of a circuit, station, or district, having ge property, in order to adjust the rights ities of the subdivisions of any such charge parsonage property, the Quarterly Conferf the respective subdivisions, or the Disnference (in case of the division of a Disshall each select an arbitrator, and these ors an umpire, who together shall constioard of reference, to which shall be referred estion of adjusting the rights of the ree parties interested in such parsonage propand the decision of the board of reference in ch case shall be acquiesced in and carried fect by the parties concerned. And if any erly or District Conference shall fail, after n notice, to appoint such arbitrator within ear after such division, this shall work a fore of the claim of such Conference in the rty.

508. The trustees, with the consent of the her in charge and the Quarterly Conference, a District parsonage, then of the Presiding and the District Conference, shall have powsell any church or parsonage property, which gone out of use, or which should be removed to her place, the proceeds of which shall be investnother church property under the direction of

SECTION IV.

OF CREATING LIENS UPON CHURCH PROPERTY.

¶509. No person, or persons, or board of t tees, shall have authority to make or create mortgage, or other contract lien, upon ch property provided, nevertheless, that if the trustees, or any of them, or their successors, advanced, or shall advance, any sum or sum money, or are, or shall be, responsible for any or sums of money on account of church prop and they, the said trustees, or their successors obliged to pay the said sum or sums of mo they, or a majority of them, shall be authorize raise the said sum or sums of money by a n gage on the said property, or by selling the property, after notice given the preacher in ch or the Presiding Elder of the District, if money due be not paid to the said trustees, or successors, within one year after such notic been given; and if such sale take place, the trustees, or their successors, after paying the and other expenses which are due, from the n arising from such sale, shall pay over th mainder of the money produced by the said to the steward or stewards of the circuit, st been given; and if such sale take place, th sale shall be forwarded by the said stewa

rly Conference shall dispose of the said , by a vote of the majority, for the use of rcuit, station, or mission.

10. Provided, further, that the trustees of ouse of worship or parsonage, or other propeld for the benefit of the Church, a majority em uniting therein, by the consent and auy. of the Quarterly Conference, or of the et Conference, or two-thirds of the District rds, if it be a District parsonage, may bormoney from the Board of Church Extension my person or corporation, and secure the reent thereof by mortgage upon any property in trust by said trustees, upon such terms and itions as may be agreed upon between the coning parties.

511. Provided, further, that such trustees, 1 duly authorized, as provided in ¶ 510, shall have power to create a lien upon such propconditioned for the repayment to the said rd of Church Extension or Home Mission Soy of any conditional donation made in aid of h house of worship or parsonage by said Board Society, in the event that such property shall r thereafter be aliened from the Methodist iscopal Church, South, or cease to be used for, be devoted to other uses than, the purposes auorized by the trust clauses in our deeds, as pre

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under any mortgage, provided for in this or preceding paragraph, the surplus money aris therefrom shall be disposed of as provided in ¶ 5 Money received under the provisions of this or preceding paragraph shall be used by the trust for the exclusive purpose of purchasing, pay debts upon, or improving, church or parson property. The provisions of this paragraph s not apply to donations to churches which do exceed one hundred dollars. Whenever any p erty upon which such conditional mortgage s have been placed shall be sold by the trustees the purpose of purchasing property elsewhere be used for like purposes, it shall be the duty the officers of the Board of Church Extension release said lien, provided equal security be g by mortgage on the new site.

CHAPTER XIX.

OF ENDOWMENTS AND BEQUESTS.

SECTION I.

THE SUPERANNUATE ENDOWMENT FUND.

2. The General Conference does hereby esa permanent endowment fund, for the of the superannuated preachers and the s and orphans of deceased preachers, of the ng connection, to be known as the SuperanEndowment Fund of the Methodist Episcohurch, South. This Fund shall be main- and enlarged in the manner and under the tions herein prescribed.

13. All existing funds that have been diby donors, or that may hereafter be secured he wills or bequests of deceased persons, toer with the funds which by any and all other s have been or may be secured, of a connecal character, for the benefit of our superanzed and worn-out preachers and the widows orphans of deceased preachers, be and are by appropriated and set apart for the Fund stituted and described in the preceding paraph.