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416 meeting-house, burying-ground, or for the residence of a preacher, shall descend with the improvements in perpetual succession to, and shall be held by, such trustee in trust for such society.

. 22. Whenever by the constitution, rules, and usage of any particular church or religious denomination, trustees are required to be appointed by any ministers, presiding elders, or other officer or officers of such church or denomination, it shall be the duty of such ministers, presiding elders, or other officer or officers to give to such trustees a certificate of their appointment, under the hand and seal of the person making the same, specifying the name by which such trustees and their successors shall thereafter be called and known, which certificate shall be acknowledged and proved, and recorded as hereinbefore directed; whereupon such trustees and their successors, appointed in the same manner, 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 the provisions of this act.

. 23. Whenever, by the constitution, rules, and usages of any particular church or denomination, the minister or ministers, elders and deacons, or other officers elected by any church or congregation, according to such constitution, rules, or usages are thereby constituted the trustees of such church or congregation, it shall be lawful for such minister or ministers, elders and deacons or other officers, to assemble together and execute, under their hands and seals, a certificate, stating therein the name by which they and their successors in office shall forever thereafter be called and known, which certificate shall be acknowledged or proved, as hereinbefore directed; whereupon such persons and their successors in office, 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 the provisions of this act.

. 24. Whenever any church or religious society now organized, or which may hereafter be organized as a church or congregation, but not incorporated in pursuance of law, shall comply with the provisions of this act and thereby become a body corporate, according to the intent and meaning