304 LETTERS TO THE " TIMES " v 



" As to the Mortmain Acts, the matter is clearly 

 charitable, and unless in the conveyances and 

 leases to Booth, or to the trustees (if any) named 

 by him, all the provisions of the Acts have been 

 compKed with, and the deeds have been enrolled 

 under the Acts, they would be void. It is prob- 

 able, however, that every conveyance and lease has 

 been taken without disclosing any charitable trust, 

 for the purpose of preventing it from being void 

 on the face of it. It is to be noted that the deed 

 is a mere deed poll by Booth himself, without any 

 other party to it, who, as a contracting party, 

 would have a right to enforce it. 



" Whether there are any objects of the trust I 

 cannot say. If there is, as the recital indicates, a 

 society of enrolled members called ' The Christian 

 Mission,' those members would be objects of the 

 trust, but then, it appears to me, Booth has entire 

 control and determination of the application. 

 And, as to the trusts enuring for the benefit of 

 the * Salvation Army,' I am not aware what is the 

 constitution of the ' Salvation Army,' but there is 

 no reference whatever to any such body in the 

 deed. I have understood the army as being 

 merely the missionaries, and not the society of 

 worshippers. 



" If there is no Christian Mission Society of 

 enrolled members, then there are no objects of the 

 trust. The trusts are purely religious, and trading 

 is entirely beyond its purposes. Booth can ' give 



