2 GEORGE V.

CHAP. 116.

An Act respecting the Methodist Church.

[Assented to lst April, 1912.]

WHEREAS a petition has been presented praying that it be enacted as hereinafter set forth, and it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition : Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:--

1. Section 5 of chapter 106 of the statutes of 1884, intituled An Act respecting the Union of certain Methodist Churches therein named, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words:--
"And such trustees and their successors from time to time appointed under the provisions of the said Schedule B may also receive, hold, use, administer and dispose of any property, real or personal, devised, bequeathed, given or transferred to them for the special use of the said congregation, circuit, station or mission, by way of endowment or otherwise, in accordance with the trusts declared in the will, deed or other instrument creating such trust, and not contrary to the by-laws, rules, and regulations of the said corporation ; and in the event of the failure or partial failure of any trusts so declared, the same may be held, used, administered or disposed of for such purposes and in such manner, from time to time provided by the by-laws, rules or regulations of the said corporation, as are not inconsistent with this Act, and subject, as regards any real or personal property, to such provincial law as may apply thereto."

2. Section 8 of the said Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following subsections:--
"2. The said corporation may authorize and empower any annual conference from time to time existing to establish, by resolution of the said conference, city mission boards or church extension boards, or either, in accordance with the by-laws, rules or regulations of the corporation; and every such board so established shall be a body corporate, with such membership, organization, powers, rights, and duties as are not contrary to law nor inconsistent with this Act, including the acquiring, holding, administration and disposal of any property, real or personal, for such purposes of the said board as are defined from time to time by the corporation.
"3. The said corporation may authorize and empower any annual conference from time to time existing to establish, by resolution of the said conference, a board of trust in accordance with the by-laws, rules or regulations of the corporation ; and every such board so established shall be a body corporate, with such membership, organization, powers, rights and duties, as are not contrary to law nor inconsistent with this Act, including the acquiring, holding, administration and disposal of all property, real or personal, which may be devised, bequeathed, granted or conveyed to such board for the purposes of the Church within the bounds of such conference as are defined from time to time by the corporation."

3. Section 11 of the said Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following subsection:--
"2. The said corporation, or any body corporate created under the provisions of this Act, or any trustees appointed under Schedule B hereto, may, in the manner authorized by the by-laws, rules or regulations of the said corporation, give, grant, convey or otherwise alienate any property, real or personal, held by them respectively, to any other church, corporation or missionary organization, or any trustees thereof, in pursuance of any agreement or understanding entered into, with such church, corporation, or missionary organization, for co-operation in carrying on religious work."

4. Paragraph 16 of Schedule B of the said Act is hereby amended by adding, after the word "conference" in the sixty-fourth line of Column Two thereof, the words "or to such other purposes as the said annual conference may from time to time determine under the rules and regulations of the General Conference."

5. Paragraph 21 of Schedule B of the said Act is hereby amended as follows:--
(1) By inserting between the words "distance" and "as" in the sixteenth line of Column Two thereof, the words "or shall fail to attend the meetings of the trustees for such period not less than one year, nor embracing less than three consecutive meetings."
(2) By inserting after the word "co-trustees," in the eighteenth line of Column Two thereof, the words "at a meeting duly called to consider the matter."
(3) By inserting between the words "church" and "or," in the twenty-third line of Column Two thereof, the words "failing to attend."
(4) By inserting between the words "and" and "shall" in the twenty-sixth line of Column Two thereof, the words "thereupon and from time to time, as often as a vacancy or vacancies shall occur, the surviving or remaining trustee or trustees may by a two-thirds vote reduce the number of the trustees by one or more up to the number of such vacancies, provided the number remaining shall be not less than five, but should such resolution not be passed by the said surviving or remaining trustees such vacancy."

6. Paragraph 22 of Schedule B of the said Act is hereby amended by adding, after the word "quorum" in the third line of Column Two thereof, the words "save when the number of trustees exceeds nine, when five shall form a quorum."

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