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 Collins, Thomas Sipkins, George E. Moore, George White, David Bias, Peter Williams, Thomas Cook and William Brown, Trustees and Members of Zion Church, and their successors, duly qualified, elected and appointed according to law (for the purposes and with the powers and privileges hereinafter granted and specified) of the Church called Zion Church, and of all and every such other church and churches as do now or hereafter shall become the property of the Corporation.

The Corporation aforesaid and their successors for ever, do, and shall have and hold the said building called Zion Church, and all other churches which are now or shall become the property of the Corporation, in trust, for the religious use of the Ministers and Preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who are in connection with the General Conference of the said church, and likewise for our African brethren and the descendants of the African race, as hereafter specified, and also for Ministers and Teachers of our African brethren, duly licensed or ordained according to the form of discipline.

It is provided and declared, that the rents, issues, profits and interests of the real and personal estate, of and belonging to the said Church and Trustees, and their successors, shall from time to time be applied and laid out for repairing and maintaining their said Zion Church, and all and any other place or places of public worship, lot or lots of ground, burial grounds, or buildings which now do, or