*109.* _Minister, Dismissal, Money Advanced._—After a parish has voted to dismiss the minister, it is not competent to prove irregular conduct or immorality in answer to his claim for salary, without alleging it in the vote of dismissal.(199) In Illinois it was held that a priest who advanced money from his private resources for improving church property, had an equitable lien upon the property for all the money advanced, with legal interest.(200) But in Pennsylvania, where a priest under the direction of the bishop built a church in his parish for mission purposes, and in doing so expended some of his own money, it was held that in the absence of proof of any rule or custom of the Catholic Church making the payment of such expenses obligatory on the parish, that he could not recover the money so expended from his congregation.(201) CHAPTER IX. MEMBERSHIP *110.* _Business, Religious Membership._—Unless there is some other law or rule to the contrary, the male members of the congregation over twenty-one years of age constitute the business membership of a religious society.(202) But the question of membership of religious societies or congregations is left to be determined by the rules of the religious denomination to which they belong.(203) And where a condition of membership is that the person must contribute to the support of the church and be a communicant, if he is not a communicant he is not entitled to vote.(204) *111.* _Regular, Doctrines, Support._—The ones who adhere and submit to the regular order and doctrines of the church, although a minority, constitute the true congregation.(205) At least two things must concur to qualify a person as a voter: first, stated attendance at divine worship in the congregation; and, second, contribution to the support of the church.(206) The list of members kept by the clerk or secretary of the congregation is evidence of membership.(207) A person who denies any part of the system of theology received and taught by the denomination is not a member of the church.(208) *112.* _Factions, Authority._—Where two factions of a church, each claiming to be the church, try members of the other faction, a court may determine which of the factions is the authorized authority or that the action taken by either or both of them is nugatory for want of authority.(209) *113.* _Faith, Burial._—Whether a person died in the faith of the Roman Catholic Church so as to be entitled to burial in its cemetery, is not a question within the jurisdiction of civil courts, but must be decided by the ecclesiastical authorities.(210) *114.* _Rules, Membership._—Every denomination has the right to prescribe by rules, its constitution, or its by-laws, the conditions of membership; and any one who will not subscribe to and practise the doctrines of the denomination is not a member.(211)