New York Laws
Article 13 - Spiritualist Churches.
268 - Election and Salary of Ministers.

§ 268. Election and salary of ministers. The ministerial and clerical
attendants of any such church shall be called, elected and removed and
their salaries fixed as such corporation in its by-laws shall provide,
but no such church shall call, or elect any such person to perform any
of the duties of minister or clerical attendant who has not been
regularly commissioned so to act by the General Assembly of Spritualists
according to its rules, after examination into the character and
qualifications of such person by its committees regularly appointed, nor
shall any such church retain any person as its minister or clerical
attendant after it has been regularly notified that such person has been
suspended or removed according to the rules and regulations of the
General Assembly of Spiritualists covering such matters.

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