Certificate of Incorporation of the Free Public Library Association of Tenafly, 1911

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Title

Certificate of Incorporation of the Free Public Library Association of Tenafly, 1911

Subject

public libraries

Description

Copy of Certificate of Incorporation for the Free Public Library Association of Tenafly. Handwritten on the back of the document: "Recorded in Hackensack, Nov. 1911", "Recorded in Trenton, Dec 7, 1911"

Creator

Free Public Library Association

Source

Originally part of Tenafly Public Library Scrapbook, 1912-1950

Date

1911

Rights

This image is presented by the Tenafly Public Library under title 17 of the US Copyright Code for the purposes of noncommercial research and personal study. Some images may be available for reproduction under fair use provisions. For additional information about the use or reproduction of materials in this Collection, please contact tenfcirc@bccls.org.

Format

document

Language

English

Type

text

Identifier

certificateofincorporation_1911.pdf

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Text

Certificate of Incorporation
of
"THE TENAFLY FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY that we,
Virginia C. Huyler, Lavinia F. ,Pond, Amelia Haring, Ellen E. Kyburg, Bertha G. Donally, Caroline B. Westervelt and Frances L. Colver, of the Borough of Tenafly in the County of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have associated ourselves into a corporation pursuant to "An Act to incorporate associations not for pecuniary profit" approved April 21, 1898, and the supplements thereto, and to that end we do by this our certificate, state and set forth:

FIRST: That the. name or title by which suchcorporation is to be known in 1aw is ''The Tenafly Free Library Association".

SECOND: The purpose for which the corporation is formed, is to establish and maintain a free publio 1ibrary in the Borough of Tenafly, in Bergen County, New Jersey.

THIRD: The corporation is to be located. and its business conducted in the Borough of Tenafly aforesaid.

FOURTH: The corporation shall be managed by seven trustees. The names of those selected for the first year are:
Virginia C. Huyler, Tenafly, New Jersey,
Lavinia F. Pond, " " "
Amelia Haring, " " "
Ellen E. Kyburg, " " “
Bertha G. Donally, " " "
Carolina B. Westervelt, " " "
Frances L. Colver, “ “ “


LATLY: The location of the principal office in
this State is at
in the Borough of Tenafly aforesaid. The name of the agent therein and in charge thereof, upon whom process against· the corporation may be served, is

In WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seals the day of Ootober, in the year one thousand nine hundred and eleven •.

Signed and sealed in the presence of
Virginia C. Huyler
Lavinia F. Pond
Amelia Haring
Ellen E. Kyburg
Bertha G. Donally
Carolina B. Westervelt
Frances L. Colver

STATE OF NEW JERSEY )
County of Bergen. )
ss.

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on this
day of , nineteen hundred and eleven, before

me. a
personally appeared Virginia c. Huyler; Lavinia F. Pond,
Amelia Haring. Ellen E. Kyburg, Bertha G. Donally, Caroline B. Westervelt, Frances L. Colver.

who, I am satisfied, are the persona named in and who executed the foregoing certificate, and I having first made known to them the contents thereof, they did each acknowledge that they signed, sealed and delivered the same as their voluntary
act and deed.

Handwritten on back of certificate:
Recorded in Hackensack Nov. 1911
Recorded in Trenton Dec. 7, 1911

Citation

Free Public Library Association, “Certificate of Incorporation of the Free Public Library Association of Tenafly, 1911,” Digital Archives of the Tenafly Public Library, accessed May 2, 2024, https://tpl.omeka.net/items/show/15.

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