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Dividends.

Penalty for injuring works

Act void if road is not completed

within certain time.

State tax to be paid.

other buildings and improvements as they may deem expe dient for the safety of the property and the construction of the carriages and other necessary uses, and take and receive the rents, profits and emoluments thereof, and shall have the privilege and authority to erect, build and maintain over such streams as the road may cross, such piers, bridges and other facilities as they may deem expedient and necessary for the full enjoyments of all the benefits conferred by this act. 10. And be it enacted, That the president and directors of the said company shall declare and make such dividends as they may deem prudent and proper, from time to time, out of the net profits of said railroad.

11. And be it enacted, That if any person shall wilfully impair, injure, destroy or obstruct the use of any railroad enjoyed under the provisions of this act, or in any of their necessary works, bridges or carriages, such person or persons so offending shall forfeit and pay to the said company the sum of fifty dollars, to be by them recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in an action of debt, and further shall be liable for all damages.

12. And be it enacted, That if said railroad shall not be commenced within two years from the fourth day of July next ensuing, and completed within four years from that time, that then and in that case this act shall be void.

13. And be it enacted, That on the first day of January, after the railroad and its appendages, or any part thereof, shall be finished so as to be used, the president and treasurer of said company shall file, under oath or affirmation, a statement of the amount of the cost of said road, including all expenses, and the amount of all purchases made by virtue of this act, in the office of the secretary of this state, and annually thereafter, a like statement of all further costs and expenses from year to year; and the president and treasurer of said company shall also, under oath or affirmation, make a statement to the legislature of this state of the net proceeds of said road, on the first day of January after it shall be used, and annually thereafter; and as soon as the said railroad or any part thereof shall be put in operation, the said

corporation shall pay to the treasurer of this state, a tax of one-half of one per centum on the amount expended by said company for said road, which shall in like manner be paid. annually thereafter on the first Monday in January in each year; provided, that no other tax or impost shall be levied or Proviso. assessed upon the said company.

14. And be it enacted, That this act shall continue in force for and during the term of twenty-five years, and that the legislature may at any time, alter, modify or repeal the

same.

Approved February 22, 1860.

Limitation.

CHAPTER LXII.

Supplement to an act entitled, "An act to establish public schools."

Inhabitants authorized to

by tax.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the inhabitants of the township raise money of Monroe, in the county of Camden, are hereby authorized, required and empowered, at their annual town meetings, to raise by a poll tax of not less than one nor more than three dollars on each tax payer in said township, as a portion of the sum required to be raised for the support of public schools. 2. And be it enacted, That if at the annual district school Additional tax meetings hereafter held in the said township of Monroe, any money shall be ordered raised in addition to the money ap

for district schools.

Assessment and collection of taxes.

Collector to

pay over tax.

propriated to said district, that a portion of the same shall be raised by a tax on the poll of each taxable inhabitant of such school district, not exceeding two dollars nor less than one dollar, as a majority of said inhabitants present at such meeting shall order, and that the amount so ordered to be raised shall be certified in writing by the trustees of such school district, or by a majority thereof, to the assessor of such township of Monroe.

3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the assessor and collector of said township to assess and collect such poll taxes so ordered raised, at the same time as the township taxes are assessed and collected.

4. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the township collector to pay over said poll taxes so collected to the superintendent of said township, for the use and benefit of the public schools, on or before the twentieth day of October, in each and every year.

5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved February 22, 1860.

Additional tax

authorized in Mantua.

CHAPTER LXIII.

A further supplement to the act entitled, "An act to establish pub

lic schools."

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the inhabitants of the town

ship of Mantua, in the county of Gloucester, are hereby authorized and empowered, at their annual town meeting, to raise by poll tax, in addition to that now required by law, of not less than fifty cents, nor more than three dollars, on each tax payer in said township, a further sum in addition to the amount now required and authorized by law for the support of public schools.

sessed and

2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the as- Tax, how as sessor and collector of said township to assess and collect collected. such poll tax so ordered raised, at the same time and in the same manner as the township taxes are assessed and collected. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the town- Collector to ship collector to pay over said poll taxes so collected to the town superintendent on or before the twentieth day of November, in each and every year.

4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved February 22, 1860.

pay over taxes

CHAPTER LXIV.

A further supplement to an act entitled, "An act to incorporate the Somerville and Easton Railroad Company," passed February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.

authorized to

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Corporation the State of New Jersey, That it shall and may be lawful for extend road. the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey to extend their ·

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Company to

construct bridges.

Early morning and evening trains to be continued.

Rights of shore prejudiced.

Owners not

railroad from some point in their track in the city of Eliza-
beth, to some point or points on New York bay, in the county
of Hudson, at or south of Jersey City; and for that purpose,
in its construction and completion, maintenance, use and en-
"An
joyment, all and every provision of the act entitled,
act to incorporate the Somerville and Easton Railroad Com-
pany," and of the several supplements thereto, shall extend
and be applicable to the railroad now authorized to be con-
structed, in every respect as if the same had been originally
authorized under the said act to which this is a supplement.

2. And be it enacted, That the said railroad company shall construct a suitable bridge over any navigable water that they may cross, with a pivot draw with two openings, each of seventy-five feet in width, at right angles to the main channel, located at a point convenient for navigation; and for the safety of persons navigating the said river or water, the said company shall cause to be kept a red light at each outer side of said draw, and a white light on each inner side of said draw, which shall be lighted every evening before it grows dark, and kept lighted till daylight; and shall keep or cause to be kept at such bridge, a careful person or persons to open such draw for the free passage of vessels with standing masts; and for each and every wilful neglect to light the said lamp or lamps for one night, or to open said draw, the company shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars, to be recovered, with costs, in any court having jurisdiction thereof, by any person who shall sue for the same, within six months from the time of such neglect.

3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of said company, for the accommodation of commuters and the local travel, to continue their early morning and evening trains from and to Somerville and New York, at least as early in the morning as seven o'clock from Somerville, and as late in the evening from New York as four and a half o'clock. 4. And be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prejudice the claims of riparian shore owners, that in constructing their said railroad in the county of Hud

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