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law and modes of proceeding in this court, are not as well understood, generally, as those in use in the ordinary courts. The appointment of a learned lawyer, as a member of the court, with a competent salary, who should also be a member of the courts of common pleas, ses. sions, and oyer and terminer, is suggested among the means of remedying the defects, and increasing the efficiency of this court. In connexion with this subject, the separation of the offices of governor and chancellor, which by the constitution are united in the same individual, is strongly urged. Imprisonment for debt alone, without fraud, is declared to be justifiable by no principle congenial to our institutions. The revision and perfecting of the insolvent laws are suggested, so as to secure the personal liberty of the debtor, and protect the creditor against dishonesty. The fi. nances of the state are in a pros. perous condition. The revenue is increasing, and an addition to it of $30,000 will soon be made from the works of internal improvement in progress and near completion. The revenue will exceed the expenses of the state; and the surplus may be added to the school fund, or appropriated in other modes to advance the prosperity of the state.

Acts of the fifty-seventh general assembly of New-Jersey, at a session begun at Trenton on October 23, 1832.

ABATEMENT OF SUITS.-In suits in chancery, in which there may be but one plaintiff or one defendant, if the plaintiff die, his lawful representatives, or any other person or persons interested, are to be admitted to prosecute the suit. But if the defendant die, and the plaintiff choose to make the representatives of the

deceased, or others who may become interested by his death, parties to such suit, no bill of revivor or subpæna ad revivendum shall be necessary, but the court may, by rule or order, direct the suit to stand revived: and unless such representatives, &c. appear and put in their answer, or signify their disclaimer of the suit, the plaintiff may cause their appearance to be entered, and in such case, the answer of the deceased party, if any there be, shall be deemed the answer of such representatives, &c. ; but nothing in this act is to prevent the reviving any such suit by bill of revivor, when the plaintiff, &c. may prefer that course of practice, or when the court may deem it expedient.

APPEALS. From any judgment rendered, by any justice of the peace, when the trial took place in the presence of the parties, it may be lawful for either party to appeal, although the judgment shall have been rendered in his absence; provided the appeal be in other respects lawful.

AQUEDUCT COMPANY.-A com. pany was incorporated for the purpose of supplying the village of Orange with water.

BENEFICIAL SOCIETIES.-Four beneficial societies were incorporated.

BOUNDARY LINE.-' -The governor is authorized to appoint three commissioners to meet commissioners on the part of the state of New. York, for the purpose of determining the territorial limits and jurisdiction between the two states.

BRIDGES.-Six acts were passed in relation to bridges, regulating the mode of applying to the legislature for bridges, enacting penalties for injuring them, or for leaving the draws open, &c.

CANAL COMPANY.-The Manas

quan River and Barnegat Bay Canal Company was incorporated, for the purpose of constructing a canal or an artificial navigation from or near the mouth of Manasquan river to the head-waters of Barnegat bay, at Layton's pond.

CRIMINAL LAW.—' -The governor was authorized to appoint some person learned in the law, to revise, alter, modify, amend and digest, all acts relating to crimes and their punishment, and to criminal proceed. ings; such persons is to be request. ed to make his report at the next session of the legislature.

DAIRY COMPANY.-The NewYork and Bergen Dairy Company was incorporated, with a capital stock of $150,000, for the purpose of supplying the city of New-York with

pure and wholesome milk. DELAWARE RIVER. -An act was passed further to regulate the fisheries in this river. A resolution was also passed, authorizing the appointment of commissioners to meet commissioners on the part of Pennsylvania, for the purpose of viewing the obstructions in this river, and making a report thereon to the governors of the respective

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DIVORCES.-Thirteen acts of divorce were passed. ELECTIONS.-The judges and inspectors of elections are vested with power to administer oaths and affirmations, and to examine persons touching the qualifications of voters who shall offer to vote, and if any person, on such examination, shall knowingly swear falsely, he shall be deemed guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury. If any person offer to vote, at any general or annual election, who is not legally entitled to vote, he shall forfeit $20.

FIRE COMPANIES.-Two fire companies were incorporated.

INSURANCE COMPANY.-The Rahway Mutual Fire Insurance Company was incorporated.

LANDS.-Thirty-four acts were passed in relation to certain lands, authorizing trustees, executors, administrators and guardians, to sell and convey, &c.

A resolution was passed by which the legislature declared that the land bill, then before congress, embraced and provided for the interests of all the people of the United States, and that the impartial justice and comprehensive equity of its provisions deserved the support of their senators and representatives in congress.

LAWS OF THE STATE.-The go. vernor is empowered to employ some proper person to compile and prepare for the press all acts and parts of acts which are of a general and permanent nature, and all acts of incorporation which are declared to be public acts, which have been passed since the last revision of the public laws in force; the acts are to be printed in chronological order.

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SOUTH CAROLINA.-A resolution was passed, disapproving of the ordinance, &c. of the state of South Carolina, approving the principles contained in the proclamation of the president, &c.

STATE TAX.-An act was passed to raise, by a state tax, the sum of $40,000, for the year 1833.

EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT. The appropriation bill gives to the governor, for the current year, a salary of $2,000; the chief justice $1,200; the two associate justices, each $1,100; the state treasurer $1000; the law reporter and chancery reporter, each $200; the attorney-general $80; the quartermaster general $100; the adjutantgeneral $100; the vice-president of council, and the speaker of the house are each allowed $350; and the members of either house $3 a day during the sitting of the legis lature, and $3 for every twenty miles travel in going to and returning from the seat of government. The clerks of the two houses are also each allowed $3 a day, 8 cents for writing every 100 words in the records, and for copies to the printThe sergeant-at-arms and the

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door keepers, are each allowed $2 a day. It is proper to add that the governor receives, being ex-officio chancellor, fees for his chancery duties, and that there are perquisites, though inconsiderable in amount, attached to the duties of the justices of the supreme court. The attorney. general also receives fees in all cases of criminal conviction. The legis lature, at the late session, authorized the governor to borrow ten thousand dollars, at 5 per cent. for building a new penitentiary.

The following resolution also was passed in the house of assembly, by a vote of thirty-one to fourteen.

Be it resolved by the council and general assembly of the state of NewJersey, That our senators be instructed, and our representatives in congress be requested, to use their best endeavours to maintain the

present judiciary system of the United States inviolate, to give adequate protection to American industry, to foster and uphold internal improvements, and to vote for and advocate the renewal of the charter of the bank of the United States, with such modifications as may be deemed necessary.

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of certain public lands shall be set apart in order to constitute a fund for the support of common schools. No portion of this fund can, how. ever, be applied, until it shall yield an annual interest of $100,000, when the interest only may be employed as directed by the legislature. The amount of money credited to this fund, on the 1st April, 1833, was $203,332 16, and it is expected that in the course of this year it will increase to $546,563 72. Progressing in the same ratio, it will still require between eight and nine years to raise an amount sufficient to realize an interest of $100,000. A writer in the Susquehanna register, computes the exact date for distribution on the 1st July, 1842, but it is evident that the revenue of the fund may vary considerably from the estimates he has formed of its annual increase. The act, however, ceases by limitation in 1836, at which time, it is calculated, the fund will yield but $600,879 32.

This appropriation, however, is but ideal, the whole fund having been expended in internal improvement, and the state of education in Pennsylvania is probably far behind that of any of the middle or northern states.

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Several years ago, it was ascer15 tained that more than half of the 13 children between the ages of five and fifteen, were not in the habit of attending any school; and, according 2099 to the report, the situation of things is not much better at the present A plan is therefore proposed of establishing the several counties as divisions, which are to be subdivided into school districts, under general regulations. Among these, the income of the state school fund is to be divided, on condition that an additional sum shall be raised by assessment within the districts.

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1832. Dec.-The message of Governor Wolf to the legislature, is occupied almost exclusively with the domestic affairs and internal improvements of the state. The loans authorized by the last legislature to be effected in hehalf of the state, for the several sums of $2,348,680, and $300,000 to be applied to the public improvements, were both taken-the former at $114 08, and the latter $115 09, for $100 of stock, bearing five per cent. interest, and redeemable after July, 1860. With these funds, twenty-two miles of the Philadelphia and Columbia rail-road were completed with a single track, and a continuous navigation of 171 miles by canal and slack wa ter navigation was opened from Columbia to Hollidaysburg, in Huntingdon county, on the eastern division of the Pennsylvania canal. Seventy one miles of canal, rail-road, and slack water navigation, was the whole amount of work executed during the year, and they make the total extent of internal communication within the state, open and ready for active operations, more than five hundred miles-all made within six years. Such further progress the governor observes has been made, that if the legislature provide the necessary means, 112 miles more of ca. nal and slack water navigation, and 96 miles of rail-road, will be comple. ted within the next session. A single rack upon the Philadelphia and Columbia rail-road, from its present termination to the borough of Columbia-distance 59 miles--may also be finished at the pleasure of the legislature.

When those works shall have been completed, Pennsylvania will, and by her own means, have constructed, within seven years, 593 miles of canal and slack water navigation, and 118 miles of rail-road-making an

aggregate of 711 miles of internal improvement.

LEGISLATION.-At the session of the legislature of Pennsylvania in 1832-33, one hundred and seventyfive acts, and twenty-four resolutions, were passed.

APPEALS.—An act was passed to facilitate appeals by guardians from the judgments of justices of the peace, and from the awards of arbitrators.

ANNUITIES. Twenty-two acts were passed granting annuities and gratuities to a number of soldiers and widows of soldiers of the revolutionary war.

BANK.-The Merchants and Manufacturers Bank of Pittsburg was incorporated, with a capital stock of $600,000.

BRIDGES.-Six acts were passed in relation to different bridges; six bridge companies were incorporated.

BOROUGHS.-Thirteen boroughs were incorporated.

CEMETERY.-The Philadelphia Cemetery Company was incorporated.

CORPORATIONS.-The service of any civil process upon the toll. gatherer of any corporation, in the proper county, and next to the place where the damage or damages shall have been committed, shall be as good and valid in law, as if served on the president, or other principal officer of any corporation; but where a suit shall be commenced, and the process served on the toll-gatherer, it shall be the duty of the plaintiff to cause reasonable notice to be given to some one of the officers of the company aforesaid, of the commencement of any such suit, before trial and final judgment.

When information shall be given to the auditor-general, that any lands in this state have been purcha

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