recovered by the said company by action of debt or other proper action in any court of competent jurisdiction, with costs of suit; and if any person with his or her carriage, team or horses turn off the said road to pass a gate or gates, on private grounds adjacent thereto, and again enter on the said road, with intent to avoid the toll due by virtue of this act, such person or persons shall forfeit and pay three times as much as the legal toll would have been for passing through said gates, to be recovered by said company for the use thereof, in an action of debt, with costs of suit. elers. 16. And be it enacted, That if any toll gatherer shall un- Penalty for necessarily delay or hinder any traveler passing at any of delaying trav the gates and turnpikes, or shall receive more toll than is by this act established, he shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars, with costs of suit to be prosecuted by, and recovered for the sole use of the person so unreasonably hindered or defrauded. right. 17. And be it enacted, That all the drivers of the car- Drivers shall riages, sleighs or sleds, of every kind and description, whether keep to the of burthen or pleasure, or persons on horseback, using the said road, shall keep their horses, carriages, sleighs or sleds on the right hand of said road in the passing direction, leaving the other side of the road free and clear for carriages or persons on horseback, provided, a no- Proviso. tice to that effect be placed in a conspicuous place; and if any person shall offend against this provision, such person shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars to any one who shall be obstructed in his or her passage, and will sue for the same, and shall also be subject to an action for damages for every such offence, to be recovered with costs of suit. manded. 18. And be it enacted, That when the said company shall when toll have completed any two consecutive miles of said road, ac- may be decording to the directions, and true intent and meaning of this act, it shall be lawful for the said company to erect a toll gate across the said road, and demand and receive toll for travelling thereon, agreeably to the foregoing rates. 19. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 22, 1870. Preamble. CHAPTER CI. An Act to incorporate the Widow's Home. WHEREAS, the late Rachel Stevens, by her will bearing date May third, eighteen hundred and thirty nine, did provide and direct as follows, viz: "I do give and bequeath to my executors, hereafter named, the sum of one thousand dollars in trust, to erect a suitable house and accommodations upon a lot of ground in the city of Hoboken, which my children have agreed to give me in fee simple for the object of this will; and if for any cause this gift shall fail to take effect, I give to my said executors the further sum of one thousand dollars in trust to purchase a lot in the said town, on which to erect the said house, and the said house and lot together with the further sun of seven thousand dollars, I do give and devise to my said executors, and the survivors and survivor of them and their heirs, executors and administrators, in trust in the said premises; and with the neat income of the said seven thousand dollars, to support and maintain eight aged widows, not less respectively than sixty years of age, members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, or as many of them as the property and income will accommodate and maintain; the said widows to be selected by my trustees and their successors, and the said asylum to be maintained and kept up forever; and I do authorize my trustees to establish rules for the regulation of the said asylum, to invest the said seven thousand dollars in good real securities, and to call in the same and reinvest it from time to time in like manner, and also to appoint other trustees in such number as they shall think fit, and to convey and assign the said premises in such a manner as that there shall always be a sufficient number of competent persons trustees of the said asylum to attend to the same, and to effectuate the objects of my will, my intention being so to ves: the said sums in my said executors in order that if they cannot personally attend to the said trusts, they may select the trustees and convey the estate bequeathed as aforesaid to them in such manner as will best attain my purpose, for which end I give them the largest powers consistent with the end I have declared:" and whereas, Martha B. Stevens, Samuel B. Dod and William W. Shippen, the executors of the last surviving executor of the said Mrs. Rachel Stevens, in order to better fulfil said trusts, have associated as trustees with themselves Right Reverend William H. Odenheimer, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of New Jersey, and Reverend N. Sayre Harris and John C. Besson, Esquire, being the rector and one warden of the Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, and Reverend Reuben E. Howes and Frederick B. Ogden, Esquire, being the rector and one warden of Trinity Episcopal Church, of the city of Hoboken; therefore, trustees. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Names of the State of New Jersey, That the said Martha B. Stevens, Samuel B. Dod and William W. Shippen and the Bishop of the Diocese of New Jersey, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the rectors of Saint Paul's and Trinity Churches. in the city of Hoboken, and one warden from each of the said churches, shall be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the "Trustees of Corporate the Widows' Home," and by that name shall have perpetual name. succession, and may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and may purchase and hold property, whether acquired by purchase, gift or devise, and whether real, personal or mixed, and may make and have a corporate seal, and the same break and alter at their pleasure, and shall have all other rights belonging to similar corporations by the laws of this state. 2. And be it enacted, That the entire management of the affairs and concerns of the said corporation, and the corpor ate powers hereby granted, shall be vested in the above named trustees, any three of whom shall constitute the necessary quorum for the transaction of business. Management vested in trus Powers of power trustees. 3. And be it enacted, That the trustees shall have from time to time to enact by-laws, not repugnant to the constitution or laws of the United States or of this State, or to this act for the regulation and management of said charitable institution, and to declare who shall and who shall not enjoy the benefits thereof within the terms of said will before recited, and shall have power to fill up vacancies in their Ex officio officers. board which may occur by death or resignation, or any cause whatever. 4. And be it enacted, That the Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of New Jersey, shall be exofficio president of said board, and that the rectors of the aforesaid Episcopal churches shall be ex-officio members of the board of trustees, and if at any time said rectors of said churches shall cease to act, then their places may be supplied by election of such new members as may be necessary to supply their places. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 22, 1870. Authorized to property held in trust. CHAPTER CII. An Act to authorize the Stewards of the Asbury Methodist Epis copal Church, of Woodstown, New Jersey, to sell and convey certain real estate. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of sell church the State of New Jersey, That the stewards of the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, of Woodstown, New Jersey, or their successors in office, be and are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey a house and lot of land situate in the village of Woodstown, in the county of Salem, now held by them in trust as the property or for the use and benefit of the said society of the said Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, of Woodstown, New Jersey, by virtue of a deed made to them by William B. Kirby and Abigail Ann, his wife, bearing date the twenty-fifth day of March, anno domini eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and for that purpose to make, execute and deliver a good and sufficient deed of conveyance therefor, to the purchaser or purchasers of the same, and that such deed of conveyance shall be good and effectual in law. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall be deemed a public act and shall take effect immediately. Approved February 22, 1870. CHAPTER CIII. An Act supplementary to "An Act to authorize the Trustees of Haddon School District Number One to borrow money and issue bonds to build a school house," approved the thirty-first day of March, anno domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. school district may issue 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Trustees of the State of New Jersey, That the trustees of Haddon School District Number One are hereby authorized to borrow the bonds. sum of five thousand dollars, in addition to the sum of twelve thousand dollars already authorized by the act to which this is a supplement, for the purpose of finishing and furnishing the school house now being erected by them in the said district; and the said trustees are further authorized and empowered to issue bonds for securing the repayment of said moneys so borrowed to the lenders thereof, with lawful interest, with like force and effect, and under the same conditions, powers and privileges as are set forth and provided for in and by the second, third, fourth and fifth sections of the aforesaid act to which this is a supplement. 2. And be it enacted, That this supplementary act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 22, 1870. 18 |