CHAPTER LXX. Supplement to an act entitled, "An act to authorize the inhabitants of the township of Westfield, in the county of Union, to vote by ballot at their township meetings." the highways by ballot. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Overseers of the State of New Jersey, That the overseers of the highways: to be elected of the several road districts in the township of Westfield, in the county of Union, shall be elected by the legal voters of the several districts as they may be arranged from time to time by the township committee in the said township; and for the purpose of carrying this provision into effect it shall be the duty of the township committee of the said township to give public notice of the time and place of holding the first district road meetings under this act, and which meeting shall be held on the Saturday next previous to the annual town meeting in said township, and shall cause notice thereof to be posted up in some conspicuous place in such district at least five days before the time of holding any such meeting, which shall be some convenient place in the district, where and when the legal voters in the township residing in such road district shall assemble for the purpose of such election, and at which time and place such legal voters assembled having been called to order by any legal voter of the road district, shall proceed viva voce, by the holding up of hands or by count, to elect a moderator of such meeting by plurality of votes, and being so organized the meeting shall proceed as in the election of moderator, to elect an overseer of the highway of such road district; the moderator of each district meeting shall notify the township committee at their first meeting after such election, in writing, of the election of such overseer, and in case of the failure of any district to elect an overseer, or of the person so elected to accept of the appoint District road meetings. ment, the township committee shall fill such vacancy, and shall furnish a list of the names of said overseers of the highways so elected or appointed to the clerk of the township, and it shall be his duty to publish the same, with the names of the officers and proceedings of said first town meeting after the election of said overseers. 2. And be it enacted, That all subsequent district road meetings in said township shall be called by the overseers of the respective road districts, upon notice posted up in some conspicuous place in such road district, at least ten days before the time of holding such meetings, and all such subsequent district road meetings shall be held on Saturday preceding the annual town meeting in said township, and should the overseer of any district fail to call such meeting, or the individual elected refuse to accept such appointment, or in case of a vacancy arising from another cause the township committee shall fill such vacancy, and cause the names of the persons so elected or appointed to be published as aforesaid. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall go into effect immediately. Approved February 28, 1860. CHAPTER LXXI. A further supplement to the act entitled, "An act to incorporate the Hudson County Mutual Insurance Company." of former act 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Third section the State of New Jersey, That the third section of the act amended. entitled, "An act to incorporate the Hudson County Mutual Insurance Company," passed February eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-two, be so amended that all the affairs, property, and concerns of the said company shall be managed and conducted by twenty-one directors, one-third of whom shall form a quorum, all of whom shall be residents of the state of New Jersey, but a majority of whom shall be residents of the county of Hudson, who shall hold their office for one year, and until others shall be chosen, and a majority of whom shall have qualified in their place. amended. 2. And be it enacted, That the fourth section of the said Fourth section act be so amended as to authorize the officers and agents mentioned in said section to hold their offices until others have been chosen and qualified in their place. 3. And be it enacted, That so much of the act to which this is a supplement as is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. Part of former act repealed., take effect... 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect on the Act, when to fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty. Approved February 28, 1860. Preamble. CHAPTER LXXII. AN ACT to confirm certain deeds made by Joseph L. Cory, surviv ing executor of the last will and testament of Joseph Line, late of the township of New Providence, in the county of Essex, (now Union,) deceased. WHEREAS, it has been made to appear that Joseph Line, late of the township of New Providence, deceased, duly made and published his last will and testament, and duly executed, to pass real estate, and bearing date the eleventh of October, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and therein did appoint Joseph L. Cory and John Littell his executors, and the said John Littell having died shortly after, or before the proving of said will, the said Joseph L. Cory duly proved said will, and took upon himself the burthen of the execution thereof, and the said testator, in and by his said will, among other matters, did provide as follows: "Item -It is my will that the residue of my estate, both real and personal, not previously disposed of or bequeathed, be divided into three equal parts, the lands to be considered in quality and quantity, and to be left in trust in the hands and care of my executors, to be disposed of as follows, viz: the use and profits of one equal third part of the aforesaid residue so divided to be yearly and every year paid, on demand, to my daughter, Nancy Cory, the wife of Noah Cory, for her support during her life, and at her death to be divided equally among her children;" and whereas, by virtue of said devise to Nancy Cory and her children, there was duly set off to her of the said residue of the real estate of the said testator, the following named several tracts or lots of land, to wit: one lot of land in the township of Warren, in the county of Somerset, containing ten acres, one lot of land in the township of Westfield, containing eleven acres, two lots of land in the township of Warren aforesaid, adjoining each other, and each containing six acres, two lots of land in the township of Morris, in the county of Morris, one of them containing three acres, the other containing four acres, and also the undivided twothirds part of another lot of land in the township of Morris aforesaid, containing fifty-four hundredths of an acre; also one other lot of land, situate in the township of Westfield aforesaid, containing twenty hundredths of an acre, the metes and bounds of said several lots are particularly described in the several deeds of conveyance hereinafter mentioned; and whereas the said Nancy Cory enjoyed the use and profits of the said several lots of land during her life, pursuant to the devise in said will, and she departed this life on or about the third day of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, leaving surviving her Hannah C. Marsh, wife of Nathan Marsh, Aaron Cory, Phebe W. Parkinson, wife of Aaron Parkinson, Eliza Ann Cory, and the said Joseph L. Cory, her children, also two grand-children, viz.: Alexander Cory and Sarah E. Robinson, wife of Rossitter Robinson, the children of her deceased son, Ezra Cory, the said children and grand children all being, at the time of the decease of Nancy Cory, of lawful age; and whereas the said Joseph L. Cory, as such executor as aforesaid, shortly after the decease of the said Nancy Cory, by and with the consent and approbation of said children and grand-children, and at their request, sold at public auction the land and real estate which was set off for the use of Nancy Cory during her life as aforesaid, under the apprehension and belief that by virtue of the said will of Joseph Line, deceased, he had a right to sell and convey in fee the same, and after such sale he, the said Joseph L. Cory, made deeds to the purchasers thereof, as follows, to wit: the lot of ten acres in the township of Warren was sold and conveyed to Wallace Vail, of the township of Plainfield, by deed recorded in the clerk's of fice of Somerset county, in book X, number two of deeds, |