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could be enforced, and that there are no defined 

 persons nor classes of persons who can claim to be 

 entitled to the benefit of them, or at whose in- 

 stance they could be enforced by any legal process. 



" As to the properties (if any) vested in trustees 

 appointed by Booth, it appears to me that the 

 only person who has a locus standi to enforce these 

 trusts is Booth himself, and that he would have 

 absolute power over the trusts and the property, 

 and might deal with the property as he pleased, 

 and that, as in the former case, nothing could be 

 done in the way of enforcing any trusts against 

 him. 



" As to the moneys contributed or raised by 

 mortgage for the general purposes of the mission, 

 it appears to me that Booth may expend them as 

 he pleases, without being subject to any legal 

 control, and that he cannot even be compelled to 

 publish any balance-sheets. 



" Whether there are any provisions in the 

 Charitable Trusts Acts which could be made 

 available for enforcing some scheme for the 

 application of the property or funds is a question 

 to which I should require to give a closer con- 

 sideration should it become necessary to go into 

 it ; but at present, after perusing these Acts, and 

 especially 16 and 17 Viet. c. 137 and 18 and 19 

 Viet. c. 124, I cannot see how they could be 

 made applicable to the trusts as declared in this 

 deed. 



