ferent 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 Episcopal Church, South; subject to the discipline, usage, and ministerial appointments, of said Church, as from time to time authorized and declared by the General Conference of said Church, and the Annual Conference within whose bounds the said premises are situate."

Ans. 2. Likewise, in all conveyances of ground for the building of dwellinghouses for the use of the preachers, 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 held, kept, maintained, and disposed of, as a place of residence for the use and occupancy of the preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who may from time to time be appointed in said place; subject to the usage and discipline of said Church, as from time to time authorized and declared by the General Conference of said Church, and by the Annual Conference within whose bounds the said premises are situate."

SECTION IV.

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

171. 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 transferred to the new boards respectively. And when any division is made of a circuit, station, or district, having parsonage property, in order to adjust the rights and equities of the subdivisions of any such charge in such parsonage property, the Quarterly Conferences of the respective subdivisions may each select an arbitrator, and

those arbitrators an umpire, who together shall constitute a board of reference, to which shall be referred the question of adjusting the rights of the respective parties interested in such parsonage property; and the decision of the board of reference in any such case shall be acquiesced in and carried. into effect by the parties concerned.

172. The trustees, with the consent of the preacher in charge and the Quarterly Conference, shall have pow er 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.

SECTION V.

ON CREATING LIENS UPON CHURCH

PROPERTY.

173. No person, or persons, or Board of Trustees, shall have authority to make or create any mortgage, or other contract lien, upon Church property. Provided, nevertheless, that if the said Trustees, or any of them, or their successors, have advanced, or shall advance, any sum or sums of 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 preacher in charge, or the Presiding Elder of