more: Provided always, that the said Court of Quarter Sessions shall not allow any sum whatever for and in respect of such costs and charges, unless it shall be stated to them upon the declaration in writing of the person or persons applying for such allowance, and signed by him or them, that such memorial or statement is to the best of his, her, or their knowledge and belief, true in every respect, and that it doth contain to the best of his, her, or their knowledge and belief, a true and full account of the real and personal estate, annual gross income, investment, and the particular or general objects of the charity or charitable donation of which such memorial or statement shall have been registered, together with the names of the respective donors or benefactors thereto, where known, and also of the person or persons in whose custody, possession, or controul, the deeds, wills, and other instruments herein-before mentioned, shall at such time be, and also the names of the trustee or trustees, feoffee or feoffees, possessor or possessors of such real and personal estate: Provided always, that none of the provisions herein-before contained shall be construed to extend to any charity or charitable donation not issuing out of or secured upon any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or directed by the founder or donor thereof to be secured thereon, or to be permanently invested in government or any public stocks or funds, nor to any charitable donation whatsoever, which by the direction of the donor thereof, or by the lawful rules of any charitable institution whatsoever, may be wholly or in part expended in and about the charitable purposes for which the same may have

been given, at the discretion of the governors, directors, managers, or the trustee or trustees of such charitable institution at any time whatsoever.

"That nothing in this act shall be construed to extend to any hospital, school, or other charitable institution whatsoever, which shall have been founded, improved, or regulated by or under the authority of the King's most Excellent Majesty, or any of his royal predecessors, or of any special act of parliament thereunto particularly relating; nor to any charitable donation under the superintendance of any such hospital, school, or institution, nor to the governors of the corporation of the charity for the relief of poor widows and children of clergymen, nor to any friendly society, the rules whereof shall have been confirmed according to the provisions of the act or acts for the encouragement and relief of friendly societies; nor to either of the universities of Oxford or Cambridge, nor to any college or hall thereto belonging, or to any charitable bequest, devise, gift, or foundation whatsoever belonging thereto, or under the controul, direction, superintendance, or management of the said universities, or either of them, or any college or hall therein respectively; nor to the Radcliffe infirmary within the university of Oxford; nor to the colleges of Westminster, Eton, or Winchester, or any of them; nor to any cathedral or collegiate church within England and Wales; nor to the Charter House; nor to the Corporation of the Trinity House of Deptford Strond; nor to any funds applicable to charitable purposes for the benefit of any persons of the Jewish nation.

"That nothing in this act contained shall extend

to any charitable foundation or donation which shall have been or shall be given to and for the benefit of any person or persons of the society of people called Quakers, and which shall be under the superintendance and controul of persons of that persuasion.

"That nothing in this act contained shall extend to any charity or charitable donation or foundation, the accounts of the income and expenditure whereof shall have been directed to be annually passed in the High Court of Chancery, nor to any charity or charitable donation or foundation, the annual gross income whereof shall not exceed forty shillings, and of which the trustee or trustees, feoffee or feoffees, possessor or possessors, some or one of them, shall within six months after the passing of this act deposit in the hands of the minister of the parish wherein any of the objects of such charity, charitable donation, or foundation shall be, a written memorial or statement in like form as in the schedule hereunto annexed is contained, and which by such minister shall be forthwith deposited in the parish chest.

"That where any body corporate, guild or fraternity, shall be entrusted with the possession or distribution of divers charities or charitable donations or foundations, or of the rents and profits thereof, that in such cases all such charities, charitable donations and foundations, may be registered and stated in one and the same memorial.

66 Saving always to the King's most Excellent Majesty, and to all other persons, such power of superintending and regulating charities and charitable establishments, and the property and funds thereof,

as they respectively had before the making of this act."

The FORM of the SCHEDULE refered to by the foregoing Act of Parliament.

"A MEMORIAL or statement in pursuance of an act for the registering and securing of charitable donations; whereby it is declared by the undersigned [the name or names of the persons who sign the memorial or statement] that the real or personal estate [as the case may be] of the [the title or appellation of the charity or charitable donation] consists of [as the case may be; and if real estate, whether it be in lands, tenements, or hereditaments, and of what tenure, and where the same are situate, or whether of any charge or incumbrance on any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, and where situate; and if personal estate, describe the nature of it, and how secured] and the gross annual income arising therefrom amounts to [the sum] and the ob jects of which charity or charitable foundation are [the general or particular objects of the charity] and which charity or charitable foundation was, according to the best of my [or, our, as the case may be] know. ledge and belief, founded by [by whom; and if benefited, increased, or secured by any other person, state the same and by whom] and the deeds, wills, and other instruments [as the case may be; and if no deeds, wills, or other instruments exist, state the sume] are, to the best of my [or, our, as the case may be] knowledge and belief, in the custody, possession, or controul

[as the case may be] of [the name of the body corporate or natural person] and the trustees, feoffees, or possessors [as the case may be] of the said real and personal estate [as the case may be] are, to the best of my [or, our, as the case may be] knowledge and belief [the name of the body corporate or natural person, as the case may be].

"(Signed)

J. H.

C. P.

T. W.

"Trustee or trustees, feoffees, possessor or pos sessors of the real or personal estate [as the case may be] of the charity or charitable donation hereby memorialized and registered."

By an Act of Parliament, 52 George III (1812), cap. ci, intituled "An ACT to provide a summary Remedy in Cases of Abuses of Trusts created for charitable Purposes."

RECITING, "That it is expedient to provide a more summary remedy in cases of breaches of trusts created for charitable purposes, as well as for the just and upright administration of the same;" it was enacted, “That, from and after the passing of this Act, in every case of a breach of any trust or sup posed breach of any trust created for charitable pur poses, or whenever the direction or order of a court of equity shall be deemed necessary for the adminis tration of any trust for charitable purposes, it shall be lawful for any two or more persons to present a