of two years from the passage of this act; provided, Proviso. however, that this act shall not apply unless money has actually been expended in surveys or location of route, or in acquisition of right of way or in construction since January first, one thousand eight hundred and eightysix; provided, further, that this act shall not apply to Proviso. any corporation unless such corporation shall first, and as the condition precedent to the exercise of any power granted by this act, file in the office of the Secretary of State an agreement, to be approved by the Governor and Attorney-General, waiving all right of exemption Waiver. from taxation and from privileges and advantages arising from any law or contract, if any there be, establishing any special mode of taxation of any such corporation, and the further agreement to be bound by any general law of this State now in existence or that may be hereafter passed, taxing such corporations as are now authorized to be taxed by the Legislature of the State under any general law, and further agreeing that the exercise of any power granted by this act shall not in any way affect the rights of this State, if any there exist, to take the property of such corporations under any existing law of this State, and agreeing further that all laws affecting such corporations shall be subject to alteration or repeal by the Legislature.

2. This act shall be deemed a public act, and shall take effect immediately.

Approved April 10, 1907.

CHAPTER 34.

A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act for the punishment of crimes (Revision of 1898)," approved June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

Political con

tributions by

1. No insurance corporation or association doing business in this State shall, directly or indirectly, pay insurance or use, or offer, consent or agree to pay or use, any prohibited.

companies

Violation a misdemeanor.

Witnesses

money or property for or in aid of any political party, committee, organization or corporation, or for or in aid of any candidate for political office, or for nomination for such office, or for any political purpose whatsoever, or for the reimbursement or indemnification of any person for money or property so used. Any officer, director, stockholder, attorney or agent of any corporation or association which violates any of the provisions of this act, who participates in, aids, abets, or advises or consents to any such violation, and any person who solicits or knowingly receives any money or property in violation of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

2. No person shall be excused from attending and must testify. testifying, or producing any books, papers or other documents, before any court or magistrate upon any investigation, proceeding or trial, for a violation of any of the provisions of this act, upon the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate or degrade him; but no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may so testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, and no testimony so given or produced shall be used against him upon any criminal investigation or proceeding.

3. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved April 10, 1907.

Reciprocal insurance business.

CHAPTER 35.

An Act prohibiting the transaction of business in this State by foreign banking, savings, trusts or safe deposit corporations.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. Hereafter no banking, savings, trust or safe deposit corporation created by any other State or by any

foreign State, kingdom or government shall transact any
business in this State, except to the extent that similar
corporations of New Jersey are permitted to transact
business in such State, kingdom or government; pro- Proviso.
vided, every such foreign corporation shall comply with
all the requirements of the laws of this State applicable
to it in doing business therein.

2. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved April 10, 1907.

CHAPTER 36.

An Act providing for the establishment of evening schools for foreign-born residents in the State of New Jersey.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

schools for

I. The Board of Education of any school district may Evening establish and maintain a public evening school or even- foreign-born ing schools for the instruction of foreign-born residents residents. of said district over fourteen years of age in the English language and in the form of government and the laws

of this State and of the United States. Every teacher Teachers.
employed in such a school shall hold a special teacher's
certificate, valid as a license to teach in such schools.

The State Board of Education shall prescribe rules for Rules and the proper control and management of such schools, for regulations. the inspection thereof, for the granting of certificates to

teach therein, and for carrying into effect the purposes

of this act. The course of study in each of such schools Course of and any changes therein shall be submitted to and shall study. be approved by the State Board of Education.

2. Whenever in any school district there shall have Appropriation. been raised by special appropriation or special tax, or by subscription, or both, such sum as, in the judgment of the State Board of Education, shall be sufficient for the

Proviso.

maintenance in such district of an evening school or schools as aforesaid, there shall be paid for such purpose to the custodian of the school moneys of said district, on the order of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, an amount equal to that raised therein as aforesaid, which amount shall be paid by the State Treasurer on the warrant of the State Comptroller; provided, said order shall not be issued until the course of study in such school or schools or any changes therein shall have been approved by the State Board of EducaLimit to State tion. The moneys appropriated by the State as aforesaid to any school district shall not exceed in any year the sum of five thousand dollars. The custodian of the school moneys of the school district shall be the legal custodian of any and all funds appropriated, raised or subscribed for the maintenance of such evening schools. He shall keep a separate and distinct account thereof, and shall disburse said moneys on orders signed by the president and district clerk or secretary of the Board of Education.

appropriation.

Custodian

of school moneys.

Special report to State Superintend

ent.

Assistance.

Expenses incurred met.

3. The Board of Education of any school district receiving an appropriation from the State for the purpose mentioned in this act shall annually, on or before the first day of August, making a special report to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in the manner and form prescribed by him.

4. The State Board of Education may from time to time appoint suitable persons to assist in carrying out the provisions of this act and to encourage the establishment of such evening schools. The persons so appointed shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be paid the necessary expenses incurred by them under the provisions of this act.

5. The expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be paid by the State Treasurer on the warrant of the State Comptroller, but no expense shall be incurred nor payment made for any of the purposes named in this act until an appropriation therefor shall have been made in a regular appropriation bill. 6. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 11, 1907.

CHAPTER 37.

An Act to incorporate the borough of South Bound
Brook.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

name.

described.

I. The inhabitants of the town of South Bound Corporate Brook, in the township of Franklin and county of Somerset, incorporated under an act of the legislature of this State entitled "An act for the improvement of South Bound Brook, and altering the name thereof," approved March sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixtynine, and now governed by a board of street commissioners, are hereby constituted and declared to be a body corporate in law and in fact, by the name of the borough of South Bound Brook, and as such shall be governed by the general laws of this State relating to boroughs. The boundaries of said borough shall be the same as Boundaries of said town, and are described as follows: Beginning at a point on the south bank of the Raritan river, and passing thence over the Delaware and Raritan canal, through a point sixteen and one-half feet west of the west end of the wing wall of a small stone bridge (and in line of the south side of the same) on the public road from Bound Brook to Weston, and between the end of the lane leading to the dwelling-house of the late Robert Van Duyn, deceased, and the dwelling now occupied by Field G. Garretson; from thence said line continues as an air line, about south, fifty-four degrees and thirty minutes east, passing through a point three hundred and ninety-six feet south of the dwelling-house lately owned by said Robert G. Van Duyn (now Howard's); thence through lands of (now or formerly) E. Van Syckle, the Emery estate, William H. Ayres, George Atz, estate of Benjamin Bonney, C. W. LaTourette, Isaac A. Brokaw and the Delaware and Raritan canal to the Raritan river, passing through a point three hun