AS ACT to regulate Fishing with Seines in Rarnegat Bay. seines not to be used. 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 no person or persons shall hereafter fish within the waters of Barnegat Bay, or any of the rivers, Certain de coves, or other tributary waters thereof north of Barnegat scription of inlet, with any seine or seines, net or nets, the whole length of which, either singly or attached together, shall exceed one hundred and forty fathoms, and the ropes whereof attached to each wing, shall not exceed in length three hundred fathoms; and that no person or persons shall set any seine or seines, net or nets, fike or fikes in the aforesaid waters, the whole length of which, either singly or attached together, shall exceed twenty fathoms and if any person or persons shall so do, whether any fish be-taken or not, the captain of such seine or seines, net or nets, fike or fikes so hauled, fished with or set, in any of the waters aforesaid, shall for every such offence, forfeit and pay one hundred dollars; and every person or persons aiding or assisting therein, shall for every such offence, forfeit and pay fifty dollars each, to be recovered, with costs, by action of debt, by any person who shall prosecute for the same, in any court of record in this state, having cognizance of that sum; one moiety thereof to the use of the prosecutor, and the other moiety to the county collector, for the use of the county in which the offence shall have been committed. Penalty. sal to have Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That any person or persons Penalty in violating the aforesaid section, or refusing to have his or case of refu. their seines, ropes, nets and fikes measured by any person seines meaor persons wishing to measure the same, shall forfeit his sured. boat, flat, scow or other vessel used or employed in the commission of such offence, with all the fish, seines, ropes, nets, fikes, tackle and furniture belonging to the same. &c. Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the sheriff and constables of the county in which such Proceedings offence shall have been committed, and may be lawful for in case of any other person or persons, to seize and secure any boat, seizure of flat, scow or other vessel, and all seines, ropes, nets, fikes, boats, seines, tackle and furniture, as aforesaid, and immediately thereupon give information thereof to two justices of the peace, of the county where such seizure shall have been made, who are hereby empowered and required to meet at such time and place, as they shall appoint for the trial thereof, Penalty in case of resistance of officers. and bear and determine the same and in case the sam shall be condemned, it shall be sold by the order, and un der the direction of the said justices, who after deducting all legal costs and charges, shall pay one half of the pro ceeds of such sale to the collector of the county in which such offence shall have been committed, and the other hal to the person who shall have seized and prosecuted the same Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That if any person or person on board of, or belonging to any such boat, flat, scow o any other vessel as aforesaid, or belonging to any suc sejne, net or fike shall refuse, and not suffer to enter, o resist after entering or before entering the same, any of the aforesaid officers, or any other person or persons seizing the same, or otherwise resist them, or any of them, in the lawful seizure of the same, then every person so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars, to be recov ered and applied in manner directed by the first section of this act. Passed February 17, 1842. 0 Preamble. AN ACT to confirm the last Will and Testament of Stephen WHEREAS it appears, from the petition of John Dunn, that as they relate to his Real Estate in New-Jersey; and it also appearing that the Executors of the said will have had due notice of this application, and no objection being made thereto-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 will of same That the last will and testament of the said Stephen S. Mayers Mayers, deceased, so far as the same relates to the devise of confirmed. his real estate in New-Jersey, be confirmed in all things, and that the same be as valid and effectual in law as if the said last will and testament had been well executed to pass Real Estate in the presence of three subscribing witnesses as required by the laws of this State. Passed February 18, 1842. . AN ACT to incorporate the Bordentown Beneficial Society. WHEREAS, a number of the Inhabitants of the Borough of Bordentown and its vicinity, have formed themselves into an association or society, to which they have given the name of "The Bordentown Beneficial Society," the object of which is to create a fund to be applied towards the relief or support of such of the members thereof, as shall by sickness or bodily infirmity, or other cause, be rendered incapable of attending to their usual occupation or calling, and also towards the decent interment of deceased members, or the deceased wives of members. And, whereas it is believed an act of incorporation will promote the objects of the Society, and add to the security of its property, and the said Society having by petition presented to the Legislature, prayed to be incorporated-Therefore, Preamble, 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 Charles Wilson, Thomas T. Blexler, Joshua F. Lame, Robert Idell, Jacob E. Moreton, Thomas S. Field, John E. Edwards, Peter Shreve, Jr. Alexander D. Names of Pearson, William Thompson, John Hitchens, Robert Hankins, Corporators. and all such other persons not exceeding at any one time five hundred, as now are, or shall hereafter become members of said ciety be, and they are hereby ordained, constituted and de clared, a body corporate, in fact and in law, by the name, styl Style of in- and title of "The Bordentown Beneficial Society," and b corporation. that name they and their successors shall have continued suc cession, and be persons in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being an swered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts o law and equity whatsoever, in all manner of actions, suits matters, complaints, and causes whatsoever; and that they and their successors may have and use a common seal, and shall have power to change and alter the same at pleasure, and by their naine aforesaid and under their common seal, may make and enter into, form and execute any contracts or agree. ments relating to, touching or concerning the objects of the said incorporation. General Sec. 2. And be it enacled, That for the more effectual accomplishment of the objects of the said incorporation there shall be a President, Vice President, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer, two Stewards, and an Investigating Committee of Mode of an- three, and such other officers and assistants as shall be deemed nual election necessary, all of whom shall be elected by ballot, by a majority of officers. What real and personal estate may be held. Corporation may form constitution and by-laws as in fourth section. Proviso. of the members present, at a meeting convened for that purpose upon two weeks notice of such meeting being published in one of the newspapers printed in the county of Burlington. Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the estate and property of what kind soever the same may be, now held by the said So ciety, shall be vested in the body corporate and politic, hereby created; which said body corporate and politic, shall by the nameand title aforesaid, be able and capable in law, to purchase, receive, take, hold, and convey for the use and benefit of said Society, and for the purposes expressed in the preamble of this act, any lands, tenements, hereditaments, and any sum or sums of money, rights, goods, securities, and chattels, by gift, alienation, devise, bequest or otherwise, of any person or persons, bodies corporate or politic, legally authorized to make the same, provided that the clear yearly income or value of the real and personal estate of said incorporation shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars. Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the said corporation be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to make, adopt, and use, and from time to time alter, amend, or change, as by them may be deemed expedient, such general form of a constitution and by-laws for the transaction of business, and for effecting of the Society aforesaid, as to the members or a the purposes majority of the members present duly met, shall be deemed right and proper; provided, that nothing in the said constitution and by-laws be repugnant to the constitution or laws of the United States or of this State. Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the sole and exclusive object of the Society hereby incorporated, shall be the relief of its respective members, when sick or disabled by bodily infirmi ties from pusting their ordinary avocations, the payment of the expenses incident to the decent interment of deceased members, or the deceased wives of members, as provided in the Object of in constitution and by-laws of said Society, and such other necessary expenses as shall accrue by carrying into effect the objects set forth in the preamble, and in this and the foregoing sections of this act, and no part of the funds of said corporation shall be used for banking purposes, or in any other way, except as provided for in this act. corporation. altered or repealed: Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Act may be Legislature of this State at any time hereafter, to amend, repeal or modify this act as they shall think proper. Passed February 18, 1842. AN ACT to incorporate the Carpentersville Delaware Bridge Company. WHEREAS it is represented to the legislature by the petition of a number of the inhabitants of the county of Warren, that Preamble: the erection of a bridge over the Delaware river at or near Carpenters ferry would be a great accommodation to the public:-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 capital stock of the Carpentersville Delaware Bridge Company shall amount to twenty thousand dollars, and Amount of that the same shall be divided into shares of fifty dollars each, capital stook. and the subscribers to said capital stock shall pay the sum or sums of money for the share or shares by them respectively subscribed, at such periods and in such proportions as the direc tore of said company may determine. Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That John Hixon, Enoch Green, Jacob Carpenter, Peter Shively, and Luther Colvin, be, and Names of they are hereby appointed commissioners on the part of this commissions state, who, with commissioners to be appointed by the Com-duties. ers and their |