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conveniently may be, to remove all the records, files, vouchers, and public books and papers in their custody into the said offices so erected for them, respectively; and any circuit court, court of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery, inferior court of common pleas, general quarter-sessions of the peace, and orphans' court, which may be held in said county after the said certificate shall be filed and entered by said clerk, as aforesaid, shall be held in the said court-house; and all writs and other process which may be issued out of either of the said courts, after the entering and filing of said certificate, shall be returnable to the place chosen as aforesaid for the seat of justice of said county; and all such writs and process, and all other writs and process previously issued and then in the hands of the sheriff of said county or other officer, and returnable to either of said courts, shall be returned to the said place chosen for said seat of justice; and all persons who may be under recognizance, bond, or other obligation, or may be summoned to appear before either of said courts at any time subsequent to the entering and filing of said certificate, shall appear before the court before which he shall have been so recognized, bound, or summoned to appear at the said place chosen for said seat of justice.

12. And be it enacted, That when the common jail of said County shall be so far completed as to be suitable for the safekeeping of prisoners, it shall be the duty of the said director of the board of chosen freeholders to send a certificate thereof to the clerk of the inferior court of common pleas of said county, who shall file the same in his office, and enter it at length in the minutes of said court, with the time of his receiving it, and he shall deliver a copy thereof to the sheriff of said county, whereupon it shall be the duty of said sheriff to remove all the prisoners of said county that may be in his custody into the said common jail, there to be confined according to law; and such removal shall not be deemed an escape or in any wise chargeable to said sheriff.

13. And be it enacted, That the seventh, eighteenth, ninePart of former teenth, and twentieth sections of the act to which this is a supplement, and all the provisions of the said act, and of any other act repugnant to the provisions of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed; and this act shall take effect immediately after the passage thereof.

Approved, April 1, 1846.

AN ACT for the relief of John Gregory, of the county of Mon

mouth.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the treasurer of this state shall, Pension of $60 and is hereby authorized and required to pay to John Gregory, per annum to J. Gregory. a soldier of the Revolutionary war, or his order, the sum of sixty dollars per annum, during his natural life, in semi-annual payments of thirty dollars each, the first payment to be made the first day of April next; and the receipt of the said John Gregory, or his order, shall be a sufficient voucher to the treasurer, in the settlement of his accounts. Approved, March 26, 1846.

AN ACT for the relief of Hannah Hoff, of the county of Morris.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the treasurer of this state shall, and Pension of $40 is hereby authorized and required to pay to Hannah Hoff, the granted to H. widow of Charles Hoff, or her order, the sum of forty dollars Hoff. per annum, during her natural life, in semi-annual payments of twenty dollars each, the first payment to be made the first day of April next; and the receipt of the said Hannah Hoff, or her order, shall be a sufficient voucher to the treasurer, in the settlement of his accounts.

Approved, March 26, 1846.

AN ACT to incorporate the Hamilton Manufacturing Company of the county of Atlantic.

1. BR IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That John L. McKnight, Stephen Col- Names of cors well, Walter D. Bell, Jeremiah Stull, John C. Briggs, Nicholas porators. Rape, Joseph Thompson, Edmund Taylor, Abraham L. Iszard,

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and Francis J. Brognard, 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 manufac turing, dyeing, 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 Hamilton Manufacturing Company of the county of Atlantic ;" and may erect such mills and other works as may be required to carry on such branches of manufacture; and they shall have power to raise by subscription a capital not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation may purchase and hold such real estate in the said county of Atlantic as may be required for the purposes of the said corporation. and may dispose of the same; and may sue and be sued in all courts of law and equity; and may have and use a common seal, and make such by-laws for their regulation and government as they may see proper; provided the same are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States or of this state.

3. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of the said cor poration shall be divided into shares of fifty dollars each; but as soon as thirty thousand dollars of the said capital stock shall have been subscribed and paid in, in lawful money or current bank notes, and an affidavit thereof made by a majority of the directors to be chosen in pursuance of this act, and filed in the office of the secretary of state, then it shall and may be lawful for the said corporation to commence their business, and with that capital to conduct and carry it on, until they shall find it expedient to extend their capital, which they are authorized to do from time to time to the amount herein before mentioned.

4. And be it enacted, That the capital stock shall be deemed personal estate, and transferable upon the books of the said corporation; and no part of the said capital stock shall at any time, nor under any pretence whatever, be divided among the stockholders for dividends; and no dividend shall be made or paid, except from the actual profits; and each stockholder shall, in the election of directors, have one vote for each share of stock he holds in said company.

5. And be it enacted, That John L. McKnight, Stephen Colwell, Walter D. Bell, Jeremiah Stull, John C. Briggs, Nich

to receive sub- olas Rape, Joseph Thompson, Edmund Taylor, Abraham L. veriptions. Iszard, and Francis J. Brognard, or a majority of them, shall be commissioners, whose duty it shall be to open books to re

ceive subscriptions to the capital stock of the said corporation, first giving two weeks' notice, in a newspaper circulating in the county of Atlantic, of the time and place of the opening of such books, and also of the amount of the first instalment to be then paid, and, as soon as the same shall be subscribed, to give a like notice for the meeting of stockholders to choose such directors, officers, and agents as may be deemed necessary for conducting the affairs of the company.

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6. And be it enacted, That the directors shall at all times Books of aekeep, or cause to be kept at their manufactory, proper books count to be of account, in which shall be regularly entered all the dealings and transactions of said corporation, which books shall at all times be subject to the inspection of the stockholders of the

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7. And be it enacted, That in the month of May, in each Directors to year, the directors shall submit to the stockholders a written make annual statement of the amount of capital stock paid in and the amount of all existing debts against the company; and no dividend shall be declared or paid to the stockholders, when such payment would render the company insolvent; and the debts of the said corporation shall at no time be suffered to exceed the capital stock actually paid in.

8. And be it enacted, That no part of the capital stock, or Capital stock any of the funds of the said corporation, shall at any time dur- not to be employed in bank> ing the continuance of this charter be used or employed, di- ing. rectly or indirectly, in banking operations or for any purpose whatever inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

9. And be it enacted, That the corporation hereby created Limitation. shall continue twenty years, and shall possess the general powers, and be subject to the general restrictions and liabilities, set forth in an act entitled, "An act concerning corporations," approved on the fourteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-six.

Approved, March 31, 1846.

AN ACT to incorporate the Atlantic Manufacturing Company.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That John Campbell, Henry V. Butler, Names of cor and Robert L. Taylor, and the survivors of them, and all

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such persons as may hereafter be associated with them, or the said survivors, their successors, and assigns, shall be, and they are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name and style of "the Atlantic Manufacturing Company," for the purpose of manufacturing paper in the counties of Passaic or Bergen, in this state, and of carrying on the business incident thereto; and the said company may hold such water power and water privileges, personal and real estate, as may be necessary or useful for said corporation to carry on the manufacturing operations before mentioned, and 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 debts or liabilities previously created in their business, or purchased at sales upon judgments which shall have been obtained for such debts or liabilities.

2. And be it enacted, That the stock, property, and concerns of the said corporation shall be managed and conducted by five directors, being stockholders (one of whom shall be president), who shall hold their offices for one year; and the said directors shall be chosen on the first Monday in June, of every year, at such place and time as shall be directed by the by-laws of the said corporation, and public notice thereof shall be given, not less than ten days previous, in one or more newspapers printed in the county of Passaic; and each stockholder shall, at such election, be entitled, in person or by proxy, to as many votes as he or she shall hold shares of the capital stock of said corporation; and the persons having or receiving in such elections the greatest number of votes, and being stockholders, shall be directors; and the directors chosen at one election, shall be capable of serving by virtue thereof until another election shall have been had; and the directors so chosen may appoint such officers and superintendents, and assign 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 all vacancies occurring, by death, resignation, or otherwise, among the directors named in this act, or those hereafter to be chosen, 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 for that purpose; and that the said John Campbell, Henry V. Butler, Robert L. Taylor, Thomas Rogers, Aaron S. Pennington, and the survivors of them, shall be the first directors of the said corporation, and shall hold their offices until the first Monday in June next and until others are legally chosen.

3. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of the said corpo ration shall be two hundred thousand dollars, which shall be