Names of and sixty, and of the supplements thereto, shall apply to the inhabitants of the township of Commercial. 4. And be it enacted, That Allen Sheppard, Levi Lore, and judges and George E. Compton be and they are hereby appointed judges preside of election, to hold and preside over the first town meeting, town meet- and Samuel Butcher is hereby appointed town clerk of said clerk to over first ing. Proviso. township of Commercial, to hold their respective offices until their successors are elected and qualified in their stead; and any person acting as judge of election or town clerk, shall be entitled to hold any office in said township to which they, by a majority of the legal voters of said township, may be elected; provided, that in case of the absence or inability to serve of any of said persons so appointed by this act, a majority of the legal voters present may fill such vacancy. 5. And be it enacted, That all the provisions and requireof act ap ments of the act entitled "An act to divide Downe township, in the county of Cumberland, into four road districts, and to provide for raising money, and for the election of overof Commer-seers in the same," approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, shall be and remain in full force and effect in the township of Commercial hereby created, and the division line between the two townships shall be the division line of the road districts. Extending provisions proved 22d, 1871, cial. Same officers to be elected, as are author 6. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants of said township of Commercial shall elect, at their first annual town aze uber-meeting, such officers as are authorized to be chosen in the chosen in other townships of the county of Cumberland, and shall ships of vote on the same ballot for the amount of money to be raised for school purposes, and for such other purposes as may be authorized by law. other town county. Time and place of town com Downe and ships to 7. And be it enacted, That the town committee of the township of Commercial, together with the town committee meeting of cf the township of Downe, shall meet on the second Tuesmittees of day of April next, at the inn of William Casper, in the vilCommer- lage of Dividing Creek, in the township of Downe, at ten cial town- o'clock in the forenoon, and shall then and there proceed, by divide and writing, signed by a majority of the members of the township committee, to allot and divide between the said townships all the paupers which are hereby chargeable to that township, within the bounds of which they shall have acquired their settlements respectively, and to allot and divide between the said townships all property and moneys on hand or due, in proportion to the taxable property and ratables, allot prop erty, &c. as valued and assessed by assessors, within the respective limits of the said townships at their last assessments; and the inhabitants of the said township of Commercial shall be liable to pay their just proportion of the debts, if any there be due, and to support and maintain the paupers so allotted to them; and if any of the persons composing either of the town committee shall refuse or neglect to meet as aforesaid, those assembled may proceed to make the said allotments and division, and the decision of a majority of those present shall be final and conclusive; provided, that it shall and may be lawful to adjourn the above meeting to such time and place within said township of Downe as a majority of those assembled may think proper. 8. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act shall be so Not to in terfere ficers now construed as to interfere with the officers now elected in that with ofpart of the township of Downe set off and called the town-electe 1. ship of Commercial, nor with the commissions of justices of the peace, nor commissioners of deeds, until they shall expire by their own limitation. of Commer 9. And be it enacted, That the committee of the said town- Committee ship of Commercial shall canse the boundary lines of said cial towntownship to be surveyed and marked, when deemed neces-cause sary. ship to boundary lines to be and marked 10. And be it enacted, That the township of Commercial surveyed shall form part of the first assembly district of the county of Cumberland. 11. And be enacted, That all acts and parts of acts, in conflict with the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 27, 1874. Part of first assembly district. Repealer. Preamble. Chosen may extend CHAPTER XCVI. An act to authorize the Chosen Freeholders of Middlesex WHEREAS, The mill-dam in the village of Cranbury consti- 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of freeholders the State of New Jersey, That the chosen freeholders of the width of county of Middlesex are hereby empowered to extend the mill-dam. width of the mill-dam in the village of Cranbury, in Cran. bury township, to be of equal width of the main street in said village. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall be called a public act, and shall take effect immediately. Approved February 27, 1874. Provisions CHAPTER XCVII. A supplement to an act entitled an act to provide for the more effectual prevention and detection of crime in the township of Hackensack, approved February twentyfourth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the of original State of New Jersey, That all the provisions of the act to ed. which this is a supplement be and they are hereby extended act extend to all the members of the Bergen County Vigilance Association residing in the township of Washington in said county. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 27, 1874. CHAPTER XCVIII. A supplement to an act entitled "An act to establish the Long Branch Police, Sanitary and Improvement Commission," approved April seventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. Commis powered to lease cer 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the commissioners, styled by vir- sioners emtue of the act to which this act is a supplement, the "Long purchase or Branch Commissioners," shall have power, and are hereby tain turnauthorized to negotiate with the directors of any turnpike pikes, company, whose turnpike road may terminate within the corporate limits of Long Branch, for the purchase or lease of the whole or a part of said road, upon the petition of ten or more of the taxable voters residing within said corporate limits. pended to 2. And be it enacted, That the moneys expended for the Money expurchase or lease of said road shall be assessed upon the real be assessed and personal estate in said corporate limits, and collected and celectin the same manner as are the other general taxes assessed and collected. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 27, 1874. same man ner as general taxes. Overseer of elected. CHAPTER CV. An act to better enable the voters of the several Road Districts in the Township of Upper Alloways Creek, County of Salem, to elect their Road Overseers by ballot. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of roads how the State of New Jersey, That at the annual town meeting held in the township of Upper Alloways Creek, in the county of Salem, there be on each of the ballots voted the name of one candidate, for each district only, for the office of overseer of roads, with the title of the district in which he is a candidate. Repealer. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 27, 1874. Boundaries CHAPTER CXIII. An act to incorporate the borough of Merchantville. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the village of Merchantville, in the county of Camden, shall be and the same is hereby created into a borough, which shall be called the borough of Merchantville, and shall be bounded and limited as follows, to wit: Beginning at a stake on the northerly side of Church road, an extended line of J. H. Hollinshead's property, running thence north sixty degrees thirty-five minutes west along the northerly side of said Church road, one thousand eight |