In the economic statute, precise regulations should be made about the publication of books: the expenses to be incurred, the conditions to be attached, and the disposal of the author’s earnings after his death.

When possible, all contracts should be made in the name of the moral juridical person recognized by law, and a copy, moreover, should be kept in the files of the syndic of the province or of the Order.

When a book is to be published, a written contract must be drawn up.

When brothers have an official position or work permanently in institutions, projects, or other establishments of this kind which do not belong to convents or provinces of the Order, the prior provincial should ensure that a contract be drawn up in which all the conditions are clearly set out. When the brother has an official position in the territory of another province, the prior provincial of the place must be informed of the contract the contract requires the approval of the prior provincial of the place.

When brothers have an official position or work permanently in institutions, projects, or other establishments of this kind which do not belong to convents or provinces of the Order, the prior provincial should ensure that a contract be drawn up in which all the conditions are clearly set out. When the brother has an official position in the territory of another province, the contract requires the approval of the prior provincial of the place.

If brothers live or work in another province, whether they are assigned to it or not, the priors provincial concerned shall, by mutual agreement or established convention, settle their economic situation. They shall determine what expenses incurred on their behalf must be repaid to the province in which they are living or, on the other hand, what compensation for work they have done must be remitted to the province from which they came.

Brothers who are guests in a convent of the Order should pay – or are not required to pay – an appropriate sum for their lodgings, in accordance with the legitimate custom of the province or of the convent.

Conditions and obligations are to be recorded in writing in duplicate: one copy is to be preserved in the archives of the province and the other in the convent concerned.

1. Only moral juridical persons in the Order and not individual brothers are permitted, with the consent of their respective councils, to accept pious foundations or other gifts which involve prolonged and burdensome obligations.
2. Furthermore, every acceptance of a burdensome obligation requires the consent of the provincial council, and those which impose a prolonged obligation ought not to be accepted easily.

Stipends for Masses which cannot be celebrated in due time by the fathers priests of a convent must be sent to the prior provincial, and a surplus in the province must be sent to the Master of the Order.