MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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accompanied with a certificate of the clerk of the county
court of the county in which said secretary resides,
under the seal of the said county court, that he knows of
his own knowledge, or that it hath been proven to his
satisfaction that the person subscribing himself as
secretary of such parish is in fact the secretary as
stated, and that the said certificate was subscribed by
said secretary.

312L. Subscriptions for maintenance of ministers,
readers and other officers.

If the vestry of any parish should think it
necessary to take in subscriptions for the maintenance of
their minister or ministers, reader or readers, or for
paying the salaries of such other officers as the
occasions of the parish may require to be appointed, or
for any other parish purposes, it shall and may be lawful
for them so to do.

312M. Powers of vestrymen in general.

The vestrymen of every parish in this State for the
time being, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be,
one community, corporation and body politic, forever, by
the name of the vestry of the parish to which they
severally belong, and by the same name they, and their
successors, shall and may have perpetual succession, and
shall and may, at all times hereafter, be persons able
and capable in law to purchase, take and hold, to them
and their successors, in fee, or for any less estate or
estates, any lands, tenements, hereditaments, rents or
annuities, within this State, by the gift, bargain, sale
or devise, of any person or persons, bodies politic and
corporate, capable of making the same, and such lands,
tenements or hereditaments, to rent or lease, in such a
manner as they may judge most conducive to the interests
of their respective parishes, and also to take and
receive any sum or sums of money, and any kind of goods
and chattels, which may or shall be given, sold or
bequeathed, unto them, by any person or persons, bodies
politic or corporate, capable to make a gift, sale or
bequest thereof, and to apply the same for the use of
their respective parishes as hereinbefore directed.

312N. Sale of property.

No vestry shall sell, alien or transfer, any of
their estates or property belonging to their church or
churches, without the consent of five at least of their
body, (of which number the rector shall always be one,)
together with the consent of both, the churchwardens, and
in case there be no rector in the parish, then it shall
be necessary to obtain the consent of the Bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in this State for the time
being, previous to any sale, alienation or transfer, of
any of the estates or property aforesaid.