ing Company for the maintenance and repair of said bridges, by the said cities, townships, counties, and turnpike companies, respectively; which said bridges, after such contract or contracts made, shall be kept and maintained as other public bridges belonging to said cities, townships, counties, or turnpike companies are respectively kept, maintained, and repaired, with the same liabilities and remedies, in relation to the maintenance and repair thereof, as exist concerning other public bridges belonging to such cities, townships, counties, and turnpike companies, respectively. SEC. 2. If any such public bridges over the said canal shall Proceedings in be out of repair, so as to endanger the travelling over the same, case of neglect it shall and may be lawful for the proper officers of any such to repair bridges cities, townships, counties, and turnpike companies, respectively, to give notice thereof in writing to the said the Morris Canal and Banking Company, by serving the same on the present or any future president, cashier, or director thereof, specifying the repairs necessary to be made; and if the said the Morris Canal and Banking Company shall neglect for thirty days after such notice to make such repairs, then such cities, townships, counties, and turnpike companies, respectively, may make such repairs, and maintain an action of debt for the expenses thereof, with costs of suit, against the said the Morris Canal and Banking Company; provided nevertheless, that nothing in this Proviso. act contained shall be so construed as to discharge the said company from any of their liabilities in relation to their bridges, imposed by their charter, unless the said company are relieved therefrom by virtue of such contract or contracts as in the first section named. Approved, March 19, 1845. AN ACT to incorporate Trustees of the Mount Lucas Orphan and Guardian Institute, in the township of Princeton, in the county of Mercer. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows: SEC. 1. Benjamin H. Rice, Caleb S. Green, Joseph Henry, Names of corpoJohn V. Talmage, John F. Hageman, Samuel D. Alexander, rators. Philip Hendrickson, Samuel Miller, junior, and Franklin Mer rill shall be, and they are hereby constituted a body corporate, to have succession, and exercise the powers ordinarily belongStyle and object ing to such bodies, by the name of "Trustees of the Mount of incorporation Lucas Orphan and Guardian Institute, in the township of Princeton, in the county of Mercer;" and the sole object of this corporation shall be to relieve, maintain, educate, and provide for poor orphan and other destitute children. Corporation SEC. 2. The said corporation shall have power to elect any male persons of full age to be members of the same, in addimay elect mem- tion to those above named, or to fill vacancies in the corporabers, &c. tion, but not so that the whole number of trustees shall ever exceed fifteen; and when their number is less than five, they shall be competent to perform no corporate act, excepting the acts necessary to fill vacancies in the corporation; and five, at least, shall be necessary to form a quorum competent to transact any corporate business. SEC. 3. The said corporation shall choose, in such manner, Corporation to and as often as they may deem proper, a president, vice prechoose officers. sident, and secretary, from their own number, and such other officers and agents, from their own number or not, as may from time to time be necessary, in their judgment, to aid them in the fulfilment of their several duties and trusts; and may reasonably compensate such officers and agents for their services, from any funds of the corporation not held in trust for other specific purposes; and also shall have power to make any such by-laws and regulations, for the government of said corporation, the management of its property, the control of its officers and agents, and the discharge of its several functions, as are not repugnant to the constitution or laws of the United States, to the constitution or laws of this state, or to this act. SEC. 4. Unless or until the said corporation shall establish regulations to the contrary, no regular meeting of the corporation shall be held, unless by adjournment, without five days' notice, previously given to each member, of the time and place of holding the same; and all acts of the corporation shall be determined by a plurality of the votes of the members present at a regular meeting. SEC. 5. The said corporation shall have power to make and use a common seal, with such device and inscription as they shall think proper, and the same to change or renew at their pleasure; and, by the name aforesaid, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity in this state. SEC. 6. The said corporation may receive, take, and hold, as well by devise or bequest as otherwise, any real or personal estate for the uses and purposes contemplated by this act, and the same may dispose of and convey for the benefit of said corporation, according to the uses and purposes aforesaid, and according to the use and intent for which said estate may have been devised, bequeathed, or otherwise conveyed to said corporation, or for its use; and no misnomer of the said corporation shall defeat any devise, bequest, or other conveyance of any such estate to or for the said corporation; provided the intent wherewith said devise, bequest, or other conveyance was made shall sufficiently appear upon the face of the will or other writing whereby it was intended that any such estate should pass to or for the said corporation; provided, that the annual income of the whole estate, real and personal, held at any time by the said corporation, shall not exceed the sum or value of six thousand dollars. Proviso. be guardians of SEC. 7. The said corporation shall be the sole legal guardi- Corporation to ans of the persons of all destitute infant children, voluntarily destitute infant surrendered to their care and management by their natural or children. other legal guardians, by an agreement or declaration in writing; and shall have power to bind out said children, males not before the age of fourteen, to serve until the age of twenty-one, and females not before the age of twelve, to serve until the age of eighteen, in any useful art, trade, profession, or employment; provided, that no child shall be so bound out by the said corporation until such child, having capacity to learn, shall have been taught to read and write; and in the several cases of poor children, contemplated by the eighteenth section of an act of this state, passed the eleventh of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-four, entitled, "An act for the settlement and relief of the poor," or by the first section of the supplement to said act, passed the tenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, it shall be lawful for the persons therein authorized to bind out such children, to commit the same, by an agreement or declaration in writing, signed by the said persons required to sign such children's indentures, to the care and management, and guardianship, of said corporation. SEC. 8. The said corporation shall keep fair and regular enRecord of protries of all their proceedings, and a just account of all their re- ceedings may ceipts and disbursements, and shall exhibit said entries and said be kept. account to the legislature of this state, whenever required by the said legislature. SEC. 9. The legislature may, at any time, modify or repeal this act; provided, that in case the same shall be at any time modified or repealed, the trustees for the time being of said institute shall, after the payment of all debts due by said corporation, have power, at any time within one year after any such modification or repeal, to convey, by the corporate name aforesaid, and as a corporation, all the property to the said corpo Act may bo al tered, &c. ration belonging at the time of such modification, or any part thereof, to any number of citizens of this state whom they may select, not less than three, nor more than five, their heirs and assigns, who shall hold the said property thus conveyed to them, their heirs and assigns, in trust, for the sole use of said institute, according to the use and intent for which said property may have been devised, bequeathed, or otherwise conveyed to or for the said corporation. Approved, March 19, 1845. AN ACT to extend the charter of the Orange Bank, in the county of Essex. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows: SEC. 1. The act entitled, "An act to incorporate the Orange Bank," passed February twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hunTime of former dred and twenty-eight, with the supplement thereto, passed the acts extended. Act may be repealed, &c. second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirtysix, be, and the same are hereby continued and extended for and during the term of twenty years from and after the time limited in the said acts for its continuance. SEC. 2. It shall and may be lawful for the legislature of this state, at any time hereafter, to alter, modify, or repeal this act, whenever in their opinion the public good requires it. Approved, March 19, 1845. Boundaries of township of Belvidere. AN ACT to incorporate the town of Belvidere, in the township of Oxford, in the county of Warren. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows: SEC. 1. All that part of the township of Oxford contained within the following limits, to wit: beginning at the mouth of Pophandaising creek, and running thence (first) up said creek Style of incor SEC. 2. The said corporation, in addition to the rights, pri- Rights and pri vileges, and immunities granted, and the duties and obligations vileges of townimposed by this act, shall be entitled to all the rights, privi- ship. leges, and immunities conferred, and subject to alltheduties, restrictions, and liabilities imposed by the laws of this state, upon the inhabitants of the several townships thereof, so far as the same are consistent with the provisions of this act. Time and place SEC. 3. The inhabitants of the town of Belvidere qualified by law to vote at town meetings, shall hold a town meeting at of annual town the court house in Belvidere, on the second Monday of April meeting. next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and on the second Monday of April in every year thereafter, at the same hour, and at such place in said town, as the electors thereof, at their annual town meetings, shall from time to time direct and appoint; which meetings, and such other town meetings as may from time to time be convened, shall be organized and conducted in the same manner as such meetings in the townships; and the officers thereof shall possess the same powers, and be subject |