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Meeting Houses
MEETING HOUSES
It is recommended to quarterly and monthly meetings to
make timely and careful inspection into the situation of the
titles of meeting houses, burial grounds, and other estates which
have been vested in trustees, and by them held for the use and
benefit of the society at large, or of any of those meetings; so
that if it should appear needful by the death of any such
trustees or otherwise, due and seasonable care may be taken to
appoint some others to the trust; that future difficulties and
the risk of being deprived of such estates may be avoided. And
it is further recommended that quarterly and monthly meetings
respectively as the case may require, keep exact records of all
such trusts and conveyances, and also that a clear and regular
account be kept by each respective meeting, of the place where,
and the persons with whom the papers, minutes and records
belonging to our religious society are from time to time
deposited; wherein due care should be taken to lodge them with
suitable Friends.