ficers and directors and make such by-laws as they may deem necessary for conducting the affairs of said corporation; and the remainder of the stock, if any, shall be disposed of under the direction of said officers and directors, or their successors in office. Approved March 4, 1856. CHAPTER LIX. AN ACT to authorize "the Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church at Black woodtown," to sell a tract of land situate in the township of Deptford, in the county of Gloucester, and state of New Jersey. WHEREAS, David Morgan, in his lifetime, now deceased, by deed Preamble. duly executed, bearing date the eighteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five, did convey to Michael Fisher, David Roe, Lazarus Pine, Peter Cheeseman, Randal Morgan, Samuel Blackwood and Abraham Roe, for good and lawful consideration therein mentioned, a certain tract of land described in said decd as situate in Deptford, in the county of Gloucester, on the southwesterly side of the South Branch of Great Timber Creek, bounded as follows: beginning at a black oak tree standing under the hill by the South Branch of Timber Creek, corner also to lands of Samuel Blackwood, and runs thence by his land south thirty-one degrees west, ten chains and forty links to a pine tree; thence still by his land south sixty-seven degrees west, twenty-one chains and fifty links to a small white oak; thence by Erwin's land north thirty-seven degrees west, twenty-two chains and fifty links to a post in Sale of land authorized. James Jaggard's line; thence by his land north twenty degrees east, fifteen chains and fifty links to a post; thence by Erwin's land north eighty-two degrees and forty-five minutes east, crossing Muddy Run Branch to a leaning sassafras; thence still by said Erwin north thirth-six degrees east, twelve chains to the creek aforesaid; thence up the said creek by the several courses of the same, to the corner first mentioned, containing one hundred and five acres and two roods. 1. And be it enacted, That Randal E. Morgan, Jonas Livermore, John E. Marshall, Stephen Bateman, Charles Stephenson and Joseph Cole, and their successors, "the trustees of the First Presbyterian Church, at Blackwoodtown," in the county of Camden, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to sell at public sale the said tract of land in the above preamble mentioned, or any part or parts thereof, together with all the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging, and to make good and sufficient deed or deeds to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, duly executed under their hands and the scal of the said corporation, which deed or deeds shall be as good and effectual to grant, sell, convey and assure the said lands, tenements and real estate, with the hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging, to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, as if the said deed or deeds were made by the said Michael Fisher, David Roe, Lazarus Pine, Peter Cheeseman, Randal Morgan, Samuel Blackwood and Abraham Roc, their survivors, heirs or successors duly appointed according to the provisions of the deed in the preamble to this act mentioned; and that they the said trustees and their successors hold the proceeds of said sale or sales in trust for the benefit of said church. And that such deed or deeds when so made and executed, shall vest an absolute estate in fee simple in the said tract of land in the purchaser or purchasers thereof, freed and discharged from all uses and trusts whatsoever, without any liability on the part of the said purchaser or purchasers for the application or misapplication of the purchase money. Approved March 4, 1856. CHAPTER LX. A SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled "An act concerning marriages," passed March fourth, seventeen hundred and ninety-five. riages legal 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the Certain marState of New Jersey, That in case any marriage heretofore ized. solemnized, or which may hereafter be solemnized, has been or hereafter shall be acknowledged by any religious society in this state to which either of the parties to such marriage at the time of the solemnization thereof belonged, or shall belong, and shall have been or thereafter shall be recorded in the minutes, proceedings or other book of such religious society, such marriage shall be as lawful to all intents and purposes as if both of the parties to such marriage belonged or shall belong to such religious society. Approved March 4, 1856. CHAPTER LXI. A SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Gas WHEREAS, it is represented that certain parties residing on Preamble. the easterly side of the river Raritan, and outside the ter ritorial limits of the city of New Brunswick, are desirous to be supplied with gas by the said "the Gas Light Company of the city of New Brunswick," and wish said company to be invested with the necessary powers therefor, Company authorized to extend gas mains. Proviso. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the said "the Gas Light Company of the city of New Brunswick " be and they are hereby authorized to continue their gas mains across the said river Raritan, and so far on the easterly side of said river as they may deem expedient and necessary to supply gas to persons living on the easterly side of said river, and to erect gas posts and burners in as full and ample a manner as they have authority under their charter to lay mains and furnish gas to the inhab itants of and in the city of New Brunswick; provided always, that said gas main so to be laid across the said river shall not in any wise interfere with navigation of the basin of the Delaware and Raritan canal, or with the rights of the New Brunswick Bridge company. Approved March 4, 1856. Number of trustees limited. CHAPTER LXII. SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled "An act to authorize the inhabitants of school district number seven, in the township of Pequannock, in the county of Morris, to raise money for school purposes," passed March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the act to which this is a supplement be so altered and amended as to limit the number of trustees to three, who shall be elected in the manner prescribed in section eight of an act entitled "A supplement to the act entitled an act to establish public schools," passed March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. 2. And be it enacted, That the proviso in section seven of be raised by purposes. the act to which this is a supplement which limits the sum Money may ney to be 3. And be it enacted, That the superintendent of public in- School mostruction for the township of Pequannock is hereby required paid over. every year to pay unto the treasurer of said school district number seven the sum of money apportioned by him to said. school district, as soon as the same is received and apportioned by him. make an 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the trea- Treasurer to surer of the said school district to render annually to the nual report. superintendent of public instruction for the township of Pequannock, a full and particular account of all money received by him for school purposes, under authority of this act, and of the objects for which the same have been expended, said account to be rendered on or before the fifteenth day of December in each year. 5. And be it enacted, That wherever in the act to which Act amended this is a supplement, the period of sixteen years is mentioned in connection with the ages of children, it shall be so altered and amended as to read eighteen years. er act repeal 6. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts coming Part of formwithin the provisions of this act, and being repugnant thereto, ed. be and the same are hereby repealed, so far as they relate to or concern the said school district number seven, of Pequannock township. |