*102.* _Official Acts, Subscriptions._—The official acts of a minister coming in question incidentally, unless contrary to the statute, are as valid as the official acts of any other officer.(190) A clergyman who was engaged to conduct dedication services and was requested by the officers of the local corporation to solicit subscriptions for paying off the indebtedness of the church, but was not appointed agent to receive such subscriptions, had no authority to accept a subscription for the corporation.(191) *103.* _Exemptions, Clergy._—The exemptions given ministers by the statutes of some States are liberally construed.(192) Without any statutory exemption, the clergy are liable for all duties required of other citizens.(193) *104.* _Minister, Contributions, Deposed._—No religious teacher or minister can be enjoined from receiving voluntary contributions, although he has been deposed by some ecclesiastical tribunal.(194) *105.* _Fees, Usages, Excess._—The fees of a priest of the Catholic Church are regulated by the laws and usages of that Church, and where in this country the pew rent and collections go for the support of the priest and the current church expenses, a priest is not accountable for the excess of such collections over these expenditures.(195) *106.* _Salary, Fees._—Under the act of March, 1814, incorporating a congregation, the congregation, being the legal owners and temporal administrators of the property which it was authorized to hold, had the exclusive power to fix the salary of the parish priest or the tariff of fees for marriages, burial, etc. No such power could be exercised under that act by the Pope or any bishop.(196) *107.* _Clergyman, Salary._—Where a clergyman agreed with a congregation that the salary should be what could be raised by subscription, the congregation was bound to use due diligence in procuring subscriptions, and as it did so, that was all that the clergyman could recover.(197) *108.* _Curate, Services._—In an action by a curate against a religious corporation for personal services, the court will not inquire into the spiritual relations existing between the parties, but will examine their legal rights only.(198)