CHAPTER XLVII. A Further Act to provide for the improvement of Main street, in the township of East Orange. may grade, adamize the 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Township the State of New Jersey, That the township committee of committee the township of East Orange, may, by contract or other pave and macwise, grade, pave and macadamize the main street in said main street. township, and set curb and gutter stones along the same, and complete the same during the present year of eighteen hundred and seventy. the same. bonds to pay 2. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of paying the May issue cost of such grading, paving and macadamizing, authority is for hereby given to the said township committee to issue the bonds of The Inhabitants of the Township of East Orange, in the County of Essex," in their corporate name and capacity, for any sum not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and for any term or terms of years, not exceeding ten years, that said bonds shall bear interest. at a rate not exceeding seven per centum per annum, which shall be payable semi annually; provided, that not more than Proviso. ten thousand dollars of the principal money of said bonds shall be made to fall due in any one year. sued. 3. And be it enacted, That said bonds shall be signed by Bonds, how isthe chairman of the township committee, in pursuance of a resolution to that end, in which a majority of said committee shall concur, that the common seal of the inhabitants of said township shall be affixed to said bonds, and that such resolution, signing and sealing, shall be certified to by the clerk of said township, and the said bonds when so executed shall be the valid and lawful obligations of the said inhabitants of said township, according to the tenor thereof. negotiate 4. And be it enacted, That the said township committee May sell and may negotiate and sell such bonds upon the most favorable bonds. terms they may be able, with reasonable care, to make. principal and 5. And be it enacted, That the township committee of said Taxes to pay township shall in each year, direct the assessor of said town interest of ship to levy upon the taxable property thereof, in addition to said bonds. Repealer. all other taxes and assessments, such sum as they may ascertain to be necessary for the payment of the principal and interest, which will become due on said bonds before the time for payment of the succeeding annual assessment in said township, which sum shall be assessed and collected at the same time, in the same manner, and by the same means as the other township taxes. 6. And be it enacted, That this shall be deemed a public act; that all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 15, 1870. Change of corporate name. Proceedings relative to taking land Telah may be con tinued. CHAPTER XLVIII. An Act to change the name of the Passaic Valley and Peapack 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the name of the "Passaic Valley and Peapack Railroad Company," a corporation chartered by an act entitled "An Act to charter the Passaic Valley and Peapack Railroad Company," approved the twentyninth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, shall be and is hereby changed to, and the said corporation shall hereafter be known by the name of the "New Jersey West Line Railroad Company"; the company shall continue to be the same corporation as heretofore, and all the rights, powers, privileges and obligations of, and pertaining to said corporation by virtue of any law of this state, shall be and remain the same under and in the name in this section designated as the new name of said company, as if the name of said company had not been changed. 2. And be it enacted, That any proceedings heretofore commenced relative to the taking of land by said company for their railroad may be continued by, or against the company in the name by which the company has heretofore been known, or, if the company shall prefer, in the name by which the company is, by the first section of this act, hereafter to be known. relative to 3. And be it enacted, That in any proceedings heretofore Proceedings had or taken, or hereafter to be had or taken under or by bonds and virtue of the act entitled "An Act to authorize certain towns stock issued by towns. in the counties of Somerset, Morris, Essex and Union, to issue bonds and take stock in the Passaic Valley and Peapack Railroad Company," approved the ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, the name by which the said company shall hereafter be designated, shall be the name by which by the first section of this act, said company is hereafter to be known; and all the provisions in said act, the title of which is recited in this section, shall hereafter be in force and apply to the said company, by the name by which by the first section of this act said company is hereafter to be known. 4. And be it enacted, That the bonds the company are au- Bonds and thorized to issue and mortgages to secure bonds be made may in the name in this act designated as the name of said com changed corpany, and any of the bonds of the company may be by the terms thereof made, and may be convertible into stock of the company; and the company may increase the capital stock of the company, in addition to the amount now authorized, to an amount equal to the bonds convertible into stock which may be issued by said company. mortgages may be in porate name. peal. 5. And be it enacted, That the five days' notice of appeal Notice of apmentioned in the seventh section of the act the title of which is recited in the first section of this act, may be served on or before the first day of the term of the court next after the decision of the commissioners from which an appeal may be taken, and the petition to be filed on such appeal must be filed on or before Monday of the second week of said term, and the proceeding may be heard, tried and finally determined during the said term next after the decision of the commissioners. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 15, 1870. 11 Names of corporators. Corporate name. Officers. Treasurer to give bonds. May hold real estate free CHAPTER XLIX. An Act to incorporate the Father Matthew Total Abstinence Benefit Society, Number One, of Warren County, New Jersey. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That Michael Leonard, James Nolan, Patrick J. Hayes, John Sullivan, Patrick Call, James O'Flaherty, Michael McCann and John B. Finnegan, and such other persons as may hereafter be associated with them, are hereby incorporated as a Temperance Society, to be known as the "Father Matthew Total Abstinence Benefit Society, Number One, of Warren County, New Jersey," and the said persons and their associates [and] successors shall have full power to elect by a majority of its members, semiannually, at such times as their by-laws may prescribe, eight members of said society as its officers, viz: a president, vice president, treasurer, recording secretary, financial secretary and three trustees, said trustees shall serve for one year, to manage the business and affairs of said society, and said society shall also be empowered to have a fee for initiation into membership, not exceeding five dollars, for each member so admitted, and to impose such fines for non-performance of duty or non-attendance as by their said by-laws they may direct. 2. And be it enacted, That the treasurer of said society shall give bonds to the society for the faithful performance of his duties in such amounts as shall be satisfactory to said society. 3. And be it enacted, That this society shall be capable of and personal holding real and personal property, to wit: a building on from taxation. grounds of their own, wherein to hold its meetings; and money received from fees, dues and gifts intended to benefit the sick or needy thereof, and said personal property shall not be subject to state or county taxation until after the valuation of such property exceeds the sum of one thousand dollars. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 15, 1870. CHAPTER L. An Act to widen and improve Roads in the township of Shrewsbury, in the County of Monmouth. WHEREAS, it is an acknowledged fact that the annual appro- Preamble. priations for the repairs and improvements of the public roads in the township of Shrewsbury, in the county of Monmouth, are very inadequate to the demands of the public. in this thickly settled section; therefore, habitants to missioners to 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Power of inthe State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for all tax- appoint comable inhabitants of any road district in said township, or a widen and immajority of them, that are present at any meeting called for prove roads. the said purpose, public notice of which being given by six written notices placed in six conspicuous places within the district two weeks previous to said meeting, to appoint three commissioners with full power and authority to widen any road to three rods that may be less than that width, also to grade, gravel or otherwise to put in good order, as a majority of said voters at said meeting may decide, then to adjourn, subject to the call of the commissioners. ers shall take an oath. 2. And be it enacted. That the said commissioners, or a Commissionmajority of them, are to act until the duties entrusted to them are finished, at which time they will call the said adjourned meeting and exhibit a statement of their proceedings; and that each of said commissioners before proceeding under their said appointment, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before a justice of the peace faithfully and imfartially to discharge the duties of his appointment. commission ers. 3. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners, or a Powers of majority of them, shall have power to employ all necessary surveyors, workmen and agents to effectually carry out the powers and authority granted in the first section of this act, and for widening said roads they are hereby authorized to enter upon any and take any lands and improvements (includ ing all buildings except dwelling houses) that may be neces sary for that purpose, upon paying to the owner or owners the damage done by taking the said land and improvements, |