To be filed and be filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common

recorded in

clerk.

office of county pleas of the county embracing the place of the location of such church, and shall be recorded by the said clerk in his said office; and that from and immediately after the filing and recording of such certificate, such church shall be known by the name, title and designation to which the same has been changed as aforesaid, and by such name shall be entitled to all the benefits and privileges and subject to all the limitations and restrictions as it was before said change was made.

Repealer.

3. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same are. hereby repealed, and that this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall take effect immediately. Approved March 23, 1883.

Board of inspectors and supervisor authorized to

CHAPTER CLIX.

An Act to provide for improvements in the state prison.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the board of inspectors and erect gas works the supervisor of the state prison be and they are hereby authorized and directed to remove the present gas works from the dangerous position in which they are now situated, and to cause to be erected, at a safe and proper distance from the other prison buildings, the necessary works to supply the prison with gas.

Appropriation to defray expenses.

Certain work

to be done by contract.

2. And be it enacted, That the sum of seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to defray the expense attendant upon the erection and fitting up the gas works hereby provided for, and the said moneys shall be drawn from the treasury in the manner provided in section three of this act concerning the appropriation for additional rooms and repairs.

3. And be it enacted, That as to all work provided for in the foregoing sections which can advantageously be done

under contract, the said inspectors and supervisor shall be required to advertise for proposals, and to award the work to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders.

no compensa

4. And be it enacted, That the said inspectors and super- shall receive visor shall receive no additional compensation for the services which may be rendered by them under this act.

tion.

detailed account to next

legislature.

5. And be it enacted, That the said inspectors and super- shall make visor shall make to the next legislature a full and detailed account of their operations under this act, together with detailed statement of the moneys expended by them or under their direction.

a

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

Approved March 23, 1883.

CHAPTER CLX.

An Act to provide for the incorporation of associations for the promotion of art, and for the erection of museums and

monuments.

associate to

promotion of

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly Five or more of the State of New Jersey, That any five or more persons of persons may full age, a majority of whom shall be citizens of and residents gether for the within this state, who shall desire to associate themselves art, and erectogether for the purpose of making collections of works of tion of muse art and erecting museums or galleries for art exhibitions, or monuments. erecting monuments to commemorate any of the victories of the armies of the United States, may make, record and file a certificate in writing in manner hereinafter mentioned.

ums and

2. And be it enacted, That such certificate in writing shall Certificate of set forth

I. The name or title assumed to designate such corpora

tion ;

II. The place or places is this state where the purposes of such association are to be carried out ;

incorporation.

How acknowledged and recorded.

III. The purposes for which the association shall be formed;

IV. The names of the directors who shall manage its affairs for the first year of its existence.

3. And be it enacted, That such certificate shall be proved or acknowledged and recorded, as required of deeds of real estate, in a book to be kept for the recording of certificates of incorporation, in the office of the clerk of the county where the purposes of the association are to be carried out, and after being so recorded shall be filed in the office of the retary of state. secretary of state; the said certificate, or a copy thereof, duly certified by said clerk or secretary, shall be evidence in all courts and places.

Shall be filed

in office of sec

Shall be a body corporate

Powers.

Shall have power to make by-laws, etc.

4. And be it enacted, That upon making such certificate and causing the same to be recorded and filed as aforesaid, the said persons so associating, their successors and assigns, shall, by virtue of this act, be a body politic and corporate, in fact and in law, by the name stated in such certificate; and by that name they and their successors shall have perpetual succession and power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto in all courts and places whatsover, to make and use a common seal and the same to use at pleasure, and to purchase and take, have hold, receive and enjoy any lands, tenements and hereditaments, in fee-simple or otherwise, and any goods, chattels or property of any description, real or personal, and whether acquired by gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise, and the same to grant, convey, have, assign, sell or otherwise dispose of for the purposes of said association.

5. And be it enacted, That the directors of such association shall have power from time to time to make, alter and amend by-laws, not inconsistent with the constitution or laws of the United States or of this state, fixing and altering the number of its directors for the management of its property and the regulation and government of its affairs, and providing for the classification of and the mode of increasing or perpetuating the directors of the association, and the mode of filling vacancies in, and removing any member from their number, and prescribing qualifications for membership of the association, and to appoint one or more superintendents or managers, and such other agents and officers as shall in their

judgment tend to promote or advance any purpose of the association, and to prescribe their expected duties.

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

Approved March 23, 1883.

CHAPTER CLXI.

A Further Supplement to the act entitled "An act respecting conveyances" [Revision], approved March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the fifty-seventh section of said act shall hereafter read as follows:

ment of deed

years from

57. And be it enacted, That all acknowledgments or proofs Acknowledg of deeds heretofore made or taken, or hereafter to be made taken after ten or taken, after the lapse of ten years from the date of such date held acknowledgment or proof, notwithstanding any errors or valid. imperfections in said acknowledgment or proofs, shall be taken and held to be good and sufficient in law; provided, Proviso, however, that all such deeds shall have been duly recorded. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 23, 1883.

CHAPTER CLXII.

An Act authorizing limited appropriations for the relief and education of certain indigent children in the cities of the

state.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly Appropriation of the State of New Jersey, That in addition to its yearly for relief and appropriations for school purposes, it shall be lawful for the indigent chilbody having control of the finances of any city in this state

education of

dren in cities.

Proviso.

to raise, in its annual tax levy, a sum of money not exceeding one thousand dollars, which, together with any moneys obtained therefor by voluntary contributions, shall be expended for the relief and primary education of such indigent, homeless or deserted children of said city as, by reason of their age, their inability to obtain suitable clothing, their necessary occupations, or otherwise, are unable to attend the public schools; provided, however, that the moneys thus appropriated shall be expended under the direction of the mayor of said city.

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

Approved March 23, 1883.

Advertisement for proposals to

of laws, etc.

CHAPTER CLXIII.

An Act relative to public printing.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly print volume of the State of New Jersey, That it shall be the duty of the comptroller to advertise in two newspapers, published in each of the cities of Trenton, Camden, Jersey City and Newark, at least once a week during the month of January of each year, for sealed proposals to print the volume of laws, the journals of the senate and minutes of joint meeting and executive sessions, and the minutes of the house of assembly, and all such reports and documents of whatever kind not included in the current printing of the legislature, in such quantity and manner and form as may be ordered by the legislature at its regular session of that year, which proposals shall be submitted to the comptroller within ten days after the adjournment of the session.

Advertisement for proposals for current printing of legislature.

2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the comptroller to advertise in like manner, during the month of December in each year, for proposals to do the current printing of the two houses of the legislature at its next ensuing session, which proposals shall be submitted to the comptroller on or before the first Monday in January following.