§ 181. Rights, powers and limitations. Upon the filing of such
certificate the persons named therein as trustees, and their successors,
being citizens of the United States and residents of this state, shall
be a body politic and corporate, with all the rights, powers and duties,
and subject to all the restrictions and obligations and other
provisions, so far as the same may be applicable and consistent with
this article, specified and contained in the act entitled "An act for
the incorporation of benevolent, charitable, scientific and missionary
societies," passed April twelfth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and
the act amending the same, passed April seventh, eighteen hundred and
forty-nine, except that the limitation in the first of the said acts of
the value of real estate that may be held by any society in the city or
county of New York, incorporated under this article, shall not be
applicable to any church edifice erected or owned by such society, or
the lot of ground on which the same may be built; and except that the
provision in the first of the said acts, in relation to the personal
liability of the trustees, shall be applicable only to the trustees who
shall have assented to the creation of any debt.