Money for repairs may

be recovered from delinquents.

bridge at any time when the same may be necessary; and the expense of said repairs shall, on the refusal of any individual to pay his proportion thereof, to the person from whom the money may be due, on the application to two freeholders, entirely disinterested in the same, be assessed by said freeholders after the valuation of said work upon the owner or owners benefited thereby, according to the advantages he or they may respectively receive.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That upon the receipt of the said assessment, made out by the freeholders in manner aforesaid, the person who may have expended money in the making or repairing any such private road or bridge shall, in person or by notice in writing, left at the usual place of abode of each or any person or persons upon whom such assessment may be made, demand of the same the sum so assessed as aforesaid; and if any person or persons upon whom any such assessment be made, shall neglect or refuse to pay the amount of said assessment for the space of twenty days after payment of the same shall have been demanded, it shall and may be lawful for the person who may have disbursed the said money, to sue for and recover from every such delinquent person or persons upon whom such assessment shall have been made, the amount of such assessment, together with the costs of suit, by action of debt, in any court of competent jurisdiction. Passed February 27, 1833.

horse artillery

established.

AN ACT establishing an independent regiment of horse artillery.

SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the Independent same, That the officers now attached to the independent regiregiment of ment of horse artillery, and such other officers as may hereafter elect to join said regiment, shall be organized under the name of the "Independent Regiment of Horse Artillery;" that the regiment shall consist of two or four squadrons, and each squadron shall consist of two or four troops, that the officers of the regiment shall consist of one colonel, one major to each squadron, one surgeon, one judge advocate, one regimental adjutant, one adjutant to each squadron, one quarter-master and one paymaster; that each troop shall consist of one captain, four lieutenants, one surgeon's mate, one quartermaster sergeant, one orderly sergeant, four sergeants, and four corporals; that the field officers of the regiment, shall constitute a regimental board, of which the regimental adjutant shall be clerk;

Officers.

and shall be invested with all the powers of a battalion court of appeal, and brigade board, and authorized to receive and appropriate all fines incurred in said regiment, and to vary the days of exercise, and time of holding their courts of appeal, and to order extra parades, and appoint the staff and troop officers of said regiment.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the fines for non attend- Fines for non ance on parade shall be, on a colonel, ten dollars, on a major, attendance. eight dollars, on all staff and commissioned officers, six dollars, and on all non commissioned officers, two dollars, and on supernumeraries or exempts, the same fines as are imposed by the existing laws of the state; that for the purpose of raising sufficient funds to defray the expenses incident to a corps of horse artillery, there shall be kept by the orderly sergeant of each troop, a regular muster roll, and that all persons signing the same, shall be considered as supernumerary or exempts; Exempts. not exceeding fifty men to each troop, and that the certificate of the regimental board, that any person belongs to the said supernumerary or exempts of said regiment, shall discharge him from all fines for the non-performance of military duty elsewhere; that the said regiment consist only of the field officers, staff officers, and commissioned officers, and non-commissioned officers, and that the same be established and con- Officers, a sidered as a corps of instruction; that the officers belonging corps of into the cavalry who may receive commissions in said regiment, struction. shall not be considered as having their commissions vacated, Commisby receiving such commission in said regiment, that the com- sions of offimanding officer shall report annually to the adjutant genera, the armament, state and condition of the regiment; and the ed by receiv said independent regiment in all other respects shall be regulat- ing commised and subject to the militia laws of the state. SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the executive of this state corps of inbe hereby authorized to effect of the general government either Governor au a loan of a park of light artillery consisting of twenty-foul thorized to brass pieces of ordnance with their caissons and implements, loan a park of of the caliber of six pounders and adapted to the service of light artillery. horse artillery, or to receive such park of artillery in lieu of the proportion of small arms, now due or coming due from the general government to the state of New Jersey.

Passed Feb. 27, 1833.

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sions in the

struction.

ر

Preamble.

Former act

A Supplement to the act entitled, "An act to incorporate the Belvidere
Bridge Company," passed March fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two.

WHEREAS the legislature of the state of Pennsylvania, by an act entitled, An act to incorporate the Belvidere Bridge Company, have ratified and confirmed the said act of the legislature of this state, entitled an act to incorporate the Belvidere Bridge Company, as fully and amply as if the same had been re-enacted at large section by section, except that instead of the tolls, which by tenth section of the said act, the said company is entitled to demand and receive, the amount to be by them demanded and taken on the following subjects, shall not exceed the following rates, to wit:

For every cach, landau, Phæton, or other pleasure carriage
with four wheels drawn by four horses, the sum of fifty
cents, and for the like carriages with two horses, the sum
of thirty-seven and a half cents.

For every wagon with four horses, the sum of fifty cents, and
for every carriage of the same description drawn by two
horses, the sum of thirty-one and one fourth cents.
For every chaise, riding chair, sulkey, cart, or other two
wheeled carriage or sled with two horses, the sum of thirty-
one and one fourth cents, and for the same with one horse,
the sum of eighteen and three-fourths cents-therefore,

SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assemly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the ame, That the said act to which this is a supplement, so modfied and confirmed by the said act of the legislature of Pennmodified and sylvania, shall go into immediate effect and operation, the same tolls reduced. as if the act of the legislature of Pennsylvania had vested the like powers and authority in the subscribers to the said capital stock of erecting a bridge at the place aforesaid, and of extending the same from shore to shore, with as full and ample powers, privileges and franchises, and emoluments, as to the said company are given by the act to which this is a supplement, and that so much of the tenth section of the act to which this is a supplement as is contradictory to the said act of the legislature of Pennsylvania and this supplement, be and the same is hereby repealed,

Passed February 27, 1833.

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AN ACT to authorize Ann Hendrickson, administratrix of William Hen> drickson, deceased, to fulfil certain contracts respecting real estate, made by the said William Hendrickson, deceased.

WHEREAS it is represented to the legislature, that William Preamble. Hendrickson late of the township of Lawrence in the county of Hunterdon, deceased, being seized in fee simple of a certain lot of land situate in the said township, did, in his life time, enter into an agreement in writing to sell and convey unto the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company, so much of the said lot or parcel of land, as should be necessary for the construction and use of the said canal, in passing through and over the same, and that in pursuance of the said agreement, the said company, in the life time of the said William Hendrickson, did enter upon the said land, and have constructed their canal through the same, and that the said William Hendrickson, died without having executed a deed in pursuance of the said agreement—AND WHEREAS it is also represented that the said William Hendrickson, and one Israel Hendrickson, being severally entitled, as tenants in common, in fee simple, to one equal undivided moiety or half part of a certain farm or plantation, whereof Philip Hendrickson died seized, situate in the township of Lawrence aforesaid, did enter into an agreement in writing, to make partition of the said farm amicably between them, in pursuance of which said agreement, a partition of the said farm was made into two equal shares or parts, and the metes and bounds of each share ascertained; but that no release was ever executed between the said parties.-AND WHEREAS the said William Hendrickson departed this life intestate, leaving Ann Hendrickson, his widow, and four infant children, his heirs at law; AND WHEREAS the said Ann Hendrickson, to whom letters of administration upon the estate of the said William Hendrickson, deceased, have been committed, hath by her petition to the legislature, prayed that she might be authorized to fulfil the said contracts, and the prayer of the said petition appearing to be just and reasonable therefore,

son authorized to convey

SEC 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Ann Hendrickson, administratrix of William Hen- A. Hendrickdrickson, deceased, be, and she is hereby authorized and em powered to make, execute, and deliver to the Delaware and certain lands Raritan Canal Company, a sufficient deed of conveyance in of W. Henfee simple, for so much of the said lot of land, as may have drickson, dec. been found necessary for the construction and use of the said to Delaware canal, which said deed of conveyance when duly made and Canal Comexecuted, shall be as good and effectual to all intents and pur- pany.

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and Raritan

Authorized

to release certain lands to

Israel Hendrickson.

poses, as if executed by the said William Hendrickson and Ann his wife, in the lifetime of the said William Hendrickson, and shall vest the title to the land thereby conveyed to the said Delaware and Raritan Canal Company.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Ann Hendrickson, administratrix as aforesaid, be, and she is hereby authorized and empowered to make, execute, and deliver, unto the said Israel Hendrickson, a good and sufficient release and quitclaim for all that part of the said farm or plantation whereof Philip Hendrickson died seized, which was assigned and set off to the said Israel Hendrickson, under and by virtue of the said agreement so as aforesaid entered into between the said Israel Hendrickson and William Hendrickson; which said deed of release, when duly made and executed, shall be as good and effectual, to all intents and purposes, as if executed by the said William Hendrickson and Ann his wife in the lifetime of the said William Hendrickson.

Passed February 28, 1833.

AN ACT to defray incidental charges.

SEC. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General AssemCertain inci- bly of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the dental charg- same, That it shall be lawful for the treasurer of this state to es directed to pay the several persons, herein after named, the following be paid. sums, to wit:

To William Grant, for journal for use of state; for Lehigh coal; for postage; for expenses going to, and returning from Philadelphia, four times, on business relative to school fund, under direction of trustees, seventy-nine dollars, sixty-seven

cents.

To Joseph Boroughs, for eleven cords of hickory wood, for use of state house, sixty dollars, fifty cents.

To Elisha Reeves, for eight cords hickory wood, for use of state house, forty-eight dollars.

To John Kimbury, for sawing and splitting wood at state house, seven dollars.

To Daniel Fenton, for paper, ink, quills, letter stamps, pencils, paper folders, &c., fifty-one dollars, thirty-eight cents.

To T. R. Sterling, for candles for use of state house, fifty dollars, sixteen cents.

To William A. Benjamin, for desk locks in state house, &c., eight dollars, ninety-three cents.

To Daniel Child, for putting on desk locks in state house, one dollar, fifty cents.