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corporate, all the proceedings, acts and transactions carried on, done
and performed in the name or under the authority of such agreement,
plan or certificate of incorporation, including the choice and election
of trustees, in all respects, and to all intents and purposes shall be as
valid and binding as if the said agreement, plan or certificate of incorpo-
ration had been duly filed for record, and in proper time, and all deeds,
conveyances and transfers of property, in trust for the benefit of any
such church or congregation, and all deeds, conveyances and transfers
made and executed to others, by or in the name of such church or
congregation, as a religious corporation, shall be good, valid and effec-
tive to all intents and purposes, as if the agreement, plan or certificate
of incorporation for such church and congregation had been duly filed
in the proper office, for record, within the time prescribed by the law
under which such church or congregation was organized and incorpo-
rated as aforesaid. And if it shall appear that any church or congre-
gation heretofore made and adopted a good and sufficient agreement,
plan or certificate of incorporation, and in the clerk's office, where the
same should have been recorded no book for recording such instru-
ments is to be found covering the time in which such agreement, plan
or certificate of incorporation should have been filed for record, then
in such case it shall be conclusively presumed in all the courts of this
State that the said agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation was
duly and in due time filed for record in the said clerk's office, and
that the book containing the record of the same has been lost or
destroyed, and such agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation shall
be again filed for record, unless it has heretofore already been filed. If
any church or congregation, organized or incorporated as a religious
corporation since the vear eighteen hundred, under any law of this
State, hath failed or omitted to file in the proper clerk's office its
agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation, within the time pre-
scribed by the said law, and if such agreement, plan or certificate of
incorporation hath never been since filed for record, such church or
congregation shall have all the benefits of this section, if such agree-
ment, plan or certificate of incorporation shall be duly filed for record
in the proper clerk's office, within one year from April 11, 1910.

Safe Deposit Companies.

1904, art. 23, sec. 317. 1904, ch. 92, sec. 221 A.

356. No safe deposit company, incorporated under the laws of this
State or any other State, the District of Columbia, or any territory of
the United States, and engaged in the business of renting out locked
boxes or safes for the storage or safe keeping of securities and valuables,
in a vault in its building or under its control, within this State, and
no corporation engaged in said business within this State shall permit
entry or access to be made by one of any two or more co-trustees,
co-executors or administrators, or other joint fiduciaries, to whom it
shall have rented a safe or box in such vault for the storage or safe
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