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That the clerk for the county of Hunterdon for the time being, is hereby authorized and required to enter the warrants of attorney, declarations, pleadings, proceedings and judgments, which by the neglect of the late clerk of said county, have not been recorded agreeably to the seventy-sixth section of an act entitled "An act to regulate the practice of the courts of law," passed the fourteenth day of February, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine; for which service the said clerk shall receive from the county of Hunterdon, the sum of fifty cents, for each entry by him made agreeably to the provisions of this act, to be paid by the county collector thereof, upon a certificate to him directed, by the judge or judges of the court of common pleas of said county, who shall sign said judgments, certifying the number so entered by the said clerk, and by him or them so signed.

2. And be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this act, every person who shall Clerks of be appointed clerk of the court of common counties to pleas and general quarter sessions for either of give bond the counties of this state, shall, before he en

ters upon the execution of his office, or be admitted to take the oath or affirmation prescribed by law, enter into bond to the state of NewJersey, before two of the judges of the court of common pleas of the county, for which he shall be appointed, with at least two good and sufficient sureties, being freeholders in such county, jointly and severally, in the sum of five thousand dollars, to be approved of by the said judges; which bond, with the condition thereof, shall be in the form hereinafter mentioned, and when so executed, shall, together with the oath or affirmation of office when subscribed,

be recorded in the secretary's office, and filed in the same, to be by him kept among the public papers of his office. And if any of the said clerks before they enter into the security aforesaid, shall perform any of the duties required of him or them by law in said office, he or they shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay for the use of the state, the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered by any one of the judges of the court of common pleas of such county where such offence is committed, in an action of debt, with costs of suit.

3. And be it enacted, That the bond to be entered into as aforesaid by the said clerks and their sureties with the condition thereof, shall be in the form following, that is to say:

Form of

Know all men by these presents, that we A. bond. B. C. D. and E. F. of are held and firmly bound unto the state of New-Jersey, in the sum of five thousand dollars, money of the United States, to be paid unto the state of New-Jersey, to the which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents: Sealed with our seals, dated the day of in the

year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and

The condition of this obligation is such, that if the above bounden A. B. shall well and truly execute the office of clerk of the court of common pleas and general quarter sessions for the county of and in all things touching and concerning the said office, shall, well and truly, faithfully and impartially, execute and perform the same according to law, as well with respect to all persons concerned as to the said state of New-Jersey, and at the expiration

Clerks to deliver to

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Repeal.

of his said office, shall deliver all the books, papers and records remaining in the same, or appertaining thereto, to his successor in office, then this obligation to be void, otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue.

4. And be it enacted, That the said clerks, upon the expiration of their office, shall, in the presence of one of the judges of the court of common pleas of which they were clerks, respectively deliver to his successor, the books, papers, records and every thing appertaining to said office; which judge shall certify under his hand and seal, the said delivery to have been done agreeably to law; which certificate, together with the receipt from his said successor shall be recorded in the secretary's office of this state.

5. And be it enacted, That so much of the fifteenth section of the act, entitled "An act respecting conveyances," passed the seventh day of June, in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, as comes within the purview of this act, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.

Comp. 161

A Supplement to the act respecting the Clerks of the Court of Common Pleas and General Quarter Sessions, passed the tenth day of March, eighteen hundred and six.

Passed November 27, 1806.

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the coun cil and general assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the clerks of the courts of common pleas and quar

record

ter sessions in the several counties of this state Clerks of shall, and they are hereby required to enter of counties to record in a book to be kept by them for that sheriff's' purpose, all bonds given to the state of New. bonds. Jersey by the sheriffs who shall be hereafter elected, for the fulfilment of their several duties, as required by the act passed the eighteenth day of March, seventeen hundred and ninety-six.

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2. And be it enacted, That the record aforesaid of such bond, and a transcript of such re- Transcript cord, certified to be a true transcript by the of such record good said clerk, in whose office the record is kept, evidence. shall be received in evidence in any court of this state, and be as good, effectual and available in law, as if the original bond were then and there produced and proved.

3. And be it enacted, That the said clerk, Compen for recording said bond, shall receive from the sation. sheriff so elected, the sum of thirty cents, and

no more.

AN ACT to amend the charter granted for the incorporation of the freeholders, inhabitants of the township of Bergen.

Passed March 12, 1806.

WHEREAS the present trustees of the freeholders, inhabitants of the township of Bergen, by and with the consent and approbation of the said freeholders, duly convened, have by their petition to the legislature of the state of New-Jersey, set forth that so early as the fourteenth day of January, in the twelfth year of the reign of Queen Anne, the said freeholders, inhabitants of the town

Preamble

ship of Bergen, obtained a charter of incorporation, giving and granting to them certain rights privileges and immunities therein contained, and incoporating them the said freeholders, under the name and style of "The Trustees of the Freeholders, inhabitants of the township of Bergen," which said charter was shortly afterwards, to wit, on the twenty-ninth day of January, seventeen hundred and thirteen, in all things confirmed by an act of the legislature of the then colony of New-Jersey, under which said charter of incorporation, certain real and personal property hath been since and now is held by te said freeholders; And whereas among other provisions in the said charter, the seven persons therein named as trustees of the said freeholders, and their successors when appointed, held their offices for life, and that upon the death or other avoidance of any of the said trustees, their places were to be filled up by an election of the freeholders, summoned for that purpose by the constable or constables of the town, only by the order of the surviving trustees; and the said petitioners did further set forth, that the said provision in the said charter relative to the time that the said trustees should hold their offices, and the mode of continuing their succession to office, corresponded only with the monarchical period of the government in which it originated, and did not comport with the spirit of the democratic republican form of government now so happily established, and was repugnant to the feelings of the petitioners; and the said petitioners did further set forth that the said freeholders had lately attempted to ameliorate