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Ans. 1. Each Annual Conference is authorized to make such modification in the deeds as they may find the different usages and customs of law require in the different States and Territories, so as to secure the property firmly by deed, and permanently in fee simple, to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; but in all conveyances of ground for the building of houses of worship, or upon which they may have been already built, let the following clause be inserted at the proper place: "In trust, that said premises shall be used, kept, maintained, and disposed of as a place of Divine worship for the use of the ministry and membership of the Methodist Church, South; subject to

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OF THE DIVISION, TRANSFER OR SALE
OF CHURCH-PROPERTY.

1. When any circuit, station, or mission shall be divided into two or more charges, each separate charge may constitute a new board or boards of trustees; and the Church-property held by the trustees of the original charge shall be conveyed to the new boards thus created, and the former board or boards shall be freed from all pecuniary liabilities, such being to the new boards re

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2. The trustees, with the consent of the preacher in charge and the Quarterly Conference, shall have power to sell any church, or parsonage property, which has gone out of use, or should be removed to another place, the proceeds of which shall be invested in other Church-property under the direction of the Quarterly Conference.

3. If the said trustees, or any of them, or their successors, have advanced, or or sums of shall advance, any sum money, or are or shall be responsible for any sum or sums of money, on account of Church-property, and they, the said trustees, or their successors, be obliged to pay the said sum or sums of money, they, or a majority of them, shall be authorized to raise the said sum or sums of money by a mortgage on the said property, or by selling the said property, after notice given to the

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preacher in charge, or the Presiding Elder of the District, if the money due after be not paid to the said trustees, or one year their successors, within such notice has been given; and if such sale take place, the said trustees, or their successors, after paying the debt and other expenses which are due from the money arising from such sale, shall pay over the remainder of the money produced by the said sale to the steward, or stewards, of the circuit, station, or mission; which surplus of the produce of said sale shall be forwarded by the said steward, or stewards, to the Quarterly Conference within whose bounds it is situated, at its next session; which said Quarterly Conference shall dispose of the said money, by a vote of the majority, for he said circuit, station, or

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