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ested, no person shall be deemed an incompetent witness or juror by reason of his being an inhabitant or freeholder of said city; and if any person be sued or impleaded by reason of anything done by virtue of this act, such person may plead the general issue, and give this act and the special matter in evidence at the trial.

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SEC. 14. There shall be three justices of the peace for the Justices of the said city, who shall be elected at the time and in the manner peace, their herein provided for the election of the members of common ties. council, who shall be commissioned in the same manner and for the same term of office, from and after the day of their election, as justices of the peace throughout this state are or shall be commissioned, and who shall have the like power and jurisdiction within the bounds of the said city as the said justices shall have in their respective counties, and be amenable in like manner; the courts held by such justices shall be courts of record; and the said justices of the peace shall have full power to keep, and cause to be kept, all laws or ordinances made or to be made for the conservation of the peace, and for the good government of the citizens and inhabitants of this state, within the said city of New Brunswick, according to the force, form, and effect of the same laws or ordinances, and to cause to come before them, or any of them, all persons who, within said city, shall break the peace, or have used or shall use threats to any of the citizens or inhabitants of this state, concerning his or her body, or the firing his or her house or other building, or who are not of good fame when they are fined, to enter into recognizance with sufficient surety for the peace, or their good behaviour towards the people and inhabitants of this state; and if they enter not into such recognizance, then to cause them to be safely kept in prison until they do the same, and further to do, perform, and execute all such matters, acts, and things as by law appertain to their offices respectively, and are or shall be enjoined upon them and committed to their charge and execution; and all recognizances taken before any of the said justices by virtue of this act, may be sent to the court of general quarter-sessions of the county of Middlesex or Somerset, as the case may be, according to the territorial jurisdiction of the said respective courts, to the end that the said recognizance may be prosecuted to judgment and execution, if need be.

Marshal and

SEC. 15. The marshal and assistant marshals of the city of New Brunswick shall be ministerial officers, and shall and may assistants. execute all process of the said courts according to law.

SEC. 16. The common council shall have the sole and exclu- Common counsive power of licensing all and every innkeeper and tavern- cil to license keeper residing within the bounds of the said city, subject to innkeepers.

Former acts repealed.

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the same provisions, restrictions, and regulations, and in like manner, as the said licenses now are or may at any time hereafter be granted by the laws of this state.

SEC. 17. The act entitled, "An act to alter and amend the charter of the city of New Brunswick," passed the seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-four, and every other act heretofore passed incorporating the said city of New Brunswick, and supplementary thereto, be, and the same are hereby repealed; provided, that this repealing clause shall in no wise be considered to repeal any ordinance, by-law, or regulation, or any other legal act heretofore passed, made, or done by the common council, and not repugnant to this act; but all such by-laws and ordinances shall be and remain in full force until revoked, altered, or amended by the common council, and may be executed and carried into full force and operation, or to affect the right, title, and interest of the said city to or in any property, claim, or demand, had and held under and by virtue of the act or acts herein repealed, but that the same shall be in the same manner vested in and held by the said city, under and by virtue of this present act of incorporation; and that the present mayor, recorder, aldermen, and common councilmen, with the officers by them appointed, together with the marshal, shall continue in and hold their respective offices according to the tenure of their appointments.

SEC. 18. It shall and may be lawful for the legislature, at Act may be re- any time hereafter, to alter, modify, or repeal this act, whenever in their opinion the public good shall require it.

pealed.

Act, when to take effect.

SEC. 19. This act shall take effect immediately after it becomes a law, and shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and, as such, be taken notice of by all courts of justice within this state.

Approved, April 4, 1845.

A supplement to the act entitled, "An act to enable the owners and possessors of flowed lands on the Passaic river, and its branches, between the mill-dam at Chatham and Horseneck bridge, in the counties of Essex and Morris, and also certain owners and possessors of lands lying in the Long meadows, in the township of Caldwell, in the county of Essex, to dig a canal or ditch from the said mill-dam at Pine brook, in a direct course, to intersect the river again near the Deepavaal bridge, to drain said lands, by diverting a part of the waters of said river from their present channel."

WHEREAS a doubt has arisen whether it be not the duty of the managers, appointed under and by virtue of the first section of the act to which this is a supplement, to proceed to perform the duties devolved upon them by said act, without reference to the wishes of the owners and possessors of said lands, hereafter to be expressed-therefore,

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows:

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trol of owners.

The said managers, so elected as aforesaid, be hereafter, Managers to be and at all times, subject to the order and control of a plurality subject to conof the owners and possessors of said lands; the said owners and possessors voting, in all respects in regard to such future. order and control, in the manner specified in the first section of the act to which this is a supplement. Approved, April 4, 1845.

AN ACT to authorize the inhabitants of the several townships in the county of Morris, to vote by ballot at their town meetings.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows:

Townships not

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SEC. 1. The inhabitants of the several townships of the voting by ballot county of Morris, that do not now vote by ballot, who are or vote for certain shall be entitled to vote at town meetings to be hereafter held, officers.

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shall, at the same time that they vote for justices of the peace, and on the same ballot, and not otherwise, vote for one clerk, one assessor, one collector, three commissioners of appeal, two chosen freeholders, two surveyors of the highways, one overseer of the poor, as many constables as they elect justices of the peace, a school committee, to consist of three persons, one judge of election, and a township committee, to consist of five persons.

SEC. 2. It shall be lawful for each and every township, at their annual town meeting, to decide whether they will elect township officers, overseers of the highways, and pound-keepers by ballot or viva voce, which shall be entered on the minutes of the town meeting, and shall not be changed the ensuing year.

SEC. 3. This act shall go into effect immediately.
Approved, April 4, 1845.

AN ACT to provide for the support of the government of this state, and to fix the salaries of public officers.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows:

SEC. 1. The several herein after named public officers of Salaries of cer- this state, for the time being, shall, respectively, be entitled to receive the annual salaries herein after mentioned, that is to say:

tain officers.

The governor of this state, at the rate of sixteen hundred dollars by the year.

The chancellor, at the rate of eighteen hundred dollars by the year.

The chief justice of the supreme court, at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars by the year.

Each of the associate justices of the supreme court, at the rate of fourteen hundred dollars by the year.

The treasurer, at the rate of one thousand dollars by the year. The law reporter and chancery reporter, at the rate of two hundred dollars, each, by the year.

The attorney general, at the rate of eighty dollars by the

year.

The quartermaster general, at the rate of one hundred dollars by the year.

The adjutant general, at the rate of one hundred dollars by the year.

Salaries, how

All of which salaries shall be paid, quarterly, to the several officers before mentioned, their executors, administrators, or paid. assigns, on warrants produced to the treasurer, signed by the governor or president of the Senate, for the salaries of the said officers, other than the governor, and signed by the president of the Senate, or the speaker of the House of Assembly, for the salary of the governor; and the salary of the treasurer may be retained by him, in quarterly payments, on such warrants of the governor or president of the Senate; and in case any of the said officers shall be removed from office, by death or otherwise, the salary of such officer shall cease and determine on such removal.

SEC. 2. The said salaries shall commence as follows, that is to say:

For the governor, on and from the third Tuesday of Janu- Time of comary next ensuing his election by the people.

For the other officers herein before mentioned, from the dates of their respective commissions; but the salaries of such of the said officers as were appointed previous to the adoption of the present constitution, shall commence from the time of the falling due of the last quarterly or yearly payment due to such officers, respectively, under the "Act for the support of the government of this state," passed the eighth day of November, eighteen hundred and forty-three.

mencement of salaries.

SEC. 3. The president of the Senate and the speaker of the Pay of members House of Assembly shall, each, be entitled to receive the sum of legislature. of four dollars, and each member of the Senate and Assembly shall be entitled to receive three dollars, for each of the first forty days, from the commencement of the session, they have attended, or shall attend, the sitting of their respective houses; and the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of Assembly shall, each, be entitled to receive two dollars, and each member of the Senate and Assembly shall be entitled to receive one dollar and fifty cents, for every day of such attendance for the remainder of such session, after the first forty days; they shall also be allowed, once in each sitting, the sum of one dollar for every ten miles they have travelled, or shall travel, in going to and returning from their place of meeting, by the most usual route.

SEC. 4. When the legislature shall be convened in extra ses- Extra session sion by the governor, the president of the Senate, the speaker

of the House of Assembly, and each member of the Senate

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