members thereof; for the granting of diplomas; for the government of the officers and members thereof; for imposing and collecting fees from patients and students, fines and contributions from members; for regulating the times and places of meeting; for suspension or expulsion of such members as shall refuse or neglect to comply with said by-laws, rules and regulations, and generally for the management and direction of the affairs of said corporation, if not inconsistent with the laws of this state.

4. And be it enacted, That the officers of the said corpo- omcers. ration shall consist of a president, secretary and treasurer, and such officers of the said corporation as the members thereof may think fit from time to time to appoint; that the president, secretary and treasurer for the time being shall be the trustees of the said corporation, and shall continue in office for one year from the time of their appointment or election and until others shall be chosen in their stead.

5. And be it enacted, That Charles S. Bernard shall be the first president, Samuel W. Carey shall be the first secretary, Charles S. B. Beearman shall be the first treasurer, and shall be the trustees thereof until the second Monday in June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and until others shall be elected in their stead as hereinafter provided.

trustees when

6. And be it enacted, That on the second Monday in June, omcers and eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and on the second Monday and how apin June in every succeeding year, there shall be a general pointed. meeting of the members of the said corporation at some convenient place in the city of Hoboken, which shall be notified by the said officers or trustees for the time being in one or more of the public newspapers published in the county of Hudson, at least five days before such meeting, and the members of said corporation who shall so meet, shall elect by ballot the said officers or trustees of the said corporation for one year then next ensuing, which election shall be held by three inspectors, to be appointed for that purpose by the said officers or trustees for the time being, and which inspectors shall be the judges of such election, and certify the persons elected to the respective offices aforesaid.

7. And be it enacted, That the said officers or trustees of the said corporation may demand and take security from their treasurer from time to time, for the faithful performance of the trust reposed in him, in such manner as to them shall

Vacancies, how filled.

Failure to

elect officers

seem fit, and every contract or obligation for that purpose shall be valid in law.

8. And be it enacted, That in case of the death, resignation, neglect or refusal to act of any of said officers or trustees, the members of the said corporation may, at any time of their regular meetings, elect by ballot any other officer or officers in their stead, who shall hold their offices until the next annual election, and until others shall be chosen in their places.

9. And be it enacted, That if an election of the said offinot to dissolve cers or trustees shall not be held in any year at the time appointed for that purpose by this act, the corporation shall not for that cause be dissolved, but the said officers or trustees for the time being shall order such election to be held at such other time and place in said city as to them shall appear proper, giving the like notice thereof as is hereinbefore required in the case of a regular annual election.

10. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately, and shall be favorably construed in all courts and places for the purposes thereby intended, and no misnomer of the said corporation in any deed, grant, gift, devise, bequest, or other instrument, contract or conveyance shall defeat or vitiate the same, if the corporation be sufficiently described to show or ascertain the intention of the parties.

11. And be it enacted, That the legislature reserves the right at any time hereafter to repeal, alter or amend this act. Approved February 20, 1868.

Powers of township committee.

CHAPTER XXX.

Supplement to "An Act to create a new township in the county of Hudson, to be called the township of Weehawken," approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the township committee of the township of Weehawken shall have power to pass, alter and repeal ordinances to take effect within said township for the

following purposes: first, to suppress and punish vice and immorality; second, to suppress riots and disorderly and tumultuous assemblies, and punish all persons engaged therein; third, to prevent and suppress all breaches of the peace, and to punish any party engaged therein; fourth, to prevent and suppress gaming houses, and to prevent and prohibit gaming, and to restrain and punish all mendicants, vagrants, beggars, prostitutes, and persons drunk or disorderly; fifth, to establish and regulate a public pound, and to restrain and regulate the running at large or grazing in public places of any animal, and to authorize the impounding and sale of the same for the penalty incurred and the cost of impounding, keeping and selling the same; sixth, to regulate and prohibit bathing in the adjacent waters; seventh, to establish, regulate and control a day and night police, and to regulate and define the Imanner of their appointment and removal, their duties and their compensation; eighth, to establish and maintain a township prison, and to authorize the commitment thereto of any person violating any ordinance of this township; ninth, to prescribe the duties and compensation of all officers appointed by said committee; tenth, to punish by fine or by imprisonment in the township prison, or by both, all violations of any ordinance of said township, and to provide all ways and means that said committee may judge necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, but no fine shall exceed twenty dollars or imprisonment two days.

2. And be it enacted, That the township committee shall omcers. have power to appoint, by resolution, a keeper of the township prison, a pound-master, and such policemen as they may deem necessary; the chairman of said committee shall be the head of the police of said township, and he may at any time appoint such number of special policemen as he may deem necessary to preserve the public peace; but the said committee may at any time, by resolution, limit the number of said special policemen, the time their appointment shall continue, and their compensation.

tices of the

the ordinances

3. And be it enacted, That any justice of the peace in said Duties of jus township be and he is hereby empowered, on oath or affirma- peace under tion that any person has violated any ordinance of said township, to issue a process, either in the nature of a summons or of a warrant, as he may deem best, against the person violating said ordinance, which process, if a warrant, shall be returnable forthwith, if a summons, within five days, and on the re

Duties of po

licemen constables.

turn of said process, or at any time to which said justice may adjourn the cause, the said justice shall proceed to hear testimony and to determine and give judgment in the matter without the filing of any pleadings, and if judgment is rendered for the township, and the violation of the ordinance. complained of is punished by imprisonment, he shall forthwith commit said person to the township prison for the time specified in said ordinance, and if the punishment is by fine, then he shall forthwith demand payment of said fine and of his costs, and in default of immediate payment, he shall commit said party to the township prison for a period not exceeding two days, but said party shall be discharged at any time by payment to the keeper of the prison of the amount of said. fine and costs; in case of an adjournment, the justice may take bail for the party's appearance at the adjourned day, and in default of bail may commit said party to the township prison until the adjourned day.

4. And be it enacted, That any policeman or constable of erman and said township seeing any person or persons violating any ordinance of said township, may at once without summons or warrant, arrest said person or persons, and take him or them before a justice of the peace in said township, who shall thereupon take the oath or affirmation of said officer, and thereafter proceed as if said person or persons had been brought before said justice by a warrant regularly issued by him for a violation of any ordinance of said township.

Ordinances. how posted.

5. And be it enacted, That every ordinance shall be posted in five of the most public places in said township by the clerk thereof, who shall at the expiration of said period, file in his office a copy of said ordinances, signed by himself and the chairman of such committee, with an affidavit of posting as aforesaid annexed thereto, and the said ordinance and affidavit, or copies thereof, certified by said clerk, shall be evidence in all courts and places that said ordinance has been duly passed and posted according to law; all fines collected for violation of any ordinance shall be forthwith paid to the township committee.

6. 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.

Approved February 20, 1868.

CHAPTER XXXI.

A Supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Cumberland County Steamboat Company," approved April third, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

Increase of

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of, the State of New Jersey, That the Cumberland County Steam- capital stock. boat Company be and they are hereby authorized to increase their capital stock to the sum of forty thousand dollars, with the privilege of increasing the same to one hundred thousand dollars.

2. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

3. And be it enacted, That this act shall go into effect immediately.

Approved February 20, 1868.

CHAPTER XXXII.

A Further Supplement to the act entitled "An act to incorporate the Schooley's Mountain Manufacturing Company," passed February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

WHEREAS, by means of death and other cause the corpora- Preamble. tors heretofore appointed under the original act have never organized said company; and whereas, the original act and supplement thereto cannot now be carried into effect without the appointment of new corporators; therefore,

tors.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of New corporathe State of New Jersey, That William W. Marsh, Joseph Heath, Hampton O. Marsh, and William Dellicker, be and they are hereby appointed and declared to be corporators under the said act and supplement thereto, until others may be