohfritch, and Albert Dietson, whose term of office shall then expire but who shall be eligible for re-election. 3. The trustees so elected shall remain in office until the Term of office second Monday in January following. of Trustees. Annual meet ings for elec tees. 4. Thereafter on the second Monday in January in each tion of Trus- year a meeting of the said congregation shall be held at the said church at the hour of ten in the forenoon for the purpose of electing three trustees in the place and stead of those who held office during the preceding year, but who shall be eligible for re-election, and in case of no election the former trustees shall continue in office until new trustees are elected. Powers of General meeting how called. Chairman at meetings. Con. Stat. U С., сар. 69, to apply. 5. The said trustees as such corporation as aforesaid shall have power to maintain and defend all suits, actions and proceedings at law or in equity for the protection of the property in them vested and their interest therein. 6. A general meeting of the said congregation may be called at any time by not less than three members of the congregation: in such case the members desiring to have such meeting convened shall, twenty-one days preceding the date of the proposed meeting, put up on the main door of the said church a notice in writing specifying the day and hour, together with the object of such meeting. 7. Each congregational meeting shall be presided over by a chairman to be chosen by those present thereat and entitled to vote. 8. The provisions of the Act chapter sixty-nine of the Consolidated Statutes for Upper Canada intituled "An Act respecting the property of Religious Institutions in Upper Canada," except where they are inconsistent with the above provisions shall apply thereto. Preamble. CAP. CIX. An Act to provide for the appointment of Trustees for first coloured Calvinistic Baptist Church of Toronto. [Assented to 2nd March, 1872.] WHEREAS by an Act passed in the ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, it was enacted that whenever any religious congregation or Society of Baptists should have an occasion to take a conveyance of land for the site of a church, meeting house or chapel, or burying ground, it should and might be lawful for them to appoint trustees, to whom and their successors to be appointed in such manner as should be specified for all or any of the purposes aforesaid, the same might be conveyed; and that such trustees and their successors in perpetual succession by name, expressed in such deed, should be capable of taking, holding, and possess |