Chap. 186.
devises, gifts and transfers the same powers, rights and privileges as would have been possessed by The First Baptist Church of Hyde Park, Mass. and the Evangelical Baptist Church had such consolidation not been effected.
Section 4. The consolidated corporation shall be deemed to have assumed and shall be liable for all liabilities and obligations of The First Baptist Church of Hyde Park, Mass. and the Evangelical Baptist Church.
Section 5. All members of the existing corporations shall become members of the consolidated corporation on the date when the consolidation becomes effective. New members may be admitted to the consolidated corporation thereafter in accordance with the provisions of the by-laws of the consolidated corporation.
Section 6.   The consolidation shall not be completed:
(a) unless at meetings called for the purpose, each of said existing corporations shall have accepted this act; and
(6) unless after the acceptance said existing corporations shall have called and held an organization meeting of the consolidated corporation composed of persons designated by said existing corporations for the purpose of adopting by-laws for the consolidated corporation and of electing officers, a board of directors and such committees as said by-laws may require
Section 7. The consolidation shall be complete and effective upon the filing with the secretary of the commonwealth of a certificate signed by the clerks of said existing corporations who shall make affidavit setting forth detailed compliance with the provisions of section six and stating the names and addresses of the officers and directors elected at said organization meeting. Said certificate shall be filed not later than thirty days after the date of said organization meeting.
Section 8. Any questions arising as to the powers, rights, privileges and responsibilities of the consolidated corporation with respect to its property and with respect to the property of the existing corporations, including all bequests, devises, gifts and transfers of any kind heretofore and hereafter made to or for the benefit of either of them, and also any other questions arising as to the legal effect of this act or any of the provisions, thereof, may, notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, be initially and finally determined by the supreme judicial court upon the application of any person interested or of the attorney general.                            Approved April 17, 1969.
Chap. I8S.   An Act to authorize the beth israel hospital association to hold additional real and personal estate.
Be it enacted, etc , as follows:
Chapter 205 of the acts of 1949, as amended by chapter 210 of the acts of 1961, is hereby further amended by striking out, in line 4, the word "thirty-five" and inserting in place thereof the word: — seventy-five, — so as to read as follows. — The Beth Israel Hospital Association, a corporation organized under general law, is hereby authorized to hold real and personal estate in the manner and for the purposes set forth in its charter to an amount not exceeding seventy-five million dollars.
Approved April 17, 1969.