Chap. 141.
Chap. 141.   An Act authorizing the consolidation of boy scouts
OF AMERICA, BERKSHIRE COUNCIL, INC. AND HAMPSHIRE-FRANKLIN COUNCIL, INCORPORATED, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:
Section 1. Boy Scouts of America, Berkshire Council, Inc and Hampshire-Franklin Council, Incorporated, Boy Scouts of America, corporations established under the laws of the commonwealth, are hereby authorized to consolidate into one corporation under the name of Great Trails Council, Inc , Boy Scouts of America, hereinafter called the consolidated corporation, which shall in all respects be a continuation of each of said existing corporations and shall have all the powers, purposes, privileges and exemptions of and be subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions of each of said existing corporations, and all powers, privileges, exemptions, duties, liabilities and restrictions now or hereafter applicable by law to corporations established under the laws of the commonwealth for the purposes for which said existing corporations were established
Section 2. Upon such consolidation, all property, real and personal, and all rights and interests, legal or equitable, of said existing corporations and all devises, bequests, conveyances and gifts heretofore or hereafter made to or for the benefit of said existing corporations shall vest in the consolidated corporation, and otherwise shall be held by the consolidated corporation subject to the same terms, conditions, limitations and trusts as they are now held, or but for this act would be held, by said existing corporations or either of them, and the treasurer of each of said existing corporations is hereby authorized to execute and deliver all papers and documents necessary or proper for the purpose of confirming in the consolidated corporation the record or beneficial title to the property, rights and interests of said existing corporations.
Section 3. Upon such consolidation, the members of said existing corporations immediately prior to such consolidation shall, subject to any resignations therein, be the members of the consolidated corporation until such time as the consolidated corporation may, by amendment to its constitution or by-laws or in any other proper manner, alter its membership, and the members of the executive board and the officers of the existing Boy Scouts of America, Berkshire Council, Inc , in office immediately prior to such consolidation, subject to any resignations therein, shall, until their successors are chosen and qualified, be the members of the governing board and officers of the consohdated corporation which shall, except as herein provided with respect to initial membership, be governed by the constitution and by-laws of said Hampshire-Franklin Council, Incorporated, Boy Scouts of America, as the same now are or may hereafter be amended.
Section 4. Upon acceptance of this act within one year after its passage (a) by vote of a majority of the members of the executive board of Boy Scouts of America, Berkshire Council, Inc , at a meeting of said executive board duly called for the purpose, acting under authority of a vote of a majority of the members of Boy Scouts of America, Berkshire Council, Inc , present and voting at a meeting of such members duly called for the purpose of considering and voting upon the matter of consolidating said existing corporations and matters incidental thereto,
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and (b) by vote of a majority of the members of the executive board of Hampshire-Franklin Council, Incorporated, Boy Scouts of America, at a meeting of said executive board duly called for the purpose, acting under authority of a vote of a majority of the members of Hampshire-Franklin Council, Incorporated, Boy Scouts of America, present and voting at a meeting of such members duly called for the purpose of considering and voting upon the matter of consolidating said existing corporations and matters incidental thereto, certified copies of the respective votes of acceptance by said executive boards, signed by the respective secretaries of said existing corporations under the penalties of perjury, may, within thirty days after the last of the meetings of the executive boards at which this act is accepted, be filed for record in the registry of deeds for the counties of Hampshire and Franklin and for the Berkshire northern district, middle district and southern district and with the state secretary, and upon such filing the consolidation of said existing corporations hereby authorized shall become effective and complete.                                                               Approved April 8,1969.