I. Records

 

I. Records

All meetings and yearly meeting committees keep records of their minutes and proceedings. The historic value of these records cannot be stressed too strongly, and in preparing them the clerk should be aware of the significance they may have in the future. Records should be clear and contain sufficient detail to be intelligible many years later. They should be typed on acid-free paper and kept in suitable books. Advice on record-keeping for the guidance of meetings and committees is available from the Records Committee of the yearly meeting.

H. Funds, Property, Trusts

 

H. Funds, Property, Trusts

All money and property held by any meeting are considered as held in trust for the objectives, uses, and purposes of the Religious Society of Friends, subject to any special conditions of trust. No meeting may distribute or partition its property among individual members of a meeting. If any meeting ceases to exist, its property shall pass to the yearly meeting or otherwise as indicated in Section D, “Discontinuance of Meetings.”