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TRUSTEE APPOINTMENT ACT 1850

TRUSTEE APPOINTMENT ACT 1850 - LONG TITLE

An Act to render more simple and effectual the Titles by which
Congregations or Societies for Purposes of Religious Worship or
Education in England and Ireland hold Property for such Purposes.{1}
[15th July 1850]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1891[

TRUSTEE APPOINTMENT ACT 1850 - SECT 1
Property acquired for religious or educational purposes, and conveyed
to trustees or others, to vest in their successors for the time
being without conveyance.

1.] Wherever freehold, leasehold, ... property in England or Wales
has been or hereafter shall be acquired by any congregation or
society or body of persons associated for religious purposes, or for
the promotion of education, as a chapel, meeting house, or other
place of religious worship, or as a dwelling house for the minister
of such congregation, with offices, garden, and glebe, or land in
the nature of glebe, for his use, or as a schoolhouse, with
schoolmaster's house, garden, and playground, or as a college,
academy, or seminary, with or without grounds for air, exercise, or
recreation, or as a hall or rooms for the meeting or transaction
of the business of such congregation or society or body of persons,
and wherever the conveyance, assignment, or other assurance of such
property has been or may be taken to or in favour of a trustee
or trustees to be from time to time appointed, or of any party or
parties named in such conveyance, assignment, or other assurance, or
subject to any trust for the congregation or society or body of
persons, or of the individuals composing the same, such conveyance,
assignment, or other assurance shall not only vest the freehold,
leasehold, ... property thereby conveyed or otherwise assured in the
party or parties named therein, but shall also effectually vest such
freehold, leasehold, ... property in their successors in office for
the time being and the old continuing trustees, if any, jointly, or
if there be no old continuing trustees, then in such successors for
the time being wholly, chosen and appointed in the manner provided
or referred to in or by such conveyance, assignment, or other
assurance, or in any separate deed or instrument declaring the trust
thereof, or if no mode of appointment be therein set forth,
prescribed, or referred to, or if the power of appointment be
lapsed, then in such manner as shall be agreed upon by such
congregation or society or body of persons, upon such and the like
trusts, and with, under, and subject to the same powers and
provisions, as are contained or referred to in such conveyance,
assignment, or other assurance, or in any such separate deed or
instrument, or upon which such property is held, and that without
any transfer, assignment, conveyance, or other assurance whatsoever,
anything in such conveyance, assignment, or other assurance, or in
any such separate deed or instrument, contained to the contrary
notwithstanding: Provided always, that in case of any appointment of
a new trustee or trustees of or the conveyance of the legal estate
in any such property being made as heretofore was by law required,
the same shall be as valid and effectual, to all intents and
purposes as if this Act had not been passed.

S.2 rep. by SLR 1976

TRUSTEE APPOINTMENT ACT 1850 - SECT 3
Appointment of new trustees.

3. For the purpose of preserving evidence of every such choice and
appointment of a new trustee or new trustees, and of the person
and persons in whom such charitable estates and property shall so
from time to time become legally vested, every such choice and
appointment of a new trustee or new trustees shall be made to
appear by some deed under the hand and seal of the chairman for
the time being of the meeting at which such choice and appointment
shall be made, and shall be executed in the presence of such
meeting, and attested by two or more credible witnesses, which deed
may be in the form or to the like effect of the schedule to this
Act annexed, or as near thereto as circumstances will allow, and
may be given and shall be received as evidence in all courts and
proceedings in the same manner and on the like proof as deeds
under seal, and shall be evidence of the truth of the several
matters and things therein contained.

TRUSTEE APPOINTMENT ACT 1850 - SECT 4
Extent of Act.

4. The provisions of this Act shall extend to Ireland.

S.5 rep. by SLR 1875

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 trustees, made the day of .

Adam Bell, of .

Charles Dixon, of .

Edward Foster, of .

George Hurst, of .

John Jackson, of .

Kenneth Lucas, of .

Mathew Norman, of .

Octavius Parker, of .

Names and descriptions of all the trustees in whom the said
[chapel] and premises now becomes legally vested.

First.Old continuing trustees.

John Jackson, now of .

Matthew Norman, now of .

Octavius Parker, now of .

Second.New trustees now chosen and appointed:

Benjamin Adams, of .

Charles Bell, of .

Jonathan Edmonds, of .

Richard Baxter, of .

John Home, of .

Dated this day of .

(L.S.)hairman of the said meeting.Signed, sealed, and delivered by
the said William Hicks, as chairman of the said meeting, at and in
the presence of the said meeting, on the day and year aforesaid,
in the presence of

.F.[The blanks, and parts in italics, to be filled up as the case
may be.]






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