according to the terms thereof, by the owners of the said lands and real estate on, along or opposite the said streets, highways, roads and alleys, which lie or extend on or along the boundaries of said city, on either side of said streets, highways, roads and alleys, then the proceedings against the said owners and against the said lands and real estate, whether the said lands and real estate lie within the said city or not, shall be conducted in the same manner and shall have the same effect in law and equity as if the said lands and real estate were within the limits of the said city. nuisances. 5. And be it enacted, That the city council of the city of Abatement of Camden shall have power within the limits of said city of Camden to make and establish ordinances for the abating and removal of nuisances of every kind at the expense of those maintaining the same, and to compel the owner or occupant of any lot, house, building, shed, cellar, or place wherein may be carried on any business or calling, or in or upon which there may exist any matter or thing which is or may be detrimental, in the opinion of the sanitary committee appointed by said city council, to the health of the inhabitants, to cleanse, remove, or abate the same, from time to time, under the direction of the city council, as often as the said sanitary committee may deem necessary for the health of the inhabitants of the city, at the expense and proper costs of such owner or occupant; and such owner or occupant is hereby expressly made liable for said costs and expenses, to be collected in such manner as the city council may by ordinance direct, from such owner or occupant, in addition to any fine or penalty to which he may be liable for maintaining the said nuisance. 6. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts incon- Former acts sistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 14, 1860. repealed. Foreign reports may be dence. CHAPTER CXII. AN ACT relative to Foreign Laws. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of noticed as evi- the State of New Jersey, That the reports of the judicial decisions of other states and countries, may be judicially noticed by the courts of this state, as evidence of the common laws of such states or countries, and of the judicial construction of the statutes, or laws thereof, and that the usual printed books of such reports shall be plenary evidence of such decisions. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 15, 1860. Preamble! CHAPTER CXIII. A supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Gloucester and Salem Turnpike Company. WHEREAS, the time of holding the annual meetings of the Gloucester and Salem Turnpike Company has, under the provisions of the third section of the act incorporating said company, been established on the last seventh day (Saturday) of the fifth month (May); and whereas, the time so established is inconvenient to a part of the stockholders, therefore, in cases 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the annual meetings of said company shall hereafter be held on the first seventh day (Saturday) of the sixth month (June) in each and every year. 2. And be it enacted, That whenever complaint shall Proceedings have been made, and the gate or gates shall have been ordered to be kept open in pursuance of the thirteenth section of said act, it may be lawful for said company, should they be dissatisfied with such order, to apply to any justice of the peace of the county where such alleged cause of complaint arose, (he not being in any wise interested in said road,) who shall immediately appoint under his hand and seal three of the chosen freeholders of said county, (also not interested in said road,) which said three holders, or a majority of them, one day's notice being given in writing to the party complaining, shall meet at such time and place as said justice may appoint, and having taken an oath or affirmation to act impartially, shall proceed to review said road so complained of; and if, on such review, they or a majority of them shall judge the order to open the gate or gates to be uncalled for, they shall so report to the justice appointing them, which report shall annul the previous proceeding and shall be final and conclusive, whereupon said justice shall, under his hand and seal, authorize said gate or gates to be shut and the toll collected as heretofore; but if the said freeholders, or a majority of them, shall judge said road unworthy of toll, they shall report to said justice accordingly, and said gate or gates shall remain open until said freeholders or a majority of them shall certify to said justice that said road is worthy of toll, who shall thereupon, as above directed, authorize the toll to be collected; and the same fees to justice and free⚫ holders shall be paid as are directed to be paid in section Proviso. Rates of toll. Proviso. Parts of act to apply to the Mullica Hil and Woodbury Company. thirteen of the act to which this is a supplement; provided however, that nothing in this act contained shall in any way affect the right of parties to complain in pursuance of the thirteenth section of the act above named, either before or after the award of said chosen freeholders. 3. And be it enacted, That the toll authorized to be taken in the eighth section of the act to which this is a supplement, shall be at the rate therein named for every mile or portion thereof travelled, and shall be due and payable on demand to said company or its authorized agents, although a gate or turnpike may not be passed; provided, that nothing in this act contained shall authorize said company to take toll for fractions of a mile not exceeding a half of a mile. 4. And be it enacted, That the second and third sections of this act shall apply with the same force to the Mullica Hill and Woodbury Turnpike Company. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 15, 1860. CHAPTER CXIV. A supplement to the act entitled "An act authorizing the appointment of commissioners to lay out streets, avenues and squares, in the city of Newark." ed. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Time extendthe State of New Jersey, That the time within which the commissioners appointed under and by virtue of the act to which this is a supplement, shall exercise and discharge their powers and duties, be and the same is hereby extended to five years next after the passage of this act. filed in regis 2. And be it enacted, That all maps by said act required to Maps to be be filed in the office of the clerk of the county of Essex, shall ter's office. be filed in the office of the register of deeds and mortgages of the county of Essex, instead of in the office of the clerk of said county. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 15, 1860. |