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To C. B. Howell, for bill for sundries, three dollars and ninety-six cents.

To R. Sterling, for sperm candles, rattinet, manilla rug and other articles for state, twenty-three dollars and twentyfive cents.

To James D. Westcott, for cash paid sundry individuals for carting gravel, furnishing lime, and other services rendered, for which no compensation is fixed by law, thirty-four dollars and nineteen cents.

To Hammitt, Hutchinson & Weart, for hire of horses and wagon, to move gun-boxes from state-house to state bank, and hack and horses, by prison committee, five dollars.

To the committee appointed by the legislature, to examine the state prison of the state of Pennsylvania, fifty-three dollars and sixty-three cents.

To Blackfan & Wilkinson, for bill of boards, furnished for state house, thirty three dollars and fifty-four cents.

To John Wilson, for glass and setting, in state house, one dollar and seventy-six cents.

To John Noble, for hack hire, going to and returning with members of council to view prisoners, two dollars.

To Andrew Newton, for window glass and setting, for state house, three dollars and forty-nine cents.

To Sutphin Garrison, for one of the committee, to investigate the affairs of the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of NewBrunswick, nineteen dollars and fifty cents.

To Charles Parker, treasurer, for postage, twenty-three dollars and twenty-two cents; expenses going to, while at, and returning from Philadelphia, six times, and to Newark once, on business for the state and school fund, thirty-eight dollars; horse hire and expenses going twice to Bordentown, on business with the rail road company, three dollars; tow cloth and twine for bales to put up votes and proceedings for the several counties, four dollars and fifty cents; for taking Harrison's Compilation to the state-house, fifty cents; also paid William Crossley, for Lehigh coal, per bill, fifty-five dollars; Samuel Scattergood, per bill, for work at state-house, six dollars; John Wilson, for painting fence, &c. per bill, sixty-six dollars and twenty-one cents; Ezekiel Howell, for white-washing at state-house, six dollars and eighty-seven cents; John Red, for cleaning state-house, three dollars and eighty-seven cents; Charles B. Howell, for tinning fence at state-house, nine dollars; Liscomb R. Titus, for green cloth to cover tables, three dollars and seventy-five cents; Ralph Green, for carpenter work, eighty-four dollars and sixty-three cents; James Close, for fringe, two dollars and ninety-five cents; Richard P. Thompson, for book for record of votes and proceedings, seventeen dollars and fifty cents; sundry persons for charcoal, twenty-one dollars and twelve cents; Ferth & Hele, for stationary, twenty nine dollars and fifty

cents; making an aggregate of three hundred and seventyfive dollars and sixty-two cents.

To Richard Reading, for splitting wood which remained on hand of last year, one dollar.

To A. S. Vandeursen, for recording the report of the keeper of the state-prison, twenty-two dollars.

To Robert E. Hornor, for furnishing newspapers up to this date, twenty-nine dollars and sixty-two cents.

To George Sherman, for printing, as per account rendered up to this time, fifty one dollars and thirty seven cents.

To John McCready and Lewis R. Stelle, for printing votes and proceedings, of eighteen hundred and thirty-three and eighteen hundred and thirty-four, one hundred and eighty nine dollars, as per resolution, which passed the lower house this day.

To Benjamin Hamilton, for one of the committee to investigate the affairs of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of New Brunswick, thirty-five dollars and forty cents.

To C. L. Hardenburgh, for one of the committee to investigate the affairs of Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of New Brunswick, nine dollars.

To Abraham Lydecker, for one of the committee to investigate the affairs of the Bank aforesaid, twenty-four dollars.

To Joseph Justice, for printing public acts of last session, three hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-five cents; for his printing first sitting and vacation, and articles furnished the state, one hundred and twenty-three dollars and fifty cents; for his printing account of the present sitting, and articles of stationary, including all his printing, up to the time of presenting his bill, three hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents; aggregate amount, seven hundred and seventy dollars and fifty cents.

To A. Parsons, for one of the committee to investigate the affairs of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of New Brunswick, twenty-seven dollars.

To Isaac Combs, junr. for services as constable, in serving subpoenas in the case of the New-Hope Delaware Bridge Company's charter, three dollars.

To Joseph Sailor, for printing votes and proceedings of Provincial Congress, and authority of Joint Resolutions of the Legislature, when delivered to the treasurer, three hundred and forty-eight dollars seventy-five cents.

Passed March 4, 1835.

AN ACT to ratify and confirm a certain Arrangement therein named.

WHEREAS, the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company, in
compliance with the desire of the city of Trenton, as ex-
pressed by a town meeting of its citizens. on the ninth day
of February, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-
three, and by a vote of the Common Council thereof, on
the eighteenth day of March, A. D. one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-three, consented to construct moving Preamble.
bridges over their feeder, where it crosses the streets of
said city; AND WHEREAS, in consequence of the manner in
which said feeder crosses Spring, Willow, and Chancery
streets in said city, (occasioning a great inconvenience in
the construction of bridges of the above description,
over said streets as they now run,) the Canal Company
presented to the Common Council of said city, a pro-
position in relation to said streets and bridges, as follows,
to wit: to excuse the company from building a bridge
over Chancery street, and to authorize them to alter the
course of said street, so as to lay it along the south-east
side of the feeder, from its junction therewith to Willow
street; and likewise, to allow them so to construct the
bridge at the junction of Spring and Willow streets, as
that one bridge may serve for both streets, and to alter the
course of Spring street, by laying it along the north-west
side of the feeder, from its junction therewith to Willow
street; which proposition, the said Common Council did
approve, and so far as their authority went, did consent to,
by resolution, passed the fifteenth day of April, A. D.
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three; AND WHERE-
As, in execution of said proposition, streets have been laid
by due course of law, one along the south-east side of the
feeder, from Chancery street to Willow street, and the
other along the north-west side of the feeder, from Spring
streeet to Willow street, by which the plan, so far as was
in the power of the company, has been carried out; AND
WHEREAS, no other authority than the legislature can re-
lease the company from the obligation under the sixteenth
section of the act of incorporation, to construct bridges
over public roads; Therefore,

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Deleware and Raritan Canal Company be, Agreement be and they are hereby excused, released, and exempted from tween Trenton constructing, and keeping up a bridge over their feeder, city and Delawhere it crosses Chancery street, in the city of Trenton; and tan Canal Comthat a single bridge at the junction of Spring and Willow pany confirmed.

streets, in the said city, to answer for both Spring and Willow streets, crossing from said Willow street, to the street connecting the said Spring and Willow streets, shall be considered a full compliance with the obligation of said company, under the said sixteenth section, in relation to the said Spring street, and the said Willow street; provided, that the said company shall always keep said bridge, and the said streets leading from Chancery street to Willow street, and from Spring street to Willow street, in good condition and repair; and said streets are hereby declared to be henceforth incapable of vacation.

AND WHEREAS, although that part of the western end of Chancery street, which is cut off by said feeder, is only a few feet in length, and entirely useless as a public road, yet it is doubtful whether the same can be vacated by the surveyors of the highways, in consequence of the twentyeighth section of the act concerning roads, passed the ninth day of Febauary, A. D. one thousand eight hnndred and eighteen; Therefore,

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That that part of Chancery Part of Chance street, lying to the westward of the feeder of the Delaware and Raritan Canal, be, and the same is hereby declared vacated.

ry street vacated

Passed March 4, 1834.

Goods removed

by execution not to be sold till rent is paid.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT to the act, entitled "An act concerning Landlord and Tenants."

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That if any goods and chattels, lying or being, or which shall lie, or be in, or upon any messuages, lands, or tenements which are, or shall be leased for term of life or lives, year or years, at will or otherwise, shall be taken by virtue of any execution, and removed off said premises, the same shall not be sold by the constable or officer so taking and removing the same, until ten days after such removal, and then not unless the plaintiff or party, at whose suit such goods or chattels are taken on execution, shall, before the sale thereof, by virtue of said execution, pay to the landlord of

the said premises, or his, or her bailiff, all and every such sum
or sums of money, as are, or shall be due for rent, for the
said premises, at the time of said sale; provided, the same do
not exceed one year's rent; and in case the said arrears shall
exceed one year's rent, then the said party, at whose suit ex-
ecution is sued out, paying the said landlord, or his or her
bailiff, one year's rent, may proceed to execute his judgment
as he might have done before the passing of this act; pro- Proviso.
vided, the landlord or his bailiff, shall, before the expiration of
the said ten days, from the time of said removal, give notice
to the constable or officer holding such execution, of the
which
amount of the rent in arrear, and claim the same;
notice may be served by delivering the same to said officer,
or leaving a copy thereof at his usual place of abode.

Goods not to be removed by

officer in night

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That no such goods and chattels shall be removed off said premises by said constable or officer, but openly and in the day time, and then not unless the constable or officer, shall, at the time of removing the time. said goods and chattels, give notice thereof, to the defendant, or in his absence, to some person of his family, residing on said premises, of the removal of said goods and chattels.

Passed March 4, 1835.

AN ACT to raise the sum of forty thousand dollars for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty five.

Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Council and General Assembly of this state, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That there shall be assessed, levied, and collected, ou the inhabitants of this state, their goods, moneys, and Forty thousand chattels, and on the lands and tenements within the same, the sum of forty thousand dollars, money of the United States; which sum shall be paid into the treasury of this state, on or before the twentieth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six.

dollars tax to be raised.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said sum of forty Proportions of thousand dollars, shall be paid by the several counties of the Counties. this state, in the proportion following, that is to say :—

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