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& & VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY STATEOF THE
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At a SESSION begun at Trenton on the 27th Day of Oftober 1795, and continued by Adjournments.
BEING THE FIRST SITTING.
TRENTON: PRINTED BY ISAAC COLLINS. M.DCCXCV.
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List of Persons returned as Members of the Legislative-Council. Bergen Peter Haring, Efex, John Condit, Middlefex, w Ephraim Martin, -1 Monmouth, a Elifha Lawrence, V. P. Somerfet, < James Linn, Pi Burlington, & John Black, O Glouccjler, ^ Jofeph Cooper, \ Esquires. Salem, O Thomas Sinnickfbn, Cape-May, X Matthew Whillden, Hunterdon, John Lambert, Morris, Ellis Cook, Cumberland, Eli Elmer, Sujfex, .Charles Beardflee,
List of Persons returned as Members of the General Assembly. Adam Boyd, Bergen, John Haring, Benjamin Blacklidge, Elias Dayton, EJfex, Jonas Wade, James Hedden, C Peter Vredenburgh, Middlefex, -< Benjamin Manning, £ James Morgan, ~ Jofeph Stillwell, Monmouth, Elifha Walton, James H. Imlay, Henry Southard, Somerfet, Peter D. Vroom, _ Robert Stockton, f Samuel Hough,
Burlington, -j George Anderfon, /Stacy Biddle, Abel Clement, Cloucejler, Samuel French, > Esquires. Thomas Somers, John Sinnickfon, Salem, Eleazer Mayhew, William Wallace, {Richard Townfend, Cape-May, Eleazer Hand, Reuben Townfend, {David Frazer, Hunterdon, Simon Wyckoff, Benjamin Van-Cleve, {John Starke, Morris, David Thomfon, John Debow, f Ebenezer Elmer, Speaker, Cumberland, < Benjamin Peck, £ Ebenezer Seeley, William M'Cullough, {" Sujfex, Peter Sharps, George Armftrong, n ;
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V O T E S AND PROCEEDINGS
OF THE TWENTIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE
State of New-Jersey.
TRENTON, Tuefday, OSiober 27, 1 795.
THIS being the Time arid Place appointed by Law for the firft Meeting of the General AlTembly, the following Perfons attended, to wit, Benjamin
Blacklidge, as one of the Reprefentatives of the County of Bergen ; Elias Dayton, Jonas Wade and James Hedden, as Reprefentatives for the County of Effex Benjamin Manning and Peter Vredenburgh, as two of the Reprefentatives for Stillwell, Elifha Walton and H. Imlay, the County of Middlefex ; Jofeph James
as Reprefentatives for the County of Monmouth ; Henry Southard, Robert Stock-
ton and Peter D. Vroom, as Reprefentatives for the County of Somerfet ; Samuel Hough, George Anderfon and Stacy Biddle, as Reprefentatives for the County the Reprefentatives of Burlington ; Abel Clement and Samuel French, as two of William Wallace, as two of for the County of Gloucefter ; John Sinnickfon and as the Reprefentatives for the County of Salem ; Eleazer Hand, one of the
Reprefentatives for the County of Cape-May ; David Frazer and Benjamin
Van-Cleve, as two of the Reprefentatives for the County of Hunterdon ; David Thomfon, John Starke and John Debow, as Reprefentatives for the County of of Morris ; Ebenezer Elmer, as one of the Reprefentatives for the County B Cumberland ( 6 )
Cumberland ; William M'Cullough, Peter Sharps and George Armftrong, as Reprefentatives for the County of SufTex, appeared in the Houfe and produced the refpective Certificates of their Election, which were read, approved and order-
ed to be filed : Whereupon, David Frazer, Efquire, was appointed, agreeably to the Conftitution, to qualify
Benjamin Van-Cleve, Efquire, who, being duly fworn, took his Seat ; and the remaining Perfons returned as Reprefentatives, being qualified by the faid Ben- jamin Van-Cleve, took their Seats in the Houfe.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
TVednefday, OElober 28, 1795.
The Houfe met.
The Houfe proceeded to the Choice of a Speaker, when the Honourable Ebenezer Elmer was chofen, and accordingly placed in the Chair.
The Houfe proceeded to the Election of a Clerk, when Mafkell Ewing was unanimoufly chofen.
Mafkell Ewing attended ; and after taking the Oath of Allegiance, and alfo an Oath for the faithful Difcharge of his Office, he took his Seat as Clerk.
Refolved, That David Wrighter be Doorkeeper to this Houfe during the pre- fent Seffion.
as one of the Reprefentatives for the County Adam Boyd, returned of Bergen ; Simon WyckofF, returned as one of the Reprefentatives for the County of Hun-
terdon ; and James Morgan, returned as one of the Reprefentatives for the
County of Middlefex ; appeared in the Houfe, and produced the refpective Certifi-
cates of their Election, which were read, approved and ordered to be filed : Whereupon, being duly fworn by the Speaker, they took their Seats. Ordered, That Mr. Anderfon do wait on the Council, and acquaint them that the Houfe of Affembly have this Day proceeded to Bufinefs, and have chofen the Honourable Ebenezer Elmer their Speaker. Mr. Haring, from Council, informed the Houfe that a fufficient Number of Members of Council have met, elected the Honourable Elifha Lawrence, Efquire, Vice-Prefident, and proceeded to Bufinefs. Mr. Anderfon reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe. Ordered, That Meffrs. Van-Cleve, Dayton and Hough, be a Committee to examine the Minutes of the laft Sitting, and to report the Bufinefs that was refer- red or remains unfinifhed. Ordered, That Meffrs. Imlay, Boyd and Anderfon, be a Committee to bring forward a Dravight of Rules and Regulations for the better Government of the Houfe.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
The Speaker laid before the Houfe a Letter from Samuel A, Otis, Secretary of the ;
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the Senate of the United States, accompanied with a Copy of the Journals of the Senate of the United States, which was read. Ordered, That the faid Letter be filed, and that the Journals forwarded be placed among the Books belonging to the Houfe.
The Speaker laid before the Houfe a Letter from the Treafurer, informing the Houfe that there is in the Treafury Office £. 16,691 5 o Loan Office Money, cancelled by the Board of Juftices and Freeholders in the feveral Counties, which
was read : Whereupon, Ordered^ That Meflrs. Manning, Biddle and Wallace, or any two of them, be a Committee to join a Committee of Council for the Purpofe of examining and burning the cancelled Money in the Treafury, and that Mr. Armftrong do wait on Council and requeft them to appoint a Committee to join the Committee of this Houfe for that Purpofe.
Mr. Imlay, from the Committee appointed for that Purpofe, reported Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Houfe, which were read, amended and agreed to. Mr. Armftrong reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
Richard Townfend and Reuben Townfend, returned as two of the Reprefen- tatives for the County of Cape-May, appeared in the Houfe, and produced the refpedlive Certificates of their Election, which were read, approved and ordered
to be filed ; whereupon, being duly affirmed and fworn by the Speaker, they took their Seats, and having rendered Excufes for their Non-Attendance Yefter- day, the fame were deemed fatis factory. Mr. Martin, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had appointed MeiTrs. Sinnickfon and Cook, or either of them, a Committee to join the Com- mittee of the Houfe of Aflembly, for the Purpofe of examining and burning the cancelled Money in the Treafury.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
T/jurfday, OSiober 29, 1795*
The Houfe met.
Mr. Van-Cleve, from the Committee appointed to examine the Minutes of the laft Sitting, and to report the Bufinefs that was referred or remained unfinifhed, reported as follows 1. A Petition from Pitts Grove, in the County of Salem.
2. A Petition from Lucius Van-Beverhoudt.
3. A Petition from Frederick Earneft.
4. A Petition from the Phyficians and Surgeons of the "Eaftern Counties, pray- ing the Benefit of a Charter of Incorporation.
5. The Report of Mr. Elmer on the Petition of Ebenezer Hathaway, and, 6. The Bill, intitled, An Act for laying out a more dire<5l Road from Little * Timber Creek over Newton Creek, near the Mouth thereof to Coopers' Ferries, 4 and for erecting a Bridge over thje faid Creek at the Place aforesaid,' were or- dered a fecond Reading.
7. Sundry .
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j. Sundry Petitions from Perfons who ferved on the late Expedition to Pittfburgh.
8. The Bill, intitled, ' An Act directing who mall be admitted WitnefTes, and * what Judges mall fet on hearing of Caufes for the Recovery of publick Monies ' from Delinquents, Officers and others.'
9. The Bill, intitled, ' An Ad for the Payment of Part of the Intereft due on 1 the State Debt.'
10. The Bill, intitled, ' An A 61 for regiftering of Births and Deaths.'
1 1 Two Petitions from Middlefex County, praying that the General Election may be held in Townfhips.
1 2. A Petition from Peter Johnfon.
13. Mr. Stillwell's Report on Daniel Hunt's Application.
14. The Bill, intitled, * An Ad to make Titles to certain Iflands on the * Delaware.'
15. The Report of Mr. Peck on the Petition of John Van-Neft.
16. The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for procuring a more equal Reprefentation in the feveral Counties of Hunterdon, Burlington, Cumberland and * Cape-May, in the General Affembly of this State.'
17. The Bill, intitled, 'An Act relative to holding Elections in this State.'
18. The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to prevent Frauds in the Sale of Lands,' and,
19. The Bill, intitled, ' An Act difpofing of Lands at Ramapoeh ;'. were fe- verally referred from the lait to the prefent Sitting. By Order of the Committee, BENJAMIN VAN-CLEVE. Which Report was read.
The Paper in the faid Report marked No. 2 was read : Whereupon, A Petition on the fame Subject was prefented and read. Ordered, That they be read a fecond Time.
The Petition marked No. 3 was read, and difmifTed. The Petition marked No. 4 was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. The Bill marked No. 6 was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. The Petitions marked No. 7 were read, and committed to MefTrs. Dayton, Southard and Starke.
The Bill marked No. 8 was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Bill marked No. 9 was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. The Bill marked No. 10 was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Petition of Peter Johnfon, marked No. 1 2 was read, and committed to MefTrs. Dayton, Southard and Starke.
The Report of Mr. Stillwell, marked No. 1 3 was read, and committed to MefTrs. Stockton, M'Cullough and Clement. The Bill marked No. 14 was read, and ordered a fecond Reading 'on Thurfday next. The Report of Mr. Peck, marked No. 15 was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. The ( 9 )
The Bill marked No. 16 was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Bill marked No. 18 was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Bill marked No. 19 was read, and ordered a' fecond Reading.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
Eleazer Mayhew, returned as one of the Reprefentatives for the County of Sa- lem, appeared in the Houfe, and produced the Certificate of his Election, which was read, approved and ordered to be filed ; whereupon, being duly qualified by the Speaker, he took his Seat ; and shaving rendered to the Houfe an Excufe for his Non-Attendance before this Time, the fame was deemed fatisfactory. On Motion, Ordered, That Meflrs. D. Vroom, Walton, Hedden, French and Hand, or any three of them, be a Committee to join the Committee of Council, for the Purpofe of fettling the Accounts of the Treafurer ; and that Mr. Biddle do wait on the Council, and requeft them to appoint a Committee to join the Committee of this Houfe for that Purpofe.
Mr. Biddle reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe. On Motion, Ordered^ That Meflrs. Anderfon, Wade and Frazer, be a Committee to join a Committee of Council, to inquire into the State of the Prerogative Office, and of the Secretary's Office of this State, and report thereon ; and that Mr. Blacklidge do wait on the Council, and requeft them to appoint a Committee to join the Committee of this Houfe for that Purpofe.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Friday', OSlober 30, 1795.
The Houfe met.
A Petition from fundry Inhabitants of Morris County,, praying that no Law may pafs to empower Managers or other Perfons to cut a Drain or Canal from fome Place in Whippany River above Green's and Alling's Grift-Mill into fome other Place in faid River, agreeably to the Prayer of a Petition from fundry Per- fons of that Part of the Country, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading, with the Petition marked No. 2 in the Report of unfinifhed Bufinefs. On Motion, Ordered, That Mr. Clement do wait on the Council and inform them that this Houfe are ready to go into a Joint-Meeting to appoint a Governor and other State-Officers, and do requeft the Council to appoint the Time and Place of Meeting.
A Petition from Thoma3 Talmage, and a Petition from Hezekiah Smith, ftating that they are poffeffed of Eftates which they purchafed from the Commiffioners of forfeited Eftates, and that the Widows of the Perfons whofe Eftates have been forfeited claim Dower therein, and praying that the State would indemnify C them ( >o )
read, and ordered a them for the Damages they may fuftain thereby, were fecond Reading. The Warrant, entitling John Ruffell to draw Three Dollars per Month during his Difability, was read and approved. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Order ed, That Mr. Boyd do carry the faid Warrant to Council for Concurrence. Mr. Black, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had appointed Meffrs. Black and Lambert, or either of them, a Committee to join the Committee of this Houfe for the Purpofe of fettling the Accounts of the Treasurer. Ordered, That Meffrs. Wade, Morgan and Reuben Townfend, be a Committee to prepare and prefent a Bill for defraying Incidental Charges. Ordered, That Meffrs. Van-Cleve, Stillwell and Sharps, be a Committee to prepare and prefent a Bill for the Support of Government. Ordered, That Meffrs. Imlay, Anderfon and Wade, be a Committee to examine and correel: the Minutes of the Houfe. Mr. Linn, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had appointed Mr. Condit a Committee to join the Committee of this Houfe to inquire into the State of the Prerogative Office, and of the Secretary's Office, of this State, and to report thereon.
Mr. Stillwell, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, < An Acl * for the Punifhment of Crimes,' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. A Petition from Colonel Jonathan Forman, praying Compenfation for a Horfe which died on the Weflern Expedition, in the Service of the United States in i 794, was read, and committed to Meffrs. Dayton, Southard and Starke.
Mr. Cooper, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council will be ready to go into a Joint-Meeting on Tuefday next, at 4 o'Clock in the Afternoon, in the Affembly-Room.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met. r
A Memorial from Samuel Ogden, in Behalf of the Commiffioners appointed by a Law of the State for laying out a Road from the Co\irt-Houfe in the Town of Newark to Paulus-Hook, praying Leave to prefent a Bill to authorize the Com- miffioners to corredl a Miflake made by the Surveyors who run the faid Road, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
A Certificate of Half-Pay, adjudged by the Court of General Quarter Seffions of the Peace, of the County of Gloucefler, in Favour of Jacob Collatter and Eliza- beth his Wife, was read, and committed to Meffrs. Vredenburgh, Thomfon and Armftrong, to report thereon.
A Petition from Robert-Cope Walton, ftating Charges againfl William Mafon, Efquire, in the Execution of his Office as one of the JufVices of the Peace of the County of Cumberland, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. A Petition from the Stockholders of the Bridges over the Rivers Paffaick and Hackinfack, praying they may have Leave to prefent a Bill to incorporate the faid Stockholders, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. The ( n )
The Bill, intitled, c An Adl for regiflering of Births and Deaths,' was read a fecond Time, and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poftponed.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Saturday, OSlober 31, 1 795.
The Houfe met.
A Petition from Matthias Day, of Trenton, Printer, praying to be appointed to print the Laws of the State, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. A Remonftrance and Petition from fundry Inhabitants of the Townfhip of Bed- minfter, in the County of Somerfet, remonftrating againil the Propriety of granting the Prayer of the Petition of Richard M'Donald, whofe Petition was prefented at the lafk Sitting, and who had Leave to prefent a Bill on Wednefday next, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading at the fame Time.
The Houfe adjourned until Monday Morning ten of the Clock.
Monday; November 2, 1795.
The Houfe met*
A Warrant of Half-Pay, the Property of Mary M'Myer, granted to her on No- vember the 23d, 1789, was prefented, the Back thereof being full of Indorfements. On Motion,
Ordered, That a Warrant do ifftie in Lieu of the faid Warrant : Whereupon, A Warrant was prefented, read and approved. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Dayton do carry the faid Warrant to Council for Con- currence.
Benjamin Peck and Ebenezer Seeley, Efquires, returned as two of the Repre- fentatives for the County of Cumberland, appeared in the Houfe, and produced the refpeclive Certificates of their Election, which were read, approved and order- ed to be filed ; whereupon, being duly fworn by the Speaker, they took their
Seats ; and having rendered to the Houfe an Excufe for their Non-Attendance before this Time, the fame was deemed fatis factory.
Sundry Petitions from different Townfhips, praying a Law may pafs to autho- rize them to repair their Highways by Hire, and to raife Money for that Purpofe, were read, and committed to Meffrs. Boyd, Sinnickfon and Debow.
Sundry Petitions from Perfons confined in the different Gaols of the State, graying that a Law may pafs for the Benefit of Infolvent Debtors, were read, and committed to Meffrs. Frazer, Hough and Richard Townfend.
The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for regif- * tering of Births and Deaths ;' and, after having gone through the faid Bill, Ordered, That the fame be difmiffed.
The Bill, intitled, * A Supplement to an Act, intitled, " An Act for laying out " a more ;
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" a more dired Road from Little Timber Creek over Newton Creek near the " Mouth thereof to Coopers' Ferries, and for ereding a Bridge over the faid " Creek at the Place aforefaid," was read a fecond Time, and committed to Meflrs. Wade, Clement and WyckofF. A Petition from fundry Inhabitants of the Townfhip of Dover, in the County of Monmouth, praying the Benefit of a Lottery the better to enable them to build a Church in the faid Townlhip, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. The Memorial of Samuel Ogden, read on the 30th Ultimo, was read a fecond
Time : Whereupon, Mr. Wade, with Leave, prefented a Bill, intitled, ' A fupplemental Ad to an ' Act, intitled, " An Ad for building Bridges over the Rivers Paflaick and " Hackinfack, and for other Purpofes therein mentioned," which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. Anderfon, from the Committee of the Council and AfTembly, appointed to examine the State of the Prerogative Office, and Secretary's Office, of this State, reported as follows THAT from the beft Information the Committee have been able to obtain, is Clerk, ( without vihting the faid Office) a Part of which from the chief who hath been employed in faid Offices for feveral Years paft, we find that the fame Perfon who hath been appointed Secretary hath alfo holden the Prerogative four Office : That there remains vinregiftered in the Prerogative Office about Years Papers, confining generally of Wills, Letters of Adminiftration and Guar- dianfhips, amounting to about Fourteen Hundred and Forty : That the Bufinefs in the Secretary's Office is alfo deranged and incomplete. Your Committee alfo think it their Duty to report that they find about Three Hundred and Sixty-five of the above Wills, Letters of Adminiftration, and Guar- dianships, which belong to the Year Seventeen Hundred and Ninety-two, lodged in an unfafe Situation, in Mr. Gerfhom Craft's Office in this Town, which were as we are informed brought to this Town by Samuel W. Stockton, Efq. while Secretary, and a Part of them regiftered in a Book by his Clerk, but not compared and certified, which Book alfo is now in Mr. Craft's Office. From the above Fads your Committee are of Opinion, that as the Papers are of great Confequence to the Inhabitants of the State, as many Hundreds of Titles for Lands may be involved therein, Meafures ought immediately to be taken by the Legiflature to have the faid Papers that are in this Town carefully tranfmitted to the Secretary's Office in the City of Burlington, and that a Law ought to be palled, compelling the Secretaries and Clerks of the Prerogative Office in future to give ample Security for the faithful Performance of their Duty in the faid Offices, and that fome Method ought to be devifed by the Legislature for having all the unfinished Bufinefs in the faid Offices completed as foon as poSIible. By Order of the Committee, JOHN CONDI T, GEORGE ANDERSON. Which Report was read and agreed to.
Refolved, That Thomas Adams, Efq. be authorized and direded, as early as poffible, to tranfmit the Papers that belong to the Secretary and Prerogative Offi- ces that are now in Trenton, and fafely depofit the fame in the proper Offices in the City of Burlington.
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Ordered, That Mr. Debow do carry the faid Refolution to the Council, and requefl their Concurrence therein.
The Petition of Robert-Cope Walton, dating charges agairifl William Mafon, Efq. in the Execution of his 'Office as one of the Juitices of the Peace for the County of Cumberland, with Affidavits to fupport the Facts fet forth in his Pe- tition, was read a fecond Time : Whereupon, The Speaker laid before the Houfe a Certificate from fundry Perfons ftating the Facts relative to the Conduct of Juflice Mafon, which alfo was read ; Ordered, That the faid Petition and Papers be referred to Meflfs. Dayton, Bid- die and Blacklidge.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
A Petition from John D. Morris, late a Soldier on the weflern Expedition in the Militia of this State, fetting forth that he had a violent Fit of Sicknefs while in Service, and that he has been put to confiderable Expenfes for Medicine and Attendance while he was fick, and praying the Legiflature would reimburfe him that Expenfe, was read, and committed to Meflrs. Dayton, Southard and Starke. A Petition from the Board of Juitices and Freeholders of the County of Salem, with feveral Petitions from a great Number of Inhabitants of the fame County, praying that a Law may pafs to enable the County of Salem to purchafe a Tract of Land, and erect a Poof-Houfe thereon, wherein the Poor of the faid County generally may be lodged, employed and fupported, at the Expenfe of the County, were read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
A Petition from Ifaac Neale, Printer of Burlington, praying to be appointed to print the Laws of the State, and Votes and Proceedings of the Houfe of Af- fembly, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. Imlay, purfuant to the Report of a Joint-Committee of Council and Af- fembly, appointed for the Purpofe of making fuch Arrangements as will procure the more accurate Engroffing and fpeedy Publication of the Acts of the Legifla- ture of this State, prefented the following Refolutions :
i. Refo/ved, That be employed as an Engroffing Clerk during the prefent Seffion of the Legiflature ; that all Bills ordered to be engrofled lhall be delivered by the Clerks of Council and Aflembly unto the faid to be carefully engrofled, and by him re- delivered in at the Table of the refpective Houfes as foon as poffible ; and that the Legiflature will provide for a Compenfation to the faid for his Services.
2. Refolded, That the Clerk of the Aflembly be directed to furnifh Printer, with fair and accurate Copies of the Laws as they pafs, during the prefent Sitting the of Legiflature, with marginal Notes thereto, in Order for Publication as foon as may be after they are pafled. Re/olved, That the Clerk 3. of the Aflembly be required, as foon after the Riling of the Legiflature as may be practicable, to furnilh Printer, with a true and fair Copy of the Votes and Proceedings of this Hou D i ( «4 ) for Publication, and that as foon as a fufficient Number of Copies of the Votes are printed and prepared for Diftribution, the faid Printer be required to furnifh the Treafurer with the fame, who is hereby required to apportion and forward the fame in the Manner heretofore obferved. Ordered^ That'the fame be committed to Meffrs. Tmlay, Dayton and Peck.
The Bill, intitled, { An Act to prevent Fratids in the Sale of Lands,' was read a fecond Time, and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered^ That the fame be difmiffed.
Purfuant to the Report of a Joint-Committee of the Council and Affembly, Ordered^ That Meffrs. Imlay, Boyd and Biddle, be a Committee to prepare and prefent a Bill to compel the Secretary of the State, and Clerk of the Preroga- tive Office, in future to give ample Security for the faithful Performance of their Duty in the faid Offices, and to direct how and in what Manner the unfinifhed"' Bufinefs in the faid Offices fhall be completed.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Tuefday, November 3, 1795*
The Houfe met.
Mr. Stockton, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition o£ Daniel Hunt, of the County of Suffex, ftating his Demand againft the Eftate of Tofeph Smith, of Hunterdon County, whofe Eftate was confifcated and fold, do find, upon examining the Documents to us delivered, that the Sum of Forty Pounds is due to the faid Hunt and are of the Opinion that the faid Sum ought to be paid to the faid Hunt, if fo much of the Eftate of the faid Jofeph Smith fhould remain in the Hands of the Treafurer. By Order of the Committee, ROBERT STOCKTON. Which Report was read and agreed to.
Mr. Wade, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill, intitled, ' A * Supplement to an Act, intitled, " An Act for laying out a Road from Little " Timber Creek over Newton Creek near the Mouth thereof to Coopers' Ferries, " and for erecting a Bridge over the faid Creek at the Place aforefaid," reported the fame with fundry Amendments, which Bill was read, and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered^ That the faid Bill be difmiffed. Mr. Debow reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe. The Petition of Thomas Talmage, and the Petition of Hezekiah Smith, read on the 30th Ultimo, was read a fecond Time, and committed to Meffrs. Man- ning, Imlay and Mayhew, to report thereon. Mr. Dayton reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for procuring a more equal Reprefentation in the feveral Counties of Hunterdon, Burlington, Cumberland and * Cape-May, in the General Affembly of this State,' was read a fecond Time, and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered) That the further Confideration thereof be poftponed. The ( »s )
The Houfe adjourned to four o'clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
The Members withdrew to attend a Joint-Meeting, and, being returned, the Speaker refumed the Chair, and then the Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Wednefday, November 4, 1795.
The Houfe met.
The Speaker laid before the Houfe a Letter from John Haring, Efq. elected a Reprefentative for the County of Bergen, apologizing for his Non-Attendance on Account of his Indifpofition, which was read, and the Excufe deemed fatis- factory. Mr. Vredenburgh, from the Committee to whom the Certificates of Half-Pay, adjudged by the Court of General Quarter Sefhons of the Peace, of the County of Gloucester, in Favour of Jacob Collater and Elizabeth his Wife, were com- mitted, Reported, THAT the Proceedings of the Court appear to be conformable to the Act in fuch Cafe made and provided, and the Claim of the Petitioner well iffue, founded ; your Committee are therefore of Opinion that a Warrant fhould entitling the faid Elizabeth Collater (late Tomlin) to one Half of the monthly
Pay of her late Hufband, from the fourth Day of March, 1 777, until the ninth Day of May, 1780. By Order of the Committee, PETER VREDENBURGH. Which Report was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. A Petition from fundry Inhabitants of Monmouth County, praying that the Bill before the Houfe, intitled, ' An Act to empower the Council of Proprietors * of the eaftern Divifion of New-Jerfey to difpofe of the Lots and Parts of Lots ' that remain undrawn in the late Divifion of Ramapoch,' may be paffed, was read ; whereupon the? faid Bill was read a fecond Time, the Bill debated by Paragraphs, and ordered to be engroffed.
Mr. Southard, agreeably to Leave given, and in Behalf of the Petitioner, pre- fented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, « An Act for the Relief of Richard M'Do- * nald,' which Bill was read with the Petition of Richard M'Donald and the Re- monftrance from the Townfhip of Bedminfler read on the 30th Ultimo, was read a fecond Time. Ordered, That the Confederation of the faid Bill be poftponed until next Tuef- day at ten o'Clock, A. M.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Ad to empower the Council of Proprietors of the * eaftern ;
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* eaftern Divifion of N^w-Jerfey to difpofe of the Loti and Parts of Lots that 1 remain undrawn in the late Divifion of Ramapoch,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engroiTed.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Puniihment of Crimes,' was read a fecond Time, and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Conhderation thereof be poflponed. Ordered, That Mr. Biddle have Leave of Abfence until Friday next. A Petition from Benajah Parvin, ftating a Demand againfl the State, and praying Payment, was read, and committed to Meflrs. Van-Cleve, Sdllwell and Seeley.
Mr. M'Cullough, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, * An ' Act for the Relief of Daniel Hunt, of the County of SulTex,' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Thurfday, November 5, 1795.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Imlay, from the Committee to whom was referred the Refolutions brought in en the fecond Inflant in Purfuance of the Report of a Joint-Committee of Council and Affembly, reported the two firft Refolutions without Amendment on the QuefUon, Whether the Blanks in the firft Refolution be filled up with the Name of Gerfhom Craft, Efquire ? It was carried in the Affirmative : On the QuefUon, Whether the Blank in the fecond Refolution be filled up with the in the Affirmative. Name of'Matthias Day ? It was carried Ordered That Mr. Frazer do carry the faid Refolution to Council for Con- currence. alfo reported on the QuefUon, Whether the Blank The Refolution No. 3 was ; It carried in therein be filled up with the Name of Ifaac Collins ? was the Affir- Whether the Houfe agree to the faid Refolution ? It mative : On the Queflion, was carried in the Affirmative. Mr. Manning, from the Committee appointed to join the Committee of Coun- Treafury Office, brought in the following cil to burn the cancelled Money in the
A N Account of Loan-Office Money paid into the Treafury of New-Jerfey, by the New Loan-Offices in the feveral Counties on Ac- J\ the Commiffioners of count of Principal Money loaned, which has been cancelled by their refpedive pafTed November Boards of Juftices and Freeholders, agreeably to a Law 24, 1788.
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1 Relief and Employment of the Poor of the County of Salem,' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Order of the Day on the Bill, intitled, ' An Ad to make Titles to certain * Iflands in the Delaware,' being called for, Ordered, That the fame be poftponed. The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, * An Act for the * Punifhment of Crimes,' and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration of the faid Bill be poftponed. Mr. Whillden, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council have concur- red in the Refolution appointing Gerfhom Craft engrofling Clerk during the prefent Seflion, alfo the Refolution that the Clerk of AfTembly furnifh Matthias Day, Printer, with Copies of the Laws as they pafs during the prefent Sitting of the Legiflature.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Friday, November 6, 1795.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Biddle returned and took his Seat.
Mr. Van-Cleve, from the Committee appointed for that Purpofe, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Support of Government of the ' State of New-Jerfey,' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. Frazer reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe. The Bill, intitled, * An Act for the Relief of Daniel Hunt, of the County of « Suffex,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engroffed. A Petition from Robert "Wade and Stephen Crane, Executors, &c. of David Wade, late of the County of EfTex, deceafed, was read, and committed to MefTrs. Southard, Mayhew and M'Cullough, to report thereon. Two Petitions from a Number of the Inhabitants of the Townftiip of Windfor, in the County of Middlefex, praying that an A& may pafs direding a Divifion of the faid Townfhip, were read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act to empower the Council of Proprietors of * the eaftern Divifion of New-Jerfey to difpofe of the Lots and Parts of Lots that * in the late Divifion of Ramapoch,' was read remain undrawn and compared j on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows
Yeas. Yeas. Mr. Sharps, ( *° )
* of the County of Salem,' was read a fecond Time, and committed to Meflre. Imlay, Sinnickfon and Vredenburgh.
Ordered^ That Mr. Imlay have Leave of Abfence until Monday next. The Petition, praying the Benefit of a Lottery to build a Church near Toms River Bridge, read on the 2d Inftant, was read a fecond Time, and committed to Meflrs. Walton, Peck and Debow.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Saturday, November 7, 1795.
The Hcufe met.
Mr. Boyd, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petitions from cer- tain Townfhips, praying for a Law to enable them to repair their Highways by Hire, Reported^ A T it is the Opinion of the Committee, that the Requeft of the Petition- TH ought to be granted. ers is reafonable, and that their Prayer By Order of the Committee, ADAM BOYD.
To which the Houfe agreed ; whereupon, C Mr. Sinnickfon, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, A « Supplement to an Ad, intitled, " An A& to enable the Inhabitants of certain " Towns and Townfhips to repair their publick Highways by Hire," which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. Lambert, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council difagree to the Warrant in Favour of John Ruffel, late a Soldier in Lieutenant Shadwick's Com- pany of Militia of this State. A Petition from the Juftices and Overfeers of the Poor of the Townfhip of Al- loways Creek, letting forth the Infanity of Samuel Quinton Tolbot, and pray- ing that an Agent or Agents may be appointed by Law to take Charge of the Eftate of Samuel Quinton Tolbot, with Tower to difpofe of the fame to pay his Debts, and reimburfc the Townfhip for the Expenfes they have been at in the Suppo'rt and Maintenance of the faid Samuel Quinton Tolbot. Alfo a Petition from the Brothers and Sillers of the faid Samuel Quinton Tolbot was read, de- firing that the Prayer of the faid Petition may be granted. Ordered, That the faid Petitions be read a fecond Time. A Petition from fundry Inhabitants of the County of Suflex, praying that a Law may pafs, appointing fuitable Perfons to take Charge of the Eflate of John Honnevwell, deceaied, and apply the fame as near as may be to the Intentions or- and Defigri of the Teftator, was read with the Will of the faid Deccafed, and dered a fecond Reading. The two Petitions for a Divinon of the Townfhip of Wiridfor, read Yefterday, was read a fecond Time. Ordered, That the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill on Tuefday the 1 7th Inftant, agreeably to the Prayer of their Petition, on previoufly advertifing the Purport of the Bill they mean to prefent, with a Copy of this Order, in at leaft five of ( *« )
of the moft publick Places in the Townfhip of Windfor, for at lead five Days pre- vious thereto, and alfo in at lead three of the moft publick Places in other Parts of the laid County for the fame Length of Time.
Mr. Anderfon, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill, intitled, * An Act for the Payment of a Part of the Intereft due on the State Debt,' re- ported the fame with fundry Amendments, and the following Title, ' An Act for * the Payment of Part of the Principal and Intereft of the State Debt,' which was read, and the further Conlideration thereofpoftponed.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Acl to raife the Sum of Fifteen Thoufand Pounds for c the Year One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Ninety-fix,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engroffed. Mr. Southard, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of the
Executors of David Wade, deceafed, reported as follows : THAT they have examined the Contents of faid Petition, and are well fatif- fied that the Facts fet forth in faid Petition are true, and are of Opinion that the Prayer of faid Petition is reafonable, and ought to be granted by the Legiflature. By Order of the Committee, HENRY SOUTHARD. Which Report was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Houfe adjourned until Monday Morning ten of the Clock.
Monday, November 9, 1795.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Van-Cleve, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of Be- najah Parvin, from the County of Cumberland,
Reported', THAT, in the Opinion of your Committee, the faid Petitioner fhould have Leave to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Prayer of his Petition. By Order of the Committee. BENJAMIN VA N-C L E V E.
To which the Houfe agreed : Whereupon, Mr. Peck prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, * An Acl; for the Relief of 1 Benajah Parvin,' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Bill, intitled, « A Supplement to an Act, intitled, " An Act to enable the 41 Inhabitants of certain Towns and Townfhips to repair their publick Highways " by Hire," was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engrofled. The Speaker laid before the Houfe a Letter from James Mott, Efq. Treafurer of the State, defiling to know whether he is to receive Bank Notes in the Trea- sury, in Payment of Taxes ; and if he is to receive them, that the particular Banks, from which he may receive them, may be named, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading:.& The engrofled Bill, intitled, ' A Supplemental Aft to an Ad, intitled, " An Act " for building Bridges over the Rivers Paflaick and Hackinfack, and for other 11 Purpofes therein mentioned," was read and compared.
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Refolved unanimoujly, That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Hand do carry the faid Bill to the Council for Concurrence. The Petition from the Stockholders of the Bridges over the Rivers Paffaick and Hackinfack, read on the 30th Ultimo, was read a fecond Time, and Leave given to the Petitioners to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Prayer of their Petition : Whereupon, Mr. Wade, in Behalf of the Petitioners, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, 1 An Act to incorporate the Stockholders of the Bridges over the Rivers Paffaick * and Hackinfack,' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. A Petition from the Directors of the Bridge now erecting over the River Paf- faick, at the Village of Second River, praying that three or more Commiffioners may be appointed to lay out a Road to the faid Bridge in fuch a Manner as may be moft ufeful to the Publick from Hackinfack River through the Cedar-Swamp, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Bill, intitled, * An Act declaring who fhall be admitted WitnefTes, and ' what Judges fhall fit on hearing of Caufes for the Recovery of publick Monies ' from Delinquent Officers and others,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engrofTed. Mr. Hand reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The Houfe adjourned to three o' Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Dayton, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of Ro- bert C. Walton, Reported, THAT the Vouchers accompanying the fame are not fufficient to juflify an Impeachment, therefore they are of Opinion faid Petition ought to be dif- miffed. By Order of the Committee, ELIAS DAYTON. To which Report the Houfe agreed. Ordered, That the faid Petition and Papers accompanying the fame be difmiffed.
Mr. Van-Cleve, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An
1 Act to repeal Part of an Act paffed the twelfth Day of June, Seventeen Hun-
* dred and Ninety,' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. The Petition from the Juflices and Overfeers of the Poor of the Townfhip of Alloways Creek, read on the feventh Inflant, was read a fecond Time, and Henry Irith was examined as a Witnefs.
Ordered, That the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Prayer of their Petition : Whereupon, Mr. Mayhew prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act concerning ' Samuel Quinton Talbot, of the County of Salem,' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The engrofTed Bill, intitled, ' An Act to raife the Sum of Fifteen Thoufand * Pounds for the Year One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Ninety-fix,' was read and compared. Refolved ( *3 )
Refolved unanimoujly, That the fame do pafs. Ordered^ That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered^ That Mr. Hedden do carry the faid Bill to the Council for Con- currence.
Mr. Imlay returned and took his Seat.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, * An Act for the Relief of Daniel Hunt, of the 1 County of Suffex,' was read and compared ; on the Queftion, Whether the
fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Nays. Mr. Armftrong, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Manning, Mr. Clement, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Thompfon, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Morgan, Mr. French, Mr. Rn. Townfend, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Peck, Mr. Hedden, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Debow, Mr. Seeley, Mr. Hough, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Hand, Mr. Somers, Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. Imlay, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Sharps, Mr. Wade, Mr. Wallace. Mr. Southard, Mr. Walton, Mr. Starke, Mr. WyckofF. Ordered^ That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered^ That Mr. Hough do carry the faid Bill to the Council for Concurrence. The Report of Mr. Vredenburgh, of the fourth Inftant, on the Application of Elizabeth Collatter, was read a fecond Time and agreed to. Ordered) That a Warrant do iffue accordingly. Mr. Hedden reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Tuefday, November 10, 1795*
The Houfe met.
Mr. Hough reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
A Certificate of Half-Pay, adjudged by the Court of General Quarter Seflions of the Peace of the County of Somerfet, in Favour of Elizabeth Dugan, Widow of Nathan Dugan, late a Soldier in Colonel Johnfon's Regiment, , and who was killed in the Service of the United States, was read, and committed to Meffrs. Van-Cleve, Starke and Somers, to report thereon. On Motion, Ordered) That Meffrs. Van-Cleve, Sharps and Hand, be a Committee to join a Committee of Council to examine and fettle the Accounts of the Commiffioners appointed to improve the Poft Road acrofs Rocky Hill, and that Mr. Imlay do wait on the Council, and requeft them to appoint a Committee to join the Com- mittee of this Houfe for that Purpofe.
A Petition from the Confiflory, as Truflees, of the Proteflant Dutch Congrega- tion of Minifink, praying the Benefit of a Lottery to aid the Funds of the faid Congregation, was read, and committed to Meffrs. Walton, Peck and Debow. Mr. ( 2 4 )
Mr. Imlay reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The Bill, intitled, * An Act concerning Samuel Quinton Talbot, of the County ' of Salem,' was read a fecond Time, and committed to Meffrs. Frazer, Biddle and Sinnickfon. The Letter from the Treafurer, read Yefterday, was read a fecond Time, and ordered to lie on the Table.
The Houfe adjourned to three o' Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
A Petition from Peter Brocow, late a Soldier in the Jerfey Brigade, praying Compenfation for the Depreciation of his Pay, was read, and committed to Meffrs. Stockton, Wallace and Wyckoff, to report thereon.
The Bill, intitled, c An Act for the Relief of Benajah Parvin,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engroffed.
Agreeably to the Order of the Day, on the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Re- * lief of Major Richard M'Donald,' the Parties attended, and informed the Houfe that they had fo agreed to alter the Bill that the Parties oppofed to the faid Bill fhould make no further Oppofition thereto. Ordered, That the further Conlideration thereof be poltponed.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' A Supplement to an Act, intitled, " An Act to " enable the Inhabitants of certain Towns and Townfhips to repair their publick " Highways by Hire," was read and compared.
Refolved unanimoufly , That the fame do pafs. Ordered\ That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered^ That Mr. M'Cullough do carry the faid Bill to Council for Concur- rence. Mr. Cook, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council have appointed Mr. Cooper to be a Committee to join the Committee of the Houfe of Affembly for the Purpofe of examining and fettling the Accounts of the Commiflioners appointed to improve the Port Road acrofs Rocky Hill.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to repeal Part of an Act paffed the twelfth Day of * June, Seventeen Hundred and Ninety,' was read a fecond Time, debated and ordered to be engroffed.
The Houfe refumed the Conlideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the 4 Payment of Part of the Principal and Interelt of the State Debt,' and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered^ That the fame be committed to Meffrs. Boyd, Manning and Clement. A Petition from fundry Inhabitants of Elizabeth Town, praying that Andrew G. Fraunces may not be allowed the Benefit of an Act of Infolvency, agreeably to the Prayer of his Petition, was read, and referred to Meffrs. Frazer, Hough and Richard Townfend. Mr. Elmer, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council have rejected the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Relief of Daniel Hunt.' A Petition from fundry Merchants, of the County of Effex, praying that the Legiflature would pafs a Law to prohibit the Practice of Peddling, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. A Certificate ( )
A Certificate of Half-Pay, adjudged by the Court of General Quarter Sefiioris of the Peace of the County of Gloucefter, in Favour of Sarah Dorum, late Gith- ins, who was the Widow of Jofeph Githins, late a Soldier of this State in the Service of the United States, was read, and committed to Meffrs. Van-Cleve, Starke and Somers, to report thereon.
Mr. Beardflee, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had pafTed the Bill, intitled, ' A fupplemental Act to an Act, intitled, " An Act for building " Bridges over the Rivers PalTaick and Hackinfack, and for other Purpofes there- " in mentioned," without Amendment. Mr. M'Cullough reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
TVednefday, November II, 1795.
The Houfe met.
A Petition from the Townfhip of Shrewfbury, in the County of Monmouth, praying that a Law may pafs to enable the County of Monmouth or the Town- fhip of Shrewfbury to purchafe a Tract of Land, and erect a Poorhoufe thereon, wherein the Poor of the faid Townfhip or the Poor of the County may be lodged, employed and fupported at the Expenfe of the County, was read, and committed to MefTrs. Imlay, Sinnickfon and Vredenburgh.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act to repeal Part of an Act patted the * twelfth Day of June, Seventeen Hundred and Ninety,' was read and compared;
on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : Yeas. Yeas. Starke, Stillwell, Stockton, Van-Cleve, Vredenburgh, D. Vroom, Wade, Walton, WyckofF. ( »6 )
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Morris County, read on the 30th Ultimo, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading with the laid Petition, and with the Paper marked No. 2, in the Report of uu- nnifhed Bufinefs.
A Petition from Levi Silvers, of the County of Hunterdon, fb.ting that he purchafed a confifcated Eftate from the State, and paid therefor ; that the fame has been fince recovered from him by an Action of Ejectment ; and praying to have Leave to prefent a Bill, directing the Treafurer to reimburfe him the Money he paid ; was read, and Leave given to prefent a Bill to anfvver the Prayer of his Petition ; whereupon, Mr. Van-Cleve prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act directing 4 the Treafurer to iffue a Certificate to Levi Silvers,' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
A Petition from the Heirs of John Emley, late of Alexandria, deceafed, prav- ing Leave to prefent a Bill to empower Truftees to make Sale of the Real Eftate, and to complete the Sale of the Lands which the Teftator had agreed to fell in his Lifetime, and to divide the Monies thence ariung among the Heirs in Pro- portion to their refpective Rights, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Condit, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had rejected the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Relief of Benajah Parvin.'
A Petition from fundry Sheriffs of the State, praying an Amendment to the Fee-bill, and that they may be allowed a better Compenfation for their Services, was read, and committed to MefTrs. Anderfon, Southard and Wallace, to report thereon.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Thurfday, November 12, 1795.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Frazer, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill and Petitions accompanying the fame concerning Samuel Quinton Talbot, reported as follows : THAT they have carefully examined and duly confidered the fame, and are of Opinion that the Act, intitled, ' An Act for fupporting Ideots and Lu- natics, and preferving their Eftates,' palled at Trenton the 2 1 ft Day of November,
1 794, is fully competent to grant Relief to the faid Samuel Quinton Talbot and to the Petitioners on his Behalf, which is humbly fubmitted to the honourable Houfe. Signed by Order of the faid Committee, DAVID FRAZER. To which the Floufe agreed. Ordered, That the faid Bill be difmiffed.
Mr. Van-Cleve, from the Committee of Council and Affembly, appointed for the Purpofe of fettling the Accounts of Robert Stockton and Thomas M'Dow- ell, Efqrs. Commiffioners appointed by Law to repair the Poft-Road acrofs Rocky Hill, in the Counties of Somerfet and Middlefex, Reported, THAT they have carefully infpected the fame, and find that the faid Com- miffioners have received from the Treafurer of this State the Svim of Two Hundred ( *8 )
Hundred Pounds, and that they expended, in executing the Duties of their Ap- pointment on faid Road, the Sum of Two Hundred Pounds, including their own Charges for Time fpent as allowed by Law, as appears by their Vouchers pro- for the prefent Year. duced from No. i to No. 44, which balances the Account By Order of the Committee, JOSEPH COOPER, BENJAMIN VAN-CLEVE. To which the Houfe agreed. A Petition from fundry Inhabitants of the Townfhip of Morris, in the County of Morris, praying the Benefit of a Lottery for the Education of Youth, and the Encouragement of Literature, was read, and committed to MefTrs. Walton, Peck and Debow, to report thereon. Mr. Martin, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had rejected the Bill, intitled, ' An Aft to repeal Part of an Ad paffed the twelfth Day of June, Seventeen Hundred and Ninety. The Report of Mr. Peck, on the Petition of John Van-Neft, was read a fecond Time, whereupon a Petition was prefented from John Van-Neft, which was read. Ordered, That the faid Petitions be difmiffed. The Petition from the Heirs of John Emley, read Yefterday, was read a fe- cond Time. Ordered, That the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Prayer of their Petition. Mr. Van-Cleve, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of Elizabeth Dugan, of the County of Somerfet, Widow of John Dugan, deceafed, late a Soldier of this State, who died in the Service of the United States, to which Committee was alfo referred the Application of John Dorum and Sarah his Wife, late Sarah Githens, Widow of Jofeph Githens, of the County of Glou- cefter, and late a Soldier of this State in the Service of the United States. Reported, THAT your Committee are of Opinion that the above Applicant Elizabeth Dugan is entitled to the Half-Pay of her faid deceafed Hufband from the firft Day of September, Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-fix, during her Wi- dowhood. And the faid John Dorum and Sarah his Wife, late Sarah Githens, Widow of Jofeph Githens, are entitled to the Half-Pay of the faid Jofeph Githens fo long as ihe the faid Sarah remained the Widow of faid Jofeph Githens, to wit, from the firft Day of September, 1776, to the third Day of May, 1790. By Order of the Committee, BENJAMIN VAN-CLEVE. Ordered, That the faid Report be read a fecond Time. The Petition from Samuel Pleafants, read on the 5th Inftant, with the Papers accompanying the fame, was read a fecond Time, and committed to Meffrs. Era- zer, Morgan and Thomfon, to report thereon.
Mr. Imlay, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill, intitled, ' An * Act for the Punifhment of Crimes,' reported the fame with fundry Amend- ments, which Bill was read, the Amendments read in their Places, and being
further amended in the Houfe, on the Queftion, Whether the fame be engroffed ?
It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows :
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Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Peck, Mr. Armftrong, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Seeley, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Sharps, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Sinnickfon, Mr. Southard, Mr. Clement, Mr. Somers, Mr. Starke, Mr. Debow, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Wade, Mr. French, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Wyckoff. Mr. Hand, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Hedden, Mr. Rn. Townfend, Mr. Hough, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Imlay, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Manning, Mr. Walton.
A Petition from Reuben Culver, of the County of Morris, praying that the Le- giflature would pafs a Law to exonerate him from the Payment of a Fine impofed on James Knox, by the Court of the County of Morris, for whom he became Bail, with a Petition from Jacob Arnold, Efq. late Sheriff, on the fame Subject, were read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
The Speaker laid before the Houfe a Report of James Mott, Treafurer, and Aaron Dunham, Auditor, dating the particular Certificates and their Amount received by them, agreeably to the Refolution of the Legiflature of the laft Seflion, which was read, and ordered to be read a fecond Time.
A Memorial from Jafper Smith, Efq. Attorney and Counfellor at Law, ftating the Abufes which are committed by Defendants in bringing Writs of habeas Corpus cum Caufa, for the Removal of Caufes from the Courts of Common Pleas of the Supreme Court, for Sums under Fifty Pounds, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
A Petition from John Freeland, of the County of Middlefex, ftating a Demand againft the State, and praying Payment, was read, and committed to Meflrs. Stockton, Wyckoff and Morgan.
The Bill, intitled, An Adl for the Support of Government of the State of New- * Jerfey,' was read a fecond Time, and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered^ That the further Confideration thereof be poftponed.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Friday, November 13, 1795-
The Houfe met;
Ordered, That Mr. M'Cullough have Leave of Abfence until Monday next. Mr. Walton, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petitions of fun- H dry ( 3° ) dry Inhabitants of the Counties of Monmouth, Morris and SufTex, praying for Lotteries to anfwer certain Purpofes therein fet forth, reported as follows : 1 H A T although the Matters fet forth in faid Petitions may be flrictly true, the Remedy by Lotteries I"" yet, in the Opinion of your Committee, would be very improper. By Order of the Committee, ELISHA WALTON. To which the Houfe agreed. Ordered, That the faid Petitions be difmifTcd. Mr. Imlay, from the Committee to whom were referred the Petitions of Tho- mas Talmage and Hezekiah Smith, Reported, THAT they have attentively confidered the Facts fet forth in the faid Peti- tions, and the Nature of the Application contained therein, and are of Opi- nion that the Prayer of the Petitioner cannot be granted. By Order of the Committee,
J. H. IMLAY. Ordered, That the faid Report be read a fecond Time. Mr. Van-Cleve, agreeably to Leave given, and in Behalf of the Petitioner, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, f An Act to appoint Truftees to fell the 4 real Eftate of John Imlay, late of Alexandria, in the County of Hunterdon, Efq. * deceafed, and to difpofe of the Monies thence arifing, and for other Purpofes * therein mentioned ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. A Petition from Matthias Allen, Hating a Demand againft the State, and pray- ing Payment, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. A Petition from fundry Inhabitants of Shrewfbury, in the County of Mon- mouth, complaining of the unequal Burden on the Inhabitants in the railing of Men, agreeably to Law, to perform Military Duty, and praying that the Legisla- ture would remedy the Evil complained of, was read and committed to Meflrs. Dayton, Imlay and M'Cullough, to report thereon. Mr. Linn, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had palled the War- rant in Lieu of one granted to Rachel Shores, the Back of which was filled with Endorfements. the Bill, intitled, The Houfe refumed the Confederation of \ An Act for the * Support of Government of the State of New-Jerfey ;' and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the faid Bill be committed to MefTrs. Wade, Boyd and Clement.
Mr. Black, from Council, prefented a Bill, intitled, ' An Ait concerning Wills,' to which he requefled the Concurrence of this Houfe; which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Cooper, from Council, prefented the Bill, intitled, • A Supplement to an * Act, intitled, " An Act to enable the Inhabitants of certain Towns and Town- " (hips to repair their publick Highways by Hire," with the Amendments made
thereto by Council, to which he requefled the Concurrence of this Houfe ; which Bill with the Amendments were read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met. A Petition ( 3< )
A Petition from the Prefident and Managers of the Company for improving the Navigation of the North Branch of Rancocas Creek, was read, ftating Difficulties attending the improving of the Navigation, and praying Leave to prefent a Bill to remedy the Difficulty complained of, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Report of Mr. Van-Cleve of Yeflerday, The was read a fecond Time ; on the Queftion, Whether the Houfe agree to the faid Report as far as refpects the Ap- the ? It plication of Widow Dugan was carried in the Negative ; on the Queftion, Whether the Houfe agree to the faid Report as far as refpecls the Application of
John Dorum and Sarah his Wife, late Sarah Githens ? It was carried in the Negative.
Mr. Stillwell moved for Leave to prefent the Draught of a Bill, intitled, * An * Ad to repeal an Act paffed the tenth Day of June, Seventeen Hundred and 4 Seventy-nine ;' on the Queftion, Whether Leave be given or not r It was car- ried in the Affirmative, as follows : Yeas. —
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Ordered, That the faid Report be read a fecond Time. Mr. Anderfon, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition from the Sheriffs of the feveral Counties of this State, Reported* THAT they are informed Judge Paterfon is preparing a Bill to lay before the Legiilature for regulating the Office of Sheriff, your Committee are therefore of Opinion that it is premature at this Time to take up that Bufinefs. By Order of the Committee, GEORGE ANDERSON. To which the Houfe agreed. On Motion, Ordered, That the Committee appointed to bring in a Bill to regulate the Pre- rogative and Secretary's Offices, be difcharged. rife for this Sitting they will meet again Re/blvedt That when the Houfe do at
Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to— On Account of Taxes levied in To Deficiencies not paid in on the laft Specie or Settlement by the Countie* of lawful Money. Bergen, £. 266 14 11 Hunterdon, 402 5 9 Morris, 69 14 3
£. 738 14 11
Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to-^ On Account of Tax for raifing £. 50,000 State To Deficiencies not paid in on the laft State Money Settlement by the Counties of & Certificates. Burlington, £. 605 9 6i Suffes, 578 19 71
£. 1 184 9 2
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at the State-Houfe on the firfl Wednefday in February next.
Sundry Petitions from Inhabitants of the County of Monmouth, ftafing that final Judgment againfl a Number of Fugitives whofe Eftates were forfeited, was omitted to be entered by the Clerk of the County of Monmouth during the War, or had been fince taken out of the Record, and praying that a Law may pafs to remedy that Defect in the Proceedings of the Court, were read, Whereupon, Ordered, That the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Prayer of their Petition on the fecond Wednefday in the next Sitting, previoufiy adver- tising the Purport of the Bill they mean to prefent, with a Copy of this Order, in two of the Newfpapers of this State, and three of the mod publick Places in the faid County, for at leaft fix Weeks previous thereto. Mr. D. Vroom, from the Committee appointed to join a Committee of Coun- cil for the Purpofe of fettling the Accounts of the Treafurer, brought in the. fol-
lowing Statement and Reports :
-the State of New-Jersey, Cr. -Continental Money and reduced to Specie. By Deficiencies not yet paid in by the Specie or Counties of lawful Money. Bergen, £. 266 14 n Hunterdon, 402 5 9 Morris, 69 14 3
£• 73 8 »4 " November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
—the State of New-Jersey, Cr. —Money and Certificates, due December 1, 1781. By Deficiencies not yet paid in by the State Money Counties of & Certificates. Burlington, £. 578 o 2i SufTex, 578 19 7 1 Balance carried to Account current, 27 9 4
£. 1184 9 2 November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
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Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
On Account of Tax for railing £. 50,000 State
To Deficiency not paid in on the laft State Money Settlement by the County of & Certificates. SiuTex, £. 1239 8 oi
Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurcr to—
On Account of Tax for railing £. 50,000 State
To Deficiencies not paid in on the laft State Money Settlement by the Counties of & Certificates. Specie. Eflex, £ 49 ° l Monmouth, £ 25 3 »°t Hunterdon, 190 o 7 Morris, 853 J 9 7i
£. 1069 4 o£ £. 49
Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
On Account of the Proportion of the firft Payment of
To Deficiency not paid in on the laft Settlement by the County of State Money. Sufiex, £• 2J2 7 9
Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
On Account of the Proportion of the fecond Payment of
To Deficiency not paid in on the laft Settlement by the County of State Money. Suflex, £. 568 14 9 ( 35 )
—the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
—Money and Certificates and £. 25,000 Specie, due April 1, 1782.
By Deficiency not yet paid in by the State Money County of & Certificates. SufTex, £. 1239 8 o| November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
—the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
—Money and Certificates and £. 25,000 Specie, due July I, 1782.
By Deficiencies not yet paid in by the State Money Counties of & Certificates. Specie. Eflex, - - - £. 49 o 1 Hunterdon, £. 190 o 7 Morris, 839 3 i-£ Balance carried to Account current, 40 o 4^
£• 10 <59 4 o£ £. 49 o 1 November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
—the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
—Tax for railing £. 90,000, due October 1, 1782.
State Money. Amount carried to Account current, £.212 7 9 November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom,
—the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
—Tax for railing £. 90,000, due January 1, 1783.
By Deficiency not yet paid in by the County of State Money. Suflex, £ 53° 7 IO Balance carried to Account current, 38 °ii
£• 5 6 8 '4 9
November 1, 1795* By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom. Dr. ——
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Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to— On Account of the Proportion of the fecond Payment of
To Deficiencies not paid in on the laft Settlement by the Counties of Specie. Hunterdon, £ 7 21 l 5 4* Morris, 119 7 I0 Suflex, 559 ° 2
£ Moo 3 4i
Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
On Account of Tax for raifing £. 1 0,00c Specie
To Deficiencies not paid in on the laft Settlement by the Counties of Hunterdon, £. 529 i3 4 Suflex, 633 18 7
£. 1163 16 11
DR. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
On Account of Tax for raifing a Revenue of £. 31,259 5 o
To Deficiency not paid in on the laft Settlement by the County of Lawful Money. SuiTex, £, 369 14 8
Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
On Account of Tax for raifing a Reveuue of £. 31,259 5 o
To Deficiency not paid in on the laft Settlement by the County of Lawful Money.
SuiTex, £. 614 7 1 ( 37 )
—the Stare of New-Jersey, Cr.
—Tax for railing £. 90,930, due January 1, 1784.
By Deficiency not yet paid in by the County of Specie. Hunterdon, £ 721 15 4| Balance carried to Account current, 678 8 o
£ moo 3 4^ November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
—the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
—for finking f. 30,000 in Bills of Credit, due December 1, 1785. By Deficiencies not yet paid in by the Counties of
Hunterdon, £• 5 2 9 l8 4 SufTex, 633 18 7
£. 1 163 16 11 November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
-the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
-in Bills of Credit, due December 1, 1785.
By Deficiency not yet paid in by the County of Lawful Money.
SulTex, £• 3 69 ! 4 8 November 1, 1795- By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
-the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
-in Bills of Credit, due December 30, 1786.
By Deficiency not yet paid in by the County of Lawful Money.
Suflex, £• 614 7 » November I, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
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MOTT, Treafurer to— D R . JAMES
On Account of Tax for raifing a Revenue of £. 31,259 5 o
To Deficiency not paid in on the laft Settlement by the County of Lawful Money. Suffex, £ 334 15 6
Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
On Account of Tax for raifing a Revenue of £. 31,259 5 o
To Deficiency not paid in on the laft Settlement by the County of Lawful Money. Suflex, £• 199 15 7
Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
On Account of Tax for raifing
To the Quotas of the faid Tax payable into the Treafury by the Counties. Lawful Money.
Bergen, £.1000 1 8 Effex, 1073 2 4 Middlefex, 1235 10 o\ I<5 Monmouth, * I49 8 ° Somerfet, 12 14 19 °" Burlington, 1689 o 5 Gloucefter, 1210 5 9 Salem, 1028 13 4i Cape-May, 202 17 lot
Hunterdon, 1 961 11 5 Morris, 1 103 2 6 Cumberland, 5 2 4 1° ?i Suffex, 1257 8 10
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—the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
—in Bills of Credit, due December 30, 1788.
I!v Deficiency not yet paid in by the County of Lawful Money. SufTex, £. 220 3 6 Balance carried to Account current, 114 12 o
£• 334 15 6 November 1, 1795- By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
-the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
-in Bills of Credit, due December 30, 1789.
Lawful Money.
By Amount carried to Account current, £• l 99 '5 7 November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
—the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
—£ 15,000, due December 30, 1794.
By Deficiencies not yet paid in by the Counties of Lawful Money. Eflex, £. 80 5 6 Monmouth, 181 9 10J Balance carried to Account current, 14.738 4 7i
£ '5,000 o o November 1, 1795- By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
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Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
On Account of Tax in Specie, due CXTtober i, 1782, which was payable to the Receiver of
To Deficiencies not paid in on the laft Specie or - Settlement by the Counties of lawful Money. Morris, £. 398 16 10 Suffex, 605 4 9
£. 1004 1 7
Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
On Account of Tax in Specie, due January r, 1783, which was payable to the Receiver of—
To Deficiencies not paid in on the laft Specie or Settlement by the Counties of lawful Money. Monmouth, £. 131 n 9 Somerfet, 435 17 5 Hunterdon, 2183 17 3 -J Morris, 2478 13 4 SufTex, 2299 9 10
£• 1S*9 9 7i
Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
On Account of Tax in Specie, due October I, 1783, which was payable to the Receiver of
To Deficiencies not paid in on the laft Settlement by the Counties of Monmouth, Somerfet, Burlington, Hunterdon, Morris, Cumberland, Suffex, ( 4i )
-the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
-Continental Taxes, but by a Law pafled November 28, 1789, is made payable into the Treafury.
By Deficiencies not yet paid in by the Specie or Counties of lawful Money. Morris, £• 64 » » Suflex, 605 4 9 Balance carried to Account current, 334 10 "
£. 1004 1 7 November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
—the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
—Continental Taxes, but by a Law pafled November 28, 1789, is made payable into the Treafury.
By Deficiencies not yet paid in by the Specie or Counties of lawful Money. Hunterdon, £• 2183 17 3* Morris, 2478 13 4 Suflex, 2299 9 10
Balance carried to Account current, 5 67 9 2
£. 7529 9 7* November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
—the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
—Continental Taxes, but by a Law pafled November 28, 1789, is made payable into the Treafury.
By Deficiencies not yet paid in by the Specie or Counties of lawful Money. Monmouth, £. 1098 2 6t Somerfet, 800 o o Burlington, 1216 19 4 Hunterdon, 368 6 2 Morris, 1239 6 8 Cumberland, 231 2 7 Suflex, 823 11 7 Balance carried to Account current, 1282 2 o
£- 7°S9 I0 10 i November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
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On Account of Tax in Specie, due January i, 1784, which was payable to the Receiver of
To Deficiencies not paid in on the laft Spe(
Settlement by the Counties of
Bergen,
Eflex,
Middlefex, Monmouth,
Somerfet,
Burlington, Hunterdon,
Morris, Cumberland,
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—the State of New-Jersey, £«
—Continental Taxes, but by a Law patted November 28, 1789, is made payable into the treahiry.
By Deficiencies not yet paid in by the Specie or Counties of l.n-ful Money. Bergen, £ 5 1 19 4 Eflex, 165 13 2 Middlefex, 50 o o Monmouth, 1465 10 o Somerfet, 1293 o o Burlington, 1540 6 4 Hunterdon, 1882 o 5 Morris, 1239 6 8 Cumberland, 675 O o SulTex, 728 o o Balance carried to Account current, 1026 17 I
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November 1, 1795.
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On Account of Cafli received of fundry Perfons. 1795- Jan. 13, Received of Reuben Burgin, Efq. Sheriff of Cumberland County, on Ac- count of Fines levied in faid County, /* .- > Mar. 19, Eleazer Hand, late Sheriff of Cape-May County, on Account of Fines levied in laid County, 4 10 10 April 8, Pruden Ailing, former Sheriff of Morris County, on Account of Fines levied in faid County, - o 9
Amount carried to Account current, f I7 5 - November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to the State of New-Jersey, Dr.
On Account of Cafh received from Agents of forfeited Eftates. 1794. Nov. 24, Received of Abraham Kitchel, Efq. Agent of forfeited Eftates for Morris County, on Account of the Real Eftates of William Terrell and Stephen 1795. Skinner, £. 2 - 6 I0 I0 May 19, Abraham Kitchel, Efq. Agent of forfeited Eftates for Morris County, on Account of the Real Eftates of William Terrell and Stephen Skinner, er I4 ,
Amount carried to Account current, £.312 tr 1 November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to the State of New-Jersey, Dr.
On Account of Cafh received for Licenfes given by Virtue of a Law patted November 24, 1786, and the Supplement thereto paffed February 21, 1794. 1795- Mar. 19, Received of John N. dimming, Nehemiah Vernon, John Gulick, Jofeph Vandegrift, George Dannaker and Robert Bicknell, for a Licenfe to run a Line of Stages through this State for one Year from the firft Day of January laft, £ 100 o O April 9, Stephen Page, John M'Collnm, Henry Gulick, William Jones and Thomas Ward, for a Licenfe to run a Line of Stages through this State for one Year from the firft Day of January laft, 100 o o June 4, Amos Hutchin, for a Licenfe to run a Line of Stages from Amboy to Burlington for one Year from the firft Day of May laft, 20 o o 23, John Van Emburgh and Robert M'Kean, per Jofeph Butler, for a Licenfe to run a Line of Stages from Amboy to Bordentown for one Year from the firft Inftant, 20 o o Aug. 24, Richard Handley, for a Licenfe to run a Line of Stages from Amboy to Burlington for one Year from the Date hereof, 20 o o Sept. 10, George Dannaker, George Leflier, John Vandegrift, John Gulick, Nehe- miah Vernon and Jofeph Lyons, for a Licenfe to run a Line of Stages through this State for one Year from the feventh Day of May laft, loo o o M Carried forward, £. 31: ( 46 )
,-g-. Brought forward, £. 360 O S and Amos Hutchin, for Sept. 29, Received of John Van Emburgh, Robert M'Kean a Licenfe to run a Line of Stages from Amboy to Burlington for one Year from the Date hereof, 20 o o Crane, Broad- Oct. 31, Peter Duchent, Barney Many, John Heard, jofeph Jofeph huril, Charles Beflonct, John Sears, John Jones and Benjamin Gulick, for a Licenfe to run a Line of Stages through this State for one Year from the nineteenth Day of Auguft laft, 100 o O
Amount carried to Account current, £. 480 o o
November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to the State of New-Jersey, Dr.
On Account of Cafh received of the Commiffioners of the New Loan Office, on Account of Inter eft.
I 795- . . for Jan. 3, Received of William Phillips, one of the Commiffioners Hunterdon County, per Ralph Phillips, on Account of the eighth Year's Intereil on the Sum loaned in faid County due December 2, 1794, £. 520 15 9 13, John Baker, one of the Ditto for Cape-May County, the Amount of Ditto, 58 9 3 14, Ifaac Wheaton, one of the Ditto for Cumberland County, on Account of Ditto, 161 2 3 Abraham Staats, one of the Ditto for Somerfet County, on Account of Ditto, 330 18 10 ir, John Outwater, one of the Ditto for Bergen County, the Amount of
Ditto, 131 19 5 19, Jofeph Champion, one of the Ditto for Gloucefter County, the Amount of Ditto, 349 2 2 21, John Myer, one of the Ditto for Middlefex County, the Amount of Ditto, 324 8 2 22, Hendrick Voorheefe, one of the Ditto for Monmouth County, the Amount of Ditto, 433 6 3 24, William Phillips, one of the Ditto for Hunterdon County, per Ralph Phil- lips, on Account of Ditto, 26 19 11 27, Jofeph Lewis, one of the Ditto for Morris County, the Amount of Ditto, 320 10 2 30, John Black, one of the Ditto for Burlington County, the Amount of Ditto, 401 16 10 31, Thomas Anderfon, one of the Ditto for SufTex County, per Jacob Thomp- fon, the Amount of Ditto, 405 8 5 Feb. 14, John Holme, one of the Commiffioners for Salem County, per Thomas Sin- nickfon, Efq. on Account of the eighth Year's Intereft on the Sum loaded in faid County due December 2, 1794, 87 19 c Edmund Wetherby, one of the Ditto for Salem County, per Ditto on Ac- count of Ditto, 216 13 o 23, John Condit and Jonas Wade, Commiffioners for EfTex County, the Amount of Ditto, 330 \6 6 24, Jofeph Reading, one of the Ditto for Hunterdon County, per John Lam- bert, Efq. on Account of Ditto, 9 12 O Mar. 2, William Phillips, one of the Ditto for Hunterdon County, on Account of Ditto, 2 14 O April 8, Jofeph Annin, one of the Ditto for Somerfet County, the Balance of Ditto, ?J I3 7
Carried forward, £. 4188 5 11 ( 47 )
Brought I/9S- forwnrd, £. 4188 5 11 April 22, Received of Abraham Schuyler, one of the Ditto for Middlefex County, per George Clark, being three Months Intereft on £. 69 up to March 2 laft, on which the Equity of Redemption was foreclofed, 1 o 8 May 2, Ifaac Wheaton, one of the Ditto for Cumberland County, per M. Ewing, the Balance of the eighth Year's Intereft due December 2, 1794, I 10 O Alio three Months Intereft on £. 25 up to March 2 laft, on which the Equity of Redemption was foreclofed, » 5
7, Edmund Wetherby, one of the Ditto for Salem County, the Balance of the eighth Year's Intereft due December 2, 1794, 803 16, Jofeph Reading, one of the Ditto for Hunterdon County, per Ralph Phil- lips, the Balance of Ditto, r 10 6 July 10, John Miller and Jofeph Lewis, Commiftioners for Morris County, per Mahlon Dickerfon, being three Months Intereft on £. 277 4 6 up to March 2 laft, on which the Equity of Redemption was foreclofed, 432
Amount carried to Account current, £. 4208 18 o November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to the State of New-Jersey, Dr.
On Account of Loan Office Money of 1786, received of the Commiffioners of the New Loan Of- feveral Counties, cancelled their refpective fice in the by Boards of J uftices and Freeholders. X795- May 15, Received of John Outwater and Henry Berry, Commiffioners of Bergen County, per Nehemiah Wade, a fealed Bundle of Loan Office Money of 1786, cancelled On May 13, 1795, faid to contain f. c81 12 o 16, Jofeph Reading, Jofeph Beavers and William Phillips, Commiffioners of Hunterdon County, per Ralph Phillips, a ditto, cancelled on ditto, ditto, 2209 10 o 19, John Black, one of the Commiffioners of Burlington county, a ditto, can- celled on ditto, ditto, 1664 5 O 16, John Condit and Jonas Wade, Commiffioners of Effex County, per M. Den- man, a ditto, cancelled on ditto, ditto, I09S I0 ° July 1, Thomas Anderfon, one of the Commiffioners of Suflex County, a ditto, cancelled on ditto, ditto, 1740 2 o 10, John Miller and Jofeph Lewis, Commiffioners of Morris County, per Mah- lon Dickerfon, a ditto, cancelled on ditto, ditto, 1728 2 o Aug. 15, Peter Covenhoven, one of the Commiffioners of Monmouth County, two fealed Bundles of Loan Office Money of 1786, cancelled on the 27th May and 29th of July 1795, faid to contain 1458 27, Abraham Schuyler and John Myer, Commiffioners of Middlefex County, per Staats Van-Deurfen, a ditto, cancelled on May 13, 1795, do. Sept. 2, Ifaac Wheaton, one of the Commiffioners of Cumberland County, per John Mulford, a ditto, cancelled on ditto, ditto, Samuel Hugg and Jofeph Champion, Commiffioners of Gloucefter Coun- ty, per Joel Weftcott, a ditto, cancelled on ditto, ditto, 22, John Holme and Edmund Wetherby, Commiffioners of Salem County, per A. D. Woodruff, a ditto, cancelled on ditto, ditto, 1241 o
Oft. 1, Abraham Staats and Jofeph Annin, Comm.ffioners of Somerfet County, per Abraham Van-Neft, a ditto, cancelled on ditto, ditto, l l°S & 29, John Baker and Elijah Hughes, Commiffioners of Cape-May County, two ditto, cancelled on ditto, ditto, 111 \6 ( 4« )
JAMES MOTT, Treafurer co the State of New-Jersey, Dr.
Account of Cafh received from the United States. 1 79J- On Quarter's Intereft April 2, Received of James Ewing, Commiffioner of Loans, one on the Sum loaned by this Stntr tn the United Slates, due April 1, Dollars, 211 8 9-j *795> 5 6 3to 5 £. 22, Prefley Nevill, Paymaftcr General, the fum refunded by the United States agreeably to an Act of Congrefs, pafTed January 17, 1795, for pay advanced to the Militia of this State who were employed on the late Expedition to Fort Pitt, agreeably to a Refolution of the Legifla-
ture of this State, pafTed February 27, and March 6, 1795, i 3 s84t#o Dollars, 5206 16 o James Ewing, Commiffioner of Loans, one Quarter's Intereft on the Sum loaned by this State to the United States, due July I, 1795, 563 rVo- Dollars, 211 8 9i oa. 13, James Ewing, ditto, ditto, one Quarter's do. on do. loaned to do. due 211 8 October 1, 1795, 563^ Dollars, 9*
Amount carried to Account current, £ s84 i November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to the State of New-Jersey, Dr.
On Account of Cafh received of iundry Perfons for Fees on private Laws, agreeably to a Law pafTed February 20, 1794. »795- Mar. 17, Received of Thomas Clement, Efq. the Fees on an Act for banking Mea- dows on Oldman's Creek in Salem County, pafTed February 27, 1795, £• 5 3 6 !9> Sylvanus Church, per Matthew Whilldin, Efq. the do. on an Act to di- vorce him from Judith his Wife, pafTed November 29, 1794, 3 16 2 Elizabeth Haring, per Petrus Haring, Efq. the do. on an Aft in Favour of
Elizabeth Haring pafTed March 18, 1795, 3 16 6
2 5» William L. Smith, the do. on an Aft to empower the Governor of this State to incorporate a Company to improve the Navigation of the north Branch of Rancocus Creek, pafTed March 16, 1795, 5 10 8 Aug. 24, William Rofiel, per F. Bulles, Efq. on an Act for the Relief of certain Perfons therein named, pafTed March 14, 1795, 3 10 10 Sept. John Perry, Adminiftrator of William Slt-eper nnrt Jnnnt-han Sleeper, per M. Kempton, the do. on an Act to authorize John Perry to complete a Con- tract made by him with George Budd in Behalf of William Sleeper, and alfo to complete a Contract made by Jonathan Sleeper with Adam Inger, pafTed November 29, 1794, 4 13 10 16, Jacob Fries, per M. Ewing, the do. on an Act to direct the Treafurer to iffue a Certificate to Fries, pafTed February 18, Jacob 1795, 3 7 10 oa. 6, Luke Mattox, per Mafkell Ewing, the Fees on an Act to divorce Luke Mattox
from Rebecca his Wife, pafTed November 29, 1794, 3 13 3°» James Hedden, Efq the do. on an Act to prolong the Time granted by a Law of this State for erecting Bridges over the Rivers PafTaick and
Hackinfack, pafTed November 5, 1794, 3 11 10
Carried forward, £-31 4 4 ' (49 )
Brought forward, £'37 4 4 31, Malkell Ewing, Efq. the do. on an A£l to authorize the Governor of this State to incorporate a Company for erecting a Bridge over the River Delaware at the Townfhip of Greenwich, in the County of SufTex, op- posite the Borough of Ealton, paffed March 18, 1795, 4 17 8
Amount carried to Account current, £. 42 2 o
November 1, 179;. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to the State of New-Jersey, Dr.
1795. On Account of Notes or Certificates received of fundry Perfons.
April 8, Received of Pruden Ailing, former Sheriff of Morris County, on Account
of Fines impofed by the Court in faid County, /*. 14 (5 it 24, Jonas Wade, Efq. former Collector of Effex County, per Robert Pierfon, being the Certificates he received of Samuel Hays, Commiffioner of the old Loan Office, on Account of the Sum loaned in faid County in 1776, agreeably to a Refolution of March 10, 1795, 1338 17 7
Amount carried to Account current, jT. 1353 4 6 November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom.
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Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
Account Current in—
To Amount of Notes or Certificates received of fundry Perfons, £. 1353 4 6
Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
Account Current in—
To Balance due the State on Settlement made November 1, 1794, in old State Money, £. 2077 14 6» To do. do. £. 1092 8 3* Lawful Money, received at one for three on the Sinking Fund Tax, and not yet exchanged, equal in old State Money to 3277 4 10* 5354 19 5 To Balance on Tax in State Money and Certificates, due Decem- ber 1, 1781, 27
To do. do. due July 1, 1782,
To do. do. due October 1, 1782,
To do. do. due January 1, 1783, ( 5' )
—the State of New-Jersey, Cr,
—Notes or Cetificates.
By Amount of Notes or Certificates examined and allowed, £. 1353 4 6
November 1, 1795.
the Committees of Council and Aflembly, appointed to fettle the Treafurer's Accounts, hav- WE, relative thereto, do find the fame juftly ftated. ing examined the above, and the Vouchers John Black, John Lambert, Peter D. Vroom, Elisha Walton, James Hedden, Samuel French, Eleazar Hand.
—fhe State. of New-Jersey, Cr. \ —old State Money.
Balance due the State in old State Money, £. 2395 18 io£ Ditto £. 1092 8 3 a Lawful Money, received at one for three, on the Sinking Fund Tax, and not yet exchanged, equal in old State Money to 3277 4 ioj;
£ 5°73 3 9i November 1, 1795. WE, the Committees of Council and Aflembly, appointed to fettle the Treafurer's Accounts, hav- ing examined the above, do find a Balance of Two Thoufand Three Hundred and Ninety-five Pounds Eighteen Shillings and Ten-pence Three Farthings, old State Money, and the Sum of One Thoufand and Ninety-two Pounds Eight Shillings and Three-pence Half-penny, Lawful Money, received at one for three, on the Sinking Fund Tax, due December 1, 1785, and not yet exchanged, equal to Three Thoufand Two Hundred and Seventy-feven Pounds Four Shillings and Ten-pence Half-penny, old State Money, remaining in the Hands of the Treafurer, agreeably to the above Statement. John Black, John Lambert, Peter D. Vroom, Elisha Walton, James Hedden, Samuel French, Eleazar Hand.
Dr. 1 —
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Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurerto—
Account Current in
To Balance due the State 0:1 the Settlement made November 1, 1794, £ 1 25 1
To Balance on Tax, due January 1, 1784,
To do. on Revenue Tax, due December 30, 1788,
To do. do. due December 30, 1789,
To do. on the Tax, due December 30, 1794,
To do. do. due O&ober 1, 1782, which was payable to the Receiver of Con-
tinental Taxes,
To do. do. due January 1, 1783, do.
To do. do. due October 1, 1783, do.
To do. do. due January 1, 1784, do. To Amount received of fundry Perfons,
To do. do. of Agents of forfeited Eftates,
To do. do. for Stage Licenfes,
To do. do. of the Commiffioners of the new Loan Office, on Account of Intereft,
To do. do. of do. Loan Office Money, cancelled by the Boards of Juftices and
Freeholders,
To do. do. of the United States,
To do. do. of fundry Perfons for Fees on private Law?, ( 53 )
—the State of New-Jersey, Cft.
—lawful Money.
By Amount of fundry Vouchers, from No. i to No. 128, incluiive, for Cam paid to the Members of the Legiflature for their Wages, to their Clerks, and Printers, Doorkeepers £. 3833 1 x
By do. of do. from No. 1 to No. 23, for do. paid the Officers of Government, on Account of their Salaries, and to the Judges of the Supreme Court, fof holding Courts of Oyer and Terminer, 3070 o o
of from No. 1 to No. for do. paid fundry By do. do. 63, incidental Charges, 1504 7 8£
do. do. from No. 1 to No. for do. paid on By of 38, Warrants for Penfions, 1623 13 9
By do. of do. from No. 1 to No. 3, for do. paid one Year's Intereft on old State Money, 3° *4 7
By do. of do. from No. 1 to No. 2, for do. remitted to the Proprietors of Stages, agreeably to a Law pafled February 21, 1794, 10 on
By do. of do. No. 1 for do. paid one Year's Intereft On a Certificate figned by John Pierce, Commiffioner, agreeably to a Refolution of March 9, 1786, 10 4
By do. of do. from No. t to No. 2 for do. paid the Commiffioners for repairing Roads, agreeably to a Law pafled February 21, 1794, and two Laws pafled March 13, 1795, 5 oo o o
By do. of do. from No. I to No. 1 8 for do. paid Intereft on Notes figned by Silas Condidl: and M. Ewing, 32 13 7
By do. 1 paid Intereft a Depreciation of do. No. for do. on Note, 25 7 6
By do. of do. from No. 1 to No. 13 for do. paid Intereft on Notes given for Milkia Services by the Commiffioners in the feveral Counties, 16" 2 4
By Amount of fundry Vouchers from No. 1 to No. 8, inclufive, for Cafli paid In- tereft on forfeited Eftate Notes to June 1, 1792, 38 17 n
By do. of do. from No. 1 to No. 8, for do. paid one fourth of the Principal of do. 34 7 5
By do. of do. from No. 1 to No. 15, for do. paid Intereft for one Year, on three fourths of do. to June 1, 1793, 26 2 4
By do. of do. from No. 1 to No. 15, for do. paid the fecond fourth of the Prin- cipal of do. 1 4j 3 10
By do. of do. from No. 1 to No. 22, for do. paid Intereft for ten Months, on one Half of do. to April 1, 1794, 35 14 8
By do. of do. from No 1 to No 22, for do. paid the third fourth of the Principal of do. 357 12 6
By do. of do. from No. 1 to No. 82, for do. paid the laft fourth of the Principal of do. and one Year's Intereft thereon to April 1, 1795, in full of faid Notes, 8106 6 4
By do. of do. No. 1 for do. paid Intereft on a Note iflued agreeably to a fpecial Law of the Legiflature, for ten Months, on one Half of the Principal to April
*» «794i » 5 5
By do. of do. No. 1 for do. paid the third fourth of the Principal of do. 6210 o
By do. of do. from No. 1 to No II, for do paid the laft fourth of the Principal of Notes iflued by Virtue of fpecial Laws and Refolutions, and one Year's In- tereft thereon to April 1, 1795, in full of faid Notes, 1322 16 6
By do. of do. from No. 1 to No. 42, for do. paid the Bounty and Wages of
the Militia, agreeably to a Law pafled June 20, 1794, 6404 13 1
Carried forward, o -
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Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
Account Current in—
Arhount brought forward, £. 59,272 6 9
£. S9> 2 7* 6 9 ( 55 )
the State of Jersey, — New- Ch ;
—lawful Money.
Amount brought forward, /- /*. 2 7,iS2 I y- By Amount of Voucher No. i for Loan Office Money (which was cancelled by the Juftices and Freeholders of the feveral Counties, agreeably to a Law palled November 24, 1788,) delivered to the Committees of both Houles, and burned by them October 31, 1795. 16,017 '2 o
Balance due the State, I 5> 1 72 12 ni
59,272 6 9
WE, the Committees of Council and AfTembly, appointed to fettle the Treafurer's Accounts, having examined the above, and the Vouchers relative thereto, viz. from No. 1 to No. 128, from No. 1 to No. 23, from No. 1 to No. 63, from No. 1 to No. 38, from No. 1 to No. 3, from No. 1 to No. 2, No. 1, from No. 1 to No. 2, from No. 1 to No. 18, No. 1, from No. 1 to No. 13, from
No. 1 to No. 8, from No. 1 to No. 8, from No. 1 to No. 15, from No. 1 to No. 15, from 1 to No. 22,
from No. 1 to No. 22, from No. to No. 82, No. 1, No. 1, from No. 1 to No. 11, from No. 1 to No. 42, and No. 1, do find a Balance of Fifteen Thoufand One Hundred and Seventy-two Pounds, Twelve Shillings and Eleven Pence Three Farthings, lawful Money remaining in the Hands of the faid Treafurer, agreeably to the above Statement. John Black, John Lambert, Peter D. Vroom, Elisha Walton, James Hedden, Samuel French, Eleazar Hand.
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Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to-
Account current in-
To Amount of 19 Notes of Depreciation, figned by John Stevens, late Trea- furer, remaining in the Hands of James Mott, Treafurer, on Settlement
made November 1, 1794, amounting to £• 1088 o 3^ To Amount of 2 Notes of Depreciation, figned by John Stevens, late Trea- furer, and delivered to James Bowers, which have been returned by him into the Treafury, amounting to no 16 8
£. 1198 16 114
Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
Account current in
To 46 Notes figned and iflued by the Treafurer, and counterfigned by the Au- ditor, remaining in the Hands of the Treafurer on Settlement made Novem- ber 1, 1794, amounting to ^. ;J2 2 10 To 2 Notes figned by the Treafurer, and counterfigned by the Auditor, fince the laft Settlement, amounting to 2 16 6
£• 5 24 19 4 j
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—the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
—Notes of Depreciation.
By Amount of Voucher No. i, for 9 Notes of Depreciation, which were can- celled by a Committee of the Council and Afi'embly, agreeably to a Refolution
of the Legislature of March 9, 1795, amounting to £, 1169 8 II* Remaining in the Hands of James Mott, Treafurer, 12 Notes of Depreciation, figned by John Stevens, late Treafurer, amounting to 29 8 o
£. 1 198 16 II November 1, 1795. WE, the Committees of Council and Aflembly, appointed to fettle the Treafurer's Accounts, having examined the above, and the Vouchers relative thereto, for the cancelling nine Notes, do find twelve Notes, amounting to Twenty-nine Pounds Eight Shillings, remaining in the Hands of the faid Treafurer, agreeably to the above Statement. John Black, John Lambert, Peter D. Vroom, Elisha Walton, James Hedden, Samuel French, Eleazar Hand.
—the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
—forfeited Eftate Notes.
By 10 Notes delivered to the Proprietors thereof, amounting as per Account, to £,• 31 3 ll By 38 Notes remaining in the Treafury, amounting to 492 15 5
£• 5 2 4 19 4 November 1, 1795.
the Committees of Council and Aflembly, appointed to fettle the Treafurer's Accounts, WE, and having examined the above, and the Vouchers relative thereto, for ifluing two Notes, for the Delivery of ten Notes, do find Thirty-eight Notes, amounting to Four Hundred and Ninety- two Pounds Fifteen Shillings and Five-pence, remaining in the Hands of the faid Treafurer, agreeably ta the above Statement. John Black, John Lambert, Peter D. Vroom, Elisha Walton, James Hedden, Samuel French, Eleazar Hand.
P . Dr. ——
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Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
Account current in
Dols. poths. To 46 Notes, figned by John Pierce, and depofited in the Treafury by John Peck and John Blair, Agents, agreeably to a Law pafied March 7, 1786", remaining in the Hands of the Treafurer on the Settlement made November 1, 1794, amounting to 1044 49
Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
Account current of a Note iflued agreeably
Principal. Intereft on To a Note, figned by James Mott, Treafurer, and cottnterfigned by the Face. Aaron Dunkam, Auditor, amounting to £. 31 17 11 £. 6 ij 11 ( 59 )
—the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
—final Settlement Notes.
Dols. froths. By 2 Notes delivered to the Proprietors thereof, amounting to 46 o By 44 Notes remaining in the Hands of the Treafurer, amounting to 008 49
1044 49 November 1, 1795.
the Committees of Council and Affembly, appointed to fettle the Treafurer's Accounts, WEhaving examined the above, the and Vouchers relative thereto, for the Delivery of two Notes, do find Forty-four Notes, amounting to Nine Hundred and Ninety-eight Dollars and Forty-nine Nine- tieths, remaining in the Hands of the faid Treafurer, agreeably to the above Statement. John Black, John Lambert, Peter D. Vroom. Elisha Walton, James Hedden, Samuel French^ Eleazar Hand.
—the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
—to a Law paffed February 18, 1795*
Principal. Intereft on the Face. By Amount of a Note delivered to the Proprietor thereof, amounting to £.31 17 11 £.6 17 11
November 1, 1795. WE, the Committees of Council and Affembly, appointed to fettle the Treafurer's Accounts, having examined the above, and the Vouchers relative thereto, for the Iffuing and Delivery of one Note, do find the fame juftly ftated. John Black, John Lambert, Peter D. Vroom, Elisha Walton, James Hedden, Samuel French, Eleazar Hand.
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Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
On Account of the Tax levied on Perfons
To Deficiencies not paid in on the Infc Settlement by the Counties of
Middlefex, £• 39 IO 2
Monmouth, ij 9 4
Burlington, 865 11 •
Gloucefter, 724 15 11
Salem, 72 5 9
Cumberland, 44 8 8
Sufiex, 109 14 5
£ 1871 15 3 ( 6i )
—the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
—exempt from Militia Duty, due December 30, 1793.
By Payments made, Clearances from the Tax, Fees and Commiffions for Collection, &c. and Deficiencies not yet paid in by the Counties of
Middlefex, By Cafh received, £ 22
By 1 5 Exempts cleared from the Tax, £• 16 17 6 By Fees and Commiffions for Collection, &c. 087
Monmouth, By Cafh received, By 10 Exempts cleared from the Tax, 11 5 o
By Fees and Commiffions for Collection, &c. o 1 8
Burlington, By Cafh received, 183 15 10
By Fees and Commiffions for Collection, &c. 3 10 8 By Deficiency not yet paid in, £• 678 4 6
Gloucefter, By Deficiency not yet paid in, 724 15 "
Deficiency not yet paid in, Salem, By 72 5 9
Cumberland, By Cafh received, 34 15 4 By Fees and Commiffions for Collection, &c. 13 7 By Deficiency not yet paid in, 8 19 9
Suffex, • By Cafh received, 50 o o By 15 Exempts cleared from the Tax, 16 17 6 By Fees and Commiffions for Collection, &c. o 19 2 By Deficiency not yet paid in, 41 17 9
£- I S i6 3 8 5° l 3 8 294 17 11
Amount of Deficiency not yet paid in, /*. 1526 3 8
Do. of Clearances with Fees and Commiffions, Sec- 5° r 3 8
Balance carried to Account current, 294 17 11
£ l8 7i 15 3 November i, 1795. By Order of the Committees,
John Black, Peter D. Vkoom.
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Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to
On Account of the Tax levied on Perfons
To the Quotas of the faid Tax payable into the Treafury agreeably to the Returns from the feveral Counties.
Bergen, 21 Exempts at 22/6, £. 23 12 6
Eflex, No Return.
Middlefex, No Return.
Monmouth, 92 do. do. 103 10 o
Somerfet, 4 do. do. 4 10 o
Burlington, 354 do. do. 398 5 o
Gloucefter, 521 do. do. 586 2 6
Salem, 75 do. do. 84 7 6
Cape-May, 28 do. do. 31 10 o
Hunterdon, 148 do. do. 166 10 ©
Morris, 3 1 do. do. 34 17 6
Cumberland, 34 do. do. 38 5 °
Suffex, No Return.
£• I47 1 Ic ( «3 )
—the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
—exempt from Militia Duty, due December 30, 1794.
By Payments made, Clearances from the Tax, Fees and Commiffions for Collection, &c. and Deficiencies not yet paid in by the Counties of
Bergen, By Cafh received, £. 22 17 6 By Fees and Commiffions for Collection, &c. o 8 11 By Deficiency not yet paid in £.061
Eflex, No Return.
Middlefex, No Return.
Monmouth, By Deficiency not yet paid in, 103 10 o
Somerfet, By Cafh received,
Burlington, By Cafh received, By Fees and Commiffions for Collection, &c.
Gloucefter, By Cafh received, By 44 Exempts cleared from the Tax, By Fees and Commiffions for Collection, &c. By Deficiency not yet paid in,
Salem, By Deficiency not yet paid in,
Cape-May, By Cafh received, By Fees and Commiffions for Collection, &c. By Deficiency not yet paid in, 8 8 7*
Hunterdon, By Cafh received, By 8 Exempts cleared from the Tax, By Fees and Commiffions for Collection, &c. By Deficiency not yet paid in, 632
Morris, By Cafh received, By Fees and Commiffions for Collection, &c.
Cumberland, By Cafh received, By Fees and Commiffions for Collection, &c. By Deficiency not yet paid in, o 9 9
Suflex, No Return. —
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Dr. JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
On Account of Fines impofed on Perfons for
To the Amount of faid Fines returned into the Treafury by the Counties of
Bergen, 276 Fines, £.64 8 o
Effex, No Return.
Middlefex, No Return.
Monmouth, No Return.
Somerfet, 32 do. 11 12 6
Burlington, 157 do-: 58 14 6
Gloucefter, ( ^5 )
—the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
—Neglect of Militia Duty, due December 30, 1794.
By Payments made, Clearances from Fines, Fees and Commiffions for Collection, &c. and Deficiencies not yet paid in by the Counties of
Bergen, By Cafh received, 1 £ 3 l 9 9 By Fees and Commiffions for Collection, &c. £. % iz By Deficiency not yet paid in, £. 29 15 9
EiTex, No Return.
Middlefex, No Return.
Monmouth, No Return.
Somerfet, By Cafh received, 1 11
By 5 Clearances of Fines, 1 17 6
By Fees and Commifiions for Collection, &c. '3 1
Burlington, • By Cafh received, 55 '7 6 By Fees and Commifiions for Collection, &c. 2 17 o
Gloucefter, No Return.
Salem, By Deficiency not yet paid in, 15 15 o
Cape-May, By Cafh received, 14 5 6 By Fees and Commifiions for Collection, &c. o 14 6 By Deficiency not yet paid in, 17 12 6
Hunterdon, By Cafh received, 18 18 a By Fees and Commifiions for Collection, &c. o 18 8 By Deficiency not yet paid in, 66 8 4
Morris, By Cafh received, 6 16 By Fees and Commifiions for Collection, &c. o 6
Cumberlaud, By Deficiency not yet paid in, *5 o o
Sufiex, No Return.
144 11 7 9 l 9 6 136 18 11
Amount of Deficiencies not yet paid in, £• 144 " 7
Do. of Clearances with Fees and Commiffions, &c. 9 19 6
Balance carried to Account current, 136 18 11
£. 291 10 o November 1, 1795. By Order of the Committees, John Black, Peter D. Vroom. R ;
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Dr> JAMES MOTT, Treafurer to—
Account current in lawful Money—
due To the Balance of the Tax levied on Perfons exempt from Militia Duty, 2 December 30, 1793, £• 94 *7 " 10* To do. do. do. due December 30, 1794, 1164 17 To do. on Account of Fines impofed on Perfons for Neglect of Militia Duty, due x 6 l8 " December 30, 1794, 3
£. 1596 14 8t
Which Accounts and Reports were read, and ordered a fecond Reading. On Motion, Ordered^ That MefTrs. Van-Cleve, Blaeklidge and Seeley, be a Committee to join the Committee of Council for the Purpofe of fettling the Accounts of Benjamin Smith, Efq. Commiffioner, appointed by Law for building an Office
for the Secretary and Clerk of the Supreme Court ; and that Mr. Seeley do wait on the Council, and requeft them to appoint a Committee to join the Committee of this Houfe for that Purpofe.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
A Warrant of Half-Pay, the Property of Elizabeth Rue, granted to her Sep- tember 29, 1780, was prefented, the Back thereof being full of Indorfements On Motion, Ordered, That a Warrant do ifTue in Lieu thereof; whereupon, A Warrant was prefented and approved. Ordered^ That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered^ That Mr. Seeley do carry the faid Warrant to the Council for Con- currence.
Mr. Stockton, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of John Freeland, praying an Allowance of Pay as a Continental Soldier in the firft
Jerfey Regiment, reported as follows : THAT. ( 6 7 )
—the State of New-Jersey, Cr.
n Account of the Exempt Taxes and Militia Fines.
By Balance due to James Mott, Treafurer, on Settlement made November i, 1794, £. 185 4 6
By Amount of fundry Vouchers, from No. 1 to No. 41, inclufive, for Cafh paid fundry Officers, their Salaries, and for Expenfes and Charges in organizing, equipping and training the Militia, &c. agreeably to a Law pafled November 30, 1792, and the Supplement thereto, i^^6 n 2 Balance due the State, 64 19 o^
£. 1596 14 8i November 1, 1795. WE, the Committees of Council and Aflembly, appointed to fettle the Treafurer's Accounts, the having examined above, and the Vouchers relative thereto, viz. from No. 1 to No. 41, inclufive, do find a Balance of Sixty-four Pounds Nineteen Shillings and a Halfpenny remaining in the Hands of the faid Treafurer, agreeably to the above Statement. John Black, John Lambert, Peter D. Vroom, Elisha Walton, James Hedden, Samuel French, Eleazar Hand.
THAT, in the Opinion of your Committee, the Prayer of the faid Petitioner ought not to be granted. By Order of the Committee,
ROBERT STOCKTON. - To which the Houfe agreed.
The Bill, intitled, * A Supplement to an Ad, intitled, " An A& to enable the " Inhabitants of certain Towns and Townfhips, to repair their publick High- " Hire," the ways by with Amendments made thereto by Council, was read a fecond Time, the Amendments agreed to, and ordered to be re-engrofTed. The Bill, intitled, ' An Aft concerning Wills,' was read a fecond Time, and ordered a third Reading. Petition from the The Direaors of the Bridge now ere&ing over the River Paffaick, praying that Commimoners may be appointed to lay out a Road to the faid Bridge in fuch a Manner as may be moft ufeful to the Publick, from Hack- infack River through the Cedar Swamp, was read a fecond Time. Ordered, That the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill, on the fecond Thurfday of the next Sitting of the Legiflature, to anfwer the Prayer of their Petition, they previoufly advertifing the Purport of the Bill they mean to prefent, in at leaft three of the molt publick Places in the Neighbourhood where fuch Road is intended to be laid, and in the Newfpaper printed in Newark, at leaft three Weeks previous thereto.
The Houfe adjourned until Monday Morning ten of the Clock.
Monday, ( 68 )
"Monday, November 16, 1795.
The Koufe met.
Several Petitions from Inhabitants of Eflex and Morris, praying a Repeal of the Ad for breaking up the RearF near the little Falls in Pafiaick River, and dig- ging a Ditch or Canal through what is called the Long Meadow, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Report of Mr. Frazer, of the 14th Inftant, was read a fecond Time. A Motion was made to amend the faid Report by ftriking out the following
' ;' Words : and William Livingfton on the Queftion, Whether the Houfe agree to the faid Amendment ? It was carried in the Affirmative. A Motion was made to amend the faid Report by ftriking out the following
Words : excepting Andrew G. Frounces, who in our Opinion do not appear in Jo fa- vourable to a Light as be liberated by the Legijlature ; on the Queftion, Whether the Houfe agree to the faid Amendment? It was carried in the Affirmative:
On the Queftion, Whether the Houfe agree to the faid Report as amended ? It was carried in the Affirmative ; whereupon, Ordered, That Meffrs. Frazer, Vredenburgh and Starke, be a Committee to bring in a Bill in Conformity with the faid Report.
Mr. Wade, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill, intitled, c An ' Act for the Support of the Government of the State of New-Jerfey,' reported the fame with fundry Amendments, which being further amended in the Houfe, was ordered to be engroffed.
The Report of Mr. D. Vroom, from the Committee appointed to join the Committee of Council, for the Purpofe of fettling the Treasurer's Accounts, was read a fecond Time, and agreed to.
The re-engroffed Bill, intitled, * A Supplement to an Ad, intitled, " An Ad " to enable the Inhabitants of certain Towns and Townfhips to repair their " publick Highways by Hire," was read and compared, Refolved unanimoiijly, That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Peck do carry the faid Bill to Council, and inform them that the fame is pafTed by this Houfe with their Amendments.
Mr. Sinnickfon, from Council, prefented a Bill, intitled, ' An Ad to enable * the Owners and Poffeffors of a Trad of Marfh and Meadow, lying in the Fork ' of Salem Creek, in Mannington, in the County of Salem, to uphold and main- * tain the Bank, Sluices and Waterworks, and more effcdually to improve the ' fame ;' to which he requefted the Concurrence of this Houfe.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Frazer, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Ad to * regulate the Secretary's Office and the Prerogative Office in this State, and for * the faithful Execution of the fame ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Peck reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe. The ( 69 )
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act concerning Wills,' was read a third Timej Rejolved unan'nnoitfly, That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Sharps do carry the faid Bill to Council for Concurrence. Mr. Seeley reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to appoint Truftees to fell the real Eftate of John 4 Imlay, late of Alexandria, in the County of Hunterdon, Efquire, deceafed, and * to difpofe of the Monies thence arifing, and for other Purpofes therein mention-
' ed,' was read a fecond Time ; whereupon, Ordered, That the faid Bill be referred to the next Sitting, to be read on the firft Friday of the next Sitting, on previouily advertifing the Purport of the faid Bill, with a Copy of this Order, in two of the Newlpapers of this State, and in four publick Places in the Neighbourhood, where the Fremifes doth principally lie, for the Space of fix Weeks previous thereto.
Mr. Whillden, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had appointed Mr. Elmer a Committee to join the Committee of the Houfe of Affembly, for the Purpofe of fettling the Accounts of Benjamin Smith, Efq. Commiffioner, appoint- ed by Law, for building an Office for the Secretary and Clerk of the Supreme Court.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock;
Tuefday, November ij, 1795*
The Houfe met.
Mr. Boyd, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Payment of Part of the Principal and Intereft of the State Debt,' re* ported the fame with fundry Amendments ; which Bill was read, and the further Confideration thereof poftponed. The Report of James Mott, Treafurer, and Aaron Dunham, Auditor, dating the particular Certificates and their Amount, received by tlierri, agreeably to the Refolution of the Legiflature of the laft Seffion, was read a fecond Time^ and com- mitted to Meffrs. Wade, Biddle and D. Vroom.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Aft to regulate the Secretary's Office and the Preroga- « dye Office in this State, and for the faithful Execution of the fame,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engroffed.
Agreeably to the Order of the Day, Mr. Vredenburgh, in Behalf of the Petiti- oners, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An A& for dividing the Town- * fhip of Windfor, in the County of Middlefex, into two feparate Townfhips ;' whereupon, the Speaker laid before the Houfe a Petition from a confiderable Number of the Inhabitants of the faid Townfhip, praying that the faid Bill may be referred to the next Seffion, that the faid Townfhip may in Town-Meeting de- termine whether they could wifh the Townfhip divided or not ; which was read, and the Parties attending were heard, and after fome Time fpent thereon,
Ordere 1, That the further Confideration thereof be poftponed. Mr. Cooper, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had concurred in the Warrant in Favour of Elizabeth Rue for Half-pay, in Lieu of one former- ly granted. S The :
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The Houfe adjourned to three o' Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Stockton, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of Peter Brocaw, Reported, THAT your Committee are of Opinion, that the Petitioner is entitled to the Prayer of his Petition, fo far as it relates to the Depreciation of his Pay. By Order of the Committee, ROBERT STOCKTON.
Ordered, That the faid Report be read a fecond Time. Mr. Dayton, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of a Number of Officers and Soldiers, who went on the late Expedition in the Wef- tern Counties of Pennfylvania, Reported, A T the faid Petitioners appears to be entitled to legislative Interference, TH fpecial Provifion made, by which Relief can be but as there has been no had, your Committee are induced to recommend that the faid Petitions be refer- red to the next Sitting of the Legislature. By Order of the Committee, ELIAS DAYTON. To which the Houfe agreed. Ordered, That the faid Petitions be referred to the next Sitting. The Houfe refumed the Consideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for divid- « ing the Townfhip of Windfor, in the County of Middlefex, into two feparate
« Townihips \ and after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the faid Bill be referred to be read a fecond Time on the firft Thurfday of the next Sitting, at which Time the Parties, for and againft the faid Bill, may be heard before the Houfe Should they apply for that Purpofe. A Petition from Jofeph Reading, Efq. of the County of Hunterdon, was read, and committed to MeSTrs. Boyd, Van-Clcve and Manning, to report thereon.
The Papers in the Report of unfinished Bufinefs, marked No. 1 1 , was read,
with fundry other Petitions on the fame Subject, was alfo read ; whereupon, Mr. Morgan, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' A Sup- ' plement to the feveral Acts relative to Elections in this State ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The engroSTed Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Support of Government of the
' State of New-Jerfey,' was read and compared ; on the Queftion, Whether the
fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows
Yeas. ( 7' )
Yeas. ( 7* ) on Whippany River above Green's and Alling's Griftmill, into fome other Place on faid River below the Bridge before Benjamin Johnfton's Houfe, was read. Ordered, That the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Pray- er of their Petition on the fecond Tuefday of the next Sitting, they previoully adverrifing the Purport of the Bill they mean to prefent, with a Copy of this Order, in three of the mod publick Places in the Townfhip of Hanover, in the County of Morris, and alfo in the Newfpapers of Elizabeth-Town and New- ark, for at leaft three Weeks previous thereto.
The Bill, intitled, • An Act to enable the Owners and PofTefTors of a Tract of ' Marfh and Meadow, lying in the Fork of Salem Creek, in Mannington, in the * County of Salem, to uphold and maintain the Banks, Sluices and Waterworks, * and more effectually to improve the fame,' was read a fecond Time. Ordered, That the faid Bill be referred to the next Sitting, and that the Pe- titioners in Favour of the faid Bill do advertife the Subftance of the faid Bill in three of the mofl publick Places in the Townfhip of Mannington in the County of Salem, and that the fame is before this Houfe to be taken up and confidered on a fecond Reading the fecond Wednefday of the next Sitting, and that if any Objection is offered to the Paffing of the faid Bill the fame will be heard.
Mr. Lambert, from Council, informed the Houfe that the Bill, intitled, ' An * Act to empower the Council of Proprietors of the Eaftern Divifion of New- * Jerfey to difpofe of the Lots and Parts of Lots that remain undrawn in the late * Divifion of Ramapoch,' is paffed by Council without Amendment.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
Mr. M'Cullough returned and took his Seat.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to extend an Act, intitled, " An Act for the Relief " of Perfons imprifoned for Debt," was read a fecond Time, and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the faid Bill be poflponed.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Thurfday, November 19, 1 795.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Dayton, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill, intitled, * An Act for procuring a more equal Reprefentation in the feveral Counties of * Hunterdon, Burlington, • Cumberland and Cape-May, in the Ge- ' neral Affembly of this State,' reported the fame with fundry Amendments and
' the following Title : An Act for procuring a more equal Reprefentation in the * feveral Counties of Hunterdon, Burlington, Effex, Monmouth, Cumberland 1 and Cape-May, in the General Affembly of this State,' which Bill was read and
debated ; on the Queflion, Whether the Houfe agree to the Section of the faid Bdl It ? was carried in the Negative, as follows :
Yeas. ( 73 )
Yeas. Nays. Nays. Mr. Armftreng, Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Starke, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Imlay, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Thomf'on, Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. Clement, Mr. Rn. Townfend, Mr. Manning, Mr. Debow, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Morgan, Mr. French, Mr. Wallace. Mr. Sharps, Mr. Hand, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Hough, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. Peck, Mr. Wade, Mr. Sinnickfon, Mr. Walton, Mr. Somers, Mr. Wyckoff. Mr. Southard, Ordered, That the laid Bill be difmiiTed.
Mr. Imlay, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petitions from Monmouth of the 13th Inftant, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An * Act to authorize and direct an Affeffment on the Inhabitants of the Townfhip « of Shrewfbury, in the County of Monmouth, for the Purpofes therein mention- ' ed ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Van-Cleve, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Ac! « to direct the Treafurer to pay a certain Sum of Money to the CommifTioners * therein mentioned ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Imlay, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act for * procuring an accurate Map of the State ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. The Speaker laid before the Houfe a Bond given by James Mott, Efq. Trea-
furer, with Sureties for the faithful Execution of his Office, which was read : Refolded, That the Houfe approve of the faid Bond and Sureties. OrJered, That Mr. Somers do carry the faid Bond to Council with the above Refolution for Concurrence. Mr. Somers reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe. Mr. Wade, from the Committee to whom was referred the Report of James Mott and Aaron Dunham, Efqrs. relative to fundry Contractors and Surplus Certificates by them received, agreeably to a Refolution of the Legiflature of the twenty-firft Day of February lad, Reported, THAT the Certificates above alluded to are precluded from Payment by Reafon of the Holders thereof neglecting to bring in the fame for Renewal within the limited Time by Law ; but, as it appears to your Committee that the State have received Credit for the Amount of all fuch Claims with the United States, they are induced to recommend appointing a Commiflioner to receive all Certi- ficates contained in the faid Report, and to iffue new ones in Lieu thereof, payable in like Manner with thofe iffued by Silas Condict and Maflcell Ewing, Efqrs. Your Committee would further obferve, that they have carefully examined the Certi- ficates iffued by William White, late Collector for Oxford, in the County of Suf-
fex ; which Certificates appear to have been iffued in the lame iYianner with all T others :
( 74 ) others of that Defcription, and we know of no Reafon why any Preference ought to be given in the aforefaid Certificates. By Order of the Committee, JONAS WADE. Ordered, That the faid Report be read a fecond Time. A Petition from fundry Inhabitants of the Townfliip of Gloucefter, and a Pe- tition from fundry Inhabitants of the Townfliip of Deptford in the faid County, praying that a Law may pafs to direct the Bridge, commonly called and known by the Name of Clement's Bridge, acrofs Timber Creek, to be kept in Repair at the joint Expenfe of the faid Townlhips, were read. Ordered, That the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill on the fecond Friday of the next Sitting, to anfwer the Prayer of their Petition, they previoufly adver- tiling the Purport of the Bill they mean to prefent, with a Copy of this Order, in three of the mod publick Places in each of the faid Townlhips of Gloucefter and Deptford, for at leail three Weeks previous thereto.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Relief of Major Richard M'Donald,' was read a fecond Time, and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poftponed. Mr. Cook, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council approve of the Bond given by James Mott, Efq. Treafurer, with Sureties for the faithful Execu- tion of his Office. A Petition from fundry Inhabitants of the County of SufTex, praying that the Election Law may be fo altered, that the Voters at the General Election in faid County may be allowed to vote by Ballot, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
A Petition from Captain Nathaniel Porter, ftating a Demand againft the State, and praying Payment, was read, and committed to Meflrs. Southard, WyckofT and French, to report thereon.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
The Warrant of Half-Pay, in Favour of Elizabeth Collater, late Tomlin, was read and approved. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Southard do carry the faid Warrant to the Council for Concurrence. Mr. Southard reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The engrofled Bill, intitled, * An Act to regulate the Secretary's Office and * the Prerogative Office in this State, and for the faithful Execution of the fame,'
was read and compared ; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows
Yeas. ( 75 )
Yeas. Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Anderibn, Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Blacklidge Mr. Armltrong, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr, I ml ay, Mr. Clement, Mr. Peck, Mr. Rn. Townfend, Mr. Manning. Mr. Dayton, Mr. Sharps, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Debow, Mr. Sinnickfon, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Somers, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. French, Mr. Southard, Mr. Wade, Mr. Hand, Mr. Starke, Mr, Wallace, Mr. Hedden, Mr. Stillwell, Mr, Walton, Mr. Hough, Mr, WyckofF. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame Ordered, That Mr. Starke do carry the faid Bill to the Council for Con- currence.
Mr. Peck, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An addi- c tional Supplement to the A 61, intitled, " An A61 for organizing and training " the Militia of this State;" which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Van-Cleve, from the Committee appointed to join the Committee of Council for the Purpofe of fettling the Accounts of Benjamin Smith, Efq. Commiffioner, appointed for building an Office for the Secretary and Clerk of the Supreme Court, reported that they had examined the Accounts of the faid
Benjamin Smith and the Vouchers in Support of the fame, from No. i to No. 45, by which it appears that there is a Balance due to the faid Benjamin Smith, of the Stxm of One Hundred and Seventy-feven Pounds One Shilling and Eight- pence. Ordered, That the faid Report be read a fecond Time. A Petition from the Legatees of Abraham Hewlings the elder, deceafed, was read, praying that John Burr, Junior, and John Hofkins, Junior, may be ap- pointed by Law to take upon them the Execution of the Will of the faid Abra- ham Hewlings, deceafed, with the fame Powers as were granted therein by the Teftator to Abraham Hewlings, Jofeph Hewlings and James Kinfey, as his Ex- ecutors and Truftees. Ordered, That the faid Petition be read a fecond Time.
The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An A6t for the ' Relief of Major Richard M'Donald,' and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the faid Bill be difmifTed. The Petition of Reuben Culver, and the Petition of Jacob Arnold, read on the
1 2th Inftant, was read a fecond Time. Ordered, That the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Pray- er of their Petition.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Friday, November 20, 1795*
The Houfe met.
A Petition from William Smith, Lieutenant of Captain Carle's Company of Cavalry, : :
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Cavalry, was read, ftating that his Horfe, while in Service on the late Expedition to Pittsburgh, was taken fick and died in Confequence of the Fatigues of the Service. Ordered, That the faid Petition be referred to the next Sitting.
The engrofled Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Punifhment of Crimes,' was read and compared ; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Manning, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Biddlc, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Peck, Mr. Sharps, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Sinnickfon, Mr. Southard, Mr. Clement, Mr. Somers, Mr, Starke, Mr. Debow, Mr. Stillwell, Mr Stockton, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Van Cleve, Mr. French, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. Hand, Mr. Rn. Townfend, Mr. Wade. Mr. Hedden, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Wyckoff. Mr. Hough, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Imlay, Mr. Walton. Mr. M'Cullough, Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Stillwell do carry the faid Bill to the Council for Con- currence.
The Petition from the Legatees of Abraham Hewlings the elder, deceafed, read Yelterday, was read a fecond Time, and Leave given to the Petitioners to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Prayer of their Petition ; whereupon, Mr. Biddle prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act to constitute ' and appoint Truftees of the laft Will and Codicil of Abraham Hewlings, late 1 of the County of Burlington, deceafed, in the Room and Stead of the Truftees ' therein named ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. D. Vroom, agreeably to Leave given, prefented the Draught of a Bill, in- titled, * An AcT: for the Relief of Jacob Arnold, late Sheriff of the County of ' Morris ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. Southard, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of Captain Nathaniel Porter, reported as follows THAT they have examined the Facts fet forth in faid Petition, and find that they are well fubftantiated by the Documents accompanying the fame Your Committee are of Opinion that the Cafe of the Petitioner is peculiarly hard ; that his Claim is juft, and therefore ought to be granted. By Order of the Committee, HENRY SOUTHARD. Which Report was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. Stillwell reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to repeal two Acts herein mentioned,' was read a fecond Time, and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Consideration thereof be poftponed.
The engrofled Bill, intitled, ' An Act directing the Treafurer to pay to Levi ' Silvers ( 77 )
* Silvers Sixty-fix Pounds Nineteen Shillings and Nine-pence,' was read and com-
pared; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affir-
mative, as follows : Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Sinnickfon, Mr Boyd, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Somers, Mr Clement, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Southard, Mr, Hand, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Starke, Mr, Mayhew, Mr. Debow, Mr. Stillwell, Mr Peck, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Sharps, Mr. French, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Rd. Townfend. Mr. Hedden, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mj. Rn. Townfend. Mr. Hough, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr I ml ay, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr M'Cullough, Mr. Wallace, Mi- Manning, Mr. Walton, Mr Morgan, Mr. Wyckoff. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Stockton do carry the faid Bill to Council for Concurrence. The Bill, intitled, ' A Supplement to the feveral Acts relative to Elections in c this State,' was read a fecond Time, and referred to the next Sitting.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
The Report of Mr. Van-Cleve, from the Committee of Council and AfTembly, appointed to fettle the Accounts of Benjamin Smith, Efq. was read and agreed to.
The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act to repeal * two certain Acts herein mentioned ;' and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poftponed.
The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the * Payment of Part of the Principal and Intereft of the State Debt;' and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poftponed.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning nine of the Clock.
Saturday, November 21, 1795.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Stockton reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
Mr. Van-Cleve, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, * An * Act to direct the Treafurer to pay a Sum of Money to Benjamin Smith; Com- * mifTioner ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to conftitute and appoint Trru frees of the laft Will ' and Codicil of Abraham Flewlings, late of the County of Burlington, deceafed, U in ( 7» )
read a fecond Time, ' in the Room and Stead of the Truftees therein named,' was debated, and ordered to be engroffed.
' certain The Bill, intitled, An Ad to direct the Treafurer to pay a Sum of ' Money to the Commiflioners therein mentioned,' was read a fecond Time, de- bated, and ordered to be engrolfed. Mr. Frazer, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of Samuel Pleafants, of the City of Philadelphia, Reported", THAT they have duly confidered the fame and the Papers thereunto annex- ed, and find the Facts therein fet forth fully fubltantiated, and are of Opinion that the Petitioner have Leave to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Prayer of his Petition. By Order of the Committee, DAVID FRAZER. Ordered, That the faid Report be read a fecond Time.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An A 61 declaring who {hall be admitted Wit- ' netles, and what Judges mall fit on hearing of Caufes for the Recovery of * publick Monies from delinquent Officers and others,' was read and com- It pared ; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? was carried in the Ne- gatr ( 79 )
Ordered, That the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill the firft Saturday of the next Sitting, in Order to anfwer the Prayer of their Petition, with advertising the Purport of the Bill they mean to prefent, with a Copy of this Order, in three or the moil publick Places in the Neighbourhood at leafl two Weeks previous thereto.
The engrofTed Bill, intitled, * An Act to conftitute and appoint Truflees of the ' lafl Will and Codicil of Abraham Hewlings, Senior, late of the County of Bur- ' lington, deceafed, in the Room and Stead of the Truflees therein named,' was read and compared. Refolvcd unanimoujly, That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Thomfon do carry the faid Bill to the Council for Con- currence. Mr. Thomfon reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, * An Act to extend ;" 1 an Act, intitled, " An Act for the Relief of Perfons imprifoned for Debt and, after having gone through the faid Bill, Ordered, That the fame be engrofTed.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to direct the Treafurer to pay a certain Sum of Money to Benjamin Smith, Commiflioner,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engrofTed.
Mr. Elmer, from Council, returned the Bill, intitled, * An Act to regulate the * S cretary and the Prerogative Office in this State, and for the faithful Execu- * tion of the fame,' with fundry Amendments made thereto by Council, to which he requefted the Concurrence of this Houfe. Which Bill with the Amendments were read, and the Amendments being read in their Places ; on the Queflion, Whether the Houfe agree to the follow- ing Amendment as the fourth Section to the Bill ? It was carried in the Affir- mative. Section 4. Attd be it Enabled by the Authority afore/aid, That the Secretary and Regifter of the Prerogative Office fhall be, and he hereby is directed and required, with all convenient Speed, legibly and fairly, to record all Papers which fhall come to his Hands, and which it may appertain to his Office to record, and alfo to file and depofit fuch Papers in faid Offices, agreeably to Law ; and he is further directed and required, without being entitled to any Fees for fo doing, to record all Letters of Adminiflration, Wills and other Papers which have been depofited in faid Offices, fince the fecond Day of July, in the Year of our Lord One Thou- fand Seven Hundred and Seventy-fix, and now remain in faid Offices unrecorded, and to file and depofit the fame as aforefaid.
On which the Yeas and Nays being required, they were as follows :
Yeas. ( 8o )
Yeas. ( 8i ) ( 8* )
Yeas. ( «3 )
Mr. Stillwell, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill, intitled, ' An * Act for the Payment of Part of the Principal and Interetl of the State Debt,' re-
ported the fame with fundry Amendments ; which Bill was read, further amend- ed in the Houfe, and ordered to be engrofTed.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to authorize and direct an AfTeiTment on the (nha- * bitants of the Townfhip of Shrewfbury, in the County of Monmouth, for the ' Purpofes therein mentioned,' was read a fecond Time, debated and ordered to be engrofTed. The Members withdrew to attend a Joint-Meeting, and being returned, the Speaker refumed the Chair, and then the Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Tuefday, November 24, 1795.
The Houfe met.
A Petition from James Weftervelt, of the County of Bergen, praying Leave to prefent a Bill to direct the Sheriff of Bergen to pay him the Amount of a Fine impofed upon Aury King for felonioully taking a Horfe from the Petition- er, and for which, on Account of the Infolvency of the faid Aury King, he can- not recover in any other way to fatisfy him for the Lofs of his Horfe, was read, Ordered, That the Petitioner have Leave to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Prayer of his Petition.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to repeal two certain Acts herein mentioned,' was read a fecond Time, debated and ordered to be engrofTed. The Petition from fundry Inhabitants of EfTex and Morris, read on the 16th Inflant, praying Leave to prefent a Bill to repeal the Act palfed for the Purpofe of breaking up the ReafF near the Little Falls, in Paffaick River, and digging a Ditch or Canal through what is called the Long Meadow at Horfe-Neck, was read a fecond Time, with the Petition from Morris, read on the 1 ith Inflant, and the Petitions from Lucus Vanbeverhoud were alfo read. Ordered, That the firft mentioned Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill on the fecond Tuefday of the next Sitting, they previoufly advertising the Purport of the Bill they mean to prefent with a Copy of this Order in three of the molt publick Places in the Neighbourhood, where the Canal is to be cut, for ar kail three Weeks previous thereto, and alfo for the fame Length of Time in the News- papers printed at Newark and Elizabeth Town.
Mr. Beardflee, from Council, prefented a Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the fafe * keeping of the Records and other Papers appertaining to the Office of Ckrk of ' the County of Salem,' to this which he requefted the Concurrence of Houle ; which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Beardflee, from Council, prefented the following Refolution for Concur- rence : 4 Rtfolvet!, 1 r £ 'HAT Ifaac Collins be directed to ftrike off fixty Copies of the Bill, in- ' f_ titled, " An Act for the Punifhment of Crimes," and that the Legiflatu.e
' ] ovide for defraying the Expenfe thereof. Which, Rclolution was read. Refo/ved, ( 84 )
Refolvcd, That this Houfe do concur therein. Ordered, That Mr. Walton do wait on the Council, and acquaint them there- with. Mr. Haring, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had pafTcd the Bill, intitled, ' An Act directing the Treafurer to pay a certain Sum of Money 4 to Benjamin Smith, CommilTioncr, therein named,' without Amendment.
The engrofTed Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Payment of Part of the Principal
* and Interell of the State Debt,' was read and compared ; on the Queftion, Whe- ther the fame do pais i It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : Yeas. Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Anderfon, Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Hough, Mr. Armftrong, Mr. Manning, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Walton. Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Rn. Townfend, Mr. Clement, Mr.- Peck, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Somers, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Debow, Mr. Southard, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. French, Mr. Starke, Mr. Wade, Mr. Hedden, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. WyckofF. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame.
Orderedy That Mr. Day ton do carry the faid Bill to the Council for Concur- rence.
The Houfe adjourned to three o' Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Dayton reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the fafe keeping of the Records and other Pa- ' pers appertaining to the Office of Clerk of the County of Salem,' was read a fe- cond Time, and ordered a third Reading. Mr. Walton reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
Mr. Condit, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had pafTed the Bill, intitled, ' An Act directing the Treafurer to pay a certain Sum of Money 1 to the Commiffioners therein mentioned,' without Amendment.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the fafe keeping of the Records and other Pa- ' pers appertaining to the Office of Clerk of the County of Salem,' was read a third Time. Rcfolved unanimoujly, That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Wallace do carry the faid Bill to the Council, and inform them that the fame is palled by this Houfe without Amendment.
The engrofTed Bill, intitled, ' An Act to authorize and direct an AfTeffment on ; the Inhabitants of the Townfhip of Shrewfbury, in the County of Monmouth, for the Pupofes therein mentioned,' was read and compared ; on the Question, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows :
Yeas. :
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Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Sinnickfon, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Armflrong, Mr. Somers, Mr. Clement, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Southard, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Starke, Mr. French, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. Hand, Mr. Debow, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Hedden, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Peck, Mr. Hough, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Imlay, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. Rn. Townfend, Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. Wade, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Manning, Mr. Walton, Mr. Wallace. Mr. Morgan, Mr. Wyckoff. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered^ That Mr. Wyckoff do carry the faid Bill to the Council for Con- currence. Mr. Wallace reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, * An Ad for the Relief of Jacob Arnold, late She- c riff the Morris,' of County of was read and compared ; on the Queftion, Whe- ther the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : Yeas. Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Imlay, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Armflrong, Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Hough, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Manning, Mr. Rn. Townfend, Mr. Peck. Mr. Boyd, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Clement, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Sinnickfon, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. Debow, Mr. Somers, Mr. Wade, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Southard, Mr. Wallace, Mr. French, Mr. Starke, Mr. Walton, Mr. Hand, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. Wyckoff. Mr. Hedden, Mr. Stockton, Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Anderfon do carry the faid Bill to the Council for Con- currence. Mr. Anderfon reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe. The engroffed Bill, intitled, * An Adl to repeal two certain Acls therein men- * tioned,' was read and compared ; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Somers, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Armftrong, Mr. Southard, Mr. Clement, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Starke, Mr. French, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. Hough, Mr. Debow, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Imlay, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Hand, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Peck, Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Manning, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. Rn. Townfend, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Wade, Mr. Wallace. Mr. Sharps, Mr. Walton, Mr, Sinnickfon, Mr. Wyckoff. Ordered, Y ( 86 )
Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. " Ordered, That Mr. Armftrong do carry the faid Bill to the Council for Con- currence.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Ad for defraying Incidental Charges/ was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engroffed. Mr. Armftrong reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe. Mr. Wyckoff reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe. Mr. Martin, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had paffed the Bill, intitled, ' An Ad for the Support of Government of the State of New- ' Jerfey.'
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning eight of the Clock.
Wednesday, November 25, 1795.
The Houfe met.
The engrofled Bill, intitled, * An Ad for defraying fundry Incidental Charges/ was read and compared.
Rejolved unan'imoujly , That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Biddle do carry the faid Bill to the Council for Concurrence. A Petition from fundry Inhabitants of the County of Somerfet, fetting forth Inconveniencies arifing in Proceedings on the general Road Law, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Linn, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had paffed the Bill, intitled, * An Ad for defraying fundry Incidental Charges,' without Amendment.
Mr. Linn alfb informed the Houfe, that Council had pafied the Bill, intitled, ' An Ad for the Relief of Jacob Arnold, late Sheriff of the County of Morris,* without Amendment.
The Houfe adjourned until the firfl Wednefday in February next. "
* " V O T E S AND PROCEEDINGS
OF THE TWENTIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY STATEOF THE
O F NETV-JERSET,
At a SESSION begun at Trenton on the 27th Day of OSlober 1795, an(^ continued by Adjournments.
BEING THE SECOND SITTING.
TRENTON: PRINTED BY ISAAC COLLINS. M.DCC.XCVI. 6
VOTES( 3 ) AND PROCEEDINGS
OF THE TWENTIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE
State of New-Jersey.
TRENTON, Wednefday, Februarys 1796.
THIS being the Time to which the Houfe flood adjourned, a Quorum of Members met, and adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Thurfday, Februarys 1796.
The Houfe met.
John Haring, Efq. returned as one of the Reprefcntatives for the County of Bergen, appeared in the Houfe, and produced the Certificate of his Election, which was read, approved and ordered to be filed j whereupon, being duly fworn by the Speaker, he took his Seat. Ordered, That Mr. Blacklidge do wait on the Council, and acquaint them that a fufficient Number of Members of this Houfe have met, and proceeded to Bufinefs. Mr. ( 4 )
Mr. Haring, from Council, informed the Houfe that a fufficient Number of Members of Council have met, and proceeded to Buiinefs. Sundry Petitions from Perfons confined for Debt were read, praying the Be- nefit of an Act of Inlblvency. Ordered, That they be committed to MefTrs. Van-Cleve, Haring and Biddle.
Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for dividing * the Townihip of Windfor, in the County of Middlefex, into two feparate Town- ' fhips,' was read a fecond Time, and the Parties for and againft the Paffmg of the Bill were heard before the Houfe, and after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Consideration thereof be poitponed.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Blacklidge reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The Speaker laid before the Houfe a Letter from the Secretary of the State, accompanied with a Statement of the Wills, Letters of Administration and Guar- dianship, remaining in the Prerogative Office of New-Jerfey, not recorded, up to the End of the Year 1795, by which it appears that there is 736 Wills, 652 Let- ters of Administration and 201 Guardianlhips ; which Letter and Statement were read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
The Houfe refumed the Consideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for divid- ' ing the Townfhip of Windfor, in the County of Middlefex, into two feparate Townfhips,' and after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the fame be committed to MefTrs. Imlay, Boyd and Manning.
The Speaker laid before the Houfe a Letter from the Honourable William Paterfon, Efq. appointed by Law to revife and digeft the Laws of the State, ac- companied with the following Bills.
1. An Act giving Relief to Creditors where Prifoners for Debt efcape or die.
2. An Act refpecting Coroners.
3. An Act concerning the Supreme and Circuit Courts.
4. An Act concerning Sheriffs.
5. An Act constituting Courts for the Trial of fmall Caufes.
The Bill firft mentioned was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act refpecting Coroners,' was read, and ordered a fe- cond Reading.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Friday, February 5, 1796.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Imlay, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill, intitled, c An * Act for dividing the Townfhip of Windfor, in the County of Middlefex, into * two ( 5 )
* two feparate Townihips,' reported the fame with fuiidry Amendments ; which Bill was read, debated, and ordered to be engrolTed.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act concerning the Supreme and Circuit Courts,' pre- fented by Mr. Paterfon, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. A Petition from Hannah Henry, late Hannah Demun, and Widow of Major Edward Demun, who died in the Service of the United States, accompanied with an Adjudication of the Court of General Quarter Seffions of the Peace of the County of Hunterdon, allowing her the Half-Pay of her late Hufband during the Time flic wac the Widow of the faid Edward Demun, was read, and com- mitted to Meffrs. Frazer, Clement, Imlay, Hedden and Mayhew.
Agreeably to theOrder of the Day, the Bill, intitled, ' An Act to appoint Truf- * tees to fell the real Eftate of John Imlay, late of Alexandria, in the County of ' Hunterdon, Efq. deceafed, and to difpofe of the Monies thence arifing, and for * other Purpofes therein mentioned,' was read a fecond Time, and it appearing that the Petitioners have given publick Notice agreeably to the Order of the Houfe, Ordered, That the faid Bill be engroffed.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act concerning Sheriffs,' prefented by Mr. Paterfon, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act confUtuting Courts for the Trial of fmall Caufes,' prefented by Mr. Paterfon, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
Ordered, That the Clerk be directed to caufe to be printed a fufficient Num- ber of the two lafl mentioned Bills, and the Bill, intitled, ' An Act concerning * the Supreme and Circuit Courts,' for the Ufe of the Houfe.
The Bill, intitled, * An Act giving Relief to Creditors where Prifoners for * Debt efcape or die,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engrolfed.
The Petitions from different Officers and Soldiers who were out on the Expedition in the weftern Counties of Pennfylvania, and which were reported on by Mr. Dayton on the feventeenth of November lafl, and referred to this Sitting, were taken up and committed to Meffrs. Dayton, Southard, Starke, Anderfon and D. Vroom.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Saturday, February 6, 1796.
The Houfe met.
A Certificate of Half-Pay, adjudged by the Court of General Quarter Seffions of the Peace of the County of Morris, in Favour of Theodofia Ford, Widow of Colonel Jacob Ford, late of the County of Morris, and who died in the Service of the United States, was read, and committed to Meffrs. Frazer, Clement, Iniia; , Hedden and Mayhew. B A Certifier ;
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A Certificate of Half-Pay, adjudged by the Court of General Quarter Seflions of the Peace of the County of EfTex, in Favour of Elizabeth Henderfon, late Widow of Samuel Roberts, who was a Soldier of this State, and who was killed in the Service of the United States, was read, and committed to the lad men- tioned Committee. The Petition from the County of Somerfet, read on the twenty-fifth of No- vember laft, was read a fecond Time, and committed to Melfrs. Stillwell, D. Vroom and Hough. A Petition from the Truftees of the firft Prefbyterian Church in Hardy flon in the County of SufTex, praying the Benefit of a Lottery, was read, and difmifTed.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act to appoint Truflees to fell the real Eftate * of John Imlay, late of Alexandria, in the County of Hunterdon, Efq. deceafed, * and to difpofe of the Monies thence arifing, and for other Purpofes therein * mentioned,' was read and compared ; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do
pafs ; It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Somers, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Armftrong, Mr. Southard, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Clement, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Debow, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Hand, Mr. French, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Haring, Mr. Hedden, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Imlay, Mr. Hough, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. D- Vroom, Mr. Seeley, Mr. Manning, Mr. Wade, Mr. Starke, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Walton, Mr. Rn. Tovvnrend, Mr. Sharps, Mr. Wyckoff. Mr. Wallace. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Boyd do carry to Council the faid Bill for Concurrence
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for procuring an accurate Map of the State,' was
read a fecond Time ; and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poflponed.
The Houfe adjourned to three o' Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act reflecting Coroners,' was read a fecond Time and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poflponed. Mr. Boyd reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe. Mr. Mayhew, agreeably to Leave given, and in Behalf of the Petitioners, pre- ferred the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act to enable the Owners and Pof- * feffors of Meadows therein mentioned, to repair, keep up and maintain the * Banks, Dams and Waterworks enclofing the fame, and for other Purpofes ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Petition from fundry Merchants of the County of EfTex, praying that the Legiflature would pafs a Law to prohibit the Practice of Peddling, was read a fecond Time, and committed to MefTrs. Walton, Wade and Wallace. The
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The Houfe adjourned until Monday Morning ten of the Clock.
Monday, February 8, 1796.
The Houfe met.
A Petition from fundry Inhabitants of the Townfhip of Dover, in the County of Monmouth, praying the Benefit of a Lottery to enable them to erect a Church in that Townlhip, was read and difmiffed. Two Petitions from fundry Inhabitants of Windfor, in the County of Middle- fex, praying that a Law may pafs to authorize them to repair their High- ways by Hire, and raife Money for that Purpofe, were read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to make Titles to certain Iflands in the Delaware,' was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Houfe refumed the Confederation of the Bill, intitled, * An Act for the c better Relief and Employment of the Poor ;' and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Or.'ered, That the Clerk be directed to caufe to be printed a fufEcient Number of Copies of the faid Bill for the Ufe of the Houfe.
Mr. Biddle, agreeably to Leave given, and in Behalf of the Petitioner?, pre- fented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' A fupplementary Act to the Act, intitled, " An Act to empower the Governor of this State to incorporate a Company to " improve the Navigation of the North Branch of Rancocus Creek ;" which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to incorporate the Stockholders of the Bridges over * the Rivers Paflaick and Hackinfack,' was read a fecond Time j and, after ibme Time fpent thereon, Ordered^ That the further Consideration thereof be poflponed.
The Houfe adjourned to three o' Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
A Petition from Jacob Van-Houten, of the County of Bergen, praying that he may be paid a Sum of Money for his Services as a Militia Man, for which he once had a Certificate from Peter Wilfon, Efq. and which Certificate was de- ftroyed by Fire, was read, and committed to Meflrs. Haring, Morgan, and Hand, to report thereon.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to enable the Owners and PofTeiTors of Meadows * therein mentioned, to repair, keep up and maintain the Banks, Dams and 1 Waterworks enclofing the fame, and for other Purpofes,' was read a fecond.
Time ; and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordtred, That the further Consideration thereof be poflponed.
The Houfe refumed the Consideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An Acl reflecting 1 Coroners ;' and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the faid Bill be committed to MefTrs. Anderfon, Vrcdenburgh ar.a Reuben Townfend. The ( 8 )
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to make Titles to certain Iilands in the Delaware,' was read a fecond Time, and committed to Meflrs. Imlay, Boyd, Southard, M'Cullough and Biddle,
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock,
Tuefday, February 9, 1796.
The Houfe met.
A Petition from Jacobus Poft, dating a Demand againft the State, and praying Payment, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act for dividing the Townfhip of Windfor, * in the County of Middlefex, into two feparate Townfliips,' was read and com- pared ; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affir- mative, as follows : Yeas. Mr. Imlay, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Seelev, Mr. Sharps, Mr. Somers, Mr. Starke, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Wade, Mr. Wyckoff. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Clement do carry the faid Bill to the Council for Con- currence.
Mr. Biddle, agreeably to Leave given, and in Behalf of the Petitioners, pre- fented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, * An Act to authorize Jofeph Shinn, Ad- * miniltrator of the Eftate of Thomas Allen, deceafed, late of the County of Bur- c lington, to make a Deed of Conveyance unto Daniel Joice, of the County ' aforefaid, for a certain Plantation fituate in the Townfhip of Northampton, * agreeably to a Contract entered into by the faid Allen and Joice, under their ' Hands and Seals ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Houfe refumed the Confederation of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act to incor- c porate the Stockholders of the Bridges over the Rivers Paffaick and Hackinfack;' and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the faid Bill be committed to Meflrs, Southard, Wade and Stockton.
The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, * An Act to enable ' the Owners and Pofleflbrs of Meadows therein mentioned, to repair, keep up ' and maintain the Banks, Dams and Waterworks enclofing the fame, and for * other Purpofes ;' and, after having gone through the faid Bill, Ordered, That the fame be engrolfed. ( 9 )
The Houfe met.
Mr. Walton, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petitions of fun- dry Inhabitants in the County of Effex, praying Relief againft Hawkers and
Pedlars, reported as follows : THAT, in the Opinion of your Committee, the Laws of this State, now in Ex- iftence, are fully adequate to the Purpofe of affording the Relief prayed for. By Order of the Committee, ELISHA WALTON. To which the Houfe agreed. Ordered, That the Petitions be difmiffed.
Mr. Southard, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill, intitled, * An Act to incorporate the Stockholders of the Bridges over the Rivers Paffaick c and Hackinfack,' reported the fame with fundry Amendments, which Bill as amended was read, and being further amended in the Houfe, was ordered to be engroffed.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Wednefday, February 10, 1796.
The Houfe met*
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act giving Relief to Creditors, where Prifon- * ers for Debt efcape or die,' was read and compared.
Re/blved unanimoujly , That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Dayton do carry the faid Bill to the Council for Concur- rence.
The Bill, intitled, c A fupplementary Act to the Act, intitled, " An Act to " empower the Governor of this State to incorporate a Company to improve the " Navigation of the north Branch of Rancocus Creek," was read a fecond Time, and ordered to be engroffed.
Mr. Imlay, agreeably to Leave given, and in Behalf of the Petitioners, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act providing for the Reftoration of certain * Records of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Mon- * mouth, which have been loft, embezzled or deftroyed,' which Bill was read and ordered a fecond Reading on Tuefday the 23d Inftant, with the Petition in Op- pofition thereto.
Mr. Condit, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council have rejected the Bill, intitled, ' An Act to repeal two certain Acts therein mentioned.' The Petition from the Stage Proprietors, read on the eighteenth of November laft, was read a fecond Time, and committed to Meffrs. D. Vroom, Hough and Blacklidge.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
The Speaker laid before the Houfe, a Statement of the Property and Funds C of ( io ) of the Corporation of the Rancocns Toll-Bridge Company, figned by William Coxe, Junior, their Treafurer, and made in Obedience to the Directions of the
Act of Incorporation ; whereupon, Ordered, That the fame be fded.
Agreeably to the Order of the Day, Mr. Wallace fhewed that the Order of the Houle of the eighteenth of November laft had been fully complied with; where- upon,
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to enable the Owners and PofTefTors of a Tract of ' Marih and Meadow, lying in the Fork of Salem Creek, in Manington, in the ' County of Salem, to uphold and maintain the Banks, Sluices and Waterworks, ' and more effectually to improve the fame,' was taken into Confederation, read by Paragraphs, and ordered a third Reading.
Mr. Haring, agreeably to Leave given, and in Behalf of the Petitioner, pre- fented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Relief of James Weiler- * velt,' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. Frazer, from the Committee to whom was referred the Adjudication of the General Court of Quarter Seffions of the Peace of the County of Eflex, for Half-Pay in Favour of Elizabeth Henderfon, late the Widow of Samuel Roberts, a Soldier in Captain Howell's Company of the firfl Regiment of New-Jerfey, re- ported as follows : THAT they have carefully examined the faid Adjudication and the Vouchers accompanying the fame, and are of Opinion, that the faid Elizabeth Hen- derfon is entitled to the Half-Pay of her former Hufband Samuel Roberts, during her Widowhood ; neverthelefs we are of Opinion, that the Length of Time of the Widowhood is not legally fubftantiated to our Satisfaction : It appears by fundry Certificates that Samuel Roberts, her late Hufband, was killed in the Bat- tle of Germantown, of which we have no Doubt, and it alfo appears by the Oath of her prefent Hufband Robert Henderfon, that ihe was married to the faid Robert Henderfon on the twenty-fourth Day of October, 1784, which Proof of her prefent Hufband, (who in our Opinion is an interefled Witnefs) is not the bed Evidence that the Cafe will admit of : All which is humbly fubmitted. By Order of the Committee, DAVID FRAZER. Ordered, That the faid Report be read a fecond Time.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to authorize Jofeph Shinn, Adminiflrator of the ' Eftate of Thomas Allen, deceafed, late of the County of Burlington, to make * a Deed of Conveyance unto Daniel Joice, of the County aforefaid, for a certain * Plantation fituate in the Townfhip of Northampton, agreeably to a Contract * entered into by the faid Allen and Joice, under their Hands and Seals,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engrofTed.
Mr. Peck attended and took his Seat.
The Houfe rcfumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act concern- * ing the Supreme and Circuit Courts,' and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the faid Bill be referred to Meffrs. Imlay, Haring, Anderfon, Wyckoff, Hand, Thomfon and Manning. Mr. Dayton reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Thurfday, ( » )
Thurfday, February 11, 1796.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Stillwell, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition from fundry Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County of Somerfet, Reported, T 1 g HAT, in the Opinion of your Committee, the Evil complained of in the _£_ faid Petition arifes from a Defect in the 10th Section of the Act, intitled, * An Act for regulating Roads and Bridges,' paffed the 1 ith of March, 1774, res- pecting the appointing of Overfeers of the Road, in Cafes where the faid Over- feers of the Road neglect or refufe to take upon them that Office. Your Committee therefore fubmit to the Houfe a Bill, intitled, ' A further ' Supplement to the Act, intitled, " An Act for regulating Roads and Bridges," to remedy the Evil complained of. By Order of the Committee, JOSEPH STILLWELL.
To which Report the Houfe agreed : Whereupon, The Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
A Petition from Elizabeth Dunham, late Elizabeth Horton, and her Llufband Benue Dunham, praying a Renewal of a Warrant of Half-Pay, granted to her as the Widow of Doctor Jonathan Horton, to authorize them to draw from the Treafurer the Amount of her late Hufband's Half-Pay for the Time flie remain- ed the Widow of Doctor Horton, with a Number of Vouchers to juftify their Claim, which were read and difmiffed. A Petition from the Freeholders, Overfeers of the Roads, and Inhabitants of the Townfhip of Morris, in the County of Morris, praying a Repeal of the Act directing their Roads to be repaired by Hire, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. Wade, agreeably to Leave given, and in Behalf of the Petitioners, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act to authorize the Commiffioners therein * named to lay out a Road leading from the Bridge at the Village of Second Ri- * ver, through the Cedar Swamp, to the Bridge over the Hackinfack River,' which
Bill was read ; whereupon two Petitions were prefented in Oppofition to the palling the fame, and read, Ordered, That the faid Bill be committed to MefTrs. Boyd, Wade and Anderfon.
A Memorial and Petition from Samuel S. Smith, John Bayard, James F. Arm- ftrong, John Beatty, Andrew Hunter, Richard Stockton and Jofeph Bloomfield, a Committee of the Truftees of the College of New-Jerfey, reprefenting that the Funds of the College formerly amounted to £. 10,000 and upwards, and was loft in the War that eftablifhed the Independence of America ; its Buildings were greatly injured, being alternately ufed as Barracks and as Hofpitals ; its Library
and philofophical Apparatus were almoft wholly deftroyed ; the Truftees, there- fore, from a Deficiency of their Funds, folicit the Aid and Patronage of the Le-
gislature ; which being read, was ordered a fecond Reading.
The engrofled Bill, intitled, ' An Act to enable the Owners of a Tract of ' Marlh and Meadow, lying in the Fork of Salem Creek, in Mannington, in the ' County of Salem, to uphold and maintain the Banks, Sluices and Waterworks, ' and more effectually to improve the fame,' wao read and compared. Refolved ( a )
Refolved unanhnoujly, That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. that the Ordered, That Mr. Debow do wait on the Council, and acquaint them faid Bill is palled by this Houfe without Amendment. On Motion, excepted, at ten Refolved, That this Houfe will meet every Morning, Sundays o'Clock precifely, and continue fitting until two o'Clock in the Afternoon, except when the Houfe fhall order otherwife. The Memorial of the Committee of the Truflees of the New-Jerfey College be- ing read a fecond Time, was committed to Meffrs. Haring, Wade, Manning, Im- lay, Southard, Biddle, French, Mayhew, Rn. Townfend, Frazer, Starke, Peck and M'Cullough.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Friday, February 12, 1796.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Martin, from Council, delivered a Bill, intitled, ' An Ad to provide for c the Management of certain Meadows on Burlington Creek,' to which he re- quefled the Concurrence of this Houfe. Which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. Anderfon, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill, intitled, * An Act refpefting Coroners,' reported the fame with fundry Amendmencs, which Bill was read, and after fome time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration of the faid Bill be poftponed. Mr. Clement, agreeably to Leave given, and in Behalf of the Petitioners, pre- fented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act to empower the Inhabitants of 1 the Townfhip of Gloucefter and the Townfhip of Deptford, in the County of c Gloucefter, to rebuild and keep in Repair the Upper Bridge over Great Tim- * ber Creek,' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. D. Vroom, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of the Proprietors of Stages, which now run between Paules Hook and Philadelphia,
reported as follows : THAT they have examined the Petition to them referred, and are of Opinion that one fourth Part of the Money paid, during the laft Year, by each of the Line of Stages running the faid Road, be remitted, and fubmit a Bill to the Confideration of the Houfe, intitled, ' An Act directing the Treafurer to pay * certain Sums of Money to certain Stage Proprietors.' Which Report was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Ad for the Relief of James Weflervelt,' was read a fe- cond Time, debated, and ordered to be engroffed.
The Bill, intitled, * An additional Supplement to the Act, intitled, " An Act •* for organizing and training the Militia of this State," was read a fecond Time, and committed to Melfrs. Stillwell, Sharps and Richard Townfend.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act concerning the Cavalry,' was read a fecond Time, and after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, ( '3 )
Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be postponed.
The Houfe adjourned vintil To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Saturday, February 13, 1796.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Van-Cleve, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petitions of
Infolvent Debtors reported as follows : TH A T in their Opinion the Act pafTed the eighteenth Day of March laft, for the Relief of Perfons imprifoned for Debt, ought to be extended to all Debtors confined for Debt in any of the Gaols of this State. By Order of the Committee, BENJAMIN VAN-CLEVE. Which Report was read.
A Motion was made to ftrike out the Word all and infert the Word certain, to read certain Debtors ; on the Queflion, Whether the Houfe agree to the faid
Amendment ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : Yeas. ( H ) that Daniel Dayton and Daniel Sale, Securities for Jofeph Crane, Sheriff of the faid County, may be releafed from the Payment of a certain Sum of Money there- in mentioned, were read, and committed to Meflrs. Walton, Sinnicklbn and Hedden. A Petition from Jacob Parker, of the County of Salem, with fundry Papers and Documents accompanying the fame, fetting forth the Deflruction of the Tella- ment and lafl Will of Thomas Webber, of the County aforefaid, and praying Relief in the Premifes, was read, Ordered, That the Petitioner have Leave to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Prayer of the faid Petition. A Petition from William Drake, of Pifcataway, in the County of Middlefex, praying for Relief in the Premifes therein fet forth, was read, and ordered a fe- cond Reading.
The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act concern- ' ing the Cavalry.' On Motion, Several Sections were added to the Bill for organizing the Artillery, and the
' Title amended to read as follows : An Act concerning the Cavalry and Artillery.' Ordered, That the faid Bill be engroffed. Several Petitions from fundry Inhabitants of the County of Hunterdon, pray- ing that the Appointment of vlilitia Officers may be for a limited Time, were read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to provide for the Management of certain Meadows * on Burlington Creek,' was read a fecond Time, and ordered a third Reading. Mr. Haring, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of Jacob
Van-Houten, reported as follows : H^HAT, in the Opinion of your Committee, the Petitioner fhould be relieved, JL and that he fhould have Leave to prefent a Bill for that Purpofe. By Order of the Committee, JOHN HARING. Which Report was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. A Petition from Samuel Smith, of the County of Hunterdon, praying Compen- fation for fome Cartridge Boxes furnifhed Captain Geerhart, was read, and refer- red to the Committee on the Incidental Bill.
The Houfe adjourned until Monday Morning ten of the Clock.
Monday, February 15, 1796.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Haring, from the Committee to whom was referred the Memorial and Petition of a Committee of the Truftees of the College of New-Jerfey, reported
as follows : HAT it has been fatisfactorily reprefented to your Committee, by the Com- T mittee of the Truftees of the College of New-Jerfey, that the Funds of the College ( '5 )
College in the Year 1775 amounted to the Sum of £. 10,000, but that in Con- fequence of the Events which took Place during the late War, their Funds have been fo far diminifhed as to render it impracticable for the Truflees to pay the neceffarv Salaries of their ProfefTors and Tutors, and to make the neceflTary Re- pairs which the College fuftained during the late Revolution, by the Injuries done to the Building, its philofophical Apparatus and Library, and alfo to inca- pacitate the faid Tmftees to encounter fuch Expenfes as will render the Inftitu- tion more extenfively ufeful without pecuniary Aid from the Legiflature : Your Committee are therefore of the Opinion, that the Situation of the Funds of the College of New-Jerfey is fuch as to require the Aid, and juftify the Interfe- rence, of the Legiflature. By Order of the Committee, JOHN HARING. Which Report was read, whereupon, Ordered, T&at the faid Report be referred to a Committee of the whole Houfe. The Houfe accordingly went into a Committee of the whole Houfe, and Mr. Vredenburgh took the Chair of the Committee, and, after fome Time fpent on the faid Report, the Speaker refumed the Chair, and Mr. Vredenburgh, Chair- man of the Committee, reported, that the Committee had agreed to prefent the following Refolution, to wit, Rcfolved, That Six Hundred Pounds per Annum, of the Intereft which may hereafter arife and become due on the Loan Office Money now in Circulation, until the whole of the Loan Office Money be paid into the Treafury, be paid to the Truflees of the College of New-Jerfey, to be appropriated by the faid Truflees, in fuch Manner as lhall moft conduce to promote the Intereft of Science and Literature in the faid College.
Which Report and Refolution being read and confidered ; on the Queftion,
Whether the Houfe agree to the faid Report and Refolution ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Anderfon, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Armftrong, Mr. Wade, Mr. Debow, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Walton. Mr. Frazer, Mr. Boyd, Mr. French, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Having, Mr. Hand, Mr. Hough, Mr. Heddcn, Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. Imlay, Mr. Sharps, Mr. Manning, Mr. Somers, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Southard, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Starke, Mr. Peck, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. Seeley, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Sinnickfon, Mr. Rn. Townfend, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Wyckoff. Whereupon, Ordered, That Meflrs. Imlay, Anderfon and Van-Cleve, be a Committee to prepare and prefent a Bill in Conformity with the faid Report.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to provide for the Management of certain * Meadows on Burlington Creek,' was read a third Time. Refolved :
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Rcfolved unanhnonjly, That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Frazer do carry the faid Bill to Council, and acquaint them that the fame is paffed by this Houfe without Amendment.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' A Supplement to the Act, intitled, " An Act to empower the Governor of this State to incorporate a Company to improve the Navigation of the north Branch of Rancocus Creek," was read and compared. Rcfolved unanlmoujly, That the fame do pafs.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, * An Ad to authorize Jofeph Shinn, Adminiftrator * of the Eftate of Thomas Allen, deceafed, to complete a Contract made by the ' faid Allen in his Lifetime with Daniel Joice,' was read and compared. Refolved, That the fame do pafs.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act to incorporate the Stockholders of the * Bridges over the Rivers Paffaick and Hackinfack,' was read and compared ; on the Queflion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Peck, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Armftrong, Mr. Seeley, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Southard, Mr. French, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Haring, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Hand, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Sharps, Mr. Hedden, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Somers, Mr. Imlay, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. M-Cullough, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. Rn. Townfend, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Wade, Mr. Walton, Mr Manning, Mr. Wallace. Mr. Wyckoff. The engroffed Bill, intitled, * An Act to enable the Owners and PoffefTors of * Meadows therein mentioned, to repair, keep up and maintain the Banks, Dams * and Waterworks enclofing the fame, and for other Purpofes,' was read and compared,
Refolved unanimoujly , That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the faid feveral Bills. Ordered, That Mr. Frazer do carry the faid Bills to Council for Concurrence.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Relief of James Weflervelt,' was read and compared ; on the Queflion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Negative, as follows ( '7 )
The Houfe met.
Mr. Frazer reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe. Mr. Frazer, from the Committee to whom was referred the Adjudication of the General Court of Quarter Sefhons of the Peace of the County of Hunterdon in Favour of Hannah Henry, late the Widow of Edward Demund, Major in Colonel Hankinfon's Regiment of Militia of the County of Suffix, reported as
follows : HPHAT they have carefully examined the faid Adjudication, and Vouchers J^ accompanying the fame, and are of Opinion, that lhe is entitled to the Half-Pay of her late Hufband Edward Demund: Neverthelefs we are further of Opinion, that the Determination of her Widowhood is not fufiiciently fatis- factory, inafmuch as the fame is not proven upon the Oath of the Miiuiler or Juitice of the Peace, or other Perfon, that married her to her prefent Hulbaid Arthur Henry, or upon the Oath of any other Perfon prefent at faid Marriage; which Proof, upon Oath or Affirmation, we take to be abfolutely neceifary oa all
fuch Applications ; which we humbly fubmit. By Order of the Committee, DAVID FRAZER. Which Report was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. Imlay, from the Committee appointed for that Purpofe, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act concerning the College of New-Jerfey ;' which Bdl was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Petition from Matthias Allen, read on the thirteenth of November lu.fl, was read a fecond Time, and committed to Meffrs. Wade, Hough and Seeley.
The Bill, intitled, ' An AS. conftituting Courts for the Trial of fmall Caufes,' was read a fecond Time ; whereupon, Ordered, That the faid Bill be referred to a Committee of the whole Houfe.
The Houfe accordingly went into a Committee of the whole Houfe, and Mr. •
Van-Cleve took the Chair of the Committee ; and, after fome Time fnent thereon, the Speaker refumed the Chair, and Mr. Van-Cleve, Chairman of the Committee, reported that the Committee had made fome Progrefs in the Bill to them referred, and defired Leave to fit again. Ordered, That the faid Committee fit again To-morrow.
A Petition from Richard M'Donald, late Collector of the Townfhip of Bed- minfter, in the County of Somerfet, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
A Petition from the County of EfTex, praying an Alteration in the General Election Law, fo that their Election may be hereafter held in Towuihips, was read, and committed to Meffrs. Van-Cleve, M'Cnllough and Wallace. Agreeably to the Order of the Houfe of the eighteenth of November laf, on the Petition from the Owners and PorTefibrs of the Meadows on Black Brook, it appearing that the Petitioners have not complied w*th the Order of die Houle, Ordered^ That their Application be difmiifed, E A Petition ( >8 )
A Petition from fundry Owners of the Low Meadows on the Paflaick and Branches thereof, in Morris and Eifex Counties, with a Petition from Lucas Vanbeverhoudt, were read, praying a fupplementary Act to an A6t for draining the Meadows on the Pailaick and the Branches thereof, by cutting a Canal or Ditch through the Long Meadow, appointing three new Commiilioners to com- that the plete fuch Part of laid Canal or Ditch as is unfiniflied ; and Act may compel, under a Penalty, the Owners of faid Meadows to keep fuch Part of the laid Canal free and clear of all ObitxucYions as is oppofite to their Land. Ordered^ That the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Prayer of their Petition. A Petition from fundry Inhabitants of the County of Cumberland, praying that the Laws of the State may be fo altered as that common Cafes of Alfault and Battery may be tried and determined by a Juftice of the Peace, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Ordered^ That Mr, Hand have Leave of Ab fence during the Remainder of the prefent Sitting.
The Bill, intitled c An Act concerning the College of New-Jerfey,' was read a ftcond Time, debated, and ordered to be engrolfed.
Mr. Linn, from Council, prefented a Bill, intitled, ' An Act to authorize the * flowing of Boats in the publick Road at Cape Ifland, in the Lower Precinct of * the County of Cape-May,' to which he requefted the Concurrence of this
Houfe ; which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, inritled, ' An Act reflecting
' Coroners ;' and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered^ That the further Confideration thereof be pofeponed.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Tf^echiefclay, February 17, 1796.
The Houfe met.
The Petition from Richard M'Donald, of the County of Somerfet, ftating an Injury which he has fultained in Confequence of his having been a Collector of Taxes in the Townfhip of Bedminfter, in the faid County, and praying Relief, was read a fecond Time, and dilmilTed. The Report of Mr. Stockton on the Petition of Peter Brocaw of the feventeenth of November laft, was read a fecond Time, and agreed to. Ordered^ That the Petitioner have Leave to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Prayer of his Petition.
A Petition from Jofeph Salter and Joiiah Fofter, in Behalf of the Indian Natives, rcfiding at Brotherton, in the County of Burlington, praying that a Sup- plement may be made to the Act paffed the twelfth of Auguft 1758, appointing new Commiflioners to take Charge of the Lands and Mill at Brotherton, and let or leafe the fame for the Ufe and Benefit of the faid Indians or Natives, was read, and committed to Meffrs. Biddle, Mayhew, Blacklidge, Starke and Morgan. A Petition from Dorothy Crowell, of the County of Morris, praying that feven Years and a Half Intereft on the One-third of the Principal Sum due to the State on a Bond profecuted againft her by William Walton, whofe Eftatc was ( '9 ) was confiscated to and vefted in this State, may be remitted to her, was read, and committed to Meffrs. Southard, Debow and Armflrong.
The Houfe refumed the Conhderation of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act refpecting ' Coroners,' and, after having gone through the faid Bill, Ordered^ That the fame be engroifed.
The engroifed Bill, intitled, ' An Act concerning the College of New-Jerfey,' was read and compared ; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : ' ( *° )
Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Having do carry the faid Bill to the Council for Concur- rence. Mr. Haring reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe. Agreeably to the Order of the Day the Houfe again refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe on the Bill, intitled, ' An Act conflituting Courts ' for the Trial of fmall Cauies :' Mr. Van-Cleve accordingly took the Chair of the Committee, and, after l'ome Time fpent thereon, the Speaker refumed the Chair, and Mr. Van-Cleve, Chairman of the Committee, reported that the Com- mittee had made fome Progrefs in the Bill to them referred, and defired Leave to fit again. Ordered, That the Committee have Leave to fit again. A Petition from fundry Perfons owning Lands, adjoining on Affanpink Creek, praying that the Governor may be authorized by Law to incorporate a Company for the Purpofe of Opening a Lock Navigation up the Affanpink Creek as far as the York Road, was read. Ordered, That the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill on Friday the 26th Inftant, on previoufly advertifing their Intention of prefenting a Bill, with a Co- py of this Order, in four publick Places along up the Neighbourhood of the faid Affanpink Creek, and alfo ferving James Coalman, who lives in the State of Penn- fylvania, and who owns Lands on the faid Creek, with a Copy of this Order, at leaft feven Days previous thereto.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Thurfday, February 18, 1796.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Walton, from the Committee to whom was committed the Petition of Da- niel Dayton and Daniel Sale, who were Securities for Jofeph Crane, Sheriff of the County of Effex, for the due Performance of his Office as Sheriff, reported as
follows : / rI^HAT, in the Opinion of your Committee, the Grievance complained of is JL extremely hard. Neverthelefs, as it was a voluntary Act in being Security for the faid Jofeph Crane, it would be improper for the Legiflature to interfere in granting the Relief prayed for. By Order of the Committee, ELISHA WALTON. To which the Houfe agreed. Mr. Van-Cleve, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petitions of
the County of Effex, reported as follows : THAT, in their Opinion, a Supplement to the Election Law ought to pafs, to empower the Inhabitants of the faid County of Effex to hold their Elections in future by Townfhips. By Order of the Committee, BENJAMIN VAN-CLEVE.
To which the Houfe agreed ; whereupon, Mr. Van-Cleve, with Leave, prefented a Bill, intitled, c A further Supplement * to ( 21 )
* to the feveral Acts relative to Elections in this State ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Manning, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' A Sup- * plement to an Act, intitled, " An Act to incorporate the North Ward of Perch " Amboy, in the County of Middlesex," which Bill was read, and ordered a fe- cond Reading.
Mr. Biddle, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' A fupple- * mentary A (ft to the Act, intitled, " An Act to empower the Governor of this " State to incorporate a Company to build a Toll-Bridge over Rancocas Creek," which Bill was read, and ordered to be read a fecond Time on the 26th Inftant, publick Notice being fir ft given by Advertifcment in the City of Burlington for at leaft four Days pevious thereto. A Petition from John Sheppard, Jun. of the County of Cumberland, praying that the Rates of Ferriage at his Ferry acrofs Cohanfey Creek may be enlarged, was read, and committed to Meflrs. Peck, Wyckoffand Somers. A Petition from fundry Inhabitants of Greenwich, in the County of Gloucef- ter, praying that the Road lately run by Commiflioners from Bridgetown, in the County of Cumberland, to the Upper Bridge over Mantua Creek, may be vacated and made void, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Sundry Petitions from different Townftiips in this State, praying an Alteration in the Road Act, fo that their Roads may be hereafter repaired by Hire, were read, and committed to Melfrs. Stiliwell, Hedden and Morgan.
The Bill, intitled, ' A further Supplement to the Act, intitled, " An Act for " regulating Roads and Bridges," was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engroffed.
Mr. Imlay, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, * An Act for * granting a further Sum of Money to the Commiflioners therein named ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Wyckoff, with Leave, prefented a Bill, intitled, * An Act for the Relief * of Peter Brocaw ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. Stiliwell laid before the Ho\xfe an Adjudication of two of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in Favour of Hugh Newel, by which it ap- pears that there was due to him on the tenth of Auguft, 1784, Fourteen Pounds Two Shillings from the confifcated Eftate of David Gofling. Ordered, That the fame be committed to Meffrs. Walton, Stockton and Rd. Townfend.
Mr. Black, from Council, informed the Houfe that the Bill, intitled, * An Act
« to authorize Jofeph Shinn, Adminiftrator of the Eftate of Thomas Allen, de-
« ceafed, to complete a Contract made by the faid Allen in his Lifetime with
< Daniel Joyce,' is rejected by Council.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to empower the Inhabitants of the Townfhip of ' Gloucefter, and the Townfhip of Deptford, in the County of Gloucefter, to ' rebuild and keep in Repair the Upper Bridge on Great Timber Creek,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engroffed.
Agreeably to Order, the Houfe again refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe on the Bill, intitled, ' An Act conftituting Courts for the Trial of « fmall Caufes :' Mr. Van-Cleve accordingly took the Cha ; r of the Committee, and, after fome Time fpent thereon, the Speaker refuined the Chair, and Mr. F Van-Cleve, ( M )
Van-Cleve, Chairman of the Committee, reported that the Committee had made further Progrefs in the Bill to them referred, and defired Leave to fit again. Ordered, 1 hat the Committee have Leave to fit again.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Friday , February 19, 1796.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Peck, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of John
Sheppard, Junior, reported as follows : THAT your Committee having made due Enquiry refpecting the Premifes, are of Opinion, that the Rates of the Ferry referred to in faid Petition ought to be raifed ; and that the Petitioner have Leave to prefent a Bill for that Purpole. By Order of the Committee, BENJAMIN PECK. Ordered, That the faid Report be read a fecond Time.
Mr. Frazer, from the Committee to whom was referred the Adjudication of the Court of General Quarter Seffions of the Peace of the County of Morris, in Fa- vour of Theodofia Ford, Widow of Colonel Jacob Ford, deceafed ; the Adjudica- tion of the Court of General Quarter Seflions of the Peace of the County of EfTex, in Favour of Rachel Stivers, Widow of Samuel Stivers, late a Soldier in Captain Cox's Company in the third Jerfey Regiment; and the Adjudication of the Court of General Quarter Seffions of the Peace of the County of Morris, in Favour of Mary Porter, Widow of David Porter, and formerly the Widow of Aaron Crane, late a Soldier in the Continental Army, Report, THAT, in the Opinion of your Committee, the faid Theodofia Ford is not entitled to the Half-Pay of her faid Hufband, as from the Time and Man- ner of his Death it is evident to your Committee the fame was not occafioned by the Duty of his Office. Your Committee further report, that, in their Opinion, the faid Rachel Stivers and Mary Porter are entitled to the Half-Pay of their late Hufbands. By Order of the Committee, DAVID FRAZER. Ordered, That the faid Report be read a fecond Time. Mr. Dayton, from the Committee appointed for that Purpofe, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Ad for the Relief of Infolvent Debtors j' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Southard, agreeably to Leave given, and in Behalf of the Petitioners, pre- fented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' A Supplement to the Ad, intitled, " An ' Acl to enable the Owners and PoirefTors of the Meadows, Swamps and Low " Lands, on the River PafTaick and its feveral Branches, between the Little Falls " and the Mill-Dam at Chatham, to break up the Reaffs near the faid Falls, and 1 to dig Canals for the more effectual draining faid Lands, and to raife Money •* for that Purpofe ;" which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. :
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Mr. Walton, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act * for the Education of poor Children ;' which Bill was read, and committed to Meffrs. D. Vroom, Boyd and Hough.
The engrofTed Bill, intitled, ' An additional Supplement to the Act, intitled, " An Act for organizing and training the Militia of this State," was read and compared ; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows Yeas. Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Peck, Mr. Rn. Townfend, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Armftrong, Mr. Seeley, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Biddlc, Mr. Sharps, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Clement, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Somers, Mr. D- Vroom, Mr. French, Mr. Debow, Mr. Southard, Mr. Wade, Mr. Haring. Mr. Frazer, Mr. Starke, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Hedden, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. Walton, Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Wyckoff. Mr. Manning, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Hedden do carry the faid Bill to the Council for Con- currence.
Mr. Biddle, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act ' concerning the Surrogates in the feveral Counties of this State j' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. Southard, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of
Dorithy Crowell, reported as follows : THAT they have examined the Facts fct forth in faid Petition, and are fatisfied that they are true ; that it appears by Endorfement of an Execution return- able May Term, 1795, to the Supreme Court of this State, that William Walton, by his Attorney Aaron Ogden, obtained a Judgment againft the Petitioner as Adminiftratrix of her Hufband Enos Crowell, deceafed, on a Bond dated the 8th Day of September, 1774, conditioned for the Payment of One Hundred Pounds, with Intereft thereon until November 1 775, which was rendered without the ufual Deduction of feven Years and five Months Intereft, amounting to Thirty-three Pounds more than the Penalty of faid Bond. Your Committee are therefore of Opinion that the Prayer of faid Petition is reafonable, and ought to be granted by the Legiflature; and that the Petitioner have Leave to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Prayer thereof. By Order of the Committee,
, HENRY SOUTHARD. To which the Houfe agreed.
The Report of Mr. D. Vroom, of the 12th Inftant, on the Petition from the Proprietors of the Stages, was read a fecond Time, and difagreed to.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
The Report of Mr. Peck, on the Petition of John Sheppard, was read a fecond
Time, and agreed to ; whereupon, Mr. Peck prefented, in Behalf of the Petitioner, a Bill, intitled, * A Supplement ' to ( *4 )
" the foutherly Side of Cohan- to an Aft, intitled, An Aft to lay out a Road on to eftabliih a Ferry acrofs the faid * fev Creek, in the County or' Cumberland, and " Creek from the Town of Greenwich to the faid Road, palled the twenty-eighth " of June, 1766;" which Bill was read. Ordered^ That the fame be read a fecond Time on the fecond Wedncfday of with this the next Sitting, the Purport of the Bill being publifhed, a Copy of Or- the Townihips of der, in three of the moft publick Places in each of Greenwich and' Fairfield, in the County of Cumberland, for at lead three Weeks previous thereto. Mr. Sinnickfon, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had patted the Bill, intitled, ' An Aft to enable the Owners and PofTelfors of Meadows therein * mentioned, to repair, keep up and maintain the Banks, Dams and Waterworks, * enclofing the fame, and for other Purpofes,' without Amendment. Agreeably to Order, the Houfe again refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe on the Bill, intitled, ' An Aft conftituting Courts for the Trial of * fmall Caufes ;' Mr. Van-Cleve accordingly took the Chair of the Committee, and after fome Time fpenr thereon the Speaker refumed the Chair, and Mr. Van-Cleve, Chairman of the Committee, reported that the Committee had made further Pro- grefs in the Bill to them referred, and defired Leave to fit again. Ordered^ That the Committee have Leave to fit again. On Motion, Ordered^ That Meflrs. Imlay, Anderfon and Wade, be a Committee to report to the Houfe what Books, in their Opinion, is neceflary ihould be purchafed for the lUic of the Legiflature. Mr. Whillden, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had pafled the Bill, intitled, * An Aft concerning the College of New-Jerfey,' without Amend- ment.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Saturday, February 20, 1796.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Biddle, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of Jofeph Salter and Jofiah Fofter, Efqr. in Behalf of the Indians at Brotherton, in the Townlhip of Evefham, and County of Burlington, requefting a Law may p'afi to appoint Commifiioners to take Charge of the real Eftate formerly purchafed for T their L fe, reported as follows : THAT, in Order to effectuate the benevolent Objeft of the Government in making faid Purchafe, it is necellary that a Law Ihould pafs, appointing Commiifioners to take charge of and leafe out the faid real Ellate, under fuch Regulations and Reftriftions as fliall appear moft conducive to the Advantage of the faid Indians, and prefent a Bill for the Purpofes aforefaid. By Order of the Committee, STACY BIDDLE.
To which Report the Houfe agreed ; whereupon, Mr. Biddle prefented a Bill, intitled, ' A Supplement to an Aft, intitled, " An " Aft to empower certain Perfons to purchafe the Claims of the Indians to cer- " tain ( *5 )
" tain Lands in this Colony, pafled Auguft the 12th, Anno Domini 1758," which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. Hedden reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe. The Speaker laid before the Houfe a Warrant granted to Lydia Whitlock for her Hufband's Half-Pay, who died in the Service of the United States, on which there was no further Room for Endorfements, which was read, of the Ordered, That the fame be renewed ; whereupon a Warrant in Lieu fame was read and approved. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Hough do carry the laid Warrant to the Council for Con- currence.
The engrofTed Bill, intitled, ' An Act refpecting Coroners,' was read and com-
? carried in the Affir- pared ; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pals It was mative, as follows ( *<5 )
The Houfe adjourned until Monday Morning ten of the Clock.
Monday, February 22, 1796.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Lambert, from Council, prefented a Bill, intitled, c An Act to enable the * Truftees of the Academy in the Town of Woodbridge to complete the faid * Academy in the Town of Woodbridge by Lottery,' to which he requefted the Concurrence of this Houfe ; which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Southard, agreeably to Leave given, and in Behalf of the Petitioner, pre- fented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Relief of the Admi- ' niftrators of Enos Crowell, deceafed,' which Bill was read, and ordered a fe- cond Reading.
The Petition of Jacobus Poft, read on the 9th Inftant, was read a fecond Time, and committed to Meffrs. Southard, Blacklidge and French.
Mr. Boyd, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of Jofeph Reading, Reported, TH A T it appears to your Committee that the Petitioner entered into Bonds to Lambert Cadwalader, of the County of Hunterdon, on the firfl of June, 1773, conditioned for the Payment of Three Hundred Pounds: That fome Time before the Commencement of Hoftilities between America and Great-Britain the faid Bonds were affigned to Jofeph Taylor, of the £kid County of Hunterdon, who took Refuge with and joined the Armies of the King of Great-Britain then waging War with the United States, and remained with the Enemy during the faid War, whereby he became fubject to the Penalties and Forfeitures of the Acts of the Legislature for forfeiting the Eftates of certain
Fugitives and Offenders : That an Inquifition was, in Purfuance of thofe Acts, duly found againfl the faid Jofeph Taylor, and final Judgment entered thereon againfl him : That, by the Provifions of the faid Acts, the Commiffioners therein named were authorized and required to call on all Debtors of fuch Fugitives and Offenders for the Payment of their Debts, and to give Receipts which ihould forever bar the Offender or any Perfon claiming or to claim under him in the Premifes; and a Forfeiture of double the Value of the Debt was thereby impofed on fuch Debtors who ihould conceal or neglect or refufe to pay the Monies fo become due and owing to the State by Virtue of faid Confifcation : That the Petitioner lived in the faid County of Hunterdon, and having taken a Part with his Country early, gave Notice to the Commiflioners of forfeited Eftates of fuch his being indebted to the faid Jofeph Taylor : That the Commiflioners not being in Pofieflion of the faid Bonds, could not afcertain the exact Amount, as fome Payments had been made of the Intereft, but the whole principal Sum and Fifty-two Pounds Ten Shillings Intereft was demanded and received, for which one of the faid Commiflioners for the County of Hunterdon gave a Receipt, being the Sum of Three Flundred and Fifty-two Pounds Ten Shillings, on the tenth of December, 1779, for Principal and Intereft on the faid Bond: That the faid Money was paid to the find Commifhoner in Continental Bills of Credit while the fame were a legal Tender under the Laws of this State, received by him ( *7 )
as and paid him Lawful Money, forward to the Treafury of this State : That an Act of the Legiflature had been palled on the fifth of October, 1779, to enforce the Currency of the faid Money as a lawful Tender in Payment of all Debts and
Demands : That under an Ac! of the Legiflature palled the twenty-eighth of November, 1789, to authorize Perfons whole Eftates have been confiscated, to
demand and receive Debts due to the State by Virtue of fuch Corififcations, it is
provided that a Suit may be inftituted for the Recovery of the remaining Pa t of a Debt or Demand, where it fhall appear that only a Part has been paid inr:>
the Treafury of the State : That a Suit hath been brought againft the laid Peti- tioner in the Supreme Court of this State, and Judgment rendered againft him fur the whole Amount of Penalty of the Bond, owing, as the Petitioner Hates, to a Decifion of the faid Court; that, as a fmall Part of the Intereft: was left unpaid; that the entire Payment of the Principal Sum and the greater Part of the Intereft fo made to the Commiffioners, lhall be liquidated by the Scale of Deprec ation, and thereby eftablilhed the Claim in Favour of the Plaintiff: That this Decilinn was alfo made after an Act of the Legiflature paiTed the thirteenth 01 March, 1795, in which it is exprefsly declared that the Payment fo made to the Commiffioners lhall be taken and allowed at the nominal Sum, and that all Courts and Juries fhall be bound by faid Law. That your Committee are at a Lofs to conceive how the Payment of the Money fo made by the Petitioner to the Commiffioners of forfeited Ellates, can, Tip on any Principle of Law, Juftice or Reafon, become fubjeel to the Acts eftab- liihing a Scale of Depreciation : The Objects of thofe Acts is declared to be to fettle and determine the true Value of Debts and Contracts made and entered into between the Citizens of this State, during the feveral Periods of Depreciation : By the Act palled the twenty-fecond of June, 1781, it is enacted ' That all Debts 4 and Contracts of what Nature foever, made and entered into fince the firft of * January, 1777, and before the ninth of June, 1780, &c. lhall be adjufted and * fettled by reducing the Amount of all fuch Debts and Contracts to their true c Value in Specie at the Time they were refpectively made and entered into, &c.' This Act of Aflembly, or the Amendment pafled December 25, 1781, contains fo clear and unequivocal an Expreffion of the Intent and Meaning of the Legif- lature, that it is a Matter of Aftonifhment to your Committee that the Cafe of the Petitioner could, by Conftruction, have been brought within the Words thereof; the faid Debt not having been contraclcd between Citizens of this Sta.e during the feveral Periods of Depreciation, and not between the hrit of January, 1777, and ninth of June 1780, the Periods exprefsly limited by the Legiflature. The Petitioner has alfo ftated, that he is deprived of the Benefit of the Ads which allow a Deduction of Intereft during the War; for if that Deduction were made from the Time contemplated by the Act, to ivit, from the fourth of July, 1776, to the Time of Payment to the Commiffioners, more than is really due has been paid, and your Committee are of Opinion that the Operation of that Law ought, with equal Propriety, be extended to this Cafe as the Sca-'e of Depreciation. That, considering this Cafe as between the State and the Petitioner, your Com-
mittee are of Opinion it is attended with manifeft Injttftice and Hardihip. 'l lie Legislature, having palled an Act confifcating the Ellates of Fu jitives and - fenders, appointing Commiffioners as Agents of the State, to take Pofieffijn, to fue for and recover all fuch Eftates, and authorizing the laici Com nifiiouers to give Receipts, Acquittances and Difcharges on the Payment of any Debts or
Sums of Money, and declaring that fuch ' the Receipts, Acquitta c:s :\nA 1>i-
' charges given by die refpective Commiffioners o~ the Delivery o^ an Gf< ods
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1 or Chattels, or the Payment of any Debts or Sums of Money, mall forever bar ' ' die Offender Or any Peffoh claiming or to claim under him in the Premifes could not, in direct Violation of Inch Act, revive a Right in the Offender to re- cover againft fuch Receipt of the Commiilioner; and your Committee are clearly oi" Opinion that no fuch Act has been pafTed, and therefore a Recovery again it the Petitioner for the whole of the Debt, after the Value of the Paymcnt'as liqui- dated by the Scale of Depreciation (hall be deducted, is contrary to the Intent of the Legislature, and that it would be unjuft in the State to claim of him fuch Part thereof as may be payable to the Treafurer of the State. Yotir Committee fubniit, as their Opinion to the Houfe, that the Cafe of the Petitioner is not within the Acts eftablilhing the Scale of Depreciation, as is evi- dent from the Letter and plain Meaning of the Acts. That it was the Intent of the Legiflature that the Receipts given by the Com- ifBoners lhould forever bar the Fugitive and Offender from all Claims for the nominal Sum paid to the Comrniflioners. That no Act of the Legiflature has been pafTed to contrevene that Intent and Purpofe. That the Acts allowing a Deduction of Intereit from the fourth of July, 1770, to the eighteenth of December, 1783, fhould have been extended fo as to have barred the Demand of Intereit againft the Petitioner, and to have difcharged the Intereit not paid agreeably to the Intent of thofe Acts, by which no Debt could have remained due to the State. That the Legiflature only contemplate the remaining Part of a Demand, where Part has been paid to the Comrniflioners. That the Legiflature, by their Act palled the thirteenth of March, 1795, do exprefsly ratify and confirm fuch Payment', and which Law your Committee are of Opinion ought to have been binding on the laid Court, and fuperior to any Adjudication of the faid Court. That, for thefe Reafons, if the Petitioner fhould not obtain Relief in the Pre- mifes in a Court of Equity, that the Legiflature fhould difcharge him at lead from the Payment of fuch Part as by Law is payable to the Treafurer of the Oiate* ADAM BOYD, BENJAMIN VAN-CLEVE, BENJAMIN MANNING.
Ordered, That the faid. Report be read a fecond Time.
Mr. Stillwell, from the Committee appointed for that Purpofe, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act to enable the Inhabitants of the Townfhips * in the feveral Counties of this State to repair their Highways by Hire, and ro ,' * raife Money for that Purpofe which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
' " The Bill, intitled, A Supplement to an Act, intitled, An Act to incorporate " the North Ward of Perth Amboy, in thj^County of Middlefex," was read a fecond 1 ime, and the following Words adfRi to the Title, andfor other Purpofcs therein mentioned; which Bill was further amended, and ordered to be engroffed.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to authorize the flowing of Boats in the publick * Road at Cape-Ifland, in the Lower Precinct of the County of Cape-May,' was read a fecond Time, and ordered a third Reading.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act to empower the Inhabitants of the
' Townihip ( *9 ) c Townfhip of Gloucefler and the Townfliip of Deptford, in the County of Glou- * cefier, to rebuild and keep in repair the Upper Bridge on Great Timber Creek,' was read and compared ; on the Queition, Whether the fame do pais ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : ( 30 )
A Petition from fundry Inhabitants of the County of Gloucester, praying Leave to prefent a Bill to dired that the upper Bridge over Mantua Creek fhall be hereafter kept up and maintained at the Expenfe of the County of Gloucefter, was read, and it appearing that publick Notice has been given in the County, that a Bill would be at this Time prefented for that Purpofe, Ordered^ That the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Prayer of their Petition ; whereupon, Mr. Clement prefented a Bill, intitled, ' An Ad to alter the Mode of Maintain- * ing Carpenter's or the upper Bridge over Mantua Creek, in the County of Glou- ' ceiter,' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. A Petition from Ann Dougherty, Administratrix, &c. of John Dougherty, de- ceafed, ftating a Demand againft the State, was l-ead, and committed to MefTrs. Van-Cleve, Wallace and Reuben Townfend. A Memorial from fundry Inhabitants of the County of EfTex, and a Petition from the Heirs of David and Jofeph Rogers, who were interefted in the Ferries acrofs the Rivers Paffaick and Hackinfack, remonftrating againft the Proceedings of the Commiffioners who fixed the Bridges over Paffaick and Hackinfack, and the Road from Newark to Paulus Hook, were read, and committed to MefTrs. Dayton, Frazer, Manning, Biddle, Sinnickfon, Haring and Stillwell.
The Bill, intitled, * An Ad to authorize the Stowing of Boats in the publick * Road at Cape Ifland, in the Lower Precind of the County of Cape-May,' was read a third Time ; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the
Affirmative, as follows : Yeas. ( 3* )
Yeas. Yeas, Yeas. Nays. Mr. Armftrong, Mr. Hough, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Imlay, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Manning, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Clement, Mr. Peck, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Wyckoff. Mr. Dayton, Mr. Seeley, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Debow, Mr. Sharps, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Sinnickfon, Mr. Wade, Mr. French, Mr. Somers, Mr. Wallace. Mr- Haring, Mr. Southard, Mr. Hedden, Mr. Starke, Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. M'Cullough do carry the faid Bill to Council for Concur- rence.
Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Bill, intitled, { An Act providing for * the Reftoration of certain Records of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in and * for the County of Monmouth, which have been loft, embezzled or deftroyed,' was read a fecond Time, and the Parties in Favour of and againft the Bill were heard with their Witnefles, and after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poftponed.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act providing * for the Reftoration of certain Records of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas * in and for the County of Monmouth, which have been loft, embezzled or de- ' ftroyed,' and after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poftponed.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Wednefday, February 24, 1796.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Dayton, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of fundry Officers and Privates who went on the late Weftern Expedition into Pennfylvania,
reported as follows : THAT they have examined the feveral Papers and Vouchers to them refer- red, and are of Opinion, that although the feveral Claims do not come within the Letter of the Law of this State, making Compenfation for Lofles, and for which Claims Congrefs have provided, yet they are fuch as, in the Opinion of your Committee, ought to be paid by the United States, and that it will be proper for this State to allow the fame, and make Application to Congrefs for Indemnification, as individual Application will be attended with great Expenfe and lofs of Time. By Order of the Committee, ELIAS DAYTON. Ordered, That the faid Report be read a fecond Time. ( 3> )
Mr. Southard, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of
Jacobus Poft, reported as follows : THAT they have examined the Petition, Vouchers and Papers to them committed, from which it appears that the Commiffioners of forfeited Ef- tates in the County of Bergen, feized and ibid two Bolts and Bolting Cloths as the confiscated Property of Thomas Duncan, which Property has fince appeared to be the Petitioner's, but the Appraifement of faid Property being made near nine-
teen Years after the Sale thereof, is not Satisfactory to your Committee : They are therefore of Opinion the Papers be referred to the next Sitting of the Legis- lature. By Order of the Committee. HENRY SOUTHARD. To which the Houfe agreed. Ordered, That the laid Petition be referred to the next Sitting.
The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled ' An Act provid- ' ing for the Restoration of certain Records of. the Inferior Court of Common • Pleas, in and for the County of Monmouth, which have been loft, embezzled ' or deftroyed,' and after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poftponed.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
The Ploufe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act provid- ' ing for the Refloration of certain Records of the Inferior Court of Common c Pleas, in and for the County of Monmouth, which have been loft, embezzled ' or deftroyed,' and after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poftponed.
Several Petitions from Perfons confined in Gaol for Debt, praying the Benefit of an Act of Infolvency, were read, and ordered a fecond Reading, with the Bill for the Relief of Infolvent Debtors.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Thurfday, February 25, 1796.
The Houfe met.
A Petition from the Owners and PofTefTors of Meadows on the North Branch of Penfawkin Creek, praying Leave to prefent a Bill to provide for the Main- tenance of the Dams and Waterworks on the faid Penfawkin Creek, was read, Ordered, That the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill agreeably to the Prayer of their Petition on the fecond Thurfday in the next Sitting, previoufly advertifing their Intention, and the Purport of the Bill they mean to prefent, in five of the molt publick Places adjacent to the Dam and Meadows, for two Weeks.
Mr. Cook, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had made fundrv Amendments to the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Punifhment of Crimes',' which ( 33 )
which he preferred with the Bill ; which Bill and Amendments were read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Houfe refumed the Consideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the * Refloration of certain Records of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and * for the County of Monmouth which have been loft, embezzled or deftroyed;' and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poflponed.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Hotife met.
The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, * An Ad for the * Refloration of certain Records of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and * for the County of Monmouth which have been embezzled or deflroyedj' and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poflponed. Mr. Beardflee, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had concurred in the Warrant of Half-Pay in Favour of Lydia Whitlock, in Lieu of one here.* tofore granted.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Friday, February 16, 1796.
The Houfe met.
A Petition from fundry Inhabitants of the County of Monmouth, praying that the Legi flature would alter the Law allowing Plaintiffs to lay the Venue of their Actions in any County where they pleafe, was read and referred to the Commit- tee to whom was referred the Bill reflecting the Supreme and Circuit Courts, MefTrs. Imlay, Haring, Manning, Anderfon, Hand and WyckofF. Three Petitions from Monmouth County, praying that a more direct Road may be laid from Freehold to Mount-Holly, was read and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Elmer, from Council, prefented a Bill, intitled, ' An Act for improving the Navigation of Alloways Creek, in the County of "Salem ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Dayton, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of a Number of the Inhabitants of the Town of Newark, in the County of Effex, praying for a Law to permit them to build Bridges over the Rivers Paffaick and Hackinfack, Reported, THAT, in the Opinion of your Committee, the Petitioners have Liberty to prefent a Bill on the fecond Wednefday of the next Sitting" of the Legis- lature, they advertifing the Purport of the Bill they mean to prefent at leaft one Month previous thereto, in one of the daily Papers publifhed in New-York and in the Paper printed in Newark by John Woods. By Order of the Committee, ELIAS DAYTON. To which the Houfe agreed. I A The ( 34 )
The Bill, intitled, ' A fupplementary Act to the Ad, intitlcd, " An Act to em- " power the Governor of this State to incorporate a Company to build a Toll- " Bridge over Rancoeus Creek," agreeably to the Order of the Day, was read a fecond Time, and a Petition from the Proprietors of the Toll-Bridge over Ran- coeus Creek, praying to be heard in Oppolition to the laid Bill. Ordered, That they have Leave to be heard, and that the further Confideration thereof be poftponed.
The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitlcd, ' An Act for the * Refloration of certain Records of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and * for the loft, County of Monmouth which have been embezzled or deftroyed \ and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poftponed.
The Houfe adjourned to three o' Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, * A fupplementary ' Acl to the Act, intitled, " An Act to empower the Governor of this State to " incorporate a Company to build a Toll-Bridge over Rancoeus Creek," and the
Memorial againft the fame ; and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be referred to the fecond Thurfday of the next Sitting.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Acl to alter the Mode, of maintaining Carpenter's or c the Upper Bridge over Mantua Creek, in the County of Gloucefter,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engrofled.
Mr. Haring, from Council, prefented a Bill, intitled, ' An Acl for appointing ' Truftees to execute the Purpofes of the laft Will and Teftament of Samuel ' Brown, deceafed,' to which he requefted the Concurrence of this Houfe.
Mr. Condit, from Council, informed the Houfe that the Bill, intitlcd, ' An ' Acl to conftitute and appoint Truftees of the laft Will and Codicil of Abraham ' Hewlings, Senior, late of the County of Burlington, deceafed, in the Room and * Stead of the Truftees therein named ;' and the Bill, intitled, ' A Supplement to ' the Ad, intitled, " An Acl to empower the Governor of this State to incorpo- *' rate a Company to improve the Navigation on the North Branch of Rancoeus '* Creek;" are paffed by Council without Amendment.
Mr. Van-Cleve, in Behalf of the Petitioners, and agreeably to the Order of the Houfe, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Acl to empower the Go- ' vernor of this State to incorporate a Company for opening the Navigation of ' the AflTanpink Creek ;' which Bill, together with a Memorial from fundry Per- fons ftating Objections againft the faid Bill, were read, and ordered a fecond Reading on Tuefday next.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Saturday, February 27, 1796.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Haring, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill, intitled, 'An C 35 )
* An Act eonftitutirig Courts for the Trial of fmall Caufes,' with the Amend- ments made thereto in the Committee of the whole, reported the fame with fun- Bill, dry Amendments ; which with the Amendments, were read, and, after iome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Consideration thereof be poflponed.
Mr. Martin, from Council, informed the Houfe that the Bill, intitled ' An * Act to empower the Inhabitants of the Townfhips of Gloucefter and Deptford * in the County of Gloucefter, to rebuild and keep in Repair the Upper Bridge * over Great Timber Creek,' is paffed by Council without Amendment.
Mr. Linn, from Council, informed the Houfe that the Bill, intitled, * An Act * for the Payment of Part of the Principal and Intereft of the State Debt,' is re- jected by Council.
Mr. Linn alfo prefented the following Refolution, and requested the. Concur- rence of this Houfe in the fame : ' Rcfohed, * T1 HAT the Treafurer of the State be directed to receive from any Perfon c J, who may produce the fame, all Contractors and Surplus Certificates, with * fuch Vouchers as may be offered in Support of their refpective Claims, at any c firft Time before the Day of March next : And alfo that the faid Treafurer, c together with the Auditor, be, and they hereby are directed to examine the ' faid Vouchers, and fuch Checks as have been provided by Law to guard ao-ainft * Fraud and Impofition, and make Report on each Certificate fo received, as° foon « as may be, to the Legiilature, in Order that fuch Provifion may be made for 4 their Allowance and Settlement as will be moft likely to do Jufticc to the * Holders, and fecure the Intereft of this State.' Which Refolution was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
- The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the * Reftoration of certain Records of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and 1 for the County of Monmouth, which have been loft, embezzled or deftroyed j which Bill was read, debated, and ordered to be engroffed.
The Houfe adjourned until Monday Morning ten of the Clock.
Monday, February 29, 1796.
The Houfe met.
The Refolution prefented on Saturday laft from Council by Mr. Linn, was read a fecond Time, and concurred in. Ordered, That Mr. Morgan do wait on the Council, and inform them that their Refolution of Saturday, prefented by Mr. Linn, is concurred in by this Houfe.
A Petition from a Number of the Inhabitants of the County of Gloucefter, praying Leave to prefent a Bill to empower the Governor of this State to incor- porate a Company to improve the Navigation of the South Branch of Great
Timber Creek, in the faid County, was read ; whereupon, Mr. Clement, with Leave, and on Behalf of the Petitioners, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act to empower the Governor of the Stare of * New-Jerfey to incorporate a Company to improve the Navigation of the South Branch :
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* Branch of Great Timber Creek ;' which Bill was read, and referred to be read on the fecund Tuefchiy of the next Sitting; the Petitioners previoufly advertising the Purport of the Bill for at lea It one Month previous thereto, in three of the mod publick Places in the Townfhips of Dcptford and Gloucefter, in the fame County. A Petition from William Kemble, Zerobable Gafkell and others, praying a Law to authorize faid Kemble and Gafkell to build a Grift-Mill on, and make a Dam acrofs a Branch of the dividing Creeks in the Townfhip of Downs, in the County of Cumberland, was read; whereupon, Ordered, That the Petitioners have Leave to bring in a Bill the third Wednef- day of the next Sitting to anfwer the Prayer of their Petition ; advertifing a Copy of this Order and the Purport of the Bill they mean to prefent, in the Newf- paper printed at Bridge-town, and in three of the mod publick Places in the faid Townfhip of Downs, at leaft three Weeks previous thereto.
The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act consti- < tuting Courts for the Trial of fmall Caufes ;' the thirty-ninth Section under
Confideration : On Motion to agree to the Section, it was carried in the Affir- mative, as follows Yeas. Mayhew, Morgan, Seeley, Stillwell, Thomfon, Rd. Townfend, Vredenburgh, D. Vroom, Wallace, Walton, Wyckoff.
After fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poftponed.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Frazer, from the Committee to whom was referred the Adjudication of the Court of Quarter Seffions of the County of Gloucefter, in Favour of Sarah Dorum, now Wife of John Dorum, who was late the Wife of Jofeph Githins,
Soldier in the Service of this State, reported as follows : THAT they have duly examined the fame, and the Vouchers in Support thereof, and are of Opinion, that the Proofs of the Facts therein contained are fufficiently fubftantiated to entitle the, faid Sarah Dorum to the Half-Pay of her late Hufband Jofeph Githins, during her Widowhood, as fet forth by the Adjudication of the Court aforefaid. By Order of the Committee, DAVID FRAZER. Which Report was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. :
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Mr. Walton, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition and Pa- pers accompanying the fame of Hugh Newell, reported as follows: HIP H A T they have examined the Documents in the Treafury OiHce, and find the Demands againft the Eftate J_ of David Gofling are true ; but that the Proportion his of the forfeited of Demands Eftate amounts only to f. i 8 4, for which Sum a Note is made out by the Treafurer to the faid Hugh Neweil, for the above Sum of £. 1 8 4, and dated the 25th of July, 1786, bearing Intereft from September 1, 1784; which Note the Treafurer did not think hirn- felf authorized to deliver to the laid Hugh Newell for Want of the original Note, which hid been loft or miflaid. Your Committee are therefore of Opinion, that a Law or Refolution ought to pafs, authorizing the Treafurer to deliver to the faid Hugh Neweil the Note as above ftated. By Order of the Committee, ELISHA WALTON.
Which Report was read, and referred to the Committee on the Incidental [Jill.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Relief of the Adminiftrators of Enos Cro /- ell, deceafed,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engroiied.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor,* was read a f-cond Time ; and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the laid Bill be committed to a Committee cofnpofed of a Mem- ber from each County; Melfrs. Haring, Dayton, Vredenburgh, Walton, Stock- ton, Hough, Clement, Wallace, Richard Townfend, Wyckoff, Starke, Seeiey and Sharps.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock,
TurfJay, March 1 , 1796.
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The Houfe met»
Mr. Morgan reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
Mr. Haring, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, • An Act * for the gradual Reduction of the State Debt;' which Bill was read, and order- ed a fecond Reading.
A Petition from a Number of the Inhabitants of this State, and the State of Pennfylvania, dating that a certain Law therein mentioned, was near expiring by its own Limitation, and praying a Renewal of the fame, Was read, and com- mitted to Melfrs. Frazer, Morgan and Armftrong.
The Petition of William Drake was read a fecond Time, and committed to Melfrs. Stillwell, Blacklidge and Somers.
The engrafted Bill, intitled, * An Act providing for the Reftoration of certain * Records of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of * Monmouth, which have been loft, embezzled or deftroyed,' was read and com- pared ; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Aftlr- mative, as follows
K Yeas. ( 33 )
Yens. Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Armftrong, Mr. Manning, Mr. Stillwcll, Mr. Clement, Mr. Bl.icklidge, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Hough. Mr. Boyd, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Peck, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Dchow, Mr. Seeley, Mr. Rn. Townfend, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Sharps, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Haring, Mr. Sinnickfon, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Hedden, Mr. Somers, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. Imlay, Mr. Southard, Mr. Wyckoff. Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. Starke, Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Peck do carry the faid Bill to Council, and requeft their Concurrence therein. The Houfe relumed the Confederation of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the 1 Punifhtnent of Crimes,' with the Amendments made thereto by Council, and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poflponed.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for granting a further Sum of Money to the Com- and ordered to be < millioners therein named,' was read, debated, engrolTed.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for appointing Truflees to execute the Purpofes of • the lafl: Will and Teflament of Samuel Brown, deceafed, was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. Frazer, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Acl in * Relation to the Teftimony in the Profecutions for publick Monies j' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
% The Houfe met.
Sundry Petitions from the County of Monmouth, praying that a Law may pafs appointing and authorizing Commiffioners to lay out a direct Road from Monmouth Courthoufe to Mount-Holly, were read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Relief of the Adminiftrators of * F.nos Crowell, deceafed,' was read and compared ; on the Queflion, Whether
the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows Yeas. ( 39 )
The Report of* Mr. Dayton on the 24th of February, relative to the Petitions of fundry Officers and Privates who were out in Service on the late weftern Ex- / pedition, was read a fecond Time, and committed to MefTrs. Boyd, Hedden and/ Sinnickfon.
Mr. Peck reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe. A Report of the Treafurer and Auditor on the Refolution prefented to this Houfe on Saturday laft from Council, and concurred in by this Houfe, was communicated by the Speaker, and ordered to lie on the Table for Confidera- tion.
The Bill, intitled, * An Act for the Relief of lnfolvent Debtors,' was read a fecond Time : On Motion to extend the Benefit of this Bill to John Wright and Jofeph Stevens, confined for Debt in the County of Effex; all Perfons confined for Debt in the County of Hunterdon; and all Perfons confined for Debt in the County of Monmouth, it was carried in the Affirmative : On Motion to add the following Words, to all Perfons in like Circumjlances in this State, it was carried in the Negative, as follows : Nays. Nays. Yeas. Mr. Armftrong, Mr. Southard, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Starke, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Clement, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Hough, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Imlay, Mr. Debow, Mr. Rn. Townfend, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Haring, Mr. Vredcnburgh, Mr. Peck, Mr. Hedden, Mr. D. Vroom. Mr. Seeley, Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. Manning, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Sharps, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Sinnickfon, Mr. Walton, Mr. Somers, Mr. WyckofF. Ordered, That the further Consideration thereof be poflponed.
Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Bill, intitled,. ' An Act to empower * the Governor of this State to incorporate a Company for opening the Naviga- * tion of the Affanpink Creek,' was read a fecond Time, and the further Confide- ration thereof poflponed.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
JVednefday, March 2, 1796.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Van-Cleve, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of
Ann Dougherty, reported as follows : THAT, in their Opinion, the Petitioner ought to have Leave to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Prayer of her Petition.
By Order of the Committee, BENJAMIN VAN-CLEVE. Ordered, That the faid Report be read a fecond Time. Mr. ( 4° )
Mr. Stillwell, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of William Drake, reported as follows: HP H A T the Petitioner lets forth he had his Eftate confifcated for taking J. Refuge within the Britilh Lines during the War between America and the hath King of Great-Britain : That fince his Return Judgment been obtained againft him for Two Hundred and Twenty-one Pounds Nineteen Shillings and Six-pence for Debts he became bound for, which he received before his taking Refuge as aforefaid. In the Opinion of your Committee, the Creditors had their Option either to call for their Demands on the State or on the original Debtor: That as the faid William Drake hath received Gompenfation from Great-Britain for his Eftate fo forfeited, that he flands on the fame Footing as he did before the of the Petition Forfeiture took Place ; and that allowing the Prayer would be re- warding the Petitioner with the aforefaid Sum for his Loyalty to the aforefaid King. Your Committee are therefore of Opinion, that the Prayer of the Peti- tioner ought not to be granted. By Order of the Committee, JOSEPH STILLWELL. To which the Houfe agreed.
Mr. Haring, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill, intitled, ' An * Ad for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor,' reported the fame with furdry Amendments, and the following Words added to the Title, in the County of Salemj which Bill, with the Amendments, was read, debated, and ordered to be engrofled.
The Bill, intitled, ' A further Supplement to the fev'eral Acts relative to Elec- « tions in this State,' was read a iecond Time, debated and ordered to be engrofled. A Petition from the Inhabitants of the Townihip of Oxford, in the County of SulTex, praying that the Roa.l Act may be fo altered that they may hereafter be allowed to repair their Roa is by Hire, was read and referred to be read a fecond Time with the Road Act before the Houie. A Petition from the Owners and PofTeflbrs of Salt Meadows in Rahway, was read, praying Liberty to prefent a Bill to authorize the Owners to meet once a Year to appoint Perfons to build and keep in Repair a Bridge and Caufeway to be erected fiom the Land of Doctor Ifaac Morfs to a fmall liland in the Line be- tween c:lc Meadows of Anthony Morfs and John Spinage. Ordered, That the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Prayer of their Petition, on the firft Thurfday of next Sellion of the Legiilature, they giving one Month's previous Notice in the Newfpaper printed in Elizabeth- Town. A Petition from the Executors, &c. of Samuel Lippencott, late of the County of Burlington, dating a Demand againft the forfeited Eftate of John Leonard, and praying Payment from the State, was read, and committed to MeiTrs. Biddle, Peck and Thomfon.
The Houfe refumed the Consideration of the Bill, intitled, f An Act conftitut- * ing Courts for the Trial of fmall Caufes,' which having been confidered by Paragraphs, Ordered, That the fame be engrofled.
The Speaker laid before the Houfe a Warrant granted to Mary Cade for her Hi* Aland's Half-Pay on which there was no further Room for Endorfements, which was read, Ordered, ( 4i )
Ordered, That the Tame be renewed ; whereupon, A Warrant in Lieu of the fame was read and approved. Ordered^ That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered^ That Mr. Sharps do carry the faid Warrant to Council for Concur- rence. Mr. Southard, with Leave, and in Behalf of the Petitioners, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Relief of the Executors of David ' Wade, deceafed,' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Houfe adjourned to three o' Clock, P. M.
The Lloufe met.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act for granting a further Sum of Money to
' the Commimoners therein named,' was read and compared ; on the Queition,
Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : Yeas. Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Biddle, Mr. Manning, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Armftrong, Mr. Clement, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Rn. Townfend, Mr. Blacklidgc, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Peck, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Seeley, Mr. Vrcdenburgh, Mr. Dcbow, Mr. Harir.g, Mr. Sinnickfon, Mr. D- Vroom, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Heclden, Mr. Southard, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Sharps, Mr. Hough, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. Walton, Mr. Somers,
Mr. I inlay, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Wyckoff. Mr. Starke. Mr. M^Cullough, Mr. Thomfon,
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' A Supplement to an Act, intitled, " An Act to " incorporate the North Ward of Perth Amboy, in the County of Middlefex, and " for other Purpofes therein mentioned," was read and compared ; on the Quef- tion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : Yeas. Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Armftrong, Mr. Imlay, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Dcbow, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Manning, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Somers, Mr. Clement, Mr. Mayhcw, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Vrcdenburgh, Mr. Rn. Townfend. Mr. Frazer, Mr. Peck, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. Haring, Mr. Seeley, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Hedden, Mr. Sinnickfon, Mr. Walton, Mr. Hough, Mr. Southard, Mr. Wyckoffc Ordered^ That the Speaker do fign the faid Bills. Ordered) That Mr. Sharps do carry the faid Bills to the Council for Con- currence.
Mr. Imlay, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill, intitled, ' An ' Acl concerning the Supreme and Circuit Courts,' reported the fame with fun- dry Amendments ; which Bill as amended was read. Ordered, That the fame be referred to a Committee of the whole Houfe, and that the Committee fit To-morrow.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Ait for the gradual Reduction of the State Debt,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engroffed.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Relief of Peter Brocaw,' was read a fecond Time, and, after fome Time fpent thereon, L Ordered^ ( 4* )
Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poftponed. The Petitions from Monmouth and Burlington, praying that Commiffioners. may be appointed to lay out a Road from Monmouth Courthoufe to Mount-Hol- ly, were read and committed to Meflrs. Walton, Hough and Mayhew. The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the • Relief of Infolvent Debtors,' and, after fomc Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the fame be committed to Meflrs. Boyd, Hedden, Morgan, Still- well, D. Vroom, Biddle, Somers, Sinnickfon, Reuben Townfend, Van-Cleve, Debow, Peck and Armftrong. Mr. Sharps reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Thurfday, March 3, 1796.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Seeley reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe. The Petitions from fundry Inhabitants of Greenwich in the County of Glou- cefter, praying that the Road lately run by Commiflioners from Bridgetown, in the County of Cumberland, to the upper Bridge on Mantua Creek, may be vacated and made void, was read a fecond Time with a Number of other Petitions on the fame SubjecT:, and committed to MefTrs. Southard, Clement and Seeley. Sundry Petitions from the County of Somerfet, praying that a Law may pafs to authorize the Removal of the Courthoufe and Gaol of the faid County, was read and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. Sinnickfon from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had concurred in the Warrant in Favour of Mary Cade. The Houfe took into Confideration the Bill, intitled, * An Act for the Punifh- 1 ment of Crimes, with the Amendments made thereto by Council,' and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered^ That the further Confideration thereof be pofeponed.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
Agreeably to the Order of the Day, the Houfe refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole on the Bill, intitled, * An Acl concerning the Supreme and Circuit
' Courts ;' Mr. Vredenburgh took the Chair of the Committee, and, after fome Time fpent thereon, the Speaker refumed the Chair, and Mr. Vredenburgh, Chairman of the Committee, reported that the Committee had made fome Pro- grefs in the Bill to them referred, and defired Leave to fit again. Ordered, That the Committee have Leave to fit again.
Mr. Clement with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Acl * for the Sale of Property in the Town of Patcrfon,' which Bill was read and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Boyd, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill, intitled, ' An ' Ad :
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' Acl for the Relief of Infol vent Debtors,' reported the fame with fundry Amend- ments, which Bill was read, and, after being further amended in the Houfe, was ordered to be engroffed.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Friday, March 4, 1796.
The Houfe met.
The engrofled Bill, intitled, ' An Acl to alter the Mode of maintaining Car- ' penter's or the upper Bridge over Mantua Creek-, in the County of Gloucester,' was read and compared. On Motion, Ordered, That the fime be referred to the next Sitting.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Acl concerning the Surrogates in the feveral Counties ' of this State,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engroffed. A Petition from Springfield, in the County of Effex, againft having their R repaired by a Tax, was read and ordered a fecond Reading with the Road Acl. A Petition from the Owners and Poffeffors of Meadows, &c. on Oldman's Creek, in the Townihip of Woolwich, in the County of Gloucefter, praying the Benefit of an Acl the better to enable them to improve their Meadows, was read. Ordered, That the Petitioners have Leave to bring in a Bill to anfwer the Prayer of their Petition on the firil Friday of the next Sitting of the Legiflature, they giving previous Notice thereof for three Weeks, by Advertifement, in at lead three of the moll publick Places of the Townihip of Woolwich in the Coun- ty of Gloucefter, with a Copy of this Order.
Mr. Whillden from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had rejecled the Bill, intitled, ' A Supplement to an Acl, intitled, " An Acl to incorporate the " North Ward of Perth Amboy, in the County of Middlefex, and for other Pur- " pofes therein mentioned."
The Report of Mr. Frazer from the Committee to whom was referred the Adjudication of the Court of Quarter Seffions of the County of Gloucefter, in Favour of Sarah Dorum, of the 29th Ultimo, was read a fecond Time and agreed to. Ordered, That a Warrant do ilfue accordingly.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Acl relative to Teftimony in Profecutions for publick '< Monies,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engroffed.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
The Floufe met.
Mr. Frazer, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of fundry Inhabitants of the States of New-Jerfey and Pennfylvaif a, refpecling the Navi- gation and Fifheries of the River Delaware, reported as follows THAT ( 44 )
THAT they have duly examined and confidered the fame, and are iatisfied that the Prayer of their Petition is reafonable and ought to be granted, and that the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill for that Purpofe. By Order of the Committee, DAVID FRAZER. To which the Houfe agreed, whereupon,
Mr. Frazer, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act to * revive and continue an Act, intitled, An Act to amend an Act, intitled, An Act ' to regailate the Filheries, and to prevent the Obftrutlions of the Navigation in * the River Delaware,' which Bill was read and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. Walton, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petitions from a Number of the Inhabitants of the Counties of Monmouth and Burlington, praying that a Law may be enacted for appointing Commillioners to lay out and open a flraight Road from Monmouth Courthoufe to Mount-Holly, as near as the Na- ture of the Cafe will admit ; reported, that it appearing to your Committee, that fuch a Road would be of publick Utility to the State, and efpecially to the Counties of Monmouth and Burlington, do recommend that a Committee be appointed to bring in a Bill for that Purpofe. By Order of the Committee, ELISHA WALTON.
To which the Houfe agreed ; whereupon, GrJcrcJ, That Melfrs. Imlay, Anderfon and M'Cullough, be a Committee to bring in a Bill for that Purpofe. Mr. Lambert, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had rejected the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for granting a further Sum of Money to the Com- 1 miffioners therein named.' Mr. Southard, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petitions and Rcmonftrances of fundry Inhabitants of the County of Gloucefter, praying a Re- peal of an Act for laying out, opening and improving certain Roads in the Counties of Cumberland, Salem, Gloucefter and Burlington, in this State, paffed the i jth Day of February, 1794, or fuch Part of the laid Law as refpects the lay- ing out, opening and improving laid Road, between Bridgetown, in the County of Cumberland, and Woodbury, in the County of Gloucefter, reported as follows : rln HAT they have carefully inquired into the Ground and Reafons enume- rated in laid Petitions, and are of Opinion the Petitioners ought to have Leave to prefent a Bill on the fourth Wednesday of the next Sitting of the Legif- lature, they previoufly advertifing the Purport of the Bill they mean to prelent in three publick Places in each County near laid Road four Weeks previous thereto. By Order of the Committee, HENRY SOUTHARD. To which the Houfe agreed. Mr. D. Vroom, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill, intitled, { An Act for conftituting and {importing Primary Schools of Education through- * out the State,' reported the fame with fundry Amendments.
( ';, ' red, That the further Consideration thereof be poltponed.
The ci, Bill, intitled, ' An Act in Relation to Teftimony in Profecuti- c ons lor puLhck Monies,' was read and compared. Rcfolved ( 45 )
Refolved unanimoujly, That the fame do pafs.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' A fupplementary Act to the feveral Ads relative ' to Elections in this State,' was read and compared. Refolved unanimonfly, That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the faid Bills. Ordered^ That Mr. Mayhew do carry the faid Bills to Council for Concur- rence.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Saturday', March 5, 1796.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Cook, from Council, prefented the Bill, intitled, ' An Aft refpecting Coro- ' ners,' with fundry Amendments made thereto by Council, to which Amend- ments he defired the Concurrence of this Houfe, which Bill with the Amend- ments were read, and the Amendments being read in their Places were agreed to. Ordered, That the faid Bill be re-engroffed. Mr. Imlay, from the Committee to whom was referred the Memorial and Pe- tition of Kenneth Hankinfon, late Collector of the County of Monmouch, reported as follows : THAT they have attentively confidered the faid Petition and Memorial and the Documents accompanying the fame, and are of Opinion that legillative Interference in Behalf of the faid Kenneth Plankinfon, without the Privity and Confent of the Board of Juflices and Freeholders of the County of Monmouth, would be partial and improper. Your Committee fubmit for Confederation the Propriety of referring the Me- morial and Petition to the next Sitting, to be read on the third Tuefday in that Sitting, the Petitioner giving Notice of this Order to the Board of Juftices and Freeholders of the County of Monmouth aforefaid, at their annual Meeting in May next. By Order of the Committee,
I J. H. M L A Y. To which the Houfe agreed.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act for constituting Courts for the Trial of * fmall Caufes,' was read and compared ; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : ( 46 )
* Counties of this State,' was read and compared ; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : Yeas. ( 47 )
The Bill, intitled, c An Act to empower the Governor of this State to incorpo- ' rate a Company for opening the Navigation of the Aflanpink Creek,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engroffed.
The Houfe adjourned until Monday Morning ten of the Clock.
Monday, March 7, 1796.
The Houfe met.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act concerning Sheriffs,' was taken into Conlideration, and after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poftponed. Ordered, That Mr. Reuben Townfend have Leave of Abfence for the Remain- der of the prefent Sitting.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for appointing Truftees to execute the Purpofes of ' the laft Will and Teftament of Samuel Brown, deceafed,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered a third Reading.
Mr. Anderfon, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An ad- * ditional Supplement to the Ad, intitled, " An Ad; to prevent the Importation *' of Slaves into the State of New-Jerfey, and to authorize the Manumiihon of " them under certain Reltrictions, and to prevent the Abufe of Slaves," which was read : A Motion was made that the faid Bill be difmiffed ; on the Queftion,
Whether the Houfe agree to the faid Motion ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Armftrong, Mr. Somers, Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Blackiidge, Mr. Southard, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Staike, Mr. Clement, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Stillwcll, Mr. French, Mr. Debow, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Hou^h, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Van-Cltve, Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. Flaring, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Hc-dden, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. Peck, Mr. Imlay, Mr. Wade, Mr. Seeley, Mr. Manning, Mr. Walton, Mr. Thornton, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Wyckoff. Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Sharps, Mr. Wallace.
Mr. Wade, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of Matthias
Allen, reported as follows : THAT they have carefully examined the Papers to them referred, and find chat the laid Matthias Allen has paid to Samuel Hays, Agent of forfeited Eitates for the County of Effex, the Sum of Three Hundred and Forty-fcven Pounds Seven Shillings and Eight-pence, being the Amount of Principal and Intereit of a Debt due from the laid Matthias Allen, to the confifcated Eitate of faid Cavalier Jouet ; and that it further appears to your Committee, that the Matthias :
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-Matthias Allen has paid the Sum of Seventeen Pounds Seven Shillings to the faid .Samuel Hays over and above the Amount of faid Debt, as his CommifTions for collecting and paying forward the Monies aforefaid, which your Committee Meaning conceives to be illegal and not within the true Intent and of the Law ; but as this Cafe is of a private Nature, your Committee are of the Opinion that an Interference of the Legislature would be improper. By Order of the Committee, JONAS WADE. Which Report was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Frazer, with Leave, prefented a Bill, intitled, ' An Act the better to pro- * mote the impartial Adminiftration of Jufticc ;' which Bill was read, and or- dered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Wade, agreeably to Leave given, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, c An Act to authorize the Commifuoners therein named, to lay out a Road from * the Bridge at the Village of Second River, through the Cedar Swamp, to the * Bridge over the Hackinfack River ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
The re-engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act reflecting Coroners,' was read and
compared ; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Armflrong, Mr. Peck, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Biddle, Mr. Seeley, Mr. Debow, Mr. Clement, Mr. Somers, Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Southard, Mr. Sharps, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Starke, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. French, Mr. Thorn Ton, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Haring, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Van-Cieve, Mr. Hedden, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Wyckoff. Mr. Hough, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. lmlay, Mr. Wade, Mr. Manning, Mr. Wallace, T Mr. Mayhew, Mr. W alton. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Southard do carry the faid Bill to Council, and inform them that the fame is paffed by this Houfe with their Amendments.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Ad for the better Relief of the Poor in the 1 County of Salem,' was read and compared.
Refolved unanimoiijly , That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Southard do carry the faid Bill to Council for Concurrence.
A Petition from Keziah Hunt, late Kcziah Lott, Executrix, Sec. of Gerfhom Lott, deceafed, Hating a Demand againlt the State in Confequencc of Demands I Eftatcs which become forfeited, and praying Payment, was read, and committed to Mcffrs. Haring, Hedden and Mayhew. A Petition from Elizabeth Dugan, praying to be allowed the Half- Pay of her deceafed Hufband, who died in the Service of the United States, was read, and committed to Mefirs. Frazer, Clement, lmlay, Hedden and Mayhew. Mr- ( 49 )
Mr. Southard, with Leave, preferred the Draught of a Bill, intitled, * An Act
' directing the Time and Mode of electing Reprefcntatives in the Cong re fs i ' the United States for this State ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecoiid Reading.
The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An Acl for the ' Punilhment of Crimes.' Rcfolved, That the Houfe agree to all the Amendments made to the faid Bill except the Amendment to the 19th and 20th Sections, and in thofe Refpects do adhere to their Bill. Ordered, That Mr. Starke do carry the faid Bill and Amendments to the Council, aud acquaint them therewith.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock;
Tuefday, March 8, 1796.
The Houfe met;
Mr. Imlay, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill, intitled, ' An 1 Acl to make Titles to certain Iflands in the Delaware,' reported as follows : THAT they have with Attention examined and confidered the fame, and find Difficulties and Embarraffments prefent themfelves in every View in
which they have been able to confider the Subject : The lead embarraffed View which your Committee have been able to take of the Subject is that the Iflands referred to in the faid Bill ihould be confidered and declared to be the Property of the State. That a Law pafs declaring the Property of thefe Iflands veiled in the State, appointing Commiffioners for taking the fame into their Charge and Care, and that the faid Commiffioners be authorized to fell and diipofe of the fame at publick Vendue, and to make good and fufficient Titles to fuch Perfons as may become Purchafers of the fame. By Order of the Committee,
J. H. IMLAY. To which the Houfe agreed. Ordered, That Meifrs. Frazer, Manning and Sinnickfon be a Committee to prepare and prefent a Bill in Conformity with the faid Report. Mr. Southard reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
A Petition from fundry Owners of the Five-Mile Beach in the County of Cape- May, praying Leave to prefent a Bill to regulate the Pafturjng of the faid Beach by the feveral Owners, in Proportion to their feveral and relpective Shares,, and to prevent the turning of Hogs on the faid Beach, was read. Ordered, That the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill to anfwer the Prayer of their Petition on the third Wednefday of the next Sitting, previoufly adver- tifing the Purport of the Bill they mean to prefent with a Copy of this Order, for three Weeks in three of the mod publick Places in the County of Cape-May.
The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, ' An Act conccrn- ' mg Sheriffs,' and, after having gone through the fame by Paragraphs, Ordered, That the faid Bill be engrofled. N The ( 50 )
The Bill, intitletl, ' An Act to revive and continue an Act, intitled, an Act t© c amend an Act, intitled, an Act to regulate the r'ilhcries and to prevent the Ob- ' ftructions of the Navigation in the River Delaware/ was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engroffed.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Black from Council, returned the Bill, intitled, ' An Act concerning the c Cavalry and Artillery,' with fundry Amendments made thereto, to which Amendments he requeued the Concurrence of this Houfe, which Bill and Amend- ments, were read and ordered a fecond Reading. The Report of Mr. Van-Cleve on the Petition of Ann Dougherty of the fecond Inftant, was read a fecond Time, and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poftponed. A Petition from Newark in the County of EfTex, praying a Repeal of the Law which lays a Tax on Stages paffing through this State, was read and ordered a fecond Reading.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Wednefday, March 9, 1796.
The Houfe met.
A Petition from Trenton, praying a Repeal of the Law which lays a Tax on Stages paffing through this State, was read and ordered a fecond Reading. A Petition from William Hammel, praying for Reafons therein fet forth, that a Law may pafs to exonerate him from his Debts on giving up to his Creditors what Property he is poffelfed of, was read and ordered to lie on the Table.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act to empower the Governor of this State * to incorporate a Company for opening the Navigation of the AfTanpink Creek,' was read and compared. Rcfolved unanimotifly, That the fame do pafs.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act to revive and continue an Act, intitled, ' an Act to amend an Act, intitled, an Act to regulate the Filheries and to pre- ' vent the Obftructions of the Navigation in the River Delaware,' was read and compared. Rcfolved unanimoujly, That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the faid Bills. Ordered, That Mr. Stillwell do carry the faid Bills to Council for Concurrence.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Stillwell reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to authorize the Commiffioners therein named to 4 lay :
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* lay out a Road from the Bridge at the Village of Second River through the ' Cedar Swamp to the Bridge over the Hackinfack River,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engrofled.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Thurfday, March 10, 1796.
The Houfe met.
The Bill, intitled, ' A Supplement to an Act, intitled, " An Act to empower " certain Perfons to purchafe the Claims of the Indians to certain Lands in this " Colony, pafled Auguft the twelfth, Anno Domini, 1758," was read a fecond Time, debated and ordered to be engrofled. Mr. Haring, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petition of Heze-
kiah Hunt, reported as follows : THAT, in the Opinion of your Committee, the Petitioner is not entitled to the Relief prayed for. By Order of the Committee, JOHN HARING. To which Report the Houfe agreed.
The Bill, intitled, ' A Supplement to the feveral Acts relative to Elections in * this State,' was read a fecond Time, debated and ordered to be engrofled.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
The Bill, intitled, < An Act directing the Time and Mode of electing Repre- ' fentatives in the Congrefs of the United States for this State,' was read a fecond Time, debated and ordered to be engrofled.
Mr. Imlay, from the Committee appointed to inquire and report what Bouks it may be ufeful and neceflary to purchafe for the Ufe of the Legiflature, reported
as follows : TH A T in Addition to the Books now in the Pofleflion of the Legiflature, the following Books will be ufeful and neceflary Two Sets of Cunningham's Law Dictionary. Two Sets of Sheridan's Dictionary. Two Sets of Blackflone's Commentaries. Two Sets of Montefquieu's Spirit of Laws. Two Sets cf Paleys Moral Philofophy. Two Sets of Vattel on the Law of Nations. Two Sets of Fergufon's Political and Moral Science. Two Sets of the Conflitution of each State in the Union.
To which the Houfe agreed ; whereupon, Re/ohed, That Mafkell Ewing, Clerk of the General Aflcmbly be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to purchafe during the Reccfs of the Legiflature, the Books above mentioned for the Ufe of the Legiflature. , Ordered, That Mr. Stockton do carry the laid Refolution to the Council for Concurrence. The C 5* )
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act concerning the Cavalry and Artillery,' with the Amendments made thereto by Council, was taken np, the Amendments agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be re-engrofled.
The Bill, intitled, * An Act for the Sale of Property in the Town of Paterfon,' was read a lecond Time, and after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered^ That the further Consideration thereof be poftponed.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock*
Friday, March 11, 1796.
The Houfe met.
The Petitions from Somerfet, read on the 3d Inftant, praying that a Law may pais to authorize the County to vote for a Place whereon to erect a Courthouie and Gaol, were read a fecond Time. Ordered, That the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill on the fecond Wed- r.efday of the next Sitting, they previously advertising the Purport of the Bill they mean to prefent, with a Copy of this Order, four Weeks in the Newfpaper printed in New-Brunfwick. Mr. Cooper, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had paffed the Bill, intitled, ' A Supplementary Act to the feveral Acts relative to Elections in
« this State,' without Amendment.
Mr. Frazer, from the Committee appointed for that Purpofe, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act to make Titles to certain Iilands in the De- * laware,' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. BeardSlee, from Council, informed the HouSe that Council had paSfed the Bill, intitled,> An Act to revive and continue an Act, intitled, an Act to amend * an Act, intitled, an Act to regulate the Fisheries and to prevent the Obstructions * of the Navigation in the River Delaware,' without Amendment.
The Bill, intitled, ' A Supplement to the Act, intitled, " An Act to enable the " Owners and PoiTeSTors of the Meadows, Swamps and Low Lands on the River " Paifaick, and its feveral Branches between the Little Falls and the Milldam at " Chatham, to break up the Reefs near faid Falls, and to dig Canals for the " more effectual draining faid Lands, and to raife Money for that Purpofe," was read a fecond Time, and, after Some Time Spent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confederation thereof be poftponed. On Motion, Ordered, That the Inhabitants of the Lower End of the County of Suflex, and adjoining the Mufcanekunk Creek, have Leave to prefent a Bill, on the firft Thurfday in the next Sitting for the Purpofe of authorizing the Inhabitants to clear out and make navigable the faid Creek, the Distance of about fifteen Miles from where it empties into the River Delaware, they previouflv advertising the Purport of the Bill they mean to prefent in the Newfpaper printed in Trenton for at leaSt four Weeks.
Mr. Imlay, from the Committee appointed for that Purpofe, prefented the
Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act appointing Commiilioners to lay out and open ' a ftraight Road from the Courthouie in the County of Monmouth to Mount- * Holly in the County of Burlington,' which Bill was read, and ordered a Second Reading A Petition ( 53 )
A Petition from fundry Inhabitants of the County of EfTex, praying L< to prefent a Bill to direct the Obstructions to the free Courfe of the Waters in Rahway River to be removed. Ordered, That the Petitioners have Leave to prefent a Bill on the fecond Friday of the next Sitting, to anfwer the Prayer of their Petition they previoufly adver- ng the Purport of the Bill, they mean to prefent in three of the mod pubfick Places in the Neighbourhood where the laid Paver runs, and in the Newfpapers printed at Elizabeth-Town at leaft three Weeks previous thereto.
Mr. Boyd, from the Committee to whom was referred the Petitions from fundry Perfons who were on the late Weltern Expedition, reported the follow- ing Refolution : WHEREAS fundry Officers and Soldiers who went on the late Weftern" Expedition in the State of Pennfylvania, have, by their Petition to l Legillature Hated Claims, in Confequence of their Services on faid Expedition,
ich Claims appear jufl upon the General Government, and, as it woul i be attended with a very considerable Expenfe and lofs of Time for the Claimants to apply individually to fuel Government for Allowance, to prevent which, Refolved, That the faid Claims, and the Vouchers in Support of them, be committed to the Care of the Governor of this State, and he be -authorized to apply to the Board of War, or any other Way he may thin!: Proper, to obtain an Allowance for the fame, and alfo for fuch others of a fnnilar Nature as may ccme to his Hands. By Order of the Committeej ADAM BOYD. To which the Houfe agreed. Ordered, That Mr. Thomfon do carry the faid Refolution to the Council foe- Concurrence.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'clock, P. M;
The Houfe met.
Mr. Thomfon reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houf;. Mr. Haring, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council have concurred in the Warrant of Half- Pay in Favour of Elizabeth Collatter (late Tomiin.)
Mr. Van-Cleve, with Leave given, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act directing where the Venue fhall be laid in Perfonal and Tranfitory Ac- ' tions,' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Pleading.
A Petition from Eliflia Jewell, of the County of Monmouth, praying Com- penfation for certain Services rendered as an Exprefs, by Order of Governor Livingfton, which Petition, with a Certificate from Governor Livingfton, were read, and referred to the Committee on the Incidental Bill.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Relief of the Executors of David Wade, ' deceased,' was read a fecond Time/debated a lered to be engroiTed.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, * An Act concerning Si. was read and compared. Refolved unanimoitfly, That the fame do pals. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Rd. Townfend C\o carry the faid Bill to Council for Con- currence. O The :
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The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for appointing Truflees to execute the Pnrpofes ot' 4 the laft Will and Teftament of Samuel Brown, deceafed,' was read a third Time. Refolved unanimoujly, That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Van-Cleve do carry the faid Bill to Council and inform them that the fame is palled without Amendment. Mr. Townfend reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The Houfe refumed the Confideration of the Bill, intitled, ' A Supplement ' to the Act, intitled, " An Act to enable the Owners and PofTefTors of the Mea- *' dows, Swamps and Low Lands on the River PafTaick, and its feveral Branches " between the Little Falls and the Mill-Dam at Chatham, to break up the Reefs " near the faid Falls, and dig Canals for the more effectual draining faid Lands, " and to raife Money for that Purpofe," and after fome Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be poflponed.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Relief of Peter Brocaw,' was read a fecond Time, debated and ordered to be engroffed.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow morning ten of the Clock.
Saturday, March 12, 1796.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Frazer, from the Committee to whom was referred the Adjudication of the Court of General Quarter Seflions of the Peace of Somerfet, in Favour of Eliza- beth Dugan, Widow of Nathan Dugan, a Soldier in Captain Stites's Company belonging to Colonel Johnfton's Regiment of Militia of this State, Reported, THAT they have duly examined the Adjudication and the Vouchers accom- panying the fame, and are of Opinion that the faid Elizabeth Dugan is en- titled to her late Hufband's Half-Pay during her Widowhood. By Order of the Committee, DAVID FRAZER. Which Report was read, and ordered a fecond Pleading. Mr. Van-Cleve reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' A Supplement to the feveral Acts relative to
' Elections in this State', was read and compared ; on the Queftion, Whether the
fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows ( 55 )
Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Vredenburgh do carry the faid Bill to Council for Con- currence.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, * An Act directing the Time and Mode of electing ' Reprefentatives in the Congrefs of the United States for this State,' was read and compared ; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried ia the Affirmative, as follows : Yeas. Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Imlay, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. Sinnickfon, Mr. Armftrong, Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Wyckoff. Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Manning, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Clement, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Peck, Mr. Vredenburgh, Mr. Debow, Mr. Seeley, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Sharps, Mr. Wade, Mr. French, Mr. Somers, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Haring, Mr. Southard, Mr. Walton. Mr. Hedden, Mr. Starke, Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Wade do carry the faid Bill to Council for Concurrence.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Relief of the Executors of David c Wade, deceafed,' was read and compared ; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Mr. Armitrong, Mr. Southard, Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Clement, Mr. Starke, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Debow, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Haring, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. French, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Peck, Mr. Hedden, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. Seeley, Mr. Imlay, Mr. Wade, Mr. Sharps, Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. Walton, Mr. Somers, Mr. Manning, Mr. Wyckoff. Mr. Wallace. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Wade do carry the faid Bill to Council for Concurrence.
The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the Relief of Peter Brocaw,' was read and compared ; on the Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Negative, as follows : Yeas. Yeas. Nays. Nays. Mr. Armitrong, Mr. Stockton, Mr. Anderfon, Mr. Peck, Mr. Debow, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Seeley, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Sharps,
Mr. Hedden, Mr. Vredenburgh. Mr. Clement, Mr. Somers, . Mr. M'Cullough, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. French, Mr. Rd. Townfend, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Wade, Mr. Harirg, Mr. Wallace. Mr. Sinnickfon, Mr. Walton, Mr. Imlay, Mr. Southard, Mr. Wyckoff. Mr. Mam ing, Mr. Starke, Mr. Mayhew, Ordered, That the faid Bill be difmiffed.
Mr. Boyd, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act to c prevent the Draws of certain Bridges in the County of Bergen being left open/ which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. The ( 5C )
' to lay out and open a The Bill, intitled, An Act appointing Commifiioncrs c ftraight Road from the Courthoufe in the County of Monmouth to Mount- * Holly in the County of Burlington,' was read, debated and ordered to be en- grofled. Mr. Condit, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council have appointed Meflrs. Sinnickfon, Linn, Condit, Whillden and Cooper, with fueh other Members as choofe to attend, a Committee to join a Committee of the Houfe of Alfembly, in a free Conference on the Bill, intitled, ' An A& for the Punifliment of Crimes,' whereupon, to meet at four o'-Clock this Afternoon in the Aflembly-Room ; Ordered, That Meflrs. Dayton, Boyd, Imlay, Anderlbn, Southard, Frazer and Peck, be a Committee, with fuch other Members as choofe to attend, to join the Committee of Council for the Purpofe in their Meffage expreiled, and that Mrs Wallace do wait on Council, and acquaint them therewith.
The Houfe adjourned until Monday Morning ten of the Clock.
Monday, March 14, 1796.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Martin, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had palled the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the gradual Reduction of the State Debt,' and the Bill, intitled, ' An Ad for the Relief and Employment of the Poor in the County * of Salem,' without Amendment.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to prevent the Draws of certain Bridges in the County of Bergen being left open,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and order- ed to be engroffed.
The Bill, intitled, ' An A 61 to make Titles for certain Iflands in the Delaware,' was read a fecond Time, and committed to Meflrs. Van-Cleve, Vredenburgh and Hough.
Mr. Stillwell laid before the Houfe a Warrant for Half-Pay in Favour of Re- becca Dennis for the Amount of her Hufband's Half-Pay, on which there is no
further Room for Endorfements ; which was read. On Motion,
/, That the fame be renewed ; whereupon, A Warrant was prefented and approved. Ordered, That the Speaker do fig n the lame. Ordered^ That Mr. Walton do carry the faid Warrant to the Council for Concurrence.
The Report of Mr. Frazer on the Application of Elizabeth Henderfon for Half-Pay of her late Huiband of the 10th Ultimo, was read and committed to the fan e Committee with the feveral Vouchers accompanying the fame.
Mr. Linn, from Council, prefented the Bill, intitled, ' An Act to empower the ( .\ ioi of this State to incorporate a Company for opening the Navigation of
the Alfanpink Creek,' with fundry Amendments ; which Bill, with the Amend- ments wre e read, the Amendments agreed to, and die Bill ordered to be re- engr/)iled.
Mr, Linn, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had concurred in the ( 57 ) the Resolution refpecting the purchafing of fandry Books for the Ufe of the Legislature.
The Koufe adjourned to three o'Clock, P.- M.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Frazer, from the Committee to whom was referred the Adjudication of the Court of General Quarter Sefiions of the Peace of the County of Eflex, in Favour of Elizabeth Henderfon, late the Widow of Samuel Roberts a Soldier in in Captain Howell's Company of the firfl Regiment of New-Jerfey, further reported, "HAT, in Confequence of the Certificate attefled upon the Oath of Mary JL Sutton, now before us, we are fully of Opinion, that the faid Elizabeth Henderfon, late the Widow of Samuel Roberts, was lawfully married to her prefent Hufband Robert Henderfon on the 3 ill Day of October, 1784, and 1 faid Elizabeth Henderfon is entitled to her late Hu (band's Half-Pay during her Widowhood; that is to fay, from the 24th Day of October, 1777, to the 3 1 ic Day of October, 1784. By Order of the Committee, DAVID FRAZER. To which the Houfe agreed. Ordered, That a Warrant do iflue accordingly. The Report of Mr. Frazer on the Application of Elizabeth Dngan of Saturday lalt, was read a fecond Time and difagreed to.
The re-engrofled Bill, intitled, ' An Act concerning the Cavalry and Artillery,' was read and compared.
Refolvcd unanhnoujly , That the fame do pafs. Ordered^ That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Wyckoff do carry the laid Bill to the Council and acquaint them that the fame is pafled by this Houfe with their Amendments.
The engrofTed Bill, intitled, ' An Act to prevent the Draws of certain Bridges 4 in the County of Bergen being left open,' was read and compared. Refolved unanlmoiijly, That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the lame. Ordered, That Mr. WyckofFdo carry the faid Bill to Council for Concurrence.
The re-engrofled Bill, intitled, ' An Act to empower the Governor of this State ' to incorporate a Company for opening the Navigation of the Aflanpink Creek,' was read and compared. Refolved, That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. WyckofFdo carry the faid Bill to the Council, and acquaint them that the fame is pafled by this Houfe with their Amendments. Mr. Walton reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Tuefday, March 15, 1796.
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The engrofTcd Bill, intitled, ' A Supplement to an Act, intltlcd, ' An Act td 1 empower certain Perfons to purchafe the Claims of the Indians to certain Lands ' in this Colony, palled the twelfth Day of Augulf, in the Year of our Lord f Seventeen Hundred and Fifty-eight,' was read and compared. RefolvcJ unaii'imoujly, That the lame do pafs.
The engrofTed Bill, intitled, ' An Act to authorize the Commimoners therein 1 named to lay out a Road from the Bridge at the Village of Second River ' through the Cedar Swamp to the Bridge over the Hackinfack River,' was read and compared. Refolved, That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the faid Bills. Ordered, That Mr. Anderfon do cai'ry the faid Bills to the Council for Con- currence.
The Warrant in Favour of Elizabeth Henderfon, late the Widow of Samuel Roberts, allowing her the Half-Pay of her late Fluiband during the Time fhe remained his Widow, was read and approved. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Anderfon do carry the faid Warrant to the Council for Concurrence.
The Warrant in Favour of Sarah Dorum, who was formerly the Wife of Jo_ feph Githins, for the Amount of her late Hufband's Half-Pay, was read and approved. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Anderfon do carry the faid Warrant to the Council for Concurrence.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act directing where the Venue fhall be laid in per- ' fonal or tranfitory Actions,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engrofTed.
Mr. Van-Cleve, from the Committee to whom was referred the Bill, intitled, ' An Act to make Titles for certain Iflands in the Delaware,' reported the fame
' with fundry Amendments and the following Title : An Act for taking Charge ' of and leafing certain Iflands in the River Delaware ;' which Bill was read, further amended and ordered to be engrofTed.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to repeal an Act, intitled, " An Act for the Relief " and Support of maimed and difabled Officers, Soldiers and Seamen, and of " the Widows and Children of fuch as fall in Battle, or otherwife lofe their Lives " in the military or naval Service, pafTed the tenth Day of June, Seventeen " Hundred and Seventy-nine," was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engrofTed.
Mr. Stillwell, with Leave, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act • relative to Infolvent Debtors ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading.
Mr. Black, from Council, prefented the Bill, intitled, c An Act for the Punifh- * ment of Crimes,' with the Amendments, and informed the Houfe that Council have receded from their Amendments made to the 19th and 20th Sections of the faid Bill. Ordered, That the fame be re-engrofTed.
The engrofTed Bill, intitled, ' An Ad. for appointing Commiflioncrs to lay out
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' and open a direct Road from the Courthoufe in the County of Monmouth to * Mount-Holly in the County of Burlington,' was read and compared. Refulved, That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Blacklidge do carry the fiid Bill to Council for Concurrence. Mr. Wade, from the Committee appointed for that Purpofe, prefented the Draught of a Bill, intitled, ' An Act for defraying fundry Incidental Charges ;' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. Mr. Anderfon reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Blacklidge reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
Mr. Cooper, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had rejected the Bill, intitled, ' An Act to appoint Truftees to iell the real Eltate of John Emley 4 late of Alexandria, in the County of Hunterdon, Efquire, deceafed, and to dif- 4 pofe of the Monies thence arifing, and for other Purpofes therein mentioned.' Mr. Cooper alfo informed the Houfe that Council had concurred in the War- rant in Favour of Rebecca Dennis.
The engrofTed Bill, intitled, ' An Act to repeal an Act, intitled, " An Act for " the Relief and Support of maimed and difabled Officers, Soldiers and Seamen, " and of the Widows and Children of fuch as fall in Battle, or otherwife lofe " in their Lives the military or naval Service," was read and compared ; on the
Queftion, Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : Yeas. M^r. Anderfon, Mr. Blacklidge, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Dayton, Mr. Debovv, Mr. Haring, Mr. Hough, Mr. Imlay, Mr. M'CulIough, Mr. Manning, Mr. Mayhew, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Peck, Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered^ That Mr. Boyd do carry the faid Bill to the Council for Concurrence.
Agreeably to Order, the Houfe again refolved itfelf into a Committee of the whole Houfe on- the Report of Mr. Imlay of the 2d Inftant : Mr. Vredenburgh accordingly took the Chair of the Committee, and, after fome Time fpent there- on, the Speaker renamed the Chair, and Mr. Vredenburgh, Chairman of the Com mittee, reported, HAT the Committee had agreed to recommend the following Refolu-
tions to the Houfe : Re/ofoed, That the Supreme Court fhall confifl of a Chief Juftice and two AlTociate Juftices or Judges, any one of whom fhall be a Quorum. That ( Go )
That in no Cafe whatever fliall there be a Trial at the Ear of the Supreme
lit, but all Trials in this Court fhall be where the Caufe of Action arofe, or where the Defendant lives, or can be taken at the Option of the
That one of the Jullices of the Supreme Court fhall, in the Vacation and c in every Year, hold a Circuit Court in each of the Counties of this State, in- cluding the County in "which the Supreme Court fhall i;t. That the Venire Facias iffue directly returnable to the Nifi Prius Court without the Circuity of Procefs now in Ufe. Your Committee further report that they have carefully and attentively ex- amined and coniidered the ieveral Objects embraced and contemplated in the laid Bill. That, in their Opinion, the prefent Syflem of adminiftering Juftice in this State is fufceptable of Improvements greatly for the Convenience and Accommodation of the Citizens of the State, and importantly fo for the faithful and impartial Adminiftration of Juftice. As the Remit of their Inveitigation and P„eflections on this Subject, the Com-
mittee beg Leave to fubmit for Confideration the following Refolution : Rtfolved, That the State fliall be divided into three Diftricls, to be compofed
of the following Counties : The Counties of Bergen, EfTex, Morris and Suffex,
to form one Diftrict ; the Counties of Hunterdon, Somerfet, Middlefex and Monmouth, to form one Diftrict; and the Counties of Burlington, Gloucefter,
Salem, Cumberland and Cape-May, to form one Diftrict. To each of tl: Diftricls there fliall be appointed fome fuitable and difcrcet Perfon of fuch Cha- racter and Abilities as will well qualify him to act as a President of the Refpec-
tive County Courts within the Diftrict for which he may be appointed ; that it fliall be the Duty of each Perfon fo to be appointed, perfonally to act arid prefide at each and every Court of Common Pleas, the Orphan's Court when fitting in Term Time, and the Court of Quarter Seflions of the Peace, to be holdcn in the
Counties of their refpective Diftricts ; and it fliall further be the Duty of each Prefident to do and perform thefe Duties which may of Right and for the good Purpofes intended hereby, appertain to their Office, and for the Services and Duties to be performed by each refpective Prefident, the Legillature will provide fuch Compenfation as fliall be jufl and reafonable. That the Courts of Common Pleas in the refpective Counties fliall, on this Eftablifhment and Arrangement in all civil Cafes, have original and concurrent Jurifdiction with the Supreme Court, and that the Judges of the Court of Com- mon Pleas, together with the refpective Prefidents of fuch Courts fhall, by Virtue of their Office be Jullices of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery for the Trial of capital and other Offenders therein, any two of whom, together with the Prefident, fhall be a Quorum, but that the Party accufed may at his or her Election, in Cafes of Life and Death, remove the Indictment and Proceedings or Tranfcript thereof into the Supreme Court, and that in all Cafes of Difficulty depending in the High Court of Errors and Appeals in this State, on Writs of Error directed to the Supreme Court to remove the Record of judgments ren- dered originally in the faid Supreme Court, it fhall be lawful lor the Court of Errors and Appeals at their Pleafure to require the Attendance of all or any of the faid Prefidents of the faid Diftricts at the Hearing and Arguments of fuch Caufcs as may come before them, and in every fuch Cafe it fhall become the Duty of every fuch Prefident to attend the faid Court of Errors and Appeals whenever their Attendance fhall be as aforefaid required, that they fhall attend at the Hearing, and on the Arguments in every fuch Caufe, and the Pari have been fully heard, and the fame be finifhed, the faid Prefident or Prefidents ( tt )
fhall anfwcr fuch Queftions in the Law as may be put to them by the faid Court of Errors and Appeals, and give their Reafons on which fuch Anfwer may be founded. Which Refolutions were read, and the further Confideration thereof poftponed. Mr. Boyd reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
JVednefday, March 16, 1796.
The Houfe met.
The Houfe refumed the Conlideration of the Refolutions reported by Mr. Vredenburgh from the Committee of the whole Houfe; and, after fome Time fpent thereon, Refolved, That the Houfe agree to the faid Report and Rcfolution.
Refolved, That the Bill, intitled, c An Act concerning the Supreme and Circuit ' Courts,' with the Report of the Committee on the fame, be referred to William Paterfon, Efq. who is hereby requeued, at his Difcretion, to draught a Bill or Bills in Conformity with the faid Report, for the Confideration of the Legiflature at their next Sitting.
Mr. Wade, with Leave, prefented a Bill, intitled, ' An additional Supplement * to an Act, intitled, " An Act for railing a Revenue from certain Stages and " Ferries, palled February 25, 1 794," which Bill was read and ordered a fecond Reading.
The engrofTed Bill, intitled, ' An Act for taking Charge of and leafing certain ' Iflands in the River Delaware,' was read and compared. Refolved, That the fame do pafs. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the fame. Ordered, That Mr. Clement do carry the faid Bill to the Council for Concur- rence.
Mr. Sinnickfon, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had paffed
the Bill intitled, ' An Act providing for the Relloration of certain Records of the ' Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth, which * have been loft, embezzled or deftroyed ;' the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for the ' Relief of the Executors of David Wade, deceafed,' and the Bill, intitled, ' An ' Act for the Relief of the Admin: fixators of Enos Croweli.'
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for improving the Navigation of Alloways Creek in ' the County of Salem,' was read a fecond Time, and referred to the next Sitting. A Petition from William Reeve and others, praying that they may not be com- pelled to pay their equal Proportion for clearing out Rahway River, agreeably to the Prayer of a Petition heretofore prefented, was read, and ordered to be real a fecond Time with the faid Petition.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act relative to Infolvent Debtors,' was read a fecond Time, and, after fbme Time fpent thereon, Ordered, That the further Confideration thereof be pofiponed. Mr. Lambert, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had rejected the Warrants of Half-Pay in Favour of Sarah Dorum and Elizabeth Henderlo 1; Q^ that ( 62 )
the Vouchers and Claims that they have concurred in the Refolution committing the late Weftern Expedition, of certain Officers and Soldiers who were out on to the Charge and Care of the Governor.
The Houfe adjourned to three o'Clock, P. M.
The Houfc met.
« " Act The Bill, intitled, An additional Supplement to an Act, intitled, An Xi for raifing a Revenue from certain Stages and Ferries, paffed February 25, " debated, and ordered to be engrofled. 1 794," was read a fecond Time,
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act for defraying fundry Incidental Charges,' was read a fecond Time, debated, and ordered to be engroffed.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Thurfday, March ij, 1796.
The Houfe met.
Mr. Clement reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe. Mr. Elmer, from Council, prefented the Bill, intitled, ' An Act concerning 4 Sheriffs,' with fundry Amendments, to which Amendments he requefted the
Concurrence of this Houfe ; which Bill and Amendments were read, and, the Amendments being read in their Places were agreed to. Ordered, That the faid Bill be re-engroffed. Mr. Elmer, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had paffed the Bill, intitled, ' An Act to prevent the Draws of certain Bridges in the County of 1 Bergen being left open ;' the Bill, intitled, ' An Act for appointing Cornmif- ' fioners to lay out and open a direct Road from the Courthoufe in the County of * Monmouth to Mount-Holly, in the County of Burlington ;' and the Bill, inti- tled, ' An Act to authorize the Commiffioners therein named to lay out a Road ' from the Bridge at the Village of Second River through the Cedar Swamp to the * Bridge over the Hackinfack,' without Amendment.
The Bill, intitled, ' An Act to enable the Inhabitants of the Townfhips in ' the fcveral Counties of this State to repair their Flighways by Hire, and to ' raife Money for that Purpofe,' was read and referred to the next Sitting. Mr. Cook, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had paffed the Bill, intitled, ' A Supplement to an Act, intitled, " An Act to empower certain " Perfons to purchafe the Claims of the Indians to certain Lands in this Colony, " paffed the twelfth Day of Auguft, 1758," without Amendment.
Mr. Elmer, from Council, prefented a Bill, intitled, ' An Act concerning the * Surrogates in the feveral Counties of this State,' with the Amendments made thereto by Council, to which Amendments he requefted the Concurrence of this the Amendments were read, the Houle ; which Bill with and Amendments being read in their Places were agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be re-engroffed.
Mr. Cook, from Council, alfo prefented a Bill, intitled, ' An Act directing * a more uniform Mode of Election,' which Bill was read, and ordered a fecond Reading. The ( 63 )
The Houfe adjourned to three o'clock, P. M.
The Houfe met.
The Bill, intitled, c An Act directing a more uniform Mode of Election,' was read a fecond Time, and referred to the next Sitting.
Mr. Beardilee, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had naff. J the
Bill, inticled, ' An Act for the Relief of Iniblvent Ucbco s, without Air, ndm ...
The engroffed Bill, intitled, * An Ad for defraying fundry Incidental Charges, was read and compared. Refjlved unantmoujly^ That the fame do pafs.
The engroffed Bill, intitled,' An additional Supplement to an Acl, inti " An Acl for raifing a Revenue from certain Stages and Ferries,, palled Febi " the 25th, 1794," was read and compared. Refolvsd, That the fame do pafs. n The engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act directing where the Vemie 1 in Perfoqal or Tranfitory Actions,' was read- and compared ; on thi Queitioh,
Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmati / e, a :
Mr. Sharps, Mr. Snmers, Mr. Stillwdl,
Mr. 'I hotnfon,
Mr. Rd. i ov. i fend, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. D. Vroom, Mr. Wade, Mr. Walton, Mr. Wyckoff. Ordered, That the Speaker do fign the faid Bills. Ordered, That Mr. Dayton do carry the faid Bills to Council, and requefl their Concurrence therein.
The Houfe adjourned until To-morrow Morning ten of the Clock.
Fiiday, March 18, 1796.
The Houfe met.
The re-engroffed Bill, intitled, ' An Act concerning the Surrogate'; in the * feveral Counties of this State,' was read and cr.nij.ared; on the Queflidii,
Whether the fame do pafs ? It was carried in the Affirmative, as follows : .
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Yeas. Yc Nays. Mr. Andtrfdn, Mr. Sinnicklbn, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Bljckhdge, Mr. Somers, Da n,
Mr. ( foment, Mr. Stockton, 1 r. Heddcn,
Mi. i ebi w, Mr. Thomfon, Mr. Iirtlay, Mr. Frazcr, Mr. Rd. 'lovmfend, Mr. M-mning, Mr. French, Mr. Van-Cleve, Mr. Stillwell, Mr. Houj;ii, Mr. Vredmburgh, Mr. Walton. Mr. Mayh w, Mr. D, Vroom,
Mr. M^rj? i, Mr. Waile, Mr. Sceley, Mr. Wallace, Mr Sharps, Mr. Wyckoflf.
/, Thar, the Speaker do figa the fame. rhat Mr. Frazer do carry th~ faid Bill to Council, and acquaint that th is pafled by this Houfe with their Amendments.
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.< . t: e Speaker and Clerk of the Afieaibly be allowed each four or atte: dinr. to the Inflection and CompariiJig of the Copy of the
the |ou . als and "cr the Prefs ; and that the Doorkeeper be allowed paring the A fembly-R torn and clearing the fame two Days Pay. to U 'I hi t Ma(k< 11 Ew i ig, C'erk of the Houfe of Affembly be directed
li nut! s ! the Hov.k- of this Day, the Titles and Names of thefeveral to the Legillature, and that he be further directed to 'procure
• t the K fe of the Legiflature a fuitable Cafe for the keeping and Prefervation
. ch Books 5 and further dfo, that he be refponfibJe to the Legiflature for tht late keepi Pi iflrvation of the fame.
Mr. Frazer i epoi ted, hat he had obeyed the Order of the Houfj.
Thomfon, rom die Committee to whom was referred the Petition of the Executors and Legatees named in the laft Will and Teltament of Samuel Lippen- cotr, dec afed, iepf rted as follows :
ill. That a Bond exec uted by John Leonard to Samuel Ltppencott, was pro- duced to y< or Committee, conditioned for the Payment of f. 70, lawful Money* dated ti.e 22d of May, 1773, on which there is a Receipt for £. 9 16 8 for two
Yeai .. Interelt, fo that there remains now due on faid Bond the Sum of Q, 1 \o. 2d. That the faid John Leonard joined the Bi icfli Troops oaring the late
\\ ar, and, that his Property was confiscated to the Ufe of this Stn . T,d. That from the Depciition of one of the fubferibing Witnefles, and alfo of
the Executor to faid Eftate, taken before a Juflice of the Peace, in I on the Bav.k of laid Bond, your Committee are of Opinion rhat the fame has not been discharged : Your Committee are therefore of Opinion that Provifion ought to La made by the Legiflature for difchafging the faid bond, if there is Money fufficient in the Treafury belonging to the Eftate of the laid John Leonard. Which Report was read, and referred to the next Sitting.
The re Ted Bill, intitled, ' An Ac"l concerning Sheriffs,' was read and corn
v the fame do pafs.
••] ' TV .. - jrofl 'd Bill, intitled, An Act for the Punifhment of Crimes,' was
Rej it the fame do pafs. Ordered^ That tue Speaker do fign the faid Bills. Ordered, :
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Ordered, That Mr. Mayhew do carry the faid Bills to the Council, and ac- quaint them that the fame is pafled by this Houie with their Amendments. On Motion, Re/blved, That the Speaker have Power during the Recefs of the Lcgiflature, to convene the General Aflembly whenever any extraordinary Occafion fliall in his Opinion render the fame neceffary.
Mr. Haring, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had rejected " the Bill, intitled, ' A further Supplement to the Act, intitled, An Act for regu- lating Roads and Bridges.
Mr. Mayhew reported, that he had obeyed the Order of the Houfe.
Mr. Condit, from Council, informed the Houfe that Council had pa(Ted the Bill, intitled, ' An Act in Relation to Teftimony in Profecutions for publicfc * Money;' the Bill, intitled, ' An additional Supplement to an Act, intitled, " An Act for raifing a Revenue from certain Stages and Ferries, palTed Febru- " ary 25, 1794;" and the Bill, intided, ' An Act for defraying fundry Inci- * dental Charges,' without Amendment, and, that Council had rejected the bill, intitled, c An Act directing the Time and Mode of electing Reprefentatives in * the Congrefs of the United States for this State. On Motion, P.s/olved, That the diligent Attention, the upright and impartial Conduct of Ebenezer Elmer, Efq. in the Duties of his Station, as Speaker, have been fuch during the Sittings of the prefent Seflion, as to entitle him to the Approbation and Thanks of the Houfe.
The following is a Lift of the Books on Hand belonging to the LegiHature
1 Acts of George II. in 1 7 Vols. Folio. 2 D'Ewes's Journals of the Britifh Parliament in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 2 Copies Folio.
3 Journals of the Affembly of New-Jerfey, 14 Vols. Folio. 4 Journals of the Houfe of Reprefentatives in the Congrefs of the United States, 3 Vols. Folio and three Pamphlets. 5 Do. of the Senate of the United States, 4 Vols. Folio and one Pamphlet.
6 State Papers and Votes of Aflembly, 7 Vols. Folio, from 1745 to 179.3. 7 Votes of Aflembly, 2 Vols. Folio, from 1780 to 1793.
8 Maflachufetts Laws, 1 Vol. Folio.
9 1 Vol. Laws of New-York, Folio.
10 1 Do. Pennfylvania Do.
11 1 Vol. Grants and Confeflions by Learning and Specer.
12 1 Vol. Newcll's Edition of the Jerfey Laws.
13 1 Vol. Allinfon's Do. 14 2 Do. by Wilfon. 15 4 Vols. Pamphlets of the Jerfey Laws, bound. 16 5 Vols, of New-Jerfey Laws and Ordinances. 17 4 Vols. Journals of Council. R iS ~" "~ //..*.,~A *> - -><*, ' f '
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in and 51. 2 Vols. Journals of the Britifh Parliament 1749, 50 Vols. Folio. 19 Cunningham's Law Didionary, 2 '2 2 j Vattel's Law of Nations, Copies Octavo.
2 Copies Octavo. 1 1 Sheridan's Dictionary, 22 Montefcruc's Spirit of Laws, 2 Vols. Do. 23 Paley's Philofbphy, 2 Copies Do. 24 Blackftone's Commentaries, 4 Vols.
of New-York, 2 Vols, and 1 odd Vol. 2 5 Laws and 9th Vols. 26 .journals of the old Congrefs, except the 7th Pennfylvania from 1780 to 1790, incomplete. 27 journals of the Aflembly of 28 Laws of Pennfylvania of 1791. Congrefs. 29 1 Pamphlet Acts of the Secretary of the Treafury to the Congrefs 30 1 Do. Communications from of the United States. of the Treafury containing a Plan for the further 31 Report of the Secretary Support of the publick Credit. ratifying the Conflitution of the United States. 32 Minutes of the Convention,
Laws, 1 Vol. 33 Maflachufetts Perpetual
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