tained shall be construed to prevent any eonstable, collector or other officer from being sued, or the bond that any such officer shall have given from being prosecuted on account of any such tax in the name of Gloucester city for the use of said board.

and hold real

school

poses.

5. And be it enacted, That the said board are hereby au- May purchase thorized to purchase and hold in the name of "The Board of estate for Education of Gloucester City," suitable lots of ground in the spursaid city and to erect thereon such buildings and improvements as shall be required for the use and proper management of the public schools of said city, and to sell, pledge, mortgage or otherwise dispose of said lots as they shall deem best for the interest of said schools.

money by

6. And be it enacted, That for the purpose mentioned in May raise the foregoing section, the said board of education shall have loans. power from time to time, to raise by loan such sum or sums of money as they may require, and may make provisions for the payment of such loans and interest thereon, by appropriating therefor a portion of the school moneys that come into their hands; provided nevertheless, that the amount of such loans Proviso. shall not at any one time exceed the sum of three thousand dollars.

tendent of

7. And be it enacted, That the said board of education shall city superiahave power from time to time to appoint a city superintend- schools, &c ent of public schools of said Gloucester city, and such other officers and agents as they may deem necessary for the proper maintenance of the public schools of said city, prescribe their duties and fix their compensation, which appointment shall continue during the pleasure of the board of education and no longer.

moneys re

expended.

8. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said Statement of board of education, once in each year, to make out a state-ceived and ment of all moneys received and paid out by them during the year, showing the source from whence received and to what applied; the amount of indebtedness of the said board and the balance of funds, if any, in the hands of their treasurer, which statement the said board shall cause to be published in pamphlet form and published with the annual report of the city council of said city in the newspapers of Camden county at least two weeks previous to the annual election for city offi

cers.

9. And be it enacted, That Gloucester city shall be entitled School fund. to its just proportion of the annual appropriations of the school

Annual poll tax for schools

Board of educatlon, how elected.

fund of this state and of all other moneys appropriated by the state for the support of common schools, and to its just proportion and quota of the interest on the surplus revenue apportioned to and received or to be received by the state of New Jersey, to be ascertained in the same manner as the proportion or quota of the townships of this state now are or hereafter shall be ascertained, which said moneys shall be paid over to the treasurer of the said board of education for the time being, and be applied to school purposes in said city.

10. And be it enacted, That every male inhabitant of Gloucester city liable to taxation, shall pay an annual poll tax of one dollar for the public school purposes in addition to the sum ordered to be raised by the said board of education for the same; which said poll tax shall be assessed, collected and paid over in like manner as the school taxes in said city.

11. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants of Gloucester city at the annual election for city officers to be held on the second Tuesday in March, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, shall elect in the same manner and form, and at the same time as the officers of said city are elected, six members of said board of education, two of whom shall serve for one year, two for two years amd two for three years; the time for which said members shall serve shall be determined among themselves by ballot at the annual meeting of said board next after said election, and at every subsequent annual election in said city there shall be elected at the same time and place and in the same manner, two members of the said board of education to serve for the term of three years, and in case there shall be any vacancy in the office of any of the members of said board, the same shall be filled at the next annual election after such vacancy shall occur and for such unexpired term, and that the trustees of the said districts hereby incorporated now acting, shall be and remain members of the said board of education until the members of the said board shall be elected and qualified as herein provided.

12. And be it enacted, That the members of the said board of education shall, before they take upon themselves the execution of their respective offices, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before the mayor of said Gloucester City, or a justice of the peace of said city, who are hereby authorized to administer the same, faithfully and impartially to execute the trust reposed in them according to the best of their ability and understanding, which oath or affirmation when so taken

and subscribed, shall be filed and preserved by the clerk of said city in his office.

13. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts, 80 Repeater. far as they conflict with the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 26, 1868.

CHAPTER CCXXIX.

A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An Act authoriz ing the appointment of commissioners to lay out and map streets, avenues, and squares in that part of Bergen township south of the Morris Canal, in the county of Hudson,' approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fiftyseven (since made the township of Bayonne), for the purpose of altering Fourth street, between avenues S and T, on said map, and legalizing the same as now opened and improved upon.

WHEREAS, By the act to which this is a supplement, certain Preamble. commissioners were appointed to survey and map all that part of the then township of Bergen which lies south of the Moris canal, to mark the same out into streets, avenues and squares, of such width, extent and direction as to them. should seem most conducive to the public good; and whereas, the said commissioners named in the act have performed the duties imposed upon them by the said act, and have deposited maps of their said survey in the office of the secretary of state at Trenton, and in the clerk's office of the county of Hudson; and whereas, since the said maps were so deposited as aforesaid in the clerk's office of the county of Hudson, and in the office of the secretary of state, by mistake a certain part of Fourth street, extending from avenue S to avenue T, designated on said map, having been opened and improved upon thirty feet southerly of the line as laid down on the said commissioners' map before referred to; therefore

Vacating

Fourth street.

Opening street.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That such part of Fourth street as is designated on said map as lying between and extending from avenues S and T, be and the same is hereby declared vacated, the same as if the said map had never been made, and that from and after the passage of this act the said map and the said act establishing the same, shall be and the same is hereby so far amended as to vacate such part of said Fourth street particularly described and designated in this section.

2. And be it enacted, That in the place of that part of said Fourth street so vacated as particularly mentioned and described in the first section of this act, that part of Fourth street as is now opened and improved and in fence, being in width sixty feet, and lying between and extending from avenue S to avenue T, and being thirty feet southerly of the line as laid down on the said commissioners' map above referred to, shall be deemed and is hereby confirmed, and made the legal, lawful street, which said street so altered as herein described is declared a public street, and is hereby established as such, the same in all respects as if it had been originally designated on said commissioners' map.

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

Approved March 26, 1868.

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CHAPTER CCXXX.

A Further Supplement to "An Act to regulate Elections," approved March ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of ing elections. the State of New Jersey, That at all elections to be held in this state, the polls shall be open at seven o'clock A. M., and close at seven o'clock P. M.

2. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts that conflict with this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 26, 1868.

CHAPTER CCXXXI.

An Act to incorporate the Traders' Express Company.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Corporators. the State of New Jersey, That Ira Budd, Cyrus W. Pomeroy, Samuel L. Buck, Timothy W. Lord, Samuel H. Baldwin and Lucius 0. Ackley, with such other persons as shall subscribe to the stock hereby authorized, and their successors, be and hereby are constituted a body corporate and politic in law by the name of "The Traders Express Company," and by that Name. name shall have power to use a common seal, to sue and be sued, to defend and be defended in all courts of law and equity, for the purpose of carrying on a general forwarding and express business in the transportation of all kinds of objects of corgoods, chattels, merchandise, bullion, specie, money and all poration. other movables from and to, and between various posts and places in this state, and beyond the limits thereof, and to do all such things as are incident to a corporation, and necessary for the purposes of this act, and that the principal office of said company shall be in the city of Newark.

poration.

2. And be it enacted, That the said company by the said Powers of cornamed corporators and their successors, shall have power to make such by-laws, as said corporators or their successors may deem necessary and proper to carry out the objects of this corporation, and the same to alter, amend, repeal or add to at its pleasure; provided, that such by-laws shall not be Proviso. contrary to the constitution of this state, or the provisions of this act, and to adopt a common seal, and the same to alter at pleasure; and to issue certificates of stock, representing the value of its property, in such form and amounts, and subject to such regulations as it may from time to time by its said by-laws prescribe; and to regulate and prescribe in what manner and form its contracts and obligations shall be executed.

how elected.

3. And be it enacted, That the corporators named in this act, Directors, and or a majority of them, shall elect persons to serve as directors of the company, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business, and shall hold their offices until their successors shall have been elected in accordance with said by-laws.