the State of New Jersey, That the voters in the school district of the island of Secaucus shall, annually on the first Monday in April in each year, by their votes, determine what amount of money shall be raised by taxes in said district for the schools therein, and thereupon, by their moderator and clerk, shall, in writing under their hands, certify the same to the assessor or assessors of the township of North Bergen, whose duty it shall be to assess the same according to law, on the property and inhabitants of the said school district of the island of Secaucus, and the township collector of said township of North Bergen shall collect the same according to law; whose duty it shall be to pay to the town superintendent the amount so raised and collected for schools for said district, to be then appropriated and expended for the support of schools respectively in said district, and not other wise. empt. 2. And be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall District exbe so construed as to prevent the township of North Bergen from raising moneys as heretofore for the support of schools, but no part thereof shall be appropriated to the district of Secaucus, and said district of Secaucus shall be exempt from any taxation for such purpose. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 20, 1863. CHAPTER CCIV. A further supplement to an act entitled "An act to divide the township of North Bergen, in the county of Hudson,' erecting the township of West Hoboken, etc., approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. WHEREAS, the taxable inhabitants of the township of West Preamble. Hoboken, in the county of Hudson, in a public meeting held August twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, (convened under the following call, namely: "NoticeTown Meeting.-The taxable inhabitants of West Hoboken are requested to meet at Library Hall, on Saturday evening at seven and-a-half o'clock, to take into consideration the subject of raising money to encourage enlistments for the war, in this town. By order of the township committee. August twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,") did pass the following resolutions, namely: "Resolved (1) by the taxable inhabitants of West Hoboken, in public town meeting assembled, that the township committee be authorized to borrow a sum of money, not exceeding four thousand dollars, to be used as bounty money, and to assist the families of volunteers from West Hoboken; and that said amount, with interest thereon, be assessed upon the taxable property of West Hoboken, and collected in the same manner as is provided by law for the assessment and collection of other township moneys; Resolved, (2) that the township committee and the clerk of the township are hereby appointed a committee to take all the necessary measures to have this action legalized by the legislature of the state of New Jersey ;" and whereas, the township committee of West Hoboken have, in accordance with the foregoing authority, borrowed for the aforesaid purposes, and have issued certain scrip, bonds or certificates of indebtedness therefor, say the sum of one thousand and seventyfive dollars, for the aforesaid purposes; and whereas, the aforesaid township committee have expended for the aforesaid purposes already the sum of one thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars and forty cents; and it appearing that a balance of bounty money is still due to certain of the volunteers from said township; now therefore, Proceedings of 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the proceedings of the township committee of the township of West Hoboken, as set forth in the preamble to this act, be and the same are hereby confirmed; and it may and shall be lawful for the said township committee to borrow, for the aforesaid purposes, including the amount already borrowed as aforesaid, an amount not exceeding two thousand dollars, nor in any event exceeding the sum which may therefor be designated and declared by the citizens of said township, at their next annual town election, and to issue bonds, scrip, or certificates of indebtedness therefor, which said bonds, scrip or certificates of indebtedness shall bear interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, from the date of their issue or issues respectively. committee legalized: raised. Amount to be 2. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of enabling the inhabitants of the township of West Hoboken to provide for the payment of the said volunteers and the said scrip, bonds or certificates of indebtedness, the township committee of said township shall, on or before the eighteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, cause to be served upon the assessor of said township a statement of the amount necessary to be raised for the aforesaid purposes, not exceeding in the whole the one-half part of the sum so designated and declared as aforesaid at said annual town election, which statement shall be certified by the clerk of said township; and thereupon the said assessor shall assess the said sum so mentioned in said statement, upon all the taxable property in said township; and the said sum so assessed shall be collected by the collector of the said township, in the same manner and at the same time as is by law provided for the collection of other public and township moneys in said township; and on or before the eighteenth day of May, in the next succeeding year, the township committee shall serve, or cause to be served, a like statement on said assessor, who shall assess as aforesaid, and which sum so assessed shall be collected as aforesaid, until the whole of the aforesaid amount, not exceeding two thousand dollars, shall have been assessed and raised as aforesaid; provided however, that not more than Proviso. the one-half part of the sum so designated as above stated shall be assessed and raised as aforesaid, for the aforesaid purposes, in any one year. 3. And be it enacted, That the said collector of the town-Collector to ship of West Hoboken shall pay over to the treasurer of said pay moneys. township committee said sum and portions of the same, when so collected by him for the aforesaid purposes, in such manner as other township moneys are and shall be paid over by him to said treasurer, and shall in the first instance be exclusively applied to the payment of the balance still due said volunteers, and thereafter to the payment of said scrip, bonds or certificates of indebtedness, and the interest thereon; and if after all of the aforesaid scrip, bonds or certificates of indebtedness shall have been liquidated and cancelled in full, there shall then remain any surplus of the aforesaid moneys in the hands of the said treasurer or committee, raised for the aforesaid purposes, then the said township committee shall use such surplus, or any part thereof that may be needed, to aid the families of volunteers from the said township who may have become disabled by the casualties of war, if any, while in their country's military service; provided, there shall be Proviso. any family or families of any such disabled volunteers who shall need such aid; otherwise said committee shall use such surplus, if any, for the support of the public or common schools of said township, or for any other purpose or purposes of said township, as shall be deemed best by said committee. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 20, 1863. CHAPTER CCV. A further supplement to an act entitled "An act relating to hawkers, pedlers and petty chapmen. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That in the counties of Camden and Bergen so much of the act entitled a further supplement to "An act relating to hawkers, pedlers and petty chapmen,' passed March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, as relates to the fees to be paid to the county in which the license is granted, fixing the same at twenty dollars, be and the same is hereby repealed, and section second of a further supplement, approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty, fixing the said fees to be paid for each license at fifty dollars, be and the same is hereby repealed so far as relates to the counties of Camden and Bergen, and the said fees shall be one hundred dollars in the counties of Camden and Bergen. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect imme diately. Approved March 20, 1863. CHAPTER CCVI. AN ACT relative to the election of overseers of the highways in the township of Washington, in the county of Mercer. overseers of 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Election of the State of New Jersey, That the overseers of the highway the highway. of the several road districts in the township of Washington, in the county of Mercer, shall be elected by the legal voters of the several districts, as they may be arranged from time to time by the township committee in said township; and for the purpose of carrying this provision into effect, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the said township to give public notice of the time and place of holding the first district road meetings under this act, and which meetings shall be held on the Saturday next previous to the annual town meeting in said township, and shall cause notice thereof to be posted up in some conspicuous place in such district, at least ten days before the time of holding any such meeting, which shall be some convenient place in the district, when and where the legal voters of the township, residing in such road district, shall assemble for the purpose of such election, and at which time and place such legal voters assembled, having been called to order by any legal voter in the road district, shall proceed, viva voce, by the holding up of hands, or by count, to elect a moderator of such meeting by a plurality of votes; and being so organized, the meeting shall proceed, by ballot or viva voce, to elect an overseer of the highway for such road district; and the moderator of each district shall notify the town clerk, at the annual town meeting after such election, in writing, of the election of such overseer, and in case of the failure of any district to elect an overseer, or the person so elected to accept of the appointment, the township committee shall fill such vacancy and furnish a list of the names of such overseers of the highways so elected or appointed to the clerk of the township, and it shall be his duty to publish the same, with the names of the officers and proceedings of said first town meeting after the election of said overseers. ing meetings. 2. And be it enacted, That all subsequent district road Time of holdmeetings in said township shall be called by the clerk of the township, upon notice posted up in some conspicuous place in |