§ 182-a. Increasing number of trustees. The number of trustees may be
increased to not exceeding eleven by said board of trustees at any legal
meeting of the members, whereupon a certificate of such increase shall
be made, signed, acknowledged and filed by the existing trustees in the
manner provided by section one hundred and eighty for the execution and
filing of the certificate of incorporation, except that the consent and
approbation of a justice of the supreme court shall not be necessary to
the filing of such certificate. The additional trustees authorized by
such increase shall be supplied in the same manner as vacancies in the
original board of trustees; but there shall always be at least a
majority of the board who are not ministers of the gospel or priests of
any denomination.