The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-10-03

1 soon as the same may come into the treasury, and no interest shall be here l after paid on the sum appropriated here in. after the approval of this act, and all l laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed l Sec. 2 That forty thousand (S4000O dol lars of this appropriation shall be due and payable on the approval of this act and ten thousand C$1O0OO dollars shall be 1 due and payable on the first day of June, 1903
 Sec. 3. All money appropriated hereby shall be paid as it becomes due to the l treasurer of said school on the order of the president thereof. approved by tho Governor.
 Approved Sept. l6. 1903
 Official.
 J. THoS. HEFLIN.
 Secretary of State. No 192) AN ACT OH 3l9 To provide for incorporating annual con ferences of itinerant ministers of the Gospel. and amending the charters thereof.
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legisla- ture of Alabama: That whenever ten or more itinerant ministers of the Gospel de sire to be legally formed into a body cor porate, they shall file with the Secretary State declaration In writing. signed by them. setting forth the corporate name they desire to have. the name of the de- nomination or branch of the Church of God with which they are in afiiation and to whose rules and articles of belief they conform; and shall pay to the Secretary of State a fee of ten dollars; whereupon the Secretary of State in the name of the State of Alabama shall issue a certificate of incorporation or charter to said cor poration
 Sec. ?. All corporations formed hereun- der shall have and exercise these powers: l. To have perpetual succession by it's corporate name. 2. To take and grant property. to contract obligations and to sue and be sued by It's corporate name in the same manner as an individual. 3. To buy lands and other property, to receive grants of privileges and immunities and hold the same for the benefit of it's mem bers and their successors. 4. To receive gifts and grants, in trust. for the advance ment of the Christian religion and edu-' cation and to execute such trusts. 5. To lend any fund belonging to the corpora tion. or held by it in trust and take se- curty therefor. in bonds with sureties, in pledges of personality or in mortgages of property. G. To have a corporate seal. [. To make bylaws for the government of the corporation in conformity with the general laws and usage of that branch of the Christian Church with which Con ference is affiliated. 8. To prescribe tho number and qualifications of its memhers, and may expel the same for cause. 9. To appoint and remove it's officers. require bonds of such of It's officers, or agents, as 1t may deem proper
 Sec g. Any annual conference, that has heretofore been Incorporated by an Act of the General Assembly of Alabama, and desires to change its name, or, to amend its charter so as to have the powers of a corporation created hereunder or, any corporation created hereunder, desiring to change It's name may file with the Secre- tary of State a declaration in writing, showing the proposed amendment and must pay the Secretary of State a fee of ten dollars; whereupon the Secretary of | State shall issue to said corporation a charter In it's new name.
 | Sec. 4. Whenever any annual confer ence has heretofore been organized ac- cording to the law of any branch of the Christian Church, but has not been in- corporated. or the act of incorporation Is for any reason believed to be defective, or does not confer the powers necessary for the purpose of such body, the said confer ence may become a body corporate here under, the successor of said unincor- porated or effectively incorporated body by incorporating in the declaration pre- scrbed In Section 1 of this Act the name of the body 1t desires to succeed: and upon the granting of a charter under this act it shall be taken and held of the body or bodies, named in such declaration and shall take and hold all the property, rights and privileges of It's predecessor. as fully as though they had been granted to the succeeding corporation.
 Approved Sept. 16, 1903.
 J. THOS. HEFLIN,