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on the Sunday next succeeding the first day of January in each and
every year, and the incumbents to hold office until their respective
successors shall be so as aforesaid elected or appointed, as the case may
be), shall be constituted a body politic and corporate, under such title
as may be assumed by the said corporation, and recorded in a certificate
under the hands and seals of the corporators first chosen or otherwise
entitled to office under the terms of this section, the said certificate to
be acknowledged before a justice of the peace of the county or city of
Baltimore, as the case may be, where the said congregation shall have
or possess a place of worship, and recorded among the corporation
record of the said county or city.
See notes to sec. 330.

1904, art. 23, sec. 314. 1892, ch. 614, sec. 217 B. 1908, ch. 240, sec. 314.

352. Every such corporation shall have, in addition to the powers
conferred by section 7 of this article, in so far as the said powers may
be consistent with its general character, the further power to appoint
the hour and place of the meetings at which the two of its members
so as aforesaid to be annually elected shall be chosen, and the manner
in which such election shall be held, and shall provide a good and
sufficient record book, wherein shall be registered from time to time
all of its proceedings, and which shall at all times be open to inspection
by any member of the said congregation, or any ecclesiastical officer of
the said denomination of Christians, having, according to the discipline
and practice thereof, authority over the said congregation, or the right
to be informed concerning its management and interests of the said
corporation; the pastor of the congregation for the time being (if any
there be), shall always be president; it shall have power to frame such
rules and ordinances for the orderly conduct of divine worship and the
advancement of the interests of the congregation, as a majority of the
corporation may from time to time deem necessary; provided, that the
same shall not conflict with the constitution or laws of the United
States or this State, or with the discipline and practice of the denomina-
tion aforesaid.

See notes to sec. 339.

Ibid. sec. 315. 1892, ch. 614, sec. 217 c.

353. If at any time one of the corporators so as aforesaid to be
annually elected shall die, resign or become disqualified by ceasing to
be a pewholder of the said church, it shall be competent for the remain-
ing members of the said corporation to appoint a successor to the one
so dying, resigning or becoming disqualified, which successor shall
hold office until some one to fill his place shall be chosen at the next
annual meeting of the said congregation; and if at any time the mem-
ber so as aforesaid to be annually appointed by the ordinary of the
diocese shall die or resign, it shall be competent for the said ordinary
to fill the said vacancy in the corporation aforesaid, by appointing
another person to serve for the remainder of the term of the one so