General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

Elias Boudinot Minister's Libraries Fund

Beneficiary location:

Louisville, KY

Account number: 203100054506

Designated Use

[The income] Shall from year to year, as may be most convenient, laid out by the said corporation [General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America] and their successors in such useful books as they may think proper, and given by them to the persons legally managing the secular interests and concerns of any Christian congregation that, in the opinion on the said corporation, or a majority of them, are unable to provide them for themselves, to and for the use of the pastor or minister of said congregation for the time being, as long as he shall continue in the pastoral charge thereof, and to be kept under his particular care, and for which he shall be answerable to the managers of such congregation or church, who shall direct the manner in which they shall be kept with regard to their preservation against being improperly lent out; provided always, that not more than one-third [of income] shall be given, in any one year, to one church or congregation, excepting the two herein after mentioned, to wit: that of the borough of Elizabeth, in the First Presbyterian Church of that town, of which I was a member many years, and St. Mary's Church, in the city of Burlington, where I now live, between whom the first complete amount of the [income] for one year shall be equally divided, and laid out in such books as the managers of each church or congregation shall choose.