A supplement to the act entitled, "An act to incorporate the Alexandria Delaware Bridge Company," passed March fifth, eighteen hundred and forty-one.

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

SEC. 1. Persons going to or returning from religious meet- Certain persons ing or church upon the christian sabbath, or first day of the to pass free of week, commonly called Sunday, shall be allowed to pass the said bridge free of toll, and upon that day only.

act repealed.

SEC. 2. So much of the eleventh section of the act to which Part of former this is a supplement, as provides for the passage of persons going to and returning from religious meeting or church free of toll, be, and the same is hereby repealed. Approved, March 5, 1845.

AN ACT further to regulate the proceedings of the annual town and ward meetings.

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

Justices of the

SEC. 1. Justices of the peace are to be elected by ballot, at the annual meetings of the townships and wards in the several peace, how counties of this state; and the first election is to take place at elected. the next annual town and ward meetings.

SEC. 2. When a township or ward contains two thousand Number of jusinhabitants, or less, it may elect two justices; when it contains tices in townmore than two thousand inhabitants, and not more than four ship. thousand, it may elect four justices; when it contains more than four thousand inhabitants, it may elect five justices; and when any township, not voting in wards, contains more than seven thousand inhabitants, such township may elect an additional justice for each additional three thousand inhabitants above four thousand.

ascertained.

SEC. 3. The population of the townships and wards shall be Population of ascertained by the last preceding census of the United States; township, how and the abstract of the last census, as published with the laws of this state, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-one, shall be conclusive evidence of the contents thereof, so far as relates to the population of townships and wards.

Judge o felection.

Vacancies, how supplied.

tices, how conducted.

SEC. 4. The judge of election elected at the last, or any future town meeting, shall preside at, and conduct the election for justices of the peace at the next ensuing town meeting; and the lawful voters present at the opening of the poll shall elect, viva voce, a person, being a lawful voter in the township, to be clerk of such election.

SEC. 5. In case of the neglect to serve, or the absence, or other disability of the judge of election, and in townships where such officer has not been elected, the lawful voters present shall proceed to fill such vacancy, in the manner provided in the foregoing section for the election of the clerk.

SEC. 6. The election for justices of the peace shall be opened Election for jus- at the same time, and conducted in the same manner, and be subject to the same rules, as elections for state or county officers are or shall be; and the same duties shall devolve upon the judge of election and the clerk as are to be performed by the board of election and clerk in other elections; they shall take the same oath or affirmation, as far as applicable, be invested with the same powers, and be liable to the same penalties; the same qualifications for voters shall be required, and the result ascertained and stated in the same manner.

Duplicates of statements of result to be made.

Secretary of

state to exhibit

statements to

the governor.

supplied.

SEC. 7. Two statements of the result of every election for justices of the peace shall be made, one of which the judge of election shall enclose and seal up, and deliver, or safely transmit, to the clerk of the county, who shall forthwith file the same in his office; and the other shall, in like manner, be delivered or transmitted to the secretary of state, within ten days after such election, who shall forthwith file the same in his of fice.

SEC. 8. The secretary of state shall exhibit the several statements of the results of such elections to the governor, who shall commission the persons elected for the county; their commissions shall bear date and take effect on the first day of May next after their election, and they shall hold their offices for five years, unless elected to fill a vacancy, then for the unex pired term only.

SEC. 9. If at any such election there be vacancies to be supVacancies, how plied, or a vacancy or vacancies to be supplied, and a justice or justices to be elected for five years, it shall be necessary to designate, on the ballot, for which term the person voted for is intended, by adding, after the names of persons intended to supply vacancies, the words "in place of," and the name of the person or persons whose place is to be supplied; the statement of the result shall show which persons are elected to fill vacancies, and in whose place, and they shall be commissioned accordingly.

SEC. 10. Townships and wards which now vote, or shall hereafter vote by ballot at their annual town and ward meetings, shall, at the time they vote for justices of the peace, vote upon the same ballot for township officers, and upon such other questions as such townships and wards are or may be authorized or required by law to vote upon by ballot.

Mode of voting.

SEC. 11. All acts and parts of acts authorizing townships Part of former and wards to vote by ballot at their annual town and ward act repealed. meetings, so far as the same are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 12. The judge of election, the clerk, and secretary of state, shall receive the same compensation for services required by this act, as is now or may hereafter be provided by law for like services in elections for state or county officers.

Compensation

to officers.

SEC. 13. This act shall take effect immediately after the Act, when to same shall become a law.

Approved, March 6, 1845.

take effect.

AN ACT for the relief of the president and trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Elizabethtown.

WHEREAS Joseph Cleveland, John Faulks, James C. Denman, Preamble. Enoch Coddington, Aaron Q. Thompson, Ezra Cleveland, and Periam Price, the president and trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Elizabethtown, by their petition have set forth that the Rev. Thomas Morrell, in his lifetime, on the twenty-fourth day of November, seventeen hundred and ninety-two, by his deed of conveyance, duly executed, did convey into Jonathan Morrell, Thomas Crowell, John Chave, Waters Burrows, and Abraham Morrell, and to their successors in office, as trustces for ever, a certain lot of land in Elizabethtown, in the county of Essex, in this state, to hold the same in trust, for the use of the society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Elizabethtown, for ever; upon which said lot of land, soon after the execution and delivery of the said deed, was erected a house of worship for the said society, in which they have continued to worship until this time; that the said society was incorporated in eighteen hundred and thirtynine, in the manner prescribed by the act of the legislature of New Jersey, passed the twelfth of June, seventeen hun

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dred and ninety-nine, entitled, "An act to incorporate trustees of religious societies;" and, in eighteen hundred and forty-three, purchased a lot of land in the central part of Elizabethtown, and have erected, and nearly finished thereupon, a large and commodious brick church, for the use of the said society; and that, to aid in defraying the expenses in the purchase of the said lot and said new church, the said society have resolved to sell the lot of land conveyed to the said trustees by the Rev. Thomas Morrell, together with the buildings and improvements thereon; but that, by reason of the death of all the trustees named in the said deed, and the omission of said society to continue a succession of trustees, in the manner directed by the said deed from the Rev. Thomas Morrell, doubts have arisen whether a good and sufficient title for the said lot of land and premises can be made to the purchaser of the same-therefore,

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

SEC. 1. The president and trustees of the Methodist EpiscoTrustees autho- pal Church in Elizabethtown are hereby authorized and emthorized to sell powered to sell, at public or private sale, all that lot of land and premises, with the buildings, improvements, and appurte nances thereunto belonging, which was conveyed by Thomas Morrell to Jonathan Morrell, Thomas Crowell, John Chave, Waters Burrows, and Abraham Morrell, and to their successors, in trust, for the use of the society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Elizabethtown, by his deed, bearing date the twenty-fourth day of November, seventeen hundred and ninetytwo, and in the said deed is described as follows: beginning at the south-westermost corner of William Peartree Smith's land (now Robert Atchinson's); thence, running north along said Smith's line (now Atchinson's), seventy-six feet six inches; then a westerly course, as the cross-fence now stands, seventy feet; thence southerly, sixty feet, to the main road leading from the town to the Point; thence easterly, seventy feet, along the road to the corner of Smith's land (now Atchinson's), the first mentioned place of beginning; bounded easterly by William P. Smith's land (now Robert Atchinson's), southerly by the main road to Elizabethtown Point, westerly and northerly by land of Jonathan and Thomas Morrell (now of the estate of the Rev. Thomas Morrell, deceased); and to execute and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, a good and sufficient deed for the same, under the hand of the president and the common seal of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Elizabethtown, and under the hand and seal of the trustees of the said corporation, or a majority of them; and upon the payment of the purchase money, by the purchaser or purchasers, to the

trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Elizabethtown, or a majority of them, taking their receipt therefor, such purchaser or purchasers shall be vested with, and entitled to all the estate, right, title, interest, and possession of, in, and to the said lot of land and premises, with the appurtenances, which the said Thomas Morrell conveyed to the grantees named in the said deed; and the said purchaser or purchasers, his or their heirs and assigns, shall hold the same, so conveyed, to his or their own use, free and clear and absolutely discharged from all trusts whatsoever upon which the same was held, in pursuance of the trust contained in the said deed of conveyance made by the said Thoinas Morrell, as aforesaid; and the purchase money paid by the said purchaser or purchasers as aforesaid, when received by the trustees of the said Methodist Episcopal Church in Elizabethtown, shall be appropriated towards the payment of the purchase money for the lot of land on which the said Methodist Episcopal Church in Elizabethtown are causing to be erected a new brick church, or towards the payment of the expenses incurred in building the said new church, and shall be absolutely vested in, and belong to, the said the Methodist Episcopal Church in Elizabethtown, their successors and assigns, for ever.

Purchase mo

ney, how vested.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately after the pas- Act, when to sage thereof.

Approved, March 6, 1845.

take effect.

AN ACT to incorporate the East Windsor Cemetery Company, in the county of Mercer.

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

Names of corpo

SEC. 1. Richard Norton, Joseph J. Ely, and William Norton, and their successors, bc, and they are hereby made a body rators. politic and corporate, in law, under the name, style, and title of the East Windsor Cemetery Company;" and, by that name, shall be able and capable, in law, to have and use a common seal, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, and to do all such other things as are incident to a corporation, and necessary for the purposes of this act.