any money remaining in their hands at the end of every year, and if the said managers shall refuse to pay such balance in their hands to their successors, then their successors shall sue for and recover the same in an action of debt, with costs of suit. Sec. 11. And be it enacted, That if any person shall wilfully do any injury or damage to the said dams, stoppings, floodgates, sluices, or any of the works authorized by this act, he, she, or they, shall for every such offence, forfeit and pay Penalty for intwenty dollars, together with all damages, to be sued for and juring works. recovered in an action of trespass, in any court, or before any justice having cognizance of the same, with costs of suit, to be applied to repairing said works so injured, and the managers for the time being, are hereby enjoined and authorized to prosecute the same. Sec. 12. And be it enacted, That the managers chosen by virtue of this act, shall be entitled to one dollar per day, Pay of managers for each and every day, they or either of them respectively, shall be employed in discharging the duties herein enjoined. Passed February 22, 1834. AN ACT to authorize the chosen freeholders of the county of Cumberland, to build a bridge over Cedar creek, in Downe township. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the board of chosen freeholders of the county of Cumberland, be, and they are hereby authorized, to build and maintain a good and sufficient bridge over Cedar creek, at the place where the public road laid out on the ninth day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, leading from Port Elizabeth, in the township of Maurice river, to Dividing creek, in the township of Downe, crosses the said creek. Passed February 24, 1834. m Pena glect AN ACT to repeal a part of the third section of an act entitled "An act to authorize the chosen freeholders of the county of Cumberland, to build a draw bridge over Cohansey Creek." BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so much of the third section of an act, passed January the twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, to authorize the chosen freeholders of the county of Cumberland to build a draw bridge over Cohansey Creek, at the town of Bridgeton, as has reference to any person or persons, driving any wagon or cart, sled or sleigh, or any other kind of carriage or vehicle, or ride, lead or drive any horse, horses, mule or mules, or any description of cattle, over or upon said bridge at a faster gait than a walk, be, and the same is hereby repealed. Passed February 24, 1834. AN ACT to divorce Charlotte P. Antrim from her husband BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Charlotte P. Antrim of the county of Salem, be, and she is hereby divorced from her husband William N. Antrim, and that the marriage contract heretofore existing between them, the said Charlotte P. Antrim, and William N. Antrim, be, and the same is hereby as fully and absolutely dissolved, as if they had never been joined in matrimony, Passed February 24, 1834. AN ACT to incoporate the Kingston Fire Engine Company. 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 Phineas Withington, Elijah Stout, George Bayles, William Skillman, James Gulick, Charles Oliver, Randal poration. Style of incor Dye, John B. Story and Richard Brittan, and all such other persons, as are, or hereafter shall become associates of the Kingston Fire Engine Company be, and they are hereby constituted and declared to be a body politic and corporate, in fact and in law, by the name of " The Kingston Fire Engine Company." Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation, by such name, shall have perpetual succession, and be a body politic and corporate in law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts of judicature whatsoever; and that they and their successors respectively, may have and use a common seal, and have power to Powers. make, change and alter the same at pleasure, and by their common seal, may make, enter into, and execute, any contracts or agreements touching and concerning the objects of said corporation, and shall have full power and authority to make, form and adopt, such by-laws and regulations for their government, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state, or of the United States, as they shall think proper. Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of said. company, shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, Amount of capiwhich shall be solely and exclusively applied to the procuring, incorporation. tal, objects of repairing, and maintaining the engine, hose, reservoirs of water, ladders, buckets, fire-hooks, and other implements and machines, and to such other incidental expenses, as shall, to the said company, appear best calculated to secure the property of their fellow citizens from injury or destruction by fire. Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the said company shall have power to elect annually a president, vice-president, or secretary, and a treasurer, from their own body, and such other officers and assistants, as they shall find necessary for con- Officers of comducting their affairs according to their constitution and by- pany. laws; and that the said president shall keep in his custody the common seal of the said company, and at the expiration of his term of office, shall deliver it over to his successor. Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Council and General Assembly of this state, at any time hereafter, to alter, amend, modify or repeal this act, as they shall think proper. Passed February, 24, 1834. AN ACT to divorce Margaretta Sherwood from her husband BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Margaretta Sherwood, of the county of Somerset, be, and she is hereby divorced from her husband Daniel Sherwood, and that the marriage contract heretofore exisiing between them, the said Margaretta Sherwood and her husband Daniel Sherwood, be, and the same is hereby as fully and absolutely dissolved, as if they had never been joined in matrimony. Passed February 26, 1834. Preamble. AN ACT to authorize Ann Hendrickson, administratrix of William Hendrickson, deceased, to fulfil a certain contract therein named. WHEREAS, it hath been represented to the legislature, that William Hendrickson, late of the township of Lawrence, in the county of Hunterdon, deceased, in his life time, did covenant and agree in writing with the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company, for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred dollars per acre, to grant, bargain and sell, all that piece and parcel of land situate in the said township, commencing at the line of land belonging to Isaac Brearley, thence running on the route and adjoining to said canal, until it meets the line of lands belonging to John Agnew, and embracing all the meadow of the said William Hendrickson, deceased, estimated at eleven acres and a half: And whereas the said William Hendrickson has departed this life intestate, without having executed a deed for the same; And whereas Ann Hendrickson, administratrix of the said deceased, hath prayed that she might be authorized to fulfil the said contract, and the same appearing just and reasonable-Therefore, BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the Administratrix same, That Ann Hendrickson administratrix of William Hendto convey lands. rickson, deceased, be, and she is hereby authorized and empowered to make, execute and deliver to the Delaware and Passed February 25, 1834. AN ACT to establish a new township in the county of 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 all that part of the township of Pompton, in the county of Bergen, which lies within the boundaries and de- Boundaries scriptions following, to wit: beginning at the bridge crossing the Pequanac river, on the Paterson and Hamburg turnpike road, a few rods east of Cook's hill, so called, and on the Morris county line; thence a direct course, northerly and easterly, to the mouth of a road, a few rods east of the house lately occupied by Richard G. Ryerson, running with said road a northerly course, to the New York state line; thence westwardly as far as to the Sussex line, and thence running Southardly along said line as far as to the Morris county line; thence eastwardly along said Morris county line until it reaches the bridge below Cook's Hill, being the place of beginning, shall be, and the same is hereby set off from the township aforesaid, and established a separate township, to be called and known by the name of the township of West Milford. Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants of the said township of West Milford, be, and they and their successors are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The Inhabitants of the township of West Milford, in the county of Bergen," and shall be, and are and powers. aereby in their corporate capacity invested with and entitled to the same rights, powers, privileges and authorities, and P Corpooate name |