Wesley Corpus

read, and then subscribed by the President and Secretary thereof for the time being, during the time such Conference shall be assembled ; and when so entered and subscribed, shall be had, taken, received, and be, the acts of the Confer- ence, and such entry and subscription as aforesaid, shall be had, taken, received, and be, evidence of all and every such acts of the said Conference, and of their said delegates, with- out the aid of any other proof; and whatever shall not be so entered and subscribed as aforesaid, shall not be had, taken, received, or be, the act of the Conference: And the said President and Secretary are hereby required and obliged to enter and subscribe, as aforesaid, every act whatever of the Conference. Lastly, Whenever the said Conference shall be reduced under the number of forty members, and continue so reduced for three yearly assemblies thereof successively, or whenever the members thereof shall decline or neglect to meet together annually for the purposes aforesaid,during the space of three years, that then, and in either of the said events, the Confer- ence of the people called Methodists shall be extinguished, and all the aforesaid powers, privileges, and advantages shall cease, and the said chapels and premises, and all other cha- pels and premises, which now are, or hereafter may be, settled, given, or conveyed, upon the trusts aforesaid, shall vest in the Trustees for the time being of the said chapels and pre- mises respectively, and their successors for ever ; UPON TRUST that they, and the survivors of them, and the Trustees for the time being, do, shall, and may appoint such person and per- sons to preach and expound God's Holy Word therein, and to have the use and enjoyment thereof, for such time, and in such manner, as to them shall seem proper. Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to extinguish, lessen, or abridge the life-estate of the said John Wesley and Charles Wesley, or either of them, of and in any of the said chapels and premises, or any other chapels and premises, wherein they the said John Wesley and Charles Wesley, or either of them, now have, or may have, any estate or interest, power or authority whatso- ever. En witness whereof, the said John Wesley hath hereunto set his