ments and

taxes.

Proceedings provided for, and any owner or owners, possessor or pos in case of un-sessors shall neglect or refuse to pay the same to the man paid assessager or managers, (who are hereby authorized to receiv the same,) within the time limited in said sixth section then and in that case, it shall be the duty of the manage or managers to make out a list of such delinquents, wit the sums due from them respectively thereto annexed, an deliver the same to some justice of the peace of the sai county of Middlesex; and thereupon such proceedings fo the collection of said assessments and taxes shall be had as is prescribed for the collection of taxes, in the act entitle "An Act concerning taxes," passed the tenth day of June seventeen hundred and ninety-nine.

Penalties,

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That all penalties recovered by the managers or manager, shall be by them or him held how applied and applied, from time to time, for the same purposeg, a the taxes which the manager or managers in the sixth sec tion are authorized to assess and collect of the said owners and possessors of said salt meadow and marsh.

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ors.

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That at the next, and every Owners and subsequent annual meeting of said owners and possessors, Possessors to said owners and possessors may elect, by plurality of votes elect annually of them so met, either viva voce or by ballot, two respectable freeholders of the county of Middlesex, not owners or possessors of, or interested in said meadows and marsh: that the said two freeholders, within thirty days after their election as aforesaid, shall, at the expense of the said owners and possessors, inspect the gates, bridges, creeks and ditches around and about said salt meadow and marsh; and in case the said two freeholders shall certify and report to the managers or manager, in writing, that the bridges and gates are well and sufficiently made, and the creeks and ditches open and clear, the said meadows and marsh shall be deemed and considered to be enclosed by a lawful fence, for one year from the date of said certificate and report, and upon the like election, inspection, certificate and report being made from year to year, the said meadows and marsh shall be deemed and taken to be enclosed by a lawful fence, from year to year.

Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That in case the said managers or manager shall pay, in discharge of their or his duty, as such managers or manager, more money than shall be received by them or him from the proceeds of any assessment or assessments, or otherwise, under the provisions of this act, or of the acts to which this act is a supplement, then it shall be the duty of their or his successors or successor, to pay to the said managers or manager all such

sum or sunts of money, as shall, upon a fair settlement of

their or his accounts, be found justly due.

effect immediately.

Sec. 11. Jud be it enacted, That this act shall go into Act to take effect and operation immediately after the passage thereof. Passed February 15, 1842.

Å FURTHER SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Elizabeth-Town and Somerville Rail Road Company."

Time for

Sec. 1. Be is enacted by the Council and General Assembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of, the same, That the time for the completion of the Rail Road and its branches, authorized by the original act incorpora- of Railroad completion ting the said Company, and the extension of the same to extended. the Delaware River, authorized by the several supplements to the said original act, be, and the same is hereby extended to the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred fifty-six.

Passed February 16, 1842.

As ACT for the relief of York Mulford, a colored may
the county of Morris.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to this Legis
York Mulford, a colored man, of the tow
ris, in the county of Morris, was form
Jonathan Ogden, late of the county of
and that the said Jonathan Ogden,
thousand eight hundred and eigh
said York Mulford by an instrume.
was not recorded: AND WHEREAS, '

represented, that since the year one thousand eight hun
his own
dred and eighteen, the said York Mulford has been con
sidered a freeman-has made contracts on
account, and for his own benefit-and about the year one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, purchased from
Richard Kemble, by a regular deed of conveyance,
certain tract of land in the township of Morris, in the
said county of Morris, containing about six and thre
quarter acres of land, which he afterwards sold and
conveyed to one William Kemble, of the said county o
Morris, by deed bearing date about the year eighteen
hundred and thirty-five; and about the year one thou
sand eight hundred and twenty-six, purchased of Benja
min Bayley another tract of land in the said township
of Morris, on which he now resides; and that abou
the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, h
purchased another tract of land lying in the said town
ship, containing forty-two hundredths of an acre, by
deed from Lewis Mills and wife, recorded in the Morris
county Record of Deeds, Liber M. 3, folio 390, &c.,
which said tract he afterwards, about the year one thou-
sand eight hundred and thirty-nine, sold and conveyed
by deed to one William Collins, of the said county of
Morris AND WHEREAS, doubts have arisen, from the
very great difficulty of proving the manumission of the
́said York Mulford, respecting his competency to hold
and dispose of property, real or personal; and the said
York Mulford having, by petition, prayed that the said
conveyances may be confirmed, and that he may be de-
clared by law entitled to all the rights and privileges of
a free colored man of this State; and it being reasona-
ble that the prayer of the said petition should be granted.
-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 the deed of conveyance from Richard Kemble to York Certain deeds Mulford, a colored man, of the county of Morris, for a to York Mul-tract of land in the township of Morris, in the said county ford & others of Morris, containing about six and three quarter acres, to be consid. and the deed for the same land from the said York Mul

ered valid.

ford to William Kemble, bearing date about the year one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and the convey-
ance to the said York Mulford for the land now owned and
occupied by him, in the township of Morris, aforesaid:
and the conveyance to the said York Mulford for a tract of
land of forty-two hundredths of an acre, in the township
of Morris, aforesaid, and the deed for the same land from

the said York Mulford to William Collins, bearing date about the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine be deemed, taken, and considered as valid, effectual, and operative as if the said York Mulford had been born free, or had been, previous to the time of the execution and delivery of the said several deeds, duly and regularly manumitted according to the laws of this state.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said York Mulford be, and he is hereby declared to be entitled to all the York Mulfard rights, privileges, and immunities of a free colored man of entitled to this state, may hold estates, real and personal, in his own personal right, and convey and dispose of the same by deed, will, or estate. otherwise.

hold real and

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That unless the said York Mulford shall, within three months from the passing of this act, make and file in the clerk's office of the county of Morris, Bond to be such bond, with good and sufficient security, as shall be ap-filed in proved by the clerk of said county, in the condition that the said York Mulford shall, in no event, become chargeable upon the heirs or estate of the aforesaid Jonathan Ogden, that then this act shall be void..

Passed February 16, 1842.

clerk's office.

As Acr authorizing the administrators of Anthony Woodward, deceased, to convey to Moses Ivins, certain real estate, in the county of Monmouth.

WHEREAS, it is represented that Anthony Woodward, deceased, late of the township of Upper Freehold, in the county of Monmouth, in this state, in his life time, entered into a verbal agreement with Moses Ivins, for the sale and conveyance of a certain tract of land situate in the said township of Upper Freehold, adjoining lands Preamble, of Joshua and John Horner, lands of John Cox, and other lands of the said deceased, containing about three hundred acres, for the consideration of the sum of three hundred dollars that in pursuance of the said agreement, the said Moses Ivins paid to the said Anthony Woodward in

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real estate.

Jesse Vankise, at the rate of two dollars per acre ; tha
in pursuance of the said agreement, the said Jesse Van-
hise paid to the said Anthony Woodward, the sum of one
hundred and twenty dollars, the consideration money
aforesaid; and entered into the possession of the said
tract of land, and made sundry improvements thereon ;
but that the said Anthony Woodward died intestate, lea-
ving minor heirs at law, without having executed a deed
of conveyance to the said Jesse Vanhise, for the said
tract of land; AND WHEREAS, Nimrod Woodward and
Wesley Wilbur have been duly appointed administra-
tors of the estate of said deceased, and by their petition,
signed by themselves and Caroline Woodward, widow of
the said deceased, and, also, by the said Jesse Vanhise,
have prayed that the legislature would pass an act autho-
rizing the said Nimrod Woodward and Wesley Wilbur
to make and deliver to the said Jesse Vanhise, a good
and sufficient deed of conveyance for the said tract of
Jand-Therefore,

BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Nimrod Woodward and Wesley Wilbur, administraAdm'rs of A. tors of Anthony Woodward, deceased, late of the county Woodward, dec'd, autho. of Monmouth, be and they are hereby authorized in fulfilrized to con- ment of the aforesaid agreement, between the said Anthony vey certain Woodward and the said Jesse Vanhise, to make, execute and deliver to the said Jesse Vanhise, a good and sufficient deed conveying unto the said Jesse Vanhise, and his heirs and assigns forever, the aforesaid tract of land, and all the estate, right, title and interest of which the said Anthony Woodward died seized, of, in and to the same, as fully and effectually as if the same had been duly executed by the said Anthony Woodward, deceased, in his lifetime, Passed February 16, 1842.

Interest

vested in purchaser.