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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 12 EXTRA COPIES OF SENATE AND HOUSE JOURNALS, ETC. Jan., Nnmber; term of office. pired terms. Upon the formation of any Methodist Episcopal church or Union American church, the first election of its trustees shall be made by the quarterly conference, and said trustees shall hold office until the next ensuing annual election. Said quarterly conference shall determine the number of trustees to be so elected, which number shall not be more than nine nor less than three. Sec. 2. Section 3976 of the general statutes is hereby amended to read as follows: The number of trustees, which shall in no case be more than nine nor less than'three, shall be determined by a majority of the electors at the first election by the church and before the votes for trustees are cast, and shall remain the same, unless changed by two-thirds of those present and voting at any subsequent election. At the first annual election the inspectors shall determine by lot, and as nearly as practicable in equal numbers, who of those elected shall serve for one, two, or three years; and at each election thereafter the electors shall elect trustees for three years to fill the places of those whose terms have expired. Sec. 3. Any such church which under the existing law reduced, vhen. ghall have elected .more than nine trustees, shall elect no trustees at the annual meeting to be held on the first Monday of September, 1903, and the remaining trustees shall be the trustees for that ensuing year; but, at the annual meeting on the first Monday of September, 1904, the electors shall determine, by a majority of the electors present, before the votes for trustees are cast, the number of trustees, which shall be not less than three nor more than nine, and they shall then elect such number of trustees for two an...