Part of former act repealed. necessary materials, it shall and may be lawful for the overseer of the highways within whose limits and division the same may be, and the two chosen freeholders of the said township, or the major part of them, to direct such bridge to be built, rebuilt, or repaired, and to superintend or contract for the doing thereof; and for defraying the amount of the said expense, not exceeding the sum aforesaid, the director of the said board of chosen freeholders shall draw on the county collector, who is hereby authorized and directed to pay such order out of any county moneys in his hands. SEC. 3. So much of the first section of the act to which this is a supplement, as conflicts with the provisions of this act, and also the whole of the second and third sections of the said act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act shall go into operation on the second Wednesday of May next. Approved, March 20, 1845. A supplement to the act entitled, "An act concerning justices of the peace and courts of general quarter-sessions," passed the twenty-second day of November, seventeen hundred and ninety-four. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows: SEC. 1. The judges for the time being of the respective inferior courts of common pleas in and for the several counties of Courts of general quarter-ses- this state, or any three or more of them, shall, by virtue of sions, how con- this act, constitute the courts of general quarter-sessions of the peace in and for said counties, respectively; and such courts. shall have the same power and authority as heretofore. stituted. Parts of former SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the pro acts repealed. visions of this act are hereby repealed. Act, when to take effect. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect as soon as it becomes a law. Approved, March 20, 1845. AN ACT to continue county collectors in office, until successors are elected. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows: in office in cer All county collectors hereafter elected, and who shall give County collectbond as required by law, shall continue in office and exercise ors to continue all the rights, and discharge all the duties appertaining thereto, tain contingenuntil their successors are lawfully elected; subject, however, cy. to all laws in force applicable to, or affecting their said office of county collector. Approved, March 20, 1845. A supplement to "An act to establish a uniform standard of weights and measures in this state." BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows: The time mentioned in the second section of the act to Time of former which this is a supplement, passed March thirteenth, eighteen act extended. hundred and forty-four, shall be, and is hereby extended to the term of one year from the passage of this act. Approved, March 20, 1845. A supplement to "An act respecting the court of chancery." BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows: SEC. 1. Hereafter whenever an execution against the property of a defendant shall have been issued on a judgment at law, and shall have been returned unsatisfied, in whole or in part, leaving an amount or balance remaining due exceeding Bill may be filed in chancery for discovery of property. The court to have power to ery. one hundred dollars, exclusive of costs, the party suing out such execution may file a bill in chancery to compel the discovery of any property or thing in action belonging to the defendant in such judgment, and of any property, money, or thing in action, due to him or held in trust for him, except such property as is now reserved by law, and to prevent the transfer of any such property, money, or thing in action, or the payment or delivery thereof to the defendant, except when such trust has been created by, or the fund so held in trust has proceeded from some person other than the debtor himself. SEC. 2. The court shall have power to compel such discovery, and to prevent such transfer, payment, or delivery, and to decree satisfaction of the sum remaining due on such judg compel discov- ment out of any personal property, money, or things in action belonging to the defendant, or held in trust for him, with the exception above stated, which shall be discovered by the proceedings in chancery; provided, that if the personal property, money, or thing in action, which shall be discovered as aforesaid, does not amount to the sum of one hundred dollars, nocosts shall be recovered by the plaintiff against the defendant in such proceeding. Approved, March 20, 1845. township. AN ACT to establish the township of Franklin, in the county of BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows: SEC. 1. All that part of the township of Kingwood, in the Boundaries of county of Hunterdon, lying north of a line to begin at a stone standing in the Kingwood and Delaware line, in the great road near Elisha Warford's farm, and from thence in a straight line to the Alexandria and Kingwood line, in the middle of the great road opposite the school-house near the episcopal church, known by the name of the St. Thomas church, shall be, and the same is hereby set off from the said township of Kingwood, into a separate township, to be called and known by the name of "the township of Franklin." SEC. 2. Wilson Bray, Peter Sigler, and Adams C. Davis, or Commissioners any two of them, are hereby appointed commissioners, to to survey lines. run, survey, mark, and ascertain the said lines, as herein before mentioned; which said commissioners shall, before SEC. 3. The inhabitants of the said township of Franklin Inhabitants inshall be, and they hereby are constituted a body politic and corporated. corporate, in law, and shall be styled and known by the name of "the Inhabitants of the township of Franklin, in the county of Hunterdon," and shall be entitled to all the rights, powers, authority, privileges, and advantages, and subject to the same regulations, government, and liabilities, as the inhabitants of the other townships in the said county of Hunterdon are or may be entitled or subject to by the existing laws of this state. SEC. 4. The inhabitants of the said township of Franklin First annual shall hold their first annual town meeting at the inn of Samuel town meetingTrimmer, in the village of Quakertown, in the said township of Franklin, on the day appointed by law for holding the annual town meetings in the other townships in the said county of Hunterdon. &c. SEC. 5. The town committees of the townships of King- Committees to› wood and Franklin shall meet on the first Monday after the allot property next annual town meetings in the said townships of Kingwood and Franklin, at the inn now occupied by Jacob Moore, in the village of Baptistown, in the said township of Kingwood, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day; and shall then and there, or as soon afterwards as may be, proceed by writing, signed by a majority of the members of each township committee, to allot and divide between the said townships of Kingwood and Franklin all the property and moneys on hand or due, in proportion to the taxable property and ratables, as taxed by the assessor of the said township of Kingwood at the last annual assessment; and the inhabitants of the said township of Franklin shall be liable to pay their just proportion of the debts, if any there be. SEC. 6. The said township committees of Kingwood and Franklin shall, at their first meeting, or as soon after as may be, make division by writing, signed by a majority of the Settlement of paupers. Act, when to take effect. members of each township committee, of the paupers at that time chargeable to the said townships, in proportion to the taxable property and ratables, as taxed by the assessor of the said township of Kingwood at the last annual assessment. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force on and after the first Monday in April next. Approved, March 21, 1845. Preamble. AN ACT to authorize and require John Hall, of the township of Howell, in the county of Monmouth, to pay Catharine Frizaleer certain moneys, therein named. WHEREAS Catharine Frizaleer, of the township of Howell, in the county of Monmouth, in and by her petition, verified by affidavit, represents that her son, the late William Clark, died seized of real and personal estate in said county; and that Samuel Hall, late of said county, deceased, as administrator to the estate of said William Clark, deceased, did sell and dispose of all his said estate according to law, and after paying all the claims against the said estate, there remained in the hands of the said administrator a balance of three hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty cents; and the said William Clark, leaving no issue or lawful heirs to claim, or who have claimed, the said balance, and the said Samuel Hall having paid to the said Catharine Frizaleer the interest and part of the principal of the said balance, to the amount of ninety-two dollars and fifty cents, in his lifetime; and since the death of the said Samuel Hall, the administrator to his estate, to wit, John Hall, of said county, having doubts of the propriety of paying any further of the moneys coming to his hands from the estate of the said William Clark, deceased, to the said Catharine Frizaleer, and it appearing right and proper that she should be benefited by the estate of her son, the said William Clark, deceased, inasmuch as the same remains in the hands of the said John Hall unclaimed by any other person-therefore, BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows: John Hall, administrator of Samuel Hall, late of the township of Howell, in the county of Monmouth, deceased, pay |