JOHN S. IRWIN, Treasurer of the Diocese, in Account with the Fund for the Benefit of Itinerant and Superannuated Ministers, etc. LIST OF PARISHES THAT ARE INDEBTED TO THE GENERAL FUND, AND OF THOSE THAT HAVE OVERPAID THEIR ASSESSMENTS PRIOR TO CONVENTION OF 1866. COPY OF AN ACT OF LEGISLATURE RELATING TO TRUSTEES OF DIOCESE. CHAPTER CXXXIV. An Act to authorize the Protestant Episcopal Church, in this State, to raise a Fund for the support of a Bishop, and to aid Itinerant and Superannuated Ministers, their widows and children. [Approved January 15, 1844.] SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, That George H. Dunn, Abner T. Ellis, Joseph M. Moore, Zebina Gould, and James Morrison, be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of "The Trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Indiana," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and may purchase and receive any property, real or personal, and have and hold the same, contract and be contracted with, and sue and be sued, as natural persons: Provided, however, That the property of said corporation, and the funds thereof, shall never be applied to any other purpose than the support of a Bishop of said Church, within said diocese, and to aid itinerant and superannuated ministers of the said Church, their widows and children. SEC. 2. That said Trustees shall hold their office until the next ensuing annual convention of the said "Protestant Episcopal Church" of the Diocese of Indiana," and until their successors in office shall be appointed and qualified; at which time, and at every annual convention thereafter, Trustees shall be appointed, pursuant to such rules, by-laws or canons of the said church, as may be in force at the time of such appointment, which, however, shall not be repugnant to the constitution and laws of the State. SEC. 3. The property or funds of the said corporation shall never be sold, alienated or otherwise disposed of, unless for the purpose of re-investing the proceeds thereof, or appropriating the same as hereinbefore provided; which the said annual convention may authorize and require them (said Trustees) to do, under such rules, limitations and restrictions as the said convention may adopt: Provided, That the property held by said corporation shall never exceed, at any one time, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. SEC. 4. Any future legislature shall have power to repeal, alter or amend this act, but such alteration, amendment or repeal shall in no case divest the property, money or rights acquired under its provisions, nor divert them from the purposes herein expressed. SEC. 5. This act shall be taken and construed liberally as a general act, and be in force from and after its passage. |