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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-28
CHAPTER CLxxIy.

Anact exempting fremen from taxation.
|. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That
all members Of any organized volunteer fire de-
partment of any town, city, borough OF town
ship of this state, under the control of any
town committee, common council OF municipal
corporation, which are now or may hereafter be
established, shall be exempt from the payment
OF taxes to said town, township, city and bor-
ough, to the extent and in the manner follow
ing, to wit: II the sum at any one time assess
ed by any assessor upon any member of said
nre department shall not exceed the sum of five
dollars, then such member shall be exempt
from the payment of taxes upon such assess
ment; If the sum at any time exceeds the sum
of FIVE dollars assessed against any member,
then such member shall have credit for the
sum of five dollars on the amount assessed
against such member. and the amount over
and above said five dollars shall be paid BY said
member or collected in the same way and man
ner as directed for the collection of taxes.
2. And be it enacted, That the certificate Of
the chief 5ngineer or of the assistant engineer
or Of the mayor, or either of them. shall be
sufficient voucher or authority for the assessor
Of any township, city, town or borough, or the
collector Of taxes of any town. city, borough or
township, to deduct the sum Of five dollars
from any tax assessed by any assessor against
any member Of a volunteer fire department
under the control Of any town committee. COM
mon council, or any other municipal authority
bylaw authorized to organize lire department.
3. And be it enacted That this act shall take
effect Immediately, and any act Or part of act
conflicting with This ast IL hereby repealed.
Approved March a. 1881.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-28
CHAPTER cLYrI.
A general act respecting taxes, assessments and
water rates

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A general act respecting taxes, assessments and
water rates.
l. Be 1t enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of tho State of New jersey That
no tax, assessment or water rate imposed or
levied in this state, shall be set aside or re-
versed in any court Of law or equity in any
action, suit or proceeding for any irregularity
or defect in form, or ilegality in assessing,
laying or leyying any such tax, assessment or
rate, or in the proceeding for collecting the
same, if the person against whom, or the prop
erty upon which such tax, assessment or rate
is assessed or laid is, in fact liable to taxation
or assessment, or imposition of such water rate
in respect of the purposes for which such tax,
assessment or rate is levied, assessed or laid;
and the court in which any action, suit or pro-
ceeding is or shall be pending, to review any
such tax, assessment or water rate, is required
to amend all Irregularities, or errors or defects
and is empowered, if need be, to ascertain and
determine for what sum such person or prop
erty was legally liable to taxation, or assess
ments or water rate, and by order or decree to
fix the amount thereof; and the sum 50 fixed
shall be the amount oftax, assessment or water
rate for which such person or property shall be
liable and the same shall be and remain first
lien or charge upon the property and persons,
and colleetable in the manner provided by law,
the same as if such tax, assessment or water
rate had been legally levied assessed or i'm
posed in the first instance by the city, town,
township, commission, board or other authority
attempting to make, impose or levy the same;
it shall be the duty of the court to make
proper levy, imposition or assessment in all
cases in which there may lawfully be an assess
ment imposition or levy; and such court is
hereby given full and ample authority to make
lawful levy, assessment or imposition.
Q. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of
acts inconsistent herewith, be and the same are
hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect
Immediately.
Approved March %, 1881.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-28
CHAPTER CLxyII.

A supplement to an act entitled " An act to de-
fine and suppress tramps," approved April
nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and
seventv-six
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New jersey, That the
second section of the act to which this is a sup
plemeEt, be and the same is hereby amended
SO that the said amended section shall be, and
read as follows:
2. And be it enacted, That if any person
shall be found offending, in any county, city
township, borough or district in this state
against this act it shall and may be lawful fol
any constable or police officer of such place
and he is hereby enjoined and required, on no.
tice thereof given him by any Of the inhabit-
ants thereof, to apprehend and convey such
person to justice of the peace or other magis-
trate of snchs place. who shall examine such
person. and may commit him or her, being
thereof legally convicted before him by the
oath or affirmation Of one or more credible wit
nessess other than the officer making the arrest
to labor upon any county farm, or upon the
streets, roads and highways of any city, town
ship or borough, or in any house Of correction
poor-h0use, work house or common JAIL for q
term not exceeding six months; and shall forth
with commit him or her to the custody of the
steward, keeper or superintendent of such coun-
ty farm, house of correction, poor-house, work
house or common jail, or to the supervisor or
overseer of highways, street commissioners or
any other officer or officers having in charge
the repairs of any street, road or highway, or
overseers of the poor of the respective coantv,
city, borough or township wherein such person
shall be found, as in their Judgment shall be
deemed most expedient
O. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect immediately.
Approved March d 1881,
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-28
cHAprER cLxYIIL.

Supplement to an act entitled g An act in rela-
ton to incumbered cities, approved March
seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and
sighty-one.
!. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the
fourth section of the act to which this is sup
plement shall be and is hereby amended SO as
to read as follows:
4. And be it enacted, That the annual inter
est on such bonds as shall be so issued and ex-
changed, shall be raised by taxation by the
proper authorities of any such city, for that
purpose, together with such sum as shall
be levied by such city council or other legisla-
tive body, for application to sinking fund for
the payment of the principal thereof, if any,
and such interest and sum for principal, if any,
shall be raised by taxation and paid by the
proper municipal authorities of any such city
before the interest on any bonds or other eTi-
dences of Indebtedness of such city, in exist
erce at the time of the issue of the bonds au-
thorized by this act, or the principal, or any
part thereof, of any Indebtedness Of such city
arising after the execution of the bonds author
lied by this act, except such temporary indebt-
edness rs may be incurred in any one year in
anticipation flakes for the current expenses Of
the city government for that year; and this
supplemental act shall take effect immedi-
ately.
Approved March "a, 1881.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-28
red March "a, 1881.
oHApTER cLxxII.

An act to amend an act entitled "a further act
concerning taxes, making the same first
lien on real estate, and to authorize sales for
the payment of the same" approved March
fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy mine.
/. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That sec
ton sixteen of the act entitled g A further act
concerning taxes, making the same first lien
real estate and to authorize sales for the pay
ment Of the same. 4" approved March fourteenth,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy whine,
be so amended as to read as follows:
16. And be it enacted, That the fees, charges,
and expenses incurred for services rendered
under this act shall be included in the amount
to be paid by the delinquent, and that upon
payment of such taxes, costs and expenses the
collector who shall receive the same shall give
receipt for the amount paid in satisfaction
thereof to the person paying the same, which
receipt shall be sufficient evidence of the pay
ment of such tax, and that upon presentation
thereof the clerk of the county shall satisfy
such tax record in the same manner as the re-
cord of mortgages is now by law satisfied, md
shall file such receipt in his office.
Q. And be it enacted That so much of said
act as is inconsistent with the provisions of
this act be and the same is hereby repealed.
8. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect Immediately.
Approved March "a, 1881
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-28
CHAPTER oLxIx.

An act relative to interest on arrears of taxes
and assessments in incorporated cities.
1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly Of the State Of New jersey, That at
any time within one year after the passage of
this act any person or persons NAV paw to the
collector of taxes, or other person authorized to
receive the same, in any incorporated city of
this state, the amount Of any tax or assessment
due upon any real property belonging to such
person or persons laid or imposed prior to the
year one thousand eight hundred and eighty,
and now remaining unpaid. together with inter-
est thereon at seven per centum per aIlnum, to
be calculated from the the time interest is prop
erly chargeablc thereon to the time of such
payment, together with the actual expenses
heretofore incurred by any such city for the
enforcement and payment of said taxes OF
assessments and the collector of taxes or other
person authorized to receive the same, shall
make Or deliver to the person or persons max
ing such payment receipt therefor, and shall
forthwith cancel the record of such tax or as
sessment; upon such payment such tax or
assessment shall cease to be a lien upon the
real estate or property, and shall be deemed
and taken to be fully paid, satisfied and dis
charged, and there shall be no right to any fur
ther interest or penalty by reason Of such tax or
assessment not having been paid within the
time heretofore required by law, or reason of
any statute passed requiring the payment here
tofore Of any penalty or interest over seven per
centum upon any unpaid tax or assessment;
provided, however, that nothing in this act con-
tanned shall authorize the receipt under the
provisions of this act of any such taxes or
assessments in cases where lands and real
estate have been sold for taxes or assess
mcnts, and bought in by any other person
than the city in which said taxes and assess
ments arc laid, or some officer for the use of
such city; nor shall any lien upon real estate
for such taxes or assessments be released or
nf1ppfpI 81 M 70
for taxes or assessments, or the delivery of
any certificate or declaration of sale or deed
therefor, be stayed by anything in this act con
tainod; and provided further, that this act shall
not apply to any cities III this state in which
redemptions are pledgel to the commissioners
of the sinking fdnd for the redemption of bonds
already issued.
.. And be it enacted, That all acts OF parts
OF act inconsistent with this act be and the same
are hereby repealed, and that this act shall take
effect Immediately.
Approved March "a, 1881.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-28
CHApTER CIur

supplement to the act entitled can aci
respecting the orphans court, and relating tc
the powers and duties of the ordinary, and
the orphans court and surrogates,n approved
March twenty seventh, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four, and the act sup
Elementary thereto approved March the
eighth, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seven.
/. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey That
no sale oflands made by any executor or adj
ministrator. or order for the sale of lands to
pay debts, made by any orphans courts of this
state, shall be held invalid, nor shall anv
orphans court of this state refuse to grant an
order for the sale of lands under and by the
provisions OF said supplementary act by reason
of failure to set up the order to show cause
in each of the counties where the lands lie, or
of failure of the court to direct in what news
papers the said order should be published: pro-
vided, that the said order shall have been set
up In three Of the most public places in the
county, in which letters of administration or
letters testamentary have been granted, and
by the orphans court of which said order was
made for six weeks successivelv. and pub
lished for the. same time in one of the news
papers of said county, according to the pro-
visions of the seventy-frst section of said act;
and provided that all the other provisions of
the above mentioned act shall haze been com
piled with; and any sales of lands which NAV
be made under and by virtue of the orders of
the orphans courts of this state, as above pro-
vided, shall be as valid and effectual as if all
the provisions of said supplementary act, re-
specting the setting up and publishing the order
to show cause, had been complied with.
2. And be it enacted, That this act take
effect Immediately.
Approved March 90, 1881.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-28
CHAprER ok.

An act to provide for any deficiency in the ap.
preparation of salary account in schools o.
cities.
Whereas, There is a deficiency in certain cities
OF this state in the appropriation made fol
the present fiscal year, in salary account oi
said schools; and whereas, there are no means
of remedying said deficiency without aid
from the legislature; therefore,
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, Tha,
the board of finance and taxation, or aldermen,
or any governing body in said cities be and are
hereby authorized and directed to borrow any
amount Of money which may be necessary to
make good any deficiency made or to be made
in the salary account of any school department
in said city as aforesaid, and to apply the said
amount to the board. of education as part Of
an appropriation added to the appropriation OF
the present fiscal year of said salary account;
and for the purpose Of such appropriation the
said governing body shall supply the deficiency
as aforesaid in the tax levy Of the coming fiscal
year; and they may issue proper evidences OF
Indebtedness therefor, which shall be signed by
the mayor, sealed with their seal, and attested
by the clerk of the said board of finance and
taxation, aldermen or other governing body, az
the case may be, for the purpose of providing
for the repayment of said borrowed money
aforesaid.
2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect Immediately.
Approved March "a, 1881.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-28

The Unitarians OF Cincinnati have
succeeded in removing a debt of $50,
600 from their church property.
The British Methodists object to the
proposal of American Methodists to in
Produce doetrinal topics IN the ecu
menical conference. To this narrowing
of the scope Of the conference the
American Methodists are expected 10
demur.
AT the recent session of the Central
Pennsylvania Methodist conference one
presiding elder condemned the holding
of large and expensive camp-meetings,
and Of closing the gates ON Sunday.
Another said he had refused to attend a
camp-meeting whose authorities had re-
fused to close its gates on the Sabbath.
Dorset, vt, is conservative. Pastor
Pratt has been minister for .tEentT-fEe
years. His chorister has started the
tunes for thirty years or more, his dea-
cons have held Office, one for forty years
and tile other for twenty years, the Sun
day-school superintendent has presided
sixteen years and one of the teachers
has taught ffty-two years.
The Christian at Work suggests:
When you preach as a supply Or in
some other pulpit than your own, have
regard to appropriateness and the
eternal fitness of things. One minister,
invited to preach to congregation
mostly sailors, discoursed for full
forty-minutes against horse racing;
while we know Of another minister who
preached in an Old Ladies' Home
against sowing wild oats in ones youth.
While there is gratifying increase
in the number Of Presbyterian churches,
there is discouraging decrease yearly
in the number of communicates added
Thus in 1876 there were 5,077 churches
and 4S,240 accessions by examination
in 1877, 5,153 churches and 43,O6S ac-
cessions; in 1873, 5 1863 churches and
80, ,277 accessions; in 1873, 8, ,415 churches
and 29,196 accessions, and last year,
5, 489 churches and 26,S38 accessions.
Here is a steady decrease, the causes for
which are not yet understood. It is
needless to say that these facts are dis
cussed with care at each general assem-
bly,, but as yet without finding any
remedy.-Christidn az Work.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-28
CHAPTER cLxvI.

A further supplement- to an act entitled An
actconcerning evidence" [Revision, approved
March twenty seventh, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That any
public record of any foreign state, county or
city, or of any court therein, or any copy there
Of, which is admissible in such state, county or
city or in any court therein, to prove the facts
therein contained, shall be admitted in evidence
in the courts of this state, and shall be evdencs
of the fact therein contained, to the same ex-
tent as though the original papers, Of which the
record thereof is a copy, had been produced
and proved; provided that wherever a copy of
any such record shall be offered in evidence.
the same shall not be admitted, unless the
same shall have been first exempliied accord
ing to the laws of the United States of America.
2. And besit enacted, that this act shall be
deemed public act, and take effect immedi-
ateIy.
Approved March "a, 1881
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-28
SUNDAY READING.


The evangelist, the Rev. Mr. Hammonds
conducted children's service at the Blow
Street Methodist church, Toronto, one
Sunday afternoon recently. After prayer
he catechized the children as to the diff
ferent names given to our Savior In the
Bible, and asked them If they could say
bv heart the verse in the New Testament
beginning, "Suffer little children. One
little girl, about nine years old, stood
up to say it, but Mr.. Hammond request
ed her to 20 to the platform and do 50.
This she did, and on being asked to
state how she became a Christian she
gave her experience In a clear and H.
telligent manner, without the slight
est hesitation. Her story briefly
was this: Some Of her companions
asked her to go to SherbouTne
street church to Mr.. Hammond's
services, as it was great fun to see the
people crying. She did so, and she and
her companions used to run ont Of the
church laughing when they saw people
crying, but one day Lady came up to
them in the church and told. them Of
the crucifxion of Christ In such way
that they had never heard before. The
!ady prayed for them, and then they
prayed themselves and asked God TO
forgive them for their sins. Since then
,he knew that she was child Of God
Prayer was again offered and hmm
sung, and Mr.. Hammond told the
children several anecdotes both anus
ing and pathetic. After the formal service
vas over the Sunday school teachers and
others who had volunteered to assist
them conversed with the children ~ TO-
their spiritual condition, choosing Ger
tain passages in the Scriptures to explain
it to them.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-28
CHAPTER cLxx.
Afuther supplement to an act entitled can act
to regulate the state library" approved
March twenty-ninth. one thousand eight hun

futher supplement to an act entitled ''An act
to regulate the state library" approved
March twenty y-ninth, one Thousand eight hum
dred and seyenty-eight.
1. Belt enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That
the sum Of fifteen hundred dollars be- and the
same is hereby appropriated for the improve
ment and increase of the state library, the said
sum to be drawn from the treasury Of the state
BY the commissioners of the state library and
expended, under their direction, in the repair,
preservation and purchase of useful books
q And be it enacted, That the sum of five
hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the
purchase of q fireproof safe, to be placed in the
state library in which shall be kept such manu-
scripts, autograph letters, records and other
papers as the commissioners of the state library
shall deem valuable; that said purchase shall
be effected, and said sum shall be drawn from
the treasury Of the state by the commissioners
Of the state library.
8. And bc 1t enacted, That all acts OF parts
Of acts in conflict herewith, be and the same are
hereby repealed.
4 And Be X enacted, That this act shah
take effect immediately.
Approved March "a, 1881.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-04-28
What's a Printer 2

A printer, according to a punning
exchange, is the most curious bein
living. He may have a ssbank and
"quoins" and not be worth a cent have
"small caps" and neither wife nor
children. Others may run fast, he gets
along swifter by "settingn fast He
may be making " impressions +" without
eloquence may use the e I've without
offending, and still tell the truth; while
others cannot stand while they set, he
can "set standing" and do both at
the same time; may have to use 'sfurni-
ture," and yet have no dwelling may
make and put away 'spi" and never see
pie, much less eat it during his whole
life be human being and "rat +" at
the same may "press good deal,
and not ask q favor may handle q
shooting iron " and know nothing
about cannon, gun or pistol he may
move the clever that moves the world,
and yet be so far from the morning
globe as o hog upon mole hill..;;
/" spread sheets " without being house
wife (; he may lay his form on the "bed"
and yet be obliged to sleep on the floor;
he may use the g dagger without she'd
ding blood, and from the earth may
handle g stars he may be Of roll
ing" disposition, and still never desire
to travel he can have Sleeps loot.
and never be deformed never without
a tease" " and knows nothing about law
or physic; be always correcting his
"errors and be growing worse every
day have embraces" without ever
having the arms Of lass thrown around
him have his form locked up, and
at the same time be far from tie jail,
watchhouse, or any other confinement
he may be plagued BY the devil and
not be Christian Of the very best type.