for the liberation of prisoners by the acts of Nov. 19, 1799, Rev. 449, and of Dec. 1, 1802. Comp. 25—but contains no repealing clause.]

[Rev. 271. 449. 451]

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A further supplement to the act entitled "An act making provision for carrying into effect the act for the punishment of crimes."

Passed December 4, 1807.

WHEREAS persons sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor in the state-prison, may have at the time of their conviction property wherewith the costs of prosecution, and also the expenses of finding and providing clothing and other necessaries for the said offender might be paid in case he shall not have earned sufficient to discharge the same: And whereas it is highly just and reasonable that the property of those who have been convicted of offences against the laws of this state should be made liable to, and appropriated for the payment of the costs and expenses incurred thereby,

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the counPrisoners cil and general assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That in all cases in which the offender shall have in his own right, any estate, real or personal, or both, the same shall be bound by the judgment against such offender from the time. of rendering thereof, and shall be liable for the payment of the costs of prosecution and expenses of finding and providing clothing and other necessaries during the term of imprisonment; and that for the recovery of the said costs of prosecution in such case, the clerk of

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the county in which the said judgment shall be rendered, or in which such property may be found, shall record the said judgment together with a certificate of the amount of the cost taxed by the clerk in the book of judgments of the court of common pleas of said county, and shall thereupon issue execution in the name of the state against the said offender as in other cases of debt; and where any of fender now is or at any time hereafter shall be indebted, at the expiration of the term of imprisonment, or in case of a pardon being granted to him for the fine and costs of prosecution and of transporting said offender to the stateprison and for the finding and providing clothing and other necessaries for the said offender, or either of them; and the said offender shall have property sufficient to discharge the whole or some part thereof, it shall be the duty of the attorney-general upon application of the inspectors of the said state-prison and statement against by of the sum due and owing as aforesaid by any the attor such offender, to file a declaration in debt in ney-gener. the clerk's office of the supreme court in the name of the state against such offender, and to serve a copy thereof upon the keeper of the state-prison, at least ten days before the term of the sitting of the justices of the said supreme court whose duty it shall be forthwith to deliver the same to the offender; and if the said offender shall not plead to the same during the term next after the filing and service of the said declaration, the said justices of the said supreme court shall render judgment thereupon for the amount with costs, and execution shall be issued as in other cases of debt.

2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the keeper of the state-prison to pay

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Sheriffs to to the sheriff of the county wherein the conreceive viction shall be had, such parts of the costs of and pay to prosecution, as may be due and payable to the court, clerk, cryer, sheriff, jurors and witnesses, and the said sheriff shall pay the same to the clerk of the county for the persons severally entitled thereto.

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3. And be it enacted, That when in the opinInspectors ion of the inspectors the enlargement of any fy the sen. prisoner sentenced to solitary imprisonment tences to from any portion of the term of such solitary solitary confinement.

confinement by reason of sickness, bodily inability or other good cause may be necessary, it shall be lawful for the said inspectors at their discretion so to modify or proportion the solitary confinement as in their opinion may be necessary for the security or reformation of the said prisoner; any thing in the act to which this is a supplement to the contrary notwithstanding.

A Supplement to An act making provision for carrying into effect the act for the punishment of crimes,. passed the fifteenth of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.

Passed February 22, 1811.

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the coun.. çil and general assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so much of the twelfth section of the [Rev. 271. above-recited act as provides that the keeper 449. 451] of the state-prison shall be entitled to five per centum on the sales of all articles manufactured in said prison, be and the same is hereby repealed.

2. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the inspectors of the state-prison to appoint an agent in any place where they may deem the same expedient, for the sale of any articles manufactured in the state-prison, and to allow to every such agent reasonable commissions on all sales by him made,

A Supplement to an act entitled "An act for incor- [Rev. 265] porating the chosen freeholders in the respective counties of this state."

Passed March 1, 1804.

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Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the coun- Boards of cil and general assembly of this state, and it hereby enacted by the authority of the same, powered That the several boards of chosen freeholders to sell and in and for their respective counties, and their successors in office, shall have full power and &c. held authority to sell and convey any lands, ten- for their ements, hereditaments, goods, and chattels, respective holden or hereafter to be held by them for their counties. respective counties for the use of said counties.

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AN ACT to incorporate «The Associates of the Jersey Company."

Passed November 10, 1804.

WHEREAS it is represented to this legislature, that Richard Varick, Jacob Radcliff, and Anthony Dey, have become the pro- Preamble. prietors by purchase from Cornelius Van Vorst, of all that certain tract or parcel of land and meadow, situate, lying and being in the township of Bergen, county of Ber

gen, and state of New-Jersey, commonly called Powles-Hook, bounded on the east by Hudson's River, on the north by said river, or the bay commonly called Horsimus Bay, on the south by said river, or the bay commonly called Communipau Bay, and on the west by a line drawn from a stake standing on the west side of the small creek on the south-west side of the said tract, (from which stake the flag-staff on Ellis's Island bears south one degree twenty minutes east, and from which the chimney of the house of Stephen Vreeland, on Kaywan, bears south fifty-six degrees ten mi,nutes west, and from which the steeple of the Bergen church bears north fifty degrees twenty-five minutes west) north twenty-six degrees thirty minutes east to Horsimus Bay aforesaid: Together with the right of ferry from the said tract or parcel of land, across Hudson's River and elsewhere, and the right and title of said Cornelius Van Vorst, under the water of the Hudson River, and the bays aforesaid, opposite the said premises, as far as the right of the said Cornelius Van Vorst extends. And whereas it is represented that the said Richard Varick, Jacob Radcliff, and Anthony Dey, have divided all the said premises into one thousand original shares, and have by certain articles of agreement associated and become associates in interest with divers other persons in the said shares, and the said associates having presented a petition to the legislature, praying to be incorporated for the purposes hereinafter contained, and such prayer appearing reasonable :