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93. If any contest shall arise in any church, society or congre-
gation, about the right of voting, or whether the election has
been fairly conducted, agreeably to the true intent and meaning
of this article, the parties contending shall each of them choose
one discreet and reputable person from amongst the members or
trustees of some neighboring congregation or society of the same
religious persuasion, if any such there be, and if none such, then
of any other Christian society, which two persons shall choose a
third, qualified in like manner, and the said three persons shall
meet at the place where the difference has arisen, and hear and
determine upon the matter, and their judgment or award, or the
judgment or award of a majority of them, certified under their
hands and seals, to the contending parties, shall be final.

94. At the first election or appointment of every body politic
or corporate aforesaid, every church, society or corporation
assembled as already directed, shall determine on their plan,
agreement or regulation, specifying distinctly the time and
manner of electing trustees, and the manner in which the suc-
cession shall be perpetuated, and containing an exact description
of the qualifications of the persons severally electing and elected,
and to elect and to be elected thereafter, and also the name, style
or title of the corporation by which it shall thereafter be known,
and the name of the church, society or congregation choosing
the same.

95. The said plan, agreement or regulation shall be entered in
the book hereinafter directed to be kept by every such corpora-
tion, and the same shall be acknowledged by the trustees or a
majority of them before and certified by two justices of the peace
of the county in which the said church, congregation or society,
or the greatest number of them, shall reside, or the same may be
acknowledged before and certified by a judge of the Circuit
Court, after being well assured by the said trustees, or a
majority of them, that the proceedings have been legally and
duly conducted.

96. The plan or agreement so acknowledged and certified shall
be filed by the said trustees with the clerk of the Circuit Court
of the county where the said church, society or congregation, or
the greater part of them, reside, or the clerk of the Superior
Court of Baltimore city, if they or the greater part of them re-
side in the city of Baltimore, within six months after such ac-
knowledgment shall be made, and the same shall be recorded at