Section 133. Time, place and notice of corporate meetings  


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  • The annual
      corporate meeting of every incorporated Baptist church shall be held  at
      the  time  and  place  fixed by or in pursuance of law therefor, if such
      time and place be so fixed, and otherwise, at a time  and  place  to  be
      fixed  by  its  trustees. A special corporate meeting of any such church
      may be called by the board of trustees thereof, on its own  motion,  and
      shall  be called on the written request of at least ten qualified voters
      of such church. The trustees shall cause notice of the time and place of
      its annual corporate meeting, and of the names  of  any  trustees  whose
      successors  are to be elected thereat; and, if a special meeting, of the
      business to be transacted thereat, to be publicly read by  the  minister
      of such church or any trustee thereof at a regular meeting of the church
      for  public worship, on the two successive Sundays immediately preceding
      such meeting; or if no such meeting for public worship shall  have  been
      held  during  such  period,  by  conspicuously  posting  such notice, in
      writing, upon the outer entrance of the principal place  of  worship  of
      such  church and by mailing a copy of such notice to each member of such
      church in a securely sealed envelope, postage prepaid, addressed to  his
      last known place of residence, at least two weeks before such meeting.