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CHAP. LXVIII.] given, granted, or devised, directly or indirectly, to such church, congregation, or society, or to any other person or persons for their use.

. 7. Such trustees may, also, in their corporate name, sue and be sued, in all courts and places, and they may recover and hold all the debts, demands, rights, and privileges, all churches, buildings, burying-places, and all the estate and appurtenances belonging to such church, congregation, or society, in whatsoever manner the same may have been acquired, or in whose hands soever the same may be held, as fully and amply as if the right and title thereto had been originally vested in the said trustees; and they may hold other real or personal estate, and demise, lease, and improve the same; but the whole of such estate, real and personal, shall not exceed the yearly value or income of three thousand dollars.

. 8. The said trustees shall also have authority to alter and repair their churches and meeting-houses, and under the direction of the society or congregation, to erect churches or meeting-houses, and dwelling-houses for their ministers, and other buildings for the use of their church, congregation, or society.

. 9. They shall also have authority to make rules and orders for managing the temporal affairs of such church, congregation, or society, and to dispose of all moneys belonging thereto; and to order and regulate the renting of pews or slips in their churches and meeting-houses, and the perquisites for the breaking of the ground in the cemetery or churchyard, and in the said churches or meeting-houses for burying the dead.

. 10. They may appoint a clerk and treasurer of their board, and a collector to collect and receive their rents and revenues, and may regulate the fees to be allowed to such clerk, treasurer, and collector, and may remove them and appoint others in their stead, at pleasure, and such clerk shall enter all rules and orders made by such trustees and payments ordered by them, in a book to be procured by them for that purpose.

. 11. Any two of the trustees may, at any time, call a meeting of the trustees, and a majority of them being lawfully convened, shall be competent to do and perform all