[No. 9.] AN ACT to authorize the prosecuting attorney for the county of Tuscola, Michigan, to appoint an assistant prosecuting attorney, and prescribing his powers, duties and compensation. The People of the State of Michigan enact: assistant. SECTION 1. The prosecuting attorney for Tuscola county, May appoint Michigan, may appoint an assistant prosecuting attorney, for whose official acts he shall be in all respects responsible, and may revoke such appointment at his pleasure. etc.. to be in SEC. 2. Every appointment of such assistant prosecuting Appointments. attorney, and every revocation thereof shall be in writing, writing. under the hand of the prosecuting attorney, and shall be filed Where filed. and recorded in the office of the clerk of Tuscola county, and every such assistant prosecuting attorney shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, take the oath prescribed by the twelfth article of the constitution of this State. SEC. 3. Said assistant prosecuting attorney shall have full Power. power and authority to appear for and in behalf of the people of the State in all criminal and other matters or proceedings, to the same extent as the prosecuting attorney of said county, and generally shall have the same power and authority in all respects as is possessed by said prosecuting attorney. SEC. 4. The said assistant prosecuting attorney shall re- Compensation. ceive such salary or compensation as the board of supervisors of the county of Tuscola shall at any time direct. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved February 24, 1899. [No. 10.] AN ACT to amend section five, chapter one hundred fortythree, of Howell's Annotated Statutes, entitled "Libraries and Lyceums," being compiler's section four thousand four hundred eleven of Howell's Annotated Statutes. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. That section five, chapter one hundred forty. Section three of Howell's Annotated Statutes, entitled "Libraries and Lyceums," being compiler's section four thousand four hundred eleven of Howell's Annotated Statutes, be amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 5. The said proprietors may raise such sums of money Certain powers by assessment on the shares as they shall judge necessary for of corporation. Amount of estate may hold. the purpose of preserving, enlarging and using the library; and This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Who may incorporate. To acknowledge articles of association. [No. 11.] AN ACT for the organization of Corporate Methodist The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That it shall be lawful for any number of members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of full age, not less than nine, with the consent of the presiding elder of the district in which the proposed church is to be located, to organize and procure the incorporation of a Methodist Episcopal Church. SEC. 2. The persons desiring to organize such church shall execute and acknowledge, before any person authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, articles of association in writ ing, whereby they shall agree to organize a church, which shall be governed by the discipline, rules and usages of the Methodist Episcopal church. To such articles of association there shall be attached a certificate by the presiding elder of Presiding elder the district in which said church is to be located that the said church was organized by and with the consent of said presid ing elder. to attach certificate. What articles of association to contain. Form of articles. SEC. 3. Said articles of association shall contain the following items: First, The name of said church; Second, The township, village or city, and the county in which said church shall be located; Third, The time for which said corporation shall be created; Fourth, An agreement to worship and labor together according to the discipline, rules and usages of the Methodist Episcopal church. Said articles may be in the following form: We, the undersigned, desiring to become incorporated under the provisions of act number ...... of the public acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An act for the organization of corporate Methodist Episcopal churches," do hereby make, execute and adopt the following articles of association, to wit: First, The name assumed by this corporation, and by which Name. it shall be known in law, is "The ...... Methodist Episcopal church;" Second, The location of said church shall be in the.... of .... county of ... ... and State of Michigan; Location. incorporation. Third, The time for which said corporation shall be created Period of shall not exceed thirty years from the date of its organization; govern. Fourth, The members of said church shall worship and Rules to labor together according to the discipline, rules and usages of the Methodist Episcopal church in the United States of America, as from time to time authorized and declared by the general conference of said church and the annual conference within whose bounds said corporation is situated. ment. In witness whereof, we, the parties hereby associating for Acknowledg the purpose of giving legal effect to these articles, hereunto sign our names and places of residence. On this SS. day of A. D. before me, a in and for said county, personally ap I. - presiding elder of the - district, of the Certificate of -annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, presiding elder. the same being the district in which the church mentioned in the foregoing articles of association is to be, or is now located, do hereby certify that such church was organized by and with my consent and concurrence. Mich., A. D. 189 Presiding Elder. executed in SEC. 4. Said articles of association shall be executed. in Articles to be duplicate, and acknowledged before some officer authorized by duplicate: law to take acknowledgment of deeds. One of such duplicate where filed. copies shall be retained by such corporation and one copy shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county, where such corporation is formed. When said articles of association and said certificate of the presiding elder shall have been recorded or left for record in the office of the said county clerk, the said persons so signing said articles of Body politic. powers, etc. Subject to certain association, and their associates and fellow members of said church, and all who may thereafter become members of said church, according to the discipline, rules and usages of the Methodist Episcopal church, shall thereby become, and thenceforth be, a body politic or corporation, by the name expressed in said articles of association, with all the powers, rights and privileges appertaining to religious corporations by the laws of this State. SEC. 5. Said church, when so organized, shall be subject in discipline, etc. all matters of church government and ecclesiastical polity to the discipline, usage and ministerial appointments of the Methodist Episcopal church in the United States of America, as from time to time authorized and declared by the general conference of said church and the annual conference within whose bounds such corporation may be situated. Board of trustees; number; how elected, etc. Corporate seal. Power to held and convey property. Board of trustees may authorize SEC. 6. The temporalities of said church shall be managed by a board of trustees, consisting of not less than three nor more than nine members, to be elected by said corporation from its members, the said trustees to hold their office for the term of one year. Vacancies in said board may be filled at any time for the balance of the term, by an election, as in other cases. SEC. 7. Said corporation may have a seal and alter the same at pleasure; it may in its corporate name sue and be sued in all courts and places; it shall have power to acquire, hold, sell and convey property, both real and personal, in accordance with this act, and it may recover and hold the debts. demands. rights, privileges and all property, whether real or personal, of whatsoever sort it may be, belonging or appertaining to said church, in whatever manner the same may have been acquired, and in whose hands soever the same may be held, the same as if the right and title had originally been vested in said corporation. The board of trustees may authorize certain of the officers of said board to affix the cor porate name and the seal of the corporation, and to execute certain officers and attest conveyances, notes, obligations, acquittances and all other necessary legal documents. It may sell, mortgage and dispose of its personal property; and may mortgage and incumber its real estate, but not for the current expenses of the church. It may hold so much land as may be needful for the proper purposes of said church and its parsonage. Said Who permitted Corporation shall at all times permit such ministers, belonging to the Methodist Episcopal church, as shall from time to time be duly authorized by the general conference of said church, or by the annual conference within whose bounds the said corporation may be, to preach and expound God's holy word therein; and shall permit pastors and presiding elders, duly appointed to execute the discipline of said Methodist Episcopal church, to administer the sacraments therein. to affix seal, etc. How may mortgage and dispose of real estate. to preach. Who may administer sacraments. How may SEC. 8. It shall be lawful for any church organized under amend articles the provisions of this act, by a two-thirds vote of the quarterly of association. conference of said church, to alter or amend its articles of association in any manner not inconsistent with the provisions of this act or the book of discipline of the Methodist Episcopal church; and such alteration or amendment shall become operative when two-thirds of all the members of the quarterly conference shall execute amended articles and the said amended articles are acknowledged in the same manner as stated in section three of this act, and the presiding elder has affixed his certificate thereto, as provided in said section, and the same has been recorded or left for record, as provided in section four of this act. authorize sale may sell real proceeds of SEC. 9. Whenever it shall become necessary, for the pay- Who may ment of debts or with a view of reinvestment, to make a sale of real estate. of any real estate belonging to said church, the quarterly conference of said church may, by a vote of a majority of all the members of said quarterly conference and the consent of the pastor of said church and of the presiding elder of the district of which such church may or shall be a part, authorize a sale of said real estate by the trustees of said church, with such limitations and restrictions as the quarterly conference may judge necessary and impose; and the trustees of said church, when so authorized, may sell and convey said When trustees property, and with the proceeds of such sale pay the debts estate. of such corporation, or reinvest the said proceeds by Disposition of the purchase or improvement of other property for the same sale. uses and deeded to the corporation in the same manner as provided in section seven of this act, as said trustees may be directed by the quarterly conference: Provided, That in all Proviso. cases the proceeds of such sale, after the payment of debts, if, any, if not applied to the purchase or improvement of other property as aforesaid, shall be held by such corporation subject to the order of the annual conference within the bounds of which such property is located. In all cases where property Title of belonging to any church incorporated under the provisions of property: when this act has been abandoned, and is no longer used for the annual purpose for which said property was acquired, or said corporation has dissolved, or has ceased to exist, the title to the said property belonging to said corporation shall pass to the annual conference within the bounds of which said property is located; and said annual conference may, by such officer or committee as said annual conference may designate for that License to sell; purpose, apply to the circuit court in chancery, for the county in which such property may be, for license to sell the same; and such license may be granted by said court after such notice of said application as the court may direct; and there- Proceeds of upon said property may be sold, and the proceeds of such sale, how sale applied or used as said annual conference may direct. applied. SEC. 10. Any Methodist Episcopal church heretofore in- Vote required to place certain corporated, or the trustees of which have heretofore exercised churches under the powers of a body corporate, may by a two-thirds vote of this act, etc. the members of the quarterly conference, place itself under to pass to conference. how obtained. |