Chap. 0024 An Act to incorporate the Proprietors of the Congregational Meeting House in the Second or South Parish in Dedham.

Sec 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That David Morse, Lewis Morse, Dean Chickering, John K. Briggs and Willard Everett, their associates and successors, be and they hereby are made a body politic and corporate, by the name of the Proprietors of the Congregational Meeting House in the Second or South Parish in Dedham, for the purpose of managing the affairs of said Meeting House, and by that name may sue and be sued, have a common seal, and the same alter at pleasure, and may ordain such rules and regulations as are not repugnant to the laws of this Commonwealth, and choose such officers as the good management of the affairs of said body corporate may at all times require.

Sec 2. Be it further enacted, That the said proprietors shall be entitled to as many votes as they have shares, in managing the affairs of said meeting house, provided that no one person shall be entitled to more than ten votes.

Sec 3. Be it further enacted, That said Corporate body shall have power to raise money by assessment on the shares of the said Corporators, for the purpose of keeping said meeting house in repair.

Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That David Morse, the first on the list of said corporators, may call the first meeting of said body corporate, by posting notice of the time and place thereof in some conspicuous place in said Meeting House, eight days at least before the time he may so appoint.

Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be subject to revision or repeal at the will of the Legislature.

[Approved by the Governor, June 12, 1829.]