township committee or railroad corporation to lay out, excavate, construct or grade any road, highway or thoroughfare, and it shall appear to such board, committee or corporation that the public interest will be best subserved in any particular case by the construction of any section of such road, highway or thoroughfare through a tunnel, instead of through an open cut, in order to avoid interference with any established road, highway or thoroughfare, and to effect less injury to private property, then and in that case it shall be lawful for such board, committee or other corporation to construct a tunnel for any particular section of such road, highway or thoroughfare, under the same regulations as now exist in regard to the laying out and construction of roads, highways and thoroughfares by such corporations respectively, and under the same responsibility for any damage which may be done to the property of private individuals. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 10, 1880. CHAPTER CXXIII. A Further Supplement to the act entitled "An act concerning the sale of railroads, canals, turnpikes, bridges, and plank roads," approved March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five. meet within purchase. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Purchasers shall the State of New Jersey, That the persons for or on whose thirty days after account any railroad, canal, turnpike, bridge or plank road may have been purchased, as provided in the first section of the act to which this is a further supplement, shall meet within thirty days after such purchase shall have been made, at the county town of any one of the counties through which the said railroad, canal, turn Notice of meeting pike, bridge or plank road may run, public notice of the to be published. time and place of such meeting having been given at least once a week for two weeks in at least one newspaper published in each of the counties in or through which the said railroad, canal, turnpike, bridge or plank road may run, or personal notice, in writing, of such time and place having been given to each of said persons for or on whose account such purchase was made, at least one Shall organize week prior to the time of such meeting; and when so met shall organize said new corporation by electing a board of directors, to consist of such number as provided in the original charter of the corporation so reorganized and to continue in office for one year and until their successors shall be chosen pursuant to the by-laws of such new corporation. new corporation. Shall adopt corporate name, seal and determine and issue certificates therefor. 2. And be it enacted, That at such meeting so held the amount of stock said persons so met shall adopt a corporate name and seal, determine the amount of the capital stock thereof, and may make and issue certificates therefor to the persons for and on whose account such purchase was made to the amount of their respective interests therein in shares of fifty or one hundred dollars each, as said board may deem expedient. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 10, 1880. Printing how executed. CHAPTER CXXIV. An Act relative to public printing. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the laws enacted at each session of the legislature shall hereafter be printed in the same general style in which the volume of laws was printed in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, excepting that the laws shall be collated minutes of as lative be paid. and indexed under the two heads of general public acts, special public and private acts; also the legislative documents shall be hereafter printed in the same style in which the said work was done in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, omitting the index; the journal of the senate and minutes of the joint meet- Senate journal, ings and executive sessions, and the minutes of the house sembly and legisof assembly shall be printed in the same compact and docuworkmanlike manner in which the said work was done in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two; also, that the public bills ordered by either branch of the Public bills. legislature shall be printed on good writing paper, with pica type, each page to contain thirty-one lines; and the prices to be paid for said printing shall be as follows: for printing six thousand copies of the session laws, the sum of forty-two dollars per sheet of sixteen pages; for printing one thousand copies of the journal of the senate Compensation to with the minutes of the joint meetings, and one thousand copies of the minutes of the house of assembly, the sum of twenty-two dollars per sheet of sixteen pages; for printing one thousand copies of the legislative documents, at the rate of seventy-five cents per thousand ems for composition, and seventy-five cents per token of two hundred and fifty impressions of sixteen pages for press work; for printing two hundred copies of the public bills, ordered by either branch of the legislature, at the rate of five dollars per sheet of four foolscap pages, and in cases where extra copies shall be ordered and delivered to either house, they shall be paid for at the rate of two dollars per sheet of four foolscap pages for each two hun- Extra copies, dred extra copies; and for printing the pamphlets and other papers ordered by the legislature, at the rate of seventy-five cents per thousand ems for composition, and seventy-five cents per token of two hundred and fifty impressions of sixteen pages, for the press work; pro- Proviso. vided, that in all cases where rule and figure work is required, the price for composition shall be double the rates above stated; and where matter requires two justifications, without rules, one price and a half shall be paid; and provided further, that seventy-five cents extra per Proviso. page shall be paid for printing all indices and tables of Work to be completed; how done. Paper, quality and description. contents set in bourgeois type in the session laws, jour- 2. And be it enacted, That the above prices shall include all the expenses incident to the printing and delivery to the state treasurer of all documents ordered, except folding and stitching, which shall be charged at the current prices for such work, and the paper, which shall be of good quality and of the following description: for the documents, journals and minutes, white calendered printing paper, twenty-four by thirty-eight inches in size, weighing not less than fifty pounds to the ream of four hundred and eighty sheets; for the laws the same size as for the journals, and to weigh not less than fifty pounds to the ream of four hundred and eighty sheets; for the bills, to be on good flatcap paper, weighing fourteen Price of paper. pounds to the ream; the price to be allowed for such paper shall be at the lowest rate per pound at which the same is sold by paper dealers in New York or Philadelphia on the first day of April; and satisfactory evidence of the price of such paper within the said period shall be submitted to the comptroller before the allowance by him of any bill for paper on which any public printing shall be executed. Joint committee on printing shall ments or reports in the volume of documents. to be printed. 3. And be it enacted, That all messages, pamphlets, reorder what docu- ports or other documents, which are deemed of sufficient shall be printed public importance to be printed and bound for preservation, shall hereafter be embraced in two volumes, under the title of "legislative documents;" and no document or report shall be embraced in said volumes unless so ordered by the joint committee on printing; when said joint committee shall order any document to be printed Number of copies in the said volumes of documents, there shall be one thousand copies thereof printed, which documents shall be numbered in the order in which they are ordered to be printed, and the governor's annual and other messages shall be classed as document number one in said volume, and shall be preceded by a list of the documents contained in such volume, in the order in which they are arranged; when any document shall be ordered to be printed more than once (at periods more than ten days apart), the printer thereof shall be entitled to charge composition as above provided for each time the docu € ment shall be so printed, and in no other case shall more than one composition be paid for the printing of such reports or documents. copy. 4. And be it enacted, That in conformity with the act officers to furnish approved April sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the general assembly and the secretary of the senate to deliver copies completed of the journals of their respective houses to the persons employed to print the same within thirty days after the close of the session of the legislature; and in the event of said clerk and secretary failing to deliver such copies as provided for in this section, they shall forfeit to the treasurer, for the use of the state, one hundred dollars of their salary; and the per- Work when to be sons designated to print the said minutes and journals livered. shall finish their work and deliver it to the state treasurer within four months of the time of receiving the copy therefor, under a penalty of three hundred dollars. finished and de pensation there 5. And be it enacted, That the indices to the pamphlet Indices and comlaws, to the journal of the senate, and to the minutes of for. the house of assembly, shall hereafter be made out by the person or persons respectively who may be empowered to execute said printing, and the sum of seventy-five dollars each shall be allowed said printers for compiling said indices; said indices to the pamphlet laws shall be printed in solid bourgeois type, and there shall be but two indices to the pamphlet laws, one following the general public laws, and one following the special public and private laws, the last named to be a general index to the whole volume, and said indices shall be made out alphabetically, in the style of the indices of the pamphlet laws for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six; the indices to the senate journal and to the assembly minutes shall be set solid in bourgeois type, and shall be made out and printed in the same style as said indices in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two. 6. And be it enacted, That William S. Sharp, of the city Banks and sav of Trenton, be employed to print the report of banking ings institutions. and savings institutions. and annual re 7. And be it enacted, That John L. Murphy, of the city Current printing of Trenton, be employed to print the bills of the senate ports. and general assembly, and such other document printing |