1 3. No decree for costs shall be had in such suit As to costs. against any defendant who suffers a decree pro confesso against him or who shall answer disclaiming all title to, interest in or encumbrance on said lands; but said court shall in such cases, without further proof, decree that such defendant or defendants have no estate or interest in or encumbrance on said lands, or any part thereof, by such grant or conveyance in fee; and any defendant who shall by answer duly verified by oath deny that he claims or ever has claimed or pretended to have any estate or interest in fee in or upon said lands, or any part thereof, shall be entitled to his costs in said suit. specified. 4. If any defendant shall answer claiming any inter- Claim to be est or estate in fee in said lands, or any part thereof, he shall in such answer specify and set forth the estate or interest so claimed, and if not claimed in whole of said lands, he shall specify and describe the part in or upon which the same is claimed, and shall set out the manner in which and the sources through which such title or interest is claimed to be held and derived. 5. Upon application of either party, an issue at law shall be directed to try the validity of such claim or to settle the facts or any specified portion of the facts upon which the same depends, and the Court of Chancery shall be bound by the result of such issue, but may, for sufficient reasons, order a new trial thereof according to the practice in such cases; and when such issue is not requested, or as to the facts for which the same is not requested, the Court of Chancery shall proceed to inquire into and determine such claims, interest or estate according to the course and practice of said court; and shall, upon the finding of such issue, or upon such inquiry and determination, finally settle and adjudge whether the said defendant has any estate, interest or right in said lands, or any part thereof, by virtue of said grant or conveyance in fee, and what such interest, estate or right is, and in and upon what part of said lands the same exists. 6. The final determination and decree in such suit shall fix and settle the rights of the parties in said lands, and the same shall be binding and conclusive on all par Issue at law validity of to settle claim. Final decree to settle rights. ties to the suit. It shall not be necessary for the Attor- 7. This act shall take effect immediately. Unused school buildings may be transferred to township. Remodeling and use of such building. CHAPTER 49. An Act to authorize the board of education of any township in this State to transfer any unused school building to the township in which said board of education is located and to empower the township committee to use said building for municipal purposes. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: I. It shall be lawful for any board of eduction of any township in this State, by resolution adopted by a twothirds vote of the members of said board of education, to transfer any building not used by it for school purposes to the township in which said board and school building is located for use by said township for municipal purposes. 2. It shall be lawful for any township committee of any township to which any school building may be transferred, to alter and remodel said building, to remove the same to any suitable location upon lands belonging to the township, and do and perform any act which may be necessary to put such building in proper condition, to use the same for municipal purposes of such township, and any expense incurred thereby shall be paid out of any unexpended balances or funds in the possession of the township committee. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 12, 1907. CHAPTER 50. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act for the punishment of crimes (Revision of 1898)," approved June fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Any person who shall willfully or maliciously instigate, make, circulate or transmit to another or others any statement, untrue in fact, derogatory to the financial condition or affecting the solvency or financial standing of any bank, banking institution or trust company doing business in this State, or who shall counsel, aid, procure or induce another to start, transmit or circulate any such statement or rumor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 12, 1907. CHAPTER 51. An Act to provide for a suitable detail from the National BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: Detail of veterans and 1. With the approval of the Governor and Com- militia at mander-in-Chief, the Major-General Commanding Di monument. Appropriation. vision, National Guard, is hereby authorized to make a suitable detail from members of the organization known as the Grand Army of the Republic in this State, now residing in this State, and who served under the immediate command of General McClellan and from the National Guard of this State, to participate, representing the State of New Jersey, in the ceremonies of dedication of a monument at Washington, D. C., Thursday, May second, one thousand nine hundred and seven, to the honor and memory of the late Major-General George B. McClellan, United States Army, during the Civil War, and later Governor of New Jersey. 2. The sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to cover the cost of transportation of the detail and such other expenses as may be necessary for the purpose. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 9, 1907. Assistant prosecutor in coast counties. CHAPTER 52. A Supplement to an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to provide for assistant prosecutors in the several counties of this State,'" approved April third, one thousand nine hundred and two. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Wherever the population of any county bordering on the Atlantic ocean in this State, as ascertained by any State or federal census, is more than fifty thousand and not more than seventy-five thousand, it shall be lawful for the prosecutor of the pleas to appoint one assistant prosecutor, who, after having taken an oath of affirmation before the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county wherein he is appointed to faithfully and justly perform the duties of the appointment to the best of his ability, shall hold said appointment unless removed by the prosecutor of the pleas. 2. The assistant prosecutor of the pleas, under this Salary. act, shall receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars; such salary shall be payable in monthly installments by the county collector out of the funds of such county, and such salary shall be in addition to the salary, fees and allowances received by the prosecutor of the pleas of such county. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the pro- Repealér visions of this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 12, 1907. CHAPTER 53. An Act to authorize the change of name of any newspaper published in this State. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: Method of changing name of newspaper. I. The name of any newspaper published in this State may be changed by the proprietor or proprietors thereof by executing, recording and filing, pursuant to the provisions of this act, a certificate under the hand of the proprietor or proprietors if a natural person or persons, or under the corporate seal of the proprietor if a corporation, setting forth the name and proprietorship of such newspaper, the place of publication, the new name adopted, the date when the change of name shall take effect (which date shall be not less than one week after the filing of such certificate); the execution of said certificate shall be proved or acknowledged as required for deeds of real estate, and after being so acknowledged or proved, said certificate shall be recorded in a book Record of to be kept for that purpose in the office of the clerk of change. |