mediately before proceeding to an election, shall report to the proprietors, the state of the affairs of the association, and the proprietors present shall then have power to elect managers and direct such improvements to be made, as they may deem expedient.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That no streets or roads shall Streets not to be hereafter opened through the lands of the said corpo- be opened ration, occupied as a burial ground, nor shall any part or through their parcel of the premises, occupied as aforesaid, be subject lands." io sale by virtue of execution or any legal process; but the managers of the said premises shall be liable, jointly and severally in their own estate, for all debts contracted by said company in carrying out the objects of the said incorporation.

Passed February 28, 1844.

AN ACT to authorize the trustees of the Presbyterian Church in Baskingridge, in the county of Somerset, to sell and convey certain real estate.

WHEREAS, it has been represented that the Presbyterian Church in Baskingridge, in the county of Somerset, have been, and still are the owners and possessors of a Preamble. certain lot of land, situated in the township of Bernards, in said county, containing about twenty-six acres;-and whereas, the trustees of said church, believing that the interest and prosperity of said congregation would be promoted by the sale of said lot, have petitioned the legislature to pass a law for that purpose-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 trustees of the Presbyterian Trustees au Church in Baskingridge, in the county of Somerset afore- thorized to said, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered sell land. to make sale and conveyance of the aforesaid lot of land for the best price that can be obtained for the same; which conveyance so made by the said trustees, shall vest

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in the purchaser or purchasers, all the estate, right and title which the said trustees had of, in, and to the same at the time of said conveyance.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the proceeds arising from sucn sale, shall be applied to the payment of the sale how ap- debt or debts, now existing against said church, and to no other purpose whatsoever, until such debt or debts are satisfied; and the trustees shall, within one month after such sale, make a full statement of all their proceedings, which statement shall be entered at length on the minutes of said society.

Passed February 28, 1844.

how to be construed.

A supplement to the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Paterson and Ramapo Railroad Company."

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General AsFormer act sembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the twentieth and twenty-second sections of the act to which this is a supplement, shall be so construed as to secure to the state the payment of five cents only for each and every passenger, and of eight cents only for each and every ton of goods, produce, merchandize and freight carried and transported over said railroad, and that the exemption from taxation contained in the said twenty-second section, shall be construed to extend only to taxes, for the use of the state, anything in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall go into effect immediately after the passage thereof..

Passed February 28, 1844.

AN ACT to divorce Sarah M. White, of the county of
Passaic, from her husband, Oliver A. White.

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 marriage contract hereto- Sarah M. and fore existing between Sarah M. White, of the county Oliver A.^ of Passaic, and Oliver A.-White, her husband, be, and the White dis same is hereby dissolved, as fully to all intents and purposes, as if they had never been joined together in matrimony; provided, the issue of said marriage shall not Proviso. be deemed illegitimate in consequence of the passage of

this act.

Passed, February 28, 1844. .

vorced.

AN ACT to dissolve a marriage contract between Sarah'
E. Snowhill, and Thomas Bown, of the county of
Middlesex.

WHEREAS, it is represented that Sarah E. Snowhill, in the

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Bown divor-

year eighteen hundred and forty, when under the age Sarah E. of sixteen years, was induced without the knowledge Snowhill and or consent of her parents, to accompany Thomas Bown to the city of New Brunswick, for the purpose of being ced. married; and whereas, the said marriage was never in anywise consummated, nor have the said parties at any time resided together or demeaned themselves as man and wife:

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 marriage be dissolved, and it is hereby declared absolutely void, and of none effect, and that the said Sarah E. Snowhill, be, and she is hereby wholly released therefrom.

Passed February 28, 1844.

AN ACT to divorce John Higgins, jr., of the county of Warren, from his wife, Isabella Higgins.

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the au thority of the same, That the marriage contract heretofore John and Isa- existing between John Higgins, jr., of the county of bella Higgins Warren, and Isabella, his wife, be, and the same is hereby dissolved, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as if they had never been joined in matrimony. Passed, February 28, 1844.

divorced.

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take effect.

AN ACT to confirm the manumission of certain slaves.

WHEREAS, by the laws of this state, it is required, that the manumission of slaves shall be by writing, under hand and seal of the owner, executed in the presence of at least two witnesses;-and whereas, in many instances of such manumission heretofore, the laws in other respects have been complied with; but the writing under hand and seal, as aforesaid, executed in the presence of one witness only, therefore

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 all deeds or writings under the hand deeds made and seal of the owner or owners of any slave or slaves, heretofore made and executed in the presence of one witness only, shall be of the same force and effect, and as valid and effectual in law, to all intents and purposes, as if executed in the presence of two witnesses in the manner prescribed by law; Provided, that nothing in this act contained shall extend to, or affect any case in which a decision has been made by any court having jurisdiction of the question.

take effect.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall go into Act when to effect immediately after the passage thereof. Passed February 28, 1844..

AN ACT to establish a new township in the county of
Gloucester, to be called the township of Delaware.

of township

of Delaware.

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 all that part of the township of Waterford, in the county of Gloucester, contained within the following bounds, that is to say: beginning in the Pennsyl- Boundaries vania line, in the river Delaware, opposite the mouth of Cooper's creek, and thence running eastwardly to the mouth of said creek; thence up the same, the several courses thereof, to a bridge over said creek, in the Clement's bridge road, where the townships of Union and Gloucester corner; thence up the middle of said road, to the line between the counties of Burlington and Gloucester; near Marmaduke B. Hopkin's mill; thence along the line between the said counties of Burlington and Gloucester, to the line between the States of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, in the river Delaware; thence down said line to the place of beginning; shall be, and hereby is set off from the township of Waterford, in the county of Gloucester, to be called and known by the name of the "Township of Delaware;" Provided, that this act Proviso. shall not take effect and be in force, until from and after the twelfth day of March next.

Inhabitants'

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants of the township of Delaware, are constituted a body politic and cor- of township porate, in law, and shall be styled and known by the name incorporated of the inhabitants of the "Township of Delaware," in the County of Gloucester, and shall be entitled to all rights, powers, authority, privileges, and advantages, and subject to the same regulations, government, and liabilities, as the inhabitants of the other townships in the said county of Gloucester, are, or may be entitled or subjected to by existing laws of this state..

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