INSPECTORS’ CERTIFICATE

At the meeting above specified, by a plurality of votes by ballot, --------, --------, and --------, were chosen as trustees of the society of Seventh-day Adventists of ----, Michigan, and immediately thereafter divided into three classes, as follows, -------- to hold his office for one year, -------- for two years, and -------- for three years.RESO 12.1

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals, this ---- day of ----, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ---.RESO 12.2

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The inspectors shall then go to some justice of the peace, or notary public, and make acknowledgment of the certificate, and have his certificate of acknowledgment on the back which may read like the following:RESO 12.3

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On this ---- day of ----, A. D. 18—, before me, a ----, in and for the said County, personally appeared -------- and --------, to me personally known to be the persons described in and who executed the foregoing certificate, and each acknowledged to me that he executed the same freely. --------, -------- for ----, County, Michigan.RESO 12.4

Then the articles of association and the above certificate should be filed for record in the County Clerk’s office, and from the time or such filing, you are a body corporate, empowered to receive and hold the property of the church.RESO 13.1

On being notified of their election, the trustees shall choose one of their number as clerk, who shall fulfill his office as set forth in sections 11, 14, and 17. They shall also choose one of their number as a treasurer to pay out funds by order of the board of trustees (sec.11).RESO 13.2

The notice for any election after the first is provided for in section 14 and 15.RESO 13.3

Such elections will be conducted in the same manner as the first, with the exception of choosing a clerk, for the clerk of trustees is a clerk of the meetings for election. See sections 15, 3, 5, 17. No certificate is made of any election after the first, but a record is made of the proceedings and election of trustees, on the society’s books (not the church book). See section 11.RESO 13.4