4. In future, we will admit no charter, deed, or conveyance for any house of worship to be used by us, unless it be provided in such charter, deed, or conveyance, that the Trustees of said house shall at all times permit such ministers and preachers, belonging to the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America, as shall from time to time be duly authorized by the General Conference of our Church, or by the Annual Conferences, to preach and expound God's holy Word, and to execute the Discipline of the Church, and to administer the sacraments therein, according to the true meaning and purport of our deed of settlement.
III. BUILDING PARSONAGES
Ques. What advice or direction is given concerning the building of dwelling houses for the use of the married traveling preachers?
Ans. 1. It is recommended to our friends in general, to purchase a lot of ground in each pastoral charge, and to build a preacher's house thereon, and to furnish it with at least heavy furniture, and to settle the same on trustees appointed by the Quarterly Conference, according to our deed of settlement.
2. It shall be the duty of the Presiding Elders and preachers to use their influence to carry the above rules respecting building houses, for the accommodation of preachers and their families, into effect. In order to do this, each Quarterly Conference shall appoint a committee, (unless other measures have been adopted), who, with the advice and aid of the preachers and Presiding Elder, shall devise such means as may seem fit to raise money for that purpose. And it is recommended to the Annual Conferences to make a special inquiry of their members respecting this part of their duty.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
SECURING, SELLING, OR TRANSFERRING CHURCH PROPERTY.
1. SECURING CHURCHES AND PARSONAGES
Ques. What shall be done for the security of our preaching houses and parsonages, and other Church property, and the premises belonging thereto?
Ans. 1. Each Annual Conference is authorized to make such modification in the deeds as they may find the different usages and customs of law require in the different States and Territories, so as to secure the property firmly by deed, and permanently in fee simple, to the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America; but in all conveyances of ground for the building of houses of worship, or upon which they may have been already built, let the following clause be inserted at the proper place: "In trust, that said premises shall be used, kept, maintained, and disposed of as a place of Divine Worship for the use of the ministry and membership of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America; subject to the Discipline, usage, and ministerial appointments of said Church, as from time to time authorized and declared by the General Conference of said Church, and the Annual Conference within whose bounds the said premises are situated."