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Overseers to call all subsequent meetings.

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trict meeting, or, în their absence or refusal to act, any other person present, being a resident of the district, and entitled to vote at the annual township meetings, to call the meeting to order, and to make known the object of the meeting to be to choose an overseer for the road district, when the meeting shall forthwith proceed, viva voce, to choose one person, being a resident of the district, to act as overseer of the highway of the said district for one year; and at this, and all subsequent elections held under this act, the person having the highest number of the votes of the legal voters there present shall be the overseer; the person who called the meeting to order shall be the presiding officer of the meeting and judge of the elec tion; provided, that the voters of the district, so assembled, may decide whether or not they will choose an overscer according to the provisions of this act.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the persons who are chosen overseers, at the first meetings called in virtue of this act, and their successors in office, to call all the subsequent annual meetings, by putting up written or printed notices at the proper time, and in conformity to the requirements of the first section of this act, as to the time of holding the meetings, and for what purpose, number of notices, &c.

SEC. 5. The overseers of highways, chosen by the first meetings held in virtue of this act, and their successors in office, preside at neet- who may be hereafter chosen, shall attend at the time and place of holding the annual district meeting; at which meetings they shall preside, by calling them to order, and making known the object of the meeting, directing the vote to be taken, and acting as judge to decide the person having a majority of the

votes.

SEC. 6. The official duties of overseers chosen by virtue of Duties of over this act shall begin and end at the same time as if chosen at the annual township meeting.

seers, when to

commence.

Penalty for negleet of duty.

Election of overseer to be re-.

SEC. 7. Any overseer chosen under this act, and accepting the appointment of the same, who shall refuse or neglect to perform the duties of overseer, as required by this act, shall, upon the complaint of any person living in the district, and being a lawful voter in the same, be fined twenty dollars, in an action of debt, before any magistrate living in the township, one half of which sum of twenty dollars shall go for the use of the district, and the other half to the complainant.

SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the person chosen overseer of any district in the township of Woodbridge, to report the same,. on or before the day of the annual township meeting, to the ported to town township clerk; and the township clerk, chosen at the annual town meeting, shall cause the same to be recorded upon the

ship clerk.

township records; and in the event of the death or refusal of the overseer to make such report to the town clerk, any other person living in the district, being a legal voter, may do it, and shall be the duty of the town clerk to record it, the same as if made by the overseer.

SEC. 9. In the event of the death, absence, or refusal to act Vacancies, how of the overseer chosen at the annual district meeting, the in- supplied. habitants may choose another, by calling a meeting, in the manner prescribed by the first section of this act, for the first meeting; which overseer, so chosen, shall perform all the duties, the same as if chosen at the regular annual meeting.

Districts not

electing, may

elect on follow

SEC. 10. The neglect of the inhabitants of any district, in any one year, to choose an overseer for their district, shall not deprive them of the right to choose an overseer at any subse- ing year. quent year, during the continuance of this act.

SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of the person who acts as Duties of overmoderator and judge of the district elections, to keep a written seers. record of the proceedings of such meetings, including the name of the person elected as overseer, and furnish the same to the said overseer, whose duty it shall be to have the same recorded upon the road books kept by the overseer; and it shall be the duty of all overseers, chosen in virtue of this act, to have a book in which they shall record the proceedings of the district meetings, and also in which they shall keep a true account of all moneys received and paid out by them, of whom received, the time when received, and to whom and for what paid; also, the names of those who work, and the amount of work done by each person employed, and the date when done, upon and for the district, which said book shall belong to the district, and be handed over by the overseer to his successor in office.

SEC. 12. At the annual township meetings, all the districts Proceedings in who have neglected to elect their overseers, according to the case of failuro provisions of this act, the same shall be chosen by the township meetings, the same as if this act had not been passed.

to elect overseers.

Meetings, hove

SEC. 13. All the laws regulating the proceedings, and imposing penalties for riotous conduct and for illegal voting, regulated. applicable to township meetings, shall apply to meetings held in virtue of this act; and the moderator at the district meetings shall have the same authority to enforce the laws, as a moderator chosen at the annual township meeting.

SEC. 14. All overseers of highways chosen in virtue of this act, shall be subject to all the laws regulating the duties of overseers of highways chosen by the annual township meetings, where such laws do not conflict with this act.

Act, when to take effect.

SEC. 15. The above act shall be limited to the the township of Woodbridge, in the county of Middlesex.

SEC. 16. This act shall take effect immediately after its passage, and be declared to be a public law. Approved, February 28, 1845.

Boundaries of township.

AN ACT to establish a new township in the county of Burlington, to be called the township of Coaxen.

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 Northampton, in the county of Burlington, contained within the following bounds, to wit: beginning, in the line between the townships of Evesham and Northampton, in the south branch of Rancocus creek, at Haines's bank-landing, near Lumberton; thence, running north, seventy-four degrees and thirty-eight and a half minutes east, about fifty links, to a pine tree, marked with four blazes and twelve hacks, standing on the bank of said creck; thence, continuing the same course two hundred and eighty-five chains, to a stone standing on the edge of the bank of the north branch of Rancocus creek, near the upper side of the abutment of the bridge across said creek, near Shreveville; thence, continuing the same course about fifty links, to the middle of said creek; thence, up the middle of the said north branch of the Rancocus creek, the several courses thereof, until it strikes the line between the townships of Northampton and New Hanover; thence, still along said creek, between the townships of Northampton and New Hanover, the several courses thereof, until it strikes the line between the counties of Monmouth and Burlington; thence, along said line, until it strikes the line between the townships of Little Egg Harbour and Northampton; thence, along said line, until it strikes the line between the townships. of Washington and Northampton; thence along said line, until it strikes the line between the townships of Evesham and Northampton; thence, along said line, to the place of beginning, shall be, and hereby is set off from the township of Northampton, in the county of Burlington, to be called and known by the name of "the township of Coaxen."

SEC. 2. The inhabitants of the township of Coaxen are con

Inhabitants of

stituted a body politic and corporate, in law, and shall be styled and known by the name of "the Inhabitants of the township of township incorCoaxen, in the county of Burlington;" and shall be entitled to all porated." 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 Burlington are or may be entitled or subjected to by the existing laws of this state.

SEC. 3. The inhabitants of the township of Coaxen shall hold First town meettheir first annual town meeting at the inn of Charles C. Shinn, in Coaxen. in Vincentown, in the said township of Coaxen, on the second Tuesday of March next.

Town meeting

SEC. 4. The inhabitants of the township of Northampton shall hold their next annual town meeting at the inn of Peter in Northampton C. Stryker, in Mount Holly, in said township, on the second Tuesday of March next.

Sec. 5. The township committees of the townships of Coaxen Committees to and Northampton shall meet, on the first Monday in April next, allot and divide at the inn of John West, in Mount Holly, at ten o'clock in the property. forenoon, and then and there proceed, by writing, signed by a majority of those present, to allot and divide between the said townships all properties and moneys on hand, due, or to become due, in proportion to the taxable property and ratables, as taxed by the assessor, within their respective limits, at the last assessment, and may adjourn the said meeting, from time to time, as a majority of those present may think proper; and the inhabitants of the township of Coaxen shall be liable to pay their just proportion of the debts, if any there should be; and if any of the persons comprising either of the township committees should neglect or refuse to meet as aforesaid, those assembled may proceed to make the said division, and the decision of a majority of those present shall be final and conclusive.

SEC. 6. This act shall take effect on and after the second Act, when to Monday of March next.

take effect.

Approved, March 1, 1845.

A supplement to an act entitled, "An act to incorporate the
Burlington County Bank at Medford, to be located in the
town of Medford, in the county of Burlington," passed
March first, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.

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

SEC. 1. So much of the second section of said act as proPart of former vides "that the whole capital stock shall be paid within ten act repealed. years from the passage of this act," be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Directory to call in stock.

Act, when to take effect.

SEC. 2. The directors of the said bank shall have power and authority to call in, and ordered to be paid, so much of the said capital stock as remains unpaid, at such times and in such instalments as in their discretion they shall deem neces

sary.

SEC. 3. This act shall go into operation immediately after it becomes a law.

Approved, March 5, 1845.

A supplement to an act entitled, "An act to incorporate the Musconetcong Manufacturing Company," passed Marcheleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-two.

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

The eleventh section of the act to which this is a supplement be, and the same is hereby so amended, as to extend the time Time of former of three years, therein mentioned, to thirteen years, anything in the said act, to which this is a supplement, to the contrary notwithstanding.

act extended.

Approved, March 5, 1845.

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