§ 339. The meeting for incorporation. 1. At the meeting for
incorporation, held in pursuance of such notice, the qualified voters,
until otherwise decided as hereinafter provided, shall be all persons of
full age, who are then members in good and regular standing of such
congregation by admission into full communion and membership therewith,
in accordance with the rules and regulations thereof, and of the
governing ecclesiastical body of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox
Church.

2. At such meeting, the presence of a majority of such qualified
voters, at least six in number, shall be necessary to constitute a
quorum and all matters or questions shall be decided by a majority of
the qualified voters voting thereon.

3. The meeting shall be called to order by the first named of the
following persons who is present thereat, to wit: The minister in charge
of such congregation, or the officiating minister thereat, or one of the
persons qualified to sign the notice of the meeting for incorporation in
the order of their age beginning with the oldest.

4. There shall be elected at such meeting from the qualified voters
there present, a presiding officer, a clerk to keep the record of the
proceedings of the meeting and two inspectors of election to receive the
ballots cast. The presiding officer and the inspector shall decide the
result of the ballots cast on any matter and shall be the judges of the
qualifications of the voters, subject to appeal to the vote of the
members present whose qualifications as voters are not challenged.

5. If the meeting shall decide that such congregation shall become an
incorporated church, the meeting shall also decide upon the name of the
proposed corporation, the number of laymen trustees thereof, which shall
be a multiple of three, and the date, not more than fifteen months
thereafter, on which the first annual election of the laymen trustees
thereof shall be held, and shall decide also whether those who, from the
time of the formation of such congregation or during the year preceding
the meeting for incorporation, have statedly worshipped with such
congregation and have regularly contributed to the financial support
thereof, shall be qualified voters at such meeting for incorporation,
and that those who during the year preceding the subsequent corporate
meetings of the church shall have statedly worshipped with such church
and shall have regularly contributed to the financial support thereof,
shall be qualified voters at such corporate meetings.

6. Such meetings shall thereupon elect by ballot from the persons
qualified to vote thereat one-third of the number of trustees so decided
on, who shall hold office until the first annual election of trustees
thereafter, and one-third of such number of trustees who shall hold
office until the second annual election for trustees thereafter, and
one-third of such number of trustees who shall hold office until the
third annual election thereafter, or until the respective successors of
such trustees shall be elected.

7. Such meeting shall also elect by ballot a clerk of the corporation,
who shall hold office until the close of the next annual meeting.