Any person shall be eligible as a Regular member who is of the Protestant faith, above the age of eighteen years, adheres to the Huguenot principles of Faith and Liberty, and is lineally descended in the male or female line from a Huguenot without regard to ethnic origins or particular section of the Protestant faith, who subsequent to December 10, 1520, and who, prior to the promulgation of the Edict of Toleration, November 28, 1787, emigrated from France to American or other County, or, a Huguenot who, in spite of religious persecution, remained in France.