thereat.

such meeting the affidavit of such posting or publishing shall be produced, and recorded in the minutes. And it is further provided, That at such meeting, in addition to the signers of Who to be voter such articles, any male person of full age shall be entitled to vote who shall sign a declaration in writing, to be kept in the book of minutes, whereby he shall signify his intention of attaching himself to said church, and accepting the terms of

such articles. Vestrymen of the church shall be elected at Election of said meeting, or any adjournment thereof.

Vestrymen.

subsequent Meet

Meeting to take

(2041.) SEC. 5. At all subsequent meetings, the right of who may vote at voting shall be confined to the persons who became actually ings. entitled to vote at the first meeting, and to such others, male persons of full age, as have, during the year previous, been stated worshippers in such church, and owned or rented a seat therein, or been stated contributors to its support. The When Annual annual meeting shall take place at such time in Easter week place. as shall be fixed in said articles; and at such annual meeting an election of vestrymen shall be had, to serve until the next annual meeting, and until their successors shall be chosen. (2042.) SEC. 6. The vestrymen shall choose two of their Vestrymen may number to be wardens. They may also appoint a Secretary Secretary and and Treasurer from their own number, and may employ such other agents and servants as they may see fit. Meetings of Vestry Meeting; the vestry may be called by the rector of the church, or by either warden, or by any two other vestrymen, and a majority in number of the vestrymen elected shall constitute a quorum

appoint Wardens,

Treasurer.

by whom called.

for the transaction of business. The rector, when present, Rector to preside. shall preside at all vestry meetings, but shall have no vote, except a casting vote, in case of a tie; and in his absence from a meeting, one of the wardens, if present, shall preside. All vacancies in such vestry may be filled by the vestrymen vacancies in at any meeting, and the persons elected to fill such vacancies ed. shall hold for the same period as their predecessors would have done.

Vestry; how fill

temporal affairs.

(2043.) SEC. 7. All the temporal affairs of such churches Vestry to manage shall be managed by the vestrymen thereof, and they shall have authority to erect, alter, repair, enlarge, and, in case they deem it necessary, take down or remove and rebuild any church or other building belonging to such Corporation; and no owner of any pew or slip in such church shall be held to be the owner of any interest in the land whereon the same is erected. It shall be lawful for such Corporations to hold such amount of real estate as shall be reasonably necessary for a

church, and lecture or school room, and dwellings for the ministers thereof; but it shall not be lawful for such Corporations to hold or use any real estate for any other purpose. This act shall take effect immediately.

When Trustees

may be appointed

An Act to Provide for the Appointment of Trustees in certain cases.

[Approved February 17, 1857. Laws of 1857, p. 442.]

(2044.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, by Officers of That whenever, by the constitution, rules or usages of any

Churches.

pointment.

particular church or religious denomination, Trustees are required to be appointed by any officer or officers of such church or denomination, it shall be the duty of such officer or officers to give to such Trustees a certificate of their appointment, under the hand and seal of the person or persons making the same, specifying the name by which such Trustees and their successors shall forever thereafter be called and Certificate of ap-known; which certificate shall be acknowledged, or proved, and recorded as prescribed in section six of an act entitled, "An Act concerning Churches and Religious Societies," approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fiftyfive; whereupon such Trustees and their successors, appointed in accordance with the constitution, rules and usages of such Such Trustees to church, shall be a body corporate by the name expressed in such certificate, with all the rights, powers and privileges of other Religious Corporations constituted according to law.

be body Corporate.

Repeal of conflicting enactments.

(2045.) SEC. 2. All acts, or parts of acts, conflicting with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed; and the Legislature shall have power to amend or repeal this act at any time hereafter at its discretion.

SEC. 3. This act shall take immediate effect.

Teachers may

(2046.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Fifteen or more Any fifteen or more Teachers, or other persons residing in this form Corporation. State, who shall associate for the purpose of promoting Education and Science, and improvements in the theory and practice of Teaching, may form themselves into a Corporation, under such name as they may choose, providing they shall have published, in some newspaper printed at Lansing, or in the Notice to be pubcounty in which such Association is to be located, for at least one month previous, a notice of the time, place and purpose of the meeting for such Association, and shall file in the office of the Secretary of State a copy of the constitution and by-laws of said Association.

lished.

and Personal

(2047.) SEC. 2. Such Association may hold and possess real My hold Real and personal property to the amount of five thousand dollars, Property. but the funds or property thereof shall not be used for any Restrictions upon other purpose than the legitimate business of the Association. in securing the objects of its Corporation.

its use.

bilities of Corpo

(2048.) SEC. 3. Upon becoming a Corporation, as herein- Privileges and liabefore provided, they shall have all the powers and privileges, ration. and be subject to all the duties of a Corporation, according to the provisions of chapter fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of Chapter 78 this State, so far as such provisions shall be applicable in such case, and not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. This act shall take effect immediately.

Formation of

Telegraph Com

ed.

An Act to Authorise the Formation of Telegraph Companies.

[Approved March 26, 1851. Laws of 1851, p. 61.]

(2049.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, panies authoriz. That any number of persons may associate for the purpose of constructing a line of wires of Telegraph through this State, or from and to any point within this State, upon such terms and conditions, and subject to the liabilities prescribed in this act.

organization,

Certificate of (2050.) SEC. 2. Such persons, under their hands and seals, what to contain. shall make a certificate which shall specify:

1. The name assumed to distinguish such Association, and used in its dealings, and by which it may sue and be sued;

2. The general route of the line of Telegraph, designating he points to be connected;

3. The capital stock of such Association, and the number of shares into which the stock shall be divided;

4. The names and places of residence of the shareholders, and the number of shapes held by each of them respectively;

5. The term of its existence, not to exceed thirty years; which certificate shall be proved or acknowledged, and recorded in the office of the clerk of the county where any office of such Association shall be established, and a copy thereof filed in the office of the Secretary of State; such acknowledgment may be taken by any officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds of real estate, at the place where such acknowledgment is taken.

cate; wherefiled.

(2051.) SEC. 3. Upon complying with the provisions of the Copies of Certia last preceding section, such Association shall be, and hereby is declared to be a body corporate, by the name designated in said certificate; and a copy of said certificate, duly certified by the clerk of the county where the same is filed and recorded, or by the Secretary of State, may be used as evidence in all Courts and places, for and against any such

Association.

of Association.

(2052.) SEC. 4. Such Association shall have power to pur-General now or a chase, receive and hold and convey such real estate, and such only, as may be necessary for the convenient transaction of the business, and for effectually carrying on the operations of such Association, and may appoint such Directors, officers and agents, and make such prudential rules, regulations and by-laws as may be necessary in the transaction of their business, not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the United States. But this section shall not be so construed as to authorize any such Association to hold any real estate except such as shall be actually occupied by such Association in the exercise of its franchises.

ized to construc

graph.

(2053.) SEC. 5. Such Association is authorized to construct Where authery lines of Telegraph along and upon any of the public roads and hines of Tele highways, or across any of the waters within the limits of this State, by the erection of the necessary fixtures, including posts, piers or abutments, for sustaining the cords or wires of such lines, provided the same shall not be so constructed as to incommode the public use of said roads or highways, or injuriously interrupt the navigation of said waters; nor shall this act be so construed as to authorize the construction of any bridge across any of the waters of this State.

(2054.) SEC. 6. If any person over whose lands said lines