certified lists for posting and filing, provided, that in case Proviso. ings public. 7. And be it enacted, That the proceedings of the board of Proceedregistry shall be open to the public, and all persons entitled to be to the right of suffrage in the election district shall be entitled to be freely heard in relation to the revision and correction of the registry. board of 8. And be it enacted, That any member of the board of Members of registry may, at said meeting of the board, administer the register oaths and affirmations required by law for testing and de- may ser termining the qualifications of electors and their right to oaths. be registered, and that whoever shall swear or affirm falsely in relation thereto, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and suffer the punishment prescribed therefor. causing be illegally ly persona 9. And be it enacted, That any person who shall cause or Penalty for procure his name to be registered in more than one election names to district, or shall cause or procure his name to be registered, registered knowing that he is not entitled to vote in the ward or elec- or for falsetion district wherein said registry is made, at such special ting regiselection to be held therein, or who shall falsely personate any registered voter, shall be punished for each and every such offense by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court. tered voter. be preserv by the election 10. And be it enacted, That the said register, after being re- Register to vised and corrected, shall be carefully and safely preserved ed for use by the board of registry, for use by the members thereof as judges of judges of election on the day of election, and no person shall election on be allowed to vote unless his name shall be found on the day. register; and if any member of the board of registry shall refuse to register any person legally entitled to vote, or shall, at the said meeting of the board of registry, register the name of any person who shall not have appeared before the board to require the registry of his name, or be shown to have been a legal voter in the ward or district at the last preceding general election, or if, when acting as judge of election, on the day of election, shall receive the vote of any receiving person whose name shall not appear on the revised and cor- person rected register, he shall be punished, on conviction, for every whose such offence, by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, not appear or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or rected regboth, in the discretion of the court. Penalty for vote of any name shall on the cor ister. Poll list how and by 11. And be it enacted, That on the day of election the clerk whom kept. of election shall keep the usual poll list, and one of the judges shall check on the register the name of the person voting, and that after the canvass of the votes, the poll list and the register so kept and checked shall be attached together and shall, within three days thereafter, be filed with the clerk of the county, if such special election be held to fill a vacancy occurring in any office filled at general state elections, and with the city clerk, if such special election be held to fill a vacancy occurring in an office filled at annual municipal elections. Expenses how defrayed. Proviso. Eight hours to consti 12. And be it enacted, That the expenses incurred under this act shall be paid by the cities respectively to which it applies; that the clerk of election, and each of the members of the board of registry and each judge of election, shall receive three dollars per day for his services under this act; provided, that compensation shall not be paid for more than four days in respect to such election. 13. And be it enacted, That eight hours shall constitute a tute a day's day's labor on any day whereon any general or municipal election shall be held. labor. 14. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 2, 1876. disburse ing, ordering or vot CHAPTER III. A supplement to an act entitled "An Act for the punishment of crimes," approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the Penalty for State of New Jersey, That if any board of chosen freeholders, or any township committee, or any board of aldermen or ing for dis- common councilmen, or any board of education, or any board of commissioners of any county, township, city, town or bormoneys in ough, in this state, or any committee or member of any such bursement of public amount ap and limited board or commission, shall disburse, order or vote for the excess of disbursement of public moneys, in excess of the appropria- propriated tion respectively to any such board or committee, or shall by law. incur obligations in excess of the appropriation and limit of expenditure provided by law for the purposes respectively of any such board or committee, the members thereof, and each member thereof, thus disbursing, ordering, or voting for the disbursement and expenditure of public moneys, or thus incurring obligations in excess of the amount appropriated and limit of expenditure as now or hereafter appropriated and limited by law, shall be severally deemed guilty of malfeasance in office, and on being thereof convicted shall be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisonment at hard labor for any term not exceeding three years or both at the discretion of the court. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 7, 1876. CHAPTER IV. Supplement to an act entitled "An Act to authorize the appointment of a centennial board for this state, and to define its duties," approved April eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. propria 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That for the purposes contemplated in Amount of the act to which this is a supplement, the further sum of further ap ten thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid by tion." the treasurer of this state upon the warrant of the comptroller, certified by the president of the said board of commissioners. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 15, 1876. Section amended. Amendment. CHAPTER V. A supplement to an act entitled "An act to amend the law relating to the property of married women," approved the twenty-seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That section one of the supplement to the above-entitled act, which supplement was approved the fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and which section is as follows, viz: "1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That any married woman who is living in a state of separation from her husband under and by virtue of the final judgment or decree of any court, when such judgment or decree is founded upon her application for such separation, may, at any time during the continuance of such separation, convey, mortgage and lease or devise any interest, estate or right that she may have in any real property, such as came to her by gift through or from her said husband, in the same manner and with the like effect as if she were sole and unmarried," be amended by the insertion of the word "except" between the words "real property" and the words "such as," so that the said section, as amended shall read as follows, viz: "1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That any married woman who is living in a state of separation from her husband, under and by virtue of the final judgment or decree of any court, when such judgment or decree is founded upon her application for such separation may, at any time during the continuance of such separation, convey, mortgage and lease or devise any interest, estate or right that she may have in any real property, except such as came to her by gift, through or from her said husband, in the same manner and with the like effect as if she were sole and unmarried." 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 15, 1876. CHAPTER VI. A supplement to the act entitled "An Act amendatory of the act entitled 'An Act relative to sales of land under a public statute, or by virtue of any judicial proceeding,' approved April the ninth, eighteen hundred and seventyfive." sales of ered valid 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That all sales of land made by order Certain of any of the courts of this state, and advertised in full land shall conformity to the law as it existed previous and up to April be consid ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and sold between and effecthe ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and the first day of December last past, and in other respects, in the opinion of the courts fully conforming to the law, shall be considered valid and effectual. tual. land made certain times to be &c. 2. And be it enacted, That all sales of land made between Sales of the times referred to in the first section of this act, and between confirmed by any of the courts of this state, shall be valid and effectual; anything in the act of April the ninth last confirmed, to the contrary notwithstanding; and all sales made between the times referred to in the first section of this act, and not yet confirmed by the courts, and which shall have been advertised as aforesaid, and in other respects, in the opinion of the said courts, fully conforming to the law, shall be confirmed by the said courts. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 15, 1876. |