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which two persons shall choose a third, qualified in like manner, and
the said three persons shall meet at the place where the difference has
arisen, and hear and determine upon the matter; and their judgment
or award, or the judgment or award of a majority of them, certified
under their hands and seals to the contending parties, shall be final.
See sec. 348, and notes to sec. 339.

1904, art. 23, sec. 306. 1888, art. 23, sec. 210. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 162.

344. At the first election or appointment of every politic or corpo-
rate aforesaid, every church, society or corporation assembled as already
directed, shall determine on their plan, agreement or regulation, speci-
fying distinctly the time and manner of electing trustees, and the
manner in which the succession shall be perpetuated, and containing
an exact description of the qualifications of the persons severally elect-
ing and elected, and to elect and to be elected thereafter, and also the
name, style or title of the corporation by which it shall thereafter be
known, and the name of the church, society or congregation choosing
the same.

See notes to sec. 339.

Ibid. sec. 307. 1888, art. 23, sec. 211. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 163.
1892, ch. 664.

345. The said plan, agreement or regulation shall be entered in
the book hereinafter required by section 348 to be kept by every such
corporation, and the same shall be acknowledged by the trustees, or
a majority of them, before a justice of the peace, a notary public, or
a judge of the circuit court in the counties, or a judge of the supreme
bench of Baltimore city; and 'such justice, notary, or judge shall
append to said instrument a certificate of such acknowledgment, and
in all cases where through inadvertence or mistake such plan, agree-
ment, or regulation has been heretofore acknowledged before one justice
of the peace instead of two, such acknowledgment shall be and is hereby
made, to all intents and purposes, good and sufficient for the incorpora-
tion of the church, society or congregation named therein.
See notes to sec. 330.

Ibid. sec. 308. 1888, art. 23, sec. 212. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 164.

346. The plan or agreement, so acknowledged and certified, shall
be filed by the said trustees with the clerk of the circuit court for the
county where the said church, society or congregation, or the greater
part of the members thereof reside, or the clerk of the superior court
of Baltimore city, if they or the greater part of the members reside
in the city of Baltimore, within six months after such acknowledgment
shall be made; and the same shall be recorded at the expense of the
corporation, in a book to be kept for that special purpose.
See notes to sec. 339.