Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the collector or collectors of the township of Paterson shall annually give the notice and Collectors to perform the duties required by the tenth section of the "Act give notice. concerning taxes," on the first day of August instead of the

first day of October, as heretofore.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the collector or collectors of

the township of Paterson, in the county of Passaic, within Duties of thirty days after the receipt of the transcript or duplicate of the Collectors. assessment of taxes for the township of Paterson, shall demand payment of the tax or sum assessed on each individual in said township, in person, or by notice left at his or her place of residence, and also, give notice of the time and place of the meeting of the commissioners of appeal, and the said collector or collectors, shall pay the taxes by him or them collected, and the fines and forfeitures by him or them received by virtue of any law of this state, to the county collector of the county, by the twenty-second day of October, in every year.

of delin

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That in case of the non-payment of taxes at the time appointed, the township collector or Collectors to collectors of the township of Paterson, shall make out a list of make return the names of the delinquents with the sums due from them re- quents. spectively thereto annexed, and deliver the same to some justice of the peace of the county, on the twentieth day of October, in every year, except when the said day shall happen on a Sunday, and then on the next day following; whereupon it shall be the duty of said justice to perform the duties required of him by the thirteenth section of the "Act concerning laxes."

remain in

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That all the provisions of the Provisions of act entitled "An Act ascertaining the duties of commissioners former act to of appeal in cases of taxaton," passed the fourth day of No- force. yember, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven; and of the act entitled "An Act concerning axes," passed the tenth of June, seventeen hundred and ninety nine, and the several supplements thereto, shall remain in full force and effect in the county of Passaic and in the township of Paterson, except so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That this act shall go into ope- Act to take ration upon the passage thereof.

Passed March 10, 1842.

effect imme

diately.

AN ACT explanatory of an act entitled "An Act supplementary to an act for the punishment of crimes," passed the seventh day of March, A. D., eighteen hundred and thirtynine, and to repeal so much of the said act entitled "An Act for the punishment of crimes," passed the seventeenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, as authorizes punishment by whipping on conviction of petit larceny.

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 every person who shall hereafter commit any of the of Persons con- fences mentioned and provided for in the third, fourth, fifth, and punished by eighth sections of the act which was passed on the seventh day imprisonment of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirat hard labor. ty-nine, entitled "An Act supplementary to an act for the pun

victed to be

ment by

whipping repealed.

ishment of crimes," passed the seventeenth day of February, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and shall be thereof convicted, may be punished by imprisonment at hard labor, notwithstanding the words "at hard labor," are not contained in the said several sections of the said act.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That so much of the thirty-first Act authoriz- and thirty-second sections of the act entfed "An Act for the ing punish- punishment of crimes," passed the seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, as authorizes the punishment of any person by whipping on a conviction of stealing the money or personal goods and chattels of another under the price or value of twenty dollars, whether the trial of such person shall be by jury or bebre two Justices of the peace, be and the same is hereby repeaed.

Passed March 10, 1842.

AN ACT to authorize Samuel C. Dunham and Angeline his wife, Guardians of Maria Robbins, Sarah Robbins and Charles Robbins, heirs at law of Elijah Robbins, late of the township of Dover, to convey a certain lot of land, situate in the said township, to the trustees of the Fourth Public School District, in the township of Dover, in the county of Monmouth, and State of New-Jersey.

WHEREAS, it is represented and proved to the Legislature, that Elijah Robbins, late of the township of Dover, in the county of Monmouth, in his life-time made an agreement with James Gulick, Joseph Lawrence and James I. Pullen, three Trustees of the Fourth Public School District in the township of Dover, in the county of Monmouth, to convey to them as such Trustees and to their successors and assigns, in fee simple, a certain Lot of Land belonging to him, situate in the said township, beginning at a stake on the north side of Toms River about a quarter of a mile northeast wardly from Preamble. the Bridge, standing on the line between lands of the said Elijah Robbins and the heirs of William I. Emlay, deceased, on a course north sixty-three degrees and twenty-five minutes east from the northeast corner of the School-House then standing on the said described premises, and running thence (1st) south nineteen degrees, and thirty minutes west one chain and twenty-three links, thence (2) north sixty-eight degrees and thirty minutes, west ninety-eight links, thence (3) north twenty degrees east one chain and nineteen links, thence (4) south seventy-one degrees east ninety-seven links to the place of beginning, containing ten hundredths of an acre be the same more or less, for the purpose of erecting a Public School-House thereon for public use; That in pursuance of and in conformity to the said agreement a Public School-House was erected on the said lot by the said Trustees of the Fourth Public School District in the said township for public use: but thereafterwards the said Elijah Robbins died intestate before making the said conveyance, leaving Maria Robbins, Sarah Robbins, and Charles Robbins, children of Clayton Robbins, deceased, the only child of the said Elijah Robbins, his heirs at law; That after his death, administration of all and singular his goods and chattels, rights and credits was granted by the Surrogate of the county of Monmouth to Anthony Ivins, who was also administrator of the said Clayton Robbins, deceased, and that the personal estate of the said several intestates are amply sufficient to pay

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and others

authorized to

their respective debts; and that the said Maria Robbins, Sarah Robbins and Charles Robbins, the heirs of the said Elijah Robbins, are respectively infants under the age of fourteen years, and letters of guardianship have been granted in due form of law of their several persons and estates, to Samuel C. Dunham and Angeline his wife-the said Angeline being the widow of the said Clayton Robbins and the mother of the said infants, and that the said administrator, guardians and infants have by their petition requested that the said guardians may be empowered to make, execute and deliver a deed to the said The Trustees of the Fourth Public School District in the township of Dover, in the county of Monmouth, and their successors and assigns, for the said lot of land: Therefore,

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority Guardians of of the same, That the said Samuel C. Dunham and Angeline Maria Robins his wife, guardians of the persons and estates of Maria Robbins and Charles Robbins, infant children of Clayton Robbins, deconvey a cer- ceased, and heirs at law of the said Elijah Robbins, deceased, be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to make, exeTrustees of cute and deliver a deed of bargain and sale to the said The Trusthe 4th school tees of the Fourth Public School District in the township of district of the Dover, in the county of Monmouth, and their successors and township of assigns forever, for the said Lot of Land, situate as aforesaid,

tain lot of

land to the

Dover.

ed in pur
chaser.

pursuant to the said agreement; and that the said deed shall convey to the said grantees, and vest in them all the title of the said Elijah Robbins of, in and to the said Lot of Land at and immediately before his decease, and have the same force and effect to all intents and purposes as if made by the said Elijah Robbins in his life-time.

Passed March 10, 1842.

AN ACT to divorce Mary Jane Richards, of the county of
Mercer, from her husband, John O. B. Richards.

BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this
State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the sume,
That Mary Jane Richards, of the county of Mercer, be, and
she is hereby divorced from her husband John O. B. Richarde,

and that the marriage contract heretofore existing between them, be and the same is hereby fully and absolutely dissolved: Richards Mary Jane provided, nevertheless, that the issue of said marriage shall divorced. not be deemed illegitimate in consequence of this act.

Passed March 11, 1842.

AN ACT to incorporate "The Jefferson Beneficial Society" of county of Salem, New-Jersey.

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assemlly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That John Bailey, Thos. E. Ware, Thos. W. Cattell, Charles C. Fithian, Henry Colgan, James Sinashrey, John Thompson, Names of Israel Higgins, Isaac Hacket, Benoni Mills, David McDaniels, corporators. Joshua J. Thompson, Samuel King, Elijah Gilmore, William Fisher, Jacob P. Nicholson, Nathan Kidd, John P. Brana, Thomas Merrion, Alexander G. Cattell, and all such other persons as now are or hereafter shall become associates of "The Jefferson Beneficial Society" of the county of Salem, NewJersey, shall be and they are hereby constituted and declared to be a body politic and corporate, in fact and in law, by the name of "The Jefferson Beneficial Society" of the county of Style of inSalem, New-Jersey.

corporation."

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation by such name, shall have perpetual succession, and be a body politic and corporate in law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, defending and being defended, in all courts of law and equity, and may have a common seal, and General may have power to alter the same at their pleasure, and by Powers. their common seal enter into and execute contracts and agreements; and such corporation shall have full power to make and adopt such laws and regulations as they may think proper, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States or of this state.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the capital' stock of the said corporation shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars, Objects of which shall be applied to the nursing and attendance of mem- incorporation bers while sick, the purchase of necessaries for sick members,

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