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 ACT OF INCORPORATION 
 
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 FOR THE HANAOEMENT OF THE 
 
 TEMPORALITIES' FUND 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Ireisb^tman C|nrt| of Canak 
 
 IN CONNECTION WITH THE CHUHCH OF SCOTLAND. 
 
 Printed for the use of Members of the Board. 
 
 KINGSTON: 
 
 PBINTED BY JOHN CRBIGHTON. 
 1869. 
 
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 22 Vict., Cap. 66. 
 
 An Act to incorporate the Board for the management of 
 the Teinjporahiiea* Ftmd of t/ts Presbyteria/n, Church 
 of Canada in connection with the Church of ScoUa/nd^ 
 
 [Assented to 24th July, 1868.] 
 
 WHEREAS it hath been represented to the Legislature 
 of this Province, that it is desirable that provision should 
 be made for the management and holding of certain ^nds 
 of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in connection with 
 che Church of Scotland, now held in trust by certain Com- 
 missioners, hereinafter named, on behalf of the said Church 
 and for the benefit thereof, and also of such other funds 
 as may from time to time be granted, given, bequeathed, 
 or contributed in addition thereto ; And whereas the said 
 funds are so held in trust, and the revenues thereof are to 
 be appropriated for the encouragement and support of 
 Ministers and Missionaries of the said Church, and for the 
 augmentation of their stipends, and towards making a 
 provision for those who may be incapacitated by age or 
 mfirmitv ; And whereas, secondly, when and if it shall so 
 please tne said Church, and so soon as other funds here- 
 after shall be contributed, subscribed, or paid in from any 
 source for the purpose to the Corporation hereby erected, 
 it is desired that such other funds shall be appropriated 
 for granting aid towards the erection and maintenance 
 and endowment of Churches and Manses, in connection 
 with the said Church, and the aiding of young men to 
 study for the Ministry ; and whereas the erection of a 
 Corporation will best promote the purposes aforesaid: 
 Therefore, Her Majesty, by and Arith the advice and con- 
 
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 sent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, 
 enacts as follows : 
 
 1. The Rev. Alexander Mathieson, of Montreal, Doctor 
 in Divinity ; the Reverend John Cook, of Quebec, Doctor 
 in Divinity ; Hugh Allan, Esquire, of Montreal ; John 
 Thompsoii, Enquire, of Quebec ; and the Rev. Hugh Ur- 
 quhart, of Cornwall, Doctor in Divinity; and John 
 Young, of Hamilton, Esquire ; John Cameron, of Toronto, 
 Esquire ; and Thomas raton, of Montreal, Esquire, with 
 four additional members, and their successors, to be elected 
 in the manner hereinsifter provided, shall be, and they are 
 hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, in 
 name and in deed, by the name of the "Board for the 
 "management of the Temporalities' Fund of the Presby- 
 "terian Church of Canada, in connection with the Chnnjh 
 "of Scjotland," and for the purposes herein aforesaid re- 
 cited, by that name shall have perpetual succession and a 
 common seal, and they and their successors, by the name 
 aforesaid, may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, 
 answer and be answered unto, in any Court of B«cord or 
 place of Judicature in this Province ; and they and their 
 auccessore shall be able, in law, to take, have and hold and 
 enjoy, possess and retain, and shall heni^eforth have, hold, 
 enjoy and possess, in trust, for the said Church, and for 
 the aforesaid firstly hereinabove specified uses, all moneys, 
 debentures, bonds, bank or other stocks and securities, 
 which are now held by the said hereinbefore named par- 
 ties as Trustees or Commissioners of the said Church, in 
 trust for the said Church; but such holding is subject 
 always to the special condition that the annual interest 
 and revenues of the said moneys and fund now in their 
 hands shall be and remain charged and subject, as well as 
 regards the charai^ter as the extent and duration thereof, 
 to the several annual charges in favour of the several Min- 
 isters and parties severally entitled thereto, of the several 
 amounts and respective (characters and durations as the 
 same were constituted and declared at the formation of 
 the said funds, and the joining of the same into one fund ; 
 And the said Board shall also have power without license 
 of mortmain, or lettres cTamortissetnent^ to have, hold, 
 receive, take, enjoy and possess, by gift, voluntary con- 
 veyance, devise, bequest, c • otherwise, to them and their 
 successors, any real or personal estate, to and for the use 
 of the said Board for any or either of the purposes afore- 
 
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 said ; Prorided always, that any real estate which may be 
 80 acquired, by the said Board, shall be sold within two 
 years from the date of such acquisition thereof by the said 
 Oorporation, and the proceeds thereof invested in the 
 public securities of the Province, Municipal Debentures, 
 stock of the Chartered Banks, or other securities, for the 
 uses aforesaid ; And provided further, that any such real 
 estate which shall not be sold and alienated within two 
 years from the time when the same is received by the Cor- 
 poration, shall revert to the party from whom the same 
 came to the Corporation, or to his or her heirs, devisees 
 or other representatives ; And provided also, that no will 
 shall be valid and sufficient to pass any real or personal 
 estate to the said Corporation, unless such will shall have 
 been executed by the testator ^ix calendar months prior 
 to his decease ; And such Board and their successors shall, 
 moreover, have power to sell, dispose of, exchange, alter, 
 vary, or renew any of the investments heretofore made bv 
 them, or hereafter to be made of the said funds, or sucu 
 other funds, or any of them, and to re-invest any moneys 
 arising therefrom, and acquittances, conveyances, trans- 
 fers, releases, receipts and discharges to make and give as 
 occasion may demand. 
 
 2. At the first meeting of the Synod of the said Church 
 hereafter, there shall be elected by the said Svnod seven 
 members of the said Board, of whom four shall be laymrai 
 and three, ministers, all members of the Presbyterian 
 Church of Canada, in connection with the Church of Scot- 
 land, in place of two laymen and one minister, members 
 of the said Board who shall then retire, but who shall be 
 eligible, as shall all other retiring members, for re-election ; 
 and thereafter, two ministers and two laymen shall retire 
 firom the said Board annuallv in rotation, on the third day 
 of the annual meeting of the Synod or other Court of 
 highest jurisdiction of the said Church, and their places 
 shall be supplied by two ministers and two laymen, then 
 elected by tne said Synod ; and the mode in which the 
 said trustees hereby named shall retire, shall be defined 
 by by-law of the said Corporation, or in default thereof by 
 the Synod, but the members of the Board who shall from 
 time to time be elected in the stead of the afore-named 
 members shall, after all the said eight members of the 
 Board named in this Act shall have gone out, retire from 
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 the seniority of their election: In the event of the death, 
 resignation, removal from the Province, or leaving the 
 communion of the said Church of any member of the said 
 Board, the remaining members, or a majority of them 
 present at any general meeting duly convened for that 
 purpose, shall choose a minister or layman to fill such va- 
 cancy, subject however to the approval of the said Synod 
 or other court at its next meeting, so that the said Board 
 shall always consist of twelve members, of whom five shall 
 be ministers and seven shall be laymen, all being minis- 
 ters or members in full communion of the said Ohurch ; 
 Provided always, that until such first annual meeting of 
 its Synod as aforesaid and the election of the said seven 
 members thereat, all the powers, rights and duties con- 
 ferred upon the said Board by this Act, shall be exercised 
 by the said ei^ht persons named in this Act, as fully and 
 enectually as if the said Board consisted of twelve meni- 
 bere as aforesaid. 
 
 3. The said Reverend John Cook, Doctor in Divinity, 
 or in hib default any other of the siad eight pertjons named 
 in this Act, shall call a meeting of the said Board, within 
 six months after the parsing of this Act, at the City of 
 Montreal, at which meeting the members of the said Cor- 
 poration then present, or a majority of them, shall then 
 choose and elect from among the members of the said 
 Board, a Chairman, holding office during the pleasure of 
 the said Corporation, and such Corporation shall elect 
 successors to him as often as occasion may require or the 
 by-laws of the said Corporation shall prescribe ; and at 
 such meeting, and at aH other meetings of the Board, 
 seven shall constitute a quorum : The said Corporation 
 shall further have power, if they see fit, to appoint an ex- 
 ecutive committee of three members, defining their duties 
 and powers by by-law or by b^-laws, and shall also have 
 power and authority to appoint on such terms as they 
 may deem suitable, a Secretary, who shall not be a member 
 of the Board, and such subordinate officers as may be 
 necessary, and the same to dismiss or remove as they shall 
 see fit, and shall ftirther have power and authority to make 
 and defr^ all necessary expenditure for and on behalf of 
 the said Corporation. 
 
 4. The said Corporation or the majority thereof present 
 at any meeting of the said Corporation duly convened, 
 shall nave power and authority to frame and make statutes, 
 
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 by-laws, rules and orders, touching and concerning the 
 
 {i;uod government of the said Corporation, and the col- 
 ection, administration, investment, application, appro- 
 priation and management of the funds aforesaid, and any 
 other matter or thing which to them shall seem fit or ex- 
 pedient for the effectual attainment of the objects of the 
 said Corporation and the administration of its concerns 
 and for nxing, ascertaining and establishing the scale or 
 rate of stipend from the said funds to the ministers or 
 others entitled thereto under the provisions of this Act, 
 subject however to the aforesaid original annual or other 
 charges, and the scale or rate of annuities payable to 
 superannuated or disabled ministers, and the same to vary, 
 alter, repeal or make anew ; Provided always that all such 
 by-laws shall be submitted to the first meeting of the 
 Synod, or other supreme court thereafter, for confirmation, 
 amendment or rejection, but in the meantime shall till 
 then be operative as interim by-laws. 
 
 6. The said Board shall prepare and submit annually 
 to the said Synod or other Supreme Court of the said 
 Church, on the first day of the annual session thereof, a 
 balance-sheet of the financial affairs of the fund, exhibit- 
 ing the receipts and disbursements of the said Corporation 
 during the nnancial year next preceding such meeting, 
 and also a report of ttieir proceeaings during such period. 
 
 6. The said Corporation shall hold their meetmgs at 
 such place or places within this Province as they shall 
 from time to time direct and appoint. 
 
 7. This Act shall be deemed a Public Act. 
 
 An Act to amend the above Act of Incorporation re- 
 ceived the sanction of the Legislature of the Province of 
 Quebec en the 2nd day of April, 1869, as follows : — 
 
 WHEREAS, by petition, it hath been represented that 
 the act of the late Parliament of the Proivinc? of Canada, 
 passed in the 22nd year of Her Majesty's Beign, and in- 
 tituled : " An act to incorporate the Board for the man- 
 agement of the Temporalities' Fund of the Presbyterian 
 Church of Canada, in connection with the Church of 
 Scotland," requires to be amended in such wise as to de- 
 fine the classes of security in which the said Board may 
 invest their funds ; and it is expedient so to amend the 
 same ; therefore. Her Majesty, oy and with the advice 
 
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 and consent of the Leffislature of Quebec, enacts as follows : 
 
 1. The Board for the management of the Temporalitiea' 
 Fund of the Presbyterian Ohurch of Canada^ in connection 
 with the Ohurch of Scotland, may invest their funds in any 
 stock or bonds of the Province of Quebec, or Ontario or 
 of the Dominion of Ganada, or in the stock or bonds of 
 any city or municipal or other corporation in the said 
 Provinces of Quebec or Ontario, and may also invest their 
 funds on the security of hypotheques on real estate in the 
 Province of Quebec, and the said^oard shall have power, 
 from time to time to vary, alter or renew any of the in- 
 vestments made or to be made by them, in manner afore- 
 said. 
 
 2. Any real estate within the Province of Quebec, which 
 having been hypothecated to the Board may become the 
 property of the Board by purchase at Sheriflfs sale or 
 otherwise, in order to the protection of the interest therein 
 of the said Board, shall be sold within five years from the 
 time when the same becomes the property of the said 
 corporation, and if sold within the said period of five years, 
 shall not revert to the party from whom the same came 
 to the corporation, or to his or her heirs, devisees or other 
 representatives, anything in the said Act to the contrary 
 notwithstanding. 
 
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 Bt-Lawb fob the Management or the 
 TEMPORALrnEs' Fund. 
 
 WHEREAS the Board for the Mjinaceinent of the 
 Temporalities' Fund of the Presbyterian Cliurch of Can- 
 ada in connection witli the Church of Scotland, are au- 
 thorized to frame and make Statutes and By-Laws for tlie 
 purposes specified in tlie Act incorporating said Board, 
 and intituled, "An Act to incorporate tlie Board for the 
 "Management of the Temporalities' Fund of the Preshy- 
 "torian Church of Canada in connection with the Church 
 "of Scotland" 
 
 At a meeting of the said Corporation duly convened and 
 he Iden at the City of Montreal, on the 23rd day of May, 
 in the year of our Lord 1860, at which meeting thoro are 
 
 E resent, Thomas Paton, Esq., Reverend Dr. Cook, Rev. 
 >r. Urquhart, Rev. W. Snodgrass, John Thomson, Esq., 
 John Greenshields, Esq., John Cameron, Esq., and Alex- 
 ander Morris, Esq., Members thereof, and in pursuance of 
 the aforesaid powers ; 
 
 Be it therefore enacted that the Board ^-^r the Manage- 
 ment of the Temporalities' Fund of the Presbyterian 
 Church of Canada in connection with the Church of Scot- 
 land, by virtue of and under the authority of the said Act 
 of the Parliament of Canada, 22 Vic. Cap. 66, and it is 
 hereby enacted by authority of the same : 
 
 1st. That the remaining Trustees named in the second 
 clause of the said Act shall retire from the said Board and 
 cease to hold office therein in the following order, that is 
 to say: 
 
 Messieurs J. Cameron and Hugh Allan, Laymen, and 
 the Rev. Drs. Mathieson and Cook, Ministers, shall retire 
 on the third day of the meeting of Synod. 
 
 2nd. The Chairman of the said Board shall be elected 
 annually by the Members present at the first meeting of 
 the said Corporation duly convened and holden after the 
 annual election of Members of the said Corporation bv 
 the said Synod, but if still a member shall hold office until 
 
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 his successor shall be elected. He shall countersign all 
 cheques, and shall be and is authorized to receive all divi- 
 dends and interest accruing to the Board from any of its 
 stocks or securities, and to grant receipts and discharges 
 therefor. 
 
 3rd. That an Executive Committee, consisting of three 
 members, of whom the Chairman shall be ex officio a 
 member, be appointed annually by the said Board at the 
 said first meeting which shall be duly convened and hold- 
 en after the rising of the said Synod, but shall hold office 
 until their successors are appointed, the members thereof 
 being eligible to re-election. Tliat such Committee shall 
 have power and authority to carry out the instructions of 
 the Board in relation to the collection, investment, admin- 
 istration, and management of the funds of the said Cor- 
 poration. Such Committee shall alone have power to re- 
 ceive, accept and execute transfers of bank or other stocks 
 or debentures, or to execute Acts, deeds and discharges, 
 on behalf and in the name of the Board ; but every such 
 transfer, acceptance or other instrument must be signed 
 and executed by the Chairman and the other two mem- 
 bers of the said Committee. Such Committf^e shall in the 
 first instance consist of Thomas Paton, Eiqk, Rev. Alex- 
 ander Mathieson, D. D., and Hugh Allan, Esq. But in 
 the absence or death of any member the Board shall nomi- 
 nate a substitute or successor. 
 
 4th. Meetings of the Board shall be held on the second 
 Tuesday of the months of May and November in each 
 year for the transaction of business; and adjourned meet- 
 ings may be held at such times as a quorum of the Cor- 
 poration shall direct. 
 
 5th. The Chairman, or in his absence the Secretary, shall 
 have power to call special meetings of the Board when 
 necessary, at such time and place, giving three days notice 
 thereof exclusively of the day on which such notice shall 
 be dated and posted, as he shall appoint, and it shall be 
 his duty to call such special meetings when any three mem- 
 bers of the Board shall request him in writing to do so stat- 
 ing the object of such meeting. 
 
 6th. In the absence of the Chairman, a quorum of the 
 Members of the Board present may appoint one of them- 
 selves as Chairman to preside at the meeting, a^id as such 
 Chairman shall for the purpose of such meetmg be invest- 
 ed with the powers and authority of the Chairman. The 
 
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 Ohairman or Member of the Board so presiding shall vote 
 as a Member of the Board, and shall also, in case of an 
 equality of votes have a casting vote. 
 
 7th. No business shall be transacted or entered upon at 
 any ordinary meeting of the Board until the minutes of 
 the preceding meeting have been read and approved of 
 
 8th. No change ot the investments of the Board nor 
 Bale of any portion thereof shall be made until the 
 same be specifically authorized by a resolution of the 
 Board entered upon the minutes, and the Board shall 
 from time to time as occasion may arise decide upon the 
 alteration, exchange, or renewal of any of the Investments 
 of the Board, and upon the description of Bonds, Stocks, 
 or Securities in which any reinvestment thereof shall be 
 made. 
 
 9th. The Officers of the Board shall consist of a Treas- 
 urer and Secretary, and such number of Clerks and sub- 
 ordinate officers as may from time to time be deemed 
 necessary by the Board, provided that the offices of Secre- 
 tary and Treasurer may be united if deemed desirable by 
 the Board, and such officers shall and may from time to 
 time be appointed or removed by the Resolution of the 
 Board, and their Salaries shall be determined by the 
 Board. 
 
 10th. The Executive Committee shall have authority 
 to direct the Secretury.and other officei*s of the Board, in 
 all matters necessary for the interest of the Board in the 
 intervals between the meetings of the Board, subject to 
 the approval of the Board at the next meeting. 
 
 11th. The Treasurer shall give security to the satis- 
 faction of the Board to such an amount and with such 
 sureties as to the Board may seem fit for the faithful dis- 
 charge of the Trust and duties of his office. He shall re- 
 ceive all moneys arising to tlie Board from ordinary annual 
 Congregational or other collections, and shall deposit the 
 same to the credit of the Board J'nd in their name in such 
 Bank or Banks, as the Board shall from time to time de- 
 termine by Resolution. He shall sign cheques against 
 the Bank account of the Board for the payment of the 
 Stipends of ministers and other expenses of the Board 
 (which shall be countersigned by the Chairman) and shall 
 take receipts from all persons to whom he shall deliver 
 cheques. He shall keep a regular set of Books, containing 
 the accounts of the Board and of all its funds which may 
 
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 pass through and come into his hands, and whenever re- 
 quired by the Board shall furnish a detailed statement of 
 all such accounts, and he shall make and deliver for the 
 use of the Board a complete settlement and balance of the 
 Books, and accounts c •' the Board made up to such period 
 in each year, as the Board may require. 
 
 12th. The Secretary shall carry on the correspondence 
 of the Board, and keep a Minute Book, and Kegieter of 
 its proceedings. He shall lay before the Board at its Semi- 
 Anuual or other meetings, all communications received 
 by him subsequent to each preceding meeting, and he shall 
 in like manner submit a statement of all matters passing 
 in his office during such period. He shall summon afl 
 meetings of the Board wherever requested to do so by the 
 Chairman, and in his absence at the request of three mem- 
 bers, and generally he shall discharge all such other duties 
 as shall be imposed on him from time to time by Besolution 
 of the Board. 
 
 I3th. It shall be the duty of the Chairman and Secre- 
 tary-Treasurer on receiving from Presbytery Clerks, lists 
 of Ministers of their respective Presbyteries, with the dates 
 of their ordination or induction, to pay to the Ministers 
 who commuted £112 10s. per annum, to the Ministers on 
 the Roll of the Synod at the time of the secularization of 
 the Clergy Reserves, but who were not allowed to com- 
 mute JEIOO per annum, and to all^others until such time 
 as this Board shall otherwise determine a minimum stipend 
 of £50 a year, the whole in half-yearly payments, and also 
 £500 a year to the Treasurer for the time being of Queen's 
 College, to be employed, as heretofore, in the payment of 
 Professors being Ministers of the Church. 
 
 14th. That any Mii isters now entitled to the guaranteed 
 Stipend of £112 10s. per annum, or £100, or other allow- 
 ance, and who from age or infirmity now are or shall from 
 time to time be released from their respective charges by 
 their respective Presbyteries with the sanction of the 
 Synod, duly signified by the Clerk of Synod to this Board, 
 shall be entitled to receive the same, or such other allow- 
 ance as shall be agreed upon with the Synod for life. 
 
 15th. That the original funds arising fi*om the said com- 
 mutation, and which were constituted into one fund and 
 amount to the sum of £127,000, shall be kept separate 
 and distinct from any other funds which may come into 
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 it shall otherwise be ordered by the Board, by a By-Law 
 to that effect; and further, that separate accounts be 
 opened, first for Congregational OoUections and secondly 
 for annual or other sul»criptions for the sustentation of 
 the Church, the former to be designated as the " Contin- 
 gent Fund, and the latter as the " Home Mission Func 
 of the Church," which last mentioned Fund shall be in- 
 vested as a Permanent Fund. 
 
 16th. That a list by name, residence and Presbytery of 
 the several Ministers who commuted their allowance and 
 joined the same into one fund, and also a list in like man- 
 ner of the ten surviving non-commuting Ministers shall 
 be prepared by the Board, engrossed in one of the Books 
 of the Board, and authenticated by the signatures of the 
 Chairman and Secretary as of Record. 
 
 17th. That in the event of any Minister departing this 
 life who shall then be a beneficiary of the Board, the 
 widow of such deceased (or should he leave no widow, his 
 child or children, if of fuU age, or their Tutor or Guard- 
 ian,) shall be entitled to receive from the said Board, the 
 current half-year's stipend, to which such Minister would 
 or might have become entitled as such beneficiary as afore- 
 said, and the receipt of such Widow, Child or Children, 
 Tutor or Guardian shall be a sufficient discharge therefor. 
 
 18th. Travelliog expenses of members of the Board 
 shall be paid by the Board. 
 
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 At a meeting of the Temporalities' Board held in Mon- 
 real on the eighteenth day of November, 1863, it was 
 unanimously resolved that the following be added to the 
 By-Laws oi the Board, and that it come into force this 
 day:— 
 
 That it shall be a condition of any Minister other than 
 those privileged by, or at the time of commutation, 
 receiving £50 per annum, from the Fund at the disposal 
 of the Board, tnat he shall obtain from his Congregation, 
 or otherwise, a subscription to the Fund of Fifty Dollars 
 per annum, and that in any case in which such subscrip- 
 tion has not been sent, the Chairman and Secretary be 
 authorized to retain £26 of the allowance half-yearly. 
 
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 14th Novbmbbb, 1866. JSesolved, Ist — That Ministerg 
 resiffninff their charges and employed by a Presbytery as 
 Ordained Missionanes shall not lose their place on the list 
 of recipients from the Board. 2nd — That Ministers or 
 Ordained Missionaries while receiving £100 and over a- 
 year from the Colonial Committee shafi not receive stipend 
 from the Board. 
 
 The case of the application of Queen's College was 
 taken up when the Board agreed to record their under- 
 standing: 
 
 1st — -That the commutation of stipend, whether made 
 by Ministers having charges, or being Professors, having 
 been personal, the stipend derived from it should continue 
 to be enjoyed by those who commuted while they con- 
 tinue in the service of the Church, whether in charges or 
 in the College. 
 
 2nd — In the event of their being commuting Ministers 
 in Queen's College whose stipenos together amount to 
 £500 per annum, no additional payment shall be made to 
 the College by the Board. 
 
 3rd — In the event of there not being commuting Min- 
 isters in the College receiving salary from the Board to 
 the amount of £500 per annum, the Board shall make up 
 the deficiency. 
 
 8th. Mat, 1866. Beaol/oed, — That no money be paid 
 out of the Fund at the disposal of the Board to any Min- 
 ister who teaches a school. In reference to this resolution 
 the Synod agreed in June, 1866, that " it is one which 
 should be carried into effect subject to the Synod's de- 
 termination in each case." 
 
 Note. 
 
 The Act of the Imperial Parliament authorizing the Canadian Qov- 
 emment to le^late on the Clergy Reserves, and the Act of the Cana- 
 dian Parliament secularizing the Reserves, are to be found in extento 
 in the appendix to the printed minutes of the pro re nata meeting of 
 Synod held in Montreal in January, 18S5. 
 
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