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ACTS

OF THE

SEVENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE

OF THE

STATE OF NEW JERSEY.

AN ACT to authorize the board of chosen freeholders of the county of Essex to erect a bridge over Elizabethtown creek.

authorized to erect bridge.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Freeholders the State of New Jersey, That the board of chosen freeholders of the county of Essex be, and they are hereby authorized to erect and maintain a good and sufficient bridge, without a draw, over Elizabethtown creek, at the place where the public market-house stands, or as near thereto as is practicable, in the borough of Elizabeth.

injuring

2. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons shall Penalty fon cut, remove, or destroy any piece of timber or any plank be- works. longing thereto, on any part of said bridge, posts, or piles appertaining thereto, or shall remove any iron work or stone work belonging to said bridge, or otherwise wilfully damage or do any act which may have a tendency to injure said bridge unnecessarily, he, she, or they so offending shall, for each and every offence, forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars, over and above the damage done to said bridge, to be recovered in an action of debt before any court having competent jurisdiction, with costs of suit, by any person who shall sue for the same, one half of the said sum to be for the use of the prosecutor, and the other half to be paid into the hands of the county collector of the county of Essex, to and for the use of said county.

Approved January 26, 1848.

Charter renewed.

Act, when to take effect.

AN ACT to renew the charter of the Mechanics Bank at Newark.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the act entitled, "An act to incorporate the Mechanics Bank at Newark," passed January twenty-fifth, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, be, and the same is hereby continued and extended for and during the term of twenty years from and after the time by the said act limited for its continuance.

2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately upon the expiration of the term, in and by the said act entitled, "An act to incorporate the Mechanics Bank at Newark," limited for the continuance thereof.

Approved January 26, 1848.*

Part of for.

pealed.

Act may be

A supplement to the act entitled, "An act to incorporate the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company," passed January thirtieth, eighteen hundred and forty-five.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the twelfth section of the act to which this is a supplement be, and the same is hereby repealed.

2. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the legislarepealed, &c. ture at any time hereafter to alter, amend, modify, or repeat the act to which this is a supplement.

3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immedi ately.

Approved January 27, 1848.

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