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Ero £ 3 pfrreh £ &sion ) that I see 5 ji wmb &t > iwtng t © oeusure , or which may not be < roi » jbendable . Bat I do compisdn tkst any body of Dissenters , aod more especially of Unitarian Mfisent&rfc , should arrogate a power which is justly- odious ; I do complain that iix guarding their own pecuniary rights ,
they seek to violate the personal rights of others—to exact in the pau * e of security the forfeiture of that independence of mind which moiaey cannot purchase , and which must cease to exist ia those who cease to withstand such unreasonable pretensions I . * B .
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Harrowg'ate , Sin , October 14 , 1822 . YOUR correspondent G . P . H , in your Repository for September last , p . 527 , is perfectly correct m what lie asserts respecting Trustees of Chapels and Estates , or
endowments connected with them . I am pretty well acquainted with the Trust Deeds of many Dissenting" Chapels , and I have seen none which give to Trustees or others the power of removing , as well as appointing- the niiiifster , or any controlling power over the Meeting-House or its
proceeds , or the pulpit and congregation , or the minister ; as if they were ( according to J . B ., pb . 410 , 411 ) the real ** and ostensible occupants . " t *! tey are no such tW&g . Their office is , as 0 . P . Hv says , if strongly , yet ju&tfy , ¦•* tW of lejjaj mutes , passively to subserve and support the equitable purposes of the Trust , and whteh they are bound to do ; and have no
discretion t 6 exercise therein . " The minister is the real and legal occupanty and if the pface . be freehold , ( as many of the old establishments are , ) the minister is the freehoWer , and is entitled to all the rights appertaimngf to freehold property the same a * the d ^ rffV of the Church .
Tnisr has beea proved and admitted on a variety of occasions in our courts . Ifc point of ikfet—he is the Bole landlord for the tim < 6 fyejiqg—the renters of peus are temults * and , as G . R H . has skid , " a mandaaius may at £ fty time be obtained to compel th
' ¦¦' . ! ——¦ ¦ * This initial was incorrectly printed J-p . 411 . Ed .
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Edinburgh ? Sim , October 11 , 1822 . THE RE are so many p laces of Unitarian vtorship at Resent protected or in actual progress > that
the manner in which they ace , ; or are to be , invested * appears to me to be a subject deserving of discussion in ytmr pages . The trontiibti&drs to stach erections eatmot , I cQftcehre , b ^ too particular in informirtg themselves as to a matter , the right arpangenaent of which is essential to noilder their
benevolent intentions jav ^ aiaUe > < the objects whjjch tfayjcohtein ^ tofeB ^ Whh a view to satisfy ttre OoMritmfcrirs to the proposed UnitaiSHtt < 3 h ^ flt > tefre > and to eaacite a little aUentforiitatlK nature > o £ sudh 3 Vttets ^ iafe ; w subject of general interest a ^ d imrp (> rtstttfte , I trouble you wfeU the following remarks- , ¦ .:. <' ., ,: * * *
In mjikiog such investnueute it is a principle of the- greatest importance , that the TrtiBtees atott ithe * ibqdy * w whose benefit the trust is KelA , sfcotild
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T ^ m ^ m ^ dut ^ or to ke ^ p within it . " G fj : . B «^ I ifttwt * e $ ; P- M * ngfak m ~ to tUe form in which the Trusi JCXeetls of Dissentiiig Chapels have been drawn up , Jn some pl ** ees Tru ^ fcees , have the sole right of appointment , as to the Minister , without t& £ /
congregation * Xa others , they t&e eoii > peUed to indftet him- —him Who has a majority of subscribers , ^ r rentere of pews ( in most cases the amount is fixed , a lower sum not giving -the right to vote ?) . In other places , the
constitution is , — that the election shall be determined by the majority of the communicants $ and in others , in the way which your correspondent has stated . Thus the forms are varied ;—but whatever be the forms according to which the Trust Deeds hatfe been
drawn up ^ the pastor has rights which follow in G . P . H . ' * statement ; and whenever those rights have been invaded and the tyranny resisted ^ the minister has obtained redress in law .
as in the cases of Godwin , Meanley and others , as well as those inferred to in the Reports ; aikd should similar cases again occur , the support of the Society for protecting the Civil Rights of Dissenters would not be waatiBg , or that of A BARRISTER .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 672, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/16/
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