§ 134. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications
of voters thereat. At a corporate meeting of an incorporated Baptist
church the qualified voters shall be all persons who are then members of
such church in good and regular standing by admission into full
communion or membership therewith, or who have statedly worshipped with
such church and have regularly contributed to the financial support
thereof during the year next preceding such meeting; but any
incorporated Baptist church may at any annual corporate meeting thereof,
if notice of the intention so to do has been given with the notice of
such meeting, decide that thereafter only members of such church in good
and regular standing by admission into full communion or membership
therewith shall be qualified voters at the corporate meetings. At such
corporate meetings the presence of at least six persons qualified to
vote thereat shall be necessary to constitute a quorum, and all matters
or questions shall be decided by a majority of the qualified voters
voting thereon. There shall be elected at said meeting from the
qualified voters then present, a presiding officer, a clerk to keep the
records of the proceedings of the meeting and two inspectors of election
to receive the ballots cast. The presiding officer and the inspectors
of election shall declare the result of the ballots cast on any matter
and shall be the judge of the qualifications of voters. At each annual
corporate meeting, successors to those trustees whose terms of office
then expire, shall be elected by ballot from the qualified voters, for a
term of three years thereafter, and until their successors shall be
elected.