(B).

No. 4.

Form of Legacy for Charitable Purposes.

LEGACIES for these purposes must be charged and made payable wholly out of the personal estate, or they will be void under the Statute of Mortmain.

Legacy for the Use of the Minister for the time being.

I GIVE and bequeath the sum of £

to be

raised and paid out of my personal estate to the (deacons) for the time being, of the church or society of Protestant Dissenters, now under the pastoral care of meeting in

; and the

a

sufficient dis

The said sum

receipt of the said (deacons) shall be charge to my executors for the same. to be by the said (deacons) laid out and invested in their joint names in the public funds, upon trust, to pay the interests and dividends thereof from time to time*, to the minister for the time being of the said church or society, for his own use and benefit.

Legacy for the Use of the Poor.

(The same as above down to the asterisk, then) unto and amongst such poor persons, members of the said church or congregation, as the said (deacons) for the time being, shall in their discretion think fit.

Legacy for the Use of the Chapel.

(The same as before down to the asterisk, then) towards the expenses of carrying on the public worship of God in the said place, as the said (deacons) for the time being shall in their discretion think fit.

Any other officer may be substituted for "the deacons," when necessary.

INDEX.

ABJURATION, Oath of, 14, 144.
Absence, from Church, 48, 53.

Acts, of Parliament-vide Table of Statutes.
Affirmation, when and how far admissible, 36.
Forms of, 147, 148.

Allegiance, Oath of, 14, 26, 29, 144.
Appendix, 113.

Contents of-vide Table of Contents.

Articles, the Thirty-nine, when compiled, 2.
Select, under the Toleration Act, 71.

Assemblies, requiring Registration, 89.

not requiring Registration, 88.
fastening Doors of, 91.
disturbing lawful, 92.

coming in to disturb, 93.

when lawful, 18, 88, 91.

Penalties for holding unlawful, 57.

Assurances, what, void as against the Crown, 52.
Attendance, at Church, Laws to enforce, 3, 4, 50.
at other Forms of Worship, 4, 54.

BAPTISM, of Dissenters, valid, 21.

Bequest, to Dissenting Ministers, how far valid, 80, 103.

Birth, Form of Certificate of, 154.

Burial, Dissenters' Right to, 21.

Registers of, how far admissible, 43.

CANON LAW, effect of, 23.

Certified Places, Preaching in, 67.

Certificate, of Chapels, &c. Forms of, 151, 153.

of Birth, 154.

Chancery, Court of, 101, 107.

how far it interferes with Dissenters, 107.

not bound by strict rules, 108.

construction of trusts adopted by, 109.

Charities, of Dissenters, protected and executed, 21, 44, 101.
Charitable Use, grant to, when void, 102
Christianity, part of the Law of the Land, 19.

Church of England, Laws to protect, 3.

to enforce attendance at, ib., 48.

Church Government, of Quakers, recognised, 43.

Colonies, Laws in, 42.

Conformity, Laws to compel, 3.

Congregation, below the prohibited number, 68, 88.

Constable, Deputy, for Military Purposes, 41.

Courts, of Law and Equity, the Jurisdiction of, 18, 21, 100, 107.
Conventicle Act, 5, 7.

Conventicles, unlawful, permitting to be held, 57.

officiating in, 9.

attending, 56.

Corporation Act, 7, 12, 25.

Corporations, Office in, ibid.

Crown, Ecclesiastical Authority of, 3, 46.

DECLARATIONS, against Transubstantiation and Popery-of Pro-

testant Belief-and those made by Quakers, 58.

Forms of, 146.

Deeds, Trust, for a Dissenting Chapel, 155.

for a Wesleyan Chapel, 172.

for new Appointment of Trustees, 184.

Defence, of the Realm, Act for, 41.

Devise, when not within the Mortinain Act, 103.

Dissent, Protestant, a Crime only by Statute, 23.

Dissenters, excluded from Office in Corporations, and under the
Crown, 7, 25, 29.

from Academical Degrees at English Universities, and

Preferments in the Church, 33, 34.

the Rights and Duties of, 20.

regarded by the Courts, 18.

may attain to the Peerage, and sit in the Senate, 21.
demand Baptism, Admission to Sacrament of Lord's
Supper, Burial, and the Marriage Rite, ibid.

Dissenters, Construction of Trusts adopted by, 109.
their trusts and charities protected, 101,

how far liable to laws against Heresy, 47.
unrepealed statute against, 54.

how far laws against, affected by the Toleration Acts, 44.
may connect themselves with the Synod of Scotland, 107.
Dissenting Ministers, vide Ministers.'

Schoolmasters, vide Schoolmasters.'

places of worship, vide Meeting House.'

Disturbing, lawful assemblies, 92, 94.

Doors, of Assemblies, must not be fastened, 91.

Duties, parochial and tithes, Dissenters liable to, 22.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENT, exclusion from, 34.

Election, to pastoral office, 77.

Episcopal Ordination, officiating without, 9, 69.

Established Religion, reviling, 6, 47,

Exemptions, from office (incidental), 22, 33.

from taxes, 76.

and disabilities of Quakers and Moravians, 35.

local in favour of Quakers, 43.

and immunities of Dissenting Ministers, 70.
false certificate of, 75.

FEES, not payable for service unperformed, 22.

Fidelity, form of declaration of, 146.

Field Preaching, illegal 69.

Fines, assurances to defeat, when void, 52.

Five Mile Act, (vide Table of Statutes).

HERESY, in what it consists, 45.
laws against, 11, 45.

power of defining and punishment of, 46.
how far Dissenters still liable for, 47.
Laws against, how far repealed, 3.

INDEMNITY ACTS (annual), 12, 32,

Indictment, for disturbing a congregation, 149.

Inhabited house duty, 100.

Ireland, Laws of, 18.