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18. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately, and shall be deemed and taken a public act. Approved February 14, 1860.

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Proviso.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

A further supplement to an act entitled, "An act to incorporate the Deckertown and Newton Turnpike Company," passed the twentyseventh day of January, eighteen hundred and fourteen.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That from and after the passage of this act it shall and may be lawful for the president, directors and company, or owner of the Deckertown and Newton Turnpike Company, to abandon all and every part of the remainder and residue of the road laid out and constructed under the act to which this is a further supplement and not abandoned by the president, directors and company under a former supplement to said act, passed February fourth, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-one, which said residue and remainder of said road not abandoned as aforesaid, crosses the Wallkill river and drowned lands near James Bessetts, and lies between the forks of the road near once the residence of the late Gideon Gould, deceased, in the township of Wantage, and the forks of the road near the house of Robert Owen, in the township of Vernon; provided, that the

said president, directors and company, or the said owners of said road shall, within three months after the passage of this act, file or cause to be filed in the office of the clerk of the county of Sussex, their assent and determination to abandon said remainder and residue of said road, under their hands and seals, and give or cause to be given a notice thereof to the town committee in each of the aforesaid townships through which the said road runs, as aforesaid, and which act of abandonment shall be recorded in the records of roads in said clerk's office.

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2. And be it enacted, That all and every part of said resi-Road aban due and remainder of said road as aforesaid, when abandoned public road. as aforesaid, shall be discharged from the operation and effect of the said act, and it shall not be lawful for the said president, directors and company, or owners of the Deckertown and Newton Turnpike Company to erect any toll-gate thereon, nor exercise any control or authority over the same, but the said road shall thereafter be deemed a public highway, and shall be worked and managed as other highways, and the bridge or bridges over said stream be repaired and built as other bridges within this state.

act repealed.

3. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts in- Part of former consistent with this act be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved February 14, 1860.

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trustees.

Proviso.

Objects of incorporation.

CHAPTER XXIX.

AN ACT to incorporate trustees for the management and care of the fund for the support of the Episcopate of the Diocese of New Jersey.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That Charles S. Olden, of Princeton, Mercer county; Daniel Dodd, of Newark, Essex county; Denning Duer, of Weehawken, Hudson county; Thomas P. Carpenter, of Camden, Camden county; John Kean, of Union township, Union county; William N. Wood, of Morristown, Morris county; Anthony Q. Keasbey, of Newark, Essex county, and their successors, being members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, be and they hereby are constituted a body corporate, by the name of "the Trustees of the Episcopal Fund of the Diocese of New Jersey," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and exercise and be clothed with the powers and privileges enumerated in the first section of the act concerning corporations, approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six; and shall be capable of taking and holding by gift, grant or bequest such property as may be necessary for the purposes of the corporation; provided, the yearly value thereof shall not exceed the sum of eight thousand dollars.

2. And be it enacted, That the object of said corporation shall be the management and care of the fund already provided, together with that which may be hereafter contributed or acquired, and any accumulation accruing thereon, for the support of the Episcopate of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New Jersey, and the appropriation of the income of the fund for that purpose, according to the directions to be from time to time given by the convention of the said church in the said diocese.

Corporation.

3. And be it enacted, That the management of the affairs omcers of and concerns of the said corporation, shall be, and hereby is, vested in seven trustees, who shall be citizens of the state and members of the Protestant Episcopal Church; the persons named in the first section of this act to be the first trustees, a majority of whom shall constitute the necessary quorum for the transaction of business; they shall hold their first meeting at the call of the trustees first named in this act, and shall appoint a president, secretary and such other officer and officers as they may deem necessary, and no act of the trustees shall be valid unless authorized by a resolution adopted at a regular meeting by the concurring vote of a majority of the whole number, and entered by the secretary in a book of minutes, to be kept as a record of their proceedings, which book shall be open to the inspection of the members, for the time being, of the convention of said church in the diocese.

conform to instructions

convention.

4. And be it enacted, That the trustees shall conform to Trustees to such instructions as may be given to them by the convention, given by not inconsistent with the purpose and design of the contributors to the fund, touching the disposition of the income of the fund; provided, such instructions be entered on the journals Proviso.: of the convention, and a certified copy of the resolution or resolutions, containing the same, be furnished to the trustees. 5. And be it enacted, That a statement of the proceedings Annual stateof the trustees, exhibiting the condition of the funds entrusted to their charge, together with an account of the receipts and disbursements, signed by the trustees, or by a majority of them, shall be made to each annual diocesan convention, immediately after the organization thereof.

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trustees.

6. And be it enacted, That the trustees may provide by-Removal of laws for the removal of a trustee for good cause; and on such removal, may, by a resolution, declare the place vacant.

7. And be it enacted, That all vacancies occurring in the Vacancies. board of trustees, shall be filled by the diocesan convention at

their next annual meeting thereafter.

Approved February 14, 1860.

Part of former act repealed.

CHAPTER XXX.

AN ACT to repeal a part of an act entitled "A supplement to the act entitled 'An act concerning inns and taverns,' approved April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six," which supplement was approved March fifteenth, 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 act entitled, "A supplement to the act entitled 'An act concerning inns and taverns,' approved April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six," which supplement was approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, as relates or applies to the townships of Belleville and Bloomfield, in the county of Essex, be and the same is hereby repealed.

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

Approved February 14, 1860.

CHAPTER XXXI.

AN ACT to authorize the Trustees of School District Number Three, Freehold township, to use public money to build a school house in said district.

Preamble. WHEREAS the Trustees of School District Number Three, in

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