Michigan Compiled Laws, Chapter 457. Fraternal Associations § 457.474

Sec. 4. Any subordinate hive, now chartered, or which may hereafter be chartered, by the great hive of the Ladies of the Maccabees of the state of Michigan, may become incorporated and be a body corporate and politic, by passing, by a 2/3 vote of all the members present, at any regular review, of such subordinate hive, a like resolution, as provided in section 1 of this act,  1 executing similar articles of association, under the hands of its executive committee, and the seal of the hive, and appending thereto the affidavit of its recorder, setting forth the official character of the several members of its executive committee, that said resolution was passed at a regular review, and received the affirmative votes of 2/3 of all the members present, and filing the same with the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce. A copy of said articles of association duly certified by the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce shall be prima facie evidence in all the courts of this state, of the existence and incorporation of such subordinate hive.