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thereof shall reside; or the same may be acknowledged before
and certified by a judge of the circuit court or of the supreme
bench of Baltimore city.
Boyce v. Trustees, 46 Md. 372.

1868, ch. 471, sec. 164.

212. The plan or agreement, so acknowledged and certified,
shall be filed by the said trustees with the clerk of the circuit
court for the county where the said church, society or congrega-
tion, or the greater part of the members thereof reside, or the
clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city, if they or the
greater part of the members reside in the city of Baltimore,
within six months after such acknowledgment shall be made;
and the same shall be recorded at the expense of the corporation,
in a book to be kept for that special purpose.

Ibid. Reed v. Stouffer, 56 Md. 255.

Ibid. sec. 165.

213. If any change shall be made in the original plan, by
authority of the congregation, such change shall, in the same
manner, be acknowledged and recorded.

Ibid. sec. 166.

214. Every such corporation may appoint the times and
places of the meeting of its members, and the number necessary
to constitute a quorum, and shall provide and keep a good and
sufficient record book, and cause therein to be registered all its
proceedings, subject at all times to the inspection of the several
members of the church, society or congregation; and the same
shall be laid before a public meeting when required by any five
or more of the members; and the said trustees, or a majority of
them, shall have full power to frame such rules and ordinances
for conducting their concerns as may be necessary and convenient
for accomplishing the end of their institution.

Ibid. sec. 167.

215. When any number of persons belonging to any church
or congregation, sufficient to build a church or house of worship,
and to maintain a minister, shall choose to separate from the
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