New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 16 § 5-2(1)

1. That every congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran churches of this state, which shall have organized according to the provisions of the first section of the act entitled “An act to incorporate trustees of religious societies,” approved April seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, is hereby constituted a body politic and corporate in law, from the date of such organization, by whatever name it may have assumed at the time of such organization; and the certificate of every such incorporation, notwithstanding any defect or insufficiency in the form thereof, as recorded in the clerk's office of the several counties of this state, and also the acts and proceedings of said incorporations under such organizations, be and the same are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed; and all conveyances and mortgages made to or by any such corporation under such organizations are hereby confirmed and made valid and legal and effectual to the extent that the same would have been valid, legal and effectual if such organizations had been duly incorporated under the provisions of the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first sections of the act above referred to.