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Answ. 1. Let all our churches be built plain and decent; but not more expensive than is absolutely unavoidable; otherwise the necessity of raising money will make rich men necessary to us. But if so, we must be dependent on them, yea, and governed by them. And then farewell to Methodist discipline, if not doctrine too.

2. No person shall be eligible as a trustee to any of our houses, churches or schools, who is not a regular member of our society.

3. No person who is a trustee, shall be ejected while he is in joint security for money, unless such relief be given him as is demanded, or the creditor will accept.

Quest. 2. Is there any exception to the rule "Let the men and woment sit apart ?"

Answ. There is no exception. Let them sit apart in all our churches.

Quest. 3. Is there not a great indecency sometimes practised among us, viz. talking in the congregation before and after service? How shall this be cured?.

Answ. Let all the ministers and preachers join as one man, and enlarge on the impropriety of talking before or after service; and strongly exhort those that are concerned to do it no more. In three months, if we are in earnest, this vile practice will be banished out of every Metho dist congregation. Let none stop till he has carried his point.

Quest. 4. What shall be done for the security of our preaching-houses, and the premises belonging thereto?

Answ. Let the following plan of a deed of settlement, be brought into effect in all possible cases, and as far as the laws of the states respectively will admit of it. But each annual conference is authorised 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 premises firmly by deed; and permanently to the Methodist Episcopal Church, according to the true intent and meaning of the following form of a deed of settle

ment; any thing in the said form to the contrary notwithstanding.

THIS INDENTURE, made this

in the year of our

day of

Lord, one thousand

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of the

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grantor be married, insert the name of his wife) of the one part, and trustees, in trust for the uses and purposes herein after-mentioned, all of the in the state of

aforesaid, of the other part,

WITNESSETH, that the said

(if married, insert the name of his wife) for and in consideration of the sum of specie, to

.in hand paid, at and upon the sealing and delivery of these presents; the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath (or have) given, granted, bargained, sold, released, confirmed and conveyed, and by these presents doth (or do) give, grant, bargain, sell, release, confirm and convey unto them, the said and their successors (trustees, in trust for the uses and purposes herein af

ter-mentioned and declared) all the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim and demand whatsoever, either in law or equity, which he the said (if married, here insert

the name of his wife) hath (or have) in, to, or upon all and singular a certain lot or piece of land, situate, lying, and being in the and state aforesaid, bounded and butted as follows, to wit: (here insert the several courses and distances of the land to the place of beginning) containing and laid out for acres of land, together with all and singular the houses, woods, waters, ways, privileges, and appurtenances thereto belonging, or in any wise appertaning: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all and singular, the above mentioned and described lot or piece of land, situate lying and being as aforesaid, together with all and singular the houses, woods, waters, ways, and privileges thereto belonging, or in any wise appertaining unto them the said and their successors in office, for ever, in trust, that they shall erect and build, or cause to be erected and built there

on, a house or place of worship, for the use of the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America, according to the rules and discipline which from time time may be agreed upon and adopted by the ministers and preach. ers of the said Church, at their gen eral conferences in the United States of America; and in further trust and confidence that they shall at all times forever hereafter, permit such ministers and preachers, belonging to the said Church, as shall from time to time be duly authorised by the general conferences of the ministers and preachers of the said Methodist Episcopal Church, or by the yearly conferences authorised by the said general conference, to preach and expound God's holy word therein; and in further trust and confidence, that as often as any one or more of the trustees herein before-mentioned, shall die, or cease to be a member or members of the said Church, according to the rules and discipline as aforesaid, then and in such case, it shall be the duty of

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