to designate lines of streets. or his resignation, as aforesaid; and the certificate of the chief engineer, of the time of his service as a fireman and engineer, duly obtained, and recorded by the clerk of the common council of said city within the said three months, or the record thereof, shall be evidence of the time of his aforesaid service. SEC. 3. Whereas, there are several roads, highways, and streets within the said city of Newark, the lines of which have Commissioners not been, and cannot be certainly ascertained, by reason of the indefinite surveys and plots or maps thereof, for the better fixing upon and settling the lines and courses of said streets, roads, and highways, the common council of the said city shall and may appoint four disinterested freeholders, one from each ward in said city, as commissioners, who, together with the city surveyor for the time being, shall constitute a commission, to run, mark, lay out, and designate the lines and courses of all such strects, roads, and highways, within the said city, as are not, and have not been ascertained and clearly designated; which said commission shall have full power and au thority to run, mark, lay out, and designate the lines and courses of such streets, roads, and highways within said city, and shall make a full and clear map and profile of said street, road. or highway, or such part thereof as they shall run, mark, and lay out, designating, by some notable and permanent marks or monuments, the beginnings and endings of said street, or part thereof, as aforesaid; which said map or profile, certified under the hands of said commissioners and surveyor, or a majority of them, shall be recorded in the clerk's office of the county of Essex, there to remain as a public record; and the original map or profile shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the common council of said city; which said record, or original map or profile, so filed as aforesaid, shall be full evidence of the street, road, or highway, or part thereof, as the case may be, and of its lines and courses; and the said four commis sioners shall receive for their services such compensation as shall be made and granted by the said common council. Approved, March 26, 1845. AN ACT to prescribe and declare the mode of appointing certain officers. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows: certain officers. SEC. 1. All officers which, before and at the time when the Mode of appresent constitution of the state went into effect, were directed pointment of to be appointed by the Council and General Assembly, in joint meeting, and whose appointment is not otherwise specifically provided for by the present constitution, may be appointed by the Senate and General Assembly, in joint meeting. SEC. 2. The power of appointing masters in chancery con- Masters in chan tinues in the chancellor, and may be exercised by him as here- cery. tofore. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately after it be- Act, when to comes a law. Approved, March 26, 1845. take effect. AN ACT to facilitate the collection of claims and demands. against townships, cities, and boroughs. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows: SEC. 1. Whenever a writ of execution shall be issued against Mode of collect the inhabitants of any township, city, or borough of this state, ing demands by any court authorized to issue the same, in case there should against townships. be no property belonging to said township, city, or borough sufficient to satisfy the same, whereon to levy, then the officer authorized to execute said process, shall serve a copy of the same on the collector of said township, city, or borough, who is hereby required to pay and satisfy the same out of the first moneys belonging to said township, city, or borough, which shall come into his hands. SEC. 2. This act shall go into effect immediately. Act, when to take effects Boundaries of wards. Officers of wards. Proceedings in case of nonpayment of tax. A further supplement to an act entitled, "An act to incorporate the city of Trenton," passed March seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows: SEC. 1. From and after the passage of this act, the city of Trenton shall be divided into two wards, in manner following, to wit: all that part of the said city lying and being on the eastern side of a line beginning on the Assanpink creek, at the point where the centre of Warren-street intersects the same, and running thence, along the centre of Warrenstreet, to the Princeton turnpike; thence, along said turnpike, to the city line, shall constitute one ward of said city, to be called "the East Ward of the city of Trenton ;" and all that part of the said city lying and being on the western side of the line aforesaid, shall constitute the other ward of said city, and be called "the West Ward of the city of Tren ton." SEC. 2. The same number of officers now required by law to be elected in the several wards of said city, shall be elected annually in each of the wards constituted by this act, except that there shall be two members of the common council, two school committee men, and two commissioners of appeal in cases of taxation, elected annually in each of the wards of said city created by this act. SEC. 3. In case any tax or assessment, which shall have been heretofore made, or may hereafter be made, under and by vir tue of the act to which this is a supplement, against any person not resident in the city of Trenton, or against any house, lot, or real estate of any such person or persons, or of any corporation, shall remain unpaid for the space of sixty days after the time prescribed by law or the ordinances of the common council of said city of Trenton for the payment of the same; and also, in case it shall be made to appear to the common council, by the oath or affirmation of the constable to whom the tax warrant or execution for any tax or assessment shall have been delivered, that any person or persons or body corporate named in said tax warrant or execution, hath not sufficient visible personal property in said city of Trenton, out of which such tax or assessment can be made and levied, and that such person or persons or body corporate hath neglected, for the space of sixty days after the time prescribed by law, or the ordinances aforesaid, to pay the said tax or assessment, and that said person or persons or body corporate hath a house, lot, or real estate in the city of Trenton, in all and every such case it shall be lawful for the common council to cause the said amount of said tax or assessment to be advertised in one or more of the public newspapers printed in said city, for the space of two months, requiring the owner or owners of such houses, lots, or real estate, respectively, to pay said tax or assessment to the treasurer of the said city; and if default be made in such payment, that such houses and lots will be sold at public auction, at a day and place to be specified therein, for the lowest term of years at which any person will offer to take the same, in consideration of paying the sum assessed on the same, with the interest thereof, and the expenses of such advertisement and sale; and if, notwithstanding such notice, the owners or occupants shall refuse or neglect to pay such assessment, and the interest thercon, and the expenses of the said advertisement, then it shall be lawful for the said common council to cause such houses, lots, or real estate to be sold at public auction, for a term of years, for the purposes and in the manner expressed in the said advertisement, and to give a declaration of such sale to the purchaser thereof, under the common seal of the said city; and such purchaser, his executors, administrators, or assigns shall, by virtue thereof, and of this act, lawfully hold and enjoy the same, for his and their own proper use, against the owner or owners thereof, and all persons claiming under him or them, until his term shall be complete and ended; and such purchaser shall be at liberty, at or before the end of his term, to remove the buildings and materials erected and placed by him thereon, taking care to leave the same in as good order and condition as the same was when it came into his possession. SEC. 4. This act shall go into effect immediately after it be- Officers of eleecomes a law; and the present officers of election in the First tion. Ward of said city of Trenton, may hold the first election in the East Ward of said city as constituted by this act; and the officers of election in the Second Ward of said city, may hold the first election in the West Ward of said city, as constituted by this act; and the first section of an act entitled, "A further supplement to the act entitled, an act to incorporate the city of Trenton," passed March seventh, eighteen hundred and thirtyseven, passed March ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-four, and all acts and parts of acts repugnant to the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. Approved, March 26, 1845. Commissioners AN ACT to authorize the establishment of the New Jersey BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the SEC. 1. Daniel Haines, of Sussex, Thomas Arrowsmith, of Monmouth, John S. Condit, of Hudson, Joseph Saunders, of to select site for Gloucester, and Maurice Beesley, of Cape May, are hereby appointed and constituted commissioners for the purpose of selecting a suitable site on which may be erected the State Lunatic Asylum of New Jersey. asylum. To purchase land, &c. Treasurer au ncy. SEC. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have power to purchase, at any price not exceeding ten thousand dollars, or receive by gift, a site for the location of said asylum, and so much land, under assured title, as shall be deemed necessary for farming and gardening purposes; and there shall be on the premises facilities for obtaining ample and unfailing supplies of pure soft water. SEC. 3. Whenever the said commissioners shall procure a site for said asylum, and a good and sufficient title therefor thorized to pay shall be duly executed and delivered, the treasurer of the state purchase mois hereby directed to pay, on the warrant of the governor, to the grantor or grantors of whom the said site shall have been purchased or obtained as aforesaid, such sum or sums of money as may be required to pay for the said site, agreeably to the contract of said commissioners, not exceeding said sum of ten thousand dollars. Commissioners to contract for building asylum. To give bond. SEC. 4. At any time after said site shall be obtained by said commissioners, not exceeding three months, the governor shall appoint three commissioners to contract for the erection of said asylum, on such plan and terms as they shall deem just and proper, always providing that said plan shall embrace the most approved construction for such buildings, conducing to the comfort and economical management of the institution; and further providing, that said plan and terms of the said contracts shall be approved by the governor; and it shall be the duty of said commissioners, or one or more of them, to superintend the building of said asylum, with a view to the due execution of the work on the part of those with whom they shall contract for the erection thereof; and in case of the death, inability, or refusal to serve of one or more of said commissioners, the governor shall have power to fill such vacancy. SEC. 5. The said last named commissioners, before entering on the duties of their office, shall give their bonds, with two or |