What prices to include. the paper. one dollar extra shall be paid per page for all indices and tables of contents set in bourgeois type in the session laws, journals of senate and minutes of house of assembly. 2. And be it enacted, That the above prices shall include all the expenses incident to the printing and delivery to the state treasurer of all documents ordered, except folding and stitching, which shall be charged at the current prices for such Character of work, and the paper, which shall be of good quality, white calendered printing paper for the documents, in octavo form, weighing not less than forty-four pounds to the ream of four hundred and eighty sheets, twenty-four by thirty-eight inches in size; the bills to be on good flat-cap paper weighing fourteen pounds to the ream; the price to be allowed for such paper shall be at the lowest rate per pound at which the same is sold by paper dealers in New York or Philadelphia during the first week in February; for the paper used in the pamphlets and legislative documents, and current work ordered by the legislature at the lowest rates at which the same is sold by paper dealers in either of said cities during the last week in January; and for the other work at the lowest rates aforesaid at which such paper is sold in either of said cities during the last week in March of this year; and satisfactory evidence of the price of such papers within the said period shall be submitted to the comptroller before the allowance by him of any bill for paper on which any public printing has been executed. Legislative documents. 3. And be it enacted, That all messages, pamphlets, reports or other documents, which are deemed of sufficient public importance to be printed and bound for preservation and reference, shall hereafter be embraced in one volume, under the title of "legislative documents;" and no document or report shall be printed in said volume unless so ordered by the joint committee on printing; and when said joint committee shall order any document to be printed in the said volume of legislative documents, the printer shall print one thousand copies thereof, which documents shall be numbered in the order in which they are ordered to be printed, and the governor's annual message shall be classed as document number one in said volume; when any document shall be ordered to be printed more than once at periods more than four days apart, the printer thereof shall be entitled to charge for composition as above provided for, each time the said document shall be so printed, and in no other case shall more than one composition be paid for the printing of such reports or documents. livered within 4. And be it enacted, That in conformity with the act ap- Copy to be deproved April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, it thirty days. shall be the duty of the clerk of the general assembly and the secretary of the senate to deliver copies completed of the journals of their respective houses to the persons appointed to print the same within thirty days after the close of the session of the legislature; and in the event of the clerk of the general assembly and secretary of the senate failing to deliver such copies as provided for in this section, they shall forfeit to the treasurer, for the use of the state, one hundred dollars of their salary. whom made, &c. 5. And be it enacted, That the indices to the pamphlet Indices, by laws, to the journal of the senate, to the minutes of the e. house of assembly, and to the legislative documents shall hereafter be made out by the person or persons respectively, who may be employed to execute said printing, and the sum of £fty dollars each shall be allowed the said printers for compiling such indices; provided, that said indices shall be Proviso. printed in solid brevier type, and be made out alphabetically under one heading, in the style of the index to the journal of the Senate of New Jersey for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine. minutes, how 6. And be it enacted, That the journal of the senate and Journal and minutes of the house of assembly shall hereafter be printed printed. in the same compact form and style, as the journal of the senate for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and the comptroller shall audit no bills for printing not executed in accordance with this law. 7. And be it enacted, That Naar, Day and Naar of Tren- Current printton, be employed to print the bills, pamphlets, and such other matters as may be ordered by the senate and house of assem bly. gislative doc 8. And be it enacted, That Augustus O. Evans of Hudson Printer of lecounty, be appointed to print one thousand copies of the leg ments. islative documents of the current year. sembly min 9. And be it enacted, That James S. Yard of Monmouth Printer of ascounty, be employed to print one thousand copies of the utes. minutes of the house of assembly for the current year. laws. 10. And be it enacted, That E. N. Fuller of Essex county, Printer of be employed to print three thousand copies of the laws enacted at the present session of the legislature, the public within two laws being collated and printed in the front part of the volume, which copies shall be delivered to the state treasurer Must deliver within two months after the said E. N. Fuller shall have remonths after ceived the copy thereof, and on failure thereof the said E. N. receiving copy Fuller shall forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars, which sum the said treasurer is authorized to withhold and deduct from the amount due him for printing said copies. state must de liver copy within thirty Secretary of 11. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the days. person or persons who shall be authorized to print the copies of the laws, a copy of every law passed at this session of the legislature, within thirty days after the passage of each law, and on failure thereof shall be compelled to pay to the person or persons authorized to print the copies of the laws, any such sum which he or they may have forfeited by reason of such default. Printer of the senate journal 12. And be it enacted, That Thomas G. Bunnell of Sussex county, be employed to print one thousand copies of the journal of the senate for the current year. Repealer. 13. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts, conflicting with the provisions of this act, be and are hereby repealed. 14. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 14, 1870. Penalty for destroying game out of season. CHAPTER CCXXXVIII. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An Act for the preservation of Deer and other game, and to prevent trespassing with guns," approved the sixteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and forty-six. 1 BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That if any person or persons shall kill, destroy, hunt or take, any doe, buck, fawn, or any sort of deer whatsoever, at any other time or season, except only between the last day of October and the first day of January, yearly and every year, he, she or they so offending, shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars for each and every of fence, to be sued for and recovered with costs of suit, in an action of debt by any person, before any justice of the peace of the county wherein such offence shall have been committed; one-half of the forfeit money shall be for the benefit of the person prosecuting for the same, and the remainder paid to the collector of the township wherein the offence shall have been committed for the use of the township. Execution may issue against body for refusal or neglect to pay 2. And be it enacted, That in case the defendant in any such suit as is mentioned in the first section of this act, shall neglect or refuse to pay the amount recovered against him, it shall be lawful for the justice before whom judgment has penalty. been recovered, to issue his process of execution against the body of the defendant, and cause him to be committed to the jail of the county for any space of time until the judgment and costs are paid, not exceeding six months from the date of issuing the same. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 14, 1870. CHAPTER CCXXXIX. . A Supplement to "An Act to prevent fraudulent elections by incorporated companies and to facilitate proceedings against them," approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fortysix. apply to first 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Certain provi the State of New Jersey, That the fifth section of the act to sions not to which this is a supplement shall not apply to the first elec- election of dition of directors in any corporation created under the laws of this state; provided, that this act shall not apply to any such elections heretofore held. rectors 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect imme Discretion in case of sale CHAPTER CCLIX. An Act relating to the sale of Lands by Executors, Administrators and Guardians. 1 BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of given to court the State of New Jersey, That in all proceedings for the sale of lands when of lands hereafter to be made by executors, administrators entitled to es- and guardians under the direction of the orphans' court, (by tainer. virtue of the existing laws of this state) whenever any person tesy. shall be entitled to an estate in dower or by the curtesy in persons are or by the cur the whole or any part cr share of the premises in question, and such person (entitled to such estate), shall before or at the time of the making of the order by the said court, for the sale of said lands and real estate, by writing under his or her hand and seal, signify his or her assent and determination to relinquish his or her estate in the same, so that the same may be sold free of the incumbrance of such estate, or whenever the estate in dower or by the curtesy of any person in the premises sought to be sold or any part or share thereof, shall have been admitted by the executor, administrator or guardian applying for the sale thereof, and upon due proof that notice has been given to the party entitled to the said estate, in dower or by the curtesy of the intended application for the sale of said lands free and discharged of such estate at least twenty days prior to such application, or by publishing such notice at least four weeks next preceding the time of making such application, in one of the newspapers printed and published in the county where such lands are situated; it shall be lawful for the court to which such application shall be made to consider and determine under all the circumstances of the case, having regard to the interests of all the parties, whether such estate ought to be excepted from such |