Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-11-02


sey and Stout, to settle the accounts Of
the State-Prison.
MIR. Kinney offered the following reso-
luton:
Resolved, That a committee be ap-
pointed TO inquire into The situation and
management oil the corporation created by
an act Tor facilitating the communication
from the Hudson river, opposite the city
Iof New-York, 10 the eastern abutment oil
tie bridge over IIsckinsack river, aud
that they have power to send for persons
and papers.
Which resolution was agreed to, and
Messrs. Kinney, Bogart and Beardslee
accordingly appointed.
MIR. Evans offered the following reso-
luton:
| Resolved, That committee be appoint
ed to contract with printer or printers
in this town for the current printing Of this
session of the Legislature.
Read and ordered 10 lie on the table.
Mr.. Miller, from the committee for that
purpose, reported the following list Of In
finished Business:
NO. l. A bill to prevent persons from
prosecuting and defending suits for others
10 the courts for the trial of small causes,
for money, or other reward, not being ali-
thorized by law 10 take the same.
No. 2. A supplement to the act making
lands liable TO be sold for the payment Of
debts.
| No. 8. A bill to establish a permanent
salary for the Office Of Governor Of this
Estate.
No. 4. A supplement to the act for the
support Of the Government.
No. 5. A bill authorizing John Tidd
aud Wooster Beach to make use Of herbs
and roots in healing the diseases incident
10 the human body.
No. 6. A bill constituting the Justices
of the Supreme Court judges of the Court
Iof Common Pleas, General Quarter Ses-
Esions Of the Peace and Orphans Courts,
and for other purposes.
| No. a. A supplement to the act respect
ing conveyances-an to an act to register
mortgages.
No. s. A bill entitled an act to abolish
Imprisonment for debt in the state Of New
Jersey.
No. 8. A bill 10 authorize Joseph w.
Reckless, his heirs and assigns, to remove
abe distractions TO the navigationo OF Cross
wicks creek, and for other purposes.
No. 10. Il bill to divorce SiIas Hayes
from his wife Julia.
No. /. A bill to- divorce Keturah
Wordsworth from her husband.
No. IL. A supplement to the act relating
to pedlars.
No. IS. A bill to erect the four lower
townships of Gloucester into separate
county.
No. ID. A supplement to the act for the
preservation of oysters.
No. Is. A bill making compensation
for damages occasioned by laying out
public roads.
No. Is. A bill securing TO mechanics,
aad others, 10 Trenton and Nottingham,
payment for labor and materials in erect.
ing houses, &c.
No. II. A bin authorizing a bridge
over the Sound at the New Blazing Star.
No. 10. A supplement TO the act con-
shutting courts Of oyer and terminer.
No. 10. A bill TO enable William S. Pen
nington TO execute the trust committed 10
him by the heirs Of John and Sarah Budd.
No. 20. A report on internal improve
ments. Which was read and ordered to
lie on the table.
Mr.. Kinsey offered the following reso-
luton !:
Resolved, That the Clerk inform, Coun-
Gil that the house is ready to 60 into a
joint-meetiug to choose Governor and
Clerks IN those counties where vacancies
have occurred, and such other officers as
may be necessary, and request Council to
appoint the time and place of said meeting.
Which resolution was agreed TO.
The Speaker laid before tire House the
following communication.
To the Legislative Council aud General
Assembly Of the State Of New-Jersey.
The undersigned Commissioners named
10 the act entitled An act making provis-
lou for compilation and revision Of the
laws Of this state, passed February IL,
1919, respectfully report
That 10 obedience TO The duties imposed
on them by the said act, they employed
William S. Pennington, Esq. to make the
revision and compilation agreeable TO the
provisions Of the said act-it being under
stood that his compensation, as well as the
form and manner of publication, be left to
the discretion Of the Legislature.
|, THOMAS Il. KINNEY,
DAVID THOMPSON, Jun.
JOHN FRELlNGRUYSEN.
Oct 81, 1870.
Which communication " a 4 read and or