Section 162. 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  trustees  thereof,  the  names  of  the  persons  elected as
      trustees, 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.