CHAPTER LXXI.

A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled "An act to regulate fisheries in the river Delaware and for other purposes," passed November twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eight.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly Section amended, of the State of New Jersey, That section one of a supplement to said act, passed February twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, be amended to read as follows:

catching fish

mesh of certain size between certain times.

[1. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons Penalty for shall cast, draw, or otherwise make use of any seine or with net having net of a less mesh than ten inches or any other appliance, except the hook and line, for the purpose of catching fish in the river Delaware within the jurisdiction of this state between the fifteenth day of June and the tenth day of August below the head of Trenton falls, and between the twentieth day of June and the tenth day of August above the head of Trenton falls, in any year, he, she or they so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars, together with costs of suit, for each and every offence.

ded.

2. And be it enacted, That section one of a supplement section amento said act, passed March fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, be amended to read as follows:

the Delaware not

sale within

[1. And be it enacted, That hereafter no person shall, shad caught in within this state, have in his possession, or expose to sale, to be offered for any shad caught in the river Delaware, or any of its tribu- certain periods. taries, within the jurisdiction of this state, between the sixteenth day of June and the tenth day of August below the head of Trenton falls, and the twenty-first day of June and the tenth day of August above the head of Trenton falls, in any year under a penalty of five dollars Penalty for. for each and every shad so had in possession or exposed for sale, to be recovered in an action of debt with costs

Proviso.

of suit by any person or persons in his or their name or names, before any justice of the peace in the county where the offence was committed, or where the defendant resides or is found, and in all prosecutions or proceedings under this act it shall not be necessary to file any state of demand or to comply with the formalities required in penal actions; and in all such actions both parties may be sworn; provided always, nevertheless, that nothing in this act or the act or acts to which this is a supplement contained, shall make it unlawful, by order of any one or more of the commissioners of fisheries of the state of New Jersey, to take fish in the said river Delaware, or any of its said tributaries, at any time, to be used for the purposes of the natural or artificial propagation of the same; nothing in this act shall be construed to impair any actions at law or suits pending prior to the passage of this act.]

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

Approved March 27, 1884.

Acknowledgment or proof of

officer of other

made

CHAPTER LXXII.

A Supplement to an act entitled "An act respecting conveyances," (Revision) approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly deed made before of the State of New Jersey, That every acknowledgment state or territory or proof of any deed or conveyance of lands, tenements or hereditaments lying and being in this state, heretofore made by any grantor or witness thereto, before or by any officers in some other state in the union or territory thereof, authorized at the time of such proof or acknowledgment, by the laws of the state or territory wherein such proof or acknowledgment was made or taken, to

take the proofs and acknowledgments of deeds or con-
veyances of lands, tenements or hereditaments lying or
being in such state or territory, shall be good, valid and
effectual in law, and the record thereof admissible in evi-
dence and good, valid and effectual in law for all pur-
poses, notwithstanding the certificate accompanying such
acknowledgment or proof, under the great seal of such
state or territory, or under the seal of a court of record
of the county in which it was made, does not certify that
the officer, before whom such proof or acknowledgment
was made, was, at the time of the taking thereof, author-
ized by the laws of such state or territory, to take the
acknowledgments and proofs of deeds or conveyances for
lands, tenements or hereditaments in such state or terri-
tory; provided, such certificate, and such acknowledg- Proviso.
ment or proof, and the certificate thereof, in all other
respects conforms to the laws of this state.

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

Approved March 27, 1884.

CHAPTER LXXIII.

A Supplement to the act entitled "An act to provide for the filing of a lispenden in actions, either at law or in equity, relating to or affecting the possession or title of lands and real estate," approved February sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

When decree or

paid or suit set

ed statement

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That when any decree or judgment is judgment made in any suit, of the pending of which led or abandonnotice shall have been or shall be filed in the office of the may be entered, clerk of the court of common pleas or of the register of deeds and mortgages in any county, shall have been paid, satisfied or performed, or when pending such suit the

&c.

matters in difference shall be or shall have been settled by the parties or such suit shall have been or shall be abandoned by the plaintiff or complainant therein, a statement of such payment, performance, satisfaction, settlement or abandonment of such suit may be entered by the attorney or solicitor of the party abandoning such suit or receiving payment or satisfaction thereof, or by the said clerk or register upon his receiving and filing a warrant for the purpose executed by said party or his attorney or solicitor in the manner provided by law for the execution of warrants to satisfy judgments, and thereupon the land and real estate affected by said suit and described in said lispenden shall be discharged of all claims or equities set up in the declaration or bill of complaint in said suit, and the same fees shall be paid for services rendered under this act as are allowed in the supreme court upon satisfaction of a judgment therein.

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

Approved March 27, 1884.

Sale of land not

invalidated by omission to publish advertisement of sale.

CHAPTER LXXIV.

A Further Supplement to "An act relative to sale of lands under a public statute or by virtue of any legal proceedings," (Revision) approved March twentyseventh, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That no sale of land heretofore made shall be invalidated by reason of the omission to publish the advertisement of such sale in two newspapers printed and published in the county in which such lands are situate, but that any purchaser of lands at such sale, who shall have complied with the conditions of such sale shall be entitled to have a deed for the land so purchased, notwithstanding the sale was advertised in but one news

paper of the county in which the land is situated; pro- Proviso.
vided, that where the sale has been made by direction of
any court of competent jurisdiction, an order confirming
such sale shall first be made by a judge thereof, which
order shall be granted when the judge shall be satisfied
that the land has been sold for a fair price and that it is
proper in such case to make the order; and provided, Proviso.
further, that where the sale is not made by direction of a
court, that then such sale shall be first confirmed by an
order of a justice of the supreme court when such justice
shall be satisfied that the land has been sold at a fair
price and that it is proper in such case to make the order;
and a deed so given shall operate to tranfer the title of
the land to the purchaser as fully as if the sale had been
advertised in two newspapers of the county where the
land is situate; and provided, further, that nothing in this Proviso.
act shall be held to affect any litigation now pending.
2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
immediately.

Approved March 27, 1884.

CHAPTER LXXV.

An Act concerning cities of this state.

expended in any purposes in

certain city.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Amount to be the State of New Jersey, That it shall not be lawful for the one year for city city authorities of any city in this state having a permanent or bonded debt exceeding thirteen million dollars, to expend, in any one year, more than ninety per centum of the amount fixed as the amount to be raised in such city during such year for all city purposes.

Moneys in excess of limit of expenditure

2. And be it enacted, That all moneys received in excess of the limit of expenditure fixed as aforesaid are hereby appropriated to a sinking fund of such city, and shall appropriated to not be loaned from such sinking fund to any other department or board of such city, but shall be used solely

sinking fund.