166 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 26.

tion for which they are respectively chosen, and to manage the

estate, property, interest and inheritance of the same.

89. The trustees so elected shall have perpetual succession by
their name of incorporation, and shall be capable in law to pur-
chase, take and hold, to them and their successors, in fee or for
a less estate, any lands, tenements or hereditaments, rents or
annuities, goods or chattels within this State, by the gift,
bargain, sale or devise of any person, body politic or corporate,
capable of making the same, and to use or lease, mortgage or
sell, and convey the same in such manner as they may judge
moat conducive to the interests of their respective churches,
societies or corporations; Provided, that nothing herein shall
authorize any sale, mortgage or other disposition of any pro-
perty held by such Corporation under any instrument prohibit-
ing such sale, and provided the clear yearly value of the estate
of any church, society or congregation (exclusive of the rents

of pews, collections in churches, funeral charges, and the
like) shall not exceed the clear yearly value of two thousand
dollars.

90. Every such body politic shall be chosen, and the succession
kept up, at such times and places as are ordinarily used for public
meetings of the said church, society or congregation, and by such
persons as are allowed to have a voice in the management and
direction of congregational or temporal concerns, according to
the known custom and usage of their 'respective denomina-
tions; or the said body politic or corporate shall be chosen, and
the succession kept up, according to the rules, regulations and I
practice that may have been heretofore adopted and agreed upon,
or that shall be at the first time of electing agreed upon and
adopted by any particular church, society or congregation,
for directing or managing their congregational or temporal
affairs.

91. Every trustee or member of any corporation aforesaid shall
be of the same religious sect or denomination with the church,
society or corporation by which he is chosen.

92. The minister for the time being, or senior minister, where
there are more than one settled in any church, society or con-
gregation, shall always, in virtue of his ministry, be a member
of the body politic or corporate belonging to the same, exclusive
of the number heretofore prescribed.