tion of road ex

on part of the

to which this is a supplement, as requires that the said rail
road shall be completed at the expiration of five years, from Time of comple-
the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and tended.
thirty-one, be, and the same is hereby repealed; and when
the permanent rail road of The New-Jersey Rail Road and
Transportation Company, shall be constructed through Ber-
gen Hill, and thence to the Hudson River, and put in use, it
shall be lawful for the president and directors of the Paterson,
and Hudson River Rail Road Company, their successors and
assigns, to charge for the transportation of goods, wares and
merchandise thereon, from the junction to the river, or on
any branch thereof, twelve and a half cents per ton per mile; Toll increased
and that it shall not be lawful for said company, directly or road.
indirectly, to charge for the transportation of property on
their road, and on the said permanent road, from the junc-
tion, and on its branches, more than the tolls prescribed by
the tenth section of their act of incorporation, and by this
supplement; and if the owners and occupants of the property
on Main and Congress streets in Paterson, or of a majority
thereof in value, shall require the same, and the Paterson and
Hamburg Turnpike Company, without compensation, shall
consent thereto in writing, (if their consent be necessary,)
that then the president and directors of the Paterson and .
Hudson River Rail Road Company, their successors and as-
signs, shall be authorized and required, within six months.
after such requisition and consent, shall be obtained with
reference to said street, to extend a track down Main street,
to, or within one hundred feet of its intersection with Broad-
way; and that within one year from the fourth day of July
next, they shall lay a track down Congress street, to the point
designated in their act of incorporation.

making returns,

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That so much of the seventeenth section of the said original act, as authorizes the legislature of the state, to cause an appraisement of said road to Time of apbe made, at any time after the expiration of fifty years from praisement and the completion of said road; and that so much of the eigh- altered. teenth section as requires the treasurer of said company to make annual returns to the treasurer of this state, from and after the completion of the said rail road, be, and the same are hereby repealed; and that the legislature may cause such appraisement to be made at any time after the expiration of fifty years from the fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; and that it shall be the duty of the treasurer of the said company, from and after the said fourth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, to make the annual returns required by the said eighteenth section.

Ser. 3. And be it enacted, That this supplement shall be Public act. taken and considered as a public act.

Passed February 27, 1835.

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A SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled "An act for suppressing vice and immorality," passed the sixteenth of March, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight.

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 nothing contained in the twelfth section of the act to which this is a supplement, shall be construed to affect Exhibition of the exhibition of any invention or improvements in the Meimprovements in chanic Arts, but such exhibitions shall be placed upon the same footing as the exhibitions of natural curiosities are provided for in and by said act.

mechanic arts

not prohibited.

Menageries to be licensed.

How and by

whom licenses

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to exhibit or show within this state, for any price, gain, or reward, any menagerie, or collection of beasts or animals, without having first obtained license for that purpose, as hereinafter mentioned.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That any three Justices of the Peace, shall have authority to grant a license, in their discreare to be granted tion, to any person or persons, to exhibit and show any menagerie, or collection of beasts, or animals, within the county of which they are Justices; and all licenses granted under this act, shall set forth the township or townships in which such exhibition or show is authorized to be made; the time or number of days it may be continued; and the price or prices which may be demanded for admission to the same.

for license.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That before any such license Sum to be paid shall be granted, the person or persons applying for the same, shall be required to pay into the hands of the Justices of the Peace, to whom the application is made, such sum of money as the said Justices shall deem proper, not less than ten dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, for each day said exhibition or show shall be licensed to continue.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That any person or persons offending against the provisions of this act, shall forfeit and Penalty for vio- pay for every offence, the sum of one hundred dollars; to lation of the act. be recovered in an action of debt, in any court having cog

Money to be paid to the coun

ty collector.

nizance of the same, in the name of the County Collector of the county where the offence is committed, and it shall be a duty hereby imposed for the Collector of the county, or the Collector of the township wherein such exhibition is made, to prosecute and recover the same.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That all moneys received and recovered under this act, shall be paid over to the County Collector of the county where the same shall be received, or the offence committed, within thirty days after the receipt thereof, for the use of the county.

Passed February 27, 1835.

AN ACT to enable Albert A. Westervelt, late collector of the county of Bergen, to settle with the State Treasu

rer.

ment.

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 Treasurer of this state be authorized to Treasurer to rereceive from Albert A. Westervelt, late collector of the counceive assignty of Bergen, in payment of the quota of tax of the county of Bergen, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, an assignment of his claim on the Washington Banking Company, for the sum of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and thirty-three cents, for moneys by him deposited with said company before their failure, and that the said assignment shall be received in payment for the sum of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and thirty-three cents.

Sum to be re

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the Treasurer of this state, be authorized and directed, upon receiving the assignment above mentioned, to refund and pay to the said Albert A. Westetvelt, the sum of seven hundred and seventy-four funded. dollars and thirty-three cents, out of the treasury of this state; and that the said Albert A. Westervelt, be, thereupon, discharged and acquitted from all further liability to this state, and to the Treasurer thereof, for the quota of tax for the county of Bergen, for the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.

Passed February 27, 1835.

AN ACT to incorporate "The Assanpink Manufacturing
Company."

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 Philemon Dickinson, Lewis Waln, William Grant, William Waln, and Thomas J. Stryker, and their associates, and their successors, shall be, and they are hereby incorporated and made a body politic, by the name and style of Style of incor"The Assanpink Manufacturing Company," for the purposes poration, &c. of manufacturing cotton or woollen or both, and shall have pow power to raise by subscription, in shares of one hundred dollars each, a capital of three hundred thousand dollars; and

directors.

as soon as five hundred shares shall be subscribed, the individuals above named, or any three of them may, by public notice of thirty days, given in one or more of the public newspapers, printed in the city of Trenton, call a meeting of the stockholders of the said company, for an election of seven directors, each of whom shall be a stockholder, to be voted for by the said stockholders, according to their respective shares, in person or by proxy, the said individuals above named, or any three of them, to be inspectors and Time and man- judges of said first election; and the said directors when ner of election of elected, shall choose out of their number a president; and the directors of the said company shall annually thereafter, by public notice as aforesaid, call meetings of the stockholders for electing directors of said company; and shall appoint three inspectors of said election who are not directors; and the directors so elected, shall continue in office until their successors are elected; and shall at all times have power to make by-laws for the government of said company, not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this state or the United States; and shall also have power to call in said stock from time to time, in such instalments as they shall think necessary, by giving public notice as aforesaid, and to declare forfeited to the said company, the stock, with on failure to pay all previous payments made thereon, of all such stockholders as shall neglect or refuse to pay the instalments upon their respective shares, as shall be required to be paid as above; provided, previous notice of thirty days shall have been given to each delinquent stockholder.

Stock forfeited

instalments.

Election to be by ballot.

How vacancies to bo supplied.

Officers of the

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That all elections for directors of said company, shall be by ballot; and if the directors, for the time being, of said company, shall at any time neglect or refuse to give notice, as in the first section of this act is directed, for the election of directors, that then, upon such neglect or refusal, the stockholders, or a majority of them, may, within the time in such case prescribed by law, give notice, and call such meeting, and elect directors, in like manner, as if the said directors had given notice, as by this act is required; and if at any election for directors, two or more persons voted for, shall receive an equal number of votes, then the directors for the time being, shall determine by ballot, which of the said persons, so having an equal number of votes, shall be director or directors, as shall be required to complete such election; and upon the death or resignation of any of the said directors, the remaining directors shall choose from among the stockholders, some person or persons to fill such vacancy or vacancies, who shall hold his or their office, until the next annual election shall be complete.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said directors, before company to take they enter upon the duties of their office, shall severally take

an oath.

and subscribe an oath or affirmation, faithfully and honestly to promote the interests of the said company; and they may appoint a secretary, treasurer and such other officers and agents as they may, from time to time, deem necessary and useful, with such compensation as they may think adequate; and require from such officers and agents, as well an oath or affirmation of fidelity, as such bond and security for their good conduct, as may to them appear reasonable and proper.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the said company may for the purpose of promoting the manufacture of cotton or woollen goods or both, and of erecting such machinery as may pro- Company may mote the manufacture of said articles, buy, rent, take and hold, hold real estate. or otherwise become seized and possed of, and hold, all such lands, tenements and water power, and other real and personal estate in the city of Trenton, and within one and a half miles of said city, as may be necessary and useful for the purposes aforesaid, and the same may improve and use, or sell, let, or otherwise dispose of, as they shall deem proper; provided, that they shall occupy none of the public streets, Proviso. lanes or alleys of the said city, with their said improvements, without previously procuring the consent of the common council thereof, regularly expressed by ordinance; and the said company by their corporate name, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts whatsoever; may have a common seal, and alter and renew the same at pleasure; and shall have, enjoy and exercise, all the rights, powers and privileges pertaining to corporate bodies, and necessary for the purposes of this act; provided always, that the privileges Proviso. hereby granted, shall not be so construed as to interfere with the vested rights of any other person or persons, body corporate or politic.

made.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That a dividend of the profits of the said company, except so much thereof as may be set Semi-annual die apart for a surplus fund, (which surplus fund shall not exceed vidends to be at any one time ten thousand dollars,) shall be semi-annually made by the said directors, among the stockholders, and the books of the said company shall, at all times, be open for the inspection of the said stockholders; provided, that no dividends shall be made, except from the actual profits of said company.

Proviso.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the stock of the said company shall be personal property, and transferable on Stock transferathe books of said company; and that no part of the funds of ble. the company shall be used for banking purposes.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That this charter shall continue in force until the first day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and no longer; act. and that during that time, upon any departure from, or vio

Limitation of