cial and religious purposes of the said eldership, as before named, or for any similar objects of the General Eldership of the Church of God.

§ 6. That no misnomer of the said corporation shall defeat or annul any gift, grant or devise or bequest, to or from the said corporation: Provided, that the intent of the party or parties shall sufficiently appear upon the face of the grant, will or other writing, whereby an estate or interest is intended to pass to or from the said corporation. APPROVED February 13, 1861.

AN ACT to incorporate the General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the In force January United States of America.

29, 1861.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Rev. Thomas Worcester, D. D., of Boston, Mass., Rev. J. R. Hibbard, of Chicago, Ill., Rev. T. B. Hayward, of Brookline, Mass., Robert L. Smith, Esq., of Jamaica, L. I., N. Y., J. Young Scammon, Esq., of Chicago, and I. S. Britton, Esq., of Springfield, Ill., Hon. Jno. B. Niles, of La Porte, Ia., Dr. Charles Shepherd, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Rev. Chauncey, Giles, of Cincinnati, O., David Snyder, Esq., of Philapelphia, Penn., N. F. Cabell, Esq., of Warminster, Va., Hon. Jno. H. Wilkins and Sampson Reed, of Boston, Mass., Oliver Gerish, of Portland, and Henry B. Hoskins, of Gardener, Me., their associates and successors, be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate, under the name of "The General Convention of the New Jerusalem in Corporate name the United States of America;" under which name they shall have perpetual succession, with power to receive, take by gift, purchase, devise or otherwise, property and estate, real, personal or mixed, for educational or religious purposes, and to hold, lease and sell or convey the same at pleasure.

and powers.

officers.

§ 2. The business affairs of said convention shall be Appointment of managed and controlled by its executive committee, (or general council,) subject to the direction of the convention, when in session. Said committee (or council) shall be chosen or appointed, from time to time, in such manner as the constitution of such convention may direct, and shall be governed by the constitution of said convention, and act in conformity to its votes. Said committee (or council) may create such offices and appoint such officers as they may see fit, and remove the same at pleasure; and may manage its business affairs in such manner as a majority of said com

General Powers.

Gifts and grants.

mittee (or council) may determine, subject to the control of the convention.

§ 3. Said convention may sue and be 'sued, plead and be impleaded, prosecute and defend, in all courts and places, in its corporate name, by attorney or otherwise. All deeds, conveyances or leases of the property, held by said convention, for the purpose of leasing or conveying such property, shall be made under the hands of the president and recording secretary, and under such seal as said executive committee (or general council) may adopt; but all such deeds must be approved by a majority of said committee (or council).

§ 4. All gifts, devises or bequests made to said convention shall be used for educational or religious purposes; or the proceeds thereof, if sold or disposed of, shall be so applied.

§ 5. Nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to interfere with the right of said convention to alter, amend or abolish its constitution, or to form a new one, whenever it shall see fit so to do.

APPROVED January 29, 1861.

In force February AN ACT amendatory of an act entitled "An act to authorize the Protestant 21, 1861.

per.

Episcopal Church in the State of Illinois, to raise a fund for the support of

a Bishop and to aid superannuated ministers and the widows and children of deceased ministers," approved February 10, 1849.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That an act Application of the entitled "An act to authorize the Protestant Episcopal funds and pro- Church in the State of Illinois to raise a fund for the support of a bishop and to aid superannuated ministers and the widows and children of deceased ministers," approved February 10, 1849, be and the same is hereby amended, so that from and after the words "Provided, however," inclusive, in sec. 1 of the same, it shall read as follows, viz: "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 or aiding superannuated ministers in the same and the widows and children of such as are deceased, or for the establishment, erection, support, aid or maintenance of any hospital, almshouse, seminary, church, parsonage or burial ground, or for the furtherance and promotion of these and other charitable, religious, literary or eleemosynary purposes connected with the said Protestant Episcopal Church in the said diocese of Illinois"-the intention of this act being to authorize the trustees contemplated in said original act and in this

perty

by trus

act amendatory thereof, and their successors in office, to take and receive the title to and control of and to dispose of pro- Disposal of property, personal, real or mixed, for any and all purposes hereinbefore contemplated; to hold said property, for specific purposes, of the kind hereinbefore named, or for general purposes of the same kiud, dependent upon the nature and terms of the grant, devise or transfer by which the said trustees acquired the title to said property-they being the legal recipients, hereunder, of all titles to property, real, personal and mixed, granted, devised or transferred to the diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Illinois, or to the Protestant Episcopal Church in the diocese of Illinois, for any of the purposes herein named, or to any parish institution or town in said diocese, for the purposes herein contemplated, when there may not be persons or trustees in whom such title would legally vest, under such grant, devise

or transfer.

trustees.

§2. That said original act, approved February 10, A. D. Failure to appoint 1859, be and the same is hereby further amended, by striking out the words "and qualified," in section 2, of the same; and that said original act, approved February 10, A. D. 1849, be and the same is hereby further amended, by adding to said section 2 thereof, the following: "Provided, however, that in case said annual convention shall, at any time, fail so to appoint trustees, as herein before contemplated, or for any reason successors to the acting trustees shall not be appointed, such acting and duly appointed board of trustees shall continue in office till the appointment of their successors."

§ 3. That said original act, approved February 10, A. D. Amount of pro1849, be and the same is hereby further amended, so that perty to be held. from and after the word "Provided," inclusive, in section 3, of the same, it shall read as follows, viz: "Provided, that the value of the property held by said corporation, for the support of a bishop of said church, within said diocese, or aiding superannuated ministers in the same, and the widows and children of such as are deceased, shall not exceed, at any one time, the sum of two hundred thousand dol lars: And provided, further, that the value of the property, real or personal, held by said corporation, for the establishment, erection, support, aid or maintenance of any hospital, almshouse, seminary, church, parsonage or burial ground, or for the furtherance and promotion of these and other charitable, religious, literary or eleemosynary purposes, connected with the said Protestant Episcopal Church in said diocese of Illinois, shall not exceed, at any one time, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars."

84. That the said act, approved February 10, 1849, of which this act is an amendment, be and the same is hereby, as herein amended, declared, in all respects, operative and valid, and that all acts inconsistent therewith, relative to the holding and conveying of any property, real or personal,

Conveyance previously made.

Report of trustees

by any person or persons, in trust for the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Illinois, except as provided in this act and the act to which this is amendatory, be and the same is hereby repealed.

$5. That an act entitled "An act authorizing certain persons holding property in trust for the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Illinois to convey the same," approved January 24, 1853, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that the legal title and estate in and to any and all lands, tenements, goods, chattels, effects, moneys, choses in action or other property, within this state, which may have been given, devised or granted, or in any manner transferred or conveyed, by any person or persons whatsoever, since the passage and approval of the said last mentioned act, approved January 24, 1853, or under and in accordance with its provisions, unto any person by the name, style or title of "Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State or Diocese of Illinois," or "Bishop of Illinois and his successors," or any other person, upon the trust, expressed or implied, to take, hold and receive the same, for the use and benefit of any religious congregation of Protestant Episcopalians, or for any of the other purposes mentioned in said act referred to in this section, be and the same is hereby absolutely and forever divested from such person so having taken and received and so holding the same, and vested in and transferred and confirmed to Samuel Chase, Charles P. Clarke, Henry S. Austin, Richard F. Seabury, and Matthew Griswold, trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the diocese of Illinois, appointed at the last annual convention of the said Protestant Episcopal Church in the diocese of Illinois, and their successors in office, and in no other person or persons whatsoever, for the uses, trusts and purposes provided in said original act, approved February 10, 1849, and in this act amendatory thereof.

§ 6. That the said trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the diocese of Illinois, and also any other person or persons who may have heretofore taken, received, held or conveyed any property, real or personal, of any character whatsoever, in trust, expressed or implied, for the benefits, uses and purposes, literary, religious, charitable, eleemosynary or otherwise, specified in and under the provisions. of the act approved February 10, 1849, to which this is amendatory, or under the provisions of the act approved January 24, 1853, whilst the same was in force, and which is hereby repealed, shall, at the next annual convention of the said Protestant Episcopal Church in the state or diocese of Illinois, held after the passage of this act, prepare, exhibit and submit to said convention a detailed statement, in writing, of any and all property, real and personal, of every character, by him or them taken, received, held or conveyed as such trustee or tustees, as aforesaid, under the provisions

of either of the acts in this section referred to, together with a full and explicit detailed statement of all moneys by him or them received as such trustee or trustees, and of the disposition of any and all avails and proceeds of the sale or sales of any such property, by him or them made, as such trustee or trustees, under said trusts, and of all his or their doings and transactions, under and in connection with the said trusts. And that at every annual convention of said church, thereafter, the said trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the diocese of Illinois, shall exhibit and submit to such convention a similar and detailed statement, in writing, as provided by this section.

$7. This act to be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 21, 1881.

AN ACT to incorporate the German Evangelical Salen's Church, of Quincy,

Illinois.

In force Februa.y 22, 1961.

and powers.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Frank Kellen brink, Frederick Weneker, Martin Erdman, Jacob Lock, William Winkelman and Herman Merten, and their associates and successors in office, as members of the German Evangelical Salem's Church of Quincy, Illinois, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The German Evangelical Salem's Corporate nare Church of Quincy, Illinois," with power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts of law and equity in this state, and also to acquire, by gift, devise or purchase, property, both real, personal and mixed, and to hold and convey the same; the real estate which may be acquired and held in the manner aforesaid, however, shall not at any one time exceed ten acres of land. Said incorporation shall have the right to erect or build on the real estate so acquired and held by them, such houses or buildings as may be deemed necessary, by a majority of the voting members thereof, for religions and educational purposes.

32. The object of this incorporation is, to promote edu- objects of the cation and edification and advancement in piety and know- corperation. ledge of the word of God, according to the custom of the Evangelical Church. Said incorporation may have, use and change at pleasure, a common seal; and may make and ordain, for their government, such constitution and by-laws as they may deem necessary: Provided, that such constitution and by-laws be not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the state of Illinois, and of the United States.

3. All members of "The German Evangelical Salem's