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AN ACT supplementary to an act entitled An act

to incorporate a part of the township of Trenton [Rev.116] in the county of Hunterdon.

Passed November 22, 1808.

WHEREAS the old gaol in Trenton has been converted into a banking-house, whereby the said city is deprived of a place of confinement for criminals or offenders against the law; Therefore,

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Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the council and general assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful for the mayor, recorder, and aldermen, of the said city, or ei- Mayor,&c. ther of them, to commit every person or per- may comsons, offender or offenders, whom by law they new gaol. or either of them are authorized to commit to gaol or imprison, to and in the work-house now erecting on Academy-street in the said city, and the same is hereby declared to be the common gaol of the said city; and the keeper of the said gaol, to be appointed by the common council of the said city, is hereby required to receive such person or persons so Committed, and him, her or them, to keep in close and safe custody, until thence discharged by due course of law.

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2. And be it enacted, That the said workhouse or common gaol herein before mentioned, shall be deemed, esteemed and taken Said gaol to be a work-house within the intent and declared meaning of the fifth, sixth and seventh sections work of the act entitled An act for the establishment house. of work-houses in the several counties of this state, passed the twentieth of February, one [Rev.379] thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine; and

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also of the act entitled An act to describe, apprehend and punish disorderly persons, passed the tenth of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine; Provided, That no magistrate but the mayor, recorder, and aldermen of said city, or either of them, shall have authority to commit any person to the said work-house.

3. And be it enacted, That of the keeper of the keep the said work-house or gaol shall be required the same duties in respect to the safe-keeping of the persons committed to his custody by virtue of this act, as are required of the sheriff or keeper of the common gaol of the several counties of this state; and the said keeper of the said work-house or gaol shall be subject to the same pains, penalties and forfeitures for failure of duty, misconduct in office, and voluntary or negligent escapes, to which the sheriff or keeper of the common gaol of the several counties of this state is by law subject and liable.

4. And be it enacted, That the mayor, reMayor, &c. Corder and aldermen of the said city of Trenjustices of ton, and each of them, shall hereafter be deemthe peace. ed, esteemed and taken to be a justice of the peace within the intent and meaning of an act entitled An act constituting courts for the trial of small causes, passed the fifteenth of March, one thousand seven hundred and nineComp.49. ty-eight, and of the several acts supplementary

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5. And be it enacted, That the territorial their juris- jurisdiction of the said mayor, recorder and aldermen, and every of them, shall be co-extensive with the limits of the said city of Trenton, and that they may in causes depending before them, award writs of subpoena ad testificandum into any of the counties of this state;

but that the said mayor, recorder and aldermen, or either of them, shall not have jurisdiction of any civil action where the defendant or defendants, or one of them, does not reside within the said limits.

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6. And be it enacted, That it shall be the Duties of duty of the marshal and of the constables of marshal & the said city to execute and return all precepts, summons, warrants, writs and other process, to be issued by the said mayor, recorder, aldermen, or either of them, and to the said marshal and constables or any of them directed and delivered, and also to do, execute and perform all duties, matters, acts and things which by the said last mentioned act and the acts supplementary thereto, the constables of the several townships are required to do, execute and perform; and the said marshal and constables shall be liable to the same actions, recoveries, pains, penalties and forfeitures for neglect of duty and misconduct in office, to which the constables of the several townships in this state are subject and liable.

7. And be it enacted, That the eighth section [Rev.118] of the act to which this a supplement, be and the same is hereby repealed.

AN ACT to set off a part of the borough of Elizabeth in the county of Essex, and to incorporate the same into a separate township to be called the township of Union.

Passed November 23, 1808.

WHEREAS a number of the inhabitants of the said borough of Elizabeth have by their petition set forth, that they find themselves Preamble:

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much injured by being as they are at present a part of the borough of Elizabeth, and as such obliged to furnish their quotas of jurymen four times in a year to attend the mayor's court, where but little business is done and in which they are seldom interested; and also being compelled from time to time. by taxation to pay money for the building and repairing their court-house, without being in the least exonerated thereby from their services or expenses as it respects the county; For remedy whereof,

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the council and general assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all that part of the borough of Elizabeth lying within the following bounds, to witBeginning at a fork in the road leading from the dwelling-house of Benjamin Mulford past the house of Robert Clark to Crane's mills, and in the line of the township of Rahway; thence up the road leading past the said Benjamin Mulford, and the dwelling-house of William Crane, esquire, until it strikes a road running a northerly course from the dwellinghouse of Oliver Crane; thence up the said road until it strikes the mouth of the road leading from James Crane's to Stephen Crane's tavern ; thence in a direct line to a bridge commonly known by the name of Trotter's bridge; thence on a direct line to the mouth of the road leading from the main road which leads from Elizabeth-town to Newark, and near the dwellhouse of John Pierson; thence up the said road past the house of Lewis Mulford, to the fork of the road leading to Lyons Farms. meeting house, and the road leading to New

ark, past the house of capt. Obadiah Meeker ; and from thence in a direct course until it strikes the line which separates the township of Newark from the borough of Elizabeth, near Dividend hill; thence up the Newark line until it strikes the line of the township of Orange; thence along the Orange line until it strikes the line of the township of Springfield; thence along the line of the township of Springfield until it strikes the township of Rahway; thence along the line of the said township of Rahway to the place of beginning; shall be and hereby is set off from the borough. of Elizabeth, and erected into a separate township to be known and called by the name of "The township of Union."

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2. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants of the township of Union shall be and hereby are invested with and entitled to all the powers, Powers, privileges and authorities, and shall be and are &c. hereby made subject to the like regulations and government, which the inhabitants of other townships in this state are subject and entitled to; and that the inhabitants of the township of Union be and are hereby incorporated, styled and known by the name of "the inhabitants of the township of Union in the county of Essex," and entitled to all the privileges, advantages and authorities that the other townships in the said county are entitled to by virtue of an act entitled An act incorporating the inhabitants of townships, designating their powers, and regulating their meetings, passed the twenty-first day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.

[3. Relates to town-meetings.]

4. Respects settlement of accounts and distribution of the poor.]

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[Rev. 276]

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