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Ibid, sec. 312. 1888, art. 23, sec. 216. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 168. 350. The person or persons holding lands or goods and chattels in trust for any particular church or society shall convey the same to the corporation of such particular church or society as soon as the same shall be formed under this Article.

Ibid, sec. 313. 1892, ch. 614. sec. 217a.

351. In every congregation of the denomination of Christians known as the "Roman Catholic Church," the ordinary of the diocese and the pastor of the said congregation for the time being, according to the practice and discipline of the said church, the other persons to be annually designated by said ordinary, and two other persons to be annually elected by the male pewholders of the said congregation from among their number (said annual election and appointment to be made on the Sunday next succeeding the first day of January in each and every year, and the incumbents to hold office until their respective successors shall be so as aforesaid elected or appointed, as the case may be), shall be constituted a body politic and corporate, under such title as may be assumed by the said corporation, and recorded in a certificate under the hands and seals of the corporators first chosen or otherwise entitled to office under the terms of this section, the said certificate to be acknowledged before a justice of the peace of the county or city of Baltimore, as the case may be, where the said congregation shall have or possess a place of worship, and recorded among the corporation record of the said county or city.*

1904, art. 23, sec. 314. 1892, ch. 614, sec. 217B. 1908. ch. 240, sec. 314.

352. Every such corporation shall have, in addition to the powers conferred by Section 7 of this Article, in so far as the said powers may be consistent with its general character, the further power to appoint the hour and place of the meetings at which the two of its members so as aforesaid to be annually elected shall be chosen, and the manner in which such election shall be held, and shall provide a good and sufficient record book, wherein shall be registered from time to time all of its

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore was made a corporation sole, with power of succession, by the Acts of 1894, ch. 50.

proceedings, and which shall at all times be open to inspection by any member of the said congregation, or any ecclesiastical officer of the said denomination of Christians, having, according to the discipline and practice thereof, authority over the said congregation, or the right to be informed concerning its management and interests of the said corporation; the pastor of the congregation for the time being (if any there be), shall always be president; it shall have power to frame such rules and ordinances for the orderly conduct of divine worship and the advancement of the interests of the congregation, as a majority of the corporation may from time to time deem necessary; provided, that the same shall not conflict with the constitution or laws of the United States or this State, or with the discipline and practice of the denomination aforesaid.

Ibid, sec. 315. 1892, ch. 614, sec. 217c.

353. If at any time one of the corporators so as aforesaid to be annually elected shall die, resign or become disqualified by ceasing to be a pewholder of the said church, it shall be competent for the remaining members of the said corporation to appoint a successor to the one so dying, resigning or becoming disqualified, which successor shall hold office until some one to fill his place shall be chosen at the next annual meeting of the said congregation; and if at any time the member so as aforesaid to be annually appointed by the ordinary of the diocese shall die or resign, it shall be competent for the said ordinary to fill the said vacancy in the corporation aforesaid, by appointing another person to serve for the remainder of the term of the one so dying or resigning, and until a successor thereto shall be duly chosen according to the terms of Section 351; and if at any time the corporators for the time being shall think it wise to change the name of the said corporation, they may do the same by a certificate under their hands and seals, to be acknowledged and recorded as provided for in the case of the original certificate mentioned in Section 351 of this Article.

1904, art. 23, sec. 316. 1892, ch. 614, sec. 217D.

354. Any person or persons, individual or corporation, holding lands or goods and chattels, or any interest therein, in trust for any particular church or congregation, church society

congregation, of the said denomination, wherein a corporation shall be formed in accordance with the terms of Section 351, shall convey the same to the said corporation as soon as possible after its formation under the terms of the three preceding sections; and any gift, devise or bequest heretofore or hereafter made to any such congregation, or to any person or persons, individual or corporation in trust therefor, shall enure to the benefit of the corporation to be formed in such congregation (if any such corporation shall be so formed according to the terms of said sections), whether the said corporation be or be not accurately described in such gift, devise or bequest; provided, that the intention of the donor or testator be clear that the same should enure to the benefit of the said congregation.

1912, art. 23, sec. 355. 1910, ch. 756. sec. 316A. 1912, ch. 218, sec. 316A.

355. If any church or congregation organized or incorporated as a religious corporation since the year eighteen hundred under any law of this State hath failed or omitted within the time prescribed by said law to file in the proper office for record the agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation adopted by the said church or congregation and if the said agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation hath heretofore, though after the time prescribed by said law, been filed for record in the proper office, then, in such case, the said agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation having been so filed for record shall be effective for creating and making the said church or congregation a proper and lawful religious body corporate, and the same is hereby made a religious body corporate, at, from and after the date of the said agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation, in all respects, and to all intents and purposes, as if the said agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation had been duly filed for record within the time prescribed by such law, and the failure to file the agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation shall in no wise affect the validity or effect of the said church or congregation as a valid and lawful religious body corporate, and all the proceedings, acts and transactions carried on, done and performed in the name or under the authority of such agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation, including the choice and election of trustees,

in all respects, and to all intents and purposes shall be as valid and binding as if the said agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation had been duly filed for record, and in proper time, and all deeds, conveyances and transfers of property, in trust for the benefit of any such church or congregation, and all deeds, conveyances and transfers made and executed to others by or in the name of such church or congregation, as a religious corporation, shall be good, valid and effective to all intents and purposes, as if the agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation for such church and congregation had been duly filed in the proper office, for record, within the time prescribed by the law under which such church or congregation was organized and incorporated as aforesaid. And if it shall appear from the record book required to be kept by any such religious corporation wherein it is required to register its plan, agreement or certificate of incorporation, or otherwise that any church or congregation heretofore made and adopted a good and sufficient agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation, and, in the clerk's office, where the same should have been of record, no book for recording such instruments is to be found covering the time in which said agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation should have been filed for record, then in such case it shall be conclusively presumed in all Courts of this State that the said agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation was duly and in due time filed for record in the said clerk's office, and that the book containing the record of the same has been lost or destroyed, and such agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation shall be again filed for record in said clerk's office, unless it has heretofore already been filed, or if the original of such plan, agreement or certificate of incorporation cannot be found, then such record in said clerk's office may be made from the aforesaid record book of such religious corporation unless said record has heretofore already been made in said clerk's office from said record book of such religious corporation. If any church or congregation, organized or incorporated as a religious corporation since the year eighteen hundred under any law of this State, hath failed or omitted to file in the proper clerk's office its agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation, within the time prescribed by

said law, and if such agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation hath never been since filed for record, nor a record been made in said clerks office of said agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation, from said record book of said corporation as aforesaid, such church or congregation shall have all of the benefits of this section, if such agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation shall be duly filed for record in the proper clerk's office, within one year from April 11, 1912, or a record be made within said time in said clerk's office of said agreement, plan or certificate of incorporation from said record book of said corporation, as aforesaid.

Safe Deposit Companies.

1904, art. 23, sec. 317. 1904, ch. 92, sec. 221a.

356. No safe deposit company incorporated under the laws of this State or any other State, the District of Columbia, or any territory of the United States, and engaged in the business of renting out locked boxes or safes for the storage or safe keeping of securities and valuables, in a vault in its building or under its control, within this State, and no corporation engaged in said business within this State shall permit entry or access to be made by one of any two or more co-trustees, coexecutors or administrators, or other joint fiduciaries, to whom it shall have rented a safe or box in such vault for the storage or safe keeping of securities or other valuables belonging to their trust estate, nor permit such entry or access in such cases to be made otherwise than by all of such lessees in person, their survivors or successors; nor, where such safe or box is rented to a single trustee, executor, administrator or other fiduciary for such purpose, permit such entry or access, other wise than by such trustee or other fiduciary in person or his successors; provided, however, that where it is otherwise stipu lated in writing in the lease of such box or safe, signed by all of such lessees, or where a written power of attorney or other written authority is filed with such company, signed by all the lessees, or by the one or more conferring such power on the other or others, authorizing such entry and access by one or more of their number, or by a deputy therein duly named and

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