Secretary of State Religious organizations incorporation record book, 1901-1918.

This record book records copies of the articles of incorporation for churches and religious societies. In 1901, the Legislature enacted a law (Laws of Utah, series 83155: ch. 80, 1901) providing for the incorporation of churches and religious societies to acquire, hold and dispose of property. Under the terms of the law, "any person....in whom shall be vested the legal title to the property of such church or religious society, may make and subscribe written articles of incorporation in duplicate, and acknowledge the same before some officer authorized to take acknowledgments, and file one of such articles in the office of the Secretary of State and retain possession of the other."

The pre-printed forms in this volume apply only to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and constitute almost the entire volume, although there are typed forms for Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Presbyterian churches toward the end of the book. The forms state that the church desires toincorporate for the purpose of handling their property and gives blanks for the county, name of the corporation, purpose, estimated value of property currently held, title of the person making the articles of incorporation, wording on the corporate seal, signature of the authorized person, and signatures and copy of the notary public's statement.