688 CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

dying or resigning, and until a successor thereto shall be duly chosen
according to the terms of section 351; and if at any time the corporators
for the time being shall think it wise to change the name of the said
corporation, they may do the same by a certificate under their hands
and seals, to be acknowledged and recorded as provided for in the
case of the original certificate mentioned in section 351 of this article.
See notes to sec. 339.

1904, art. 23, sec. 316. 1892, ch. 614, sec. 217 D.

354. Any person or persons, individual or corporation, holding
lands or goods and chattels, or any interest therein, in trust for any
particular church or congregation, church society congregation, of the
said denomination, wherein a corporation shall be formed in accordance
with the terms of section 351, shall convey the same to the said corpora-
tion as soon as possible after its formation under the terms of the three
preceding sections; and any gift, devise or bequest heretofore or here-
after made to any such congregation, or to any person or persons,
individual or corporation in trust therefor, shall enure to the benefit
of the corporation to be formed in such congregation (if any such
corporation shall be so formed according to the terms of said sections),
whether the said corporation be or be not accurately described in such
gift, devise or bequest; provided, that the intention of the donor or
testator be clear that the same should enure to the benefit of the said
congregation.

See notes to sec. 339.

Devises and bequests for charitable uses are not to be held void by reason
of the uncertainty of the donees, provided the will contains directions for
the formation of a corporation to take the same, and provided such corpora-
tion is formed within twelve months—art 93, sec. 328.

1910, ch. 756 (p. 83).

355. If any church or congregation organized or incorporated as a
religious corporation since the year eighteen hundred under any law
of this State hath failed or omitted within the time prescribed by
said law to file in the proper office for record the agreement, plan or
certificate of incorporation adopted by the said church or congregation,
and if the said agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation hath
heretofore, though after the time prescribed by said law, been filed for
record in the proper office, then, in such case, the said agreement, plan
or certificate of incorporation having been so filed for record shall be
effective for creating and making the said church or congregation a
proper and lawful religious body corporate, and the same is hereby
made a religious body corporate, at, from and after the date of the
said agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation, in all respects, and
to all intents and purposes, as if the said agreement, plan or certificate
of incorporation had been duly filed for record within the time
prescribed by such law, and the failure to file the agreement, plan or
certificate of incorporation shall in no wise affect the validity or effect
of the said church or congregation as a valid and lawful religious body