Proviso. Majority of stock to be structure whatsoever, or anything appertaining to the works of said corporation, or whereby the same may be stopped, obstructed or injured, the person or persons so offending, shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof convicted, shall be punished by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or imprisonment at hard labor not exceeding two years, or both; provided, such criminal prosecution shall not in anywise impair the right of action for damages by a civil suit, which said civil suit is hereby authorized to be brought for any such injury as aforesaid, by and in the name of the said corporation, in any court of this state having cognizance of the same. 9. And be it enacted, That two-thirds of the stock of the held in Mon- said corporation shall be owned by stockholders resident in the county of Monmouth in this state. mouthcounty. 10. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 14, 1860. Former ac amended. CHAPTER CIX. A supplement to an act entitled, "An act to incorporate the Hightstown and Perrinesville Turnpike Company," approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That so much of the sixth section of the act to which this is a supplement as contain the following words, to wit, "along the road known as the Hightstown and Perrinesville road, commencing at the store-house of William H. Mount, in the county of Monmouth, and following said road as near as may be to the intersection of the same with the Clarksburgh road; thence along and across lands of Wesley Sill, Benjamin Gordon, William Hutchinson, to a point on the old road near the corner of Daniel Hutchinson's land; thence on the old road to the corner of lands of John Dey and Fielder and Mount; thence in a direct line to the old red bridge, near the village of Milford," be stricken out, and therein inserted the following words, "commencing at the store-house of William H. Mount, in the county of Monmouth; thence to the village of Milford, by such courses as the commissioners and citizens residing upon the route may agree for such road to be constructed." 2. And be it enacted, That this act may take effect immediately. Approved March 14, 1860. CHAPTER CX. A supplement to the act entitled, "An act to incorporate the Millville and Glassboro' Railroad." Company att 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the Millville and Glassboro' thorized to extend road. Proviso. Company authorized to mortgage part of road. Railroad Company are hereby authorized and empowered to extend their railroad from its present terminus at Millville, in the county of Cumberland, to any point on or near Cape Island, in the county of Cape May, and for that purpose the said company shall be and they hereby are invested with all the rights, powers, authorities and privileges given and granted by their said original act of incorporation, the same as if the power of thus extending said railroad to Cape Island had been thereby conferred; and they are hereby subjected to all the duties, limitations, liabilities and restrictions contained in their said act of incorporation; provided always, that in case of an appeal from the decision of any commissioners who may be appointed to estimate or appraise the value of any land or material taken for the construction of said railroad, and the damages which the owner or owners thereof will sustain thereby, brought by such owner or owners, it shall be lawful for said company to proceed with the construction of their said railroad, and take said land or materials therefrom, by depositing the sum awarded by said commissioners, with the costs, with the clerk of the circuit court, to which said appeal may be made, to be applied to the payment of any judgment that may be obtained upon such appeal in said circuit court, or to the payment of such owner or owners, in case the said appeal should be withdrawn or abandoned, or otherwise discharged. 2. And be it enacted, That in case the Millville and Glassboro' Railroad Company accept this supplement, that it be authorized to receive subscriptions to that part of the road from Millville to Cape Island to enable them to make it, and to mortgage that part of the road on the same terms as they are authorized to mortgage the road from Millville to Glassboro', and further, that it be authorized to keep separate accounts, both of construction and running expenses, to enable it to discriminate between the two parts of their road, and to divide on the profit of each part to their respective stockholders, and the accounts shall be so kept and the management so conducted that in no case shall the road south of Millville be responsible for that north of Millville, nor that north of Millville be responsible for that south of the same; provided, that the rates for transportation of passengers or Proviso. merchandise shall be the same per mile upon both of the said sections of said road; provided also, that the said company Proviso. shall refund to the West Jersey Railroad Company the amount of tax assessed upon their charter by the state. Approved March 15, 1860. CHAPTER CXI. A further supplement to "An act to incorporate the city of Camden," approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty. order drains to 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Council may the State of New Jersey, That whenever a majority in value be made. of the landholders along any street or alley in the city of Camden shall desire a culvert and drain constructed through and along the same, the city council, on petition of said owners, may order and direct the same to be done, and in what manner it shall be done, and may appoint one or more discreet and skillful persons to superintend the work. paid. 2. And be it enacted, That the costs or expenses of doing Expenses of said work shall be paid out of any moneys in the hands of work, how the treasurer of the city, and when so done the city council shall cause a particular statement and account of the said Openings into culverts or drains. Provisions of former act tead. costs of performing the said work as aforesaid to be filed with the clerk of said city, and the proportion of each lot or parcel of land, and the expense of performing the said work as aforesaid, shall remain a lien upon the real estate in said street or alley, from the time of performing said work until paid and satisfied; and the said city council may collect the costs and expenses of said work in the same manner as they are now authorized to collect from the owner or owners of real estate the costs and expense of grading, paving, graveling, &c., the streets, as prescribed in the thirty-third section of an act to which this is a supplement, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Camden," approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty. 3. And be it enacted, That the city council shall have power to regulate by ordinance in what manner individuals and corporations shall make openings into the culverts or drains, and to enact fines and penalties for injuries done to the same. 4. And be it enacted, That from and after the passage of where to ex this act the thirty-second and thirty-third sections of the act to which this is a supplement, and all the provisions thereof as are by this act repealed, shall extend and apply in all things to the streets, highways, roads and alleys which lie or extend on or along the boundaries of the said city of Camden, (to the extent that the same lie or extend on or along the said boundaries,) and to the lands and real estate lying on or along or opposite said streets, highways, roads or alleys, on either side, whether the said lands and real estate lie within the limits of said city or not, and to the owners of said lands and real estate, as fully and with the same effect as the said sections, and the provisions thereof, do or may apply to the streets, highways, roads and alleys which lie and are wholly within the limits of said city, and to the lands and real estate lying on or along or opposite the same, and wholly within the limits of said city, and to the owners of said last mentioned lands and real estate; and that should the provisions of the said sections not be complied with and observed |