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appears that said Garret S. Boice thereafter removed his residence out of said fifth ward, and after such removal, from ignorance of the laws of this state, continued to take acknowledgments and proofs, by reason of which defective acknowledgments and proofs innocent persons may be subject to great loss-therefore,

ments of

to be valid.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Acknowledg the State of New Jersey, That the several acknowledgments Garret S. Boice and proofs of deeds and other instruments of writing, taken and certified by the said Garret S. Boice as commissioner after his removal out of said fifth ward, be and the same are hereby confirmed and declared valid and effectual, in like manner as though the same had been taken and certified by him while residing in the said ward for which he had been appointed.

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

Approved February 4, 1863.

CHAPTER X.

AN ACT to legalize certain acts of the township committee and inhabitants of the township of Raritan, in the county of Monmouth, in raising money for volunteers for the war.

WHEREAS, the township committee of the township of Rari- Preamble. tan, in the county of Monmouth, upon notice given, did call a meeting of the inhabitants of said township, on the twenty-seventh day of August, eighteen hundred and sixtytwo, and the said meeting thus assembled did unanimously vote to borrow a sufficient sum of money to pay a bounty of fifty dollars to volunteers for the war; and whereas, the credit of the said township was pledged at said meeting, by vote, for the payment of said sum so directed to be raised, and to that end the same was directed to be assessed and collected from the taxable property of said township; and whereas, at a subsequent meeting of said inhabitants, after eight days' notice, it was voted that five thousand dollars be assessed and collected for the purposes

Vote of township to be valid.

Collector to collect bounty

Public act.

aforesaid, and the proceedings of the former meetings were ratified in all things; and the said assessment having been made and partially collected, and doubts having arisen as to the legality of the said doings of the township committee and inhabitants of the said township of Raritan -therefore,

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the acts and doings of the township committee and the inhabitants of the township of Raritan, in the county of Monmouth, mentioned in the preamble to this act, to raise money by assessment and collection, a sum sufficient to pay a bounty of fifty dollars to volunteers for the war, to make up the quota of men from said township, are made valid in all respects, and binding upon the inhabitants and taxable property in said township. 2. And be it enacted, That the collector of the said township of Raritan have full power and authority to collect the said sum so assessed as aforesaid, in the manner now prescribed by the act relative to the collection of taxes in said township, and shall be liable for neglect of duty in respect to said tax, as he is by law for neglect of duty in respect to other taxes.

3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately, and be taken and held as a public act. Approved February 4, 1863.

Freeholders

to erect a pil

meridian.

CHAPTER XI.

AN ACT for the erection of a true meridian line standard in each county of the state, and for the protection of the

same.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of lar with true the State of New Jersey, That it shall be the duty of the board of chosen freeholders of each county of the state, within the space of six months next ensuing after the passage of this act, or in case any new county shall be created at any time hereafter, then within six months of the time when the act creating said county shall have become a law, to

erect at some public spot adjacent to each court house of each county, a good and substantial pillar, upon whose summit there shall be firmly and immoveably placed a brass plate, in which shall be indented a line, indicating the true meridian; and to enclose and protect the same properly, the said pillar and enclosure to be subject to the custody of the county clerk, to be free to the access of any surveyor of lands, or civil engineer, residing in said county, or engaged in surveying therein, for the purpose of testing the variation of the compass for the time being; and to cause the said meridian line to be verified at any time when required so to do by order of the circuit court of the said county; and that the expense of the said erection, enclosure and verification shall be provided for by the said board of chosen freeholders, after the mode in which other expenses chargeable to the county are provided.

injuring or

2. And be it enacted, That any person or persons who shall Penalty for wilfully erase, alter, deface, displace, destroy or otherwise in- destroying. jure said line, or plate, or pillar, or any part thereof, or destroy, break down or carry away the enclosure aforesaid, or any lock, bar, bolt, or any part thereof, the said person or persons so offending shall be deemed to be guilty of felony, and upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished. by a fine not less than fifty, and not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the penitentiary of the state, during a term not less than one, nor more than three years, or both, at the discretion of the court. Approved February 4, 1863.

CHAPTER XII.

AN ACT to authorize the inhabitants of the township of Manchester, in the county of Passaic, to raise money by issuing bonds, and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, most of the inhabitants of the said township being Preamble. desirous that the call of the government for troops to support its authority and suppress rebellion, should be filled with volunteers rather than with drafted men, did recommend and request the township committee of said township

Township committee may issue bonds, not to

to offer bounties for that purpose; and whereas, the said township committee, acting upon said recommendation and request, has paid for bounties the sum of sixteen hundred dollars; and whereas, it is deemed desirable that the indebtedness so created should be gradually paid off-therefore,

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for the townexceed $1,600. ship committee of the township of Manchester, in the county of Passaic, to provide for the payment of the said indebtedness by issuing bonds, in the name of "The inhabitants of the township of Manchester, in the county of Passaic," under the respective hands and seals of the said township committee, or any three of them, for an amount of money not exceeding sixteen hundred dollars, in such sums, and payable at such time or times, as the said township committee shall deem proper, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding seven per cent. per annum, payable annually, and to pledge the property and credit of the said township for the payment of the same; which bonds it shall be lawful for the said township committee and their successors, to sell and assign; provided, that no bond shall be sold by the said township committee for less than its par value; and provided further, that the bonds so to be issued shall be redeemable at a period of time not to exceed six years from the passage hereof.

Proviso.

Township committee may raise money by taxation to

&c.

2. And be it enacted, That the township committee of the said township of Manchester shall have power and authority to provide by taxation for the payment of the said bonds and pay interest, the interest thereon; and that the said township committee shall yearly and every year until the bonds to be issued by the authority hereof shall be redeemed and paid off, order and cause to be assessed and collected by tax, at the time and in the manner that other taxes in the said township are assessed and collected, a sum of money sufficient to pay the interest on the said bonds as the same shall become due and payable, and to pay and discharge the principal, at the several times it shall become due and payable; and that the township collector of said township, or other person for that purpose appointed, shall, when such tax or any part thereof shall be collected, pay the same to the township committee of said township; and that all such moneys so to be raised by virtue of this act, shall be inviolably applied by said township committee to pay the interest and principal of said bonds as the same shall become due and payable; provided, that not less than three hundred dollars,

Principal.

Proviso.

nor more than six hundred dollars, of the principal of said bonds to be issued as aforesaid, shall be made redeemable in

any one year.

3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said Application. township committee to apply the net proceeds of the bonds that may be issued by virtue of this act, to the payment and satisfaction of the debt and liabilities incurred in said township by the township committee thereof paying bounties to volunteers as aforesaid.

firmed.

4. And be it enacted, That the debt and liabilities incurred Acts conin said township of Manchester, in consequence of the payment of bounties to volunteers, as mentioned in the preamble hereto, and the action of the said committee thereupon, are hereby ratified and confirmed.

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

Approved February 4, 1863.

CHAPTER XIII.

AN ACT to incorporate a Rural Cemetery in the county of
Hudson.

1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of Stockholders. the State of New Jersey, That all persons who shall become stockholders or lot owners pursuant to this act, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by such name as the directors hereinafter named shall select, for the purpose of establishing a public burial ground in the county of Hudson.

2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of the said Capital stock. corporation shall be one hundred thousand dollars, which shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and shall be deemed personal property, and shall be transferable on the books of the corporation in such manner as the said corporation shall by its by-laws direct.

May acquire

acres.

3. And be it enacted, That the said corporation may ac-land, not to quire, take and hold a tract of land in the county of Hudson, exceed 100 not exceeding one hundred acres, and may sell and otherwise dispose of such land in lots or parcels, to be used exclusively

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