CHAPTER CLVI. AN ACT explanatory of an act entitled, "Supplement to the act entitled, 'An act relative to commissioners for taking the acknowledgment and proofs of deeds,"" approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, which supplement was approved March tenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight. WHEREAS, doubts have arisen as to whether the commission- Preamble. ers appointed under the act entitled, "Supplement to the act entitled, 'An act relative to commissioners for taking the acknowledgment and proofs of deeds,' " approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, which supplement was approved March tenth, eighteen hundred and fiftyeight, are empowered to administer oaths [or] affirmations -[therefore,] ers authorized oaths. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Commissionthe State of New Jersey, That every commissioner heretofore to administer appointed or hereafter to be appointed under and in pursuance of the said supplement mentioned in the preamble of this act, shall have full power and authority to administer an oath or affirmation as fully and to all intents and purposes as commissioners have heretofore had who were appointed under the act entitled, "An act relative to commissioners for taking the acknowledgment and proofs of deeds." 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 19, 1860. Owners authorized to build dam. Election of ⚫fficers. CHAPTER CLVII. AN act to enable the owners and possessors of the meadow, marsh and swamp lands, known as the east branch of Stoe Creek, called the Cumberland Fork, in the counties of Salem and Cumberland, to dam the same, and to erect and maintain banks, dykes, dams and water works sufficient to prevent the tide from overflowing the same. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That it shall and may be lawful for the owners and possessors of the meadow, marsh and swamp lands now under water or exposed to the overflow of the tide, and known as the east branch of Stoe Creek, called the Cumberland Fork, in the counties of Salem and Cumberland, to make and construct a dam across said creek, at such place or places as shall seem most beneficial to all parties interested, with such sluices and other water works, and of such material, character and dimensions as they may deem necessary or proper to exclude the tide from said meadows and swamp, and to drain, irrigate and otherwise improve the same; and after the said dam, banks and water works shall be so made and constructed, the same to maintain and keep in suitable and proper repair, in manner and form as hereinafter designated. 2. And be it enacted, That the owners and possessors of said meadow shall be known as the East Branch of Stoe Creek Meadow Company; and it shall and may be lawful for the said owners and possessors, their legal agents and representatives, to meet at the mill of Thomas A. Maskill, in the township of Lower Alloway's Creek, in the county of Salem, on Monday, the second day of April, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty, and between the hours of one and five o'clock in the afternoon of said day, to choose by ballot, or otherwise, and by a plurality of votes, such person or persons as they may think proper, for managers, and a treasurer and clerk, for and until the next annual meeting thereafter, and a notice to be signed by any three of the owners of said meadow, and left at the residence or dwelling of each owner, or by advertising the same in three of the most public places in the neighborhood of said meadows, at least one week previous to the time of the first meeting aforesaid, shall be considered a legal notice for said meeting, and at such election for officers the mode of voting shall be in person, or by proxy, duly executed in the following ratio: every owner of meadow in said company shall be entitled to one vote for any quantity not exceeding five acres, which he, she or they may possess, and one vote for each and every five acres not exceeding twenty acres, and one vote for each and every additional ten acres. when company and owners cannot agree. 3. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of making and Proceedings constructing said dam and water works, the said managers shall have full power to take and use any earth, mud or sod, or other material, in any part of the said meadow and marsh land, the most convenient thereto, and to have free egress and ingress for themselves and their hands and teams, through any part thereof, doing no unnecessary damage to the owner or owners thereof, and making him, her or them proper compensation therefor, to be determined by agreement of the parties; and if they cannot agree, then by two judicious and disinterested men in the neighborhood, mutually chosen by the parties, and in the event that they cannot agree upon an appraisement of the damages, then the said appraisers may choose a third person of the neighborhood, being a freeholder and disinterested, to join them therein, any two of whom agreeing, their appraisement made and certified in writing, shall be binding and conclusive to the parties; they, the said ́ appraisers, giving five days notice in writing to the parties in question of the time and place of meeting to determine said appraisement. ings may be 4. And be it enacted, That whenever the managers of said Special meetcompany, for the time being, shall deem it necessary to call a called. Compensa tion to officers. Proceedings and operations special meeting of the company, they shall give at least seven days notice thereof to its members, by advertisements, in the manner prescribed by the second section of this act, designating the time, place and object of such meeting. 5. And be it enacted, That the fees, wages or remuneration of all the officers chosen or to be chosen by the said meadow holders, shall be determined by a majority of the votes of said company at their first meeting aforesaid. 6. And be it enacted, That all the rest of the proceedings of company. and operations of said company, of every nature and kind soever, shall be performed and conducted in the same way, and under the same powers, and with the same limitations and restrictions as if this company had been created and formed under the act of the legislature of this state entitled "An act to enable the owners of tide swamps and marshes to improve the same, and the owners of meadows already banked in and held by different owners to keep the same in good repair,' passed the twenty-ninth day of November, seventeen hundred and eighty-eight, and the several supplements thereto. 7. And be it enacted, That all other acts of this state inconsistent with the provisions of this act, so far as they relate to this meadow, be and the same are hereby repealed. 8. And be it enacted, That this act shall go into effect immediately after the passing hereof. Approved March 19, 1860. CHAPTER CLVIII. A supplement to an act entitled "An act to authorize the inhabitants of school district number three, in Union township, Camden county, to raise money to build school houses, and for the support of public schools. WHEREAS, the act incorporating said school district, passed Preamble. March seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty, authorizes the trustees of said school district number three, of the township of Union, to purchase and hold real estate as may be necessary for the purpose of public school houses, and with the consent of a majority of the legal voters of said school district, sell, exchange or mortgage the same, as may be most for the benefit of said public school; and whereas, the said legal voters of the said school district did, at a public meeting duly called for that purpose, order and direct the said trustees of said district to erect and build a public school house, which house is now erected and finished-therefore, thorized to 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Trustees authe State of New Jersey, That the said "the trustees of the issue bonds. third school district of the township of Union" be authorized and empowered to issue bonds in their corporate name and under their common seal for any sum not exceeding ($4,000) four thousand dollars, redeemable in sums of ($500) five hundred dollars yearly, said bonds not to be of a less amount than one hundred dollars each, bearing interest at six per centum per annum, and not subject to taxation. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 19, 1860. |