The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-05-24

ilnderwrifersI the members OF WHICH corps shall
have been enlisted from among the active or
exempt iremen or any association of exempt
fremen, It shall be lawful for the chief engineer,
Or If there be no chief engineer, then the ire
marshal, or, in case there be neither, then the
such fire association or department, and all mem
berS of any board OF fire wardens or board of trust
or engineers Of such fire association Or depart
1nent and also all firemen belonging to such fire
engine hook and ladder hose. or supply company
or companies. or salvage corps, and all members
of any association of exempt firemen of such city,
town, borough township or fire district. TO associ.
ate themselves together and become incorporated
under and by the name of The Firemen's Relief
Association" or any other name which shall
indicate the object OF such association using the
district in which the same may be located; ana,
hereinafter provided in the ONCE Of the clerk Of
the county in which the same may be located, and
the filing of such certificate in the Office of the
secretary of state of this state such person shall
from and after the date of the filing thereof become
and be incorporated under and by the name afore-
said as body polite and corporate in Law and
bysuch name shall have perpetual succession and
continuance, except as hereinafter provided. and
be capable of suing and being sued, complaining
and defending IN any court Of law Or equity. and
same ct pleasure and may receive, take. hold,
purchase and convey, or mortgage invest and re-
invest, real, personal and mixed estate, and may
enter into, execute and enforce any contracts or
Agreements relating to, touching or concerning
the objects of such corporation and they and their
successors ana all who shall associate themselves
together with them shall as such corporation be
entitled to all the rights. powers privileges bene
fits advantages and immunities which now are or
hereafter may be conferred upon corporations
generally under any law of this state; and the
membership of such corporation shall consist
without any formal election thereto, of the officers
and members of such fire engine, hook and ladder,
hose and supply company or companies. fire
association or fire department. or board of fire
wardens, as shall be under the supervision or
control of the common council, or township COM
mittee, or board of commissioners or other gov
erniDg board or body of the city town, borough
township fire district also such of the officers
and members of any salvage corps (duing duty
therein, being under the supervision or control of
a duly authorized board of underwriters, as have
been enlisted from among the active or exempt
firemen also of the officers and members of any
association therein Of exempt fremen; and the
whole body of the membership OF such corpora
ton shall have the same rights therein as the
charter members thereof ~
q And be it enacted. That the president and
secretary of such corporation, when elected as
hereinafter provided, shall forthwith sign GER
tificate, and cause the same to be recorded nthe
Office of the clerk of the county in which the same
may be located; which certificate. after being SO
recorded shall be fled by the said president and
secretary in the office of the secretary Of state;
and the said certificate, or a copy thereof duly
certified by said county clerk or by the secretary
and such certificate in writing shall set forth the
election of the representatives authorized to Or
ganze such corporation. the election, by such
of visitors or trustees. giving their names and OIL
cial designations, the corporate name assumed
and chosen to designate such corporation, the
location of such corporation, and reference to
this act; but, in case of q reincorporation under
this act the said certificate shall instead thereof
set forth the former incorporation, and the date
thereof the names and official designations of the
officers of such corporation, and reference to
this act.
g. And be it enacted, That any and all associa-
lions organized for the purposes intended by this
act, whether incorporated or not shall be re-
organized and incorporated or re-incorporated
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porations as may have been created or continued
by any special act of the legislature of this state
which last mentioned corporations may, if they
see fit be reorganized and re-incorporated under
this act; and the president and secretary thereof
in case of such incorporation or re-incorporation
shall sign. record and file certificate, as above
shall thereupon become and be body polite and
corporate in law under and by virtue of this act,
and shall have all the powers and privileges con-
ferred by this act upon corporations formed under
it, and no other powers or privileges whatsoever;
and any corporation which shall be recognized
and re-incorporated under this act shall succeed to
and be seized of all the right title and interest in
any estate, real, personal or mixed belonging to
it under its former organization; and the repre-
sentatveS visitors or trustees and other officers OF
any association or corporation recognized and
incorporated or re-incorporated under this act
shall continue to serve as such until the election
following such reorganization. and until their
successors elected respectively and not there
after; and the membership thereof shall be SUBJ
ject to- the same conditions and shall have the
act in relation to the membership of corporations
formed under it: and if any such association or
corporation shall not be reorganized and incor-
porated or re-incorporated under this act, within
one year after this act act shall take effect the
same shall thereupon and thereafter be deemed
and held to have forfeited its charter, any law TO
the contrary Notwithstanding.
4. And be it enacted, That there shall not here
after be more than one firemens relief association
or other association organized for the purposes in
township or fire district, except In the case of
city town. borough or fire district being or having
been set off or incorporated within the bounds of
any township, in which case such an association
may be organized in such city, town. borough or
fire district and one in the remaining portion of
such township or one in each of the fire districts
in such township.