Portion of CHAPTER 246. An act to set off territory from the borough of Mountainside, in the county of Union, and annex the same to the town of Westfield, in said county. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: I. All that land and real estate lying and being in the side annexed borough of Mountainside, in the county of Union, bounded and described as follows: to Westfield. Beginning at a point in the center line of Hillside avenue in the division line of lands of Calvin Kline and lands of J. S. A. Wittke, being the end of the seventh (7th) course in the description of the borough of Mountainside, filed September one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, in the Union county clerk's office; thence along the eighth (8th) course in said description of the borough of Mountainside, in a northwesterly direction, along said division line to a corner in line of Christian Fritz's, being the westerly corner of James Lloyd's land; thence, along the ninth (9th) course in said description of the borough of Mountainside, northeasterly, following the southeasterly line of said Christian Fritz, a distance of three (3) chains seventy (70) links, more or less, to a point where said last-mentioned line would be intersected by the division line between Phebe A. Wittke and Jessie Dorvall produced; thence southeasterly, across lands of James Lloyd and along said division line between Phebe A. Wittke and Jessie Dorvall to the center line of Hillside avenue aforesaid; thence along said center line of Hillside avenue in a southwesterly direction four (4) chains, more or less, to the place of beginning, be set off from the said borough of Mountainside, in the county of Union, and State of New Jersey, and annexed to the town of Westfield, in said county, so that the same shall be hereafter a part of, and within the territorial limits 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 247. An act to provide for the incorporation of pathological and anatomical associations for the advancement of medical and surgical science. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: I. Any three or more physicians duly authorized and licensed to practice medicine under the laws of the State of New Jersey, who shall desire to associate themselves together for the purpose of pathological and anatomical study and the advancement of medical and surgical science may make, record and file a certificate in writing in manner hereinafter mentioned. 2. Such certificate in writing shall set forth: I. The name or title assumed to designate such association; II. The place or places in this State where the purposes of such association are to be carried out; III. The purposes for which the association shall be formed; Association medical study. for advanced Certificate to show. certificate. IV. The names of the governors or directors who shall manage its affairs for the first year of its existence. 3. Such certificate shall be proved or acknowledged Filing of and recorded, as is required of deeds of real estate, in a book to be kept for the recording of certificates of incorporation in the office of the clerk of the county where the purposes of such association are to be carried out, and after being so recorded shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State; the said certificate, or a copy thereof, duly certified by said clerk or secretary, shall be evidence in all courts or places. Name, powers, etc. By-laws. Vacancies. Agents. No compensation. Amount of property. Tax exemp tion. 4. Upon making such certificate and causing the same to be recorded and filed as aforesaid, the said physicians so associating, their successors and assigns, shall, by virtue of this act, be a body politic and corporate in fact and in law, by the name stated in such certificate, and by that name they and their successors shall have perpetual succession and power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in all courts and places whatsoever, to make and use a common seal, and the same to use at pleasure, and take, have, hold, receive and enjoy any lands, tenements or hereditaments in fee-simple or otherwise, and any goods, chattels or property of any description, real or personal, and whether acquired by gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise, and the same to grant, convey, lease, assign, sell or otherwise dispose of for the purposes of said association. 5. The directors or governors of such association shall have power from time to time to make, alter and amend by-laws not inconsistent with the constitution of the United States or of this State, fixing or altering the number of its governors or directors for the management of its property and the regulation and government of its affairs and providing for the mode of filling vacancies in and removing any member from their number and prescribing qualifications for membership of the association and to appoint such agents and officers as shall in their judgment tend to promote or advance any purpose of the association, and to prescribe their respective duties. 6. No governor or director of any association organized under this act shall receive, directly or indirectly, any salary or emolument from such association, nor shall any compensation whatever be voted, allowed or paid by the governors or directors thereof, to any governor or director for services, either as governor or director, or in any other capacity. 7. The property of any association organized under this act and held for its purposes to an amount not exceeding five thousand dollars shall not be liable to the imposition of any taxes. bodies de livered to assocation. 8. Whenever an association shall be formed or or- Unclaimed ganized under this act in any county of this State, all public officers, agents and servants of any such county, or of any city, township, borough, district and other municipality, and of any and every almshouse, prison, morgue, hospital or other public institution in such county, having charge or control over dead human bodies, required to be buried at the public expense, are hereby required to notify the president or other head officer of any such association, or such person or persons as may from time to time be designated by said association as its duly-authorized officer or agent, whenever any such body or bodies come to his or their possession or control, and shall, if such association or its duly-authorized officers or agents request it, without fee or reward, deliver such body or bodies, and permit such association and its duly-authorized officers or agents, who may comply with the provisions of this act, to take and remove all such bodies, to be used within this State for the advancement of medical and surgical science; but no such notice need be given, nor shall any such body be delivered, if any person claiming to be, and satisfying the authorities in charge of said body that he or she is of kindred or is related by marriage to the deceased, shall claim the said body for burial, but it shall be surrendered for interment; nor shall the notice be given Travelers or body delivered if such deceased person was a traveler who died suddenly, in which case said body shall be buried. 9. The said association may employ a carrier or carriers for the conveyance of said bodies, which shall be well inclosed within a suitable encasement and carefully deposited free from public observation. The drivers or persons in charge of such carrier or carriers shall obtain receipts by name, or, if the person be unknown, by a description of each body delivered by him, and shall deposit said receipts with the person or persons in charge of the institution from which the said body was taken. 10. No association organized under this act shall be allowed or permitted to receive any such body or bodies until a bond shall have been given to the State of New excepted. Receipt and dis removal of bodies. Bond for formance of sociation. proper per duties of as Penalties. All expenses met by association. Board of distribution. Duties. Bodies from other counties. Jersey by the said association, with two or more securities, to be approved by the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county in which such association shall be organized, and shall be filed with the said clerk of said court, which bond shall be in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned that all such bodies which the said association shall receive shall be used only for the promotion of medical and surgical science within this State; and whosoever shall sell or buy such body or bodies, or in any way traffic in the same, or shall transmit or convey, or cause or procure to be transmitted or conveyed, said body or bodies to any place outside this State shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars or be imprisoned at hard labor for a term not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. II. Neither the State, nor any county or municipality, nor any officer, agent or servant thereof, shall be at any expense by reason of the delivery or distribution of any such body or bodies, but all the expense thereof shall be paid by the association receiving said body or bodies. 12. Whenever more than one association shall be organized under this act within the same county it shall become the duty of the board of governors or directors of each association so as aforesaid organized within the same county to appoint two of their own number, who together shall constitute a board of distribution of dead human bodies, subject to delivery to such associations under the provisions of this act, which board of distribution shall be notified, as provided in the eighth section of this act, whenever any body or bodies may be subject to delivery under the provisions of this act; and it shall be the duty of said board of distribution to distribute the bodies which may from time to time be so delivered to it under the provisions of this act equally and in just rotation among the different associations organized under this act. 13. It shall be lawful for any association organized under this act to apply for and to receive from any county in this State dead human bodies which may be re |
