The Episcopal Church In Newark, New Jersey Reorganizes Itself

(NEW JERSEY – EPISCOPAL CHURCH). Pamphlet. 4pg. 8 ¼” x 13”. No date [circa 1780s]. Newark, New Jersey. A printed four page pamphlet regarding the Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey: “An act to or repeal the charter of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Newark, in the County of Essex, and to incorporate the congregation of said church anew. Where is the church wardens and vestry men of Trinity Church in Newark, elected in chosen according to the canons of the Church of England as by law established, and a number of the members of said church have by their petitions represented to the legislature that they are at present a body politic incorporate in law, by virtue of a charter granted the 10th day of February, in the year of our Lord 1746, by John Hamilton Esq. governor of the then province of New Jersey, in the reign of George II, late King of Great Britain, which charter contains many clauses, sentences and expressions, and vests in the rector or parochial minister of said church, certain rights and privileges inconsistent with the spiritual and temporal interests of the church, and the civil Constitution of the state; and whereas the said petitioners have by the petition prayed that the said charter may be repealed, and that they may be incorporated under the authority of the state; NOW THEREFORE BE IT ENACTED by the Council and Gen. assembly of the state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that the said charter so as aforesaid granted to the said church by John Hamilton, Esq. formally governor of the then province of New Jersey, in the reign of George II, late King of Great Britain, and every matter, cause and thing therein contained, me and the same is hereby repealed in old and made void. And be it enacted, that Edmund W Kingsland, and Samuel Ogden present church wardens, and Burnet Richards, John Schuyler, Thomas Bennet, Joseph Kingsland, John A Schuyler…and Joseph C Hornblower, the present vestry men of said church be, and they and their successors shall be from time to time, and all times forever hereafter, a body politic incorporate, indeed, fact and name, by the name and stile of the church wardens and vestry men of Trinity Church in Newark; and that by the same name they and their successors, shall and may have perpetual succession, and be capable in the law, to sue and be sued, to implead and be in pleated, to answer and be answered unto, to defend and be defended in all courts of law and equity in the state that the said corporation may from time to time appoint one of their body, to be chairman of the board; and that the chairman for time being whenever he shall think necessary, or upon the application of any two of the members of the board to him, and in case of the absence, sickness, death, resignation of the chairman, or his refusal to act, or moving out of the limits of the said congregation, then the clerk upon the application of any two members of the board to him, shall and may convene the wardens and vestry men in such manner and under such regulations as a said corporation may from time to time ordain...”. Light separations to the folds and a pen notation in the lower right corner. Not listed in OCLC.