CORPORATIONS. [ART. 23

description of the qualifications of the persons severally elect-
ing and elected, and to elect and to be elected thereafter, and
also the name, style or title of the corporation by which it shall
thereafter be known, and the name of the church, society or
congregation choosing the same.
Boyce v. Trustee, 46 Md. 372.

1888, art 23, sec 211. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 163. 1892, ch. 664.

307. The said plan, agreement or regulation shall be entered
in the book hereinafter required by section 310 to be kept by
every such corporation, and the same shall be acknowledged
by the trustees, or a majority of them, before a justice of the
peace, a notary public, or a judge of the circuit court in the
counties, or a judge of the supreme bench of Baltimore city;
and such justice, notary, or judge shall append to said instru-
ment a certificate of such acknowledgment, and in all cases
where through inadvertence or mistake such plan, agreement,
or regulation has been heretofore acknowledged before one
justice of the peace instead of two, such acknowledgment shall
be and is hereby made, to all intents and purposes, good and
sufficient for the incorporation of the church, society or con-
gregation named therein.

Ibid.

Ibid. sec. 212 1868, ch 471, sec. 164.

308. 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 congre-
gation, 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 corpora-
tion, in a book to be kept for that special purpose.

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

Ibid. sec. 213. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 165.

309. 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. 214. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 166.

310. Every such corporation may appoint the. times and
places of the meeting of its members, and the number neces-