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Un des symboles suivants apparattra sur la dornlAre image do chaque microfiche, seion le cas: le symbols — »• signifie "A SUiVRE", le symbols ▼ signifie "FIN". Maps, plates, cherts, etc.. mey l>e fiimod at different reduction ratios. Those too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed beginning in the upper left hand corner, left to right and top to bottom, as many fremes ss rsquired. The following diagrams illustrate the method: Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc.. peuvent Atro filmAs A des taux do rAduction diff Arents. Lorsqus le document est trop grand pour Atre roproduit en un soul ciichA, il est filmA A pertir do I'angle supArieur gauche, de gauche A droits, et de haut en bas. en prenent le nombre d'images nAcsssairs. Ler diagrammes suivants iliustrsnt la mAthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 S 6 lii tf i. ' IP^S^T' « MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS OK A MKKTINC; OK THb: BKNKHCIARIKS OF THE TEMPORALITIES' BOARD, Held hi Montreal on tin- 28th ami 2gth of yune, 1882. At a meeting ai the Hencficiaries ot the TemporaHties Fund, called by a circular ol' the Chairman of the Temporalities' Board, and held in St. Paul's Church, Montreal, on the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth days uf June, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the following resolutions were adopted, and the Secretary was instructed to furnish the Temporalities' Hoard with a copy of the same : First. That the By-laws framed and adopted by the Beneficiaries at a meeting held in St. Paul's Church, Montreal, February 2nd, 1876, in conformity with the Quebec Act 38 Vic. cap. 64, for the purpose of filling up vacancies in the Temporalities' Board, and now read, be approved and adopted by this meeting. Second. That in the opinion of this meeting all arrears at this date due to Beneficiaries should be paid up by the Board adminis- (eriag the Fund. i iitom .( i'.)" H' Third. That the Beneficiaries who receive the suras of $200 or $400 annually, consider the right to their payments as just and legal, yet under the circumstances they agree that, in the future manage- ment of the Fund, discretionary powers l>e left with the Temporali- ties' Board to make such reductions in the payments to all the ministers, except the commuting ministers, as after careful enquiry may be found necessary to protect the rights of the commuting ministers,- such deductions to be not more than 25 yVr ^wi/.,^ — the amount thus deducted to be paid to the above Beneficiaries from time to time during their lives as the Fund permits. Fourth, That in view of the ambiguity of the last clause of Sect. II. of the TeL, moralities Act and the present state of the Fund, while the Act might be construed to sanction the payment of personal allowances to certain Professors of Queen's College in addition to the specified sum of $2000 a year, in the judgment of this meeting the latter sum alone should be in future paid ; the personal rights of such Professors being recognized, however, on the withdrawal of any of them from their position in the College. Fifth. That this meeting recognizes the necessity of seeking such legislation as will modify the ]>rovisions of the present .\ct anent the Temporalities Fund. Sixth. That, when the Temporalities' Board shall deem it ad- visable to approach the Legislature seeking amendments to the peseht Act, in the opinion of this meeting it should be so amended (hat iti terms thereof there shall be an annual meeting of the Bene- ficiaries at a time and place appointed by the Board, at which ab.sent rtiembers may vote by proxy ; that the business of the meeting shall be to hear the annual statement of the Board and consult as to the best internists of the Fund ; consider applications to retire from the ar;tive duties of the ministry, provision being made that none shall retire on a larger allowance than they previously received withput the consent of the Beneficiaries given at such meeting ; elect four members of the Board in room of the same number retiring by rota- tion ; and transact such other business as may l)e retpiired. Sn-enth. That should it be found that there are legal obstacle^! in the way of the Board's carrying out the recommendation iKissed at the meeting of Beneficiaries anent the payment of arrears now due. such legislation shall be sought as shall enable the Board to give effect to said recommendation. Eigkih. That a committee be appointed to act with the Tem- poralities' Board in seeking legislation from the Dominion Parliament, consisting of the following : Dr. Williamson (Convener), Principal Grant, Dr. McNish, Mr. Patterson, Mr. Burnet, Mr. M. VV. Mcl-ean, and Mr. R. Campbell (Renfrew). Ninth. That the Beneficiaries desire to express their continued confidence in the wisdom and integrity of the Board, and to convey their sincere thanks, as well to those members of the Board as to those of the Synod's Committee on Legislation, and other gentlemen, who so ably advocated the rights of the Beneficiaries when the petition for amendments to the Temporalities' Bill was before the Dominion Parliament. Tenth. That in the opinion of this meeting the Beneficiaries are in duty bound to see that the members of the Temporalities' Board be indemnified in the matter of the costs in re Dobie vs. Temporali- ties' Board, for which they have been declared liable by the decision of the Privy Council. JOHN S. BURNKT, | DONA 1.1) ROSS, ) Secretaries. xac ■ta*i r i |p«™rf|»«H. -♦^1^^ ■ III ^m I Montreal, 5th July, 1883. To William Darling, Ksq., Chairman of Temporalitus Board. Dear Sir, Being asked by you to state in writing our reasons for the opinion verbally expressed by us, to the effect that the Board has no power to pay the arrears of certain salaries which they ceased to pay in consequence of the appeal to the Privy Coun- cil, we beg to state them as follows : We understand that should the Board assume to pay these arrears they would require to do so out of capital. Now, prior to the |)assing of the Prov. Statute 38 Vic. ch. 64, the Board had not, in our opinion, any legal authority to encroach on the capital fund of which they were Trustees. And, altho' that Act purported to give them authority so to encroach on capital, ihe cflTect of the judgment in the Privy Council which declared the Act ultra vires, was to make all payments out of capital illegal, and to render the individual members of the Board |)ersonally responsible to make good all payments so illegally made. As the Board, however, had evidently acted in good faith in making the payments they did, the Dominion Parliament has " rati- fied and confirmed all the acts and doings of the said Board," and has thus practically absolved them from all personal responsibility arising out of such illegal payments. Parliament hns also, in the Act it passed, sanctioned the pay- ment by the Board of salaries of the class refened to, and, in doing so, to draw upon the capital fund. But the Act has not given autho rity to the Board to pay any arrears of such salaries. Under the circumstances, we arc of opinion that no legal autho- rity exists for the payment of such arrears. Yours truly. STRACHAN BETHUNE. JOHN L. MORRIS.