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shall be disabled by age, sickness, or infirmity, and have not income 

 sufficient for the necessary support of themselves and their families. 



2. That the children of necessitous clergymen do, in the life-time 

 of the said clergymen, so far partake of this charity, as to be ap- 

 prenticed at proper ages. 



3. That no widows or orphans be relieved, but those of such 

 clergymen, as at the time of their death or incapacity, were 

 possessed of some ecclesiastical preferment, or licensed to a 

 curacy within the archdeaconry, the several peculiars, or county of 

 Stafford. 



4. That no person be relieved, until there be a certificate given 

 in, and repeated yearly under the hands of three governors, (or if 

 the person be removed out of the county, of three clergymen living 

 in the neighbourhood of the place, where such person resides) set- 

 ting forth the age, circumstances, and residence of the person, and 

 that she, or he, is of a sober life and conversation, a member of the 

 Church of England as by law established, (and if a widow) how 

 many children she hath, and of what age they are. 



5. That every clergyman subscribing any sum to this charity, 

 and every lay person subscribing one guinea, be a governor and 

 director of this charity for that year ; and that every benefactor 

 by a donation of twenty guineas, be a governor and director for 

 life. 



9. That the business of the Stewards be more particularly to 

 promote the charity in their respective districts , both among the clergy 

 and laity , to receive subscriptions, to collect arrears^ and to pay them 

 to the treasurer on or before the annual meeting of the governors. 



10. That a general meeting of the governors of this charity be 

 annually held at STAFFORD, on the Thursday next after the twenty- 

 fourth day of June, of which notice is to be given to each district 

 in the Stafford and Birmingham papers. 



11. That at this annual meeting applications are to be delivered 

 in and considered, and orders made for the disposal of the money 

 contributed ; reserving however a full and sufficient sum in balance 

 to answer exigencies; at the same time the treasurer's accounts 

 for the preceding year are to be received and audited. 



FORMS OF CERTIFICATES. 



CLERGYMAN'S CERTIFICATE. 



" We, whose names are underwritten, do testify that in 



the Archdeaconry, or county of Stafford, is by disabled 



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