the laws of this state, or of the United States, as they may conceive calculated to promote the welfare and prosperity of the said city of New Brunswick, and the same to put in execution, revoke, alter, and make anew, as to them shall appear necessary and convenient, and to appoint a city treasurer, city marshal, clerk of the market, assessor, collector, and such other subordinate officers as to them shall seem proper and necessary, for the good government of the said city, and by ordinance to require such security from the several officers as they may think proper; which officers, last aforesaid, shall continue in office during the pleasure of the common council; Provided always, no fine, or penalty laid by any such bylaw shall, in any case, exceed thirty dollars.

6. SEC. VII. The said mayor, recorder, aldermen, and common council men, or a majority of them, in common council assembled, shall have the sole, only and exclusive power of licensing all and every inn keeper, or tavern keeper, residing within the bounds of the said corporation, subject to the same provisions, restrictions and regulations, and in like manner as the same may be lawfully done by the courts of general quarter sessions of the peace in this state.

7. SEC. VIII. The freeholders and inhabitants of the said city of New Bruns wick, at their annual town meeting, shall vote such sum or sums of money as they may think necessary to be raised for the ensuing year, for the exigencies of the said city; which sum or sums, shall be assessed upon the inhabitants by the assessor, agreeably to the laws and regulations to be made by the common council of the said city for that purpose, and collected by the collector at such time, and be paid and disposed of in 'such manner as the common council shall direct; and if no sum, or an insufficient sum, shall then be voted to be raised, and the interest of the city require it, the common council are hereby authorized to call a meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants, by advertisement or otherwise, giving at least five days' notice, and to propose to them the sum in their opinion necessary to be raised; and whatever sum the freeholders and inhabitants shall, by plurality of voices, vote to be raised, shall be assessed and collected, paid and disposed of in manner aforesaid: Provided always, no tax shall be levied upon, or collected from any person, who, from his or her local situation, beyond the line of buildings in the said city, is not interested in the good purposes for which such tax is designed; and provided also, that every person in said city, who may think him or herself aggrieved by any fine, penalty, or assessment, imposed on them in virtue of this act, may appeal to the common council, who are hereby required to hear his or her cause of complaint, and to do therein what to them may appear just and equitable.

8. SEC. IX. In case a vacancy shall happen in the office of mayor and recorder of the said city, by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, in such case the aldermen shall meet together, and by plurality of voices choose one of their num ber, who shall have and execute the duties annexed to the mayoralty, until a mayor and recorder shall be appointed and commissioned according to law, and that as soon as may be convenient after such, vacancy shall happen; and when by death, removal, or otherwise, any vacancy or vacancies shall happen in any of the offices herein rendered elective by the freeholders and inhabitants of the said city, the mayor for the time being, is hereby required and directed, by advertisement or otherwise, giving at least five days' notice, to call a meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants aforesaid, who, when assembled, are hereby authorized, by plurality of voices, to elect such and so many fit persons as are necessary to fill up the offices, and supply such vacancy or vacancies; which officers so elected shall be sworn in the manner aforesaid, and shall continue in office until the next annual election.

9. SEC. X. It shall and may be lawful for the said mayor, recorder, and aldermen, or either of them, to commit every person or persons, offender or offenders, whom by law they or either of them are authorized to commit to gaol, or to imprison, to and in the gaol in the said city of New Brunswick; and the keeper of the said gaol is hereby required to receive such person or persons, so committed, and him, her or them to keep in close and safe custody, until thence discharged

by due course of law: Provided always, nothing in this act contained shall au thorize the said mayor, recorder or aldermen, or any or either of them, to commit to the said gaol any debtor or debtors not residing in the said city of New Brunswick.

10. SEC. XI. All the lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels and rights, whatsoever, of the corporation, known by the name of the "President, Register, Directors and Assistants of the City of New Brunswick," be, and they are hereby vested in the corporation by this act erected and established.

11. SEC. XII. This act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and as such to be taken notice of by all courts of justice within this state.

An Act to institute a market at the city of New Brunswick, for the sale of live stock. Passed the 23d of November, 1802. (Rev. 514.)

12. SEC. I. It shall and may be lawful to hold a public market for the sale of live stock, namely, horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, in the months of April and November, annually, at such place within the limits of the corporation of the city of New Brunswick, from the hour of seven in the forenoon till the hour of four in the afternoon, of any number of successive days, not exceeding four, in the said months respectively, as the corporation of the said city shall from time to time appoint.

13. SEC. II. It shall and may be lawful for the said corporation to pass ordinances and by-laws for the regulation of the said, market; provided always, the same be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States or of this

state.

A supplement to the act, entitled "An act to alter and amend the charter of the city of New Brunswick," passed at Trenton, February twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and one. Passed the 7th of February, 1818. (Rev. 614.)

14. SEC. I. The mayor, recorder, aldermen and common council of the city of New Brunswick, shall and may make, limit, impose and tax reasonable fines and amercements against all and upon all persons who shall offend against the laws, ordinances and regulations of the said mayor, recorder, aldermen and common council of the city of New Brunswick, and the said mayor, recorder, or either of the said aldermen, shall and may have and take cognizance before them of all or any action or actions to be brought for a breach of any of the said laws, ordinances or regulations, and all and every such fines and amercements to take, demand, require and levy of the goods and chattels of such offender or offenders, together with costs of suit, by warrant, issued under the hand and seal of the said mayor, recorder or either of the said aldermen, directed to the marshal of the said city of New Brunswick, who is hereby required and authorized to execute the same, and for want of such sufficient goods and chattels whereon to levy, the said mayor, recorder, or either of the said aldermen, are hereby authorized to issue their warrant, under their hand and seal, directed as aforesaid, to take the body of such offender or offenders, and commit him, her or them to the common gaol of the county of Middlesex, there to remain until the said fines, taxes, penalties or amercements are paid, together with costs of suit, or he, she or they be discharged by due course of law; which fines and amercements shall be paid to the city treasurer, for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of said city of New Brunswick: Provided always, no such fine or amercement shall exceed the sum of thirty dollars: And provided also, every person who may think himself or herself aggrieved by the decision of the said mayor, recorder, or either of the said aldermen, may appeal to the common council, who are hereby constituted and appoint ed, for that purpose, a court of appellate jurisdiction.

15. SEC. II. The said mayor, recorder, aldermen and common council of the said city of New Brunswick, or a majority of them, shall and may have the power to regulate, pave and gravel any street or streets within the limits of the said corporation, already laid out and opened, or that shall hereafter be laid out and opened, as a public highway, according to the laws of this state, and to make, pass, seal with the common seal of said city, and publish such by-laws and ordinances, not repugnant to the laws of this state, for the purpose of regulating and

paving such streets, as they may deem necessary and proper, and the same to put in execution or revoke, alter and make anew.

16. SEC. III. Where lots adjoining any of the streets in the said city of New Brunswick, are owned by non-residents, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the common council of said city, in all cases where a by-law or ordinance shall be made for the paving the same, to give to the owner or owners of such lot or lots, forty days' notice, in writing, to have the same paved or otherwise regulated; and if the said owner or owners shall, for the space of thirty days thereafter, neglect or refuse to comply with such by-law or ordinance, then the corporation of said city may order such street paved, or otherwise regulated, and the expenses thereof to be assessed upon the said lot or lots.

An Act further to alter and amend the charter of the city of New Brunswick. Passed the 14th of February, 1838. (Pam. 57.)

17. SEC. I. The limits and boundaries of the said city of New Brunswick shall, from henceforth and in all time to come, be as follows, that is to say: beginning on the Raritan river where Lawrence's brook empties into the same; thence running up said brook, following the several courses thereof, to the mouth of Cornell's brook, and where the said Cornell's brook falls into the said Lawrence's brook; thence running up Cornell's brook, following the several courses thereof, to George's road; thence on a straight line to the most westerly corner of a plantation formerly of Hermanus Cortleyou, now of William Hagerman, on the Franklin and Georgetown turnpike road, thence eastwardly along said turnpike road, on the north side thereof, to a brook known by the name of the Mile Run, thence down said brook, as it runs, to the Raritan river, thence crossing the same on a straight line, continuing the last course of the Mile Run, to high water mark, on the north side of said river; thence down said river on the north side thereof by high water mark aforesaid, the several courses of the same, to a point opposite to the mouth of said Lawrence's brook; thence crossing the said river on a straight line to the place of beginning..

18. SEC. II. The mayor, recorder and aldermen of the said city of New Brunswick, shall be elected by the freeholders and others the freemen of the said city of New Brunswick, qualified by law to elect, and shall continue in office for one year, and until their successors shall be elected and sworn into office; and for the purpose of carrying this provision into execution, it shall and may be lawful for the freeholders and others, the freemen of the said city of New Brunswick, qualified to vote for common council men of said city, to assemble at the court house in the city of New Brunswick, on the second Monday of May next, and then and there by ballot and by a plurality of votes, to elect the said mayor, recorder, and aldermen; and on the second Monday of May yearly and every year thereafter, the freeholders and others, the freemen of the said city of New Bruns wick, qualified as aforesaid, shall and may assemble at such place as may be appointed by the common council, and then and there, by ballot and plurality of votes aforesaid, elect the said mayor, recorder and aldermen, to hold their respective offices, during the term of one year, and until their successors shall be elected and sworn into office as aforesaid.

19. SEC. IV. The said mayor, recorder, aldermen, common council men and town clerk, shall severally before he or they take their seat or seats in the common council of the said city, take and subscribe the oath or affirmation of allegi ance to this state, and also an oath or affirmation for the faithful discharge and execution of their respective offices, within thirty days after his or their election into office, or in default thereof, his or their election, as the case may be, shall be deemed void and of none effect and a new election may be ordered by the mayor, for the time being, to supply such vacancy or vacancies; and that the said mayor, recorder, aldermen, common council men and town clerk, shall take the said oaths or affirmations herein before prescribed, before the chancellor or any master in chancery of this state, or before any one of the justices of the supreme court of this state, or before any one of the judges of the inferior court of common pleas, or justices of the peace, of the county of Somerset or Middlesex, or before one

of the justices of the peace in pursuance of this act to be created and appointed; and every other officer to be chosen or appointed, shall take and subscribe the said oaths or affirmations before the mayor, recorder, one of the aldermen, or one of the justices of the peace to be appointed in pursuance of the provisions of this act. 20. SEC. V. The said oaths or affirmations so to be taken and subscribed as aforesaid, shall be deposited and affiled with the town clerk of the said city of New Brunswick, there to remain of record.

21. SEC. VI. Three justices of the peace within the said city shall be appointed by the council and general assembly of this state in joint meeting, and commissioned by the governor, in the same manner as the justices of the peace throughout the state are appointed and commissioned, and shall continue in office for the term of five years, and each of the said justices of the peace, shall have full power to keep and cause to be kept, all laws made or to be made for the conservation of the peace, and for the good government of the citizens and inhabitants of this state within the said city of New Brunswick, according to the force, form, and effect of the same laws; and to cause to come before them, or any of them, all persons, who, within said city, shall break the peace or have used, or shall use threats to any of the citizens or inhabitants of this state, concerning his or her body, or the firing his or her house or other building, or who are not of good fame where they are found, to enter into recognizance with sufficient surety for the peace or their good behaviour towards the people and inhabitants of this state, and if they enter not into such recognizance, then to cause them to be safely kept in prison until they do the same; and further to do, perform, and exécute all such matters, acts, and things, as by law appertain to their offices respectively, and are or shall be enjoined upon them, and committed to their charge and execution; and all recognizances taken before any of the said justices by virtue of this act, may be sent to the court of general quarter sessions of the county of Somerset, or the court of general quarter sessions of the county of Middlesex, as the case may be, according to the territorial jurisdiction of the said respective courts, to the end that the same recognizance may be prosecuted to judgment and execution if need be.

22. SEC. VII. The said justices of the peace to be appointed in pursuance of the provisions of this act, and each and every of them, shall be deemed, esteemed, and taken to be a justice of the peace, within the meaning of the act entitled "An act constituting courts for the trial of small causes," passed the twelfth of February, in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and eighteen; and the said justices of the peace, and each and every of them shall have civil jurisdiction within the city of New Brunswick aforesaid, to the same extent as by the aforementioned act is given to the justice of the peace of the several counties of the state, and subject to the same regulations, as by the said act are imposed upon them; and the said justices of the peace, and each and every of them, are hereby empowered and commanded to hold, within the said city, as oft as needs be, courts for the trial of small causes.

23. SEC. VIII. The Marshal of the said city.of New Brunswick, shall be the ministerial officer, and shall execute the process of the said courts according to law.

24. SEC. IX. The mayor, recorder and aldermen of the said city, shall not from henceforth, nor shall any one of them, be deemed, esteemed or taken to be a justice of the peace, for any purpose whatever; any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

25. SEC. X. A majority of the said mayor, recorder, aldermen and common council, shall constitute a quorum, fully qualified for the transaction of all business in common council of said city of New Brunswick; and in the absence of the mayor and recorder, the said quorum may elect or appoint a president or presiding officer, pro tempore, who, during such time, shall be fully vested with the power and authority of the mayor or recorder, for the performance of all the business of said common council; any law, custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. XI. The third section of the act entitled "An act to alter and amend the charter of the city of New Brunswick," passed February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and one, together with all acts and parts of acts, coming within the purview of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed..

SEC. XII. This act shall go into operation on the said second Monday of May next; that nevertheless, it shall and may be lawful for the joint meeting at any time before that period, to appoint three justice of the peace, as is provided for by this act, who shall enter upon the duties of their office on the said second Monday of May next.

An Act for erecting the north ward of Perth Amboy, and a part of the township of Woodbridge, in the county of Middlesex, into a city; and for incorporating the same by the name and title of "The city of Perth Amboy." Passed the 21st of December, 1784. (Rev. 61.) 1. SEC. I. All that tract of land and country, situate and being in the county of Middlesex, and lying within the limits and boundaries herein after mentioned, that is to say, beginning at the meeting of the waters of Raritan river, with the waters of the sound, that part. of Staten Island from the main, to the southward of the flat or shoal that runs off from Cole's point; thence up along the sound on the eastern bank of the channel, north-easterly and north-westerly, as the same runs to Woodbridge creek; thence up the said creek, to the creek that Cutter's mill stands on; then up the said creek, to a lane that leads to a line between George Herriott and Grace Innsley; thence along said lane until it intersects the road leading from Perth Amboy to New Brunswick; thence along said road, southerly, to a lane leading to Florida landing; thence along the said lane, to the north corner of the farm or plantation, late Samuel Nevill's, esquire; thence along the line of the same to Raritan river, and across the same, to the south bank of the channel thereof; thence down the same to the beginning; comprehending all the bays, harbors, creeks, rivers, and waters, within the said boundaries, shall be and the same is hereby ordained, constituted and declared, to be from time to time and for ever hereafter, a city and town corporate, and shall henceforth be called, known and distinguished by the name of, "The city of Perth Amboy;" and all persons at present residing within the said limits and boundaries, or who shall hereafter reside within the same for the space of one year, and shall take the oaths or affirmations prescribed by law, for the security of the government established in this state, under the authority of the people, before the mayor, recorder, or one of the aldermen of, or before one of the judges or justices of the peace, in the said city, and shall file in the office of the clerk of the corporation, or of the town clerk, a certificate thereof, which certificate, the officer, administering the same, is required to give, excepting only such persons who, during the late war, have been guilty of licentious cruelties in plundering, or murder, contrary to the usages of civilized nations, shall from thenceforth be freemen of the said city, and shall be entitled to have and receive the same protection of their persons and proper