CHAPTER CCX. AN ACT to consolidate the Bergen Point and Staten Island and Constables' united. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Companies the State of New Jersey, That the Bergen Point and Staten Island Ferry Company and the Constables' Hook and New York Company be and the same are hereby united and consolidated, and shall hereafter be known by the name and title of "The Bergen Point, Staten Island and New York Ferry Company." former acts 2. And be it enacted, That the said Bergen Point, Staten Part of Island and New York Ferry Company shall have, possess, repealed. and enjoy all the rights, franchises, privileges, and property, and be subject to the same restrictions, liabilities, forfeitures, and limitations as are contained in the respective charters hereby consolidated; and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved March 23, 1859. Statements to be published. Expenses of advertising, Penalty for failing to CHAPTER CCXI. AN ACT relative to unclaimed dividends and deposits. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That each and every corporation in this state, on or before the fifteenth day of January next, and annually thereafter, shall cause to be published and continued for six weeks successively in one newspaper having the largest circulation published in the county in which such corporation may be located, but if no newspaper is published in such county, then in one published in an adjoining county, a true and accurate statement, verified by the oath of the president, cashier, secretary or other officer of the company, of all the deposits made with said company, and of all dividends declared upon the capital stock of said company, which at the date of such statement shall have remained unclaimed by any person authorized to receive them, for three years then next preceding; which statement shall set forth the time such deposit was made, its amount, the name and residence, if known, of the person making it, the name of the person in whose favor the dividend may have been declared, its amount, and upon what number of shares of the stock of said company. 2. And be it enacted, That in all cases the expense of how paid. advertising the same shall be deducted from the sums unclaimed in proportion to the amount of each respectively. 3. And be it enacted, That any corporation failing to comcomply with ply with the provisions of this act, shall forfeit fifty dollars to be recovered in an action of debt with costs of suit, in any court of record of this state having jurisdiction of the same, to any person claiming the same. provisions of act. Approved March 23, 1859. CHAPTER CCXII. A SUPPLEMENT to the act entitled An act to incorporate the New Jersey establish regulations. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Society may the State of New Jersey, That in addition to the powers rules and granted to the society in virtue of the act to which this is a supplement, and the "Act concerning corporations," approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fortysix, and the supplements thereto, it shall be competent and lawful for the said society by its officers and in such manner as its by-laws may direct, to institute and establish such rules and regulations as may be necessary for maintaining order and preventing disturbance at the fairs and exhibitions of the said society, and shall have police jurisdiction within the distance of one mile from the boundaries of the grounds on which said fairs and exhibitions shall be held, with power within that distance to prevent the unlawful sale of ardent spirits and to prevent gambling and every breach of the peace or laws of the state, and for the purpose of enforcing such rules and regulations, and the carrying out of such police jurisdiction and the prevention of the unlawful sale of ardent spirits, gambling and breaches of the peace; the officers of the said society may from time to time appoint as many persons as they may deem necessary for the said purposes, and the said persons shall be at all times when in the exercise of the functions hereby assigned to them distinguished by some badge openly worn upon their persons, designating their offices, and they shall have power and authority to arrest and detain all such offenders, and to take them before a justice of the peace or other competent authority within the jurisdiction wherein the said grounds shall be situate for examination. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall be taken and con- Public act. sidered as a public act, and shall take effect immediately. Approved March 23, 1859. Time for completion of work. CHAPTER CCXIII. A SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled "An act to authorize commissioners to dig a ditch from some point on the Passaic river, at or near Pine Brook, in a direct course or as near as may be, to some point on the said river at or near the mouth of Deepewall Brook, in the county of Essex, for the purpose of draining the flowed lands on the said river and its tributaries, and relieve the people in the vicinity thereof of sickness and diseases caused thereby," approved March eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the commissioners mentioned and provided for in the act to which this is a supplement shall perform and complete the duties required of them by the act aforesaid on or before the first day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-four; and so much of the said act as requires said commissioners to complete their said duties before the time last mentioned, be and the same is hereby repealed. Approved March 23, 1859. CHAPTER CCXIV. SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Somerville and Easton Railroad Company." pay amount claimed. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Company to the State of New Jersey, That the said Somerville and Easton arrearages Railroad Company, within six months from and after the date of this act, pay to the treasurer of this state the sum of thirteen thousand one hundred and twenty dollars and nineteen cents, being the amount of arrearages of tax reported by him to be due; and that in default thereof, the said company and the treasurer with the aid of the attorney general are authorized and required to submit all questions between them in reference to the amount of said tax upon a case by them mutually to be agreed upon to the opinion and judgment of the supreme court, and the said treasurer is hereby authorized and required to receive from the said company such amount, if anything, as may be found due according to the opinion of said court, and to give a full acquittance and discharge to said company. 2. And be it enacted, That this act take effect immediately. Approved March 23, 1859. |