CHAPTER 13

S.P. 312 - L.D. 971

An Act To Amend the Constitution of the Maine Episcopal

Missionary Society

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. P&SL 1835, c. 556, §1, as amended by P&SL 1875, c. 11, §2, is further amended to read:

*Sec. 1. Name of persons incorporated. That Robert Hallowell Gardiner, Frederic Allen, Edward Swan, Phineas Pratt, Arthur Berry, John Merrill, Patrick H. Greenleaf and Joseph T. Harris, together with their associates and successors be and they hereby are incorporated into a body politic by the name of the Maine Episcopal Missionary Society with power to sue and be sued, to have a common seal and to change the same; to make any by-laws for the management of their affairs not repugnant to the laws of this State; and to take hold and possess any real or personal estate without limit as to the value of one hundred thousand dollars and to give and grant, bargain and sell or lease the same.

Sec. 2. P&SL 1875, c. 11, §3 is repealed and the following enacted in its place:

*Sec. 3.__Board of missions made members of.__The sole member of the Maine Episcopal Missionary Society is the Episcopal Diocese of Maine.