audit the bill.

2. And be it enacted, That the comptroller of the state is comptroller, hereby authorised and required to audit the bill for the purchase of the said copies of said digest, and the treasurer of this state is authorised and required to pay the same out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated. 3. And be it enacted, That the sum of money required to pay Appropriation for said digest, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes herein before set forth.

4. And be it enacted, That this act shall go into effect immediately.

Approved April 4, 1872.

to pay for di

gest.

CHAPTER DXXXV.

A Further Supplement to the act entitled "An Act concerning taxes," approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.

An

assess

ment of one

on a dol

lar to be made

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That there shall be assessed, levied and collected on the inhabitants of the state, and upon the taxable real and personal property, as exhibited by the abstracts of ratables from the several counties, made out by the several boards of assessors for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy one, and filed in the office of the comptroller of the treasury, a state tax of one mill on each dollar of the valuations contained in said abstracts, which is hereby appropriated and shall be applied as follows, to wit: two Proceeds of hundred and sixty-four thousand seven hundred and seventy-propriated. eight dollars, or so much thereof as may be needful, for the payment of the principal falling due on the first day of January next, and such interest as shall have accrued on said first day of January, and on the first day of July next thereafter, of and on a loan authorised by an act entitled "An. Act authorising a loan for the purposes of war, to repel invasion, and suppress insurrection, and appropriating the same,

tax, how ap

disposed of.

and providing for the payment thereof," approved May tenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty one, and the several supplements thereto; and the surplus of said sum, if any there Surplus, how be, remaining after such payments, shall be applied and added to the sinking fund provided for by the fifth section of said act, toward the payment of the principal of said loan, and the residue of said tax shall be applied to the purpose of defraying the necessary expenditures of the state for the curHow levied, rent year; which tax and the sums required to be raised for county, city, township and other public taxes, shall be levied, assessed and collected, on the persons and property, and in the manner directed by the above recited act, entitled "An act concerning taxes," and the several supplements thereto, and the laws of this state which shall be in force at the time the said taxes shall be assessed, regulating the assessment and collection of taxes, except as in and by this act otherwise ordered and directed.

assessed and

collected.

Comptroller shall appor. tion.

2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the comptroller aforesaid to apportion the said tax, and at the rate aforesaid, among the several counties in proportion to the amount of taxable real and personal estate in said counties respectively, as shown by the abstracts respectively as aforesaid; and it shall be his duty to transmit, within thirty days And transmit after the approval or passage of this act, to the county collector County collec- of each county, a statement of the amount of said tax apportioned to said county, and said county collector shall lay said statement before the assessors of the townships or wards within his county, at their next meeting to apportion the township taxes, and said assessors shall thereupon proceed to assess said tax according to law.

statem nt to

tura.

Comptroller

to furnish col

ed forms for

assessors' re

1urns of ratables.

3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the comp1 ctors print troller to furnish to the collectors of the several counties printed forms on which the boards of assessors shall make their returns of the amount of ratables of their respective counties, upon which forms there shall be printed the oath required to be taken by the assessors as provided by section twelve of an act entitled "A further supplement to an act entitled, An Act concerning taxes,'" approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, which supplement was approved April eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and no abstract of the amount of ratables from any county shall be deemed to have been made

according to law, unless said oath shall have been taken and subscribed by each member of the board of assessors.

applied.

4. And be it enacted, That the provisions of the act entitled Former acts "A further supplement to the act entitled 'An act concerning taxes," approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, which said further supplement was approved April first, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, shall be and the same are hereby held to apply and be in force so far as they do not conflict with the provisions of this act. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved April 4, 1872.

CHAPTER DXXXVI.

An Act granting the consent of the State of New Jersey to the purchase by the United States of certain lands for the purpose of the erection of a public building at Trenton, and ceding jurisdiction over the same.

state to th

land by the

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Consent of the State of New Jersey, That the consent of the state of purchase of New Jersey is hereby given to the purchase by the United United States. States of one or more pieces of land situated in the city of Trenton, not exceeding one acre in quantity, on which to erect a building for a post office and other public purposes, and the said United States shall have, hold, use, occupy and own the said land or lands when purchased, and exercise jurisdiction and control over the same and every part thereof, subject to the restrictions hereinafter mentioned.

ceded.

2. And be it enacted, That the jurisdiction of the state of Jurisdiction New Jersey in and over the said land or lands mentioned in the foregoing section, when purchased by the United States, shall be and the same hereby is ceded to the United States, but the jurisdiction hereby ceded shall continue no longer than the said United States shall own the said land or lands. 3. And be it enacted, That the said consent is given, and

Jurisdiction

Consent and the said jurisdiction ceded, upon the express condition that ceded condi- the state of New Jersey shall retain concurrent jurisdiction tionally. with the United States in and over the said land or lands, so

Exemption from taxes, &c.

Penalty for injury to the grounds or building.

far as that all civil process in all cases, and such criminal or other process as may issue under the laws or authority of the state of New Jersey against any person or persons charged with crimes or misdemeanors, committed within said state, may be executed therein, in the same way and manner as if such consent had not been given or jurisdiction ceded, except so far as such process may effect the real or personal property of the United States.

4. And be it enacted, That the jurisdiction hereby ceded shall not vest until the United States shall have acquired the title to the said land or lands by purchase or grant, and so long as the said land or lands shall remain the property of the United States, when acquired as aforesaid, and no longer, the same shall be and continue exonerated from all taxes, assessments, and other charges which may be levied or imposed under the authority of this state.

5. And be it enacted, That any malicious, wilful, reckless, or voluntary injury to, or mutilation of the grounds, buildings or appurtenances, shall subject the offender or offenders to a fine of not less than twenty dollars, to which may be added, for an aggravated offence, imprisonment not exceeding six months in the county jail or workhouse, to be prosecuted before any court of competent jurisdiction.

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

Approved April 4, 1872.

CHAPTER DXXXVII.

A Supplement to an act entitled "An Act concerning corporations," approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six.

elected a di

a stockholder.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Person to be the State of New Jersey, That it shall not be lawful for any rector shall be person to be elected a director of any body corporate in this state, issuing stock, unless such person shall be at the time of his election a bona fide holder of some of the stock of said body corporate.

stockholder he

2. And be it enacted, That when any person, a director of When not a such body corporate, shall cease to be such bona fide holder shall cease to of some of the stock thereof, he shall cease thereupon to be a director thereof.

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

Approved April 4, 1872.

be a director.

CHAPTER DXXXVIII.

A Supplement to the act entitled "An Act to provide for the registration of persons entitled to the right of suffrage in cities," approved March twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of Repealer. the State of New Jersey, That the proviso in the fourth section of the act to which this is a supplement, be and the same is hereby repealed.

2. And be it enacted, That the boards of registry, at each meeting thereof, in pursuance of said act, shall remain in