shall be lawful for the supreme court of this state, upon the application of a majority of the trustees thereof incorporated by law, except in the city and county of New York, in case said court shall deem it proper so to do, to order and decree a dissolution of such religious society, and for that purpose to order and direct a sale and conveyance of any and all property belonging to such society, and after providing for the ascertaining and payment of the debts of such society, and the necessary costs and expenses of such sale and proceedings for dissolution, so far as the proceeds of such sale shall be sufficient to pay the same; such court may order and direct any surplus of such proceeds remaining after paying such debts, costs and expenses, to be devoted and applied to any such religious, benevolent, or charitable objects or purposes as the said trustees may indicate by their petition and the said court may approve.

§ 2. Petition, what to contair.- Such application to the said court shall be made by petition, duly verified by said trustees, which petition shall state the particular reason or causes why such sale and dissolution are sought, the situation, condition, and estimated value of the property of said society or corporation, and the particular object or purposes to which it is proposed to devote any surplus of the proceeds of such property; and such petition shall, in all cases, be accompanied with proof that notice of the time and place of such intended application to said court, has been duly published once in each week for at least four weeks successively, next preceding such application, in a newspaper published in the county where such society is located.

§ 3. When members may make the application.- In case there shall be no trustees of such religious society residing in the county in which such society is located, such application may be made, and such proceedings taken, by a majority of the mem bers of such religious society residing in such county.

[No meeting of the board of trustees of a religious society is necessary to authorize the application of a majority of the trustees for the dissolution of a society under chapter 424 of the Laws of 1872, nor is it

essential that there should be a meeting of the society to authorize such an application, except to show the court that a dissolution is favored by a majority. It is no objection to an order made by the court for a dissolution of a religious corporation that it is contrary to the discipline of the church, if it is authorized by statute. Matter of Third M. E. Church, 67 Hún, ε6.

Upon dissolution, the surplus funds arising from legacies, etc., should be disposed of as the court directs, carrying out as far as possible any trusts attached thereto. Matter of Orthodox Congregational Ch, 6 Abb. N. C. 398.]

CHURCH EXTENSION BOARD OF M. P. CHURCH.

L. of 1894, Cap. 634 — An act to incorporate the Home Church Extension Board, or Onondaga Conference, Methodist Protestant Church. Section 1. The Reverend George D. Ellis, the Reverend Horace F. Snow, the Reverend Hosea Ure, the Reverend Henry N. Becker, George W. Crandall, Delos E. Swift, and such other persons as now are, or hereafter may be associated with them, and their successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of the " Home Church Extension Board of Onondaga Conference, Methodist Protestant Church," and by that name they shall have perpetual succession, and shall be capable of suing and being sued in any court whatever, and of having and using a common seal, which they may alter and change at pleasure.

§ 2. The objects of this corporation are to erect and complete and to aid in the erection and completion of churches and church property, and to sustain, care for, assist, build up, strengthen and extend churches, congregations, home missions and missionaries, of or connected with the Methodist Protestant Church.

§ 3. It shall be lawful for the regular members of this corporation to select and appoint such officers, and to make and ordain such by-laws and regulations in relation to the management and disposition of its property, the duties of its officers and members and the management of its corporate affairs, as they may deem proper, provided such by-laws and regulations are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state, or of the United States.

§ 4. The said corporation shall have power to acquire by grant, gift, purchase, devise or bequest, and to hold, lease, sell, transfer, mortgage and convey, any property, real, personal or mixed for the uses and benefit of said corporation, which shall not be applied to any other purposes than those for which this corporation is created, provided the yearly income derived therefor shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars.

§ 5. The said corporation shall possess the general powers and be subject to the general restrictions and liabilities prescribed in chapter thirty-five of the general corporation law, and the acts supplementary thereto and amendatory thereof.

§ 6. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHURCH EXTENSION BOARD OF THE M. E. CHURCH. L. of 1894, Chap. 635.— An act to enable "the Board of Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church" to take, hold and convey property in the state of New York.

Section 1. The corporation created by the laws of the state of Pennsylvania and known by the name of "the Board of Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church," shall have power to receive, take, hold, enjoy and convey any property, real or personal, in the state of New York, by virtue of any devise, bequest, gift, grant or purchase, subject, in respect to the amount of property it may take and hold, to the restrictions and limitations of existing laws, and in respect to devises and bequests from residents of the state of New York, to the provisions of chapter three hundred and sixty of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty, entitled "An act in relation to wills."

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

EXTINCT BAPTIST CHURCHES.

L. of 1894, Chap. 642.-An act in relation to the incorporation called the Baptist Missionary Convention of the State of New York, and the property of extinct Baptist churches and Baptist religious societies. Section 1. All the property both real and personal, belonging to or held in trust for any Baptist church or Baptist religious society organized under the laws of the State of New York, that has become, or shall become extinct shall vest in and become the property of the Baptist Missionary Convention of the State of New York, and its successors or assigns; provided that this act shall not affect the reversionary interests of any person or persons in such property, nor the interests of any incorporated association; and any Baptist church or Baptist religious society becoming extinct or about to disband or disorganize may, by a vote of two-thirds of its members present and voting therefor at a meeting regularly called for that purpose assign, transfer, grant and convey all its temporalities to and place the same in the possession of the Baptist Missionary Convention of the State of New York.

§ 2. Any Baptist church or Baptist religious society which has failed for two consecutive years next prior thereto to maintain religious services according to the custom and usages of Baptist

churches, or has less than thirteen resident attending members, paying annual pew-rental or making annual contributions towards its support, may be declared extinct in the following manner, viz.: Upon such notice as the court may prescribe, and upon application made by petition, stating fully the facts in the case, and on evidence being furnished that the said Baptist church or Baptist religious society has ceased to hold services in and use said property for religious worship or service for a term of two years previous to such application, the supreme court, at a term thereof held in the judicial district where such property is situated may grant an order, declaring such church or society extinct, and thereon direct that all its temporalities shall be transferred to, and thereupon shall be taken possession of by the Baptist Missionary Convention of the State of New York, or directing that the same be sold in the manner directed by said order, and that the proceeds thereof, after payment of the debts of such church or society, be paid over to the Baptist Missionary Convention of the State of New York. All property and proceeds from the sale of property so transferred to said convention shall be used and applied for the purposes for which said Baptist Missionary Convention of the State of New York was organized and shall not be directed to any other purpose. § 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION.

L. of 1894, Chap. 649.- An act to incorporate the American Baptist Missionary Union.

Section 1. All such persons as now are or may hereafter become members of the American Baptist Missionary Union, incorporated in the state of Pennsylvania, March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, for the purpose of diffusing the knowledge of the religion of Jesus Christ by means of missions throughout the world, shall be and hereby are constituted a body corporate by the name of "the American Baptist Missionary Union.”

2. The said corporation shall have power to hold, purchase and convey such real estate as the purposes of the society shall require, but the annual income of such real estate held by it at any one time, within the state of New York, shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars.

§3. The said corporation shall have power to receive, hold, take by donation, deed or devise, any real property which has

been, or may hereafter be given, granted or devised to it by any persons whomsoever for the purpose stated in section one, and to receive, accumulate and hold in trust, endowment or other funds, and make investments thereof whenever it seems most advisable, and the said corporation shall also be competent to act as trustee in respect to any devise or bequest pertaining to the object of its incorporation, and devises and bequests of real or personal property may be directly made to said corporation, or in trust for any of the purposes comprehended in the general objects of said society, and such trusts may continue for such time as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes for which they may be created, subject, however, to the limitations expressed in section two of this act, as to the aggregate amount of such real estate, and subject also in receiving bequests from persons in the state of New York, to the provisions of chapter three hundred and sixty of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty, entitled "An act in relation to wills.”

§ 4. The annual and other corporate meetings of said, the American Baptist Missionary Union, may be held at such time and place as the said corporation may by its constitution, by-laws or vote provide.

$5. The said corporation shall also possess the general powers specified in the general corporation law.

AID TO THE POOR.

L. of 1895, Chap. 314.—An act to incorporate "The Harbor Provident Association of Buffalo, New York."

Section 1. Willard F. Mallalieu, George V. Forman, Edgar B. Jewett, George E. Matthews, Joseph Campbell, Frank S. Oakes, John Gordon, James Fenton, Frank A. Board, Benjamin C. Williams, Chilion M. Farrar, John N. Goltra, Henry Bond, Harvey D. Blakeslee, Olin G. Rich, George Rice, William H. Britton, Jr., Solomon Ford, Samuel S. McGerald, John E. Williams, William H. Collins, Robert K. Smither, Arthur D. McGerald and Frederick W. Bartlett, together with such persons as they may associate with themselves and their successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of "The Harbor Provident Association of Buffalo, New York," for the purpose of furnishing temporal and spiritual aid to the poor, the sick and infirm, and the needy, whom said association shall deem in need and worthy of such assistance.

§ 2. The association hereby formed shall have authority to receive money and property, personal or real, by bequest or