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BENJAMIN OGLE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
or concurrence of circumstances, shall prevent the holding of
an election for trustees at the period above mentioned, then and in
such case an election shall be held as soon as conveniently may be
done in manner and form aforesaid, and that the remaining members
of the said corporation, (whose time of service is unexpired,)
shall have power to call a meeting of the electors of the said congregations
for such purpose. |
1800.
CHAP. 57. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever any vacancy
shall
happen by death, refusal to serve, or expulsion from membership,
according to the discipline and rules of the said church, of any
one or more of the said trustees, the said corporation shall have
full power, at their discretion, to appoint the time and place for the
purpose of electing a trustee or trustees, as the case may be, in
their stead, and that the person or persons so elected shall be and
continue in office so long as the person or persons would or might
have continued, in order to keep up the number of nine elected
trustees for ever; but before any of the aforesaid elections are held,
public notice shall be given to the said congregations the preceding
Sunday after divine service, and before the congregations are dismissed,
or in any other convenient manner which the said corporation
shall think expedient. |
Vacancies, how to
be filled. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no person or persons
shall be
entitled to vote at an election for trustees who is or are not a regular
male member or members, according to the rules and discipline
of the said church, of any least twenty-one year of age, and of one
year's standing as a member; and that no person or persons whatsoever
may or shall be eligible as a member of the said corporation
who is not, at the time of his election, a regular male member, according
to the rules expressed in the form of discipline of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in America, of twenty-one years of
age at least, and of two years standing as a member. |
Persons entitled to
vote. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all the lands and
tenements,
with their appertenances, now vested in trustees for the use of the
said churches, and all other property of the said church, shall be
and are hereby absolutely and unconditionally vested in the said
body corporate, and their successors, for ever; and the said property,
or any other property which may hereafter be acquired by
the said corporation, in as full and effectual a manner as any person
or body corporate may or can do. |
Lands vested in
corporation. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said corporation
shall be
capable of purchasing hereafter real and personal property, not
exceeding in value the sum of six thousand dollars current money
of the United States. |
Corporation may
purchase property. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That at all meetings
of the said corporation
the minister for the time being shall be the president, and
in case of the absence, removal or death, of the minister, the lay
members of the corporation may appoint one of their own body
president pro tempore, who, daring such absence, or in the case
of
removal or death until the appointment of another minister, shall
have all the authority and privileges of a president. |
Minister to preside
at all meetings. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all acts or deeds
of the said
corporation shall be signed by the president, in behalf of the corporation, |
All acts of corporation
to be signed
and sealed. |
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