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State tax to be paid.

manner injure, impair, or obstruct the channel of the said river, or any walls, wings, or other erections made by the said company for the improvement of the navigation thereof, or the wharves, slips, piers, or other erections made by said corporation, or any of their boats, engines, or machinery, or shall in any manner interfere with, violate, or infringe upon any of the privileges or franchises herein granted or conferred upon the said corporation, such person or persons so offending shall forfeit and pay to the said corporation the sum of one hundred dollars, for each and every offence, to be recovered as debts of like amount are recoverable by law, and shall also be liable to double the amount of damages sustained thereby, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Section 11. That this act shall continue in force for thirty years, and no longer.

Section 12. That the said company shall pay a bonus of one-half of one per centum on the capital stock of said company, and that this act shall not take effect until it shall receive the concurrence of the legislature of New Jersey.

JOHN M. THOMPSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives, pro tem.

WM. M. FRANCIS,

Speaker of the Senate.

Approved the twentieth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

WM. F. PACKER.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH,
HARRISBURG, March 20, A. D. 1860.

Pennsylvania, 88.:

I do hereby certify that the foregoing and an[L. S.] nexed is a full, true, and correct copy of the original act of the general assembly, as the same remains on file in this office.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the secretary's office to be affixed, the day and year above written.

WM. M. HIESTER,

Secretary of the Commonwealth.

CHAPTER CCII.

A supplement to the act entitled "An act to increase the revenues of the state of New Jersey," approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, fixing the transit duty to be paid by the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company, on commuting passengers.

Transit duties

tion tickets.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of an commutathe State of New Jersey, That the transit duty hereafter to be paid by the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company, on commutation tickets from Trenton to New York shall be six per cent. on the amount received from such commutation or season ticket passengers from Trenton to New York and returning.

2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 22, 1860.

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Opening and closing of polls

Parts of for

mer act repealed.

CHAPTER CCIII.

A supplement to the act entitled "An act to authorize the inhabitants of the township of Rahway, in the county of Essex, to vote by ballot at their town meetings," approved April fifth, eighteen hundred and forty-five.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That at all town meetings hereafter to be held in the township of Rahway, (formerly in Essex, now in Union county,) the polls shall be opened at eight o'clock in the morning and close at seven o'clock in the evening.

2. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 22, 1860.

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A supplement to the act entitled, "An act to consolidate the Bergen Point and Staten Island and Constable's Hook and New York Ferry Companies," approved March twenty-third, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-nine.

meucement

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Time for comthe State of New Jersey, That the Bergen Point, Staten Island of ferry. and New York Ferry Company shall not be required to establish and commence running their ferry across Kill Van Kull until the Jersey City and Bergen Railroad Company shall have constructed their railroad to Bergen Point, and that all powers and franchises granted in the acts to incorporate the companies consolidated by the act to which this is a supplement, and by said supplement, shall be vested in said consolidated company, and shall remain in them, notwithstanding any failure to establish or commence said ferry before that time; provided, it be then established and com- Proviso. menced, and said consolidated.company are hereby authorized and required to establish said ferry at the termination of said road on Kill Van Kull.

mer act repealed

2. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts incon- Parts of forsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 22, 1860.

Rates of toll.

Proceedings in case road

are not kept

in repair.

CHAPTER CCV.

A further supplement to the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Cape Island Turnpike Company," approved March first, eighteen hundred and fifty-one.

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 said company to demand and receive toll for traveling on the road of the said company for a less distance than one. mile, at the same proportionate rate which they now have by their charter the right to demand and receive for traveling a mile.

2. And be it enacted, That if the said company shall not and briges keep their turnpike road, or any bridge or bridges thereon in repair, any person or persons aggrieved thereby may make complaint thereof, in writing, to any judge of the common pleas of the county of Cape May, the said judge of the common pleas shall thereupon, by order in writing, designate a time and place when and where he will proceed to appoint three disinterested freeholders of the county of Cape May, who shall act as commissioners with the powers hereinafter mentioned, a copy of which order for the appointment of said commissioners shall be served either on the president, secretary, treasurer, or any keeper of any toll gate of the said company within the county of Cape May, five days prior to the time so designated; upon production of proof of service of such order in manner aforesaid to said judge of the common pleas, he shall thereupon, at the time and place so designated, appoint by writing, under his hand, three disinterested freeholders of the county of Cape May aforesaid; the said freeholders, having had notice of such appointment, shall thereupon fix a time and place when and where they shall meet, which place of meeting shall be in the city of Cape Island; the said commission

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