bridges, wharves, carriages, machinery or any other works or property of the said corporation, such person or persons shall forfeit or pay therefor to the said corporation, three times the amount of damages sustained by means of such injury, to be recovered in the name of the said corporation, with costs of suit, in any court having cognizance thereof.

15. And be it enacted, That at any time after the expira-State maon tion of thirty-five years from the passage of this act, the legis- appraisement. lature of this state may cause an appraisement of such road, with the appendages thereof, to be made by six persons, three of whom shall be appointed by the chief justice of the state for the time being, and the remaining three by the said corporation, who, or a majority of them, shall report the value thereof to the legislature within one year from the time of their appointment, or if they cannot agree they shall choose the seventh, who or a majority of them shall report as aforesaid, or in case the said corporation shall neglect or refuse to appoint the said three persons on their part for ten months after the said appointment of said chief justice, then the said three persons so appointed by him shall proceed to make the said appraisement, which shall be binding on the said corpo ration or in case the said six commissioners shall be appointed as aforesaid and cannot agree upon the seventh man, then upon two weeks notice to the said corporation, the said chief justice shall appoint such seventh man as aforesaid; and thereupon the state shall have the privilege for two years of taking said road, and upon payment to the corporation of the amount of said appraisement within one year after electing to take said road, which report shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state, and the whole property and interest of said road and the appendages thereof, shall be vested in the state of New Jersey upon the payment to the said company of the amount so reported; provided, that the said valuation shall in no case Proviso. exceed the first cost of the said road with the appendages thereof, and no person who is a stockholder or stock owner in said company shall be commissioners.

16. And be it enacted, That if the said railroad shall not be Limitation. commenced within five years and be completed and in use within ten years from the fourth day of July next ensuing, then and in that case this act shall be void.

be paid to the

17. And be it enacted, That from and after the said rail- Annual tax to road shall be in operation the said corporation shall pay to state. the treasurer of this state a tax of one-half of one per centum

on the capital stock of said road, to be paid annually thereafter on the first Monday in January of each year, and such other tax as may be assessed from time to time by a general law applicable to all railroads over which the legislature shall have power for that purpose at the time of the passage of such law or laws.

Approved April 9, 1868.

Capital stock may be iu

creased.

CHAPTER CCCCIV.

A Supplement to the "Act to incorporate the Hackensack
Gas Light Company."

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the Hackensack Gas Light Company be and they are hereby authorized to increase their capital stock to a sum not exceeding eighty thousand dollars. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved April 9, 1868.

Repealer.

CHAPTER CCCCV.

An Act to repeal an act entitled "An Act to extend the provisions of an act entitled 'An Act to authorize the inhabitants of the township of Clinton, in the county of Hunterdon, to vote by b llot at their town meetings,' approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to the township of Tewksbury in said county."

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the act entitled "An Act to extend the provisions of an act entitled 'An Act to authorize

the inhabitants of the township of Clinton, in the county of Hunterdon, to vote by ballot at their town meeetings,' approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to the township of Tewksbury, in said county," approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be and the same is hereby repealed.

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

Approved April 9, 1868.

CHAPTER CCCCVI.

An Act to incorporate the Medford Cranberry Company.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Corporators. the State of New Jersey, That William Braddock, junior, Job Braddock, Thornton Conrow, Samuel W. Tilton and John A. Emrick, and all such persons as may hereafter be associated with them, their successors and assigns, be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, in fact and in law, by the name of "The Medford Cranberry Company," Name. for the purpose of buying, holding, cultivating and improving lands in the county of Burlington, and for raising and selling cranberries and other fruit, and other produce of said lands, and carrying on the business connected therewith, and erecting such buildings and holding such personal property as may be necessary therefor, and that they and their successors by the same name may sell, grant, alien, mortgage and dispose of the said lands, tenements and hereditaments, cranberries, produce, fruit, goods and chattels, or any part thereof.

2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of said com- Capital st. ek. pany shall be fifty thousand dollars, with the privilege of increasing to one hundred thousand dollars, which shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and that subscriptions to the capital stock may be paid in real and personal estate, in a valuation to be agreed upon by a majority of the directors, and the said corporation may issue stock in payment therefor; and that the subscriptions for stock shall

tors.

be opened in the village of Medford, in Burlington county, at such time as the directors may designate, under their direction, or that of such persons as a majority of them may select. Conducted by 3. And be it enacted, That the affairs of said corporation board of direc- shall be managed by a board of five directors, one of whom shall be president, and a majority of whom shall have all the powers of the board, and they shall hold their office for one year and until others are elected in their stead, and shall have power to make by-laws for the government and management of said corporation, and shall hold their meetings at such times and places in this state, or elsewhere, as the by-laws may provide; and that until an election for directors shall be held the persons named in the first section of this act shall be directors.

Stock transferable.

4. And be it enacted, That the stock of said corporation shall be deemed personal estate, and shall be transferable in such manner as the by-laws may prescribe.

5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 9, 1868.

Saloons required to take out license.

Council authorized to

CHAPTER CCCCVII.

A Supplement to an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Town of Clinton, in the townships of Clinton, Franklin and Union, in the county of Hunterdon," approved April fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That all saloons located within the corporate limits of the town of Clinton, in the county of Hunterdon, where any vinous or malt liquors are kept and sold to be drank on the premises, shall be required to take out license, in the same manner and upon the same terms, and be subject to the same penalties and liabilities that inns and taverns are subject to under the laws of this state.

2. And be it enacted, That the common council of the said town grant license. of Clinton shall have power, and they are hereby authorized

to grant license upon due application made to said council at least two weeks before it is finally acted upon, to any person or persons applying for such license, if in the judgment of the said common council the granting of a license to such person or persons so applying will conduce to the public good.

out

3. And be it enacted, That any person or persons keeping Penalty for a saloon within the corporate limits of the said town of Clin-selling withton, where any vinous or malt liquors shall be sold to be drank upon the premises, without first having obtained a license therefor, as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail of said county not less than twenty nor more than forty days, or both, in the discretion of the

court.

have power to

4. And be it enacted, That whenever any license shall be Council shall granted to any person or persons aforesaid, it shall operate revoke license only as to the person licensed, and not to the house; and the said common council of the said town of Clinton, upon written complaint to them, made by any citizen of said town, when sitting as a council, and upon due proof before said council, of the charges in said complaint made, shall have full power to revoke and annul the license by them granted to any person or persons against whom said complaint shall be made; and if any person or persons whose license shall be revoked and annulled as aforesaid shall continue to sell any vinous or malt liquors to be drank upon his, her or their premises, the person or persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to the pains and penalties prescribed in the third section of this act; provided, that the person or persons against whom any Proviso. written complaint shall be made as aforesaid, shall be served with a copy of said complaint, duly attested by the mayor and clerk of said town, at least one week before action shall be taken thereon, and that the person or persons so complained of shall be heard before said common council, either in person or by attorney, unless he, she or they shall waive a hearing.

under seal.

5. And be it enacted, That each license granted by virtue of License to be the provisions of this act shall be under the hand and seal of' the mayor of said town of Clinton, and attested by the clerk of said town.