points along the line of said road as may be necessary for the convenient transaction of business, not exceeding five acres in each place; and may erect and build thereon depots, houses, warehouses, stables, and such other buildings and improvements as they may deem expedient for the safety of their property and the necessary uses appertaining to their business, and shall have the privilege and authority to erect, build and maintain over such streams, canals or water courses as the road may cross, such piers, bridges and other facilities as they may think expedient and necessary for the full enjoyment of all the benefits conferred by this act.

Juring works.

12. And be it enacted, That if any person shall wilfully or Penalty for inmaliciously injure the said road, or any buildings, cars, vehicles, animals or work of said corporation, such person or persons shall forfeit and pay therefor to the corporation three times the amount of damages sustained by means of such injury, to be recovered in the name of the corporation, with costs of suit, in any court having cognizance of the same.

mence run

13. And be it enacted, That when so much of said road is when to comcompleted as to make it a public convenience, the said com ning cars. pany may commence running cars for the transportation of passengers and freight, and enjoying all the privileges and subject to the restrictions created by this act.

costs to be

14. And be it enacted, That as soon as the said railroad, or Statement of any part thereof, is in operation, the president of the said made. company shall file, under oath or affirmation, a statement of the amount, appendages, and all expenses, in the office of the secretary of state, and annually thereafter on the first Monday in January of each year, he shall, under oath or affirmation, make a statement to the secretary of state, of the cost of equipments, appendages and expenses of said road; and after the said railroad, or any part thereof, shall be in operation, the said corporation shall pay to the treasurer of this state a tax of one-half of one per centum on the costs, equipments State tax. and appendages of said road, to be paid annually thereafter on the first Monday in January of each year, and such other taxes 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; and until the said railroad, or any part thereof, shall be in operation, the said corporation shall be regularly assessed, and pay tax for the value of its real estate, including improvements thereon, and personal property

Proviso.

Free passes.

Authorized to issue bonds.

May lease or consolidate

with any other company.

as now taxed in the township wherein it lies, at the same time and rate, and in the same manner, for the purposes, and by the same person or persons, as the other taxes assessed in said township; provided, that no other tax or impost shall be levied or assessed upon said company.

15. And be it enacted, That the governor, the chancellor, the justices of the supreme court, and the judges of the court of errors and appeals of this state, the state superintendent of public schools, and the principal of the normal school, whilst traveling for the purposes of discharging the duties of their offices, and the members and officers of both houses of the legislature of this state, shall pass and repass on the railroad of said company free of charge during the year or years for which they are elected.

16. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall have power to borrow, after fifty per centum of the capital subscribed shall have been paid, or secured to be paid, such sum or sums of money, from time to time, as shall be necessary to build, construct, or repair such road, and furnish the said company with all necessary rails, buildings, cars, vehicles, and animals, for the use and object of said corporation, and to secure the payment thereof by bond and mortgage, or otherwise, on the said road, land, franchises and appurtenances of or belonging to the said corporation, at a rate of interest not exceeding seven per centum per annum.

17. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said corporation, at any time during the continuance of its charter, to lease its road or to consolidate with any other company, and after such lease or consolidation, such company may use and operate said road according to the provisions and restrictions contained in the charter of such company, or the said corporation may make contracts and engagements with any other company or corporations, or with individuals, for operating said railroad, for transporting or conveying any kind of goods, produce, merchandise, freight or passengers, and to enforce the fulfilment of such contracts, and also to demand and receive for the transportation of all passengers and freight by them carried and transported over the road of any other company, the same rates of tolls and fare as the said company are entitled to demand and receive by virtue of this act, for transportation and passage over their own road.

18. And be it enacted, That if the said railroad is not com

pleted within five years from the fourth day of July next, Time for comthen and in that case, this act shall be void.

19. And be it enacted, That this act shall be deemed a public act, and shall take effect immediately. Approved April 3, 1872.

pletion.

CHAPTER CCCCLXX.

A Supplement to "An Act to incorporate the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company," passed February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.

survey, lay struct a rail

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the said company be and it is Authorized to hereby authorized to survey, lay out, construct, maintain and out and conoperate a railroad not exceeding one hundred feet in width, road. from some point on their present road, known as the Weehawken Branch Railroad, at or near its intersection with Ferry street, near the foot of the hill, to some point on the company's lands, in the township of West Hoboken, and with the like power to place and run engines and cars thereon, and to demand and take fare, and charge for transportation of passengers, goods, packages, chattels and merchandise on said road, as is given in section one of a supplement to said original act of incorporation, approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one.

2. And be it enacted, That after said company shall deter- Map to be filed mine the location and route of said railroad, it shall file a map thereof in the office of the secretary of state.

in case com

ers cannot

3. And be it enacted, That if said road shall cross the Proceedings lands of any other person or corporation, and the said com- pany and ownpany cannot agree with the owner or owners thereof for the agree. use or purchase of such portion of the same as shall be required for the use of said road, as shown on said map, or if by reason of the legal incapacity or absence of such owner or owners, no such agreement can be made, such land so required shall and may be taken by said company for the use

Power to extend railroad.

May make tunnels.

Repealer.

of said road, upon taking such proceedings in reference thereto, as is prescribed in like cases, in sections five and six of a supplement to the original act of incorporation, approved March eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty; or as is prescribed in section two of a supplement to said original act, approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fiftyone; and for the purpose of carrying into effect the objects of this act, the said company shall be and it is hereby invested with all the rights, powers, authority and privileges given by the said original act of incorporation and the several supplements thereto.

4. And be it enacted, That after the completion of the said railroad mentioned in section one of this act, the said company may extend said railroad to a point in the town of Union, or in the township of North Bergen, not farther north than the Hoboken cemetery, and for the purpose of making such extension, said company shall have and exercise all the powers enumerated in sections one, two and three of this act.

5. And be it enacted, That in constructing said railroad or any extension thereof, the company may make a tunnel wherever they may deem it preferable to an open cut, and that all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved April 3, 1872.

CHAPTER CCCCLXXI.

An Act to incorporate the Belleville Gas Light Company.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Corporators the State of New Jersey, That William Jackson, James H. Van Rensselaer, William H. Webster, Hugh Holmes, S. V. C. Van Rensselaer, John W. Dow, John Eastwood, Cornelius Van Houten, Gasherie De Witt, Robert Osborn, John Spear, Charles H. K. Smith, Thomas Sealey and Joseph A.

powers.

Dunbar, and all and every person or persons who may become stockholders in the capital stock hereinafter mentioned, their successors and assigns, are hereby constituted and made a body politic and corporate, in fact and in law, by the name of "The Belleville Gas Light Company," and by the said Name and name said corporation shall have power to sue and be sued, plead and to be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, and to make, manufacture and sell illuminating gas, to be made from coal or other material, for the purpose of lighting roads, streets, buildings, manufactories and public grounds, within the limits of the township of Belleville, in the county of Essex, and that under and by the aforesaid corporate name and style the said corporation shall have perpetual succession, and shall have power and authority to enter into, and to execute any and all contracts, agreements, undertakings and covenants for the furtherance of the objects for which said corporation was created, with power and right to enforce the same, in all proper ways and manners, under the laws of this state; and shall be capable of purchasing, taking and holding any estate, real or personal, and necessary to give effect to the specified purpose of this corporation, for the accommodation of their business and concerns, or which it may be necessary to acquire and hold for the purpose of securing debts, which may become due to it in the regular business of said corporation; and also to purchase and bold any and all patents and patent rights necessary for the purpose of carrying out the object and intent for which such corporation is created.

lands and

2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall be May enter on and is hereby empowered and authorized to enter upon and erect posts. make any and all necessary and proper excavations for the laying down of gas pipes and conductors, and to erect all necessary posts, burners, lights and reflectors in any and all of the roads, streets, highways and public grounds, in the said township of Belleville, and to do all things necessary and proper to be done for the purpose of lighting the same, and the dwellings, and stores and other buildings, in said township; provided, that the public travel shall not at any time Proviso. be unreasonably and unnecessarily obstructed or impeded thereby; and the said corporation shall put and leave such streets, roads, highways and public grounds in as good, perfect and permanent condition as the same were in before the laying of said pipes and erection of said posts.