Notice to be given of first meetings. pointment, the township committee shall fill such vacancy; the overseers of the highway shall account to and settle with the township committee, as required to do by law. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the district road township committee as is required by the second section of this act, to give notice of the time and place of holding the first district road meetings under this act, and they shall cause notice thereof to be posted up in some conspicuous place in such district at least five days before the time of holding such meeting. Subsequent meetings, 4. And be it enacted, That all subsequent district road how called. meetings shall be called by the overseers of the respective districts, upon notice posted up in some conspicuous place in such road district at least ten days from the time of holding such meeting, and all subsequent district road meetings shall be held on the Saturday preceding the annual town meetings, and should the overseer of any district fail to call such meeting, or the individual elected refuse to accept said appointment, or in case of a vacancy arising from any other cause, the township committee shall fill such vacancy. Officers of election. Elections, how conducted. 5. And be it enacted, That the judges of election elected at the last or any future town meeting, shall preside at and conduct the election at the next ensuing annual town meeting, and the clerk of the said township shall be the clerk thereof. 6. And be it enacted, That the election shall open at ten o'clock in the morning and close at three o'clock in the afternoon of said day, and be conducted in the same manner and be subject to the same rules as elections for state and county officers are or shall be, and the same duties. shall devolve upon the judge of election and the clerk as are to be performed by the board of election and the clerk in other elections, they shall take the same oath or affirmation as far as applicable, be invested with the same powers and be liable to the same penalties, the same qualifications for voters shall be required, and the result ascertained in the same manner, and stated according to law. &c., how 7. And be it enacted, That a plurality of votes shall be Vacancies, sufficient to elect any officer, or to fix the place of holding supplied. the town meetings, or the state and county elections, but a majority of all the votes cast shall be required to determine an amount of money to be raised or specified, and in case there shall be a neglect or failure to elect any officer by the town meeting, or to fix the place of holding the next town meeting, or state and county elections, or in case of the refusal of any person elected to accept of the appointment, or if a vacancy occurs from any other cause, or in case two or more have an equal number of votes for the same office, the town committee shall, at their next meeting thereafter, fill such vacancy, determine upon such place, elect between those having an equal number of votes, and determine the amount or sum to be raised or specified, unless they shall deem a special town meeting for these purposes advisable, and in that case shall have power to call such special meeting as now provided by law. keep record ings. 8. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the township shall Clerk to be the clerk of the township committee, and shall keep a of proceedbook of minutes of the proceedings of said committee, which shall at all times be open to the inspection of the voters of said township, and when the township committee shall fill a vacancy, or elect, in case of a tie between candidates, they shall immediately notify the person or persons so appointed or chosen, and transmit a statement thereof to the clerk of the county. township to be filed. 9. And be it enacted, That the reports of the township Reports of committee, the overseers of the poor, and town superin- committee tendent of public schools shall be presented to the township committee, and filed and preserved by the town clerk: in posting up the list of officers elected, as required by law, the clerk shall add thereto the result of the election in other particulars; the first election under this act shall be held at the place appointed at the last town meeting, and all special town meetings at the place of holding the last preceding annual town meeting; the same ballot box shall be used at the town meeting, and provided by the clerk, which is used at the state and county elections; the judges of election, and clerk, shall receive the same compensation for attending any town meeting, as for attending a state or county election, and the township committee may allow the clerk such compensation for the additional duties required by this act, as they may deem reasonable. 10. And be it enacted, That this act shall go into effect immediately. Approved March 1, 1859. Receipts, &c., may be recorded. CHAPTER XV. AN ACT authorizing the receipts and discharges of Commissioners, 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, It shall be lawful for every commissioner ordered to sell lands or real estate, receiver, master in chancery, or trustee, who, in the due and lawful execution of the trust reposed in him, shall pay any share or shares or sums of money to any person entitled by law to receive the same, his, her or their executors, adminis trators or legal representatives, to have the receipts and discharges therefor recorded in the surrogate's office of the county where he resides, or where the property relating to the trust reposed in him, was situate, in the book, required by the thirty-fourth section of the act entitled, “An act respecting the orphans' court and the power and authority of surrogates," approved April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, to be kept by the surrogate for the record of receipts and discharges; provided, that Proviso. the same be first proved or acknowledged in the manner that deeds of conveyance of land are by law required to be proved and acknowledged; and the provisions of said section of said act shall in all things apply to the receipts and discharges hereby authorized to be recorded, and to the record thereof. Approved March 1, 1859. CHAPTER XVI. AN ACT to incorporate the Cedar Hill Cemetery Association, at Millstone, in the county of Somerset. corporators. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Names of the State of New Jersey, That Ernestus Schenck, Joseph Howell, John V. A. Merrell, John V. D. Hoagland, Jos. H. Olcott, Peter N. Beekman, Peter P. Wortman, and such other What land may be held. 2. And be it enacted, That the said association shall have power to take and hold a lot or tract of land in fee, situate near the village of Millstone, in the county of Somerset, and state of New Jersey, and now assigned and laid out by the parties aforesaid for such cemetery, a plot of which shall be recorded or filed in the clerk's office of the county of Somerset, with a certified copy of this act, on or before the first day of April next, together with such other lands as the said corporation may hereafter purchase for the purpose aforesaid, not to exceed in the whole ten acres; the plots of such additional lands, and the deed or deeds of conveyance shall be recorded in said office, and the said corporation shall hold such tract or tracts of land for the uses hereinafter mentioned, that is to say: First.-The said corporation and their successors may sell or otherwise dispose of, by good and sufficient deeds of conveyance, any part or parts of sub-lots of said tract or tracts of land in said cemetery for burial lots, and take the proceeds of such sale or other disposition to their only proper use and behoof. Secondly. That the several parts of sub-lots of such tract or tracts of land shall be conveyed to the several purchasers thereof, when paid for, in fee, by deed, under the corporate seal of said corporation, and signed by the president and secretary thereof, to be occupied only as burial places for the interment of deceased human beings, with the uses and privileges of all the avenues and walks, and other accommodations in said cemetery, subject to such regulations and restrictions as have been or may be established by said association in relation to the same, by any by-law or ordinance of said corporation. Thirdly.—That the business and concerns of said corporation shall be conducted by a board of managers, consisting of seven persons, who shall be residents of this state; and that the persons named in the first section of this act shall be the first managers of said corporation, and shall have the power to lay out and ornament said grounds, erect fences, and such other accommodations as may in |