Statutes of Ontario

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CHAPTER 125.

An Act respecting the Union of certain Churches therein named.

Assented to 14th April, 1925.

WHEREAS The Presbyterian Church in Canada, The Methodist Church and The Congregational Churches of Canada have by their petition represented that they have agreed to unite and form one body or denomination of Christians under the name of "The United Church of Canada," in accordance with the terms and provisions of a basis of union agreed upon by them, and that the Parliament of Canada has passed an Act to incorporate the church to be formed by the said union under the name "The United Church of Canada," being Chapter 100 of the Statutes of 1924; and whereas the petitioners have prayed that an Act be passed by the Legislature of this Province to enact as hereinafter set forth with regard to the property, rights and powers hereinafter mentioned; and whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition.

Therefore, His Majesty, by and With the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:-

1. This Act may be cited as The United Church of Canada Act.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression-

(a) "The negotiating churches" means the churches mentioned in the preamble, and shall include also every congregation heretofore in connection or in communion with any of the negotiating churches which, prior to the coming into force of this Act, has joined with any one or more congregation or congregations of any of the other negotiating churches for purposes of worship, and every congregation affiliated with any of the negotiating churches, and every congregation ordinarily known as a local union church, whether it holds its property separately from or as a part of any of the negotiating churches, and every congregation having any representation in or connection with the General Council of local union churches.

(b) "The Basis of Union" means the Basis of Union set forth in Schedule "A" to the said Act of the Parliament of Canada.

(c) "Congregation" means any local church, charge, circuit, congregation, preaching station or other local unit for purposes of worship in connection or in communion with any of the negotiating churches or of The United Church of Canada.

(d) "College" means any college, school or other educational institution, incorporated or unincorporated, under the government or control of, or in connection with, any of the negotiating churches, or established or maintained in whole or in part by any of them, and shall include the colleges and institutions set out in Schedule "B" to this Act.

(e) "The Presbyterian Church in Canada" shall include the Board of Trustees of the Presbyterian Church in Canada; The Church and Manse Board of The Presbyterian Church in Canada; The Board for the management of the Temporalities Fund of The Presbyterian Church of Canada; and all Presbyterian congregations separately incorporated under any statute and all congregations heretofore and now connected or in communion with The Presbyterian Church in Canada whether the same shall have been organized under the provisions of any statute or deed of trust or act of incorporation or as union or as joint stock churches or otherwise howsoever.

(f) "The Methodist Church" shall include the body corporate known as The Methodist Church and all bodies corporate established or created by The Methodist Church or any conference thereof under the provisions of any statute, and The Methodist Union of Toronto, and all Methodist congregations separately incorporated under any statute.

(g) "The Congregational Churches" shall include The Congregational Union of Canada; The Canada Congregational Missionary Society; The Canada Congregational Foreign Missionary Society; The Congregational Provident Fund Society; and all congregations of the Congregational denomination which are represented by The Congregational Union of Canada for the purposes of this legislation, whether the same or separately incorporated under any statute or have been organized under the provisions of any statute or deed of trust, or as union or joint stock churches or otherwise howsoever.

(h) "The United Church" means The United Church of Canada.

(i) "The Act of Incorporation" means the said Act of the Parliament of Canada, as it was assented to on the 19th day of July, 1924.

(j) Where the context admits thereof the word "property" shall include any debt and any thing in action and any right or interest.

3. Save as hereinafter provided, all property, real and personal, within this Province, belonging to or held in trust for or to the use of The Presbyterian Church in Canada, The Methodist Church, and The Congregational Churches, or belonging to or held in trust for or to the use of any corporation, board, committee or other body, whether incorporated or unincorporated, created by or under the government or control of, or in connection with, any of the said churches. shall upon the coming into force of this Act be vested in The United Church, to be held, used and administered, subject to the provisions of this Act, in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Basis of Union.

4. Subject to the provisions of section 6 hereof, all property, real and personal, within this Province, belonging to or held by or in trust for or to the use of any Congregation of any of the negotiating churches, shall from and after the coming into force of this Act be held, used and administered for the benefit of the same congregation as a part of The United Church in the manner and upon the trusts and subject to the terms and provisions set forth in Schedule "A" to this Act and all property, real and personal, within this Province, thereafter acquired for or belonging to or held by or in trust for or to the use of any congregation of The United Church shall be held, used and administered for the benefit of the said congregation as a part of The United Church upon the said trusts and subject to the said terms and provisions. Provided that any property, real or personal, held at the time of the coming into force of this Act or thereafter acquired by devise, bequest, transfer or gift, in trust for any special use of any congregation, shall be held, used and administered in accordance with the special trusts so declared in thereof, not being contrary to law or to any by-law, rule or regulation of The United Church, and that in the event of failure or partial failure of any of the said trusts, the said property, in the absence of any express provision for such event, may be held, used, administered or disposed of as may be provided by any by-law, rule or regulation made from time to time by The United Church.

5. In any deed, conveyance or transfer to trustees upon the trusts set forth in said Schedule "A," the form of words contained in Column I of said Schedule "A" and distinguished by any number therein, shall have the same effect as if it contained the form of words in Column 2 of said Schedule "A," distinguished by the same number as is annexed to the form of words used in such deed, conveyance or transfer, but it shall not be necessary in any such deed, conveyance or transfer to insert any such number.

6. Any real or personal property belonging to or held by or in trust for or to the use of any congregation, whether a congregation of the negotiating churches or a congregation received into The United Church after the coming into force of this Act, solely for its own benefit, and in which the denomination to which such congregation belongs has no right or interest, reversionary or otherwise, shall not be subject to the provisions of section 4 hereof or to the control of The United Church, unless and until any such congregation at a meeting thereof regularly called for the purpose shall consent that such provisions shall apply to any such property or a specified part thereof.

7. All trustees acting in any trust for or to the use of any congregation as first referred to in section 4 hereof shall, notwithstanding any irregularity in their appointment, and notwithstanding that their number shall not correspond with the number named in the deed of conveyance of the property subject to such trusts, or any of them, be deemed to be and shall be the trustees of the said properties respectively, and shall henceforth hold the same upon and subject to the trusts set out in Schedule "A" to this Act.

8.-(a) Provided always that if any congregation in connection or communion with any of the negotiating churches shall, at a meeting of the congregation regularly called and held before the 10th day of June, 1925, decide by a majority of votes of the persons present at such meeting and entitled to vote thereat not to enter the said union of the said churches, then and in such case the property, real and personal, belonging or held in trust for or to the use of or for the benefit of such non-concurring congregation shall remain unaffected by this Act, except that any church formed by non- concurring congregations of the respective negotiating churches into which such congregation enters shall stand in the place of the respective negotiating churches in respect of any such trusts relating to such property, and except that in respect of any such congregation which does not enter any church so formed such property shall be held by the existing trustees or other trustees elected by the congregation free from any trust or reversion in favour of the respective negotiating churches and free from any control thereof or connection therewith. In the case of non-concurring congregations of The Presbyterian Church in Canada, their property on and after June 10th, 1925, shall stand in the same relation to the church to be formed by such non-concurring Congregations as it stood to the Presbyterian Church in Canada before the passage of this Act. The vote herein provided for shall be taken by ballot in such form and manner and at such time within the limit prescribed by this subsection as the congregation may decide: Provided that not less than two weeks shall be allowed for the taking of said vote by ballot as aforesaid. The said meeting may be adjourned for the purpose of said ballot being taken, but not for a longer period than thirty days.

(b) Subject to the provisions of clause (f) of this section, any vote on the question of entering the said union taken in a congregation prior to the coming into form of this Act in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Incorporation shall be deemed to be the vote of such congregation for the purposes of this section.

(c) The persons entitled to vote. under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall be those persons who were in full membership and whose names were on the roll of the church on the 19th day of July, 1924, or who by the constitution of the congregation, if so provided, or by the practice of the Church with which they are connected, would have been entitled to vote at a meeting of the congregation on matters affecting the disposal of property, on the 19th day of July, 1924.

(d) A meeting of the congregation for the purpose aforesaid may be called by the authority of the session or official board of its own motion and shall be called by the session or official board on requisition to the session or official board in writing of ten members entitled to vote under the provisions of this section in a congregation of one hundred members or less; or twenty-five such members in congregations having over one hundred and not more than five hundred members; and fifty members in congregations of over five hundred and not more than one thousand members; and one hundred such members m congregations of over one thousand members.
Such meeting shall be called by public notice read before the congregation at each diet of worship on two successive Lord's Days on which public service is held and such notice shall specify the object of the meeting. Provided further that such meeting shall be held within thirty days of the receipt. of the requisition by the clerk of sessions or recording steward of the official board, or in case of any congregation not having a session or official board, by the ordained minister recognized as in charge thereof by presbytery or district meeting.

(e) "Congregation" in this section means a local church as mentioned in The Basis of Union.

(f) Any action or other proceeding brought prior to the 10th day of June, 1925, and questioning the validity or effect of any vote taken under the provisions of the Act of Incorporation or of this Act may be proceeded with and finally adjudicated upon in all respects as though this Act had not been passed.

9. -(a) William H. Wardrope of the City of Hamilton, King's Counsel, as representative of The United Church, Richard S. Cassels of the City of Toronto, King's Counsel, as representative of the non-concurring congregations of The Presbyterian Church in Canada hereinafter in this section called "the non-concurring congregations," and John D. Falconbridge of the City of Toronto, King's Counsel and Principal of the Osgoode Hall Law School, are hereby appointed as and shall be a commission for the purposes set out in this section and shall be known as "The Ontario Church Property Commission" hereinafter called "the Commission."

(b) The said John D. Falconbridge shall be the Chairman of the Commission and any two members thereof shall constitute a quorum.

(c) The Commission may appoint a Secretary and engage such clerical and other assistance as it may deem proper and their remuneration together with the expenses of the Commission shall be paid one-half by The United Church and one-half by the non-concurring congregations.

(d) The United Church and the non-concurring congregations may each pay its or their representative such remuneration as it or they may deem proper and shall pay to the Chairman of the Commission in equal shares an honorarium of $3,000.

(e) In case of a vacancy in the office of either of the said representatives his successor shall be appointed by The United Church or by the non-concurring congregations as the case may be, and in case of a vacancy in the office of chairman, the two representatives may appoint his successor and in case they do not appoint a successor within ten days after the vacancy occurs the Chief Justice of Ontario shall on the application of either of the representatives appoint some other person as chairman.

(f) Where there are two or more congregations of the same parent church situate in the same community or locality, but not including a city having a population in excess of 50,000 according to the last Dominion census, and each of them has voted to enter The United Church or each of them has voted not to enter The United Church, as the case may be, and the Commission finds on an application being made to it as hereinafter provided that there is no other church building in the community or locality where the minority of such congregations might reasonably be expected to attend and that such minority is large enough to constitute a separate congregation, then the Commission may determine and order that one of such church buildings shall belong to and be vested in trustees or otherwise set apart for the use and benefit of such minority as a congregation upon and subject to such terms and conditions as the Commission may deem proper and if there is any manse, burying ground or glebe land used by or in connection with either or any of such congregations, the Commission may make such order with respect thereto as it may deem proper.

(g) Where any property is held by or in trust for or to the use of two or more congregations of the same parent church for any common purpose and one or more of such congregations has voted to enter The United Church, and one or more not to enter The United Church, the Commission may apportion or otherwise deal with such property so as to render substantial justice having regard to all the equities and may make such order with respect thereto as it may deem proper.

(h) Where complaint is made to the Commission that irregularities have occurred in the vote taken under the Act of Incorporation or under this Act, or in the declaration of the result of the vote, the Commission may inquire as to such irregularities and may declare the result of such vote in so far as it affects congregational property and such declaration shall be final and binding and shall not be open to question in any court.

(i) Applications to the Commission for the purposes of this section may be made within three months after the 10th day of June, 1925, and shall be determined and disposed of by the Commission within nine months after the expiration of the time for making applications and no proceeding shall be taken in any court to direct, prohibit or interfere with the consideration and determination by the Commission of any such application.

(j) The Commission for the purposes of this section shall have all the powers which may be conferred on a Commissioner appointed under the provisions of The Public Inquiries Act.

(k) Any order of the Commission shall be final and binding and without appeal and shall not be open to question in any court.

(1) Any order of the Commission purporting to vest or transfer any property shall have the effect of vesting the same as therein provided for any estate, right, title or interest in such property of the congregations or churches affected, and in so far as it affects land may be registered in the proper Registry Office or Land Titles Office.

(m) A copy certified under the hand of the chairman of any order of the Commission may be filed in the office of the Senior Registrar or Local Registrar of the Supreme Court, as the case may be, and shall thereupon become and be enforceable as a judgment or order of the Supreme Court to the same effect.

10. Where representations are made to the Commission by or on behalf of the minority members of any congregation that as a result of the vote they are left in a position of extreme hardship and a request is made of the Commission to use its good offices in an endeavour to remedy such hardship, the Commission may in an advisory capacity inquire into the matter and make such recommendations and suggest such adjustments and plans the adoption of which would in the opinion of the Commission provide a remedy for such hardship.

11. Subject to the provisions of section 9 of this Act,-

(a) Any commission appointed as provided by the Act of Incorporation shall have and may exercise within this Province all powers, rights and privileges conferred or intended to be conferred upon it by the Act of Incorporation, and any determination, decision, order or direction made or given by any such commission pursuant to the said Act of Incorporation shall have full force and effect with respect to any property or civil rights within this Province affected thereby.

(b) Any determination, decision or order made by such commission may be made a rule, order or decree of the Supreme Court of this Province, and shall be enforced in like manner as any rule, order or decree of such Court. To make such determination, decision or order a rule, order or decree of such Court the usual practice and procedure of the Court in such matters may be followed, and a copy of any such determination, decision or order, certified under the hand of the chairman or acting chairman of the commission, and verified by affidavit or statutory declaration of a witness thereto, shall be sufficient evidence of the due making and validity of any such determination, decision or order.

(c) The provisions of sections 13, 16 and 17 shall not apply to any college or property allocated to non-concurring congregations after the date of such allocation.

12.-(a) All property belonging to or held by or in trust for or to the use of any congregation of the negotiating churches henceforth to be held, used and administered for the benefit of the same congregation as a part of The United Church, shall remain liable for the payment or satisfaction of any debts or obligations contracted or incurred in respect thereto to the same extent as it would have been liable had this Act not been passed, but The United Church shall not be or become liable for any of said debts or obligations and, save as aforesaid, no property of The United Church shall be liable for any debts or obligations contracted or incurred by any congregation in connection or in communion with any of the negotiating churches.

(b) Upon the vesting of the property of the negotiating churches or of any corporation, board, committee or other body, whether incorporated or unincorporated, created by or under the government or control of or connected with any of the negotiating churches, pursuant to the provisions of section 3 hereof, The United Church shall become liable for all their respective debts and obligations, provided, however, that this subsection shall not be deemed to include or apply to any of the property first mentioned in the next preceding subsection.

13. The provisions of section 3 hereof shall not apply to any property, real or personal, belonging to or held in trust for or to the use of any college named in Schedule "B" to this Act, or belonging to or held by or vested in any board of trustees, board of directors, board of governors, regents, or other board or committee or body having the control or management of the property or affairs of any college named in said Schedule "B". From and after the coming into force of this Act the colleges named in said Schedule "B" and all such boards, regents or other committees or bodies as aforesaid shall have the same connection with and stand in the same relation to The United Church as they respectively had and stood with and to any of the negotiating churches immediately prior to the passing of the Act of Incorporation, and all rights, powers, authorities and privileges in respect of the said colleges, or any of them, of or vested in any assembly, conference, synod, presbytery, council or other governing body of any of the negotiating churches or any officer or board thereof, shall be vested in the General Council of The United Church provided that the general council may declare that the said rights, powers, authorities and privileges, or any of them, shall be vested in a conference, presbytery or other governing body of The United Church, or otherwise, as it may deem expedient, and from and after such declaration such rights, powers, authorities and privileges, or any of them, shall vest in accordance with the terms of such declaration. In all cases where a college corporation consists of the ministers and members, or the members, or any officers of any of the negotiating churches, or of any governing body thereof (whether with or without named persons), such corporation shall, after the coming into force of this Act, consist of the ministers and members of The United Church. All rights, powers, authorities and privileges in respect of the said colleges vested in any congregation in connection or in communion with any of the negotiating churches, or in any minister and congregation thereof, shall continue to be held and exercised by the said congregation or by the said minister and congregation in connection with The United Church. Nothing in this section contained shall be construed so as in anywise to repeal, alter, affect or vary any existing legislation of this Province relating to any of the said colleges except in so far as may be necessary to give full force and effect to the provisions of the Act of Incorporation and of this Act.

14. Notwithstanding anything in this Act contained,-

(a) The estate, right, title and interest of the Corporation of Knox College in the lands and buildings of Knox College described in Schedule "C" hereto and the contents thereof owned by the Corporation of Knox College save and except the lands and buildings and contents referred to in subsection (g) of this section shall on the 10th day of June, 1925, be vested in James Turnbull of the City of Toronto, Gentleman; Thomas McMillan of the City of Toronto, Wholesale Merchant; and C. S. McDonald of the Town of Brampton, Gentleman, as trustees for the church of the non-concurring congregations of The Presbyterian Church in Canada and thereupon such congregations shall be debited and charged with the value of such property in any apportionment or allocation made by the Commission appointed as provided by the Act of Incorporation, hereinafter in this section called "the Dominion Commission."

(b) For a period of not move than three years from the 10th day of June, 1925, The United Church shall be entitled to joint occupation of the lands, buildings and contents of Knox College as mentioned in the next preceding subsection for carrying on the educational work of such church, including the equal use of the accommodation available for the staff and for the teaching, housing, victualling, recreation and entertainment of students, but the housing accommodation for students in the Principal's residence hereinafter referred to shall be counted as part of the share of the accommodation of The United Church.

(c) During any such period of joint occupation, the whole income or revenue from the general endowment funds of Knox College shall be paid to the said trustees and used and applied by them to the maintenance and up-keep of the said lands, buildings and contents of Knox College. If The United Church does not enter into joint occupancy prior to the time of an apportionment or allocation of the said funds by the Dominion Commission or withdraws therefrom prior to the said apportionment or allocation, then until such apportionment or allocation has been made one-half of the said income or revenue shall be paid to The United Church for the time during which such right of joint occupation is not exercised and the other half shall be paid to the said trustees and used and applied by them to the said maintenance and up-keep.

(d) All portraits, pictures and engravings in the college shall be the property of the church of the non-concurring congregations and The United Church shall be entitled to copies of as many of them as it may desire on payment of onehalf of the expense of making such copies.

(e) The books and contents now forming the library of Knox College together with the Library Endowment Fund shall on the 10th day of June, 1925, be vested in trustees for both churches. The said trustees shall administer the said library and the stack-rooms, shipping room, cataloguing-room, librarian's office and reading-room used in connection therewith, and all ministers, members and students of both churches shall have the right of access thereto under regulations to be made by the trustees. The maintenance and up-keep of the said library over and above the amount of the income or revenue from the Library Endowment Fund and the salaries of the librarian and his assistants shall be at the joint expense of both churches and the maintenance and up-keep, including heating and lighting, of that portion of the building containing the said library, stack-rooms, shipping room, cataloguing-room, librarian's office and reading- room shall be at the expense of the church of the non-concurring congregations. The trustees shall be three in number, one of whom shall be appointed by The United Church, one by the church of the non-concurring congregations and the third by the two so appointed, and if any or all of such trustees have not been appointed before the 30th day of June, 1925, then such trustee or trustees shall be appointed by the Chief Justice of Ontario on the application of either of such churches on notice to the other. In case of a vacancy in the office of either the trustee appointed by The United Church or the trustee appointed by the church of the non-concurring congregations, his successor shall be appointed by The United Church or the church of the non-concurring congregations, as the case may be. In case of a vacancy in the office of the third trustee, his successor shall be appointed by the two other trustees and in case they do not appoint a successor within ten days after such vacancy occurs, then the appointment shall be made by the Chief Justice of Ontario on the application of either of such churches on notice to the other.

(f) If any dispute arises as to any matter covered by subsections (b), (c) and (d) of this section, the same shall be decided by the Ontario Railway and Municipal Board on an application made to such Board and any decision of such Board made as to the matter in dispute shall be final and binding and without appeal and shall not be open to question in any court.

(g) The estate, right, title and interest of Knox College in the lands and buildings described in Schedule "D" hereto commonly known as the Principal's residence or the North House and the contents thereof owned by Knox College, shall on the 10th day of June, 1925, be vested in The United Church which shall thereupon be debited and charged with the value of such property in any apportionment or allocation made by the Dominion Commission.

(h) In case it is proposed at any time in the future to sell the said Principal's residence or the North House as described in the next preceding subsection, the church of the non-concurring congregations shall have the first right or option to purchase it at a price and on terms to be agreed upon, or in case of failure to agree at a price and on terms to be fixed and determined by the Ontario Railway and Municipal Board on an application made for that purpose and any order or decision of the Board fixing the price and terms shall be final and binding and without appeal and shall not be open to question in any court.

15. Notwithstanding anything in this Act contained, in the event of Queen's Theological College ceasing to carry on its work in the city of Kingston, any church or non-concurring congregations to which a Commission appointed under section 11 of The Act of Incorporation may allocate Queen's Theological College, shall not be in any better position than The Presbyterian Church in Canada would have been in such event with respect to the two hundred thousand dollars referred to in section 21 of chapter 138 of the Statutes of Canada, 1912.

16. Notwithstanding anything contained in any Act of the Parliament of Canada or of the Legislature of this Province, or in any Act, by-law, rule, regulation, declaration or other proceeding of any of the negotiating churches, or of any governing or subordinate court or body of any of them, or in the constitution, by-laws, rules or regulations of or in relation to any of the said colleges, respecting the principles, doctrines or religious standards to be taught and maintained in any such college, from and after the coming into force of this Act the colleges shall, in respect of the principles, doctrines and religious standards to be taught and maintained therein, be subject to the direction and control of the General Council of The United Church and the teaching or maintenance hereafter in any of the colleges of the principles, doctrines or religious standards set out in the Basis of Union or hereafter determined or prescribed from time to time by the General Council of The United Church in accordance with the Act of Incorporation shall not be deemed to be a change of adherence on the part of any such college or a change of its principles or doctrines or religious standards or a breach of the provisions of any statute, act, by-law, rule, regulation, declaration or other proceeding, or constitution, and shall not be deemed to be a breach of any trust, relating to property devised, bequeathed, given to or otherwise acquired by or for the benefit of any such college with respect to the teaching or maintenance of any principles, doctrines or standards in any of the said colleges, but shall be deemed to be in compliance with and a performance of any such provisions or trusts.

17. Where, prior to the coming into force of this Act. any existing trust has been created or declared in any manner whatsoever for any special purpose or object having regard to the teaching, preaching or maintenance of any principles, doctrines or religious standards, or the support, assistance, or maintenance of any congregation or minister or charity, or for the furtherance of any religious, charitable, educational, congregational or social purpose, in connection with any of the negotiating churches, such trust shall continue to exist and to be performed as nearly as may be for the like purposes or objects in connection with The United Church as The United Church may determine, and anything done in pursuance of the Act of Incorporation or of this Act shall not be deemed to be a breach of any such trust, but shall be deemed to be in compliance therewith and a performance thereof, and the entry of any congregation into The United Church shall not be deemed a change of its adherence or principles or doctrines or religious standards within the meaning of any such trust.

18.-(a) The United Church may by resolution of the General Council establish boards or committees of its members to hold, manage, deal with, dispose of or otherwise administer any of its property, funds, trusts, interests, institutions and religious or charitable schemes now or hereafter owned, founded or established, define and prescribe the constitution, powers, duties, officers and quorum of any such board or committee, and delegate to any of them such powers as it may deem expedient.

(b) Whenever it is deemed expedient to establish as a body corporate any board, committee or other body for any of the purposes of The United Church relating to property or civil rights in this Province, The United Church may establish by resolution of the General Council, or may authorize and empower any conference to establish by resolution of such conference, any such boards, committees or other bodies, including city mission boards and church extension boards, in accordance with the by-laws, rules and regulations of The United Church in that behalf, and if any such resolution declares such board, committee or other body to be a body corporate then, upon the filing of the certificate or certificates in this section hereinafter mentioned, the same shall be and become a body corporate with such membership, organization, powers, rights and duties not contrary to law or inconsistent with the Act of Incorporation as may be defined from time to time by the General Council, or such conference, as the case may be, including the acquiring, holding, administering and disposing of all property, real or personal (but when established by resolution of a conference then only within the bounds of such conference), which may be devised, bequeathed, granted or conveyed to any such board, committee or other body for the purposes of The United Church, and the borrowing of any money necessary in the opinion of such board, committee or body for the purposes thereof, and the mortgaging, hypothecating or pledging of so much of the real or personal property held by any such board, committee or body as may be necessary to secure any amount so borrowed. In case such board, committee or other body is established by resolution of the General Council, the General Council shall file a certified copy of such resolution under the hand of its presiding officer and its secretary or clerk with the Secretary of State for Canada, and in case such board, committee or other body is established by resolution of any conference the bounds of which are wholly or partly within this Province, such conference shall file a certified copy of such resolution under the hand of its presiding officer and its secretary or clerk with the Provincial Secretary. A certificate under the official seal of the General Council, or of the conference by which any such board, committee or body is established, as the case may be, signed by its secretary or clerk shall be sufficient evidence in all Courts of the establishment of such board, committee or body and of its constitution and powers.

19. The United Church shall have power to acquire by purchase, lease, gift, devise or bequest any real or personal property in this Province, or any estate or interest therein, either absolutely or in trust, and subject to the provisions of sections 4 and 6 of this Act, to sell, transfer, exchange, mortgage, hypothecate, lease or otherwise dispose of the same or any part thereof, and to give, grant, convey, lease or otherwise alienate any property, real or personal, in this Province to any other church or religious body or organization, or to any board, committee, trustees or governing body thereof as it may deem expedient in pursuance of any agreement or understanding with such church or religious body or organization for the purpose of co-operation in the prosecution of religious work. Provided always that no land at any time acquired by The United Church, and not required for its actual use and occupation, or by way of security for the payment of any loan, debt or guarantee, shall be held by it, or by any trustee on its behalf, for a longer period than ten years after it shall have ceased to be so required, but this proviso shall not be deemed in anywise to vary or otherwise affect any trust relating to such property.

20. The United Church may exercise the powers conferred by the next preceding section of this Act, or any of them, by and through such boards, committees or other bodies as the General Council or any conference or any presbytery acting within their respective jurisdiction under the provisions of the Basis of Union may from time to time establish or appoint and may determine the method of appointment or election thereof and may define and prescribe the constitution, powers, duties, officers and quorum of such boards, committees or other bodies.

21. The United Church and all boards, committees or other bodies established, appointed or created by it pursuant to the provisions of the Act of Incorporation, or of this Act, shall have and may exercise within this Province all rights, powers and privileges conferred or intended to be conferred upon it or them by such Acts or either of them.

22. The provision in the Basis of Union that the approval of the conference in which property is situated is required to enable the General Council to legislate in respect thereof shall be deemed to apply only to such property as belongs to or is held in trust for or to the use of a congregation or as belongs to or is held in trust for or is set apart for or used for the purposes of such conference.

23. The United Church, and any board or committee thereof or appointed thereby or by any conference thereof, having charge of any of the funds or property of The United Church, and the trustees of any congregation of The United Church in this Province, provided that such trustees first obtain the consent in writing of the presbytery within the bounds of which the lands of such congregation are situate, may issue debentures in such denominations and upon such terms as it or they may deem expedient, under the hand or hands of such officer or officers as may be thereto authorized and the seal (if any) of such United Church, board, committee or trustees issuing the same, for any money borrowed under the authority of this Act, and the payment of such debentures and the interest thereon may be secured by mortgage in favour of a trustee or trustees for the holders of such debentures upon any real estate in this Province under the control of The United Church or of such board or committee thereof or of the trustees of such congregation.

24.-(a) When any Master of Titles or Local Master of Titles in this Province is satisfied by any evidence he may require that any real property standing in the name of any individual or individuals, whether such persons or any of them be deceased or not, actually belongs to or is held in trust for or to the use of any congregation upon the trusts mentioned in sections 4 and 8 of this Act, he may cancel the entry in the register of such individual or individuals as owners and may enter the names of the then trustees of such congregation as owners to hold the same in accordance with the provisions of the said sections. A certificate of the secretary or clerk of the presbytery within the bounds of which such property together with an affidavit of the minister in charge of such congregation to the effect that such property belongs to or is held in trust for or to the use of such congregation, shall be accepted by such Master of Titles or Local Master of Titles as prima facie evidence NO proof shall be required of the handwriting or official position of any person certifying pursuant to the provisions of this section.

(b) All deeds, transfers, mortgages, lease or other assurances of any land in this Province heretofore or hereafter executed and purporting to be signed by the trustees of any congregation in section 4 mentioned, or a majority of them, shall be in all Courts in this Province, and in all registry offices and in all land titles offices of this Province, deemed sufficiently executed to pass or grant or mortgage or lease (as the case may be) the estate or interest thereby purported to be passed, granted, mortgaged or leased; Provided that the minister in charge of such congregation shall by affidavit certify that the persons executing such instruments were at the date thereof all of the trustees for said congregation or a majority of them, and in the absence or want of appointment or inability to act of any minister, such certificate may with like effect be granted by the presiding officer, secretary or clerk of the presbytery within the bounds of which the said lands are situate. The signature of the said minister or presiding officer or secretary or clerk shall be duly witnessed and verified by affidavit in the same manner as by The Registry Act or The Land Titles Act as the case may be; Provided further that nothing in this section contained shall be construed to dispense with the consent of the presbytery or conference, as the case may be, required by any term or provision set forth in Schedule "A" to this Act with respect to any sale, mortgage, lease or exchange of lands by such trustees.

(c) In registering any instrument under The Registry Act which sets out or refers to the trusts contained in Schedule "A" to this Act, it shall not be necessary to register the said trusts in full but the registrar shall enter a note or memorandum upon the record of title of each lot or parcel of land affected thereby, giving the title and chapter of the Act of Incorporation and of this Act and the respective dates of the passing thereof and stating that such land is subject to the trusts thereby created.

(d) If the lands affected by the said are registered under The Land Titles Act, it shall not be necessary to set out the said trusts in any transfer or in the register of said lands, provided however that the Master of Titles or Local Master of Titles shall, upon receiving notice from the presiding officer, secretary or clerk of the presbytery within the bounds of which the said lands may be situate that such lands are affected by this Act, enter a note or memorandum upon such register giving the title and chapter of the Act of Incorporation and of this Act and the respective dates of the passing thereof upon the record of title of each lot and parcel of land affected thereby and stating that such lands are subject to the said trusts.

25. The provisions of any general Act respecting the property of religious societies, congregations, or institutions in force in this Province, shall, when not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be construed as supplementary thereto.

26. The power conferred upon The United Church by the Act of Incorporation or by this Act to acquire by gift, devise or bequest any real or personal property shall not be limited or affected by any Statute or Statutes of Mortmain in force in this Province.

27. Every duly ordained or appointed minister or clergyman of The United Church, and every minister or clergyman, whether in charge of a congregation or not, including every such Person who has been superannuated by or placed on the superannuation list of, or is a retired minister or clergyman in good standing of, any of the negotiating churches, duly ordained or appointed according to the rites and ceremonies of any of the negotiating churches or by the rules thereof deemed and recognized as duly ordained or appointed by virtue of any prior ordination, whether he becomes a member of The United Church or not shall have the right to solemnize marriage in this Province.

28. All acts or things done by or under the authority of the General Council of The United Church at the first meeting thereof held pursuant to the Act of Incorporation, or any adjournment of such meeting, shall, within this Province, be valid and binding to the extent provided in the Act of Incorporation.

29. So far as the Legislature of this Province has power to enact, and notwithstanding anything in the Act of Incorporation or in this Act contained.

(a) The General Assembly of The Presbyterian Church in Canada, the General Conference of The Methodist Church and The Congregational Union of Canada shall continue to have, exercise and enjoy all their respective powers rights, authorities and privileges in the same manner and to the same extent as if this Act had not been passed, until the first meeting of the General Council.

(b) All synods and presbyteries of The Presbyterian Church in Canada, all conferences and district meetings of The Methodist Church and all associations of The Congregational Churches of Canada and all other courts or governing bodies of any of the negotiating churches shall save as to non-concurring congregations, continue to have and enjoy all or any of their respective powers, rights, authorities and privileges in the same manner and to the same extent as if this Act had not been passed until such time or times as The United Church, by its General Council, shall declare that the said powers, rights, authorities and privileges, or any of them, shall cease and determine.

(c) Every corporation, board, committee and other body, whether incorporated or unincorporated, created by or under the government or control of or in connection with any of the negotiating churches shall continue to have, exercise and enjoy all their respective powers, rights, authorities and privileges in the same manner and to the same extent as if this Act had not been passed, until such time or times as The United Church, by its General Council, or otherwise, shall declare that the said powers, rights, authorities and privileges, or any of them shall cease and determine or be modified or altered as set out in such declaration and thereupon such powers, rights, authorities and privileges, or any of them, shall cease or determine or be modified or altered, as the case may be, in accordance with the terms of such declaration or declarations from time to time made.

(d) The provisions of the preceding subsections of this section shall not apply to congregations that have voted not to go into union or to the non-concurring congregations of The Presbyterian Church in Canada.

30. All resolutions passed by the General Council shall have the force and effect of by-laws, and no formal by-law shall be required for the purpose of managing the affairs of The United Church.

31. All copies of The Basis of Union and of any by-laws, resolutions, rules or regulations in this Act referred to, or of any amendment or alteration thereof purporting to be published under the direction or authority of the General Council of The United Church, or a copy of any by-law, resolution, rule or regulation of the General Council purporting to be under the seal of The United Church and to be signed by the secretary, shall be prima facie evidence in all Courts of the contents thereof without proof of the authenticity of such seal or signature.

32. The records, papers and other documents of any congregation, session, synod, presbytery, general assembly or any church court or any association or society in communion or connection with The Presbyterian Church in Canada shall be open to inspection by any authorized officer of the church of the non-concurring congregations or by any person or officer of any association or society in connection therewith who may make copies of such records, papers or other documents.

33. So far as the Legislature of this Province has power to enact, the Basis of Union is hereby ratified and confirmed as such, and in so far as the terms and provisions thereof relating to polity and administration are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, they shall have the same force and effect as if expressly set out herein.

34. All Acts and portions of Acts of the Legislature of this Province inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed in so far as may be necessary to give full effect to this Act.

35. This Act shall come into force on the 10th day of June, 1925, except the provisions required to permit the vote provided for in section 8 being taken, which shall come into force when this Act receives the Royal Assent.
SCHEDULE A

TRUSTS OF MODEL DEED

And it is hereby declared that the said Trustees and their successors or the Trustee or Trustees for the time being acting in the trusts herein shall hold the said lands upon the following trusts:-

COLUMN ONE. | COLUMN TWO.
1. Upon trust to use the trust property for purposes directed by congregation and maintenance of public worship. | 1. For the use and benefit of the said church, charge, circuit, preaching station or congregation, as the case may be (hereinafter called the congregation), as a part of The United Church of Canada, as well for the site of a church, chapel, meeting house, school, manse, parsonage or minister's dwelling or other place for religious, charitable, educational, congregational or social purposes, glebe or burial ground, as the said congregation may direct, as for the support and maintenance of public worship, and the propagation of Christian knowledge, according to the doctrine, discipline, by-laws, rules and regulations of The United Church of Canada.
2. To erect and repair buildings. | 2. And upon further trust, out of all moneys received by them for that purpose, to build, erect, add to, alter, repair, enlarge or rebuild any of the buildings aforesaid from time to time as they may deem expedient, and where they deem it necessary, to take down and remove any of said buildings for any of the purposes aforesaid.
3. To obey all lawful orders and directions. | 3. And upon further trust, that they shall and will obey, perform and fulfil and suffer to be obeyed, performed and fulfilled with respect to the said lands, and to any building or buildings at any time thereon, or to any burial ground, the lawful orders and directions respectively of the Official Board of the said congregation, the Presbytery and Conference respectively within whose bounds and under whose ecclesiastical jurisdiction the said congregation shall from time to time be, and of the General Council of The United Church of Canada.
4. To permit use of the trust property for church, manse and Sunday-school purposes. | 4. And upon further trust, to permit, in conformity with the doctrines, discipline, by-laws, rules and regulations of The United Church of Canada and not otherwise the following:- (a) The use of the said church, chapel or meeting house, as a place of religious worship by a congregation of The United Church of Canada and for meetings or services of religious or spiritual character or such benevolent or congregational purposes as may be approved by the Session of such congregation, and the conduct of public worship and the various services and ordinances of religious worship therein by the minister of the said congregation or, with the approval of the Session or of the said minister, by any other minister of The United Church of Canada or by any minister of any other religious denomination; (b) The performance of burial services in any burial ground or cemetery belonging to or under the control of the congregation; (c) The use of the manse, parsonage or minister's dwelling or dwellings with the appurtenances thereof by the minister or ministers of the congregation free from payment of any rent; (d) The use of any church, chapel, meeting house, school or other building for the purposes of a Sunday school at such hours and times as will not interfere with public worship, and (e) The use of any buildings erected upon the said lands, other than a church, chapel or meeting-house, or such purposes as may from time to time be approved by the Session of the congregation.
5. To let and sell pews and burial plots and to let manses. | 5. And upon further trust, to let any pews and seats at a reasonable rent, if so authorised by the Official Board of the congregation, with power to delegate any such letting to any person or persons whom they may appoint for that purpose; to let any buildings, not required for purposes of worship, at a reasonable rent; and if there shall be a burial ground or cemetery, to sell or let vaults, tombs or burial plots at a reasonable price or rent; and to account for and pay all moneys received in respect of any such letting or sale, less any expense incurred in the execution of these trusts, to the Treasurer of the congregation, or should there be no Treasurer, then to the Committee of Stewards of the congregation, or such person as shall be designated by the said Committee for the purpose of receiving the same. In case the Trustees are of opinion that any manse, parsonage or minister's dwelling is not required for the use of the minister or ministers of the congregation, or is not desirable for the use of such minister or ministers, they may, with the consent in writing of said minister or ministers, let the same and use and apply the rent derived therefrom towards paying the board and lodging of such minister or ministers or the rent for a more suitable and convenient residence for such minister or ministers.
6. The trustees shall have power to sell, mortgage, exchange or lease the trust property with the consent of the Presbytery. | 6. The Trustees or a majority of them may, but only with the consent in writing of the Presbytery within the bounds of which the lands are situate, (such consent to be under the hand of the presiding officer or secretary or clerk thereof) sell the said lands and any part thereof either by public sale or private contract and either for cash or upon credit and upon such terms as to price and for such price and upon such terms as to payment or otherwise as they may deem expedient; mortgage, hypothecate or exchange the said lands or any part thereof; let any church, chapel or meeting-house upon the same for such rent and upon such terms as they may deem expedient; and make all such conveyances, mortgages, leases and assurances as may be required to complete any such sale, mortgage, hypothecation, exchange or lease. The said Trustees after first paying or otherwise providing for all indebtedness of the Trustees shall apply the moneys arising from such sale, mortgage, hypothecation, lease or exchange for the purposes of such congregation as the Official Board thereof shall direct, but should such congregation cease to exist as an organised body, such proceeds, less any expense incurred in the execution of these trusts, shall be paid to The United Church of Canada to be applied for such purposes for the benefit of The United Church of Canada as the Conference within the bounds of which the said lands are situate may determine under the by-laws, rules and regulations of the General Council. Every application by Trustees for the consent of a Presbytery as aforesaid shall be in writing and shall state the purpose for which the moneys arising from such intended sale, mortgage, hypothecation, lease or exchange will be applied. Any decision of a Presbytery with regard to the sale, mortgage, hypothecation, lease or exchange of the said lands or any part thereof shall be subject to appeal to the Conference within the bounds of which the said lands are situate, at the instance of not fewer than any five members of the congregation affected thereby. In every case where the consent of such Presbytery or Conference has been obtained as aforesaid it shall not be incumbent upon the purchaser, mortgagee or lessee of the said lands or of any part thereof to inquire into the necessity, expediency or propriety of any such sale, mortgage, hypothecation, lease or exchange, or to see to the application of the moneys paid to the Trustees. A certificate of the secretary or clerk of any Presbytery or Conference that any such consent has been given shall be sufficient and conclusive evidence of such consent.
7. The trustees shall keep proper accounts and minutes. | 7. The said Trustees shall keep a proper book or books of account showing all moneys received and disbursed by them, and a book or books of minutes showing correctly all minutes of their meetings and of resolutions passed and proceedings taken thereat, and such book or books shall at all reasonable times be open for inspection by the minister in charge of the congregation and by the Chairman of the Committee of Stewards, and any person or persons named by them or either of them, and the said minister or the said chairman and any person named by them or either of them as aforesaid shall have the right to make such copies or abstracts of or extracts from the said accounts or minutes, as he or they may desire, and upon request from the Committee of Stewards the Trustees shall submit all books of accounts and minutes, and all vouchers, receipts, papers and documents relating to the said accounts, for audit by the Committee of Stewards, or such person or persons as the said Committee may appoint for the purpose.
8. The trustees shall have seven days' notice of all special meetings and one day's notice of other meetings. | 8. Every meeting of Trustees for considering the making of any alteration of or addition to any building on the said lands, or any part thereof, or for considering the sale, mortgage, hypothecation, lease or exchange of the said lands, or any part thereof, except the letting or sale of pews, seats, vaults, tombs or burial plots, or for considering any litigation or legal proceedings in connection with the trust estate, shall be deemed a special meeting, and each member shall be entitled to seven days' notice in writing thereof, specifying the time, place and purpose of such meeting. Such notice shall be either personally delivered to each Trustee, or mailed to or delivered to him or her at his or her usual place or abode or business. Ordinary meetings may be called at any time by giving at least one day's notice in writing to each Trustee in the manner aforesaid, or by public announcement at a service for public worship at least one day prior to such meeting. Meetings may be called by the minister in charge of the congregation, or by at least two of the Trustees. Notwithstanding anything herein contained no meeting or any business transacted thereat shall be invalid by reason of any lack or defect or service of notice arising from inability to ascertain the usual place of abode or business of any Trustee. All questions shall be determined by the majority vote of the Trustees present at a meeting, and the Chairman shall have a casting vote in the event of a tie. The minister of such congregation shall have the right to preside as Chairman at all meetings of the Trustees and may appoint a deputy to act in his place in his absence, and in the absence of the Minister and of any such deputy the Trustees present may elect a Chairman from among themselves.
9. The number of trustees shall not be fewer than three or more than fifteen, and vacancies shall be filled by election by the congregation, or in default of such election, by the Presbytery and the property of a congregation which ceases to exist shall be subject to the trusts determined by the Conference. | 9. The number of said Trustees shall not be fewer than three or more than fifteen, provided that where the number of existing Trustees is more than fifteen all such Trustees shall remain in office but that no vacancy in the office of trustee shall be filled until the number of Trustees is reduced below fifteen, in which case the number shall not again exceed fifteen. In case any of the said Trustees or any Trustee appointed under this provision shall, during his or her term of office, die, resign or, having been, cease to be a member of The United Church of Canada in full communion, or remove to such a distance, or fail to attend meetings for such period not less than one year, as shall in the opinion of his or her co-trustees, expressed by a two-thirds vote of said co-trustees, render it inexpedient for him or her to remain a Trustee, or in case the said congregation shall think proper to remove a Trustee from his or her office as Trustee, it shall be lawful for the said congregation, at any meeting called by notice from the pulpit during public worship on each of the two next preceding Sundays on which public worship is held, to declare by the votes of two-thirds of the members then present that such Trustee has ceased to be a Trustee of the said congregation, and such person shall thereupon cease to be a Trustee, and at the same meeting it shall be lawful for the said congregation by a like vote to appoint a successor to such Trustee, provided, however, that no Trustee who is personally liable for payment of any indebtedness in respect of the property of a congregation shall be removed without his consent unless indemnified to his satisfaction in respect of any such liability and unless at least eight days' notice in writing of such meeting shall have been mailed to each of the Trustees at his or her last known address, which notice shall state the business to be transacted at such meeting. If no successor shall be appointed at such meeting a meeting may be called in like manner for the purpose of filling such vacancy, and at such meeting a new Trustee or new Trustees (as the case may require) shall be appointed by the votes of the majority of the members then present. The notice calling a meeting for the purpose of declaring or filling a vacancy or vacancies in the office of Trustee shall be read from the pulpit by the minister or person officiating as minister, at the request of any Trustee, or of any seven members of the congregation, and every such meeting may be adjourned from time to time by the vote of the majority of the members present. During any vacancy in the office of Trustee, the remaining Trustees, not being fewer than three in number, shall have all the powers of the full Board. A majority of the Trustees shall form a quorum save when the number of Trustees exceed nine, in which case five shall form a quorum. The majority of the Trustees shall be members of The United Church of Canada. A minute of every such appointment of a Trustee shall be entered in a book to be kept for the purpose, and signed by the person presiding at the meeting, and such minute so signed shall be sufficient evidence of the fact that the person or persons therein named was or were appointed and elected at such meeting, but any omission or neglect to make or sign such minute shall not invalidate such appointment or election. And it is hereby further declared that in case there shall be at any time fewer than three Trustees, the presiding officer or clerk of the Presbytery within whose bounds and under whose jurisdiction the said congregation shall be, shall, with the remaining Trustee or Trustees, be the Trustees under these presents until the full Board is duly appointed, and at any time thereafter the Presbytery may cause notice to be given from the pulpit on two consecutive Sundays requiring the said congregation to proceed with the appointment of new Trustees. And if the said congregation shall not in the meantime have appointed new Trustees in the manner hereinbefore provided, it shall be lawful for the said Presbytery at any time after four weeks from the last giving of such notice, by resolution duly entered in the minutes of the Presbytery, to appoint new Trustees. Such appointment shall be communicated to the congregation by notice from the pulpit as soon as conveniently may be thereafter, and from the time of such communication the Trustee or Trustees so appointed shall be a Trustee or Trustees hereunder. And it is further declared that if at any time there shall cease to be an organised congregation entitled to the use, benefit and enjoyment of the said lands, it shall be lawful at any time or times for the said Presbytery to fill any vacancy in the number of Trustees, and the said lands shall thenceforth be held subject to such trusts and for such purposes for the benefit of The United Church of Canada as the Conference within the bounds of which the said lands are situate may determine under the by-laws, rules and regulations of the General Council.
10. Trustees shall not be liable for involuntary loss. | 10. A Trustee shall not be responsible for the failure of any investment or security made or taken by the Trustees or for anything done in connection with the trust estate except for his own acts and to account for any moneys coming into his own hands, and shall not be liable for injury done by others to the said trust premises, or to any part thereof.
| 11. In congregations existing previous to the Union which have not adopted the plan of organization prescribed for pastoral charges as provided by the Basis of Union, the words "Official Board" and "Committee of Stewards" and "Session" in this schedule shall mean such Board or Committee or other body respectively discharging similar functions in such congregations, as to which in case of doubt the opinion of the Presbytery to which such congregation belongs shall be final and conclusive.

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SCHEDULE B.

Queen's Theological College.
The Ottawa Ladies' College.

Victoria College.
Albert College.
Alma Ladies' College.
Ontario Ladies' College.

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SCHEDULE "C."

All and Singular that certain parcel or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the City of Toronto, in the County of York, and Province of Ontario, being composed of parts of Park Lots Nos. 13 and 14, in the First Concession from the Bay, in the Township of York, and now in the City of Toronto aforesaid; and which said parcel is more particularly described as follows;

Taking the easterly limit of St. George Street on a course of north sixteen degrees (16°) west, and relating all bearings herein thereto, and

Commencing at a point in the said limit of St. George Street where the same is intercepted by the line of a wooden fence leading eastward, the said point being distant Four hundred and forty-eight feet and One and a half inches (448' 1 1/2") measured northerly along the said limit from the easterly production of the southerly limit of Russell Street; Thence north seventy-three degrees and one minute (73° 1") east, along the line of the said fence, Twenty-two feet and Four inches (22' 4") to the westerly face of the northerly buttress on the westerly side of the westerly part of the building known in April, 1925, as Knox College; Thence north sixteen degrees (16°) west, along the westerly face of the said buttress, and the production of the same, in all, a distance of One foot and Nine and three-quarters inches (1' 9 3/4") to the westerly production of the northerly faces of the buttresses on the northerly side of the westerly part of the said building; Thence north seventy-three degrees and one minute (73° 1') east, along the northerly faces of the last mentioned buttresses and the productions of the same, in all, a distance of Forty-six feet and Ten and one-quarter inches (46' 10 1/4") to the northerly production of the easterly faces of the buttresses on the easterly side of the said westerly part of building; Thence south sixteen degrees (16°) east, along the last mentioned production, and along the last mentioned easterly face, in all, a distance of Two feet and Nine inches (2' 9") to the centre line of an iron fence leading eastward; Thence north seventy-two degrees and forty-seven minutes (72° 47') east, along the said centre line of fence, Fifty-two feet (52') to a point of curve; Thence northeasterly on a curve to the left having a radius of Nine feet and Six inches (9' 6"), and being still along the said centre line of fence, Fifteen feet and Four inches (15' 4") to the end of said curve; being a point distant One hundred and thirty feet and Six inches (130' 6") easterly from the said limit of St. George Street measured on a course north seventy-three degrees and one minute (73° 1') east therefrom; Thence north sixteen degrees and twelve minutes (16° 12") west, still along the centre line of fence, Thirty feet and Two inches (30' 2") to the northerly extremity of the same; Thence north fifty-four degrees and fifty-one minutes (54° l') east, Twenty- seven feet (27') more or less to the northwesterly angle of the most westerly buttress on the northerly side of the easterly part of the aforesaid building; Thence north seventy-three degrees and fifty-one minutes (73° 51') east, along the line of the northerly faces of the two most westerly buttresses on the said northerly side of the easterly part of the aforesaid building, and along the production of the same, being on a course parallel to the main north wall Seventy-nine feet and Six inches (79' 6") more or less, to a point in the easterly limit of the westerly Thirty-five feet (35') of said Park Lot No. 13, which point is Four hundred and ninety-nine feet and Five inches (499' 5") measured northerly on a course parallel to the limit between said Park Lots, from thence the easterly production of the southerly limit of Russell Street; Thence south fifteen degrees, fifty-eight minutes and thirty seconds (15° 58' 30") east, parallel to the said limit between Park Lots, and being along the easterly limit of lands covered by a certain lease registered as No. 29609 T, Two hundred and Seventy-nine feet and Ten and a half inches (279' 10 1/2") more or less, to a point distant Two hundred and nineteen feet and Six and a half inches (279' 6 1/2") measured on a course north sixteen degrees (16°) west from the said easterly production of the southerly limit of Russell Street; Thence south seventy-two degrees and twenty-nine minutes (72° 29') west, Thirty-five feet (35') more or less, to the south easterly angle of the lands heretofore owned and by Knox College, being a point distant Two hundred and eighteen feet and Five inches (2 18' 5") measured northerly along the said limit between Park Lots from the said easterly production of the southerly limit of Russell Street; Thence south seventy-four degrees and twenty minutes (74° 20') west, along the southerly limit of the lands owned and occupied as aforesaid, and represented at the date hereinbefore last mentioned by the centre line of an iron and wire fence, One hundred and ninety- eight feet and Ten inches (198' 10") more or less, to a point in the said limit of St. George Street, distant Two hundred and eighteen feet and Five and a half inches (218' 5 1/2") measured northerly thereon from the said easterly production of the southerly limit of Russell Street; Thence north sixteen degrees (16°) west, along the said easterly limit of St. George Street, Two hundred and twenty-nine feet and Eight inches (229' 8") more or less, to the point of commencement.

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SCHEDULE "D."

All and Singular that certain parcel or tract of land and premises situate, lying and being in the City of Toronto, in the County of York. and Province of Ontario, being composed of parts of Park Lots Nos. 13 and 14, in the First Concession from the Bay, in the Township of York, and now in the City of Toronto aforesaid; and which said parcel is more particularly described as follows;

Taking the easterly limit of St. George Street on a course of north sixteen degrees (16°) west, and relating all bearings herein thereto. and

Commencing at a point in the said limit of St. George Street where the same its intercepted by the line of a wooden fence leading eastward, the said point being distant Four hundred and forty-eight feet and One and a half inches (448' 1 1/2") measured northerly along the said limit from the easterly production of the southerly limit of Russell Street; Thence north seventy-three degrees and one minute (73° 1') east, along the line of the said fence, Twenty-two feet and Four inches (22' 4") to the westerly face of the northerly buttress on the westerly side of the westerly part of the building known in April, 1925, as Knox College; Thence north sixteen degrees (16°) west, along the westerly face of the said buttress, and the production of the same, in all, a distance of One foot and Nine and three-quarters inches (1' 9 3/4") to the westerly production of the northerly faces of the buttresses on the northerly side of the westerly part of the said building; Thence north seventy-three degrees and one minute (73° 1') east, along the northerly faces of the lastmentioned buttresses and the productions of the same, in all, a distance of Forty-six feet and Ten and one-quarter inches (46' 10 1/4") to the northerly production of the easterly faces of the buttresses on the easterly side of the said westerly part of building; Thence south sixteen degrees (16') east, along the last mentioned production, and along the last mentioned easterly face, in all, a distance of Two feet and Nine inches (2' 9") to the centre line of an iron fence leading eastward; Thence north seventy-two degrees and forty-seven minutes (72° 47') east, along the said centre line of fence, Fifty-two feet (52') to a point of curve; Thence northeasterly on a curve to the left having a radius of Nine feet and Six inches (9' 6"), and being still along the said centre line of fence, Fifteen feet and Four inches (15' 4") to the end of said curve, being a point distant One hundred and Thirty feet and Six inches (130' 6") easterly from the said limit of St. George Street measured on a course north seventy-three degrees and one minute (73° I') east therefrom; Thence north sixteen degrees and twelve minutes (16° 12') west, still along the said centre line of fence, Thirty feet and Two inches (30' 2") to the northerly extremity of the same; Thence north fifty-four degrees and fifty-one minutes (54° 51') east, Twenty-seven feet (27') more or less, to the northwesterly angle of the most westerly buttress on the northerly side of the easterly part of the aforesaid building; Thence north seventy-three degrees and fifty-one minutes (73° 51') east, along the line of the northerly faces of the two most westerly buttresses on the said northerly side of the easterly part of the aforesaid building, and along the production of the same, being on a course parallel to the main north wall of the said easterly part of the aforesaid building, in all, a distance of Severity-nine feet and Six inches (79' 6") more or less, to a point in the easterly limit of the westerly Thirty-five feet (35'), of said Park Lot No. 13, which point is distant Four hundred and ninety-nine feet and Five inches (499' 5") measured northerly on a course parallel to the limit between said Park Lots, from the said easterly production of the southerly limit of Russell Street; Thence north fifteen degrees, fifty- eight minutes and thirty seconds (15° 58' 30") west, parallel to the limit between said Park Lots Nos. 13 and 14, and being along the easterly limit of lands covered by a certain lease registered as No. 29609 T, Fifty-two feet and Four inches (52' 4") more or less, to the easterly production of the northerly limit of lands heretofore owned and occupied by Knox College, and represented at the date hereinbefore last mentioned by the line of an old fence; Thence south seventy- four degrees and thirty minutes (74° 30') west to and along the line of the last mentioned fence, which fence intercepts the limit between the said Park Lots at a point distant One hundred and fifty-four feet (154') southerly from the stone monument representing the easterly production of the northerly limit of Willcocks Street, in all, a distance of Two hundred and thirty-three feet and Eleven and a half inches (233' 11 1/2") more or less, to a point in the easterly limit of St. George Street aforesaid, which point is distant One hundred and fifty-three feet and Nine and a half inches (153' 9 1/2") measured southerly thereon from the said easterly production of the northerly limit of Willcocks Street; Thence south sixteen degrees (16°) east along the said limit of St. George Street, One hundred and four feet and Four inches (104' 4") more or less, to the point of commencement.

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