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mortgage is so recorded in full, the record of such mortgage, and a transcript of such record, duly certified by the clerk in whose office the record is kept, shall be received in evidence in any court of this state, in the same manner, and to the same effect, as the record, or a transcript of the record, of deeds, is now received.

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

Approved February 18, 1858.

CHAPTER XLIII.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT to a supplement to "An act to incorporate the Burlington and Mount Holly Railroad and Transportation Company," approved March twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.

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1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Part of the the State of New Jersey, That so much of the second and repealed. third sections of the said supplement as requires one hundred thousand dollars to be subscribed, and ten per centum paid in before the extension or branch railroad to Pemberton, authorized to be built, shall be commenced, is hereby repealed; and it shall and may be lawful for the said company to prosecute said extension, when eighty thousand dollars shall be subscribed and ten per centum paid in.

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

Approved February 18, 1858.

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CHAPTER XLIV.

AN ACT for the relief of the Puddle Dock and Wyatt Meadow Companies, in the township of Mannington, and the Denn's Island Meadow Company, in the township of Lower Penn's Neck, in the county of Salem.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That it shall and may be lawful for the owners and possessors of land lying within the limits. of the Puddle Dock Meadow Company and the limits of the Wyatt Meadow Company, in the township of Mannington, and the limits of the Denn's Island Meadow Company, in the township of Lower Penn's Neck, in the county of Salem, their legal agents or representatives, to meet at the house of William Summerill, in the township of Mannington, on the first day of March next, and between the hours of one and five in the afternoon of said day, to choose by ballot or otherwise, and by plurality of votes of those met, such person or persons as they may think proper for a manager or managers, and a treasurer and a clerk for the ensuing year, or until the next annual meeting thereafter.

2. And be it enacted, That the manager or managers, when Managers to appointed as aforesaid, or a majority of them, shall, as soon as may be, cause to be erected, put up and built below and near the upper mouth of Denn's canal a bank, dam, or stopping across Salem creek, commencing in the Wyatt Meadow Company, and ending in the Denn's Island Meadow Company, with such sluice or sluices, or other works, as he or they may deem necessary, and shall, when completed and finished, make an actual survey thereof, describing the beginning and ending thereof, and where the same joins the fast land, courses and distances, and place or places, where the sluice or sluices, or other works, shall be laid, and also fix a name for the company, and deliver a certificate of his or their proceedings, signed by him or them, to the clerk of the court of common pleas of the county of Salem, to be by him forthwith recorded.

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3. And be it enacted, That the expense of erecting, putting Expenses, up, building, and maintaining the said bank, dam, or stop- defrayed. ping-sluice or sluices, and other works erected, put up, and laid out as aforesaid, and every other necessary expense for the benefit of said companies shall be defrayed by a tax on the meadow land of the Puddle Dock Meadow Company, and of the Wyatt Meadow Company, and of the Denn's Island Meadow Company in manner hereafter directed.

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4. And be it enacted, That the manager or managers when Estimate of appointed as aforesaid shall make an estimate of the sum or and assesssums of money which will be necessary to defray the ex- made. penses of the different services required by this law, and also of erecting, putting up, and building the said bank, dam, or stopping, and sluice, sluices, or other works, and shall assess the same ratably on the meadow land in the Puddle Dock Meadow Company, and in the Wyatt Meadow Company, in the township of Mannington, and in the Denn's Island Meadow Company, in the township of Lower Penn's Neck, agreeably to the valuation and quantity each owner may have within the banks of said companies, according to the last duplicate made out for said companies; except that twenty acres shall be deducted from the number of valued acres contained and mentioned in the last duplicate of the Denn's Island Meadow Company, which shall be deducted ratably from the number of valued acres or parts of acres assessed against each owner of meadow land in said company in and by the last duplicate; and all assessments made under this act shall be made upon such reduced number of acres in said company, and shall state the said assessment in a regular duplicate containing the names of the owners or possessors, the number of acres and parts of acres held by each, the sums assessed on them severally, and the time or times of payment: which duplicate shall be delivered by him to the treasurer chosen or appointed as aforesaid.

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5. And be it enacted, That the treasurer, on the receipt of Property said duplicate, shall, in person or by notice in writing left ed for nonat the usual place of abode of each owner or possessor, de- assessment.

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mand of and from each owner or possessor, twenty days. before the time of payment, the sum assessed as aforesaid; and if any of the said owners or possessors shall neglect or refuse to pay the sum assessed as aforesaid for the space of twenty days after the time fixed for payment thereof, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said treasurer to seize and rent out by public vendue, to the highest bidder, for so long a time and no longer as will be requisite, so much of the meadow ground in either of said companies, belonging to, or in possession of, such delinquent owner or possessor, as may suffice to discharge such assessment and all expenses attending the recovery thereof, having first advertised the same, for the space of three weeks, in three of the most public places in the neighborhood where the said meadow lies or may be sold.

6. And be it enacted, That if said estimate so made and collected as aforesaid should not produce a sufficient sum of money to fulfil the purposes above mentioned, the said manager or managers shall make, in like manner, an estimate of such sum as may be further necessary, which shall be collected in like manner as herein before directed.

7. And be it enacted, That the manager or managers shall, from time to time, inspect and examine the said bank, dam, or stopping sluice or sluices, and other works erected or made by virtue of this act; and shall cause, or procure to be made or done, all such repairs and amendments as to him or them shall seem necessary; and for defraying the expense thereof, shall assess in manner aforesaid, such sum or sums of money as may be requisite, which shall be collected in manner aforesaid.

8. And be it enacted, That notice, signed by at least three owners of the meadow within said companies, shall be given of the meeting under the first section of this act, setting forth the time and place of such meeting, by putting up such notices in three of the most public places in the neighborhood of said meadows, at least five days previous to said meeting.

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owners and possessors at the time and place appointed as tion of offaforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the said owners and possessors to meet and assemble statedly, on the first Monday in April, yearly and every year, at one o'clock in the afternoon of that day, at such place as a majority of those met at the first meeting, or at the last preceding annual meeting, may have from time to time appointed, and there, between the hours of one and five in the afternoon, by ballot or otherwise and plurality of those met, appoint a manager or managers, a treasurer, and a clerk, to continue for one year, and from thence until others are appointed to supply their places; and the manager or managers, treasurer, and clerk then elected shall have the like powers as those herein before mentioned.

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10. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Clerk to reclerk, from time to time, to enter in a book to be provided ceedings. for that purpose, all votes, proceedings, orders, and assessments made by the said owners or the manager or managers, and all transactions whatsoever which the said owners and possessors or manager or managers shall direct.

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11. And be it enacted, That if any of the manager or Vacancies, managers, or treasurer, or clerk at any time within the plied. year for which they are elected, become incapable, by death, removal, or other disability, of executing the duties. required by this act, it shall and may be lawful for the manager or managers, or the survivor, or if none remain, any two of the owners or possessors, to call a meeting, by notice in writing, set up in three of the most public places in the neighborhood of said meadows, at least one week previous thereto, for the purpose of supplying the vacancy or vacancies, and the person or persons appointed in con. sequence shall have the like powers for the remainder of the year as he or those had in whose place or places he or they may be appointed.

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12. And be it enacted, That the owners and possessors of Salaries of meadow ground in said companies at the first and at the subsequent annual meetings, from time to time, shall fix and determine, by a vote of the majority of those met, the

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