SCHEDULE to which this Act refers.
MEMORANDUM of the Choice and Appointment of new Trustees of the [describe the Chapel, School, or other Buildings and Property] situate in the Parish [or Township] of in the County [Riding, Division, City, or Place] of
at a Meeting duly convened and held for that Purpose in the Vestry of the said Chapel] on the [25th] Day of [April 1850], A.B. of Chairman.
Names and Descriptions of all the Trustees on the Constitution or last Appointment of
Edward Foster of
George Hurst of
John Jackson of
Kenneth Lucas of
Matthew Norman of
Octavius Parker of
Names and Descriptions of all the Trustees in whom the said [Chapel] and Premises now
[The Blanks, and Parts in Italics, to be filled up as the Case may be.]
Render more simple and effectual the Titles by
which Congregations or Societies associated for
Purposes of Religious Worship or Education in
Scotland hold Real Property required for such
Purposes.
Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.
HEREAS it is expedient to render more simple and effectual Preamble. the Titles by which Congregations or Societies associated together for the Purposes of maintaining Religious Worship or promoting Education in Scotland may hold the Heritable Property 5 required for such Purposes: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That wherever Heri- Heritable 10 table Property, consisting of Lands or Houses in Scotland, has been Property or may hereafter be acquired by any Congregation or Society or religious or Body of Men associated for religious Purposes or for the Promotion educational Purposes to of Education, as a Chapel, Meeting House, or other Place of Worship, vest in Disor as a Manse or Dwelling House for the Minister of such Con- ponees or their Succes15 gregation, or Offices, Garden, or Glebe for his Use, or as a School99.
house, or Schoolmaster's House, Garden, or Play-ground, or as a
College, Academy, or Seminary, or as a Hall or Rooms for the Meet-
ings or Transaction of the Business of such Congregation or Society
or Body of Men, and wherever the Charter, Disposition, Conveyance,
or Lease of such Heritable Property has been or may be taken in 5
favour of the Minister, Kirk Session, Vestrymen, Deacons, Managers,
or other Office-bearers or Office-bearer of such Congregation or Society
or Body of Men, or any of them, or of Trustees appointed or to be
from Time to Time appointed, or of any Party or Parties named in
such Charter, Disposition, Conveyance, or Lease, in trust for behoof 10
of the Congregation or Society or Body of Men, or of the Individuals
composing the same, such Charter, Disposition, or Conveyance, when
followed by Infeftment duly expede and recorded in Terms of Law,
or such Lease, shall not only vest the Party or Parties named therein
in the Lands, Houses, or other Heritable Property thereby feued, 15
conveyed, or leased, but shall also, after the Death or Resignation
or Removal from Office of such Party or Parties, or any of them,
effectually vest their Successors in Office for the Time being, chosen
and appointed in the Manner provided in such Charter, Disposition,
Conveyance, or Lease, or if no Mode of Appointment be therein set 20
forth or prescribed, then in Terms of the Rules or Regulations of
such Congregation or Society or Body of Men, in such Lands,
Houses, or Property, subject to such and the like Trusts, and with
and under the same Powers and Provisions, as are contained in the
Charter, Disposition, Conveyance, or Lease given and granted to 25
the Parties, Disponees or Lessees therein, and that without any
Transference, Assignment, Conveyance, or other Transmission or
Renewal of the Investiture whatsoever, anything in such Charter,
Disposition, Conveyance, or Lease contained to the contrary not-
withstanding.
II. And be it enacted, That where no Agreement shall have been for Payment made or shall be made with the Superior of such Heritable Property Casualties of for a periodical or other Payment in lieu of the Casualty or ComSuperiority. position payable by Law or in Terms of the Investiture upon the
Entry of Heirs and singular Successors, it shall be lawful for such 35
Superior, at the Death of the existing Vassal in such Heritable Pro-
perty, and at the Expiration of every Period of Twenty-five Years
thereafter, so long as such Heritable Property shall belong to or be
held for behoof of such Congregation or Society or Body of Men,
to demand and take from such Congregation or Society or Body 40
of Men, or other Party or Parties to whom such Heritable Property
may have been or shall be feued or conveyed for their Behoof, a
Sum corresponding to the Casualty or Composition, if any such shall
in the Circumstances be due, which would have been payable upon
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