DEED OF TRUST
This deed of conveyance is made upon the following express trusts and conditions which the said grantees by accepting this deed agree and covenant for themselves and their successors in office to fully perform and fulfil.
1. Said grantees shall be known as the “Christian
Science Board of Directors,” and shall
constitute a perpetual body or corporation under and
in accordance with section one, Chapter 39 of the
Public Statutes of Massachusetts.[1] Whenever a
vacancy occurs in said Board the remaining
members shall within thirty days fill the same by
election; but no one shall be eligible to that office
who is not in the opinion of the remaining
members of the Board a firm and consistent believer
in the doctrines of Christian Science as taught in
a book entitled “Science and Health,” by Mary
Baker G. Eddy beginning with the seventy-first
edition thereof.
- ↑ The deacons, church wardens, or other similar officers of churches or other religious societies, and the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal churches appointed according to the discipline and usages thereof, shall, if citizens of this commonwealth, be deemed bodies corporate for the purpose of taking and holding in succession all the grants and donations, whether of real or personal estate, made either to them and their successors, or to their respective churches, or to the poor of the churches.
