1308                                      LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 651

264.

Every such plan, agreement or regulation, heretofore or hereafter determined
upon in the manner provided for in Section 261 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] EIGHTEEN 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 proposed 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 prepaid 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 acknowledged in the name and oil behalf of the
church, society or congregation by such of the trustees as shall be designated 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 by the
chairman or secretary of the meeting of such persons at which such amendment or
amendments was or were adopted.

(4)  Such articles of amendment, shall be delivered for record by the trustees
to the Department in the manner and with the effect provided in Section 269 of
this article.

299.

(a) Every resident of this State, over [21] 18 years of age, who shall have been
an enrolled member of the parish where he offers to vote for six months next
preceding the day of election, and who shall have shared in the work of the parish
by contributions, donations or personal services rendered at the request or with the
consent of the vestry, or who shall have complied with such other financial
requirements as the bylaws of the parish may provide, shall have the right of
suffrage for the election of vestrymen for such parish.

SECTION 7. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Sections 4(a) and
(b), 161F(a), 161M(a), 180, 415(a) and 416(a) of Article 23 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1966 Replacement Volume and 1972 Supplement), title
"Corporations," subtitles "I. Stock Corporations," "III. Particular Classes of
Corporations," subheadings "Formation of Corporations," "Building and
Homestead Associations," "Minors -- Institutions and Societies for the Care and
Protection of," and "Development Credit Corporation," be and they are hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

4.

(a) For the purpose of forming a corporation, articles of incorporation shall be
filed with the Department signed and acknowledged by one or more persons of at
least (twenty-one) EIGHTEEN years of age, acting as incorporator or
incorporators, and the fees and bonus tax provided by law shall be paid.