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The said corporation may take and hold to itself and its success- 

 ors forever, any gifts, or devises, or bequests, or lands, personal 

 and estate, and choses in action, and may appropriate the same for 

 the benefit of the said corporation, in such manner as may be de- 

 termined by a majority of the members thereof; and the said cor- 

 poration may become trustee for any religious or charitable use. 



The said corporation shall, with the consent of a majority of the 

 members of the unincorporated body now known as the "South 

 Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South," 

 be vested with all the rights and property belonging to the unincor- 

 porated body, heretofore known in South Carolina as the " South 

 Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church," 

 and the said corporation is hereby empowered to elect or appoint 

 any one or more officers, and the same to change at pleasure, who 

 shall have full authority to receive from any person the possession 

 of any property or moneys belonging to either of the said unincor- 

 porated bodies; or in which they, or either of them, have any use, 

 right, or claim ; and the same to sue for and recover, and the re- 

 lease of the said officer or officers of the corporation shall be a full 

 and sufficient discharge to any person paying over or delivering up 

 any such sum of money or property. 



That this Act shall be deemed and taken as a Public Act in all 

 the courts of justice, and elsewhere, in this State, and shall be given 

 in evidence without special pleading. 



By-laws. 



1. The corporation shall meet annually at the place of holding 

 the sessions of the unincorporated body known as the South Caro- 

 lina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and 

 during the sessions of that body, at such time as shall be designated 

 by the President, or in his absence, one of the Vice-presidents. 



2. The members of the unincorporated body known as the 

 South Carolina Conference, now in connection with the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church, South, shall be eligible to membership in this 

 body, by a majority of the votes of this corporation ; provided, that 

 whenever any such minister shall locate, or be transferred to an- 

 other Annual Conference, or in any way cease to be a member of 

 the unincorporated Conference, his membership in this corporation 

 shall terminate. Five laymen may also, by a majority of votes, be 

 elected members of this corporation, to serve as managers; but their 

 membership shall terminate whenever they fail o be elected on 



