Special meetings. Funds to be deposited. How interest to be expended. Aid may be granted. Persons aided 11. The chairman of the said board may at any time call a meeting of the said board of trustees, and notice thereof or of any other meeting shall be given by letter or circular, mailed at Peterborough, five clear days previous to the day appointed for such meeting, addressed to the proper post-office address of the said trustees respectively. 12. The funds of the trust shall from time to time be deposited in some chartered bank to the credit of the Trust, and all payments on account of the Trust shall be made by cheques upon such bank. 13. The interest, dividends, and annual produce arising from the investment of the said funds shall be expended by the said board for the benefit of the Protestant Poor who shall be actual and bona fide residents of the Town of Peterborough. 14. It shall be lawful for the said board to grant aid to any Home or Institution for the Protestant Poor in the said Town of Peterborough. 15. No application for aid shall be entertained by the said to be resident. board unless accompanied with satisfactory proof that the applicant has been an actual and bona fide resident of the said Town of Peterborough, for at least one year previous to his application, and that he is a protestant, and with a certificate of some minister to the effect that such applicant is deserving of the aid asked for. No salaries to be paid. Whole income need not be expended. Trust fund not to be diminished. Annual statement. To be audited. 16. It shall not be lawful for the said board to pay any permanent or fixed salaries out of the said income, but they may incur and pay such incidental expenses as may be necessary to the proper management of the Trust. 17. It shall not be incumbent on the said board to expend the whole income of any year in such year. 18. The said trust fund shall not be diminished for any purpose. 19. The rules of the board shall provide that the secretary and treasurer thereof shall once at least in every year prepare a general statement of the funds and effects of or belonging to the trust, specifying in whose custody or possession such funds or effects are then remaining, together with an account of all sums of money received and expended by and on account of the Trust since the publication of the preceding periodical statement. 20. Every such periodical statement shall be attested by two auditors appointed for that purpose, and shall be countersigned by the chairman, secretary and treasurer of the board, and shall shall be published at least twice in one or more of the newspapers published in the Town of Peterborough. 21. The said board of trustees shall not be answerable and Liability of accountable for any banker, broker, or other person with whom trustees. any trust moneys, or securities may be deposited, nor for the insufficiency or deficiency of any stocks, funds, or securities, nor for any other loss unless the same shall happen through their own wilful default. CHAP. 60. An Act for the Incorporation of the Conference of the [Assented to 2nd March, 1877.] HEREAS J. L. Russ, R. Kirton, and T. Garbutt, have by Preamble. their petition set forth that for many years certain persons have associated themselves in this Province under the name of "Christians" or the "Christian Church in Ontario," and that it is desirable for the purpose of managing the necessary affairs of the said Association, it should be incorporated under the name of the Conference of the Christian Church in Ontario, and it is proper that the prayer of such petition should be granted; Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: name. 1. L. Clark, T. Garbutt, J. Graham, C. H. Hainer, T. Henry, W. Incorporation Henry, J. Maclin, W. Percy, B. J. Rogers, J. L. Russ, J. Van and corporate Camp and R. Wright, and all other persons who are now or who may hereafter become members of the said Conference, according to the principles and usages of the said denomination, shall be and are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate under the name of The Conference of the Christian Church in Ontario. Boards 2. The said Conference so incorporated may establish districts District and district meetings, connecting a number of Churches as many as may be convenient, the said districts being numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, &c., and the general business of each district being transacted by a board appointed or constituted and regulated by the rules, by-laws, and regulations established by the said Conference as hereinafter provided. 3. The said Conference may establish a Missionary Fund, a Missionary Superannuated Preacher's Fund, an Educational Fund, a Fund and other for funds. By-laws. Corporation may acquire and sell lands, &e. 36 V. c. 135. Real Estate. Registration of deeds. for book and publication purposes, and may appoint boards or committees, consisting of the members of the said Conference, which said boards or committees shall respectively take charge of, deal with, and dispose of, the said respective Funds in accordance with the rules and regulations established by the said Conference, and the said Conference may establish whatever other boards or committees it may deem necessary and expedient to transact any particular or special business connected with said Conference. 4. The said Conference may make, establish, and put in execution, alter or repeal, such by-laws, rules, and regulations not contrary to the laws of this Province, as may appear to the said Conference necessary or expedient for the interests thereof, for the government and regulation of the business of the said Conference, the Churches, district meetings, and boards or committees. 5. The said Conference, under the name of the Conference of the Christian Church in Ontario, may acquire and accept by any description of title, lands and tenements, real and personal property, for the actual use and benefit of the said Conference, and for missions, chapels, parsonages, and other religious and benevolent purposes, and may sell and alienate any property acquired and accepted, and apply the proceeds thereof to the use of the said Conference or the promotion of the Gospel, and may mortgage any such lands and tenements; and such acquisition, sale, or mortgage of such real property shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Act passed by the Legislature of the Province of Ontario, in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, chaptered one hundred and thirty-five and intituled "An Act respecting the property of Religious Institutions," so far as its provisions are not inconsistent with this Act. 6. The real and other property held by or in trust for any congregation united with or under the said Conference before the passing of this Act, and being in existence at the time of the passing thereof, as soon as the provisions respecting the execution and registration of the declaration set out in the eighth section of this Act are complied with, is hereby declared to have become vested in trust for the use of the said Conference as fully and effectually as if the same was originally vested in or held in trust for the said Conference. 7. From and after the passing of this Act it shall not be necessary for the trustees of any congregation of the said Christian Church in Ontario to register a duplicate of the deeds of their Church property in the full length and form of the model deed annexed to this Act, but simply to fill up and duly execute and register, in duplicate, a form similar to the second Schedule hereto annexed, which form or Schedule shall and does imply all all the provisions, and shall be taken to have the same effect and be construed as if it contained the same words contained in said model deed: the fee payable to the Registrar in each case for the registration of the short form or reference deed as contained in the second Schedule of this Act including all entries and certificates, shall be fifty cents. 8. From and after the passing of this Act the trustees of the Form of Reseveral congregations in Ontario in connection with the said gistration. Conference, by whatever name they may hold the lands conveyed to them under deeds containing trusts, provisions, conditions, and agreements, differing from those set out in the model deed, set out in the first Schedule to this Act, may, with the consent of the majority of the congregation given at a meeting of such congregation regularly called therefor, register in the registry office of the County where the lands so held by them respectively are situated, a declaration signed by a majority of the said trustees in the form or to the effect of that set out in the third Schedule to this Act, and thereupon the lands described in said declaration shall be held by them as such trustees by the name set out in said declaration under and upon the like trusts and for the purposes and under the directions and provisions set out in the first and second Schedules hereto annexed, in every particular as are therein expressed, contained, and declared; saving and excepting always any lien that may have been acquired by any person or corporation prior to the passing of this Act: The fee payable to the Registrar for the registration of such declaration including all entries and certificates thereof, shall be fifty cents. 9. The said Conference under the name of the Conference of Power to hold lands by dethe Christian Church in Ontario, and any trust in connection vise limited. with the said Conference of the Christian Church in Ontario, and any religious or charitable scheme of the said Conference, may by the name thereof, or by trustees from time to time, take by gift, devise or bequest any lands or tenements, or interests therein, provided such gift, devise or bequest be made at least six months before the death of the person making the same; but the said Conference, and the said religious or charitable schemes of the said Conference, shall at no time take by gift, devise or bequest, lands or tenements, or any interest therein, the annual value of which, together with that of all other lands and tenements theretofore acquired by like means, and then held by the said Conference, or by the particular scheme in favour of which such gift, devise or bequest may be made, shall exceed in the whole one thousand dollars; nor shall the said Conference, or any of the religious or charitable schemes of the said Conference, at any time take by gift, devise or bequest, lands or tenements the annual value of which, and of all the other real estate of the said Conference, or of the particular scheme in favour of which the gift, devise or bequest is made, shall together exceed five thousand dollars; and no lands or tenements acquired acquired by gift, devise or bequest within the limits aforesaid, but not required for actual use or occupation, shall be held for a longer period than seven years after the acquisition thereof, and within such period the same shall be absolutely disposed of, and the proceeds on such disposition shall be invested in public securities, municipal debentures, or other approved securities, not including mortgages on land; and any lands, tenements or interests therein required by this Act to be sold and disposed of, but which may not have been so disposed of, shall revert to the person from whom the same were acquired, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns. 10. The Schedules and the directions and forms herein contained shall be deemed parts of this Act. of SCHEDULE FIRST, (Provisions of the Model Deed.) This Indenture made (in duplicate) on the one thousand eight hundred and day in pursuance of the Act passed by the Legislature of Ontario, in the fortieth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, chaptered sixty, and in pursuance of the Act respecting short forms of conveyances between grantor wife of the said hereinafter called the of the first part and party of the first part of the second part and the of Canada now paid by the grantees to the said grantor their successors in the said trusts for ever, all and singular that the in the County of and Province aforesaid, and which may be more particularly known and described as follows, that is to say: (description of lands.) 1. To have and to hold all and singular the above mentioned and described piece or tract of land and premises so situate, lying and being as aforesaid, together with all and singular the houses, outhouses, woods, ways, water-privileges and appurtenances, belonging thereunto, or in any wise appertaining, unto them, the said parties of the second part and their successors in the |