Provisions

of former act extended.

CHAPTER CXI.

SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled "An act to authorize the inhabitants of the township of Orange, in the county of Essex, and of the township of Bridgewater, in the county of Somerset, and of the township of Monroe, in the county of Middlesex, and of the township of Springfield, in the county of Essex, and of the township of Hamilton, in the county of Mercer, and of the township of Clinton, in the county of Essex, to vote by ballot at their town meetings," approved March twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and forty-five.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement be and they are hereby made applicable to the township of Milburn, in the county of Essex, and the inhabitants of the said township of Milburn. are required to be governed by the provisions of the said act at their annual town meetings.

2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 15, 1859.

CHAPTER CXII.

AN ACT to incorporate the Rahway Fire Department.

incorporat

powers.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Department the State of New Jersey, And it is hereby enacted by the ed. authority of the same, that all such persons as now are, or hereafter shall be engineers of the fire department, aud fire wardens, together with all firemen belonging to any of the fire engines, hook and ladder, or hose companies, and the officers hereinafter named, shall be, and hereby are created, constituted and declared to be and continue until the first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, a body politic, in fact and in name, by the name of "The Rahway Fire Department," and by that General name, they and their successors for the term aforesaid, shall and may have succession, and shall be persons in law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being im pleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever, and that they and their successors may have a common seal, and may change and alter the same at their pleasure; and also that they and their successors by the name of "The Rahway Fire Department," shall be in law, capable of purchasing, holding and conveying any estate, real or personal, for the use of said corporation; provided, that the Proviso. amount of real and personal estate of said corporation shall not at any time exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars.

representa

2. And be it enacted, That the engineers, belonging to Election of the fire department, shall, on or before the second Monday tives. in December in every year, choose one representative, the fire wardens one representative, each engine, hook and ladder or hose company, comprised of eighteen men and upwards, two representatives, and under eighteen men one representative, who shall have and exercise all such powers as are hereinafter committed to them.

First officers of department.

Trustees to

be divided

into classes.

Vacancies.

3. And be it enacted, That the said representatives shall choose on the third Monday of December in every year, by .ballot, out of the whole body of firemen, and the officers hereinafter named, a president and vice president, three trustees, a treasurer, secretary and collector; the first representatives shall be John B. Price, John J. High, James A. Calhoun, Milan Ross, Joseph Gatchell, Robert Morrison, Almeth White, Dunham Parker, James P. Phillips, Robert W. Moore, Theophilus L. Houghton, and Isaac Longstreet; the first trustees shall be James P. Phillips, Joseph Gatchell and Milan Ross; James A. Calhoun shall be the first president; Almeth White the first vice president; Robert W. Moore first secretary; John J. High first treasurer, and Enoch M. Ayres first collector, to hold their respective offices and places until others are appointed agreeably to the provisions of this act; that said trustees shall be classed into three classes, the first class shall go out of office the first year, the second class the second year, and the third class the third year; that the trustees shall manage the affairs and dispose of the funds of the corporation according to the by-laws, rules and regulations of said corporation from time to time made and established by the representatives; that the trustees shall choose a president, who shall convene them when he may think proper, at least twice in each year; that the treasurer and collector shall give security to the trustees for the faithful performance of their trust; that the treasurer shall, at every annual meeting of the representatives, render to them an account of the funds; that the representatives shall, at any meeting, have a right to inquire into and control the application of the funds, and to displace any of the trustees and officers, if judged by them guilty of misconduct, and elect others in their places; that a majority of said representatives, and also of said trustees, shall respectively be a quorum to do business; that in case a vacancy shall occur in the office of representatives, such vacancy shall be filled by the company to which he belongs, for the remainder of the year, by a special election to be held for that purpose; and that in

case of vacancy in the office of president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, collector, or any of the trustees, shall be filled up by the representatives, for the remainder of the year, by a special election to be held for that purpose.

tives to

laws, &c.

4. And be it enacted, That the said representatives shall Representahave full power to make and prescribe such by-laws, rules, make by ordinances and regulations, as to them from time to time shall appear needful and proper in respect to the manage. ment and disposition of the funds for the purposes aforesaid, and touching the meetings of said corporation, both special and ordinary, except the third Monday in December in every year, which is hereby declared to be the annual meeting, and touching the duty and conduct of their officers and trustees, and touching all such other matters as appertain to the business and purpose for which the said corporation is by this act instituted, and for no other purpose whatever; provided, such by-laws, rules, ordinances or Proviso. regulations be not repugnant to the constitution or laws of the United States or of this state.

not dissolv.

ure to elect

on day pre

scribed.

5. And be it enacted, That in case any election shall not Corporation be made on the day when, pursuant to this act, it should ed for failhave been made, the corporation shall not on that account be considered to be dissolved, but that it shall and may be lawful on any other day to hold and make such election. in such manner as shall have been regulated by the bylaws and ordinances of said corporation.

tion of

6. And be it enacted, That the funds of said corporation Appropriawhich shall arise from fines belonging to the fire depart- funds. ment, under the ordinances that are or may hereafter be passed by the common council of the said city, and donations and such other moneys as may have been heretofore, or may hereafter be agreed upon by the representatives, shall be appropriated to the relief of such indigent or disabled firemen, or their families, as may be interested in the same, and who may, in the opinion of a majority of the trustees, be worthy of assistance; but if they shall amount. to a greater sum than the trustees shall think necessary to apply to said purposes, then the said representatives shall

Bonds to be given to

Fire Department.

have power to apply such surplus to the purpose of extinguishing fires, under such limitations and restrictions. as they may with the sanction of the corporation of the city of Rahway deem proper.

7. And be it enacted, That the bond mentioned in the treasurer of several sections of the act entitled "An act relative to insurance companies," revision approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and therein required to be given to the collector of the county, shall hereafter be given by any person or persons residing within the city of Rahway, and who may be required by the said act to give such bond to the treasurer for the time being of the fire department of the city of Rahway, instead of the collector of the county of Middlesex, or the county of Union, as the case may require, and that said bond shall in all respects conform to the provisions of the said act, except as hereinbefore stated, and that all duties enjoined by said act upon. the collector of either of said counties of Middlesex and Union, so far as the same relates to persons residing within the city of Rahway, shall hereafter be performed by the treasurer for the time being of the "fire department" of the city of Rahway.

Members exempt from

8. And be it enacted, That every person now a member jury duty. of the fire companies of the city of Rahway, and who shall continue in such service for the term of seven years, and every person who may become such fireman after the passage of this act, and shall serve as such for seven years thereafter, shall, during and forever after such service, be exempted from serving as a juror in any of the courts of this state, and from all militia duty except in cases of war, invasion or insurrection.

Former act repealed.

be used in

banking.

9. And be it enacted, That any act inconsistent with the provisions of the last above section, so far as relates to the aforesaid city of Rahway, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Funds not to 10. And be it enacted, That no part of the funds of the said company shall be appropriated or used for banking or other purposes not plainly indicated by this act, and that