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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 imme

diately.

Passed March 11, 1868.

CHAPTER CLII.

An Act to incorporate Wildey Lodge, Number Ninety-one,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Camden, New
Jersey.

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 gift, demise or bequest.

Ninety-one, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Camden, New Jersey," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be able to sue 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 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
City Passenger Railway Company."

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Reviving ori the 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

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virtue of a deed made to them by Thomas McDonald of said
place, bearing date June twenty-third, eighteen hundred and
fifty-four, and for that purpose to make, execute and deliver
a good and sufficient deed of conveyance therefor to the pur-
chaser or purchasers of the same, and that such deed of con-
veyance shall be good and effectual in law.

2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect imme-
diately.

Approved March 11, 1868.

Corporators.

Name.

Objects

CHAPTER CLV.

An Act to incorporate the Vineland Safe Deposit Company.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That Edwin M. Turner, William A. House, Willis T. Virgil, and such other persons as may be associated hereafter with them, their successors and assigns, shall be and they are hereby constituted and declared to be a body politic and corporate, in fact and in law, by the name, style and title of the "Vineland Safe Deposit Company,' and by that name, style and title shall be capable of purchasing, holding, leasing and conveying any lands, tenements, goods or chattels necessary or proper for the objects of the corporation hereby created, with power to have, use and adopt a common seal, and to alter and change the same at any time, to sue and be sued, to defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity, with the power and privilege to receive and hold on deposit and in trust moneys, including the notes, bonds, obligations, bills of exchange, drafts, and accounts of estates and individuals, and of companies and corporations, and the same to purchase, collect, adjust and settle, and also to sell and dispose thereof in any market in the United States or elsewhere, and to receive on deposit for safe keeping stocks, United States bonds and money, upon terms to be prescribed by the by-laws of said company, and to pay or deliver the same upon orders or checks drawn by the person or persons in whose name they are deposited or left, and to collect

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coupons of United States bonds, or interest due upon obligations when authorized so to do by parties depositing the same, to draw drafts, and to do a general exchange, commission and collecting business.

2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of said corporation shall be ten thousand dollars, with power to increase the same by a vote of the board of directors to one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, which shall be deemed personal property; and the said company may organize and commence business whenever ten thousand dollars shall have been subscribed and fifty per cent. thereof paid in in cash; all stock subscribed shall be paid in at such times and upon such notice as the board of directors of said company may direct.

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3. And be it enacted, That the business of said corporation Powers of dishall be managed and conducted by a board of directors of not rectors. less than three nor more than five in rumber, who shall be stockholders in said company, and at the first meeting after every election they shall elect one of their number president, and shall have power to appoint such other officers and agents as they may deem necessary; said board of directors shall hold their office for one year and until others are chosen in their places.

4. And be it enacted, That the directors shall be elected at Directors, and the annual meeting of the stockholders, which shall be held how elected. on the fourth Tuesday in December in each and every year, at such hour and place as the by-laws of said company may direct; and until such annual election shall take place the persons named in this act shall be the directors of said corporation, a majority of whom shall be competent to transact business.

elect directors

5. And be it enacted, That in case an election for directors Failure to shall not take place upon the day herein designated for that not to dissolve purpose, the corporation shall not be deemed dissolved, but the stockholders may proceed to hold an election on any other day, ten days' previous notice of the time and place of said election having been first given, at which election and at all meetings of the company each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote in person or by proxy for each share of stock held, and that the principal office of said company shall be at Vineland, Cumberland county, New Jersey.

6. And be it enacted, That the officers of said company shall be required to file in the office of the state treasurer bonds of

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