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The Lucknow Diocese Trust Association (under clause 9 of the constitution), A reprint of the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Lucknow Diocesan Trust Association, dated 1924, and amended in 1945, 1948 and 1950.

1. The name of the Company is “The Lucknow Diocesan Trust Association” (hereinafter referred to as the Association).

2. The objects for which Association is established are:-

(a) To acquire by all lawful means real and personal property and to apply both capital and income thereof and the proceeds of the sale or mortgage there of and the all or any of the objects hereinafter specified.

(b) To aid and further the work of the Church of England in the Diocese of Lucknow and for the purpose to do and carry out or assist in doing or carrying out all such matters and things as are likely to promote the objects of of the said church and in particular to assist , or otherwise all any of the societies, clubs, trusts, organizations, schools, colleges, hostels, boarding houses, hospitals, dispensaries, homes, refuges and other things now existing hereafter to exist in the connection with the said Church within the said diocese whoever he same are connected to the diocese.

(c) To acquire sites for building, alainging, enlarging and to will alter or enlarge and to maintain and endow churches, chapals, church yards, burial grounds, schools, colleges, hostels, boarding houses, hospitals, dispensaries, mission halls, prayer houses, parish rooms, residences of clergy, school masters and misstersses, refuge homes, and other buildings to be used in connection with the work of the said church within the said diocese

(d) To provide or increase or subscribe to the provision of increase of the stipends of clergy, teachers, evangelists, catechists, doctors, nurses and other officers and other assistance of the church whether clerical or lay within the said diocese and to provide relief or provident fund or such persons, there widows and families.

(e) To act as to exercise any power which may be confided to the association of a appointing managers, treasurers, trustees, auditors, inspectors, examiners or other officials of any school societies, institutions, trusts, organizations, schools, colleges, hostels, boarding houses, hospitals, dispensaries, homes, refuges and charities as are referred to in paragraph(b)

(f) To accept property to be held by the Association for the general purposes of the association or on special trusts either as original trustees or as a new trustees of a trust already existing or as bare or passive trustees without undertaking the management or administration of such property.

(g) To nominate persons to act as trustees for the Association for any of its purposes.

(i) To appoint and employ and pay agents for any of the purposes of the association.

(j) To mortgage, charge, lease, dispose of exchange, and otherwise deal with any property of or held by the association in any manner authorized by law with such consent (if any) as may be law required.

(k) To hand over to any corporation, person or association of persons property vested in the association either for general purposes or on special trusts which permit of such handing over, if in the opinion of the committee of management of the association, it will benefit any objects of the association or of any such special trust as aforesaid.

(l) In case any part of the said diocese be at any time severed from the remainder thereof, to transfer to any corporation, person or persons, any property of the association for the maintenance, support, or extension of any charity relating to or connected with such nevered part, or any property held by the association upon trust for or for purposes of any charity relating to or connected wholly or partly with such severed part.

(m) To pay out of the funds of the association or out of any particular part of such funds all expenses of or incident to the formation and management of the association or of administering any special trust or otherwise carrying out any of the foregoing objects, including the payment of salaries to persons employed.

(n) To do all such other lawful acts and things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects.

(3) Provided that none of the objects aforesaid shall be carried out in such a manner as to give indirectly to members of the association a profit from the funds of the association which could not accordance with the provisions of this Memorandum be given to them directly.

(4) The words ‘the Church of England’, as used in this memorandum and in all or any articles of association or other regulations of the association for the time being in force shall mean the Church of England now established by law, and if at any time hereafter the said Church shall cease to be by law established, then and from thenceforth the same church disestablished. The said expression ‘Church of England’ shall be deemed also to mean and include the Church of the Province of India and Ceylon (otherwise known as the Church of England in India and the Church of England in Ceylon) and the Church in communion with the Church of England which may hereafter be lawfully declared to be its successor.

(5) The income and property of the association whensoever derived shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the objects and purposes of the association as set forth in this Memorandum and no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly by way of dividend, bocus, or otherwise howsoever by way of profit to the members of the association provided the nothing herein contained shall prevent the payment in good faith of out-of-pocket expenses or of remuneration to anv officers or servants of this association or to any member thereof or other person in return for services rendered to the association or to any of the objects for which the association is established.

‘Provided further that no member of the committed of management of the association shall be appointed to any salaried office of the association or to any office of the association paid by fees, and that no retenuration shall be given by the Association to any member of such committee of management except repayment of out-of-pocket expenses and interest or money lent or sent for premises demised to the Association.

(6) The fifth paragraph of this memorandum is a condition on which a licence is granted by the government to the association in pursuance of sector 26 of the Indian Companies Act, 1913.

(7) The liability of the members is limited.

(8) Every member of the association undertakes to contributes not more than Rupees fifteen to the assets of the association in the event of the same being wound up daring the that he is a member, or via in one year afterwards, for the payment of the debts and liabilities of the association contracted before the time at which he ceases to be a member, and of the costs, charges and expenses of winding up the same, and for the adjustment of the rights of the contributories among themselves.

(9) If, upon the winding up or dissolution of the association there shall remain any surplus after the satisfaction of all its debts and liabilities, the same shall not be paid to or disorted among the members of the association, but shall be given or transferred to or applied to some other institution having objects similar to the objects of the association or to some one of more of the charitable objects of the association to be determined by a majority of the members of the association voting at a meaning duly at or before time of dissolution or in default such Judge of the High Court of Allahabad (now Prayagraj) or such other courts as may acquire jurisdiction in the matters.

True accounts shall be kept of the sums of money recieved and expended by the association, and the matter in respect which such recipt and expenditure take place and of the property, credits and liabilities of the association and subject to any reasonable restrictions as to the time and manner of inspecting the same that may be imposed in accordance with the regulations for the time being of the Association, these accounts shall be opened to the inspection of the members. Once at least in every year the accounts of association shall be examined and the correctness of the balance sheet ascertained by one or more properly qualified Auditor or Auditors.

We the several persons whose names and addresses are subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a company in presence of this memorandum of Association.

Names, addresses and descriptions of subscribers:

Louis Start, 12 Hastings Road, Allahabad, Judge High Court.

C.J. Cohu, Civil Chaplain of Lucknow.

S.A. Bill, Cathedral Chaplain, Allahabad.

Cecil Walsh, High Court, Allahabad, Judge High Court

Arthur Crosthwaite, S.P.G. Mission, Moradabad

Edward M.Meyler, Garrison Chaplain, Allahabad

W.V.K. Treanor, Secretary, C.M.S., Allahabad.

Dated this 28th day of March 1924.

Witness to all the above signatures.

B.H.P. Fisher

S.P.G. Mission

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