tion be changed to a secular day in the week beginning with the first Sunday in Advent, or that the number of vestrymen. be changed to three, six or nine, and that the terms of office of the churchwardens be changed so that one warden shall be elected annually, notice of such recommendation or recommendations shall be included in the notice of the next annual election of such parish, and be submitted to the meeting. If such recommendation or recommendations be ratified by such meeting, the presiding officer thereof and at least two qualified voters present thereat, shall execute and acknowledge a certificate setting forth such resolution of the vestry; the fact that notice thereof had been given with the notice. of the annual election; that such meeting had ratified the same; the date determined upon for the annual election of the parish; the number of vestrymen so decided on; and the fact that the meeting determined to thereafter elect churchwardens, so that the term of one warden shall expire annually. Such certificate shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county in which the original certificate of incorporation is filed and recorded. If the meeting determined to change the date of the annual election, the next annual election shall be held on the day in the week beginning with the first Sunday in Advent, determined on by such meeting, and the terms of the vestrymen and churchwardens which, pursuant to law, would expire at the next annual election shall expire and their successors shall be elected on such day. If the meeting determine to change the number of vestrymen and manner of electing wardens and vestrymen, there shall be elected at the first annual election thereafter, one-third of the number of vestrymen so determined on, to hold office for three years; one-third thereof to hold office for two years; and one-third thereof to hold office for one year; and one churchwarden to hold office for one year, and one to hold for two years; and thereafter at the annual election there shall be elected one-third of the number of vestrymen determined on at such meeting and one churchwarden. (As amended by chap. 358 of 1898, § 6.) 36. Changing the qualifications of voters and the qualifications of wardens and vestrymen.-If the vestry of a Protestant Episcopal parish heretofore incorporated shall by resolution recommend that the qualifications of voters and the qualifications of wardens and vestrymen be changed to conform in both cases Roman Catholic and Greek Churches. $ 50 to the requirements of section thirty-three of this statute, notice of such recommendation or recommendations shall be included in the notice of the next annual election of such parish, and be submitted to the meeting. If such recommendation or recommendations be ratified by such meeting the presiding officer thereof and at least two qualified voters present thereat shall execute and acknowledge a certificate setting forth such resolution of the vestry, the fact that notices thereof had been given with the notice of such annual election, and that the meeting had ratified Such certificate shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county in which the original certificate of incorporation is filed and recorded. (As amended by chap. 358 of 1898, § 7.) Article III-aaded 1908 c.97 - Provisions for the incorporation & government of Presbyten. churches. ARTICLE H. SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR THE INCORPORATION AND GOVERN- SECTION 50. Incorporation of Roman Catholic and Greek churches. 51. Government of incorporated Roman Catholic churches. 50. Incorporation of Roman Catholicand Creek churches. -An unincorporated Roman Catholic church, or an unincorporated Christian Orthodox Catholic church of the Eastern Confession, in this state may become incorporated as a church by executing, acknowledging and filing a certificate of incorporation, stating the corporate name by which such church shall be known and the county, town, city or village where its principal place of worship is, or is intended to be, located. A certificate of incorporation of an unincorporated Roman Catholic church shall be executed and acknowledged by the Roman Catholic archbishop or bishop, and the vicar-general of the diocese in which its place of worship is, and by the rector of the church, and by two laymen, members of such church who shall be selected by such officials, or by a majority of such officials. A certificate of incorporation of an unincorporated Christian Orthodox Catholic church of the eastern confession shall be executed and acknowledged by the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, and the consul-general of Russsia to the United States, then acknowledged and received as such by the United States. On filing such certificate such church shall be a corporation by the name stated in the certificate. 51. Government of incorporated Roman Catholic and Greek churches. The archbishop or bishop and the vicar-general of the diocese to which any incorporated Roman Catholic church belongs, the rector of such church, and their successors in office shall, by virtue of their offices, be trustees of such church. Two laymen, members of such incorporated church, selected by such officers or by a majority of them, shall also be trustees of such incorporared church, and such officers and such laymen trustees shall together constitute the board of trustees thereof. The two laymen signing the certificate of incorporation of an incorporated Roman Catholic church shall be the two laymen trustees thereof during the first year of its corporate existence. The term of office of the two laymen trustees of an incorporated Roman Catholic church shall be one year. Whenever the office of any such layman trustee shall become vacant by expiration of term of office or otherwise, his successor shall be appointed from members of the church, by such officers or a majority of them. No act or proceeding of the trustees of any such incorporated church shall be valid without the sanction of the archbishop or bishop of the diocese to which such church belongs, or in case of their absence or inability to act, without the sanction of the vicar-general or of the administrator of such diocese. The envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, and the consul-general of Russia to the United States, acknowledged and received as such, and their successors in office shall, by virtue of office, be the trustees of every incorporated Christian Orthodox Catholic church of the Eastern Confession in this state. The trustees of any such church shall have power to fix and change the salary of the rector and his assistant, appointed or commissioned according to the rules and usages of the denomination to which such church belongs. 852- added 1902 c. 365 Division of Roman Catholic Parish, disposition of property Dutch A MENT OF REFORMED DUTCH, PRESBYTERIAN, Reformed SECTION 60. Decision by a Reformed Dutch or Reformed Presbyterian church, 61. Decision by Evangelical Lutheran church as to system of incor- 62. Incorporation of Reformed Dutch, Presbyterian, Reformed Pres- 64. Reformed churches in America, changing system of choosing 65. Reformed Presbyterian churches, changing system of choosing 66. Evangelical Lutheran churches, changing system of choosing § 60. Decision by a Reformed Dutch or Reformed Presbyterian church as to system of incorporation and government.The minister or ministers, if there be any, and the elders and deacons of an unincorporated church in connection with the Reformed church in America, the true Reformed Dutch church in the United States of America, or with the Reformed Presbyterian church, may determine to incorporate such church in pursuance of this article, or to call a meeting of such unincorporated church for the purpose of deciding whether such church shall be incorporated in pursuance of the next article of this chapter, entitled "Special provisions for the incorporation and government of churches of other denominations." If such ministers, elders and deacons determine to call such meeting for such purpose, then such church may be incorporated and shall be governed after its incorporation in pursuance of the provisions of the next article of this chapter, except such provisions thereof as are applicable to churches of a single denomination only, and except that the notice of the meeting for incorporation shall be signed by such ministers, elders and deacons or a majority of them, and no other signatures thereto shall be necessary to its validity; and, if it be a Reformed church in America, it shall, after incorporation, be governed by such of the provisions of this article as relates to its consistory and to the choice of its minister. § 61. Decision by Lutheran and Presbyterian churches as to system of incorporation and government.-A meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated Evangelical Lutheran church, or an unincorporated Presbyterian church in connection with the Presbyterian church in the United States of America, must be called and held in pursuance of the provisions of the next article of this chapter, except that the first business of such meeting after its organization, shall be to determine whether such church shall be incorporated and governed in pursuance of this article, or in pursuance of the next article of this chapter. If such meeting determines that such church shall be incorporated and governed in pursuance of this article, then no further proceeding shall be taken in pursuance of the next article, and such church may be incorporated and shall be governed after its incorporation in pursuance of the provisions of the following sections of this article, except such provisions as are applicable only to churches of a different denomination; and the certificate of incorporation shall recite such determination of such meeting. If such church is an unincorporated Presbyterian church in connection with the Presbyterian church in the United States of America, and such meeting determine that it shall be incorporated and governed in pursuance of this article, then the meeting shall also determine whether by virtue of their office, the deacons only of such church, or the pastor, elders and deacons of such church, or the pastor and elders of such church, shall be the trustees of such corporation; and the certificate of the incorporation shall recite such determination of such meeting. If such meeting determine that such church shall be incorporated and governed in pursuance of the next article of this chapter, then this article shall not be applicable thereto, but such church may be incorporated and shall be governed after its incorporation in pursuance of the provisions of the next article of this chapter, except such provisions as are applicable to churches of a single religious denomination only. (As amended by chap. 35 of 1896, § 1, and chap. 190 of 1896, § 2.) § 62. Incorporation of Reformed Dutch, Presbyterian, Reformed Presbyterian and Evangelical Lutheran churches under this article. If an unincorporated church in connection with the Reformed church in America, the true Reformed Dutch church |