3

amended.

Omcers.

Quorum.

Special

meetings.

By-laws, etc.

§ 4, as

by L. 1882,

shall become vacant at the next annual session of the Northern New York Conference after the passage of this act; and Darius Simons and Peter D. Gorrie shall be the second class which shall become vacant one year from the next session of said conference; and Gardner Baker and Isaac L. Hunt shall be the third class, which shall become vacant two years from the next session of said conference; and the said conference shall elect of their own. members trustees to fill the vacancies in said corporation; and each class so elected shall hereafter hold the office of trustee for three years; provided, always, that every person so elected shall have been at least for five years preceding such election an itinerant preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church, according to the rules and discipline thereof, and be at least twenty-five years of age. Any vacancy occurring in the office of trustee of said corporation from any cause, between the annual sessions of the said Northern New York Conference, may be filled by the remaining trustees until the same shall be filled at an annual session of said conference.

§3. Section three of such chapter is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 3. At the annual meeting, which shall be held during or immediately following the annual session of said Northern New York Conference, said trustees shall elect one of their num ber president, and shall also elect a vice-president, a secre tary, and a treasurer of their number. A majority of said trustees shall be a quorum for the transaction of business. A special meeting of said trustees may be called by the president, and shall be called by the president on the request of two of their number, reasonable notice of such meeting to be given; and the said trustees shall have power to make such by-laws, rules and regulations for their government as the majority of them may deem proper, provided, always, that such rules be not inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

4. Section four of such chapter, as amended by chapter two amended hundred and fifty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and ch. 253 and eighty-two and chapter seven hundred and ninety of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, is hereby amended to read as follows:

L. 1895,

ch.

790,

amended.

Corporate

objects.

§ 4. The object of said corporation shall be to receive and hold funds in trust for the benefit and assistance of the itinerant, supernumerary and superannuated ministers, and the widows and

permanent

orphans of such as have died in the itinerant work in said Northern New York Conference, provided, always, that such benefits and assistance be rendered according to and under the direction of said Northern New York Conference given in its regular annual sessions, except as hereinafter provided for the preachers' permanent fund; and also to receive and hold funds for educational purposes, to be held, paid over, or expended, together with the income thereof, according to the direction of said conference given at any annual session; and also to receive and hold in trust endowment funds of real and personal property for the benefit of local churches within the bounds of said conference. Said trustees are hereby also authorized and Preachers' empowered to hold in trust and invest a certain fund authorized fund. and provided for by the Northern New York Conference at its regular annual session in eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to be known as the "Preachers' Permanent Fund of the Northern New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States of North America", and dispose of the annual income thereof as hereinafter provided. The sum of nine thousand dollars now in the hands of The Trustees of the Northern New York Conference, and known as the "Fund for the support of superannuates", is hereby appropriated to said fund for the purpose hereinafter described. It is hereby made Manner of the duty of said corporation, The Trustees of Northern New York of funds. Conference, to invest the various funds in their hands according to their best judgment, in the same kind of securities and obligations as those in which savings banks of this state are by law authorized to invest their deposits, and in bonds and mortgages on unencumbered real property situated in this state to the extent of sixty per centum of the value thereof if improved and income producing, and to the extent of forty per centum of the value thereof if not improved or not income producing, and any other good, safe, interest bearing or income producing obligations or securities, the payment of which is secured by mortgage or other lien upon real property, or upon both real and personal property, said trustees not being limited in their investment of said funds to the securities and obligations in which savings banks are authorized to invest their deposits, and to pay over semi-annually, during Payments the first weeks of April and October of each year, the net income from of said preachers' permanent fund as follows: To pay to each retired member of said Northern New York Conference at the

investment

fund.

Assessment of beneficiaries.

Powers

to gifts

and

erty.

as

rate of ten dollars annually for each and every year he has been in the effective relation as a member of an annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, including two years on trial; to the widow of a deceased minister, during the time she shall remain his widow, one-half her husband's claim, for the years she was the wife of a minister while he was in the effective relation as a member of an annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, including two years on trial; and to each child of such minister under sixteen years of age one-fifth of the father's claim. If the net income of such is insufficient or more than enough to meet the claims thereon in accordance with this provision, it shall be distributed among the claimants pro rata. The estate of a beneficiary shall have no claim on such fund, or the income thereof. In order to be entitled to the benefits herein provided each minister in the effective relation shall pay into the preachers' permanent fund at each annual session of the conference, beginning with the session of the year nineteen hundred and nineteen, an assessment on the salary he received during the previous conference year, exclusive of house rent, equal to one-half of one per centum if such salary is five hundred dollars or under, one per centum if such salary is over five hundred dollars and under one thousand dollars, one and one-half per centum if such salary is one thousand dollars or over and under fifteen hundred dollars, and two per centum if such salary is fifteen hundred dollars or over and not over two thousand dollars, and the assessment shall increase at the same ratio on all salaries over two thousand dollars. All unpaid assessments, with interest thereon at six per centum per annum from the time the same became due and payable, shall be deducted from the benefits to be paid as herein provided.

Said trustees may continue the investment of any gift to said prop- corporation in the securities, obligations and form in which it is invested when received, and may continue to own, manage and control any property, real or personal, conveyed or transferred to said corporation, on annuity or otherwise, and may continue the investment of funds received and invested by them prior to the time this act takes effect, in the securities, obligations and property in which the same are now invested, until such time as they shall deem it wise and for the best interests of the beneficiaries of said funds, to reinvest the same in other securities, obligations or property, or to sell, convey or otherwise convert the same into money or other property.

§ 5. Section five of such chapter is hereby amended to read as § 5 follows:

amended.

proceed

annual

$ 5. It shall be the duty of the trustees of said corporation to Record of keep a record of their doings, and also to make a report in writing ings: to said conference of their acts during the year, including the report. assets and liabilities of said corporation, to be preserved with the conference records, and also to report the vacancies existing in their corporation.

§ 6. Section seven of such chapter is hereby amended to read 7 amended. as follows:

corpora

governing

Northern

ference.

7. Said corporation, The Trustees of Northern New York Powers of Conference, shall be deemed the governing body having juris- tion as diction over the Methodist Episcopal churches within the bound-body of aries of said Northern New York Conference, and as such shall N. Y. Conhave and may exercise all the powers and authority which said Northern New York Conference, if incorporated, would have and might exercise under section sixteen of chapter fifty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to religious corporations, constituting chapter fifty-one of the consolidated laws," and known as the religious corporations law, as amended, being all the powers and authority conferred by said section sixteen of chapter fifty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, as amended, upon the ecclesiastical governing bodies mentioned in section fifteen of said chapter fifty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine.

§ 7. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 188.

AN ACT making an appropriation to Morris S. Halliday for the balance of salary which he would have received had he not resigned from the senate to enlist in the military service of the United States.

Became a law April 11, 1918, with the approval of the Governor. Passed by a two-thirds vote.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The sum of nine hundred and twenty dollars ($920) is hereby appropriated, payable by the treasurer on the warrant of

the comptroller, to Morris S. Halliday, such sum being the balance of salary which he would have received had he served until the expiration of his term as state senator and had not resigned to enlist in the military service of the United States.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

§ 1772 amended.

Chap. 189.

AN ACT to amend the code of civil procedure, relative to the enforcement in this state of a judgment for divorce or separation rendered in another state requiring a husband to provide for the education and maintenance of his children and the support of his wife.

Became a law April 12, 1918, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section seventeen hundred and seventy-two of chapter fifteen, title one, article four, of the code of civil procedure is hereby amended to read as follows:

1772. [Support, maintenance, etc., of wife and children. Sequestration.]1 Where a judgment rendered, or an order made, as prescribed in this article, or in either of the last two articles, or a judgment for divorce or separation rendered in another state, upon the ground of adultery upon which an action has been brought in this state, and judgment rendered therein, requires a husband to provide for the education or maintenance of any of the children of a marriage, or for the support of his wife, the court may, in its discretion, also direct him to give reasonable security, in such a manner, and within such a time, as it thinks proper, for the payment, from time to time, of the sums of money required for that purpose. If he fails to give the security, or to make any payment required by the terms of such a judgment or order, whether he has or has not given security therefor; or to pay any sum of money which he is required to pay by an order, made as prescribed in section seventeen hundred and sixty-nine of this act; the court may cause his personal property, and the rents and profits of his 1 Section heading inserted by editor.