CHAPTER CXLIX. An Act to amend "An Act to regulate elections," approved WHEREAS, serious doubts have arisen as to the legality of the Preamble. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall be a public act, and shall take effect immediately. Passed March 11, 1868. the acts of of CHAPTER CL. An Act to amend "An Act to incorporate the town of Union, in the township of Union, in the county of Hudson, approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixtyfour. WHEREAS, the council of said town, April thirtieth, eighteen Preamble. hundred and sixty-six, passed "an ordinance to authorize the construction of a sewer in the Hackensack plank road, from a point one hundred feet westerly of Bergen line road, to a point three hundred and sixty feet easterly from Durar Ordinance valid. Proviso. Repeale r. street;" and whereas, doubts have arisen as to the validity thereof; and whereas, it is desirable that the same should be validated and confirmed; therefore, 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the said ordinance, and all the proceedings of said council thereunder, shall be as valid and effectual in law as if every provision of the town charter had been faithfully and fully complied with, and the same appeared of record on the minutes and proceedings of said council, and no certiorari shall be had or maintained to set aside the same; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall preclude the supreme court from setting aside the assessment made by the commissioners appointed by said council, and named in said ordinance, if in the opinion of said court the said commissioners have not properly assessed the lands and real estate benefited by said improvement in proportion to the benefit received thereby; if said assessment is set aside the council may, by resolution, appoint new commissioners to make a new assessment. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall be deemed a public act, and take effect immediately. Passed March 11, 1868. May make as any time. CHAPTER CLI. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act relating to the assessment and revision of taxes in the city of Newark," approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of sessments at the State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for the board of assessment and revision of taxes in the city of Newark to commence the valuation of property, and perform any of the duties on them enjoined, at any time during each year, that they or a majority of them may deem best to facilitate the making of assessments; and all valuations of property and assessments of taxes for each year in said city shall be considered as made on the first Wednesday in April, and shall constitute a lien upon the lands in respect to which the said assessment was made on and from that date. 2. And be it enacted, That the said board shall have the Clerk. power to employ a permanent clerk, who shall, when not otherwise engaged, assist in the office of the receiver of taxes of said city, and who shall be paid as other clerks employed by them. correction of of property. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said May make board, or for the treasurer of the city of Newark, to make descriptions such corrections in the description of any lands and real estate assessed for taxes as shall be necessary to better ascertain the location and extent thereof; and the taxes assessed upon such lands and real estate shall be and remain a lien upon such lands and real estate according to the said corrected description of the same; provided, that all such corrections Proviso. be made before the public notice is given of the sale of lands and real estate for unpaid taxes. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Passed March 11, 1868. CHAPTER CLII. An Act to incorporate Wildey Lodge, Number Ninety-one, Corporators. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That James A. Parsons, R. H. Patton, Joseph P. Hillman, James W. Wroth, George W. Watson, Thomas McDowell, Henry B. Wilson, Josiah Horn, James Deno, their successors, and all persons who now or hereafter may be associated with them, be and they are hereby incorporated and made a body corporate, in fact and in law, by the name, style and title of "Wildey Lodge, Number Name. property by bequest. Ninety-one, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Camden, New Jersey," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to suc and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity, or elsewhere, and shall be able and capable in law or equity to take and hold to them and May receive their successors, either by grant, gift, devise or lease, any gift, demise or lands or real estate for the purpose of erecting thereon a suitable building or buildings in the city of Camden, and for the transaction of such business as may be connected with the erecting, building, conducting, leasing, or otherwise disposing of such building or buildings; and also to take and hold any goods and chattels, sum or sums of money which may be required for the purposes of said corporation, by gift, grant, bargain, sale, will, devise or bequest, from any person or persons capable of making the same, and to grant, bargain, sell and dispose of the same for the use of said corporation, and generally to do all and singular such matters and things as may be necessary for the well-being and proper management. of the affairs of said corporation, not contrary to the laws of this state or of the United States; provided, that the value of the real and personal estate held by said corporation shall at no time exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars. Proviso. Government vested in trustees. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said corporation to have a common seal, and the same at their will and pleasure to change, alter and renew. 3. And be it enacted, That the government of the said corporation, and the management and disposition of its affairs and property, shall be vested in a board of trustees, who shall be elected annually, at such time and in such manner as the said corporation shall by its by-laws provide; at the first meeting of the trustees after their election in each year, they shall select from among themselves a president, secretary and treasurer. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 11, 1868. CHAPTER CLIII. An Act to revive "An Act to incorporate the Cape Island 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Reviving orithe State of New Jersey, That the act entitled "An Act to in-ginal charter. corporate the Cape Island City Passenger Railway Company," approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty, be and the same is hereby revived. 2. And be it enacted, That the said railroad shall be com- Limitation. menced within five years, and shall be completed within ten years from the passage of this act. route. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Extending company to extend their road into the Lower township of the county of Cape May, and to purchase of private individuals or corporations land upon which to construct said road. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 11, 1868. CHAPTER CLIV. An Act to authorize the Trustees of the Bergen Neck Methodist Episcopal Church of the Town of Bayonne, New Jersey, to sell and convey certain Real Estate. to sell church 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Empowered the State of New Jersey, That the trustees of the Bergen property. Neck Methodist Episcopal Church of the town of Bayonne, Hudson county, or their successors in office, be and hereby are authorized and empowered to sell and convey a certain lot of land, situate in the town of Bayonne, in the county of Hudson, now held by them in trust as the property, or for the use and benefit of the said society, of the said Bergen Neck Methodist Episcopal Church of the town of Bayonne, by |