other roads.

branch or spur, and that the debts contracted in the construction or operating of such branch or spur shall be a lien only upon such branch or spur, together with the locomotives, cars, and other stock, apparatus and machinery used in the construction or operating of the same, in the same manner as if the said branch or spur was owned and operated by a separate and distinct company.

Contract with 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said company to contract with any other corporation, or with any individual, for the transportation of milk, lime, plaster and coal, from any point on their road, or any of its branches, to New York city, or any intermediate point, or to any point on the line of the Morris and Essex Railroad, as now used, or as it may be hereafter extended, upon such terms as may be agreed upon between the contracting parties.

4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved February 4, 1863.

Overseers and guardians

CHAPTER VI.

A supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the
Elizabeth Orphan Asylum Association."

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of may place the State of New Jersey, That it shall and may be lawful for Asylum in the the overseer of the poor of the city of Elizabeth, by the

Penalty for taking them away,

consent of said corporation, to place any poor child who is or shall become chargeable to said city, and for any mother or guardian of any poor child whose father is dead, or whose father has for the space of one year neglected to support the said child or make provision therefor, to place such poor child in the care and custody of said corporation, by writing under his or her hand and seal; and if any person or persons shall entice away or take or cause to be taken away from such care and custody any child heretofore placed, or which shall hereafter legally be placed therein, without the written consent of such corporation, through its proper officers, every such person so offending shall, on due proof thereof before any justice

of the peace of the county of Union, be punished by fine not
less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprison-
ment in the county jail not less than three nor more than six
months; and all fines imposed under the provisions of this
act shall be paid to the treasurer of said corporation for its
use; and such child so enticed or taken away shall be re-
stored to the care and custody of the said corporation.

2. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Children

corporation, as guardian of the children under its care, to
bind out such of the said children, who shall have been under
their care for more than one year, as they may deem ad-
visable; provided, that where the parent of any such child
shall pay anything to the said corporation for its support, the
consent of such parent to the exercise, by the said corpora-
tion, of such control over the said child, shall be required.
Approved February 4, 1863.

bound out.

2

CHAPTER VII.

A further supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorpo-
rate the Newark Lime and Cement Manufacturing Com-
pany," passed February twentieth, eighteen hundred and
forty.

for twenty

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Act extended the State of New Jersey, That the act entitled "An act to years incorporate the Newark Lime and Cement Manufacturing Company," passed February twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty, shall be and hereby is continued and extended for and during the term of twenty years.

2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved February 4, 1863.

When the

minutes to be held the re.

ment.;

CHAPTER VIII.

A further supplement to the act entitled "An act to regulate the practice of the courts of law," approved April fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That in any civil cause which has cord of judg been heretofore or shall hereafter be finally determined, until the clerk of the court shall enter the warrants of attorney, declaration, pleadings, proceedings, and judgment in such cause, as is required by the seventy-seventh section of the act to which this is a supplement, the entry of the verdict or rule for judgment in the minutes of the court, shall be held and taken in the court in which the same is obtained, to be the record of the judgment in such cause, and the same shall be received in evidence in said court, as such judgment, as fully as if the record had been made up and signed as by said section required.

2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take place immediately.

Approved February 4, 1863.

Preamble.

CHAPTER IX.

AN ACT to confirm the acknowledgments and proofs of deeds and other instruments in writing taken by Garret S. Boice.

WHEREAS, it appears to the legislature that Garret S. Boice. was duly appointed, on the nineteenth day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, one of the commissioners to take the acknowledgments and proofs of deeds for the fifth ward, Jersey City, county of Hudson, and state of New Jersey, and was commissioned and sworn into office by virtue of said commission; and whereas, it

appears that said Garret S. Boice thereafter removed his
residence out of said fifth ward, and after such removal,
from ignorance of the laws of this state, continued to take
acknowledgments and proofs, by reason of which defective
acknowledgments and proofs innocent persons may be sub-
ject to great loss therefore,

ments of

to be valid.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Acknowledg the State of New Jersey, That the several acknowledgments Garret S.Boice and proofs of deeds and other instruments of writing, taken and certified by the said Garret S. Boice as commissioner after his removal out of said fifth ward, be and the same are hereby confirmed and declared valid and effectual, in like manner as though the same had been taken and certified by him while residing in the said ward for which he had been appointed.

2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved February 4, 1863.

!

CHAPTER X.

AN ACT to legalize certain acts of the township committee
and inhabitants of the township of Raritan, in the county
of Monmouth, in raising money for volunteers for the war.

WHEREAS, the township committee of the township of Rari- Preamble.
tan, in the county of Monmouth, upon notice given, did
call a meeting of the inhabitants of said township, on the
twenty-seventh day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-
two, and the said meeting thus assembled did unanimously
vote to borrow a sufficient sum of money to pay a bounty
of fifty dollars to volunteers for the war; and whereas, the
credit of the said township was pledged at said meeting,
by vote, for the payment of said sum so directed to be
raised, and to that end the same was directed to be as-
sessed and collected from the taxable property of said
township; and whereas, at a subsequent meeting of said in-
habitants, after eight days' notice, it was voted that five
thousand dollars be assessed and collected for the purposes

Vote of township to be valid.

Collector to collect bounty

Public act.

aforesaid, and the proceedings of the former meetings were ratified in all things; and the said assessment having been made and partially collected, and doubts having arisen as to the legality of the said doings of the township committee and inhabitants of the said township of Raritan -therefore,

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the acts and doings of the township committee and the inhabitants of the township of Raritan, in the county of Monmouth, mentioned in the preamble to this act, to raise money by assessment and collection, a sum sufficient to pay a bounty of fifty dollars to volunteers for the war, to make up the quota of men from said township, are made valid in al all respects, and binding upon the inhabitants and taxable property in said township.

2. And be it enacted, That the collector of the said township of Raritan have full power and authority to collect the said sum so assessed as aforesaid, in the manner now prescribed by the act relative to the collection of taxes in said township, and shall be liable for neglect of duty in respect to said tax, as he is by law for neglect of duty in respect to other taxes.

3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately, and be taken and held as a public act. Approved February 4, 1863.

Freeholders to erect a pil

CHAPTER XI.

AN ACT for the erection of a true meridian line standard in each county of the state, and for the protection of the

same.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of lar with true the State of New Jersey, That it shall be the duty of the

meridian.

board of chosen freeholders of each county of the state, within the space of six months next ensuing after the passage of this act, or in case any new county shall be created at any time hereafter, then within six months of the time when the act creating said county shall have become a law, to