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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.*1 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.
*1 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 them and
their successors, or to their respective churches, or to the poor of the
churches.
(The following Editor's note has been added in later editions:
In May 1971, this statute (renumbered section one of Chapter 68)
was amended by substituting "residents" for "citizens.")
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