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21. And be it enacted, That the said company shall have company may power to connect with any other railroad now or hereafter other roads. built and established by any company incorporated by the legislature of the state of New Jersey, upon such terms and conditions as shall be agreed between them, and not inconsistent with their respective charters; provided, that no railroad Previso. company shall charge more than two cents for each passenger passing over the line of the said the Newark and Clinton Horse Car Railroad Company for passage over any railroad in the city of Newark, from said boundary line between the township of Clinton and city of Newark to any depot in said city of any railroad company now or hereafter established on any point on said railroad in said city between said boundary line and said depot, nor more than two-fifths of the price charged by any such railroad company for freight for each ton of merchandize or property carried over the line of the railroad of the said the Clinton and Newark Horse Car Railroad Company.

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

Approved March 22, 1860.

Commissioners to erect

prison.

CHAPTER CCXXVI.

AN ACT making an appropriation to enlarge the state prison.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of wing to state the State of New Jersey, That Silas H. Kitchel, William V. Ward, William P. McMichael, Jonathan Pickel, and Joseph Cunningham, state prison inspectors, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized to erect and construct, by contract with some competent person or persons to erect and construct a wing, with additional cells, to the state prison, of the size, plan and specifications submitted by the joint committee on state prison accounts last year, to the inspectors of the state prison; the said plans, specifications and contracts to be first submitted to the governor and chancellor, and by them approved, before having force or effect.

Commission

ers to advertise for proposals.

Proviso..

Treasurer to

pay amount of contract to commission

ers.

2. And be it enacted, That before making any contract, said commissioners shall advertise in four daily newspapers, one in the city of Trenton, one in the city of Camden, one in the city of Newark, and one in the city of Paterson, at least four weeks, for proposals, and the contract for building said wing shall be given to the lowest bidder or bidders who will give satisfactory security for the completion of the contract; provided, that neither of the commissioners herein named shall be in any wise interested in the contract to be given out or in furnishing materials or doing the work.

3. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the treasurer of this state, upon the warrant of the governor, to pay out on the order of the persons named in the first section of this act, or a majority of them, at such times and in such sums, as they or a majority of them may order, and in proportion as the work shall advance, the amount of the contract, which in the aggregate shall not exceed seventeen thousand dollars, and the accounts to be audited according to law.

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4. And be it enacted, That said commissioners shall re-compensaceive for their services the same pay per diem as now allowed missioners. them by law as inspectors for each day they shall be actually engaged in superintending the work; provided, that no pay Proviso. as state prison inspectors shall be allowed said commissioners for any day they shall act as such commissioner.

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

Approved March 22, 1860.

CHAPTER CCXXVII.

A further supplement to an act concerning roads, approved April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and the several supplements thereto.

WHEREAS, excessive damages have in many instances been preamble. assessed on land or real estate taken for roads, under the provisions of the acts to which this is a supplement,

make assess

ages.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Surveyors to the State of New Jersey, That hereafter whenever any road ment of damor highway shall be laid out or altered by the six surveyors, or a majority of them, mentioned in the acts to which this is a further supplement, the said surveyors shall immediately thereafter make an assessment of the damage, if any, the owner of any land or real estate other than the applicant or

Parties ag grieved may

appeal.

Notice of application to be given.

Owners of

land may recover amount

applicants for such road will sustain by laying out or altering the same, over and above the advantage that will in their judgment accrue to said owner.

2. And be it enacted, That if any township committee, or any applicant for a private road, or any owner of land or real estate so taken, as aforesaid, shall be dissatisfied with the assessment of said surveyors, they may within twenty days after the return of said surveyors shall be filed in the clerk's office of the court by which they were appointed, file their notice of appeal therefrom in said office; after which, the said appellants may apply to the next term of said court, and in case the next term shall begin in less than twenty days after the surveyors' return was made, they may apply to the next succeeding term, which court shall appoint three disinterested chosen freeholders of the county or counties in which the road shall lie, always having regard to the chosen freeholders of the townships nearest to said road, to review the assessment made by the said surveyors, and lessen, increase or confirm the same as to them, after taking into consideration the advantage and disadvantage that will accrue to said owner, shall seem fit and just; and the report of the said three chosen freeholders, or a majority of them, made in writing under their hands, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county in which the lands taken shall lie, and shall be final and conclusive to the parties interested.

3. And be it enacted, That the party intending to make the application mentioned in the second section of this act shall give ten days' notice in writing to the other party, stating the objects of the said application, and the time and place of making the same; and the chosen freeholders appointed shall meet upon a like notice, and shall be duly sworn faithfully and impartially to execute the duties imposed upon them by this act before they enter upon the discharge thereof.

4. And be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall be held to prevent the review by chosen freeholders, or the of assessment. laying out or altering of any public or private road as heretofore, and the owner of such land shall be entitled to recover

the amount of the assessment made in his or her favor, without cost, in any court of competent jurisdiction, of any person made by this act liable therefor; the above act shall apply to all counties in the state, except such counties which the supplement to the act of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine does now or may hereafter apply.

repealed.

5. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts incon- Former acts sistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved March 22, 1860.

CHAPTER CCXXVIII.

AN ACT concerning manufacturing corporations.

general and

may be issued

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Certificates of the State of New Jersey, That any corporation which is now, special stock or that may be hereafter established, by or under the laws of this state, for the purpose of carrying on any kind of manufacture, shall have power to create and issue certificates for two kinds of stock, namely: general stock and special stock; that the special stock shall at no time exceed one half the actual capital paid in, and shall be subject to redemption, at par, at a fixed time, to be expressed in the certificates therefor; and the holders of such special stock shall be entitled to receive, and the said corporation shall be bound to pay

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