New Jersey § acts:saved-16 - (11)

§ acts:saved-16. (11)

37. Whereas, The legislature of New Jersey, by an act passed on the seventeenth of February,

anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, granted to Episcopal congregations the

privilege of becoming incorporated according to the “constitution, usages and customs

of the Protestant Episcopal Church”, in this state, and did not require any oath to

be taken or subscribed by the wardens and vestrymen of such churches; and whereas,

under the present revised statutes, doubts have arisen whether the wardens and vestrymen

of Episcopal churches are not required to take and subscribe the oaths specified in

the act to incorporate religious societies, which provision would occasion great inconvenience,

and be entirely “inconsistent with the constitution, usages and customs of the Protestant

Episcopal Church in this state”; therefore, the wardens and vestrymen of the Protestant

Episcopal churches now incorporated, or hereafter to be incorporated in this state,

shall not be required to take or subscribe the oaths specified in the thirty-fourth

section of the act entitled “An act to incorporate trustees of religious societies,”

approved April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six; and that the acts and

proceedings of the wardens and vestrymen of such Episcopal churches as have omitted

to take and subscribe such oaths shall be, and are hereby declared to be as valid

and effectual in law as if such oaths had been previously taken and subscribed; all

the provisions of this act relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church shall be equally

applicable to the church now designated “The Reformed Episcopal Church”.