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1 An Act concerning Religious and Other Incorporations 1 (1928)

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                AN ACT
 Concerning Religious and other
            Incorporations.


The People of the State of New-York, repre-
  sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
  and declare as follows:
                  TITLE I.
         OF RELIGIOUS CORPORATIONS.
             ARTICLE FIRST.
 Of the Incorporation of Protestant Episcopal Con-
                  gregations.
  § 1. Every congregation not already incorporated,
in communion with the Protestant Episcopal church,
in which two church-wardens and eight vestrymen
shall have been chosen, in the manner which is or
shall be prescribed by the canons of that church,
may proceed to incorporate themselves as a church,
in the manner following:
   1. A vestry meeting shall be held, at which the
rector of the congregation, if there be one, and a
majority of the wardens and vestrymen, shall attend.
1 2. Such meeting, by a majority of votes, shall
determine by what name or title the congregation,
as an incorporated church, shall be known, includ-
ing in such name that of the place where the church
is situate, and on what day in Easter week the
church-wardens and vestrymen of such church shall
thereafter be annually elected.
  3. The rector, or if there be none, the chairman
of such meeting, and two of the vestrymen present,
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