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WHEREAS, the attention of the Legislature has been called by his Excellency the Governor, to a difference of opinion existing between the Treasurer of this State, and Preamble. The Delaware and Raritan Canal, and the Camden and Amboy Rail Road and Transportation Companies, in regard to the construction of certain provisions in the charter of the said Companies :-Therefore,

Amount of

BE IT RESOLVED by the Council and General Assembly of this State, That the Treasurer of this State be directed to require from the Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden. and Amboy Rail Road and Transportation Companies the payment of a transit duty of ten cents for every passenger, and fifteen cents for every ton of goods, wares and merchandise heretofore transported, and ten cents for every passenger, and fifteen cents for every ton of goods, wares and merchandise hereafter to be transported on any rail transit duties road or rail roads, belonging to the said Companies, from to be paid by Camden, Burlington, Bordentown, the Trenton Delaware Companies. Bridge, the City of Trenton, or any other point or place on the Delaware River, to South Amboy, the City of NewBrunswick, or any other point or place on the Raritan river or bay, and from South Amboy, the city of NewBrunswick or any other point or place on the Raritan river or bay to the city of Trenton, the Trenton Delaware bridge, Bordentown, Burlington, Camden, or any other point or place on the Delaware river, and that upon the payment thereof, the Treasurer be authorized and instructed to compute the yearly amount of all such transit duties so far as the same may be needed for that purpose as part of the sum of thirty thousand dollars mentioned in the third section of the supplement to the act relative to the said Companies, passed March second, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two. Provided, that the said Companies shall proviso furnish said Treasurer, at his request, with the quarterly returns of all passengers, goods, wares and merchandise, heretofore transported upon the several rail roads of said Companies from and to the various points or places above named in this resolution, and that hereafter similar returns shall be made quarterly by the said Companies to the Treasurer of this State as required by law.

And be it Resolved, That the foregoing resolution shall be deemed and taken as the true construction of the several acts and supplemental acts now in force which relate to the transit duties payable to the State from the rail roads belonging to the said Companies, and that the said resolution

when to take effect.

Proviso.

Resolution, shall not go into effect, further than the same may be directory to the Treasurer of this State, until the said Delaware and Raritan Canal Company and the Camden and Amboy Rail Road and Transportation Company shall respectively certify their acceptance of the above stated resolution under the hands of the President and Secretary, and the corporate seals of the said Companies respectively, and file the same in the office of the Secretary of State as evidence of their assent to the terms and provisions of the said resolution Provided, if the said United Companies shall hereafter signify their acceptance of a supplemental act entitled "An additional supplement to the act entitled an act relative to the Delaware and Raritan Canal and the Camden and Amboy Rail Road and Transportation Companies, passed March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty seven, the Treasurer of this State shall receive and collect from the said Companies, the one half of any sum over three dollars, they may charge for each passenger, carried on any of the Rail Roads of the said Companies to and from the cities of New-York and Philadelphia, in addition to the transit duties before mentioned, agreeably to the first section of the last mentioned act.

Passed March 10, 1842.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it appears to the legislature, that the number of the Insane Poor in this state is very large, and is continually increasing; AND WHEREAS, the present method of supporting them at public charge, by confining them in alms houses or in county gaols, is inhuman and expensive, and has no tendency to alleviate their sufferings or promote their recovery; AND WHEREAS, the establishment of a State Lunatic Asylum, with suitable provisions for the comfort and medical treatment of these unfortunate persons is demanded by the wishes of a large portion of the people of New-Jersey, and by the dictates of humanity, and of enlightened public economy; AND WHEREAS, it is desirable previous to the establishment of such an institution, that a commission should be appointad to investigate certain preliminary matters which may affect the final action of the legislature:-Therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the Council and General Assembly of Governor to this State, That the governor of this state shall appoint appoint three three commissioners of investigation on the subject of a ers. State Lunatic Asylum, whose duty it shall be:

commission

First. To select, upon due examination, a site for the Duties of erection of a State Lunatic Asylum, combining the advan- commiss'rs. tages of a healthy location, easy of access from all parts

of the state, and a sufficient quantity of Jand for farming

purposes.

Second. To ascertain from the owner or owners of said site, the lowest amount for which the said owner or owners will agree to sell and convey the same to this state.

Third. To cause the plan and specifications of a Lunatic Asylum, of sufficient dimensions to accommodate two hundred lunatics and insane persons, to be prepared by a competent architect, or mechanic, whom the said commissioners are hereby authorized to employ, at the expense of the state.

Fourth. To receive proposals for building the said Lunatic Asylum, according to the plan and specifications. so prepared as aforesaid ; and to give public notice of the time when such proposals will be received; and,

Fifth. To make a full report to the next legislature, of all their proceedings as commissioners, by virtue of this Joint Resolution, and of all such facts and particulars as will, in their opinion, conduce to enlightened action upon the important subject entrusted to them.

And be it further Resolved, That the said commissioners Compensa shall receive such reasonable compensation not to exceed tion of comone hundred dollars each, as the next Legislature shall de- missioners, &c termine to be equitable and just; and the architect or mechanic employed to draft the plan and specifications as aforesaid, shall receive such compensation as the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall determine to be reasonable and just, to be paid by the treasurer, on a warrant produced to him, signed by the governor of this state, or the person administering the government thereof. Passed March 11, 1842.

Governor au

thorized to transmit copies of Law Reports and

Journals of

BE IT RESOLVED by the Council and General Assembly of this State, That the Governor of this State be, and he is hereby authorized and requested to transmit to the executive of cach state and territory within the United States, for the use of the executives and legislatures of the respective states and territories, three bound copies of the reports of adjudged cases in the courts of law and equity, which the Legisla have been made and published under the authority of this Executive of state; and also, to transmit as aforesaid, three bound coeach State. pies of the journals of the two houses of the legislature ; and further, to transmit as aforesaid, annually hereafter, three bound copies of the said reports and of the said journals which may hereafter be published under the authority of this state.

ture to the

Passed March 11, 1943.

Treasurer

authorized to

borrow mo

ney.

RESOLVED by the Council and General Assembly of this State That the Treasurer of this State, be, and he is hereby authorized to borrow from time to time for the use of the state, such sum or sums of money as may be necessary to meet the expenses authorized by law, not to exceed the sum of sixty-five thousand dollars, and at a rate of interest not to exceed six per centum per annum.

Passed March 11, 1842.

CONTENTS.

An act to divorce Phebe E. Rork from her husband John
Rork,

ib.

An act for the relief of Charles Labaw, of the county of
Mercer,

ib.

An act to dissolve the marriage contract between Abram
O. Stiles, of the township of Harmony, in the county
of Warren, and Phebe Maria, his wife,

An act to incorporate the Centenary Fund and Preachers'

Aid Society of the New-Jersey Annual Conference of

the Methodist Episcopal Church,

ib.

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