New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-08

NAV assume q name, and elect or ap-
point any number OF trustees, MOI
exceeding ten, who shall be styled trus-
tees of such society or congregation by
the name assumed; and the title to the
land purchased, and improvements made,
shall be vested in the trustees by the name
and style assumed as aforesaid.
Immediately after the election or ap.
pointment of trustees by any society OF
congregation as aforesaid, the persons
elected or appointed shall make certif-
cate under their hands and seals, stating
the date of their election or appointment.
the name of the society or congregation,
and length of time for which they were
elected or appointed, which shall be verb
| fed by the affidavit of some one of the
persons making the same, and shall be
fled and recorded in the Office OF the
Register of Deeds in said district, and the
said trustees shall hold their offices for
and during the period stated in the GER
tificate aforesaid. At the expiration OF
their term of service and forever there
after at the expiration of the term of SER
vice of any trustee elected or appointed
as aforesaid, the said society or congrega-
ton shall elect or appoint successors, who
shall in like manner continue in Office for
such period as may be limited by the So
ciety or congregation; and certificate of
their appointment or election shall be
made by the trustees whose term OF service
shall have expired, which shall be verified
by affidavit aud filed and recorded as pro-
vided in the election of officers in the
first instance.
The trustees elected or appointed under
the provisions of this division, and their
successors, shall have perpetual succession
and existence, and the title to land herein
authorized to be purchased, and to the
buildings and Improvements thereon,
shall be vested in the said trustees by
their assumed name and their successors
forever; and the same shall be held tor
the uses and purposes herein named and
no other: and such trustees shall be Ca
pable in law to sue and be sued, implead
and be implicated, answer and be answer
ed unto, defend and be defended, in all
courts of law or equity whatsoever,
in and by the name and style
assumed, as aforesaid; and shall have
power under the direction of the society or
congregation to sell and execute deeds and
conveyances Of and concerning the estate
and property herein authorized to be held
by said society or congregation; and such
deeds or conveyances shall have the same
effect as like deeds or conveyances made
by natural persons: Provided, That no
deed or conveyance shall be made Of any
estate held as aforesaid, SO as to defeat or
destroy the interest or effect of any grant,
donation, or beauest, which may be made
to any such society or congregation; but
all grants, donations, and requests, shall
be appropriated and used as directed by
the person or persons making the same.
Every society or congregation formed as
aforesaid shall have power to provide for
filling vacancies which may happen in the
Office of trustee, and also to remove trus-
tees from office, and to adopt such rules
and regulations in relation to the duties OF
trustees, and the management of its estate
as the members may deem proper, not in-
consistent with the Constitution of the
United States, and laws in force in the
District of Columbia.
Upon the dissolution Of any society or
congregation formed under the provisions
of this division, the estate and property of
such society or congregation shall revert
back to the persons, their heirs and assigns,
who may have given or contributed to the
purchase of or payment for the same, ac-
cording to their respective rights. A
failure to elect or appoint trustees at any
time when. by the provisions of this di-
vision, such election or appointment should
be had, shall not work dissolution of the
society or congregation; but the trustees
last elected or appointed shall be consid-
cred as in Office until another election or
appointment shall take place.
The trustees now in Office, or those
who maylhereafter be appointed or elected
under the provisions of this division,
shall have power, under the direction of
the society or congregation by whom they
were elected or appointed, to execute
mortgages, or deeds Of trust in the nature
of mortgages, of and concerning the es-
tate and property which any society or
are authorized by this divis-
ion to hold, or to lease the same for
term not exceeding ten years. And such
deeds, and conveyances shall
have the same effect and be enforced by
the same remedies and proceedings as like
mortgages, deeds, leases and conveyances
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division to the contrary notwithstanding.
The provisions of this division are in-
tended to extend to members of societies
heretofore or hereafter to be formed for
the purpose of establishing and maintain
ing private schools for religious purposes.
This act shall not be so construed as
comforting privileges or any benefits to
such societies under the school laws of
his district.
BENEVOLENT. EDUCATIONAL, AND
so FORTH.
Sec. g. And be it further enacted, That
my three or more persons Of full age,
citizens of the United States, a majority of
whom shall be citizens of this district,
Who desire to associate themselves for
charitable, educational, lit
,rary, musical, scientific, religious, or
purposes, including societies
ormed for mutual improvement, or for
he promotion of the arts, may make,
'ign and acknowledge before any officer
to take the acknowledgement
# deeds i this district and file in the
,ffice of the register of deeds, to be re-
corded by him, a certificate in writing, in
which shallbe stated the name or title by
which such society shall be known in law,
he particular business and objects of
uch society, the number of trustees, d.
ectors, or managers of such society, for
he first year of its existence.
Upon filing a certificate, as aforesaid,
The persons who shall have signed and ac-
such certificate, and their as
sociates and successors, shall thereupon,
by virtue of this act, be body polite and
by the name stated in such
certificate; and by that name they and
heir successors may have and use COM