al estate for conducting business. and person-such real or personal property or estate, as may be necesnecessary sary to carry on their business, as well as such real or personal property or estate as they may deem it necessary to acquire in the enforcement or settlement of any claim or demand arising out of their business transactions, and they may sell or exchange the same for other property as they may determine that the interests of the company may require. Act deemed 5. And be it enacted, That this act and the act to which a public act. this is a further supplement and the several supplements thereto, shall be deemed a public act, and shall be liberally construed for the purpose of carrying into effect the objects of this act, and that no misnomer of the corporation, created by the act to which this is a further supplement, in any deed, grant, devise, bequest or other instrument of contract or conveyance, made to or for the benefit of said corporation. shall vitiate or defeat the same; and that this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 23, 1874. corporators CHAPTER CCCLXI. An act to incorporate the Ombull Tribe Number Thirtyfive, Improved Order of Red Men, at Passaic City, New Jersey. Names of 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That John Malison, John Hawley, John A. Davies, John Fitzgerald, Abraham Krauenberg, James Wilson, Otto Smith, George Williams, William Kew, Abraham Schoonmaker and William C. Smith, and their associates, officers and members of Ombull Tribe Number Corporate Thirty-five, Improved Order of Red Men of Passaic City, New Jersey, and their successors, be and they are hereby constituted and declared to be a body corporate and politic in law, by the name, style and title of Ombull Tribe, Number Thirty-five, Improved Order of Red Men, of Passaic, New Jersey, and by that name they and their successors, and all other persons who are now members, or who shall name. hereafter be admitted as such, agreeably to the constitution and by-laws of the said tribe shall have perpetual succession, and shall be forever capable in law to take, hold and possess, any lands, tenements, hereditaments, real and personal estate, purchased, devised or bequeathed by any person or persons, bodies corporate or politic capable of making the same; provided always, that the said corporation or body po- Proviso. litic shall not at any time hold or possess property, real, personal or mixed, exceeding in value the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars and to mortgage and let the same, and to sell and dispose of the same; to have a common seal, and the same to alter or renew at pleasure; to sue and be sued, and generally to do all such matters and things as may be lawful and necessary for them to do for the furtherance of the objects of said order. 2. And be it enacted, That the said tribe shall have power May make from time to time to establish and make, and put into exe- by-laws, &c. cution such constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations as may be passed from time to time by the tribe, and the same to revoke, annul, alter or amend at pleasure; provided, that the said constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States or of this state, nor repugnant to the provisions of this act. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 24, 1874. CHAPTER CCCLXII. An act to confirm the title of lands, sold to Alfred Stoutenborough, junior, by commissioners, appointed by the Orphans Court of the county of Passaic. WHEREAS, On the sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy two, upon application of Charles Preamble. Berhans to the said orphans' court, commissioners were appointed to divide the lands in said county, whereof John Certain firmed. Berhans died seized, and which had been by him devised to John H. Burhans, then deceased, during his life, and at his death to William Berhans, Charles Berhans and John Berhans in fee; and whereas, said commissioners did afterwards report to said court that a part of said lands could not be divided, and thereupon said court, on the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, did order and direct said commissioners to make sale of said lands, according to law, and by virtue whereof they did advertise the same for sale at public vendue, on the third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the second ward of the city of Paterson, on part of said lands, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at which time the said commissioners sold at public vendue a part of said lands, described as situate in the township of Manchester, in said county, to Alfred Stoutenborough, junior, and said sale was reported to and confirmed by said court on the ninth day of August, in the year last aforesaid, and thereupon the said court did order said commissioners, to execute good and sufficient conveyance to the said purchaser, for the land sold to him as aforesaid; and whereas, said commissioners did execute a deed of conveyance therefor, bearing date on the eleventh day of August, in said year, and recorded in the office of the clerk of Passaic county, in book X 4, of deeds, page 527, and since then it has been discovered that said lands, so conveyed are situate in the township of Wayne, in said county, and the sale thereof was not advertised in said township, as required by law. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of deed con- the State of New Jersey, That the said deed of conveyance so made by said commissioners to the said Alfred Stoutenborough, junior, be and the same is hereby confirmed and declared to be valid and effectual in law, and to convey to and vest in the said Alfred Stoutenborough, junior, his heirs and assigns, all the estate of the said William Berhans, Charles Berhans, and John Berhans, so purporting to be conveyed as aforesaid, to all intents and purposes as if a notice of the sale of said lands had been set up in said township of Wayne by said commissioners, as required by law. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately, and shall be deemed a public. Approved March 24, 1874. CHAPTER CCCLXIII. An act to incorporate the Peoples' Gas Light Company of the City of Paterson. name. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That John P. Zeluff, Joseph C. Todd, Names of David Henry, James Bell, Albert A. Hopper and Samuel corporators Pope, and every person or persons who may become subscribers according to the mode hereinafter prescribed, and their successors, are hereby created a body politic and corporate in fact, by the name of "The Peoples' Gas Light Corporate Company of the City of Paterson," and by the said name the said corporation shall have corporate power in all courts of law and equity, and shall have power and authority to manufacture, make and sell gas, to be made of coals or other materials, for the purpose of lighting the streets, buildings, manufactories and other places in the City of Paterson, in Passaic county, and to enter into and to execute all contracts, agreements or covenants, in relation to the objects of this corporation, and to enforce the same, and be capable of purchasing, taking, holding and disposing of such property, real and personal, as is necessary to give effect to the purposes of this corporation, and for the accommodation of their business and concerns, or which it may be necessary for the said corporation to acquire and hold and dispose of, for the purpose of securing debts which have become due to them in the course of the business of the said corporation; provided, that the said real estate shall not exceed what may be necessary for the purpose mentioned, and no private Proviso. lands shall be in any way injured or defaced, without permission being first obtained in writing from the owner or owners thereof. ed to lay 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall be Empowerempowered to lay down their gas pipes and to erect gas pipes. posts, burners and reflectors in the streets, alleys, lanes, avenues or public grounds of the said city of Paterson, and to Proviso. Names of commis do all things necessary to light the said city or any part thereof; provided, that the public travel shall at no time be unnecessarily affected or impeded by the laying of said pipes, or the erection of said posts, and the streets, side and crosswalks, public grounds, lanes, avenues and squares shall not be injured, but all be left in as good and perfect condition as before the laying of said pipes or the erection of said posts. 3. And be it enacted, That John P. Zeluff, Joseph C. Todd, sioners to David Henry, Alfred A. Hopper, James Bell, and Samuel open books. Pope are hereby appointed commissioners for receiving subscriptions for the sum of two hundred thousand dollars to constitute the capital stock of said corporation, in shares of one hundred dollars each, and the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall open books for that purpose at such time and in such place or places within said city of Paterson as they shall designate by a public advertisement, to be previously inserted for at least one week in a public newspaper printed in the said city of Paterson, and shall continue the same open until the same two hundred thousand dollars shall be subscribed, or at their discretion close the same after they shall have remained open two days, and again open the same at some other time or times, place or places, giving public notice thereof as aforesaid and the sum of ten per centum upon each share so subscribed, shall be paid by each subscriber at the time of subscription to the said commissioners or a majority of them; and each subscriber shall be entitled to receive a receipt for the installments paid by him on account of such stock for said commissioners, and as soon as one hundred thousand dollars shall have been subscribed, the amount so received by the said commissioners at the time of subscription shall by them, or a majority of them, be paid over to the directors of the said company, to be elected as hereinafter directed, and all the power of said commissioners shall then cease and determine; and the said board of directors when so elected shall have power, and they hereby are authorized to open the books for the further subscription of stock hereinafter provided, until the whole amount of said stock is subscribed; and are also authorized to call upon the said subscribers for payment of further installments in such sum or sums, and at such time or times, and under such forfeiture or forfeitures of install |