City officers. precinct; and the common council of said city shall have full power to fix and determine other precincts in said city as the said common council may from time to time deem neces sary. 2. And be it enacted, That there shall hereafter be elected in the said city by the legal voters thereof throughout the whole city, one mayor, who shall be keeper of the city seal, and hold his office for three years, after the expiration of the term of the present mayor; three common councilmen, annually, each of whom shall hold his office for three years; one recorder or clerk, annually, and whose compensation shall be fixed and determined by common council; one or more assessors, annually, who are hereby empowered to commence making the assessments required on the twentieth day of May, and ending on the twentieth day of August, and whose duplicate shall be returned to the treasurer not later than the twentieth of September following; one collector, who shall be ex-officio city treasurer; three chosen freeholders in, for and throughout the said city; one superintendent of public schools, annually; three trustees of public schools, annually, who shall hold their offices respectfully for three years; two overseers of the poor, annually; two surveyors of the highways, annually; three commissioners of appeal, annually; two pound-keepers, annually; two constables, annually. 3. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 1, 1868. CHAPTER CCLI. An Act to enable the Freehold and Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad Company to run engines and cars on the Squankum and Freehold Marl Company's Railroad. on Squankum railroad. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of May run cars the State of New Jersey, That it shall and may be lawful for the and Freehold Freehold and Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad Company to run their engines and cars over the railroad of the Squankum and Freehold Marl Company for the conveyance of passengers and merchandise, and to charge reasonable fares and freights therefor; provided, that the assent of the Squankum Proviso. and Freehold Marl Company be first had and obtained to such running and use of their road, and subject to such terms as may be agreed upon by said companies. Approved April 1, 1868. CHAPTER CCLII. A Further Supplement to the act entitled "An Act concerning Taxes," approved April fourteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six. issue alias 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Justice may the State of New Jersey, That in all cases where a tax war-tax warrants. rant has been issued, and the township collector, or other officer to whom it was delivered, has neglected or failed to execute or return the same, it shall be lawful for the justice who issued the same, upon its return to him, with an affidavit annexed that the taxes or some part of the same remain unpaid, and giving the names of the delinquents therein, with the amount of the taxes against them respectively still in arrears and unpaid, to issue an alias tax warrant against the said delinquents for the taxes for which they are so in arrear, to be directed to the township collector for the time being, or other proper officer, to be proceeded on in all things as in the case of the original warrant. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 1, 1868. Preamble. Legalizing proofs of deeds. CHAPTER CCLIII. An Act to confirm the Acknowledgments and Proofs of Deeds, and other instruments of writing, taken by N. Proctor Smith. WHEREAS, it appears to the legislature that N. Proctor Smith was duly commissioned, on the sixteenth day of February, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, one of the commissioners to take the acknowledgments and proofs of deeds in San Francisco, state of California, to be used or recorded in the state of New Jersey; and whereas, it appears that the said N. Proctor Smith, from a misapprehension of the law, failed to file in the office of the secretary of state his seal and oath of office, and since his appointment has taken acknowledgments and proofs of deeds, by reason of which acknowledgments and proofs innocent persons may be subject to great loss; therefore, 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the several acknowledgments and proofs of deeds, and other instruments of writing, taken and certified by the said N. Proctor Smith, as said commissioner, during the time for which he was commissioned, be and the same are hereby confirmed, and declared valid and effectual in like manner as though the said N. Proctor Smith had filed his seal and oath of office with the secretary of state on said sixteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-five. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 1, 1868. CHAPTER CCLIV. An Act to aid the collection of certain taxes in the township of Delaware, in the county of Hunterdon, which remain due and unpaid. to collect ar 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Proceedings the State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for David rears of taxes. Jackson, late collector of taxes of said township of Delaware, within forty days after the passage of this act, to return to any justice of the peace of the same township, the following tax warrants in his hands as such collector, with a statement of the amount due on said several tax warrants from each delinquent taxpayer therein named, to wit: first, the tax warrant issued by Mahlon Smith, justice of the peace of said township, on the twenty-eight day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to the said David Jackson, then collector of taxes of said township, directed and delivered; second, the tax warrant issued by Mahlon Smith, justice of the peace as aforesaid, on the sixth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty five, to the said David Jackson, then collector as aforesaid, directed and delivered; third, the tax warrant issued by Mahlon Smith, justice of the peace as aforesaid, on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to the said David Jackson, then collector as aforesaid, directed and delivered; provided, however, that nothing in this act contained Proviso. shall authorize or make it lawful for the said David Jackson to return to any such justice, as delinquent taxpayers upon the said warrant issued by Mahlon Smith aforesaid, on the twenty-eighth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and of the persons as against whom the tax commanded to be levied by said tax warrant, has been set aside as illegal and contrary to law. 2. And be it enacted, That upon the return of the said several tax warrants with the statements aforesaid, the power conferred thereby upon the said David Jackson as such collector shall cease, and it shall be the duty of the justice of the peace to whom the said warrants shall be so returned, and he shall have the power and authority to issue under his hand and seal a new tax warrant of like force and effect as the original warrants, in the place of each of the aforesaid Proviso. Duties of the several offi. cers. sons receiving warrants, against the several delinquents therein named for the amount due from them thereon respectively, to be directed to the person hereinafter specified; provided, however, that no justice to whom the tax warrant issued by said Mahlon Smith on the twenty-eighth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, shall be returned as aforesaid, by said David Jackson shall issue a new warrant in place thereof against any of the persons as against whom the tax commanded to be levied by said tax warr nt issued by said Mahlon Smith, has been set aside as illegal and contrary to law, nor shall it authorize the collection of such taxes for the reversal of which suits are now pending in court. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the justice of the peace to whom said tax warrants shall be returned, forthwith to inform the township committee of the said township of Delaware thereof by writing under his hand, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the said township committee or their successors in office, by writing under their hand and seal, or the hand and seal of a majority of them, to be directed and delivered to the aforesaid justice of the peace, to appoint some fit person to execute the new tax warrants, to be issued as provided in the second section of this act, and that the said justice of the peace shall direct and deliver the said new tax warrants to such person as shall be so appointed, and if the person so appointed shall refuse to accept the said appointment, the said township committee or their successors in office are hereby authorized to appoint in manner aforesaid, some other fit person to whom the said tax warrant shall be directed and delivered by the said justice. Powers of per- 4. And be it enacted, That the person to whom the said tax warrants. new tax warrants shall be directed and delivered, shall by virtue thereof have the same power and authority and be subject to the same duties and liabilities conferred and imposed upon a collector of township taxes, to whom a tax warrant is delivered in ordinary cases, and further such person by virtue of such new tax warrant shall have power and authority to levy upon, take and sell the property, personal and real of the delinquent taxpayers, wheresoever in the county of Hunterdon it may be found, to make and satisfy said taxes, and the cost and expense of collecting the same; provided, that this act shall not authorize the collection of Proviso |