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Excerpt from By-Laws of the Presbyterian Church of the City of Charleston Wbereng, by the constitution of this Preamble. State, passed the 19th day of March, 1778, it was declared, that all denominations of Chris tian Protestants should enjoy equal religious and civil privileges, and that whenever fifteen or more male persons, not under twenty-one years of age, professing the Christian pro testant religion, and agreeing to unite them selves in a society for the purpose of religious worship, they should (on complying with the terms therein after mentioned) be constituted a church, and to be esteemed and regarded in law as of the established religion of the state, and, on a petition to the legislature, should be entitled to be incorporated, and to enjoy equal privileges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.