Citations
- 7 Ohio St. 58
Full opinion text
J. R. Swan, J.
The lands from which the fund in controversy as derived, are held in trust “for the purposes of religion.” How the appropriation should be made fixr religious purposes was left to the state to determine. The state has provided that the lands shall be leased and the rents applied as follows :
“ Each and every denomination of religious societies, after giving ■themselves a name, shall appoint an agent, who shall produce to the trustees a certificate, containing a list of their names *and numbers, specifying that they are citizens of said township; and .the agent shall pay over an equal dividend of the rents, within three months after the same shall have been received, to be appropriated to the support of religion, at the discretion of each society; provided, that all members above the age of fifteen years, shall be entitled to have their names enrolled by any society.” Swan’s Stat. 1005, sec. 13.
The beneficiaries of the trust have been designated by the state, as every denomination of religious societies; and the relators must bring themselves within the description of a sect or “ denomination ” of religionists associated together as a “ religious society,”