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CHAPTER XXXVIII.

AN ACT to change the name of Hartman Vreeland Van Horn, of Bergen, in the county of Hudson.

changed.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Name the State of New Jersey, That the name of Hartman Vreeland Van Horn, of the township of Bergen, in the county of Hudson, be changed to Hartman Vreeland, and that henceforth all business and other transactions had by or with the said Hartman, shall be in the name given him by this act; provided, nevertheless, that nothing herein con- Proviso. tained shall in any manner affect any matter, thing, or transaction heretofore had by or with, in favor of, or adverse to the said Hartman.

Approved March 1, 1859.

Trustees authorized

to convey property.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

AN ACT authorizing the trustees of the Methodist Independent Church, or Free Communion Chapel, established at Shark river, in union with the Methodist Protestant Church, in the township of Wall, in the county of Monmouth, to convey certain property.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the present trustees, or their successors, of the Methodist Independent Church, or Free Communion Chapel, established at Shark river, in union with the Methodist Protestant Church in the township of Wall, in the county of Monmouth and state of New Jersey, are hereby authorized and empowered to sell by public vendue, or otherwise, all the goods and chattels and church. edifice of the Methodist Independent Church, or Free Communion Chapel, at Shark river, in the township, county, and state aforesaid, and to execute a good and sufficient deed or deeds for the same, to the purchaser or purchasers, and to appropriate the proceeds of the sale towards the payment of the debts and liabilities of the said, the Methodist Independent Church, or Free Communion Chapel, at Shark river aforesaid, and the balance to be used by the said, the trustees of the Methodist Independent Church, or Free Communion Chapel, established at Shark river, in union with the Methodist Protestant Church aforesaid, or their successors, for the benefit of their society.

2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 1, 1859.

CHAPTER XL.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Trenton," passed the seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.

tion to free

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Compensathe State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for the com- holders. mon council of the city of Trenton to allow and pay such compensation as may be deemed proper, to the three freeholders of the said city, who are required to value the lots on the atlas of the said city, and to perform certain other duties by virtue of the sixteenth section of an act approved April the tenth, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-five, entitled "a further supplement to an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Trenton," passed the seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven; provided, Proviso. that said compensation shall in no case exceed the sum of two hundred dollars, to each of said freeholders.

former acts

2. And be it enacted, That any provision in the charter Part of of the said city, or in any of the supplements thereto, repealed. which is repugnant to any of the provisions of this act, be and the same is to that extent hereby repealed.

3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 1, 1859.

Time for

commencement and completion

CHAPTER XLI.

A SUPPLEMENT to the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Newark and Springfield Railroad Company," approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the time for commencing and extended. completing the railroad, authorized by the act to which

this is a supplement, shall be computed from the fourth day of July next, and that the said act shall not be deemed void by reason of said road not having been commenced and completed within the time limited by said act, but that the same is hereby revived and in full force, and that the road authorized by said act, may be constructed to any point in the city of Newark, at or south of Market street. Approved March 1, 1859.

Prosecution

to be commenced

within cer

tain time.

CHAPTER XLII.

SUPPLEMENT to the act entitled "An act for the limitation of actions," approved the sixteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and forty-six.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate' and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That any prosecution to be had or commenced upon any bond heretofore given, or hereafter

to be given, by any insolvent debtor or person arrested upon final process in any civil action, to the sheriff of any county in this state, for the benefit of the prison limits, shall in nowise operate against or in any manner affect the securities named and bound in such bond, unless such prosecution shall be commenced within sixteen years next after the date of said bond.

2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 1, 1859.

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CHAPTER XLIII.

AN ACT relative to bills of exchange, promissory notes, and other negotiable instruments.

strument not

recovery.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Loss of inthe State of New Jersey, That whenever an action shall be to prevent or has been brought upon, or a plea or a notice set off, shall set up any negotiable instrument which has been lost, that the fact of the loss of such instrument while negotiable, by delivery or otherwise, shall not prevent a recovery thereon, in a court of law; but that any court of law shall give judgment in the same manner as if such note was not lost, and may take the same order thereon as a court of equity would, to indemnify the party charged against the repayment thereof.

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