porators. name and § 1. All persons who now belong, or who shall hereafter belong, Cor to any of the fire companies, hose and hook and ladder companies, for the extinguishment of fire in the city of Schenectady, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Corporate "Fire Department of the City of Schenectady," and by that name powers. they and their successors shall have corporate existence1 for the term of ninety years; and they and their successors may have a common seal, and may change and alter the same at their pleasure; and also they and their successors by the name of the "Fire Department of the City of Schenectady" shall be in law capable of purchasing, holding and conveying any estate, real or personal, for the use of the said corporation; but the amount of Property the real and personal estate of the said corporation shall not at any time exceed in value the sum of ten thousand dollars. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 204. AN ACT to amend the charter of the city of Schenectady, in relation to number of commissioners of deeds. Became a law April 14, 1920, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, Accepted by the City. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: limited. L. 1907, ch. 756, §201a, as amended ch. 436, Section 1. Section two hundred and one-a of chapter seven hundred and fifty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and seven, entitled "An act to provide for the government and to supplement by L. 1916, the provisions of law relating to the city of Schenectady," as last amended. amended by chapter four hundred and thirty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: 201-a. Other officers. There shall be appointed by the mayor a city marshal, who shall be janitor of the city hall, and not to exceed five hundred3 commissioners of deeds and their term of office shall be two years, respectively, unless sooner removed by the mayor. The city clerk shall immediately 1 Words "shall have corporate existence" new. 2 Formerly "sixty years.' 3 Formerly "two hundred and fifty." Cor- after the appointment of any such commissioner of deeds file a certificate thereof with the county clerk of Schenectady county, specifying the term for which such commissioner of deeds shall have been appointed. Such commissioners of deeds shall qualify in the manner provided for commissioners of deeds within the state by the executive law and may discharge their duties at any place within the county of Schenectady. The mayor, the comptroller, the treasurer, the president of the common council, city engineer, the corporation counsel, any assistant corporation counsel, city clerk, deputy city clerk, police justice, city judge, the clerk of the city court and the clerk of the police court, shall each have the powers of a commissioner of deeds of the city of Schenectady. The city marshal shall perform such duties as the common council shall require and have such powers as the common council may confer upon him. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 205. AN ACT to incorporate the Zionist Organization of America. three-fifths being present. Passed, The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Senior Abel, Reuben Brainin, Charles A. Cowen, Nahum Eben, Mary Fels, Jacob Fishman, Bernard Flexner, Howard Gans, Abraham Goldberg, Richard Gottheil, Jacob de Haas, Isidor Hassin, Joseph Krimsky, Louis Lipsky, Morris Margulies, Hirsh Masliansky, Walter E. Meyer, Emmanuel Neumann, Bernard G. Richards, Louis Robison, Bernard A. Rosenblatt, Morris Rothenberg, Peter J. Schweitzer, Joshua Sprayregen, Nathan Strauss. Henrietta Szold, Robert Szold, Stephen S. Wise, all of New York, Louis D. Brandeis of Washington, District of Columbia, Benzion A. Antonow, Nathan D. Kaplan, Julian W. Mack, Hugo Pam, Max Shulman, all of Illinois, Israel Brodie and Harry Friedenwald of Maryland, Harry Cutler of Rhode Island, Maurice L. Avner, James G. Heller, Sol Rosenbloom, Samuel Schimmel, all of Pennsylvania, S. Marcus Fechheimer and Abba H. Silver of Ohio, Felix Frankfurter, Horace M. Kallen, Louis E. Kirstein, Hyman Morrison, Samuel H. Waldstein, all of Massachusetts, Morris Goldman of Missouri, George Gordon of Minnesota, Max Heller of Louisiana, I. Irving Lipsitch and Martin A. Meyer of California, Leonard M. Palitz of Georgia, Jonas A. Rosenfield of Texas, Jacob Saks of Virginia, William Sauber of Wisconsin, and all other persons now members of the voluntary association known as the Zionist Organization of America are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the Corporate name, style and title of Zionist Organization of America, to be governed by an executive committee of fifty, or such other Executive number as may be specified from time to time in the constitu- mittee. tion of such body corporate, which executive committee shall be elected at such times and in such manner as the constitution and by-laws of such body corporate may provide. name. com 2. The object of said corporation shall be (a) to further object. the aim of the Basle program, to wit: To establish a publicly recognized and legally secured home for the Jewish people in Palestine, and (b) to do any and all things that may be necessary or incidental to the attainment of this object. to Zionist tion of rights and 3. The said corporation by that name shall succeed to the Successor rights and property of the Zionist Organization of America, as Organizanow constituted, and its constituent organizations, including the America. Federation of American Zionists, and shall have and enjoy per- corporate petual succession, and be able to sue and be sued, and shall have t all the powers which by the general corporation law are conferred powers upon corporations, and in addition thereto shall have all the powers which now or may hereafter pertain by law to membership corporations, so far as the same are applicable thereto and are not inconsistent with the provisions and purposes of this act, and shall also have power in law and in equity to take, purchase, lease, hold and receive to it and its successors for and to the use of said corporation either absolutely or in trust for any of its purposes, or for any purposes deemed by the corporation to be in furtherance of its objects, any lands, tenements, hereditaments, whether situate in the United States or elsewhere, and any goods, chattels, sum or sums of money and personal property, and whether by grant, gift, purchase, lease, will, devise, or bequest, from any person or persons whatsoever, and the same to hold, grant, bargain, sell, mortgage, lease, improve or dispose of for the use of the corporation, and to receive and transmit personal property, including moneys, securities and funds, and in general to do all things which may be lawful or necessary for the well-being and proper management of the said corporation. Right to grant member charters. 4. The said corporation shall have power to grant memberships and ships in its organization and to grant charters to other societies, associations or units, and to suspend and revoke the same in accordance with the provisions of the constitution and by-laws of the Zionist Organization of America, which said constitution and by-laws, and as the same shall be adopted and amended from time to time, shall be binding upon every member and every such chartered society, association or unit; and the said corporation shall have the right to hold its meetings either in this state or at any place or places in the United States which from time to time may be appointed for that purpose. Place of meetings. Present officers, constitu tion and by-laws 5. The present officers of the said association shall continue in their respective offices until its next regular election, and the constitution and by-laws now in force shall be in all respects concontinued. tinued in force and valid until altered, amended or abrogated by Election the said corporation. The said corporation shall have power to pointment elect and appoint such officers as it may determine and they shall be elected and appointed at such times and places, and in such manner as the constitution and by-laws of said corporation may direct. and ap of officers. Not for pecuniary profit; corporate status. I.. 1861, ch. 254. § 1 amended. § 6. This corporation is not established and shall not be maintained or conducted for pecuniary profit, and shall have the status of a religious, educational or benevolent corporation. None of its trustees, officers, members or employees shall receive any pecuniary profits from the operations thereof except reasonable compensation for services in effecting one or more of its purposes. § 7. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 206. AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and fifty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled "An act relative to Saint Stephen's College," in relation to the qualifications. terms of office and election of its trustees. Became a law April 14, 1920, with the approval of the Governor. Passed. three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section one of chapter two hundred and fifty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled "An act rela tive to Saint Stephen's College," is hereby amended to read as follows:1 number. or designated; qualifica § 1. The number of trustees of Saint Stephen's College i Trustees; hereby increased from sixteen to twenty-four. Of the whole number of trustees, five shall be the ex-officio trustees provided for by Ex-officio. section two of chapter eighty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty, and three shall be elected or designated from time to Elected time by the synod of the province of New York and New Jersey terms, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, acting directly or through its tions. appropriate officers or commission. The trustees to be elected or designated by said synod shall be so elected or designated to serve for terms of office to expire in rotation, one in every year; any person who may be so elected or designated a trustee must, at the time of his election or designation, be a member in communion of the Protestant Episcopal Church; and if he, at any time, ceases to be such member, his seat at the board shall be thereupon vacated. The board of trustees of said college is authorized, from time to To he time, to make, revoke and amend any agreement with any official or elected body of the Protestant Episcopal Church or of the alumni of said official college, or any by-law, whereby, or in pursuance of which, one or church or more of the trustees of said college shall be designated or elected by college. such body or association, such designation or election of such trustees to be for any term or terms that may be agreed or determined upon. The board of trustees is further authorized to number. make, revoke, or amend any such agreement, or any by-law, whereby or in pursuance of which the whole number of trustees of said college shall be increased to not more than thirty. The trustees whose election is not otherwise provided for shall be Other elected by the board of trustees. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 1 Section materially amended. designated by any body of alumni of Increase of trustees, how elected. |