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ACCEPTANCE OF ACTS.

Acceptance by the Camden Mutual Insurance Association of Supplement to its Charter.

At a meeting of the members of the "Camden Mutual Insurance Association," convened by the directors of the said company at Getz's Hall, in the city of Camden, New Jersey, on the thirty-first day of March, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy, upon two weeks' notice of the time and place of said meeting, printed and published in the "West Jersey Press," a newspaper published in the city of Camden, a preamble and resolutions, of which the following are copies, were unanimously adopted:

WHEREAS, by an act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, approved on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy, and entitled "A Supplement to an act entitled An Act to incorporate the Camden Mutual Insurance Association,'" passed March twelfth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, authority was given to the directors of said association to issue certificates of stock to the members of the said association, in proportion to the amount of premiums paid upon the policies held by them to the whole amount of the moneys, securities and property held and owned by the said association or company, and to create a capital stock and sell new stock, and to declare dividends. from the earnings of the said company, and to do certain other acts and things in the said act specified; and by the eleventh section of the said act it was enacted, "that this act shall go into effect as soon as a meeting of the members of the said company, convened by the directors of the said company upon two weeks' notice of the time and place of the said meeting, to be printed in a newspaper printed

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in the city of Camden, shall by resolation accept the same as a supplement to and part of the charter of the said conpany, which resolution of acceptance shall be certified under the hand of the president and secretary and corps rate seal of the said company, and shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State," &c.; and whereas, this meeting of the members of the said "The Camden Matul Insurance Association" is now convened, in the mode and according to the provisions of the said act; therefore, Resolved, That we do accept of the said act and each and every provision thereof, as a supplement to and part of the charter of the said company "The Camden Mutual Insurance Association."

Resolved, That a certificate of the resolution of the acceptance of said act be made and certified, under the hands of the President and Secretary and corporate seal of this company or association, and be filed in the office of the Secretary of State of this State, according to the terms and requirements of said act.

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the requirements of the said act, and in pursuance of the said resolution, we have caused the said resolution of the acceptance of the members of the said company of the said act and of each and every provision thereof, as a supplement to and part of the charter of the said company, to be hereby certified.

In witness whereof, we, the President and Secretary of the said company, have caused the common seal of the said company to be hereunto affixed and [L. S.] our hands to be hereunto subscribed, this second day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

WM. P. TATEM, President. JONATHAN BURR, Secretary.

State of New Jersey:

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I, Horace N. Congar, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of a paper writing purporting to be Acceptance by The Camden Mutual Insurance Association' of supplement to its charter," as the same is taken from and compared with the original filed in my office the fifth day of April, A. D. eigh teen hundred and seventy, and now remaining on file and of record in my said office.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand [L. S.] and affixed my seal of office this nineteenth day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy. H. N. CONGAR.

Acceptance by the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey of the act respecting said Company and the Newark and New York Railroad Company.

To all to whom these presents shall concern : WHEREAS, the Legislature of New Jersey, at its late session, passed an act entitled "An Act respecting The Central Railroad Company of New Jersey' and 'The Newark and New York Railroad Company," which was approved on 'the seventeenth day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy; and whereas, the board of directors of "The Central Railroad Company of New Jersey" did, on the eleventh day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy, adopt the following resolution, that is to say

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Resolved, That the secretary be and hereby is authorized to notify the Secretary of State of the acceptance of the bill passed by the Legislature relating to this company and the Newark and New York Railroad Company, and approved by the Governor March 17, 1870,"

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said resolution, it is hereby declared by the said "The Central Railroad Company of New Jersey" that the said company do accept the said act of the Legislature of New Jersey, and each and every provision thereof.

In witness, the said company have hereto caused their corporate seal to be affixed, and the signature [L. S.] of their secretary to be subscribed, this fifteenth day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy.

CENTRAL R. R. CO. OF NEW JERSEY,

per SAM'L KNOX, Secretary.

State of New Jersey:

I, Horace N. Congar, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of a paper writing purporting to be "Acceptance by the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey of "An Act respecting the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey and the Newark and New York Railroad Company,'" approved March 17, 1870, as the same is taken from and compared with the original filed in my office, the sixteenth day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy, and now remaining on file and of record in my said office.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand [L. S.] and affixed my seal of office, this nineteenth day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy. H. N. CONGAR.

Acceptance by Newark and New York Railroad Company.

OFFICE OF THE NEWARK AND NEW YORK R. R. Co.,
NEWARK, April 13th, 1870.

Hon. H. N. Congar, Secretary of State, Trenton, N, J.: DEAR SIR-I am instructed by the directors of this company to inform you that they accept the supplement to their charter passed by the late Legislature of New Jersey.

Yours, respectfully,

State of New Jersey:

THEO. P. HOWELL, Secretary,

I, Horace N. Congar, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of a paper writing purporting to be "Acceptance by the Newark and New York Railroad Company of An Act respecting the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey and the Newark and New York Railroad Company," approved March 17, 1870, as the same is taken from and compared with the original filed in my office, the fourteenth day of

April, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy, and now remaining on file and of record in my said office.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand [L. S.] and affixed my seal of office, this nineteenth day of April, A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy.

H. N. CONGAR.

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