CHAPTER CCCCXCIII.

A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the town of Harrison," approved March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Amendment: the State of New Jersey, That section twenty-four of the act

to which this is a further supplement, be amended by striking out the words, "some of the owners," inserting in the place thereof, the following words, "the owners of a majority of the lineal frontage."

Repealer. 2. And be it enacted, That the provisions of any act inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

3. And be it enacted, That this act shall be deemed a public act, and take effect immediately. Approved April 3, 1872.

CHAPTER CCCCXCV.

An Act to provide and maintain a Home for the Friendless in the city of Newark.

Preamble. WHEREAS, a number of persons, inhabitants of the city of Newark and its vicinity in this state, have formed an association or society, assuming the name of "The Association to provide and maintain a Home for the Friendless," the object of which is to save children and other erring persons from a life of vice and sin, to educate and train them up to lives of usefulness and industry, and to secure for them proper homes and employment; and whereas, it is apprehended that the objects of the said association will be promoted by an act of incorporation,

powers.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That Thomas B. Peddie, James L. Corporators. Hayes, William M. Pierson, David C. Dodd, jun., Mrs. Mary H. Crane, Mrs. Ann Degroot, William Price, Elias Francis, Benjamin F. Atha, Mrs. Osee M. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Catharine Boylan, Marcus L. Ward, Lewis Heller, Cyrus Edwards, Elkanah Drake, Mrs. Eliza S. Skinkle, Mrs. Eliza A. Sanders, J. M. Ward and their associates are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, in fact and law, by the name of The Association to provide and maintain a Home for the Name and Friendless," in the city of Newark, and by that name they and their successors shall have perpetual succession, power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in all courts and places, to make a common seal, and the same to change at pleasure, and to purchase, take, have, hold, receive and enjoy any lands, tenements or hereditaments in fee simple or otherwise, and any goods, chattels, legacies, donations, annuities or other personal property, of what kind or quality soever, by gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise, and the same to grant, convey, assign, sell or otherwise dispose of for the purposes of said corporation; pro- Proviso. vided always, that the net yearly income of such estate shall at no time hereafter exceed in value the sum of ten thousand dollars, nor be applied to any other purposes than those for which this corporation is formed.

tees.

2. And be it enacted, That the property, estate and con- Board of truscerns of the said corporation shall be conducted by a board of eighteen trustees, to be elected by a plurality of ballots of such persons as by the constitution and by-laws of said association, are or shall become members thereof and present at such election; which election shall be held on the first Monday in March of each and every year after the present year; provided however, that the persons whose names are herein Proviso. above mentioned shall constitute the board of trustees of said corporation until the first Monday of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three; and shall be arranged into classes of six persons each; the first six persons herein named to compose the first class, the second six the second class, and the third six the third class; the members of the first class shall go out of office on the first Monday of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three; those of the second class, on the first Monday of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four; those of the third

Proviso.

Election of board of lady managers.

Trustees to receive all child

ted as va

grants, &c.

class, on the first Monday of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five; on the first Monday of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and on each and every year thereafter, there shall be elected six trustees, to succeed those whose term of office shall expire, who shall hold their office for three years, or until others shall be elected in their stead; which elections shall be held under the direction of the trustees for the time being, at such place, and upon such notice as they shall think expedient; and in case any vacancy shall happen in the said board by death, removal, resignation or otherwise, such vacancy may be filled by the said board for the remainder of the term, or until the next election; and further provided, that if an annual election shall not take place on the stated day for that purpose, the said corporation shall not thereby be dissolved, but the members of said board shall continue in office until a new election, which shall be had at such time and place, and after such notice as the said board shall prescribe.

3. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of assisting said board of trustees, and in order the more effectually to attain the objects of said corporation, there may be elected, at the first or at any subsequent election of trustees in manner aforesaid, in such manner as said board shall prescribe, a board of lady managers, consisting of thirty or more persons, who shall hold office for the time, and in the manner directed or to be directed by the constitution and by-laws of said associa tion.

4. And be it enacted, That said board of trustees shall ren commit have power, in their discretion, to receive and take into their home to be established by them all such children as shall be taken up or committed as vagrants or convicted of criminal offences, within the limits of the city of Newark, as may in the judgment of the court of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery, the court of general quarter sessions in and for the county of Essex, or of any special or other police justice or justices of the city of Newark be proper objects; and the said board of trustees shall have power to place the said children committed to their care during the minority of such children, at such employments, and to cause them to be inChildren to be structed in such branches of useful knowledge as shall be suitable to their years and capacities; they shall have power, in their discretion, to bind out the said children, with their consent, as apprentices or servants, during their minority, to

instructed.

such persons and at such places, to learn such proper trades May bind out and employments, as in their judgment will be most for the to trades. reformation and amendment, and the future benefit and advantage of such children; and amongst the common covenants in the indentures made and agreed upon between the parties, shall be inserted a clause, that the person, persons or firm, to whom any child or children shall be bound as aforesaid, shall cause such child or children to be taught to read and write.

may commit

custody of

5. And be it enacted, That if any child shall be found in Police Justices said city of Newark in a state of want and suffering, or being children to abandoned or improperly exposed or neglected by its parent, trustees. parents, or such other person as may have it in charge, or soliciting charity from door to door, or in any street, highway or public place in said city, such child shall be deemed a vagrant for the purposes of this act only, and the special police justice or justices aforesaid, on competent proof thereof, complaint having been made to him or them by a lawfully authorized agent of said board of trustees, shall commit such child to said board, whose powers and duties over and in respect of said child, shall be the same as in the cases hereinbefore specified.

receive and

females, &c.

6. And be it enacted, That said board of trustees shall have Trustees may power to receive and take as aforesaid all such children as take destitute may be voluntarily entrusted to them, in writing, by their parents or guardians, and such other destitute, friendless and erring females as may apply to them, and be deemed by said trustees proper objects for relief.

parents or

7. And be it enacted, That said board of trustees shall have Trustees may power, whenever any child entrusted or committed to their return child to charge shall be found to have become so degraded and de- guardians. based as to be an improper object for their care and management, to return such child to the parent, guardian or other person entrusting it to them in manner aforesaid, or to the committing court or justice, which court or justice shall have the same power to sentence or otherwise dispose of said child, as they would have possessed under any law of this state or ordinance of the city of Newark aforesaid, before the committing of said child to said board of trustees.

laws.

8. And be it enacted, That said board of trustees may from May make bytime to time make by-laws, ordinances and regulations relative to the management and disposition of the property, estate and concerns of said corporation, and the management, gov

Act, how construed

ernment, instruction, discipline, employment and disposition of said children while under their care, not contrary to law, as they may deen proper, and may choose and appoint such officers, agents and servants as they may deem necessary to transact the business of said corporation, and may designate their duties.

9. And be it enacted, That this act shall be and is hereby declared a public act, and that the same shall be construed in all courts and places benignly and favorably for every humane and laudable purpose therein contained.

10. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved April 4, 1872.

out and locate

highway.

CHAPTER DII.

A Supplement to an act entitled "A supplement to an act entitled A supplement to an act to establish a new township in the county of Union, called the township of Linden,' approved March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy," approved April fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Board may lay the State of New Jersey, That "The Linden Road Board" any street or created by and under the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement shall have power, and they are hereby authorized to lay out and locate any street or highway in said township, under the provisions of the tenth section of the act to which this is a supplement, without assessing the damages and benefits accruing as specified in the eleventh section of said act, and file a map of the same in the clerks office of the county of Union, within ten days after the resolution of said. board to lay out and locate any such street; and the said board, for the time being, at any time after, may assess the Assessment of damages and benefits which will accrue from the opening of such road in accordance with the provisions of the eleventh

damages and

benefits.