STATE OF NEW JERSEY. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT to the act entitled "An act to regulate the fisheries in the river Delaware, and for other purposes," passed the twentysixth day of November, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and eight. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That if any person or persons shall cast, draw, or otherwise make use of any seine or net, of a larger mesh than three inches, for the purpose of catching fish in the river Delaware, within the jurisdiction of this state, below the head of Trenton Falls, between the tenth day of June and the tenth day of July, in any year, or above the head of Trenton Falls, of any seine or net of a larger mesh than two inches, between the fifteenth day of June and the tenth day of July, in any year, he, she or they so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars, together with costs of suit, for each and every offence. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons, for the purpose of catching fish in the river Delaware, within the jurisdiction of this state, to anchor, stake down, or otherwise fasten any drift net or gilling seine in or across said river; and that if any person or persons shall so anchor, stake down, or otherwise fasten any drift-net or gilling seine in or across said river, within the jurisdiction of this state, for the purpose of catching fish, he, she or they so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, or both, at the discretion of the court before which such offender or offenders shall be convicted; and any such net or seine so anchored, staked down, or otherwise fastened in or across said river, shall be deemed and considered a públic nuisance, and liable to be abated or removed by any person who may deem proper to abate or remove the or persons same. 3. And be it enacted, That the second section to the supplement of the aforesaid act, passed on the fifteenth day of February, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty-three, be and the same is hereby repealed; but this act shall not go into operation until the legislature of the state of Pennsylvania shall approve of the same, by the enactment of a similar act, in whole or in part; and that from and immediately after the said legislature shall so approve of this act, either in whole or in part, then this act, or such parts thereof as may be so approved of, shall go into operation and take effect. Approved February 26, 1858. STATE OF NEW JERSEY: I, Thomas S. Allison, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of an act passed by the legislature of said state, and approved by the Governor, February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, as taken from and compared with the original on file in my office. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton, this twenty-seventh day of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight. [L. S.] THOMAS S. ALLISON, Secretary of State. STATE OF NEW JERSEY: I, William A. Newell, Governor of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that Thomas S. Allison, Esquire, who hath signed the preceding certificate, and whose official seal is thereto annexed, is Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, duly appointed, commissioned, and sworn, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations; that the said signature is in the proper handwriting of the said Thomas S. Allison, and the seal his seal of office, and that the said certificate is in due form of law. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the great seal of the State of New Jersey to be hereunto affixed, at the city of Trenton, in said state, this twenty-seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-second. By the Governor, [L. S.] WM. A. NEWELL. THOMAS S. ALLISON, Secretary of State. A. BROWER LONGAKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM H. WELSH, Speaker of the Senate. Approved the second day of April, A.D. 1858. WM. F. PACKER. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH, PENNSYLVANIA, SS: I do hereby certify that the foregoing and annexed is a full, true, and correct copy of the original act of the General Assembly as the same remains on file in this office. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Secretary's office to be affixed, the day and year above written. [L. S.] WM. M. HEISTER, Secretary of the Commonwealth. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA: I, William F. Packer, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that William M. Heister, Esquire, who hath signed the preceding certificate, and whose official seal is thereto annexed, is Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, duly appointed and commissioned, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations; that the said signature is in the proper hand-writing of the said William M. Heister, and the seal his seal of office, and that the said certificate is in due form of law. Given under my hand and the great seal of the State, at Harrisburg, this second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and of the Commonwealth the eighty-second. [L. S.] WILLIAM F. PACKER. JOINT RESOLUTIONS. NUMBER I. Allowing to the Trustees of the State Normal School the use of mathematical apparatus and minerals employed and collected in the geological survey. normal have use of &c. 1. BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and General Assembly Trustees of of the State of New Jersey, That the governor be and he is school to hereby authorized to permit to the trustees of the State instruments, Normal School, for the benefit of that institution, during the suspension of the geological survey of this state, the use of the mathematical and other instruments and apparatus belonging to the state, which have been heretofore employed in said survey, subject to such regulations for their safe keeping and freedom from injury, as he shall deem necessary; and also to deposit in the cabinet of said school, to be arranged in proper order by themselves, for the use of said school, one set of the mineral collections which have been made in the said survey. Passed February 23, 1858. |