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"Whenever the conveyance, assignment, or other assurance of any freehold or leasehold property, which now is or hereafter may be acquired by or on behalf of any religious denomination, congregation, or society or of anv body of persons associated for religious, charitable or educational purposes, has been or hereafter may be made to or in favour of any person or persons as trustee or trustees, subject to any trusts for the behoof or benefit of such denomination, congregation, society, or body of persons as aforesaid or of the individuals composing the same, the freehold or leasehold property comprised in any such conveyance, assignment, or other assurance as aforesaid shall devolve by way of succession U pon the successor or successors in office of the trustee or trustees for the time being, either jointly with any continuing trustee or trustees, or solely as the case may require, upon such successor or successors bein" duly chosen and appointed in the manner provided or referred to in or by such conveyance, assignment or other assurance as aforesaid, or in or by any separate deed or instrument declaring the trusts of such freehold or leasehold property, or if there be no power of appointing new trustees contained in any such conveyance, assignment or other assurance, or in any such separate deed or instrument as aforesaid, then upon such successor or successors being chosen and appointed in such manner as shall be agreed upon by such denomination, or by any body duly constituted to represent them, or by the major part in number of the adult male persons, forming any such congregation, society, or body of persons as aforesaid, who shall be present, and qualified under or by virtue of any rules or regulations for the time being in force in the government of any such congregation, society, or body of persons, to vote at any meeting thereof, at a meeting to be specially held and convened for that purpose, and that without any conveyance, assignment, or other assurance whatsoever of such freehold or leasehold property." 7. Wesleyan Property Sale Bill reported—adoption of the report. 8. Bills of Sale Registration Bill—to be further considered in Committee. 9. Friendly Societies Bill—second reading. 10. Scientific Institutions Bill—second reading. 11. Marriage Act Amendment Bill—second reading. 12. Bribery and Treating Bill No. I—second reading. 13. Bribery and Treating Bill No. 2—second reading. CHARLES CLIFFORD, Speaker.