Town clerk to be clerk of township and city. of taxation. assessor and collector shall be entitled to the lawful fees for making one assessment and collection in each year, and no more. Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That at each annual town meeting as aforesaid, one person shall be chosen according to law, as town clerk, who shall be, and perform all the duties of clerk of the said township and city, and be subject to all the provisions and regulations of the existing laws, relative to the clerks of the township and city of Trenton. Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That all appeals relative to Appeals in cases unjust assessments in cases of taxation, as well in the said township as in the said city of Trenton, shall be heard and finally determined by the common council of said city, and that so much of any act of the legislature as requires the appointment of commissioners of appeals in and for the township of Trenton, be and the same is hereby repealed. City may erect & workhouse &c. Part of act repealed. Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the common council of the city of Trenton, to erect and maintain within the said city, a workhouse distinct from the common jail, which said workhouse, when so procured and established, shall be subject to all the provisions of the second and third sections of an act of the legislature entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled an act to incorporate a part of the township of Trenton in the county of Hunterdon," passed the twenty-second day of November, eighteen hundred and eight. Passed February 28, 1834. r AN ACT to defray incidental charges. 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 it shall be lawful for the treasurer of this state, to pay the several persons hereinafter named, the following sums, viz. To John M. Cornelison for travelling expenses, viewing state lands in Bergen county, twenty dollars. To John Cook, for iron work about the state house, three dollars and twenty-five cents. To S. & T. J. Stryker, for ten cords of hickory wood, for the use of the state house, sixty dollars. To William A. Benjamin, for his bill rendered for locks, candle sticks, nails, and screws, for the state, ten dollars and thirty-three cents. To Silas Condict, for expenses and attendance three days at Trenton, on account of the state, fifteen dollars. To Henry B. Howell, for two boxes of candles, crape, baize, &c. fifty dollars and seventy-six cents. To Charles Parker, treasurer, as appears by his several receipts and vouchers; to Fayette Pierson, for printing the criminal code, one hundred and twenty-six dollars; to B. S. Disbrow, for making writing desk, for treasury office, ten dollars eighty-seven cents; letter postage, up to first of last January, two dollars and seventeen cents; Daniel Fenton, for stationary had by the legislature, prior to eleventh November last, twenty-six dollars and thirty-seven cents; John Kirkbride for Lehigh coal, sixty-five dollars; Elisha Reeves, for hickory wood, ninety dollars; Thomas Combs, for a load of charcoal, nine dollars; Charles Parker, going to, while at, and returning from Philadelphia, on business for school fund seven dollars, making an aggregate of three hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty-four cents. To B. Davenport, for a ream of paper for treasury office, four dollars and twenty-five cents. To Thomas M. Perrine, for three pieces of carpeting, fortyfive dollars and sixty-three cents. To Jasper Scott, for taking down and putting up open stove in arsenal, one dollar and fifty cents; also for repairs done to the government house, sixteen dollars twelve and a half cents. To governor Elias P. Seely, for postage on letters, concerning the state, from second of March to twenty-seventh of Oc tober, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, forty-two dollars and sixty-five cents. To William Robinson, for repairing and cleaning arms, one hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-nine cents. To Ralph Green, for work on state house, office, and yard, fifteen dollars fifty-six cents. To James Faussett, deceased, estate, for sundry articles, for state house, seventeen dollars. To C. Faussett, for sheet iron for Council room, nine dollars and fourteen cents. To Lucius Q. C. Elmer, for services, revising the criminal code, three hundred dollars. To Joseph Burroughs, for a cord of wood, five dollars and fifty cents. To William Robinson, for splitting a cord of wood, one dollar. To Andrew Reeder, for two brooms, fifty cents. To William Clark, for sawing and splitting nine cords of wood, nine dollars. To S. B. Scattergood, for carpet, putting down the same, in Council Chamber, five dollars and twenty-five cents. To Daniel H. Combs, for two boxes to keep coal in, two dollars. To James D. Westcott, for cash paid sundry individuals for iron work about the secretary of state office, and other services rendered, for which no compensation is fixed by law, thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents. To M. Johnson, for his bill for paper, quills, pencils, eightyeight dollars and thirty-seven cents. To Wilson and Newton, for glass, putty, and repairing window blind for state house, three dollars and seventy cents. To Thomas Combs, one wafer box, thirty-seven cents. To Levi Howell, for carrying state prison committee back and forth, two dollars. To Zachariah Rossell, clerk of supreme court, for stove, and putting up same in clerk's office, fourteen dollars and fifty cents. To the estate of Martin C. How, for finding and setting glass, nine dollars and thirty-seven cents. To George Sherman, for printing, as per his account rendered up to this time, eighty-two dollars and fifty cents. To Joseph Sterling, for one bushel of sand, thirty-one cents. To William Miller, for two boxes of candles and stone jug, twenty-two dollars and sixteen cents. To the adjutant-general, for postage, three dollars and seventy-six cents. To E. B. Adams, for New-Jersey Democrat, and advertising court of appeals, thirty-two dollars. To Joseph Justice, for his printing account for first sitting, and in vacation, and articles furnished state, one hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-three cents, for his printing account of the present sitting, and articles furnished state, up to this time, four hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fiftyone cents, aggregate amount six hundred, twenty-one dollars and twenty four cents. To the quarter-master general, for a building in which to keep the public arms, any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. To Daniel Bellerjeau, for five screens, ten dollars. To. J. T. Robinson and company, for papers furnished the house, thirteen dollars and fifty cents. To William Miller, for candles, one dollar and fifty-eight cents. To Enoch Green, for two locks on the gallery doors, fifty cents. To Joseph W. Scott, for revising, &c. orphans' court code of laws, five hundred dollars. To James Mason, sawing and splitting thirteen and a half cords of wood, thirteen dollars and fifty cents. To Enoch W. Green, for work done at state house, fifteen dollars sixty-one and a quarter cents. Passed February 28, 1834. JOINT RESOLUTIONS. RESOLVED, (Council concurring) that a joint committee of the two Houses be appointed for the purpose of considering the expediency of expressing the sense of this Legislature, upon the important topics now under discussion before the Congress of the United States. Passed January 10, 1834. WHEREAS, the present crisis in our public affairs, calls for a decided expression of the voice of the people of this state; AND WHEREAS We consider it the undoubted right of the le- Preamble. gislatures of the several states, to instruct those who represent their interests in the councils of the nation, in all matters which intimately concern the public weal and may af fect the happiness or well being of the people-Therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council and General Assembly of this State-1. That while we acknowledge with feelings of devout gratitude, our obligations to the Great Ruler of Nations, for his mercies to us as a people, that we have been Acknowledgpreserved alike from foreign war, from the evils of internal ment of gratitude for prosperity. commotions, and the machinations of designing and ambitious men, who would prostrate the fair fabric of our Union, that we ought nevertheless, to humble ourselves in his presence, and implore his aid for the perpetuation of our republican institutions, and for a continuance of that unexampled prospe rity which our country has hitherto enjoyed. confidence in the 2. RESOLVED, That we have undiminished confidence in the integrity and firmness of the venerable patriot who now Expression of holds the distinguished post of chief magistrate of this na- president. tion, and whose purity of purpose and elevated motives have 50 often received the unqualified approbation of a large majority of his fellow-citizens. a recharter of 3. RESOLVED, That we view with agitation and alarm the existence and gigantic power of a great monied incorpora- Disapproval of tion, which threatens to embarrass the operations of the go- the bank of the vernment, and by means of its unbounded influence upon the U. States, currency of the country, to scatter distress and ruin through Ꮓ Instructions to out the community; and that we therefore solemnly believe the present Bank of the United States ought not to be rechartered. 4. RESOLVED, That our Senators in Congress be instructed and our member of the House of Representatives be requested to sustain, by their votes and influence, the course adopted Representatives by the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Taney, in relation to the Bank of the United States and the deposites of the government moneys, believing as we do, the course of the Secretary to have been constitutional, and that the public good required its adoption. Governor to 5. RESOLVED, That the governor be requested to forward transmit copies a copy of the above resolutions to each of our senators and representatives from this state, in the congress of the United States. of these resolu tions. Passed January 11, 1834. Adherance to former resolutions. RESOLVED, by the Council and General Assembly of the state of New-Jersey, That they do adhere to the resolutions passed by them on the eleventh day of January last, relative to the president of the United States, the Bank of the United States, and the course of Mr. Taney, in removing the government deposites. RESOLVED, That the legislature of New-Jersey have not seen any reason to depart from such resolutions since the passage thereof, and it is their wish that they should receive from our senators and representatives of this state in the congress of the United States, that attention and obedience which Representatives are due to the opinions of a sovereign state, openly expressed in its legislative capacity. Desire for the Senators and to obey them. Passed February 21, 1834. RESOLVED, by the Council and General Assembly, That I. Wallace Van Doren, of New-Brunswick, be employed to print the votes and proceedings of the present session of the legislature; that he print sixteen hundred copies thereof, and be paid therefor the sum of twenty-two dollars per sheet. |