summer and fall of eighteen hundred and forty-four, thirty dollars.

33. To Samuel R. Hamilton, quartermaster general, for freight and cartage of muskets, four dollars and sixty-nine

cents.

34. To Thomas Arrowsmith, treasurer, for travelling expenses to Philadelphia and Paterson, to receive dividends on stock, interest on bonds, and for packing state pamphlet laws, minutes of assembly, journals of council, including boxes, cloth, twine, &c., and for office rent from November ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-three, to January first, eighteen hundred and forty-five, including fuel, &c., ninety-nine dollars and seventy-eight cents; and also allowance for extra service examining the late treasurer's account, &c., two hundred dollars.

35. To Richard P. Thompson, attorney general, for professional services and expenses incurred in the investigation of the lottery case, by authority of a resolution of the legislature of New Jersey, passed March fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-four, one hundred and fifty dollars.

36. To James M. Newell, for publishing the constitution, and governor's proclamations relative thereto, in the "Bridgeton Chronicle," one hundred dollars.

37. To H. C. Buffington, for publishing the constitution, and governor's proclamations relative thereto, in the Hunterdon Gazette," one hundred dollars.

38. To Bernard Connolly, for publishing the constitution, and governor's proclamations relative thereto, in the "Monmouth Democrat," one hundred dollars.

39. To Franklin Ferguson, for publishing the constitution, and governor's proclamations relative thereto, in the "Franklin. Advertiser," one hundred dollars.

40. To Joseph A. Yard, keeper, for two cane-bottomed stools in assembly room, two dollars.

41. To David Fitz Randolph, for publishing the constitution, and governor's proclamations relative thereto, in the "Fredonian," one hundred dollars.

42. To C. Yardley, for twenty tons of coal for Senate and Assembly, eighty dollars.

43. To S. G. Arnold, for publishing the constitution, and governor's proclamations relative thereto, in the "Newark Morning Post," and once a week in daily paper, two hundred dollars.

44. To S. L. B. Baldwin, for publishing the constitution, and governor's proclamations relative thereto, in the "Somerset Whig," one hundred dollars.

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45. To George W. Beebe, for publishing the constitution, and governor's proclamations relative thereto, in the "Sussex County Democrat and New Jersey Herald," one hundred dollars.

Approved, February 26, 1845.

AN ACT to incorporate the Good Intent Manufacturing Com. pany.

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

SEC. 1. Isaac Dunton, Arthur Brown, William Folwell, P. J. Gray, John L. Cooper, Jonas Livermore, Isaac R. Smith, Names of corpo- Jacob M. Thomas, Garret Newkirk, William White, and Jo

rators.

Style of incor

poration.

General powers.

Isiah S. Worth, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby incorporated and made a body politic and corporate, in fact and in law, for the purpose of manufactur ing, dying, bleaching, and printing wool and cotton, and all goods of which wool or cotton, or other fibrous materials, form a part, and all the machinery incident thereto, and for the transaction of all business connected therewith, by the name of "the Good Intent Manufacturing Company;" and, by such name, they shall be, and are hereby made capable, in law, of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts of law and equity whatsoever; and shall have power to make and use a common seal, and the same alter and renew at pleasure; and, by the same name, shall be capable to acquire, purchase, receive, have, hold, and enjoy, and again sell, or otherwise dispose of, such personal and real estate and property as may be necessary, useful, or convenient for the said corporation to carry on the aforesaid manufacturing operations, together with such other real estate as shall have been bona fide mortgaged or pledged to them by way of security, or conveyed to them in satisfaction of any debt or debts, liability or liabilities, previously created in their business, or purchased at any sale or sales upon any judgment or judg ments which shall have been obtained for any such debt or debts, liability or liabilities; and may purchase the "Good Intent Factory," with the water-power thereof; and may pur chase and erect such mills, houses, and other works as they

shall deem necessary to carry on the aforesaid branches of manufacture at Good Intent, in the counties of Camden and Gloucester, and not elsewhere; provided always, that the funds of the said corporation, or any part thereof, shall not be used in banking operations.

directors.

SEC. 2. The stock, property, and concerns of the said cor- Time and mode poration shall be managed and conducted by five directors, a of election of majority of whom shall be citizens and residents in this state, being stockholders, who shall be chosen annually, on the first Monday in July, at such time and place as shall be designated by the by-laws of the said corporation, whereof public notice shall be given, not less than ten days previous thereto, in one or more newspapers printed and published in the said. county of Camden; and at such elections each stockholder shall be entitled to as many votes as he or she shall hold shares of the capital stock of the said corporation; and the five stockholders having or receiving the greatest number of votes at such elections, shall be the directors of said corporation; which said directors shall choose one of their number as president; may appoint such other officers, superintendents, and agents, and allow them such compensation as they shall think fit, not less than a majority of the whole number of directors being present when the same shall be done; and shall hold their offices for one year, respectively, and until other directors shall be legally elected to succeed them; and all vacancies, Vacancies, how occasioned by death, resignation, or otherwise, among the directors of said corporation, shall be filled by such person or persons as the remainder of the directors for the time being, or a majority of them, shall appoint from among the stockholders for that purpose.

to be supplied.

SEC. 3. The capital stock of the said corporation shall not Amount of capi exceed one hundred thousand dollars, which shall be divided tal stock. into shares of one hundred dollars each; and so soon as fifty thousand dollars of the said capital stock shall have been subscribed and paid in lawful money, and not sooner, it shall be lawful for the said corporation to commence their said business, or any part thereof, and with that capital conduct and carry it on until they shall deem it expedient to extend the same; and it shall be lawful for the directors of the said corporation, or a majority of them, from time to time, to call for and demand from the stockholders, respectively, all such sums of money by them subscribed, at such times and in such proportions as the said directors shall deem proper; and if such payments shall not be made within thirty days next after the day fixed for that purpose by public notice, previously published for the space of two weeks, at least once in each week, in one or more newspapers published in the said county of

Books to be

scriptions.

Camden, designating the proportion of such payments per share, the time when, the place where, and the officer to whom the same shall be required to be made, then and in that case each and every stockholder so neglecting or refusing to make such payment shall forfeit to the corporation his, her, or their share or shares in said capital stock, and all previous payments

thereon.

SEC. 4. The said Isaac Dunton, Isaac R. Smith, Jacob M. Thomas, Jonas Livermore, and John L. Cooper, or any three opened for sub- of them, may open books and take subscriptions for the capital stock, first giving two weeks' notice, in one or more newspapers published in the county of Camden aforesaid, of the time, place, and object of said meeting; and the stockholders, at a meeting called in like manner, after a sufficient amount of capital stock shall have been subscribed and paid in, may proceed to elect, by a plurality of votes of the stockholders present in person, or by their legal representatives, five directors, who shall hold their office, respectively, until the first Monday in July next ensuing the time of their said election, and until others shall be legally chosen.

SEC. 5. All the stock of the said corporation shall be deemed personal estate, and shall be transferable in such manner as Stock to be per- shall be prescribed by the by-laws of the said corporation; and no dividend shall be made to and among the stockholders, except from and out of the actual net profits of the said corpora

sonal estate.

dissolved for

failure to elect

tion.

SEC. 6. In case at any time it should happen that an election Corporation not shall not be made upon the day designated for that purpose by this act, the said corporation shall not be deemed to be dison day prescrib- solved for that cause; but it shall be lawful for the stockholders to hold such election on such other day or days as shall be prescribed by the by-laws of the said corporation, of which public notice shall be given, as provided in the second section of this act.

ed.

Directors may

SEC. 7. A majority of the directors for the time being shall constitute a board for transacting the business of the said cormake by-laws. poration, and shall have power to make and enforce such bylaws and regulations as they shall deem expedient for the government, management, and disposition of the stock, property, effects, business, profits, and concerns of the said corporation; provided, that the same be not contrary to the constitution or laws of the United States or of this state.

Directors to make annual statement.

SEC. S. The directors shall at a times keep, or cause to be kept, proper books, in which shall be regularly entered all the transactions and business of the said corporation, which books shall be open at all times during regular business hours for the

inspection of the stockholders; and no transfer of stock shall be valid or effectual until such transfer shall be entered or registered in the book or books to be kept for that purpose; and the directors shall submit to the stockholders, in the month of June annually, a written statement, under oath or affirmation, setting forth the amount of all existing debts against the said corporation, the amount of all existing debts due and owing to the said corporation, and the amount of capital stock actually paid in.

SEC. 9. This act shall continue in force twenty years; but it Limitation. shall and may be lawful for the legislature of this state to alter, modify, extend, or repeal the same, whenever, in their opinion, the public good may require it. Approved, February 28, 1845.

AN ACT to choose overseers of roads by districts, in the township of Woodbridge, Middlesex county.

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

Mcetings to

SEC. 1. It shall be lawful for any three or more of the inhabitants, who are residents of the road district, and who are en- choose overseer, titled to vote at the annual township meeting, to call a meeting how called. of the lawful voters of the road district in which they reside, by putting up, in three or more of the most public places in the district, written or printed notices, giving not less than ten days' previous notice of said meeting, and setting forth the object of the meeting to be to choose an overseer of the road district, and also designating the place for holding the meeting, which shall be somewhere in the district.

held.

SEC. 2. All meetings held in virtue of this act shall be called to meet at the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon, and, in all Meetings, when cases, at least one week previous to the annual township meeting; annual and extra meetings shall be called and conducted in conformity to the provisions of this act for calling the first meeting.

SEC. 3. At the first road district meetings held in virtue of this act, at the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon, it shall be Manner of conducting elec the duty of one of the persons who signed the call for said dis- tions.