other acts heretofore passed relative thereto, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Comp. 204.

AN ACT supplementary to the act entitled “ An act to regulate the fisheries in the river Delaware, and for other purposes,” passed November twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eight.

Passed November 20, 1809.

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 be lawful to make use of shad seines or shad nets for the purpose of catching fish in the river Delaware within the limits of this state; between the foot of the falls of Trenton and opposite the mouth of the river Lehigh, until the fifteenth day of June, and between the mouth of the river Lehigh and the station point or north-west corner of this state until the twentieth day of June in each and every year, subject in all cases to the same regulations, fines and penalties, pointed out in the act to which this is a supplement.

[2, Relates to a similar law in Pennsylvania, which passed, &c.]

3. And be it enacted, That all such part or parts of the second section of the act to which this is a supplement as comes within the purview of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed.

See Comp. p. 205, Sec. 2.

AN ACT to erect and set off a new township from the township of Springfield in the county of Essex.

Passed November 8, 1809.

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 the district of the township of Springfield in the county of Essex included within the following limits, viz. Beginning in the line that divides the townships of Westfield and Bounds, Springfield at the head of Green brook, thence north twelve degrees and twenty minutes east to the south side of the road running from New-Providence to Springfield and a little east of the dwelling-house of Amos Potter, esquire, thence north forty-one degrees and fifty-five minutes west to the race of the saw-mill of Benjamin Bonnel deceased, thence into the bed of the river Passaic in the Morris county line, thence up the bed of said river and along the Morris county line until it strikes the line of Somerset county, thence along said line of Somerset county until it strikes the line that divides the townships of Westfield and Springfield, thence along said line to the place of beginning, be and the same is hereby set off from the above township of Springfield, and erected into a separate township, to be known by the name of the township of New-Providence.

2. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants of said township of New-Providence shall be and they are hereby vested with and entitled unto Powers, all the powers privileges and authorities, and &c. shall be and are hereby made subject to the like regulations and government, which the inhabitants of other townships in this state are

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subject and entitled to; and that the inhabi tants of the township of New-Providence shall be and they are hereby incorporated styled and known by the name of "The inhabitants of the township of New-Providence, in the county of Essex," and entitled to all the pri vileges, authorities, and advantages, that the other townships in the said county are entitled unto, 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 in the year of our Lord one thousand [Rev.276] seven hundred and ninety-eight.

[This act has the usual provision for town-meetings, division of property and poor.

A supplement to the act entitled An act to revive and extend the act entitled An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt-passed the eighteenth day of March, seventeen hundred and ninety-five.

Passed November 17, 1809.

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 the act entitled "An act for the relif of [Rev. 184] persons imprisoned for debt," passed the eighteenth day of March seventeen hundred and Former ninety-five, be revived and extended to all peract revived sons in actual confinement for debt or damages in any of the jails of this state at the time of the passing of this act, excepting that part of said act contained in the proviso of the sixth section of the same directing the payment of a

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weekly sum by the creditor to the debtor when [Rev. 185. remanded by the court, which part of said section is and shall be hereby repealed.

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the court.

2. And be it enacted, That in any case in which it shall appear to the court or be alleged under oath or affirmation by any one or more rionary of the creditors, or by any person in their be- power of half, that he or she verily believes that the conduct of the debtor, either before or after his or her application for the benefit of the act hereby revived, has not been fair and honest in not making a fair and honest surrender of all his or her estate, or by acting in collusion with some friend in conveying, assigning, transferring, or selling under value, any part of his or her estate, either real or personal, for the purpose of enabling said debtor to take the oath or affirmation required by law in support of his application, or with an intention to deprive his or her creditors from any benefit therefrom, or that said debtor hath in any manner or by any ways or means or under any pretence whatever put out of his or her possession into the possession of any other person or persons, any part of his or her estate, or endeavors to evade a fair surrender of all his or her estate without having received the full value thereof, or hath not surrendered the full amount of the value of the same to the creditors; in consequence of his or her having thus fraudulently acted as aforesaid it shall be the duty of the court before whom the application shall be made, to remand said debtor to prison, who shall then proceed to trial and judgment according to the provisions of this act and of the act hereby revived.

3. And be it enacted, That if after trial had and judgment obtained against said debtor it shall appear to the court that a conveyance or

transfer hath in any way whatever been made Assignees may be ap- by said debtor of any part of his or her estate pointed. either real or personal, to any person or per

sons whatever, with an intention to defraud his or her creditors of the just amount of such estate by avoiding a fair surrender thereof either directly or indirectly, it shall be the duty of said court before whom such application shall be made, to appoint an assignee or assignees who shall and may when duly authorized and empowered by any one or more of the creditors of such debtor in writing under his or their hands and seals, to offer to refund to any person or persons so fraudulently holding and possessing the estate of such debtor, the sum so paid by him, her or them with the interest accrued thereon, and demand the estate either real or personal so holden, in behalf of said creditors, and on refusal to deliver or re-convey the same to said assignee or assignees, he or they shall or may prosecute such person or persons for the same or for the value thereof, after allowing the sum so as aforesaid offered to be refunded, in any court in this state having competent jurisdiction thereof.

[Sec. 4 and 5 provides for extra courts and attendance of clerks on application of persons in actual confinement on 17 Nov. 1809.

[Rev. 184]

AN ACT for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt.

Passed November 1, 1810.

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 so much of the act entitled An act for the