Dividend of which shall have been purchased and paid for by the said company after the said bridge shall have been completed. Sec. 15. That the said president, directors and company profits to be shall also keep a just and true account of all and every the moneys received by their respective collectors of tolls for made. Act not to take effect ssing said bridge, and shall make and declare a dividend of the profits and income thereof among the stockholders of said company, deducting first therefrom all contingent costs and charges, and such proportion of the said income as may be deemed necessary for a growing fund to provide against the decay and for the rebuilding and repairing of the said bridge; and shall, on every second Monday in January and July, in each and every year, publish the dividend to be made of the clear profits thereof among the stockholders, and of the time and place where and when the same shall be paid, and shall cause the same to be paid accordingly. Sec. 16. That this act shall not take effect or go into operation until the Legislature of the State of New-Jersey shall pass a law appointing Commissioners on their part, till a similar and vesting like power and authority in the subscribers to law is passed the said capital stock of erecting a bridge at the place aforesaid, and of extending the same from shore to shore, with as full and ample powers, privileges, franchises and emoluments as to the said company is hereby given. by N. Jersey. Sec. 17. That the said company shall not employ any of Not to engage their funds in banking operations. in banking. Sec. 18. That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to authorize the said bridge company to exerAct may be cise any banking privileges whatsoever, or to issue any notes in the nature of bank notes; the legislature reserve the right of altering, modifying, or amending this charter whenever they think proper. altered or re pealed. AN ACT to alter the corporate name of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Milford. WHEREAS, it appears that the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Milford, have heretofore been incorporated under the act entitled "An Act incorporating trustees of religious societies," passed the twelfth day of Preamble. Jane, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, by the name and title of The Methodist Episcopal Church at Milford" and it being represented that the building used by the said congregation for many years past as a place of public worship, has become decayed, and unfit for the uses of said congregation; AND WHEREAS, the said corporation for their greater accommodation, have recently erected a new building for worship in the village of Hightstown, (the old church being located at the village of Milford, at the distance of about one and a half miles. from the new church building,) and it being the desire of the said congregation that the name of the said incorporation be changed so as to conform with the location of the said building recently erected for public worship by the members thereof;-Therefore, 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 for the said church and congrega-Style of intion to renounce their former name of incorporation, and corporation to incorporate themselves anew under the name of "The changed. Trustees of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Hightstown," in the mode prescribed by the thirteenth section of the act entitled "An Act to incorporate trustees of religious societies," passed June twelfth, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine: that is to say. the said trustees shall certify such name, under their hands and seals, to the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Mercer; whose duty it shall be, instantly, to record the same, for which he shall be entitled to receive one dollar; and thereupon, the said trustees shall be known and distinguished in law, by the name of the incorporation so taken, recorded and certified. vested in Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That upon recording the said certificate of incorporation, the former incorporation and Real and perbody politic shall cease and be dissolved; and all the estate, sonal estate real and personal, held by virtue of the same, shall pass to. and be vested in the body politic thus formed agreeably to corporation. this act, who shall be deemed to be the legal successors in office to the former body politic and corporate, and liable for present in the debts of the same, and clothed with all the rights, powers and privileges appertaining to religious societies incorporated under an act entitled An Act to incorporate trustees of religions societies," passed the twelfth day of June, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine. Passed March 9, 1842. AN ACT to authorize the erection of a Dam across Sooys 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 to erect a Dam across Sooys Creek in the township of Galloway, and authorized. county of Atlantic, about a half a mile above its mouth, at the Second Reach above Sooys Landing. Dam across Sooy's Creck Owners of marsh mea dam and lay Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the owners and possessors of marsh meadow and swamp lying upon said Creek, or above said intended dam, shall ercct a dam sufficient to keep out the tide, and lay a sluice or sluices sufficient to drain said dow to erect marsh, and shall at all times keep and maintain the same. Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the expenses of making and repairing said dam and sluices, and all other expenses Expenses of connected with the damming and draining said meadows, making dam shall be defrayed by a tax assessed on said marsh by some how defrayed person appointed by the said owners and possessors or a majority of them whenever they may think it necessary, in sluices. and sluice. Assessments, a ratable proportion on the marsh of each individual according to its value. Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the person to be appointed by said marsh owners to assess the how collected expenses of damming and draining said meadows as aforesaid, to sue for and collect in any court of competent jurisdiction, all assessments which may be made as aforesaid, after having given thirty days previous notices of such assessment to each meadow owner interested, and also after having personally demanded payment of such tax. Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect Act to take immediately after the passage thereof. effect immediately. Passed March 9, 1842. AN ACT to reduce the capital stock of the Morris County Bank. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That whenever at a meeting of the Stockholders of the Morris Stockholders County Bank, convened at their Banking-house in Morris- may reduce town, for that purpose, upon such notice as is required by capital stock the charter to be given for the election of Directors, a ma- of Bank. jority of said Stockholders voting according to the rule and ratio prescribed in the act of Incorporation, shall determine that a reduction of the capital stock of the said Bank is expedient, it shall and may be lawful for the said Stockholders, by a resolution to be adopted at such meeting, to reduce the capital of said Bank to the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars, for capital stock heretofore paid in. Passed March 9, 1842. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT to an Act, entitled "An Act to regulate elections." such a presentatives. 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 on the second Tuesday of October next after Times of the passage of this supplement, and the Wednesday follow- holding elec ing, and on the second Tuesday of October, and the Wed- tion for memnesday following, in each fourth year thereafter, an election House of Reshall be held in this state, to elect for this state, number of persons to be members of the House of Representatives of the United States as this state shall be entitled to elect, and send as members thereof, each of whom shall be a citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-five years or upwards, and an inhabitant of this state, and have been a citizen of the United States for seven years next preceding such election. Manner of voting for Rep Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That at such election the voters shall put the names of the persons voted for as members of the House of Representatives, designating them as resentatives. R Qualifications of voters. Proviso. Part of former such, on the same ticket with the names of the persons voted for as members of Council, Assembly, Sheriff, and Coroners, and the election shall be conducted in all other respects as is provided in the act to which this is a supple ment. Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That every person who shall within two years next preceding any election, which shall be held under this act or the act to which is a supplement, have assessed against him any state or county tax in this state, and shall prior to the time of his voting in such election, have paid any such tax so assessed, and being otherwise qualified, shall be deemed and taken to be worth fifty pounds proclamation money, clear estate in this state, Provided, and shall be admitted to vote at such election. That if any person shall have been inadvertently overlooked by the assessor, and being in other respects qualified, upon the payment of such tax as shall be assessed against him by the assessor who is required to assess the same in proportion to the other assessments by him made and to enter the name and assessment immediately on the tax list, shall be deemed and taken to be worth fifty pounds proclamation money, clear estate as aforesaid, and shall be admitted to vote at such election. Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That so much of the act to which act repealed. this is a supplement, as comes within the purview of, or is opposed to, this supplement, be and the same is hereby repealed. Passed March 9, 1842. AN ACT to abolish Imprisonment for Debt. 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 writ of capias ad respondendum shall not. henceforth be awarded, issued or served in any action. founded upon contract, express or implied, except upon of capias ad proof made on oath or affirmation, before a Justice of the respondend Supreme Court of this state, or before one of the commisissuesioners to take bail and affidavits in said court, establishing to the satisfaction of such justice or commissioner, one or more of the following particulars : When writs um may |