New Jersey § acts:saved-16 - (5)

§ acts:saved-16. (5)

5. That the said complainant or complainants in any such bill of complaint, shall make

his or her affirmation, to be annexed to the said bill of complaint, that the division,

secession or separation stated in the said bill, so far as respects the said complainant

or complainants, was made on conscientious grounds, and not for the purpose of appropriating

the real or personal estate of the said Society of Friends to any other trusts, uses

or purposes than those originally intended in its creation, or to destroy the faith,

constitution, system of discipline and government of such association, but in truth

and good faith for the causes set forth in such bill of complaint; and that it shall

not be necessary to name all the parties associated with the complainants or defendants

in the said bill, but that it shall be sufficient to designate them as the associates

of the said respective parties, and that a copy of the subpoena issued in the said

cause, shall be served upon the clerk of the said society or meeting with whom the

defendant or defendants in said cause may be connected or acting, together with a

copy of the said bill, at least ten days before the returning thereof, or left at

his residence; and that any of the members of the said society may appear and defend

the said suit; and if in the course of said proceedings it should become expedient

to ascertain the number of members of the said society connected with the said parties

respectively, any member thereof shall be under the age of twenty-one years, such

infant shall be counted with the party to which his or her father belongs, if he is

living, and if not, to that which his or her mother, if living, belongs; and if she

also be dead, with the party to which his or her guardian belongs.