Section 132. The certificate of incorporation  


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  • If the meeting shall decide
      that such unincorporated church shall become incorporated, the presiding
      officer of such meeting and the two inspectors of election shall execute
      a certificate setting forth the name of the  proposed  corporation,  the
      number  of  the  trustees  thereof,  the names of the persons elected as
      trustees and the terms  of  office  for  which  they  were  respectively
      elected  and the county and town, city or village in which its principal
      place of worship is or is intended to be  located.  On  the  filing  and
      recording  of  such certificate after it shall have been acknowledged or
      proved as hereinbefore provided, the persons qualified to vote  at  such
      meeting  and  those  persons who shall thereafter, from time to time, be
      qualified  voters  at  the  corporate  meetings  thereof,  shall  be   a
      corporation  by  the  name  stated  in such certificate, and the persons
      therein stated to be elected  trustees  of  such  church  shall  be  the
      trustees thereof, for the terms for which they were respectively elected
      and until their respective successors shall be elected.