Directors au thorized to erect gates. pike Company by reason of the want or loss of the said origi nal map, and of the oath required by the act to which this is a supplement, to be taken and filed by the commissioners who located the said turnpike road, or for or by reason of the neglect to file the accounts required to be filed at the end of every ten years, in and by the act aforesaid. 5. And be it enacted, That the directors of said company be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to erect two gates on six miles of said road, between Pompton and Paterson, where they may be deemed expedient, subject to be removed at the orders of the directors of said company, and to ask and receive the same amount of toll that they may be entitled to receive at one gate, as authorized in and by the act to which this is a supplement; and that all the provisions of the last mentioned act shall apply to and extend to the gates authorized, and which may be erected under and by virtue of this act. Approved, February 6, 1846. AN ACT for the relief of Thomas Goltrey, of the county of So merset. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the treasurer of this state is authorPension of $60 ized and required to pay to Thomas Goltrey, of the county of per annum to T. Golrey. Somerset, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, or his order, the sum of sixty dollars per annum, during his natural life, in semiannual payments, of thirty dollars each, the first payment to be made the first day of March next; and the receipt of the said Thomas Goltrey, or his order, shall be a sufficient voucher to the treasurer, in the settlement of his accounts.. Approved, February 6, 1846.. Preamble. AN ACT to incorporate the New Jersey Historical Society. WHEREAS the persons herein after named, and others, have formed themselves into an association, under the name and title of "the New Jersey Historical Society," the object of which society is "to discover, procure, and preserve whatever relates to any department of the history of New Jersey, natural, civil, literary, or ecclesiastical, and generally of other portions of the United States;" and whereas the said society has, by its executive committee, presented a memorial to the legislature, praying for an act of incorporation, that the purposes of said society may be the more effectually subserved therefore, Style. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That Daniel V. McLean, Peter D. Names of corVroom, Eli F. Cooley, Amzi C. McLean, Richard S. Field, porators. Stacy G. Potts, Henry W. Green, Aaron A. Marcelus, Nicholas Murray, William P. Robeson, William B. Kinney, Thomas Gordon, James T. Sherman, William A. Whitehead, George W. Doane, and their associates, who now are, and such other persons as shall hereafter become members of the said society, shall be, and are hereby ordained, constituted, and declared a body corporate and politic, by the name of "the New Jersey Historical Society;" and that, by that name, they and their successors for ever hereafter shall and may have succession, and, by the same name, be capable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, and matters whatsoever; and that they and their successors may have a common scal, and the same break, alter, change, and renew at their pleasure; and, by the same, shall be for ever hereafter capable in law to purchase, take, hold, receive, and enjoy, to them and their successors, any lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, or estate, real or personal, of whatever nature or quality, in fee-simple, for life or lives, or for years, or in any other manner whatsoever; provided always, that the yearly income or value of the said real or personal estate, or both, do not at any time exceed the sum of two thousand dollars. ers. 2. And be it enacted, That they and their successors shall, General powby the same name, have power and authority to give, grant, bargain, soll, demise, release, and convey to others the whole or any part of such real or personal estate, on such terms and in such manner and form as the said society may deem eligible to subserve and promote the purposes and design of said society; and that they and their successors shall have power, from time to time, to abolish any of the offices or appointments herein after mentioned, and create others in their room, with such powers and duties as they may think fit to confer and prescribe, and shall have power, from time to time, to make, constitute, and ordain such constitution, by-laws, ordinances, lic act. and regulations as they shall judge proper for the election of officers, the election and admission of new members, for the government and regulation of the officers and members, for fixing the times and places of the meetings of the said corporation, and the same, from time to time, to alter, change, repeal, revoke, and annul, at their pleasure; and that the constitution and by-laws, rules and regulations, of the society heretofore made and adopted, and now existing, shall and may remain in force until altered or repealed by the said corporation; provided, that such by-laws and constitution, made, or to be made, by the said corporation, shall not be repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States or of this state. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall be, and is hereby Act to be a pub- declared to be a public act, and shall be construed most favourably to promote the purposes and designs of the said society: and that no misnomer of the said corporation, in any deed, will, testament, gift, grant, demise, or other instrument of contract or conveyance, shall vitiate or defeat the same; provided the said corporation shall be sufliciently described to show the intention of the parties. Limitation. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall be and remain in full force until the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred; provided nevertheless, that in case the aforesaid society shall at any time appropriate their, or any part of their funds to any purpose or purposes other than those contemplated by this act, and shall be thereof convicted by due course of law, that thenceforth the said corporation shall cease and determine, and the estate, real and personal, whereof it may be seized and possessed shall vest in the people of this state. Approved, February 6, 1846. Boundaries of township. AN ACT to set off from the townships of Stafford and Dover, in the county of Monmouth, a new township, to be called the township of Union. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That all that part of the townships of Stafford and Dover, in the county of Monmouth, lying within the following boundaries, that is to say: beginning at the sea, and running first a due west course to the southerly point of Harvest-point; thence north, forty-five degrees west, crossing the bay to the main meadows; thence north-easterly, along the edge of the same, to the north of Gunning river; thence up said river, its various courses, to the north of Fresh creek; thence up said creek, its various courses, to the north line of a tract of land known as the Fresh creek lot, now owned by the heirs or devisees of Samuel G. Wright, deceased, and others; thence westerly, along said line, to the westerly end thereof; thence north, fifty-two degrees and fifty minutes west, along a line, known as the Ogden line, to a stone, being the second corner of a tract of land, known as the Ogden tract, standing on a course north, ten degrees and twenty-one minutes east, eight chains and seventy-five links, from a large stone standing on Par's cabin knoll; thence north-westerly to the north-west corner of a tract of land that Joseph W. Pharo purchased of the executors of Samuel Pharo, deceased; thence north, fifty degrees west, one hundred and eight chains and twenty-seven links, to a stone in the west line of Sunman's patent; thence north, seventy degrees west, to the Burlington county line; thence, up and along said county line, to intersect with a due west course from the head of the main southerly branch of Cedar creek, known as Factory branch; thence a due east course to the head of said Factory branch; thence down and along said branch and creek to the bay; thence a due east course to the sea; thence southerly, along the edge of the same, to the beginning, is hereby set off from the said townships of Stafford and Dover, and erected into a separate township, to be called and known by the name of "the township of Union." 2. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants of the said town- Township in» ship of Union are hereby constituted a body politic and cor- corporated. porate in law, and shall be styled and known by the name of "the Inhabitants of the township of Union, in the county of Monmouth," shall be vested with and entitled to all the rights, power, 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 Monmouth. 3. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants of the township Time and place of Union shall hold their first annual town meeting at the pub- of holding first lic house now kept by Benjamin Predmore, in the village of town meeting. Waretown, on the day appointed by law for holding the an nual town meetings in the other townships of the county of Monmouth, and afterwards at such place in the township of Union as the said inhabitants shall determine, in the manner prescribed by law. 4. And be it enacted, That all paupers who may be charge Settlement of able to the said townships of Stafford and Dover, at the time paupers. when this act shall go into operation, shall thereafter be charge Allotment of property. Committee to property. able to, and supported by that township within the bounds of which they have acquired their settlements respectively, or in which the said paupers may have resided at the time of acquiring their respective settlements; and all persons whose present settlements are in the said townships of Stafford and Dover, and who shall hereafter become chargeable as paupers, shall be supported by that one of the said townships of Union, Stafford, and Dover, within the bounds of which they respectively resided at the time of acquiring their settlements. 5. And be it enacted, That the poor-house farm, and all other real and personal property now belonging to the said township of Dover, shall hereafter belong to the townships of Union and Dover, in proportion to the number of inhabitants residing within the limits of each, and who are now residents in the township of Dover, according to the last census, and shall be owned and held by them in common; all the real and personal property now belonging to the township of Stafford shall hereafter belong to the townships of Union and Stafford, in the same proportion and manner as above mentioned and described. 6. And be it enacted, That the township committees of the said townships of Stafford, Dover, and Union shall meet on the allot and divide fourth Monday in April next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at the house of Benjamin Predmore, in the township of Union, and shall then and there proceed by writing, to be signed by a majority of those present, to allot and divide between the said townships all the property and moneys on hand or due, in proportion to the number of inhabitants residing within the limits of each, and who are now resident within the respective limits of the said township, according to the last census; and shall also ascertain and determine which of the paupers now supported by the townships of Stafford and Dover shall have their residence in that part of said townships hereby set off as the township of Union, and may adjourn from time to time. and to such time and place, as a majority of those assembled may think proper; and the inhabitants of the said township of Union shall be liable to pay their just proportion of the debts, if any there should be, and to support and maintain the paupers so alloted to them; and if any of the persons composing either of the town committees shall 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. 7. And be it enacted, That the township committee of the Township com said township of Union shall have power, and they are hereby mittee of Union authorized and empowered, to sell and release to the said townto release right, ships of Stafford and Dover, respectively, all the right, share, |