with the Clerk of every meeting, and the Treasurer and Clerk of the Conference, and such other persons in connexion with the said Church as the Conference may invite to attend, and the business of which Conference is presided over by a Moderator annually elected from the ordained Elders: And whereas a Newspaper is published under the authority of the said Conference, and it is also possessed of considerable other property, real and personal, and various parcels of land have been conveyed in trust for the said Church, and Meeting Houses have been built thereon, and serious inconveniences have arisen in the holding and transmission of the said lands, and the management of their property, from the difficulty of appointing new Trustees on the occurrence of vacancies; and it is believed that the incorporation of the said Conference and the several Churches respectively, would greatly simplify the management of their temporal concerns, and advance the several benevolent and religious objects of the said Church, and promote its spiritual interest ;—

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. Elders Samuel Hartt, Edward Wayman, Joseph Noble, Elijah Sisson, Charles McMullin, John G. Flanders, George Orser, Alexander Taylor, Benjamin Merritt, Jacob Gunter, John Perry, Ezekiel Sippril, Ezekiel M Leod, John Wallace, William E. Pennington, Robert Colpitts, Jonathan Shaw, Robert French, and Peter Malloch; Licentiates Robert Dobson, and Jonas Fitzherbert,⚫ Daniel Turner, George Maxou, William Slipp, Junior, Daniel Clark, William Peters, Edwin R. Parsons, James Jones, Nathaniel Gray, Solomon Smith, David Ebbitt, John S. Colpitts, John Machum, George M'Gready, and Benjamin J. Underhill, now constituting "The Free Christian Baptist General Conference of New Brunswick," their associates and successors, shall by that name be a body politic and corporate in deed and in name, with full power to sue and be sued, to purchase, receive, and hold grants of real and personal estate, and to improve the same, and sell, assign, and dispose thereof, and receive the rents and profits for the use of the said Church and Conference according to the intention of the donors, and to have a common seal with power to break or renew the same at pleasure, and to make bye laws, and appoint officers for the management of any funds, institutions, and objects connected

with the said Church, and to regulate the mode of constituting and the government of the said Conference.

2. The first meeting of the said Corporation shall be held on the first Saturday in July next at the Long Island Church, in the Parish of Hampstead, in the County of Queen's, when the Corporation shall be deemed organized; seven ordained Elders and six Lay Delegates from the different Districts shall be a quorum for the transaction of the business of the Conference, but any less number may adjourn.

3. The Trustees of every Meeting House in connexion with the said Conference, shall be a body politic and corporate by the name of "The Trustees of the Free Christian Baptist Church of according to the particular designation thereof, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, power to sue and be sued, a common seal with power to break or renew the same at pleasure, power to hold and receive real and personal estate, and improve, sell, or assign the same, and make bye laws, and exercise all the corporate powers conferred by law, for the purpose of managing the temporal affairs of such Meeting House.

4. Every Church may annually, at such time as the Conference shall prescribe, elect any number not less than three nor exceeding five Trustees, being members of the said Church, who shall continue in office for one year, or until others arc elected in their stead.

5. Every male person of the age of twenty one years or upwards, being a communicant of such Church, or a regular attendant at the worship in the Meeting House where such Church is organized, who contribute towards the funds of the Church such sum as the Conference shall prescribe, shall be entitled to vote at the election of Trustees.

6. Every Board of Trustees incorporated under the authority of this Act, shall exercise their powers and privileges according to the usage and rule prescribed by the Conference; but at least three Trustees shall form a quorum for the transaction of business, and no bye law shall be made repugnant to law.

7. All lands conveyed in trust to the Free Christian Baptist Church, and buildings erected thereon, shall be subject to the provisions of this Act, whenever a Board of Trustees to manage the same is elected in the manner herein provided, and a con

veyance of the same shall be executed by the then existing Trustees, and the title thereto shall be held by them in the same manner as conveyed by the original deed; this provision shall not interfere with the right of the Conference to the exclusive control of any land conveyed to the Conference.

8. No conveyance, gift, or bequest made to the Free Christian Baptist Church shall be deemed to be made to the Conference, unless such Conference is expressly named in the instrument of transfer.

9. The annual revenue derived from the rent of lands held by the Conference shall not exceed six thousand pounds, and of any Board of Trustees five hundred pounds.

EDUCATION.

60th GEORGE 3rd-CHAPTER 6.

An Act to confirm the Charter of the Madras School in New Brunswick, and to extend the powers of the Governor and Trustees of the same.

Section.

1. Charter declared valid.

Section.

2. Special Meetings, where may be held. Passed 20th March 1820.

WHEREAS by His Majesty's Royal Charter, or Letters Patent under the Great Seal of this Province, bearing date the twenty third day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and in the fifty ninth year of His Majesty's Reign, a Corporation was erected and created, with perpetual succession, by the name of "The Governor and Trustees of the Madras School in New Brunswick," with certain powers, rights, and privileges, as are in the same Royal Charter or Letters Patent expressed and contained ;—

Be it therefore enacted, &c.-1. The same Charter or Letters Patent be and the same are hereby declared to be good, valid, perfect, authentic, and effectual in the law, and shall stand and be taken, reputed, deemed, and adjudged good, perfect, sure, available, authentic, and effectual in the law, according to the tenor and effect of the same Charter or Letters Patent; and the same be and are to all intents and purposes hereby ratified and confirmed.

2. And whereas in and by the said Charter or Letters Patent it is declared, "that it shall be the duty of the said Governor and Trustees of the Madras School in New Brunswick, (among other things) to hold and keep the Central School always in the City of Saint John, and to extend the benefits of the institution to every other part of the Province, from time to time, and as often as the funds and means of the said Corporation. will enable them so to do:" And whereas provision may hereafter be made for the establishment of branches of the said Provincial School, to be held and kept at the Seat of Government of the said Province, in Fredericton, and other parts of the Province-Special meetings of the same Governor and Trustees of the Madras School in New Brunswick, may be

summoned and held in the manner as pointed out in and by the said Charter and Letters Patent, at the said Seat of Government of the said Province, solely for the regulation and government of any such other Schools as may hereafter be established in the Province, under the direction of the said Governor and Trustees of the Madras School in New Brunswick; at which said special meetings the Clerk and Treasurer of the said Corporation may severally attend, either in person or by deputy, as they shall from time to time find the same to be convenient.

6th WILLIAM 4th-CHAPTER 53.

An Act to enable the Governor and Trustees of the Madras School to dispose of certain parts of their lands.

Section.

1. Wilderness lands, how disposed of. 2. Proceeds, how invested.

Section.

3. Leases, how renewed.

Passed 16th March 1836.

WHEREAS the Governor and Trustees of the Madras School in New Brunswick are seized and possessed of divers wilderness and uncultivated lands in this Province, and it is expedient when it would be for the benefit of the institution that they should have power to sell and dispose of the same, and to invest the proceeds in manner hereafter mentioned ;

Be it enacted, &c.-1. Whenever it shall appear to the said Governor and Trustees to be clearly for the benefit and advantage of the institution to sell and dispose of any of their wilderness and uncultivated lands in any part of the Province, or to sell any timber growing on such lands, they shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered so to do; and any sale and conveyance thereof, or of any part thereof, in fee simple or otherwise, made under the seal of the said Corporation, shall be good and valid, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

2. All the moneys and proceeds arising from such sales shall be invested and laid out by the said Governor and Trustees in the purchase of other lands for the purposes of the institution, or shall be put and kept out at interest upon good and sufficient landed securities, and the annual income and interest arising therefrom be applied by the said Governor and Trustees to and