Additional

tax to be assessed.

CHAPTER CCLXXII.

A supplement to an act entitled "An act to raise money in the several townships of Cumberland county, New Jersey.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the assessor of Millville township, Cumberland county, be and hereby is authorized and required to assess with other township tax, and the collector of said township is authorized and required to collect from the inhabitants of said township, in the same manner and at the same time that other taxes are collected, the sum of three thousand dollars, ordered by the annual town meeting, held March tenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three; the said sum of three thousand dollars to be placed under the control of the township committee, and be paid by them to the Millville volunteers, in the army of the United States. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 25, 1863.

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CHAPTER CCLXXIII.

AN ACT to authorize the inhabitants of School District, Number Two, in the township of Union, and county of Camden, to raise money to build school houses and for the support of public schools.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Issue bonds. the State of New Jersey, That the said trustees of the second school district of the township of Union, in the county of Camden, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds in their corporate name and under their common seal, for any sum not exceeding three thousand dollars ($3,000), redeemable in sums of three hundred dollars,

($300,) yearly, said bonds not to be of a less amount than one hundred dollars each, bearing interest at six per centum per annum, and not subject to taxation.

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

Approved March 25, 1863.

CHAPTER CCLXXIV.

Supplement to an act entitled "An act to make taxes a lien on real estate, and to authorize sales for the payment of the same.

taxes to be a

land, &c.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the Assessment of State of New Jersey, That any assessment of taxes made in this en upon state against any person or persons or corporation on account of any lands, tenements, hereditaments or real estate of such person or persons or corporations, shall be and remain a lien on all the lands, tenements and hereditaments or real estate, on account of which said assessment shall be made, with lawful interest thereon accruing, and all costs and fees in relation to said assessment and collection thereof, for the space of two years from the time when the taxes so as aforesaid assessed were payable; and in case any such assessment of taxes, together with the interest thereon, and the costs and fees as aforesaid, shall remain unpaid for the space of four months after the said taxes were payable, then it shall be lawful for the township committee of the township in which said assessment has been made, or a majority of them, to proceed for the collection of the same in the manner prescribed in and by the several provisions of the act to which this is a supplement; all which proceedings shall be as valid and effectual as in cases of assessment under said act.

be redeemed.

2. And be it enacted, That in all cases of sale made of any Property may real estate, in pursuance of this act and the act to which this is a supplement, the owner or owners thereof shall have the right to redeem the same after the expiration of one year from the time of such sale, by paying the amount paid by the purchaser therefor, with twelve per cent. interest thereon,

and the purchaser, upon payment thereof, shall re-convey

and restore to the owner or owners such real estate.

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

Approved March 25, 1863.

Preamble.

Freeholders to construct bridge.

Proviso.

CHAPTER CCLXXV.

AN ACT to authorize the erection of a Bridge over the Rancocas River.

WHEREAS, there is a public road near the bank of the Delaware river, from the city of Burlington, through the towns of Edgewater, Beverly, Delanco, Progress, Cambridge, Riverton and Palmyra, to the city of Camden, with bridges built, or authorized to be built, over all the intervening rivers and streams, except over the Rancocas river-therefore,

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for the board of chosen freeholders of the county of Burlington to construct a good and sufficient bridge over said Rancocas river, at Delanco and Progress, with a suitable draw in the same, of not less than forty feet in width, and in such a way as to give the least obstruction to the navigation of said river practicable; provided, said bridge shall be built at the foot of one of the streets as laid down in "Wilmerton's Lithographed Plan of Delanco ;" and the said board of chosen freeholders shall keep, or cause to be kept at the said bridge, a careful person or persons to open the said draw for the free passage of vessels; and for every willful neglect in opening said draw, when necessary for the passage of any vessel, the said county of Burlington shall forfeit the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered by action of debt before any court of competent jurisdiction, and shall also be liable to an action for damages at the suit of the party aggrieved.

Approved March 25, 1863.

CHAPTER CCLXXVI.

A supplement to an act entitled "An act to prevent the importation of paupers and vagrants into the counties of Burlington, Passaic, Camden, Gloucester and Mercer," approved March twenty-three, eighteen hundred and fifty

two.

Execution

body may is

sue.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of against the the State of New Jersey, That upon the recovery of a judgment for the penalty mentioned in the second section of the act to which this is a supplement, upon the return of an execution or executions issued thereon unsatisfied, it shall be lawful to issue an execution against the body of the defendant in said judgment, and he shall by virtue thereof be imprisoned according to law, and he shall not be released from such imprisonment before the expiration of one year, unless it shall satisfactorily appear to the court to which he may apply to be released either that he has paid the amount of said judgment and all costs, or that he has removed the said person which by the order he was directed to do, or that he is unable to make such removal.

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

Approved March 25, 1863.

AN ACT providing for the erection and repair of workshops within the enclosure of the State Prison.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Money approthe State of New Jersey, That the sum of four thousand dol-priated. lars be paid by the treasurer, out of the treasury, to be expended under the direction of the inspectors and keeper, in the repairs and erection of workshops within the enclosure of the state prison.

2. And be it enacted, That an accurate and true account Accounts to

be kept

effect.

of the money expended, and to whom and when paid, shall be kept by the said keeper, and a true copy thereof annexed to his annual report to the legislature.

When to take 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect the tenth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. Approved March 25, 1863.

State tax to be raised, and how appor.

plied.

CHAPTER CCLXXVIII.

A further supplement to the act entitled "An act concerning taxes," approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That there shall be assessed and tioned and ap-levied and collected on the inhabitants of this state, and on their taxable real and personal property, and upon the other objects liable to taxation, a state tax of three hundred thousand dollars, which is hereby appropriated and shall be applied as follows: two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be needful, to the payment of such interest as shall have accrued on the first day of January next and on the first day of July next thereafter, on the loan authorized by an act entitled "An act authorizing a loan for the purposes of war, to repel invasion and suppress insurrection, and appropriating the same, and providing for the payment thereof," approved May tenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one; and the residue thereof shall be applied and added to the sinking fund provided for by the fifth section of said act towards the payment of the principal of said loan; and one hundred thousand dollars of the said tax shall be applied, so much thereof as may be needful, to the payment of any other indebtedness of the state, and the residue thereof to any other uses of the state; which said state tax shall be and the same is hereby apportioned to and among the several counties of this state as follows, that is to say:

To the county of Atlantic, the sum of one thousand eight hundred and nine dollars;

To the county of Bergen, the sum of twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty-six dollars;