security, for the payment of money drawn or endorsed by, or existing against any of its said officers or managers as security for any money loaned by said corporation, unless the same shall have been received in payment of debts due from other parties. 13. And be it enacted, That this shall take effect immediately. Approved March 17, 1870. Names of corporators. Corporate name and object. trustees. CHAPTER CCCCXVII. An Act to incorporate the Eclectic Medical and Surgical College of the State of New Jersey. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That Luke D. Broughton, Thomas Butterfield, John F. Cowen, I. M. Keach, John Williams, C. W. Franklin, James Guthrie, Joseph Smith, George Laymen, and their associates and successors in office, are hereby created a body corporate and politic by the name of "The Eclectic Medical and Surgical College of the State of New Jersey," to be located in Hudson county, in the state of New Jersey, for the purpose of promoting medical science and instruction; and, in that capacity, shall be capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, defending and being defended, as any other body corporate, in any of the courts of this state. Powers of the 2. And be it enacted, That the corporation aforesaid shall constitute the board of trustees, and shall have the power to fill any vacancy which may occur in the board; they shall have a common seal, which they may alter or renew at pleasure; they may purchase, hold and possess real and personal estate to the amount of five hundred thousand dollars; they may hold and dispose of property in their corporate capacity; but the funds of said corporation shall not be used for any other purpose than that declared in the first section of this act, and for the establishment and maintenance of a dispensary and hospital in connection with the college aforesaid. faculty. 3. And be it enacted, That the board of trustees shall ap Trustees to point a faculty which shall consist of at least four professors, appoint a who shall be competent to deliver lectures for the proper instruction of students in the various departments of medical science, which shall include materia medica, obstetrics, medical jurisprudence, practice of medicine and surgery. 4. And be it enacted, That the medical faculty of this May confer college, together with the board of trustees, shall be au- degrees. thorized to confer the degree of doctor of medicine upon such persons as the degree is conferred on by medical colleges generally throughout the United States; but no student shall be allowed to present himself as a candidate for graduation in this college until he shall present to the faculty thereof satisfactory testimonials that he is twenty one years of age and of good moral character; that he has been regularly engaged in the study of physic and surgery with some respectable practitioner for the term of three years, and that he has attended two full courses of lectures in some legally incorporated medical college, the last of which shall have been attended in this college; but it is hereby provided that any individual who is a graduate from any legally incorporated medical college, or any one who may have been, for four years next preceding, engaged in a constant and reputable practice of medicine, and shall have attended one full course of medical lectures in this college, shall be permitted. to present himself as a candidate for graduation before the faculty and board thereof, on testimony whereof a diploma shall be provided and signed by the president, secretary and faculty of said college, to which shall be affixed its corporate seal, and which shall have the same force and effect as a license to practice physic and surgery as are given by law to the license granted by any incorporated medical society or college in this state. 5. And be it enacted, That the faculty and board of trus- Diplomas. tees of this college shall not be permitted to grant a diploma to any applicant, unless an honorary diploma to an eminent practitioner of medicine, or a diploma ad eundem, until such applicant shall have passed a thorough, critical and impartial examination, which examination shall be made by said faculty, and shall include the various departments of medical science enumerated in section three of this act. Female students. Sections that shall apply to female students. Quorum. Name of the society. 6. And be it enacted, That the board of trustees and faculty shall have the power to organize a class of female students, who shall be taught all the departments of medicine, surgery and obstetrics, also be examined in each department similar to the male student, but the female students shall be taught obstetrics, and certain parts of anatomy, physiology and surgery separate from the male students. 7. And be it enacted, That the whole of sections four and five shall apply equally to female students the same as it applies to male students, the same as if it read she for he, and herself for himself. 8. And be it enacted, That the board of trustees shall consist of not less than three nor more than fifteen members, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for doing business; and those appointed by the first section of this act shall have power to perform all duties which the said board is hereby authorized to perform until their successors shall have been chosen and qualified. 9. And be it enacted, That the faculty and board of trustees shall have the power of organizing a medical society, called "The Eclectic Medical Society of the State of New Jersey;" the particular business and object of said society is the promotion and advancement of the science and art of medicine; that the number of managers to manage the same, shall be not less than five, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; but the said medical society shall be distinct from the said college, and its members shall not claim any control at their mectings over said college, but the transaction of each shall be separate, and kept in separate books. 10. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immedately. Approved March 17, 1870. CHAPTER CCCCXVIII. An Act to facilitate the collection of Taxes in the township of delinquent taxes may be 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Collection of the State of New Jersey, That the township committee of the township of Washington, in the county of Burlington, shall enforced. have power to enforce the collection of all delinquent taxes assessed on any real estate in said township during the years of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, eight and nine, and thereafter, by exposing the same for sale, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to pay said tax and the costs thereon, at public vendue, to the person or persons who will take the least quantity of said land, to be laid out in one body and to commence at some designated corner of the premises on which said delinquent taxes are claimed to be due, and in case where the said committee may deem it for the interest of the township, they may authorize the treasurer of the township to appear at and bid on such lands as are offered for sale as aforesaid in the name of the township; the lands so sold to him, if any, to be the property of said township. to 2. And be it enacted, That no land shall be sold by virtue Return of unof this act until the township collector shall have make a re- paid taxes, turn to the township committee that the taxes assessed on said the collector. lands are unpaid, and have by him been returned as delinquents, and shall verify the same by his affidavit attached thereto, and the collector neglecting or refusing to make such return and affidavit on or before the annual township meeting for the election of officers, shall be liable to the township all of said unpaid and delinquent taxes not so returned. turn to be re 3. And be it enacted, That within ten days after the said Copy of rereturn, by the collector of the township, the township com- corded. mittee shall cause a copy of said return to be recorded in the clerk's office of said township, and a copy thereof to be posted in at least three public places in said township, one of said places to be at the place where the last election of said township was held, the same to be certified to and signed by the committee of the township. Copy of re turn shall be published. be at public vendue. sale. 4. And be it enacted, That after the expiration of twenty days, the township committee shall cause a certified copy of the said return and affidavit of the collector to be published in one or more newspapers published in said, county, at least six weeks, specifying the time and place where the same will be sold at public vendue, as aforesaid, for the collection of said. returned and delinquent taxes. Sale of land to 5. And be it enacted, That on the day mentioned in said notice, or on some adjourned day thereof, the chairman of the said committee shall, at the hour named in said notice, proceed to sell the several tracts or parcels of land returned and unpaid, and in the order so returned, at public vendue, as aforesaid, to the person or persons who will take the least quantity of said premises so offered, and pay the amount of said delinquent taxes with the cost of advertising and sale. Certificate of 6. And be it enacted, That immediately after such sale the township committee shall execute and deliver to such person or persons who may become the purchasers of said lands, a certificate of such sale, describing the piece or several pieces sold, as the case may be, together with the amount paid for the same, entitling the holder thereof to a deed of the premises so sold; provided, that the owner or owners of the said land or lands, do not within six months from the date of said certificate, appear before the said committee and deposit with them, for the purchase of said land, the amount so paid by him, together with fifteen per centum interest, in which case the said certificate shall be deemed to be cancelled, and the amount so received shall on demand be paid to the party holding and owning such certificate. Proviso. Time within which land may be redeemed. Quorum. 7. And be it enacted, That if at the expiration of six months from the time of said sale, the owner or owners of any land so sold does not appear to redeem said land as aforesaid, then the said township committee shall execute to the holders and owners of said certificate a deed of the premises, described therein in their corporate name, the party receiving said deed to bear the expense of the revenue stamps and the acknowledging of the same, and on the delivery of said deed, the sale shall be final, and the title of such lands pass irrevocably to the holders thereof. 8. And be it enacted, That a majority of the said committee shall constitute a quorum for the purposes of this act, and may adjourn from time to time as they shall judge proper. |