Boundaries of CHAPTER CIV. A further supplement to the act entitled "An act to revise and amend the charter of the city of Newark," approved March eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of tract annexed the State of New Jersey, That all that part of the city of to eleventh ward. Assembly district. Newark beginning in the centre of the Morris canal, at a point formed by the intersection of the Morris canal with Sussex avenue; thence, south-easterly along the middle of the Morris canal to a point where a line extending northerly through the middle of Hudson street would strike the middle or centre of the said Morris canal, if extended; thence, southerly along the middle of Hudson street to the middle of a street called Wallace place; thence, south-easterly, along the middle of the said Wallace place to the centre of Bank street, formerly called West Bank street; thence, westerly, along the middle of Bank street to the middle of Littleton Avenue; thence, northerly, along the several courses of the easterly line of the said eleventh ward, as at present constituted, to the place of beginning, (comprising certain portions of the sixth and seventh wards of the city of Newark, as they are at present constituted, shall be and the same is hereby annexed to the eleventh ward of the city of Newark, and shall constitute hereafter, together with that portion of the city of Newark at present constituting the said eleventh ward of the city of Newark, the eleventh ward of the city of Newark, and shall be subject to all the provisions of the act constituting the eleventh ward of the city of Newark, except so far as any thing therein contained may be inconsistent herewith. 2. And be it enacted, That the eleventh ward, as herein created and constituted, shall constitute and form a part of A further supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the West Jersey Railroad Company," approved February fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of Part of former the State of New Jersey, That the nineteenth section of the act repealed. act entitled "An act to incorporate the West Jersey Railroad Company," be and the same is hereby repealed. capital stock 2. And be it enacted, That the board of directors of the Reduction of said company be, and they are hereby authorized and em- authorized. powered to reduce the capital stock of said company to such amount as shall be found necessary to construct and complete the railroads mentioned in the sixth section of the act to which this is a supplement, from Camden, in the county of Camden, to Bridgeton, in the county of Cumberland, and to provide all the necessary appendages, stock and equipage of said roads, for the carrying of freight and passengers; and when the amount of capital stock shall be so fixed and determined, a certified copy of the action of the board in the premises, under the hands of the president and secretary, and Act, when to take effect. the seal of the said company, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect so soon as the holders of two-thirds of the stock already subscribed shall signify their assent thereto, in writing, in the office of the secretary of state. Approved March 12, 1860. Preamble. Appointment of receiver. CHAPTER CVI. AN ACT to appoint a receiver for the stockholders and creditors of the American Elastic Cloth Company. WHEREAS, it is represented that the American Elastic Cloth Company, a manufacturing association established in this state, and incorporated under the act of the legislature thereof, entitled, "An act to authorize the establishment and prescribe the duties of companies for manufacturing and other purposes," approved March second, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, have become insolvent, and in consequence of such insolvency have discontinued business, and that in order to protect the interests of the stockholders and creditors of the said corporation, it is necessary that a receiver be appointed-therefore, 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That John W. Newell (the present treasurer of the said company,) be and hereby is appointed receiver of and for the said corporation, with full power and authority to take charge of the estate and effects thereof, and to collect the debts and property due and belonging to the said company, with power to prosecute and defend, in the name of the said corporation or otherwise, all such suits as may be necessary or proper for the purposes aforesaid, and to do all other acts which might be done by the said corporation, necessary for the final settlement of the unfinished business of the said corporation. pay debts of 2. And be it enacted, That the said receiver shall pay all Receiver to debts due from said corporation, in the order of their legal corporation. priority, if the funds in his hands shall be sufficient therefor, and if there shall be any balance remaining after the payment of the said debts and necessary expenses, the said receiver shall distribute and pay the same to and among those who shall be justly entitled thereto as having been stockholders of the said corporation, or their legal representatives. make report 3. And be it enacted, That the said receiver shall report Receiver to his proceedings as such to the chancellor, or the proper court of proceedings having chancery jurisdiction for the time being in this state, and the said receiver shall be subject to the orders and decrees of such chancellor or courts the same as if he had been appointed therein and thereby. 4. And be it enacted, That the said corporation be, and the corporation same is hereby annulled and dissolved. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 13, 1860. dissolved. Boundaries of township. CHAPTER CVII. AN ACT to establish a new township in the county of Burlington, to be called the township of Lumberton. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That all those parts of the townships of Medford, Southampton and Northampton, in the county of Burlington, contained within the following bounds, to wit: beginning at a station in the middle of the south branch of the Rancocas river, opposite the mouth of Mason's creek, being a corner to the townships of Medford and Evesham; thence along the division line between said townships to a stone marked T. L., on the westerly side of the road leading from Brook's bridge to Oliphant's mills; thence due east until it intersects Peacock's mill stream; thence up the middle of said mill creek to the point where it is intersected by the line dividing the farms of Aaron B. Moore and Benjamin Deacon; thence along their line a course north, fortythree degrees east, to a post in the road leading from Eayrestown to Red Lion; thence along said road north nineteen degrees and forty minutes west, seven chains and forty hundredths, to its intersection by the line between the farms of Benjamin Deacon and William Irick; thence along their line north fifty-two degrees and thirty minutes east, to a point in the middle of Eayrestown mill creek or pond; thence down the middle of said creek to its intersection by the line between the farms of J. and S. Butterworth and Joseph Roberts; thence along their line north twenty degrees and fifteen minutes east, twenty-three chains and twenty-five links, to a stone, also a corner to said Butterworth's and Roberts'; thence north seventy-two degrees and forty-five minutes east, to a stake at the end of Samuel Woolston's lane, on the east side of the road leading by Edward Black's to Shreveville; |