1719,
Fol 83 so far as the same are now legally operative.
This deed of conveyance is made upon the following express trusts
and conditions which the said grantees by accepting this deed agree
and covenant for themselves and their successors in office to fully
perform and fulfil.
1. Said grantees shall be known as the "Christian Science Board of
Directors," and shall constitute a perpetual body or corporation
under and in accordance with section one, Chapter 39 of the Public
Statutes of Massachusetts.[5] Whenever a vacancy occurs in said
Board the remaining members shall within thirty days fill the same
by election; but no one shall be eligible to that office who is not
in the opinion of the remaining members of the Board a firm and
consistent believer in the doctrines of Christian Science as taught
in a book entitled "SCIENCE AND HEALTH," by Mary Baker G. Eddy
beginning with the seventy-first edition thereof.
[5] The deacons, church wardens, or other similar officers of
Churches or religious societies, and the trustees of the Methodist
Episcopal churches, appointed according to the discipline and usages
thereof, shall, if citizens of this commonwealth, be deemed bodies
corporate for the purpose of taking and holding in succession all
grants and donations, whether of real or personal estate, made either
to the and their successors, or to their respective churches, or to
the poor of their churches.
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