The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-17
LAWS OF NEW JERSEY.
BY AUTHORITY.

CHAPTER CXXXIX.
A Supplement to an act entitled can
or clubs for social, intellectual and re-
creative purposes" approved March
twenty-seventh, one thousand eight
hundred and seyenty-eight.
1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
General Assembly of the State of New
Jersey, That any officers of any associa-
tual and recreative purposes, under the
act to which this is a supplement, now
existing or hereafter to be Incorporated,
may elect two persons, aymen eligible to-
or club, who together with the Roman
Catholic bishop of he diocese in which
said association, society or club may bc.
and the pastor or clergymen-in-chief of
of any Roman catholic church in the
city, town or borough in which said as
ISOLATION, society or club is situated, and
bishop and said pastor from the lay
members of such association, society or
club, shall be and constitute a board of
trustees of the said association. society
or club, and shall be a body polite and
corporate in law by the name. of the
trustees of "the - association society
or club (the plank to. be filled according
to the proper name of the association,
upon filing in the office of the clerk of the
court of common pleas of the county in
which such association, society or club
may be situated, a certified copy of the
proceedings of said election by the Off
GERS and the written acceptance of the
SAID OfQceS by the persons so elected ana
chosen, the said bishop and the said
pastor, and signed by their names and
acknowledged before any officer author
lied to take the acknowledgment of
deeds within this States and it shall be
the duty of the clerk of said court to
record the same Immediately, for which
he shall be entitled to receive on dol
lar.
2. And be it enacted. THAI the said
board of trustees, by their said corpor-
ate name, be capable to acquire by pur-
chase, gift, grant, devise, bequest, or
real estate or properly for the uses of
the said association. cociety or club,
and, with the consent of the officers
to sell, grant, assign, mortgage, alien
and dispose of; to sue and be sued,
plead and be impleadedt to make and
use a common seal ran the same to
alter orrenew; and to make bylaws
and rules not inconsistent with the laws
Of this state. the constitution of the
United States and that of the state of
New Jersey, for the management of its
business and affairs. the e%onyening or
holding of its meetings, and election or
appointment, powers, duties and removal
of its officers and agents, n to alter,
amend or repeal the same at pleasure.
3. And be it enacted, Tha for the
purpose of perpetuating the line of
succession of the trustees of such assoc
iation, society or club whenever a va
cancy shall occur in such board of trus-
tees, occasioned by the death or resig-
HdttOOu VI tltiSi VI luS tWO SIcCteu
trustees, or his moving out of the limits
of the said association, the same shall.
be filled by a majority vote of the re-
naming trustees by the election to such
vacancy of some person, a layman, who
shall be similarly eligible for member
ship of said association, society or club;
and in case of the death or renoyal from
the said diocese of sue bishop, the vac
ancy occasioned thereby shall be sup
piled without further act or election by
his successor as bishopof said diocese,
u.hn shall at nnna hannmar fT11StPAs and
in case of vacancy occurring by reason
of the death, resignation or removal of
sch pastor, such vacancy shall be sup
piled without further act or election by
successor of the deceased, resigned
or trans ferredpastor, who shall at once
become trustee; and in case of a vac
ancy occurring in he case of the fifth
trustee so to be chosen by the bishop
and pastor, by death, resignation or re-
moval out of the limits OF the said as
sociation, such vacancy shall be filled by
choice from the lay membrs as afore-
4. And be it enacted, That the said
bishop of such diocese shall be exofficio
the president of the board Of trustees,
and that such paster shall be the vice
president of the board of trustees, and
said president, or in his absence said
vice president is hereby authorized to
convene the board as action may require.
and to preside at all meetings Of the
board, and to execute for and in the
name of the board of trustees all con-
tracts. deeds, leases, mortgages and other
instruments which shall he required to
be executed by said board:
5. And he 1t enacted, !nhat te board