Section 139. Control of trustees by corporate meetings of such churches; salary of minister  


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  • The trustees of  an  incorporated  Baptist  church  shall  have no power to settle or remove a minister or to fix his salary
      or, without the consent of a corporate meeting, to  incur  debts  beyond
      what  is necessary for the administration of the temporal affairs of the
      church and for the care of the property of the corporation; or to fix or
      change the time, nature or order of the public or social worship of such
      church. The temporal affairs and property  of  an  incorporated  Baptist
      church  shall  be  administered  by  its trustees in accordance with and
      subject to its lawfully adopted by-laws and to the  general  or  special
      rules, regulations, or resolutions lawfully adopted by the church at its
      annual  or other regular corporate meeting or at any duly called special
      corporate meeting.