JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 163

a congregational meeting duly called in accordance
with the Public General Laws of this State, relating
to religious corporations, did adopt the following
amendments to said plan, agreement or regulation,	Preamble.
to wit : First, in the preamble of the original act
of incorporation after the word " Church," in line
fifth, supply the words " and congregation;" second
in section fourth of said charter or act of incorpora-
tion, supply after the words "part of" the woids
" the body known since Anno Domini eighteen
hundred and thirty-seven as the old school ; " third,
in section second of the original charter, after the
words " management of" substitute for the words
"temporal concerns," the words "the estate, property
interest and inheritance," and add to the section
these words : Nor shall more than four of the Trus-
tees who have served during any one term, be eligi-
ble for re-election for the space of two years there-
after, the determination which of the seven are re-eli-
gible to be by lot ; fourth, in section fifth of the origi-
nal charter, substitute the word "April" for "Maj;"
and whereas, on the thirtieth day of March, Anno
Domini eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, the male
members and pew-holders of said church, at a con-
gregational meeting duly called in accordance with
the Public General Laws of this State, relating to
religious corporations, did adopt the following ad-
ditional amendment to their said plan, agreement or
regulation to wit :
Resolved, That the charter of the Central Pres-	Altered and
byterian Church, be altered and amended in manner	amended.
following : that the second section of the charter as
amended on the fifth day of May, eighteen hundred
and fifty-six, be stricken out, and the following be
substituted therefor : That the number of Trustees
for the management of the temporal concerns of the
said church, shall consist of twelve male members or
pew-holders of the said church, besides the minister
for the time being, and who at the time of being
elected shall be of the full age of twenty-one years, and who shall continue to act for the term of two years ;
and that for all business purposes, four of the said
Trustees, .with the acting minister, or five of them
without the acting minister shall form a quorum,
and their acts when a proper quorum shall meet
shall be in all respects binding; and that the Trustees