"That the city council shall have power, on every appli cation to keep an inn or tavern or victualling house as aforesaid, to grant or withhold the same, and to revoke, for cause shown, any license whatever granted by said city council; the said city council shall charge for every license granted not less than thirty nor more than two hundred dollars, and may attach such terms and conditions to the license as they may deem proper, and no license shall be granted for a longer term than one year; every license shall be signed by the president and clerk of council and no license shall be delivered until the fee thereof shall be paid to the city clerk, and all moneys received for license shall be paid to the city treasurer for the use of said city," be and the same is hereby repealed.

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4. And be it enacled, That so much of paragraph four of Portion of section thirty of the act to which this is a supplement, pealed. which paragraph is in the following words: "To license and regulate restaurants, victualling houses or cellars, ale and lager beer saloons or gardens, billiard tables and bowling alleys, and to prohibit the keeping of the same except by persons duly licensed" as empowers the city council of the city of Camden to license and regulate restaurants, victualling houses or cellars, ale and lager beer saloons or gardens be and the same is hereby repealed.

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

Approved April 18, 1876.

CHAPTER CLIV.

A further supplement to an act entitled "An act to revise and amend the charter of the town of Harrison," approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That so much of section ten, of the Repealcr supplement to the charter of the town of Harrison, which

supplement was approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, which provides as follows: "No person shall be eligible or shall be appointed or elected to the office of police justice of said town for a second term immediately succeeding the term which he shall have served already," be and the same is hereby repealed.

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

Approved April 21, 1876.

CHAPTER CLXIII.

A further supplement to an act entitled "An act to authorize the inhabitants of the township of Bloomfield, in the county of Essex, to vote by ballot at their town meetings," approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the Recital of Stale of New Jersey, That the sixth section of the supplesection to ment to the act entitled "An act to authorize the inhabitants be repealed. of the township of Bloomfield, in the county of Essex, to vote by ballot at their town meetings," approved February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, which said supplement was approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, which reads as follows:

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"6. And be it enacted, That the annual meeting of the legal voters of the said township, for the election of township officers, shall hereafter be held on the second Monday in March of each year," be and the same is hereby repealed. Approved April 21, 1873.

CHAPTER CXCI.

A further supplement to "An act to revise and amend the charter of the city of Rahway," approved March twentythird, eighteen hundred and sixty-five.

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1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That sections eighteen and twenty Section to of "A supplement to an act entitled 'An act to revise and amend the charter of the city of Rahway,'" approved March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, which said supplement was approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and which said sections read as follows, to wit:

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"18. And be it enacted, That the salaries or fees of all city Recital of and ward officers, whose compensation or fees are defined by law or ordinance, and all demands against said city based on duly authorized contracts signed by the mayor, may be paid on the report of the auditor and treasurer by the warrant of the mayor countersigned by the city clerk, without an order of the common council.

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"20. And be it enacted, That the receiver of taxes and city Recital of treasurer for the said city shall be entitled to receive one and one-half per centum on all moneys received or collected by them, the said per centum to be computed from the commencement of the term of office of the present incumbents, and so much of the sixty-ninth section of the act to which this is a further supplement as authorizes a commission of two per centum on moneys paid into the city treasury is hereby repealed;" be and said sections eighteen and twenty Repealer. are hereby repealed, provided, that this act shall not apply Proviso. to the present incumbents.

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

Approved April 21, 1876.

CHAPTER CXCIX.

An act to confirm the acknowledgements and proofs of deeds and other instruments in writing taken by Joseph Warren.

Preamble. WHEREAS, it appears to the legislature that Joseph Warren was duly appointed on the first day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, one of the commissioners to take the acknowledgements and proofs of deeds for the third aldermanic district, Jersey City, county of Hudson and state of New Jersey, and was commissioned and sworn into office by virtue of said commission; and whereas, it appears that said Joseph Warren thereafter removed his residence out of said third aldermanic district, and after such removal, from ignorance of the laws of this state, continued to take acknowledgments and proofs, by reason of which defective acknowledgements and proofs innocent persons may be subject to great loss; therefore,

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1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Acts legal- the State of New Jersey, That the several acknowledgements conarmed. and proofs of deeds and other instruments of writing, taken and certified by the said Joseph Warren as commissioner, after his removal out of said third aldermanic district, be and the same are hereby confirmed and declared valid and effectual, in like manner as though the same had been taken and certified by him while residing in the said district for which he had been appointed.

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

Approved April 21, 1876.

CHAPTER CC.

An act relative to town meetings in the township of Wayne, in the county of Passaic.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the act entitled "A further sup- Title of act plement to the act entitled 'An act incorporating the inhabi- pealed. tants of townships, designating their powers and regulating their meetings," approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, which said supplement was ap. proved February fifth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and is in the following words, to wit:

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"1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Recital of the State of New Jersey, That the town meetings in the acted. township of Wayne, in the county of Passaic, shall hereafter be assembled and held on the third Thursday in February in each and every year, and that the town committee of said township shall hold their first meeting on the next Wednesday following such town meeting in each and every year.

"2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect im- Repealer. mediately;" be and same is hereby repealed. Approved April 21, 1876.

CHAPTER CCXI.

A supplement to an act entitled "An act to regulate fishing with seines in Barnegat bay," passed February seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-two.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of, Fishing the State of New Jersey, That from and after the passage of with nikes,