IN THE

STATE OF NEW YORK.

BY

MURRAY HOFFMAN.

NEW YORK:

POTT AND AMERY, 5 & 13 COOPER UNION,

FOURTH AVENUE.

1868.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by

MURRAY HOFFMAN,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:

STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY
H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

QUESTIONS Connected with the incorporation of Re-
ligious Societies under the statutes of the State of New
York, have come very frequently, of late years, before our
courts of justice. These questions are often influenced by
the ecclesiastical system of the church or body, in con-
nection with which they arise. An attempt is made in
the following pages to set forth, in a convenient form, the
statute law, the decisions of courts of justice, and such
ecclesiastical regulations as are useful in explaining the
An historical
positive law and its mode of execution.
notice is introduced of all those churches which had a
place of any importance in the Colony, before the Revolu-
tion.

The following table shows the distribution of the sub

jects.

PISHOP SCOTT

OOL,

GRAMMAR SOMOCL.

Portland, Oregan

THE CONSTITUTION OF 1777, ETC.-STATUTES OF EQUALITY.—