The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-10

this act, and shall be exempt from the
provisions of the insurance laws of
this state, and no law hereafter passed
shall be applied to them unless they be
expressly designated therein; all funds
OF such fraternal benefit societies shall
be exempt from the state tax on money
at interest.
2. And be it enacted, Tha within six
ty days after the passage of this act all
supreme or grand or other bodies which
may be known to constitute the head of
any fraternal, beneficial society doing
business within this state, as provided in
the first section of this act, shall file
tiVes with the insurance commissioner a
copy of their constitution and general
laws, and annually any, alterations,
changes or amendments, whose duty it
shall be to register them without charge
in the insurance department as frater-
nal beneficial societies. and when so reg
istered, they shall be exempt from airy
and all fees and taxes imposed by exist
ing laws upon insurance companies re-
porting to said department.
3. And be it enacted, That the eXecu-
tive officers of each such supreme or
grand lodge of any fraternal beneficial
society doing business in this state
Shall on or before the first day of March
Of each year., make a report under oath
on a blank to be provided by the in
surance commissioner. which report shall
be printed as a part of his annual re-
port of the operations of said society in
this state, for he preceding fiscal year
ending December thirty-irst, in form
as IOllOWS.
Name of the society or association,
with it's principal office or place of bust
ness.
First, Annual dues;
Second, Assessments;
Third, All other sources;
Fourth, Total income during the year.
III. EXPENDITURES.
First, Losses and claims paid;
Second. Salary and other compensation
of officers;
Third, Rent;
Fourth Office expenses;
Fifth, All other expenditures.
VI. EXHIBIT OF MEMBERSHIP.
First. Total members in good standing
December thirty-first, one thousand -
hundred and -; number, -
Second. Total number of members re-
ceived by initiation or re-admission dur
ing the year; number, .
Third. Total number, -
Fourth. Deduct members retiring by
Fifth. Ddeuct members who have died
during the year; number, -
Sixth. Total number in good standing
December ~thirty-frst, one thousand
". ASSETS.
First. Real estate; 7
Second. Loans on mortgages;
Third. Bonds n stock wned abso-
lutely;
Fourth. Cash in office or bank;
Fifth. Due from members on assess
ments called or pending collection;
Sixth. All other assets Stating char
teri.
First. Losses and claims unpaid;
Second. Salaries due and unpaid;
Third. Borrowed money;
Fourth. All other liabilities Stating
character.
4. And be it enacted, That any frater-
nal beneficial society failing to register
as required by the second section of this
oaf or fn mQka tho rnnnrf ranIIjrP6 nv
the third section of this act prohibited
from doing business in this State, and
the officers of societies violating these re-
quirernents shall be deemed guilty of a
miSdemeanor, and upon conviction shall
be fined not exceeding one hundred dol
lars for each offense; provided always
strued as to give the insurance commits.
sioner any supervision or authority in
any matter or thing whatsoever pertain
ing to the business of any fraternal So
ciety as prescribed in the first section OF
this act, other than is expressly provided
for in the second and third sections
beneficial and relief associations formed
by churches, societies, classes, firms or
corporations with or without ritualistic
form of work, the privileges and member
ship in which ere confined to the members
of such churches, societies or classes
and to the members and employees of
such firms or corporations, shall be ex-
empt from the provisions of this act:
and provided further, that this act shall
not apply to any secret fraternal benefi-
cial society, order or association which
has for one of its objects the payment of
a sum not exceeding a certain amount at
the expiration of a fixed period.
S. And be 1T enacted, That this act shall
take effect Immediately.
Approved April %, 1894.
CHAPTER LXIII.
An Act relating to the acknowledgements or
proofs of deeds, mortgages, certificates
and other instruments requiring to be
: proved or acknowledge, as required of
deeds of real estate taken before foreign
commissioners of deeds for New Jersey.
4. Be 1t enacted bv the Senate and General
Assembly of the State Of New Jersey, That
any acknowledgment or proof of any deed,
mortgage, certificate of incorporation or
other instrument required to be proved or
acknowledged, as in case of deeds of con-
veyance of real estate heretofore taken be-
fore amy foreign commissioner of deeds for
New, Jersey, shall be valid and effectual, al
though it may not appear by the certificate
OF acknowledgment or proof of any such
deed, mortgage, certificate or other instru-
ment, thatsthe same, was, in fact, taken in
state, territory district whore the COM
missioner who took such acknowledgement or
proof; provided, that such certificate of
acknowledgment or proof is in other respects
in the customary and proper form; and that
this act shall take effect Immediately.
Approved April "a, 1894.
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