CHAPTER CCCXII. An act to relieve owners and officers of vessels owned in New sailing on Chesa 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the New Jersey State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for any vessel vessels, or vessels, owned and officered by citizens of New Jersey, from ports sailing from the port of Baltimore, Maryland, or any port peake Bay or ports in the Chesapeake bay and bound to any port in not to be New Jersey to sail direct to their port of destination with- tined by out any let or hindrance from any quarantine authorities authorities claiming control of New York waters. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect imme quaran New York CHAPTER CCCXIII. An act concerning the records of Notaries Public of other proven ord of no lic of other 1. BE it ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the A duly State of New Jersey, That whenever the register or other copy of the book of any notary public appointed and qualified under oficial recthe laws of any state or territory of the United States con- taries pubtaining a record of the official acts of such notary public by state, rehim done in pursuance of his office shall have been, or shall specting hereafter be, in pursuance of the law of such state or terri- ing of a tory, by reason of the death, removal or other disability of of exsuch notary public, deposited in the office of the clerk, pro- shall be rethonotary or recorder of deeds of the city or county in which ceived as the said notary public resided at the time of his acting as the courts the protest note or bill change evidence in of this State. Proviso. such notary public, a copy of such record or of any part thereof respecting the protesting of any note or bill of exchange protested by such notary public, and the time when, place where and upon whom demand of acceptance or payment was made, with a copy of the notice of non acceptance or non-payment (if a copy of such notice shall appear on said record), how the notice of non-acceptance or non-payment was served, and time when, or if sent, in what manner, and the time when, and to whom, duly certified under the hand and seal of such clerk, prothonotary or recorder of deeds, or otherwise proved to be truly taken from said record, shall be held and received in all the courts of this state as conclusive evidence of the facts therein recited, and also of the official character of said notary public; and whenever it shall appear from such record that the said note or bill of exchange had been protested for want of acceptance or payment thereof, and that the said notary public making such protest had duly notified the drawer or endorsers, by mail, of the demand of payment or acceptance and refusal thereof, without specifying the names or the post office address of such drawer or endorsers, the copy of such record certified or proved as aforesaid, shall be held and received in all the courts of this state as conclusive evidence that the drawer and endorsers of such note or bill of exchange were duly notified of such demand and refusal; provided, that the party offering the same shall have annexed a copy of such record to his declaration or other pleading, or shall at least twenty days before the trial of any cause where such record is to be offered in evidence serve upon the opposite party or his attorney a notice that he intends to offer in evidence upon said trial such record or a copy thereof, setting forth the cause; and provided further, that any party may contradict by other evidence any of the matters appearing upon the said record in all cases where such party shall give notice of his intention so to do within five days after a service of the notice mentioned in the first proviso of this sec. tion. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 21, 1874. CHAPTER CCCXIV. A supplement to the act entitled "An act to authorize the establishment, and to prescribe the duties of companies for manufacturing and other purposes," approved March second, eighteen hundred and forty-nine. Act to in sons asso 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the provisions of the act, to which clude perthis is a supplement, shall be extended to such persons as ciating fo. may associate themselves into a company for the purpose of facture of manufacturing butter and cheese and the business incident butter and thereto. the manu cheese. stock. 2. And be it enacted, That any company for the purpose of Capital manufacturing butter and cheese, organized by virtue of this act may commence business with a paid up capital stock of one thousand dollars. 3. And be it enacted, That all companies that may be established under this act shall possess all the general powers given by the act to which this is a supplement. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 21, 1874. CHAPTER CCCXV. An act to regulate the manufacture in this state of nitroglycerine and its compounds. cerine shall 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That no person or persons or company Nitro-glyshall be permitted within this state to erect, have or main- not be mantain, or cause to be erected, had or maintained, any estab-ufactured quarter of a city, town house of public within a lishment, building or manufactory, which shall be actually mile of any employed in manufacturing or storing nitro-glycerine, or village or any powder or material of which nitro-glycerine is an essential ingredient or forms a component part, within the worship. distance of a quarter of a mile from any town, city, vilNor within lage or house of public worship; or within the distance of tance of an a quarter of a mile from any inhabited house, without the house with- consent in writing of the occupant or occupants of such inout consent habited house as aforesaid; and every person or company offending against the provisions of this act shall be deemed Penalty for guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be act. liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars. like dis inhabited of occu pant. violation of 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 21, 1874. Appropriation to Disabled How to be expended. CHAPTER CCCXVI. A supplement to an act entitled "An act to provide for the organization of the New Jersey Home for Disabled Soldiers," approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That in addition to the appropriation for the support of the home for disabled soldiers, now authororized by law, the further sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the object contemplated in the act to which this is a supplement. 2. And be it enacted, That the above sum shall be expended under the direction of the managers of said home, and the state treasurer is hereby authorized to pay the same for the purpose aforesaid, to the treasurer of said home, on the warrant of the comptroller, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 21, 1874. CHAPTER CCCXVII. An act for the Protection of Fisheries in this State. seine, trap, net, set waters the com 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of No fishing the State of New Jersey, That from and after the passage of winetra this act, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons, with ike, gilling net, seine, trap, fike, gilling net, set net, pot or gun, to take net, pot or or catch fish in any of the lakes or ponds of this state which an in any may have been stocked by the fish commissioner of this state stocked by with fresh water fish; and any person or persons who shall missioners. take or catch any fish in any of such lakes or ponds of this state, in manner aforesaid, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, Penalty. and upon conviction thereof, before any court having jurisdiction of such offence, shall be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not less than three months, or by fine not less than twenty-five dollars, nor exceeding one hundred dollars, or by both, such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court before which such conviction shall be had; provi Proviso. ded always, that such penalty shall not apply to the taking or catching of small minnows for bait, with a seine not over fifteen feet long, or to legitimate fishing with a hook, line and rod, provided, further, no person shall use less than a four Proviso. and-half inch mesh in fishing for shad. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to take or catch, with hook and line, or with hook, line and rod, any fish whatsoever, from any of the lakes or ponds of this state which have been or which may hereafter be stocked by the fish commissioners of this state, for three years from the time the stock fish or spawn is introduced in such lakes or ponds, and any person or persons who shall violate the provisions of this section, shall, upon conviction, be punished as provided in the preceding section. to waters 3. And be it enacted, That any lake or pond of this state, Act to apply which, before the passage of this act may have been stocked stocked by with fresh water fish, or which may hereafter be stocked individuals. with fresh water fish by any individual or individuals, as a |