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General Assembly; such Committee to be subject to the control of the General Assembly, and to furnish an annual report of the state of the fund and of matters incident thereto.

Information as to state of capital and income.

7. The Committee of Investment and Finance, to whom the investment of the capital is entrusted, shall, whenever requested by the convener of the Committee of this fund, certify to him in writing the amount of the capital and of the income and the nature of the investments.

Applications.

8. A contributor seeking to become a beneficiary applies in writing to the Committee through his presbytery. The Committee, after due consideration and inquiry, forward their decision to the General Assembly for final approval. In the case of missionaries, applications pass through the Foreign Missions Committee to the presbytery of Adelaide.

Medical referee.

9. A contributor applying to become an annuitant shall, if called upon to do so, produce a certificate from a medical practitioner appointed by the Committee of his being permanently incapacitated for the discharge of his official duties.

Treasurer to be notified of new beneficiaries.

10. When a contributor has been admitted as a beneficiary, the convener shall in writing notify the Church treasurer thereof and of the amount from time to time payable. A beneficiary ceases to be a contributor.

Amount of annuity.-When income insufficient.-Increment.

11. The annuity is Fifty Pounds per annum, but should the income fall short of the amount required it is divided among the annuitants pro rata. As soon as the income in the judgment of the Assembly warants it, an increment of a given amount, to be from time to time determined, shall be allowed to annuitants for each year of service over seven years.

No annuity till after seven years' service.

12. No contributor shall be awarded an annuity unless he has served the Church for seven years in a settled charge or charges.

Return of rates.

13. A contributor who becomes permanently infirm before serving this Church for seven years in a settled charge or charges receives back all he has paid into the fund, without interest, and has no further clain.

Contributor joining another Presbyterian Church before seven years' service.

14. A contributor placing himself under the jurisdiction of another Presbyterian Church before he has served this Church for seven years receives back three-fourths of the amount of rates he has paid, without interest, and has no further claim.

After seven years' service.

15. A contributor placing himself under the jurisdiction of any other Presbyterian Church may, if he has served this Church for seven years in a settled charge or charges, continue his connection with the fund by paying the annual rate; but the increment to which he may be entitled under Rule 11 shall be allowed only for the years during which he has served this Church. If he desires to relinquish his claim upon the fund he shall receive back the amount of rates he has paid, without interest. 16. A contributor, whose ministerial connection with this Church ceases in any other way than by transference to the service of another Presbyterian Church, has no claim whatever upon the fund.

Reduction or withdrawal of annuity.

17. The General Assembly may reduce the amount of the annuity, or withdraw the annuity, if the recipient (a) shall undertake any other ministerial charge or (b) enter upon or derive pecuniary benefit from any secular occupation, or (c) cease to be subject to the discipline of this Church, or (d) by deposition be deprived of any office in this Church, or (e) be suspended from any such office or from the privilege of full communion with this Church, or (ƒ) continue out of the colony for eighteen months without having received the permission of the Assembly.

Notice of reduction, &c., to be sent by Moderator.

18. When an annuity has been reduced or withdrawn the Moderator of the General Assembly shall by writing notify the Committee that such reduction or withdarwal has been made.

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Temporary aid.

19. When the income exceeds the amount paid in annuities in any one year, the Committee may out of such excess of income award temporary aid in cases of pressing necessity to any minister not being an annuitant. Temporary aid consists of the payment of a single sum of money awarded at any one time for some particular occasion.

No claim against officials.

20. Contributors or beneficiaries have no claim against the officials of the Assembly personally; nor against the Committee of Management; nor against the Committee of Investment and Finance, individually or collectively; nor is there any personal liability incurred in administering the fund.

Alterations.

21. Except as to the proviso to Rule 4, the General Assembly has the power of making any changes in these rules which it may think meet.

An Act to provide for the Incorporation of Way College, and for other purposes.

WE

[Assented to, December 21st, 1899.] HEREAS in or about the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five it was resolved by members of the Bible Christian Church in South Australia and others to establish a College for the education of youth and as a Memorial to the late Reverend James Way: And whereas land and premises known as Way College have been bought and used for the purposes aforesaid under the direction of the South Australian Bible Christian Conference, Incorporated: And whereas it is now desirable to make provision for the perpetuation and management of the said College and Memorial, and to incorporate it, and to declare the Trusts thereof-Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Parliament of South Australia, as follows:

Preamble.

PART I.
INTRODUCTORY.

PART I.

1. This Act may be cited as "Way College Incorporation Act, Title of Act. 1899."

2. In this Act the extent and meaning of general words shall Interpretation. not be limited by the addition of particular words, and, unless the

PART I.

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context shall otherwise indicate, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

"College" shall mean Way College as incorporated by this Act: "Governors" shall mean the Board of Governors of the College: "Property" shall mean real and personal estate of all kinds :

College estate" shall mean the lands and premises described in the First Part of the Schedule hereto :

"Conference" shall mean the South Australian Bible Christian Conference, Incorporated.

PART II.

Incorporation of subscribers.

Subscribers to incur

PART II.

INCORPORATION.

3. All persons who have heretofore voluntarily subscribed or who shall hereafter voluntarily subscribe to the funds of the College shall be incorporated as and form one body politic and corporate by the name of "Way College," and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to break, alter, or vary such seal, and to acquire, accept, hold, and dispose of property, and to exercise all the powers and functions of an incorporated body.

4. No subscriber shall in any event incur any personal responsino personal liability. bility for the debts and liabilities of the College, but the property of the College shall alone be liable to satisfy the same.

Incorporation within meaning of Municipal Corporations Act.

Vesting of estate.

5. The College shall, for all the purposes of any Municipal Corporations Act, be deemed to be an academical institution which shall have obtained an Act of Incorporation.

6. The College estate is hereby vested in the College for an estate in fee simple, subject to the mortgage noted on the registered certificates of title (volume 385, folio 118; and volume 594, folio 15), as regards the land comprised therein, and shall henceforth be held by the College upon the trusts hereinafter mentioned.

PART III.

Trusts of College state.

PART III.
TRUSTS.

7. The College estate shall be held upon the following trusts, that is to say—

1. The College shall maintain the buildings erected thereon, and any buildings which may be in future erected thereon, out of such funds as may be applicable to the purpose, but with power, nevertheless, to pull down or alter any existing or future buildings as the Governors may deem expedient: II. The