The Sunday morning news., 1889-09-01

officers of and for such association to be
Incorporated as may be deemed necessary
which said association of exempt firemen,
and such others as may become associated
with them, shall, upon the fling of the
| certificate hereinafter required, be body
corporate in law, by such name as they
SHALL conformably to the first section
hereof. assume, and by such name shall
have perpetual succession, and be capable
OF suing and being sued in all courts and
places whatsoever; and may have and use
a common seal, and alter and renew the
same at pleasure; and by their corporate
| name and under their corporate seal may
make and enter into, execute and enforce
contracts or agreements, not inconsistent
with the objects and purposes OF their In
corporation.
3. And be it enacted, That the president
and secretary of every such association
formed as aforesaid, shall forthwith there
after prepare, under their hands, q certl11-
cate, setting forth the corporate name
adopted, the names and official designa-
tions of all officers chosen, the location OF
such corporation, and reference to this
act; which said certificate shall be filed
and recorded in the office OF the Clerk OF
the county in which such association may
be located; and said certificate, or duly
certified copy thereof, shall be evidence In
all the courts of this State; for fling and
recording such certificate such County
receive the sum of fifty cents.
4. And be it enacted, That all associa-
tions incorporated under this act shall be
authorized to make and adopt constitu-
tion and bylaws for their government,
and the same may alter, change, amend
or renew at pleasure; provided, such con-
stitution and bylaws be not repugnant to
the constitution or laws of the United
States or of this State.
5. And be it enacted, That every cor
poration formed hereunder may, in Its
corporate name, purchase, receive, take,
hold, mortgage and convey any real or
personal property for the use, benefit and
objects of such corporation.
q. And be 1t enacted, That the object of
corporations formed under this act, shall
be to establish provide for and maintain
fund for the relief support or burial of
the members thereof, and of their widows
and orphan children, under such rules
and regulations as each corporation may
respectively provide and adopt
z And be It enacted, That any and all
existing associations organized for the
purposes contemplated by this act,
whether incorporated or not, may be re-
organized and incorporated dorre-incorpor-
ated hereunder, except such corporations
as may have been created or continued by
any special legislative act, which last
mentioned corporations may, at their
pleasure, be re-organized and re-incorpor-
ated under this act; and the president and
secretary thereof in case of such incorpOr-
alton or re-incorporation, shall make and
cause to be filed and recorded d certificate
as above provided; and said association or
corporation shall thereupon become and
be body corporate under and by virtue
of this act, and possessed of all the powers
and privileges of corporations formed
under this act; and any corporation which
shall be re-organized and re-incorporated
under this acts shall succeed to and be
seized of all the right, title and interest
to it under its former organization.
s. And be it enacted, That there shall
not be more than one association organ
lied or Incorporated under this act in any
city, town, borough, township or fire dis
trict, except in the case of q city, town,
borough or fire district being or having
been set off from or incorporated within
the bounds of any township. in which case
an association hereunder may be organ
lied in such city, town, borough or fire
district, and one III the remaining portion
thereof.
9. And be it enacted, That it shall be
lawful for the associations of exempt fire
men incorporated under this act or by
any special Legislative act, to participate,
by delegates elected as hereinafter pro-
vided, in the organization and conduct of
a State Exempt Firemen's Association;
provided, that there shall not be more
than one such State organization, the in
corporation of which is hereby authorized,
the same to be known as the "New Jersey
State Exempt Firemen's Association;"
and such State organization shall have
the same rights, powers and privileges as
the local exempt tiremen's associations.
10. And be it enacted, That on or before
the second Wednesday in May, in every
year, each association of exempt flremen
incorporated hereunder or under any
special legislative act, shall and may
choose out of the whole body of the mem
bership thereof, five delegates to represent
said corporation at the meeting of the
New Jersey State Exempt Firemen's AS
sociation.'
IL. And be it enacted, That at the first
meeting of said New Jersey State Ex-
empt Firemen's Association" president
and secretary thereof shall be elected to
serve for the ensuing year, together with
such other officers, to serve for the same
period as the constitution and bylaws
adopted by such State association shall
require; and the president and secretary
so chosen at said first meeting of said
State association, shall within thirty days
thereafter file in the Office of the Secretary
of State, of this State, q sworn statement
of the fact of such election and of the
names of the officers so chosen, and said
certificate so filed shall be deemed and
taken to be the certificate of the incorpor-
alton of the New Jersey State Exempt
Firemen's Association" and said certifi-
cate shall contain a reference to this act
and state the intention to incorporate
such State association Hereunder and
shall have thereon an impression of the
common seal of such State association.
and from the date of the filing of such
certificate such New Jersey State Ex-
empt Firemen's Association" shall be in
corporated in fact and In law.
12. And be it enacted, That any local
exempt firemen's association, incorpor-
ated or re-incorporated under this act,
may be dissolved at any meeting thereof,
by a vote, by written or printed ballot, of
two-thirds of the members present and
voting in favor thereof; provided, that
notice of such meeting and of the purpose
thereof, signed by at least ten of the mem
bers, shall have been mailed to each per-
twenty days previous thereto, and shall
have been published for three weeks sue
cessively, once in each week, in a news
paper circulating in the neighborhood
where the said association may be located.
notice of which dissolution shall forth
with be filed with the clerk of the county
in which said association may be located
and note of the filing thereof shall he
made by said clerk on the margin of the
record OF the recorded act Of incorpora-
ton of such dissolved association.
13 And be it enacted, That any exempt
fireman or this State, upon production of
certificate under the hand and seal of
the clerk of any county in this State. set
ting forth that the exemption certificate
of such exempt fireman is duly filed in