same month of April did order and direct the said commissioners to make sale of the said real estate, at public auction, to the highest bidder, giving at least sixty days notice of the time and place of such sale; and make return to the said court of their proceedings in the premises, at the next term after such sale should have been made; AND WHEREAS. ALSO, the said commissioners, in pursunace of the said last mentioned order, did in the manner therein directed, advertise to sell the said real estate on the first day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and fortyone, on a part of the said real estate, in Hackettstown, in the said county of Warren; and did accordingly, on the day and at the place last aforesaid, expose the said real estate to sale, at public vendue and outcry; and did then and there sell the same, as is specified in their report made to the said Prerogative Court, at the term next ensuing the time of such sale; AND WHEREAS, Andrew B. Snyder, one of the purchasers at the said sale, has failed to comply with the conditions of the said sale, in reference to a certain mill-property, known as the Hackettstown mills; the same having been struck off and sold to him, for the sum of five thousand dollars; AND WHEREAS, William Clark, of Independence, in the county last aforesaid, has agreed to become the purchaser of the same, on the terms and at the price for which the same was sold to the said Andrew B. Snyder; it being the desire of the parties interested, that the said William Clark should receive the same; AND WHEREAS, doubts have arisen as to the powers and authority of the said Prerogative Court, in regard to the sale so directed to be made, and as to the sufficiency of the title under and by virtue of such sale; for remedy whereof, and in order that what is right in the premises should be done; Therefore, Commission estate to Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this Stale, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said Ephraim Marsh, Peter B. Sha- ers authoriz fer and William Martin, commissioners as aforesaid, be ed to convey and they are hereby authorized and empowered to make, certain real execute and deliver to the said William Clark, his heirs Wm. Clark. and assigns, a good and sufficient deed of conveyance for the said mill-property, known as the Hackettstown mills, situate in Hackettstown, in the.counties of Warren and Morris, upon the same terms and conditions and for the same price as the same was struck off and sold to the said Andrew B. Snyder; which said deed of conveyance shall convey to and vest in the said William Clark, his heirs and Interest vest ed in pur- 1 assigns, all the estate, right, title, and interest which the heirs of the said Nathan Stiger and Jacob Miller, both nov deceased, had therein at the time of the sale aforesaid. Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to make. execute, and deliver to James Shotwell, David M. Stiger Robert Axford and John Addis, Garret Conover, David Miller, William A. Miller, Caleb II. Valentine, Aaron L. Stiger; and James McWilliams, the other purchasers at the said sale. and to their respective heirs and assigns. good and sufficient deeds of conveyance for the said tracts or lots of land, so sold by the said commissioners, to the Authorized to said persons respectively, upon the terms and at the price make certain for which the same were sold, as aforesaid; which said deeds of con. deeds of conveyance shall convey to and vest in the persons veyance. to whom the said deeds of conveyance shall respectively be made, and the heirs and assigns of each of the said persons respectively, all the estate, right, titlé, and interest which the heirs of the said Nathan Stiger and Henry Miller, jr., both now deceased, had therein at the time of the said sale thereof. Passed February 12, 1842. Preamble. AN ACT for the relief of the First Presbyterian Church of WHEREAS the members of the First Presbyterian Church surveyed and returned to Hannah Scott and Thomas Lambert in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifteen, and recorded in Liber A. folio one hundred and seventy-tro, and containing sixty-one acres more or less: AND WHEREAS, the Trustees and members of the said First Presbyterian Church believe that the authority and sanction of this legislature would facilitate the sale of said land: Therefore, convey cer Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General As sembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful for the President and Trustees of the said First Presbyterian Church President & in Morristown, by their President and Trustees or a ma- Trustees aujority of them, to grant and convey, in fee simple or other-thorized to wise, all and singular the lands and premises they now tain real own. situate upon Horsehill, in Hanover township, county estate. of Morris, consisting of the above described sixty-one acres of wood land conveyed to them by the said Shadrach Hayward, and to make, execute and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, such a Deed or Deeds, conveyance or conveyances as will convey all the right, title and interest of the said President and Trustees and members of of the said Church to the same. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Deed or Interest vestDeeds to the purchaser or purchasers, of said premises, ex- ed in the ecuted by the said President and Trustees, or a majority of purchaser. them, shall vest in the purchaser or purchasers thereof as good and sufficient a title and estate in the said premises. as the said President and Trustees may have therein at the time of such conveyance or conveyances. Passed February 14, 1842. Preamble. due thereon. AN ACT to appoint a Commissioner to settle up the busines of Richard Jaques, late Sheriff of the county of Mercer deceased. WHEREAS, it has been represented that Richard Jaques late Sheriff of the county of Mercer, died leaving a large amount of executions unsettled, to the great detriment of his estate : Therefore, Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly Commission of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the er authorized same, That Daniel D. Britton, of the county of Mercer to execute all aforesaid, be and he is hereby appointed Commissioner, writs and re- with full power and authority to execute all said writs of ceive money execution and to receive any moneys remaining due thereon, and to pay over the same according to law, and to make disposition of all goods and chattels, lands and tenements, seized and levied on by virtue of the same; and to make good and sufficient titles in the law for such goods and chattels, lands and tenements, and to do all other acts in the premises as fully to all intents aud purposes as the said Richard Jaques might or could lawfully do by virtue of his said office of Sheriff, and of the said writs of executions or · any of them, as if the said Richard Jaques were now living, late Sheriff. Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Daniel D. Britton, Commissioner aforesaid, be and he is hereby made To be subject to the like subject in all respects to the same penalties, regulations and penalties and restrictions as he the said Richard Jaques, late Sheriff as restrictions as aforesaid, is by law subjected to; and the said Daniel D. Britton, as Commissioner aforesaid, is hereby required, and it is his duty, to use all due diligence to collect all the moneys which he the said Richard Jaques, late Sheriff aforesaid, had a right to do by virtue of the authority vested in him by virtue of his office. Provided always, that the said Daniel D. Britton, Commissioner as aforesaid, shall pay or cause to be paid to the representative, of the said Richard Jaques, the one-half of all such fees as he shall or might be entitled unto as late Sheriff as aforesaid, upon or by reason of any services to be done by him as such Commissioner aforesaid in pursuance of the provisions of this act. Proviso. Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Daniel D. Brit Commiss'ner ceptance the execution of any of the powers, trusts and duties by the powers, trusts and duties aforesaid, and shall enter into A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT to an Act, entitled "An Act to enable the owners and possessors of certain salt meadows and marsh, lying in the townships of Woodbridge and Piscataway, in the Raritan Great Meadows, to make and keep open the drains, build and repair bridges and gates for the uses therein mentioned," passed June twelfth, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine. WHEREAS, it is found by experience that the above named act, and the supplement thereto, which supplement was passed January twenty-three, eighteen hundred and seyenteen, are insufficient to effect the purposes thereof, and the owners of said salt meadows have besought the legisJature to pass an additional law, that thereby the objects and intentions of said original act, and the supplement thereto, may be certainly secured Therefore, Preamble. of annual election of 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 said owners and possessors of said salt Time & mode marsh and meadow, shall and may at all times hereafter, on the second Tuesday of April, yearly and every year, Managers. meet and assemble, and by plurality of voiecs of them so met, either viva voce or by ballot, elect and choose two persons to be managers for the ensuing year, and until others are chosen ; which said managers shall be chosen out of the owners aforesaid, and that the annual meeting for the second Tuesday of April next, shall be held at Time & place the house now occupied by George B. Stelle at Metuchin, of next annuin the township of Woodbridge, in the said county of Mid. al meeting. dlesex, and the annual meetings thereafter shall be held at the same place, unless said owners and possessors shall, at a meeting, designate another place for that purpose. |