ACCEPTANCE BY THE JOINT COMPANIES OF THE LAW OF 1854. In compliance with the requisitions of the seventh section of the act entitled "A further supplement to the act entitled 'an act relative to the Delaware and Raritan Canal and the Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies,"" the following certified copy of the acceptance of the provisions of said law by the said companies is here published : WHEREAS, the legislature of the state of New Jersey did on the sixteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-four, pass an act entitled "A further supplement to the act entitled an act relative to the Delaware and Raritan Canal and the Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies;'" and whereas, the seventh section of the said act enacts "that this act shall take effect as soon as the joint board of directors of the said two companies, and the board of directors of each of the said companies, respectively, shall certify their acceptance of this act as a supplement to and part of the charter of the said companies, under the hands of the president and secretary and the corporate seal of the said joint companies, and of each of the said companies respectively, and file the same in the office of the secretary of state of this state, who in such case shall cause a certified copy of such certificate of acceptance to be published in connection with this act, among the laws of this state, which publication shall be deemed competent and plenary evidence of such acceptance; and in case such certificate of acceptance be not filed within three months from the passage of this act, then this act shall be void." Be it therefore HEREBY CERTIFIED, that the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company, and the Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company, do accept this said act as a supplement to and part of the charter of said companies. Witness the hands of the president and secretary and the seal of the said joint companies, and the hands of the president and secretary, and the seal of the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company, and the hands of the president and secretary, and the seal of the Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company, this seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. JOHN L. McKNIGHT, [L. S.] President of the Joint Board JAS. S. GREEN, Secretary of Joint Board. R. F. STOCKTON, [L. S.] President Del. and Raritan Canal Co. J. R. THOMSON, Secretary D. & R. Canal Co. ROBT. L. STEVENS, [L. S.] President C. & A. R. R. & Transportation Co. SAMUEL J. BAYARD, Sec. C. & A. R. R. & Tr. Co. Endorsed, Filed June 1, 1854. THOS. S. ALLISON, Secretary of State. STATE OF NEW JERSEY, I, THOMAS S. ALLISON, Secretary of state of the state of New Jersey, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the certificate of acceptance by the Delaware and Raritan Canal and the Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies of the law of said state passed the sixteenth day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, entitled "A further supplement to the act entitled an act relative to the Delaware and Raritan Canal and the Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies," " as taken from and compared with the original now on file in my office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at the city of Trenton, in said state, this first day of June, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, (1854.) [L. S.] THOS. S. ALLISON, Secretary of State. CONTENTS. 1. A supplement to the act entitled "An act to in- corporate the Flemington Railroad and Transpor- tation Company," approved February twenty- second, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, 2. An act to incorporate the Bordentown Hall Associ- 3. An act to authorize William Clinton, Jr., and Richard C. Wilson, to build, maintain and keep in repair a dock or wharf in front of their land, in the borough and township of Bordentown, adjoining the waters of Crosswicks creek, with the privilege of erecting 4. An act relative to the daming of English's creek, in 5. An act to change the name of Henry Huntington Smith to Henry Smith Huntington, 6. An act to authorize the "Trustees of the First Pres- byterian Church of Bordentown," in Burlington county, to sell a part of their church lot, 7. A further supplement to the act entitled "An act to ascertain the times and places of holding certain 9. An act to incorporate the Newark Wesleyan Insti- 18 10. An act to incorporate the Salem County Agricultural 21 |