AN ACT to divorce Eliza Ward from her husband Nathan
F. Ward.

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 the marriage contract between Eliza Ward, of the township of Newark, in the county of Essex, and Nathan F. Ward, is hereby fully and absolutely dissolved, and rendered null and void.

Passed February 16, 1834.

AN ACT to enable the owners and possessors of salt meadow, lying between the Paterson and Hudson river railroad and the old dyke, known by the name of Smith's dyke, in the county of Bergen, to erect and maintain sluices and water works sufficient to prevent the tide from overflowing the

same.

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 the owners and possessors of salt meadows, lying between the Paterson and Hudson river railroad, and the old dyke, known by the name of Smith's dyke, in the county of Bergen, shall and may meet at the house of Henry Ryker, in the township of Bergen, on the first Monday in May next, at three o'clock in the afternoon of said day, and yearly thereafter, on the first Monday in May of every year, then and there, by a plurality of votes of the said owners or possessors present, personally, or by proxy, as by law hereinafter directed, to choose out of the owners, three managers for the ensuing year, or until others shall be chosen in their places; chosen. and in the case of the death, removal, inability or refusal of the said officers, or either of them to serve, it shall be lawful for any three of the owners or possessors, by public advertisement under their hands, to set up in six of the most public places in the township of Bergen, giving fifteen days notice, to call a meeting of the said owners and possessors, at the place where the annual meeting was held, and then and there, by vote, as hereinafter directed, choose one or more managers, as the case may require, who shall serve until the next unual meeting, or until others are chosen in their stead.

Managers to be

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That Henry D. Van Winkle, First managers. Abel I. Smith and Hartman Van Wagner, are hereby appointed managers, from and after the passing of this act, to manage, assess, and take charge of the aforesaid meadows, as shall hereinafter be determined, until others are chosen in their stead.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That in all cases of an election Mode of voting of officers, or for other purposes, the mode of voting shall be

for officers.

furnished with amount of acres owned by each.

in person, or by proxy, in writing duly executed, or by guardian, for his ward or wards, in the following ratio: every person owning or possessing ten acres, or any quantity less than ten acres, shall be entitled to one vote; and every person owning ten acres, and not exceeding sixty acres, one vote for every ten acres, and one vote for every additional twenty acres, though not in all to exceed ten votes in his own right; and all joint tenants and tenants in common, each owner thereof, shall be entitled to one vote in like manner as abovesaid, to the extent of his or her individual interest.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That each owner or possessor Managers to be shall, within thirty days after the passing of this act, due notice being given, furnish the managers with a statement, in writing, containing a correct account of the number of acres he or she owns or possesses within the limits above described, and if any neglect or refuse so to do, then the said managers shall report the quantity which they shall suppose him, her or them to possess upon due inquiry.

Certain sluices

may be renewed, &c.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That whereas the Paterson and Hudson River Railroad Company, by the consent and request of the owners of the meadows within the limits aforesaid, for the mutual benefit of all parties interested, have in the line of their road filled up the Pinchorn creek, and allowed and flood-gates the said owners to place two sluices and flood-gates therein for draining said meadows, and have also for the same purpose, allowed them to put a sluice and flood-gate under their road at Mill Creek-therefore be it further enacted, That the aforesaid managers, and their successors, may, from time to time, as it shall become requisite, amend, repair and renew the said sluices and flood-gates; Provided, that in so doing, no improper injury shall be done to the said railroad,. nor any unnecessary interruption be caused in the travel upon said road.

Proviso.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said managers, or any two of them, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to assess and collect from the several owners or possessors of meadows, within the aforesaid bounds, such sum or sums of money as may be necessary to defray the expense of making and completing such sluices and flood-gates as are already made, or may hereafter

be made ratably in proportion to the quantity each owner or possessor may have.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That the said managers shall, from time to time, at least once in every three months, inspect or examine the sluices or flood-gates erected, or made To examine and for the benefit of the owners of the said meadows, and shall repair sluices and flood-gates. cause or procure to be made, all such repairs and amendments, as to them, or a majority of them, shall seem requisite ; and for the defraying the expense thereof, shall assess in manner as aforesaid, and recover as is hereinafter directed.

terials for re

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said managers, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to dig and take for the purposes aforesaid, any To procure ma earth, marsh, mud or sod in any part of said meadow, most pair from any convenient and least detrimental to the owners thereof; and part of the meaalso, to employ workmen to make and construct the aforesaid works, and to purchase the materials for the purposes aforesaid; and to have free ingress and egress for themselves, their teams and workmen through any part thereof.

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That if any of the owners or possessors shall refuse or neglect to pay any sum or sums of money assessed as aforesaid, for the space of thirty days after notice to him, her or them given, or left at their usual place of abode, it shall and may be lawful for the said managers, or any two of them, in their own names, to recover the amount thereof in an action of debt, in any court having cognizance thereof, and to give the said assessment and this act in evidence.

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Amount of as

sessment may be recovered

from owners.

Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That the managers appointed by virtue of this act, and those that shall hereafter be chosen, shall be entitled to one dollar per day, for each and Pay of managers every day, they or either of them respectively, shall be employed in discharging the duties herein enjoined.

keep books of

Sec. 11. And be it enacted, That the said managers shall Managers to provide, at the expense of the said meadow owners and pos- keep sessors, a suitable book, in which shall be entered all assessments made and collected by the managers aforesaid, and shall, at every annual meeting, produce and lay before the voters, the same for their inspection; and shall also provide at the expense aforesaid, another book, in which the said managers shall enter all their proceedings, and a just and true account of all the money they may receive and spend, and shall, at every annual meeting, exhibit the same, with their vouchers, to the voters, and shall deliver over all moneys, if any in their hands, together with the said books, and all other papers belonging to them as managers, to their successors, and on default thereof, and for every wilful neglect Penalty for neof any part of their several duties prescribed by this act, they, glecting duty. the said managers, shall forfeit and pay for a breach of their

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trust, and such wilful neglect of their duty, the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered by action of debt, in any court. having competent jurisdiction, with costs of suit, by either or any of the owners or possessors aforesaid; and the said managers shall be accountable for any money remaining in their hands at the end of every year; and if they refuse to pay over such balance to their successors, then, and in that case, their successors in office shall sue for and recover the same, in an action of debt, with costs of suit, in any court having competent jurisdiction.

Sec. 12. And be it enacted, That if any person shall wilfully damage or injure the said sluices or gates, constructed as heretofore directed, he, she or they shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay fifty dollars, to be recovered with costs of suit, in any court having competent jurisdiction; and the managers, for the time being, are enjoined and authorized to prosecute said action, in their names, or in the names of any two of them, and to apply the money, so recovered and received, to repairing the work so injured.

Sec. 13. And be it enacted, That if in the opinion and judgment of the majority of the owners in value of the said marsh, it would be more beneficial to the meadows, within the said tract, to leave open, during the winter or other season of the year, the sluice-gates, then, and in that case, it shall and may be lawful for the said managers so to do; provided always, it shall and may be lawful for the legislature of this state, at any time hereafter to alter, modify or repeal this act whenever in their opinion the public good shall require it. Passed February 18, 1834.

AN ACT to declare the boundary line between the towns ships of Frankford and Wantage, in Sussex county.

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the Boundary line. same, That the boundary line between the townships of Frankford and Wantage, shall begin at the southeast corner of Joseph Dennis' plantation, which is now the reputed beginning corner of said townships, designated by a heap or pile of stones, on a course south six degrees and thirty minutes west, distant nine chains and seventy eight hundredths, from the south corner of Jesse Dennis' dwelling-house; also, on a

course south sixty-nine degrees and fifteen minutes east, distant eight chains and seventy-nine hundredths, from the south east corner of John Clay's dwelling-house, and also on a course seventy-two degrees and fifteen minutes east, from the southeast corner of Obadiah Pellet's dwelling-house; the east corner of Beemer meeting house, bearing north nineteen degrees thirty minutes east, and the west corner of Deckertown meeting-house, bearing north forty degrees fifteen minutes east; and from the aforesaid heap or pile of stones, bearing north thirty-two degrees west, till it arrives at the Blue Mountain, to what is called the White Rocks, so on till it arrives at the northwesterly boundary of the said townships of Frankford and Wantage; provided always nevertheless, that this act shall not affect any taxes or assessments heretofore made or imposed, but the same shall be collected and applied in the same manner, as if this act had not passed.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That an act entitled "An act to Repeal of fordeclare the boundary line between the townships of Wantage mer act. and Frankford, in Sussex county," passed November sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Passed February 18, 1834.

A FURTHER AND ADDITIONAL SUPPLEMENT to the act entitled" An act to incorporate the Georgetown and Franklin Turnpike Company," passed February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixteen.

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 William T. Rogers, Robert Bayles and John Gulick, Esquires, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners in the room of the commissioners named in an additional supplement to the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Georgetown and Franklin Turnpike Company," which said additional supplement was passed February the twentyfifth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight; and the said commissioners herein named, are hereby authorized to alter the width of the whole, or any part of the said road, named in of the road. and authorized to be altered by said additional supplement, as to them shall appear expedient, and that they make report as directed by the original act to which this is a supplement ;

Commissioners to alter the width