board, guideboard or guidepost, or cautionary board, made of wood, stone or metal, erected upon any street, public road, turnpike, plank road or railroad in this state, or shall wilfully or maliciously deface or alter any inscription upon such stone, board or post, shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail, not exceeding three months, or by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or both.

Approved February 25, 1863.

Preamble.

CHAPTER LXXV.

AN ACT to authorize the trustees of "Flemington School District, Number Eight, of Raritan township," in the township of Raritan, in the county of Hunterdon, and state of New Jersey, to convey certain real estate.

WHEREAS, Alexander Bonnell and wife, by their deed, bearing date January first, eighteen hundred and twelve, and recorded in the record of deeds in the said county of Hunterdon, in volume nineteen of deeds, pages two hundred and nine and two hundred and ten, did grant and convey unto Thomas Capner, Jonathan Hill, James Clark, junior, Peter Haward, and John Maxwell, junior, and their successors, trustees of the Flemington Academy Association, in the village of Flemington, a certain lot or parcel of land, in the said deed particularly described, containing forty-five hundredths of an acre of land, more or less, for the consideration of one dollar, therein specified, upon which said lot of land an academy or school house was built by the inhabitants of Flemington and its immediate vicinity; whereas, the association known as the Flemington Academy Association has ceased to exist for more than thirty years, and by the assent of the then trustees the said lot of land and building was then, and has been ever since, used by the said district, now known as Flemington School District, Number Eight, of Raritan township, (incorporated April eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and recorded in volume three of special deeds, in the clerk's office of said county of Hunterdon,) as the property of the com

mon school of said district; and whereas, another lot has been purchased within the said school district, upon which an academy has been erected by the executors of Daniel K. Reading, deceased, pursuant to a bequest left in the will of said testator, to be presented to the said school district, which academy is sufficient for the accommodation of all the scholars in said school district; whereas, the inhabitants living within the bounds of said School District, Number Eight, at a meeting called for the especial purpose, on the fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixtytwo, pursuant to a legal notice given of such meeting, it was "resolved that the trustees of Flemington School District, Number Eight, of Raritan township, be and they are hereby authorized to sell and convey the school house and lot of land in the village of Flemington, belonging to said district, and apply the proceeds of the sale of said lot, in the purchase of another lot of land within this district, in conjunction with the executors of Daniel K. Reading, deceased, for the erection of another school house;" the possession of the lot hereby authorized to be sold is to be given to the purchaser thereof, whenever the new school house is finished and surrendered by the executors of Daniel K. Reading, deceased, to the said trustees; whereas, the said trustees, as directors, did advertise the said lot of land to be sold at public sale to the highest bidder, at the house of George F. Crater, in Flemington as aforesaid, on the seventh day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and in pursuance of said notice, did sell the same to Atkinson J. Holcomb, for the sum of eight hundred and eighty dollars, he being the highest bidder for the same; therefore, to enable the trustees of the said School District, Number Eight, as aforesaid, to make a good and sufficient title for the said lot of land and premises before mentioned, and for the purpose of removing all doubt as to the validity of the same,

Trustees may

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of, the State of New Jersey, That Thomas C. Haward, Alexan- make title. der V. Bonnell and William B. Swallow, the trustees of Flemington School District, Number Eight, of Raritan township, and county of Hunterdon as aforesaid, and their successors in office, be and they are hereby authorized to convey, by good and sufficient deed, the said lot or parcel of land and premises, in the foregoing preamble mentioned, to Atkinson J. Holcomb, his heirs and assigns, in fee simple, upon his

paying to them the said purchase money, eight hundred and eighty dollars, and in case of his failure to comply with the conditions of said sale, to convey said real estate to any other purchaser.

Approved March 2, 1863.

Preamble.

Action of

trustees to raise money

legalized.

CHAPTER LXXVI.

AN ACT to legalize certain acts of the township committee and inhabitants of the township of South Amboy, in the county of Middlesex, in raising money for the nine months' volunteers for the war.

WHEREAS, the inhabitants of the township of South Amboy, in the county of Middlesex, did, on the twenty-sixth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, assemble and organize themselves into a meeting, and the said meeting, thus assembled, did unanimously vote to borrow a sufficient sum of money to pay a bounty of sixty (60) dollars to each nine months' volunteer to the war; and whereas, the credit of said township was pledged at said meeting, by vote, for the payment of said sum so directed to be borrowed, and to that end the amount required was directed to be assessed and collected from the taxable property of said township; and whereas, at a subsequent meeting of said inhabitants, after eight (8) days' notice being given by the township clerk, at the written request of the township committee, it was voted that five thousand four hundred (5,400) dollars, or as much thereof as may be required, be assessed and collected for the purposes aforesaid, and the said assessment having been made and partially collected, and doubts having arisen as to the legality of the said doings of the township committee and inhabitants of the township of South Amboy-therefore,

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the acts and doings of the township committee and the inhabitants of the township of South Amboy, in the county of Middlesex, mentioned in the preamble to this act, to raise money by assessment and col

lection, a sum sufficient to pay a bounty of sixty dollars to each nine months' volunteer for the war, to make up the quota of men for said township, are valid in all respects, and binding upon the inhabitants and taxable property in said township.

and raise the

borrowed.

2. And be it enacted, That the collector or special collector May assess of the said township of South Amboy have full power and au- amount so thority to collect the said sum so assessed as aforesaid, in the manner now prescribed by the act relative to the collection of taxes in said township, and to pay such sum already collected, or hereafter collected, to the township committee of said township, or upon their order, to the treasurer of the township bounty fund, to be appropriated to the payment of all sums borrowed by the said treasurer, and expended for bounties by him, and the remainder, if any there should be, to be appropriated to the payment of the bounty tax of all volunteers from said township.

2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately, and be taken and held as a public act. Approved March 2, 1863.

CHAPTER LXXVII.

AN ACT to authorize the township of Princeton, in the county of Mercer, to raise by taxation the amount paid by them to procure volunteers from said township.

WHEREAS, the town committee of the township of Princeton, Preamble. Mercer county, have expended the sum of three thousand dollars in the payment of bounties to volunteers in the nine months' military service of the United States; and whereas, the inhabitants of said township, at a town meeting regularly called on the nineteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, resolved, by a unanimous vote, "that the town committee of Princeton township be and are hereby authorized to borrow a sum of money not exceeding five thousand dollars, for the purpose of paying a bounty of fifty dollars to each person from the township who will volunteer for the purpose of avoiding any draft

Money raised by assessment

Poll tax.

upon our citizens during the war; and, that in order to avoid any question as to the legality of raising money for the purpose aforesaid, the township committee are hereby authorized, if they deem it necessary, to memorialize the legislature to legalize these proceedings"-therefore,

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the assessor of the said township of Princeton shall, immediately after the passage of this act, proceed, after being sworn, to assess the sum of three thousand dollars, expended in the payment of bounties to volunteers, and the interest on said sum expended, and the expense incident to the assessing, collecting and paying out of the same, upon the real and personal property of the tax payers of said township, according to the valuation thereof at the last regular assessment, together with a poll tax of fifty cents on each white male inhabitant of said township, above the age of twenty-one years, who is not enlisted in the military service of the United States, and hand the same forthwith to the collector of the township of Princeton; and the collector of said township shall enter into bonds for the faithful performance of the duty hereby enjoined upon him, and shall immediately thereafter give two weeks' notice, by advertisement set up in at least eight (8) of the most public places in the said township, of the said tax, and of the day and place when and where he will receive the same, and within that time shall demand payment of the tax or sum assessed on each individual in said township, in person or by notice left at his or her place of residence; and in case of the nonpayProceedings ment of the said taxes, or any of them, at the time appointed, the collector shall make out a list of the delinquents, with the sum due from them respectively thereto annexed, and deliver the same to a justice of the peace in said township, on or before the eighth day of April next, who shall proceed thereon and issue his warrant in the same manner as is directed and required by law in the collection of other township moneys; and said collector shall require the payment of twelve (12) per cent. per annum additional on each tax from the date of said warrant, together with thirty-six cents cost.

to collect tax.

Yees.

2. And be it enacted, That the assessor of the said township of Princeton shall be entitled to receive six cents, and no more, and the collector of the said township shall be entitled to receive six cents, and no more, for each name in the duplicate, for assessing, levying and collecting the said tax.