The major sacristan must keep Mass stipends in a separate account. Only when the Masses have been celebrated may the money be transferred to the common account. Every month the sacristan must present a report to the conventual council on the Masses celebrated and to be celebrated.

The brothers must give the Mass stipends they have received to the major sacristan, who will record them accurately in a special book, indicating when they were received, their number, the intentions and conditions, the amounts offered, and the dates on which the Masses were celebrated.

It is the duty of a general chapter to determine the limit to the expenditure which the Master of the Order may authorise without his council.

Major projects which are subsidised by outsiders and thus require no outlay by the Order do, however, need the required consent in accordance with n. 590 and the previous article.

It is the duty of a provincial chapter to determine the limit to what may be spent by the superior of a convent on his own, or with his council; it must also determine the limit to what the prior provincial without his council may spend or allow someone else to spend.

What has been said about constructing buildings holds true also, with appropriate modifications, for restoration work and extensive repairs as well as for other matters of major importance.

1. No building may be constructed unless the considered opinion of experts on the location and other essentials has already been obtained, nor before a plan of the whole building, together with an estimate of the cost, has been approved by the provincial council after consultation with the economic council. Furthermore, the building should be so constructed that its ordinary maintenance will not be excessively expensive.
2. Buildings must be constructed in conformity to what has been approved by the provincial council, and no one is permitted on his own authority to deviate from it.

When money is required for the commencement of a major project or for its continuation, the source of the requisite revenue must be clearly indicated when making the financial arrangements.

1. Planning must be undertaken by a provincial chapter after the economic council has voted on the matter.
2. When planning to meet the needs of a province or of one or other convent, the rights of convents to their property may be restricted, even to the extent of transfer or alienation of goods; but the chapters of the convents concerned must always be consulted beforehand.

1. It is difficult for individual convents or institutes to undertake major projects with their own unaided resources. In many cases the combined help of all the members and communities of a province is needed and planning is essential. Projects have to be undertaken in sequence, a sequence based on a priority of need and feasibility, so that all may help each other successively.
2. All this applies not only to once-off large-scale expenditure on the construction or restoration of buildings or the commencement of new works, but also to undertakings which require annual subsidies.