Cairo
Methodist Episcopal
Religious
Societies - Book A
Original Index is located in the vault at the Greene County Courthouse. This document found on page 86. Transcribed by Arlene Goodwin.
State of New
York }
County of
Greene
} ss We two of the
members of the Church hereafter mentioned certify that on the seventh day of May
1860 the male members
of full age who statedly meet for divine worship with said church in the village
of Cairo & County of Greene according
to the rules of the Methodist Episcopal Church
(and which is believed to have been incorporated for it ___ ___ ____) being
convened at the Meeting house the place of Public Worship heretofore occupied by
said Church in the Village of Cairo in said county present to public notice
having been given fifteen days and in two successive Sabbaths for the purpose of
Incorporation said church Electing
Trustees & designating a name or title by which said board of Trustees in law &
in Equity – Should be hereafter Known. Nor
thereof in presence of the ____ of at State of New York in such case made &
provided Reverend George Woodworth was appointed Chairman & who thereupon
nominated Orrin Slater & Edward T. Stevens two of the male members of said
church of full age to preside as the election of the at the election of the
Board of Trustees receive the ____of the
electives Judge of the qualification of such electors who than severally by a
plurality of voices duly election be ___ as aforesaid
That said persons the male members of full age of said church did then & there by like plurality of voices determine that there be five persons elected to constitute a board of Trustees for said church to take into possession all the estate of said church on which may hereafter may come into possession of said church by purchase or otherwise and to take charge of all the temporalities of said church & that said persons did then & there by a like plurality of voices elect John Stuart, Edward T. Stevens, Orin Slater, Henry Steels & Henry Brass members of said church as the Board of Trustees of said church.
And the said persons did then & there by a like plurality of voices designate this said board of Trustees & their successors in office will always be known both in Law & in Equity as the Trustees of the Cairo Village Methodist Episcopal Church. The said Trustees elected as beforesaid were the divided by law into three classes as follows
First Class
} Second
Class }
Third Class
John Stewart
}
Orin Slater
}
Henry Steele
Edward Stevens
}
Henry Brass
In the
presence of
Orrin Slater LS
Edward T. Stevens LS
Augustus Hill
Justice of the Peace
Recorded May
8th 1860
At 1 pm.
Jas Cooke Clk
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