Michigan Compiled Laws, Chapter 457. Fraternal Associations § 457.602

Sec. 2. Any 10 or more members of the Legion of the Cross, residing in this state, and who are officers or representatives in the supreme temple of said order, desiring to become incorporated, may make and execute under their hands and seals, and acknowledge before some officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments to deeds, articles of association, which shall set forth:

First, The names, and official position in the supreme temple, of the persons so associating, and their respective places of residence;

Second, The corporate name of the association, which shall be the Supreme Temple of the Legion of the Cross, and the place where its business office is located; and

Third, The object and purpose of such association, which shall be to manage, control, govern, organize, institute and charter grand temples and primary societies of the order, for social, moral and benevolent purposes; and the period of incorporation, which shall not exceed 30 years.