CHAPTER CCCCLXXXIX. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Miners', Manufacturers' and Farmers' Railroad Company," approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-six. act extended. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Provisions of the State of New Jersey, That the provisions of the act entitled "An Act to authorize certain townships in the counties of Somerset, Morris, Essex and Union to issue bonds and to take stock in the Passaic Valley and Peapack Railroad Company," approved April fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be extended to the said townships situate along the route of the said Miners', Manufacturers' and Farmers' railroad or contiguous to the said railroad or any of its branches. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 16, 1868. CHAPTER CCCCXC. An Act relative to publishing the statute laws. lished in Nix authority of 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of statutes pubthe State of New Jersey, That it may be set forth on the title on's Digest by page of Nixon's Digest of the Laws of New Jersey that the legislature. statute laws of this state are published therein under the authority of the legislature. Approved April 16, 1868. Judge to take bond. CHAPTER CCCCXCI. Supplement to "An Act to establish the Mercantile Court of the city of Newark." 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of oath and give the State of New Jersey, That the judge of the said court shall be required to take the oath required by law to be taken by justices of the peace, and be subject to the requirements of law in reference to justices of the peace in regard to commitments and recognizances, and shall give a bond similar to that required of a justice of the peace in the penal sum of three thousand dollars. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 17, 1868. Marital rela disqualify being a wit CHAPTER CCCCXCII. A Supplement to the act entitled "An Act concerning wit nesses," approved April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of tionship not the State of New Jersey, That in all suits at law or in equity, hess in suits brought by, or in behalf of, or against a married woman, the for or against marital relationship shall be no disqualification to her or husband being a witness in said suit. a married woman. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 17, 1868. CHAPTER CCCCXCIII. Supplement to an act entitled "An Act to revise and amend the charter of the city of Elizabeth," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three money that rowed, and 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Amount of the State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for the city may be bor council of the city of Elizabeth, in addition to the loans now how applied. authorized by the charter of the said city and the supplements thereto, to borrow the sum of seventy thousand dollars to be applied to the payment of the floating debt of said city, . thirty-two thousand dollars to be applied to the payment of the debt incurred in the building, completion and furnishing of the market house, and ten thousand dollars to be applied to the payment of the debt incurred for fire engines, and that the city council may issue the bonds of the said city to secure the payment of the said loan, as provided in the supplement to the city charter, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and may provide by tax for the payment thereof, and the said amount shall be included in the general debt of said city; provided, that the interest and at Proviso. least one thousand dollars of the principal of said loan shall be raised by tax in each year, and paid into the sinking fund of the said city until the full amount shall be raised. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 17, 1868. Rates of toll. Road may be extended. Repealer. CHAPTER CCCCXCIV. A Supplement to the act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Holmdel and Middletown Point Turnpike Company," approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That it shall and may be lawful for the said company to demand and receive for travelling the said road the following rates, to wit: for every carriage, sleigh or sled drawn by one beast one cent per mile; for every additional beast one cent per mile; for every horse and rider or led horse or mule one cent; for every dozen of calves, sheep or hogs, one cent; for every dozen of horses, mules or cattle, four cents per mile 2. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said company to extend the road to the village of Holmdel under the conditions named in the charter. 3. And be it enacted, That anything in the original act inconsistent with this supplement be and the same is hereby repealed. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 17, 1868. Amendment. CHAPTER CCCCXCV. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An Act relative to Commissioners for taking the Acknowledgments and Proofs of Deeds," approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the third section of the further supplement to the act to which this is a supplement, approved March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be and the same is hereby amended by striking out the word April and inserting May. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 17, 1868. CHAPTER CCCCXCVI. An Act to incorporate the Mutual Security Fire Insurance 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Corporators. the State of New Jersey, That Henry S. Little, Gordon D. White, Daniel B. Strong, William L. Terhune, Tunis Hubbard, Charles W. Fountain, William S. Horner, Henry W. Johnson, David H. Wyckoff, Lawrence Cartan, William Spader, Jacob B. Wooley and Rennselaer W. Dayton, and others, their associates, successors and assigns, shall be and are hereby ordained, constituted and declared to be a body corporate and politic, in fact and in name, by the name of the "Mutual Security Fire Insurance Company," for the pur- Name. pose of insuring their respective dwelling houses, stores, shops and other buildings, household furniture, merchandise and other property, against loss or damage by fire; and by that name, they and their successors may have succession, and shall have power to sue and be sued, and to defend and be defended in all courts, either in law or equity; and by that name may also have, purchase, possess and enjoy to them and to their successors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, goods, chattels, and effects of what nature and kind soever, necessary for the purpose of this corporation, and the same may grant, demise, alien and dispose of at pleasure, for the benefit of said company; and also may have a common seal, and alter and renew the same at pleasure; and also, may make and establish such by-laws and regulations as to them shall seem necessary and expedient for the well ordering and government of said institution, and put the same in execu |