Article 4. -- Whether the same consist of lands, tenements, &c, and whether the same shall have been given, granted or devised to and for their use, and they and their successors shall lawfully have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy all and singular the churches, meeting-houses, parsonages, burying places and lands thereunto belonging, with the hereditaments and appurtenances heretofore by the said church occupied or enjoyed, by whatsoever name or names, person or persons, as if the same were purchased and had, or to them given or granted, or by them or any of them used and enjoyed for the uses aforesaid, to them and their successors, to the sole and only proper use and benefit of them the said Trustees and their successors for ever, &c.

Article 6. -- And the Trustees are also to regulate and order the renting of pews in the said churches, and the perquisites of the said church arising from the breaking of the ground in the cemetery, or church-yard, and in the churches for burying the dead, &c.a

Under this Act, the following persons were elected Trustees: " Thomas Bartow, John Wright, Isaac Ward, Elisha Shute, Lewis Guion and Philip Pell, Jun.

After this incorporation, all management of the Church and Church property at town meetings is dropped. The Church now manages her own affairs, her power and right to do so, being fully recognized by the town ; for upon the 3d of April, 1787, prior to the incorporation, it was resolved at town meeting, " To erect a school house, and to set it on the Green near where the stocks formerly stood " -- but this resolution was never carried into effect, because the Church had been incorporated, and consequently claimed the Green exclusively as her own. The very fact, too, that the old church erected since 1692, once stood upon the Green is conclusive evidence that this property is still vested in the Church.