PRIVATE AND SPECIAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF MAINE. 1891. Chapter 1. An Act to incorporate the General Conference of Free Baptists. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECT. 1. Oren B. Cheney, George H. Ball, Laura A. Corporators. DeMeritte, Clarence A. Bickford, Nathan C. Brackett, Emeline S. Burlingame, Amanda M. Pendleton, Ethnan W. Porter, Orin D. Patch, George F. Mosher, John T. Ward, Richard M. Lawrence, Lewis W. Anthony, Ellen A. Copp, Alpheus W. Gates, Rufus Deering, Elizabeth Colley, Arthur Given, J. Burnham Davis, Cyrus H. Latham, DeWitt C. Durgin, Eliza M. Jackson, George A. Gordon, Henry J. Brown, Emily L. Marshall, Oscar E. Baker, Charles S. Perkins, their associates and successors are hereby constituted a corporation for religious, missionary, educational and charitable purposes under the name of the General Conference of Free Baptists, and by that name shall have power to name. prosecute and defend suits at law, to use a common seal and to change the same at pleasure, to take and hold for the objects of said corporation by gift, grant, bequest, purchase or otherwise, any estate, real or personal or both, the annual -corporate -powers. -income limited. CHAP. 1 Constitution and by-laws. Membership. Conference board, and powers. Meetings, where held. -officers. Authorized to hold the prop erty of other societies. income of which shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars, and to sell and convey any estate, real or personal or both, which the interests of said corporation may require to be sold and conveyed. SECT. 2. The said corporation may choose all necessary officers, and adopt such a constitution, and such by-laws, the same not being repugnant to the constitution and laws of this state, as they may deem expedient for the management of their affairs from time to time; and they shall be and they are hereby invested with all the powers, privileges, rights and immunities incident to similar corporations. SECT. 3. The persons named in the first section of this act as members of the said General Conference of Free Baptists shall be members thereof only until the said Conference shall be duly organized under a constitution and by-laws as provided in section two of this act; and from and after the time when the said Conference shall be thus organized, the members thereof shall be such persons as may be chosen delegates by the associations, yearly meetings, and other bodies composing the said Conference and such other persons as the said Conference may designate in the constitution which they may from time to time adopt. SECT. 4. The said General Conference may appoint a board, to be called the Conference Board, and to consist of as many members as the Conference may deem necessary, to whom full power may be delegated to act for and in behalf of the Conference from one meeting of the Conference to another. SECT. 5. The said General Conference shall hold their stated meetings for the choice of officers and for other purposes in some part of the United States of America. They may hold special meetings in any foreign country. Their officers may be residents of the United States of America or of any foreign country, with the exception of their clerk or recording secretary who shall always be a citizen of the United States of America. SECT. 6. The Freewill Baptist Foreign Mission Society incorporated by an act approved January twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and thirty three, and amended by an act entitled "An Act additional to An Act to incorporate the Freewill Baptist Foreign Mission Society," approved February nineteen, |