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ACTS

OF THE

SEVENTIETH LEGISLATURE

OF THE

STATE OF NEW JERSEY.

AN ACT respecting highways in the township of Paterson, in the county of Passaic.

Ir being represented to the legislature, by the petition of inhabitants of Paterson, that public convenience requires an alteration in the laws respecting roads, as applicable to that township, and it appearing just and proper that their request in that matter should be granted-therefore,

Preamble.

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1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the township committee of the township of Paterson, in the county of Passaic, shall be vest- ties of township ed with and exercise, in their corporate name, all the powers, committee. rights, privileges, and duties that the overseers of the highways in said township are now capable of exercising and performing; and shall have authority to regulate the streets and sidewalks, and to make and to enforce, by penalties, all ordinances necessary for the purposes aforesaid; and the members thereof shall be subject to the penalties existing against overseers for neglect of duties.

2. And be it enacted, That hereafter the inhabitants of said Inhabitants not township shall not èlect overseers of the highways in said town- to elect overship.

seers.

3. And be it enacted, That this act shall go into operation on Act, when to the day of the next annual town meeting in the said township. take effect. Approved, January 29, 1846.

Writs of sci. fa.

may issue upon liens filed, &c.

Judgments

heretofore obtained declared valid.

Act, when to
Luke effect.

A further supplement to an act entitled, “An act securing to mechanics and others payment for their labour and materi als, in erecting any house or other building within the limits. therein mentioned," passed February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and twenty.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful to issue a writ or writs of scire facias, either out of the circuit court or inferior court of common pleas of the county of Camden, upon any lien heretofore filed and recorded, in pursuance of the act, and supplements thereto, to which this is a further supplement.

2. And be it enacted, That all judgments heretofore obtained upon scire facias, issued out of the inferior court of common pleas of the county of Camden aforesaid, on any liens duly filed and recorded, shall be of equal force, validity, and effect as if the same had been obtained in the inferior court of common pleas of the county of Gloucester, in this state; and sales of property founded upon such judgment are hereby declared valid in law, and are confirmed accordingly.

3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately after it becomes a law.

Approved, January 29, 1846

reduced.

A supplement to "An act relative to ensurance companies," passed December twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and twentysix, and to an act to amend the same, passed March twentysixth, eighteen hundred and forty-five.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the sum of five per centum, Resto of percent. directed by the third section of said original act to be paid. by way of tax, by persons making or effecting, or causing to be made or effected, any ensurance by or on behalf of any foreign ensurance company not incorporated by the laws of this state, is hereby reduced to two and a half per centum; and the said original act, and the said act to amend the same,

shall have the like force and effect as if the third section of said original act were modified accordingly.

act not to ex

2. And be it enacted, That the provisions of said act shall Provisions of not extend to the premiums paid on policies of perpetual en- tend to premisurance, when the premiums on deposit money, or the princi- uns on perpepal part thereof, are by the terms of such policy liable to be reclaimed at any time by the ensured.

tual ensurance

take effect.

3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect imme- Act, when to diately.

Approved, January 29, 1846.

AN ACT to authorize Isaac W. Elwell to excavate mar} from

the public highway in the township of Stow Creek, county

of Cumberland.

excavate mark

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That Isaac W. Elwell, of the town- 1. W. Elwell ship of Stow Creek, is hereby authorized and empowered to authorized to excavate the marl which lies in a public highway in said township, near the house of said Elwell, without let or hinderance from any person whatsoever, other than any person who may own the soil of such highway; provided nevertheless, that the said Isaac W. Elwell shall not enter upon the excavation until he shall have prepared a lateral road, as near as may be convenient to the before mentioned public highway, nor until he shall have given satisfactory security unto the township committee of Stow Creek, that said township shall be at no expense about the same; and that he will keep such lateral road in good order and repair for travelling, until the highway shall be returned to its present position, and, also, that the public highway shall be returned to its present position; in good order for travelling, in three years from the time the excavation shall

commence.

2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect imme- Act, when to diately.

Approved, February 3, 1846.

take effect

Preamble.

Minister, &c., authorized to

AN ACT to authorize the minister, elders, and deacons of the
Reformed Dutch Church in Harlingen, in the county of
Somerset, to sell and convey certain real estate.

WHEREAS it has been represented, that the minister, elders,
and deacons of the Reformed Dutch Church and Congrega-
tion in Harlingen, in the county of Somerset, have been, and
still are the owners and possessors of a certain tract of land
or farm, situate in the townships of Montgomery and Hills-
borough, in said county, known as the parsonage farm,
bounded by lands of Peter Labagh, John R. Stryker,
Court Sutphen, and others, containing one hundred and
sixty acres; and whereas the said minister, elders, and dea-
cons of the said church and congregation, believing that the
interest and prosperity of the said church would be promo-
ted by the sale of the said farm, have, with the concurrence,
and according to the recommendation of the said congrega-
tion, petitioned the legislature to pass a law for that purpose
-therefore,

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the minister, elders, and deacons of the Reformed Dutch Church in Harlingen, in the county of Somerset aforesaid, are hereby authorized and emsell real estate. powered, in their corporate name and capacity, to make sale and conveyance of the aforesaid farm, or any part thereof, for the best price that can be obtained for the same, and to execute good and sufficient deed or deeds for the same.

Proceeds of sale to be invested.

Statement of

proceedings to be made.

2. And be it enacted, That the said minister, elders, and deacons of the said church and congregation aforesaid, shall, in their corporate name and capacity, safely invest the proceeds arising from such sale or sales in bond and mortgage, and apply the interest thereof to the support of the minister of said church, as the profits and rents of said farm are now ap plied, and to no other purpose whatsoever; provided, that in case it may at any time be deemed advisable, they may apply a part of the said proceeds to purchase a small and more con venient parsonage for the use of the minister of said church.

3. And be it enacted, That the said minister, elders, and deacons shall, within one month after such sale or sales, make a full statement in writing of all their proceedings relating thereto; which statement they shall cause to be read at a public meeting of the said congregation, to be by them duly called for the purpose, and also to be entered at length on the minutes of the said corporation.

Approved, February 6, 1846..

A further supplement to the act entitled, "An act to incorporate the Paterson and Hamburg Turnpike Company," passed the third of March, eighteen hundred and six.

the course of

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the directors of the Paterson Directors auand Hamburg Turnpike Company be, and they are hereby thorized to alter authorized and empowered to alter the course of the Paterson road. and Hamburg Turnpike road, so as to run from the top of the mountain, south-east from Hamburg, in the county of Sussex, near Hamilton's bog meadow, about a south-easterly course, to the road leading from Snufftown to the Franklin furnace; then to follow the course of the old road to Snufftown, as far as may be deemed expedient; and that they be also authorized and empowered to alter the course of said road, so as to run from near Hennion's bridge, in the county of Passaic, around the foot of the hill to near the house of Henry A. Vreeland; provided, that the said directors shall first obtain the consent Proviso. of the owners of the land over which the alterations in the said road may run; and provided also, that the said directors shall cause maps and surveys of the said alterations to be made and filed in the offices of the clerks of the counties of Sussex and Passaic; and provided also, that the said directors shall not put up, or cause to be put up, any gate on that part of the said turnpike which follows the course of the old Franklin and Snuiltown road.

2. And be it enacted, That the said turnpike road, as at pre- Former road to sent located, between the points where the routes of the same, be vacated. as altered, shall be vacated when and as soon as the altera

tions aforesaid are made.

filed.

3. And be it enacted, That the directors of said turnpike Map of road to road be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to be made and cause a map to be made of their said turnpike road, from the survey now on file in the office of the secretary of state, or a certified copy thereof; and that said map, when made and filed in the office of the secretary of state, shall have the same force, effect, and validity as the map directed to be made and filed in and by the act to which this is a supplement could or would have.

4. And be it enacted, That the account of receipts and expenditures of said company, filed with the secretary of state, be deemed and taken, and have the like force and effect, as the accounts required to be filed by the directors at the end of every ten years, in and by the act to which this is a supplement, would or could have; and that no forfeiture or disability shall arise or accrue to the said Paterson and Hamburg Turn

No forfeiture to accrue for want nal map.

or loss of origi

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