WM. PRESTON LANE, JR. ? GOVERNOR. 699

tions", be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments to read respectively as follows:

281. The said plan, agreement or regulation shall be
entered in the book hereinafter required by Section 284
to be kept by every such corporation, and the same shall
be acknowledged as provided by law by the trustees, or a
majority of them. 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 as at the time required by law, such acknowl-
edgment shall be and is hereby made, to all intents and
purposes, good and sufficient for the incorporation of the
church, society or congregation named therein.

282. The plan, agreement or regulation, so acknowl-
edged, together with a copy thereof, shall be delivered for
record by the said trustees to the State Tax Commission in
the manner and with the effect provided in Section 291A
of this Article.

283. Every such plan, agreement or regulation, here-
tofore or hereafter determined upon in the manner pro-
vided for in Section 280 of this Article, may be amended
from time to time and in the manner following:

(1) The trustees or a majority of them shall pass a
resolution declaring that such amendment or amendments
is or are advisable and calling a meeting of all persons
above twenty-one years of age belonging to such church,
society or congregation, to take action thereon.

(2) Ten days' written or printed notice stating the
place, day or hour of such meeting and the business pro-
posed to be transacted thereat shall be given to each such
person by leaving the same with him or at his residence
or usual place of business or by mailing it, postage pre-
paid and addressed to him at his address as it appears
upon the records of said church, society or congregation.

(3) If a majority of all such persons attending such
meeting vote in favor of such amendment or amendments,
articles of amendment setting forth the same and stating
that the same has or have been duly advised by the trustees
and adopted by such persons, shall be signed and acknow-
ledged in the name and on behalf of the church, society
or congregation by such of the trustees as shall be desig-
nated in the resolution declaring such amendment or
amendments advisable, and the matters and facts set forth
in said articles of amendment shall be verified under oath