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 at any time hereafter may or shall belong to the said Church or Trustees, as shall from time to time be thought proper and expedient, by the Trustees for the time being; and if the funds and revenues be sufficient, the Trustees may and shall be permitted, in their own discretion, to allow a reasonable and proportionable part for the support of the Ministers.

It is provided and declared, that the said Trustees and their successors shall not, by deed or otherwise, grant, alien, convey, or otherwise dispose of any part or parcel of the estate, real or personal, in the said Corporation, vested or to be vested, or in any other way to mortgage or pledge the said real estate, for the payment of any debts by them contracted to any person or persons whatever, unless such grant, alienation and conveyance, be made by and with the consent of two-thirds of the regular male members of the said church, of at least twenty-one years of age, and one year's standing.

It is provided and declared, that none but Africans or their descendants shall be chosen as Trustees of the said African Episcopal Zion Church, and such other church or churches as may or shall hereafter become the property of this Corporation, and none shall be eligible to the office of a Trustee, but such as are received and acknowledged to be members of the said church, by the elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the city of New-York, who shall be appointed by the Conference of the said