provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, and the various supplements thereto, it shall be deemed advisable and most for the benefit of such company, that the same should be dissolved before the expiration of the time limited in its certificate of incorporation, it shall and may be lawful for such board of directors, within ten days after the adoption. of a resolution to that effect by a majority of the whole board at any meeting called for that purpose, and of which meeting every director shall have received at least three days' notice, to cause written or printed notice of the adoption of such resolution to be mailed to each and every stockholder of such company residing in the United States, and also within said ten days cause a like notice to be published in one or more newspapers published and circulating in the county wherein such corporation shall have their principal office and be conducting their business, at least four weeks successively, once a week, next preceding the time appointed for the same, of a meeting of such stockholders to be held at the office of such company in such county, to take action upon such resolution so adopted by the board of directors, and which meeting shall be held between the hours of ten o'clock in the forenoon and three o'clock in the afternoon of the day so named, and which meeting may on the day so appointed, by consent of a majority in interest of the stockholders present, be adjourned from time to time for not less than eight days at any one time, of which adjourned meeting notice by advertisement in such paper shall be given; and if at any such meeting two-thirds in interest of all the stockholders shall consent that such dissolution shall take place, and signify such their consent in writing, then, and in such case, such company shall, upon filing such consent, duly attested by their secretary, in the office of the secretary of state and receiving from him a certificate that such consent has been so filed, be dissolved; and the board of directors of such company shall cause such certificate to be published four weeks successively, at least once in each week, in one or more of the papers published and circulating in the county in which such company has been located and conducting its business; and at the expiration of such time the said board shall proceed to settle up and adjust the business and affairs of such company in the same manner as though the same had been dissolved by the expiration of the time mentioned in their certificate of incorporation; provided, that the secretary of state shall not issue the Provise. certificate of dissolution herein before mentioned until satis fied by due proof that the requirements of this act have bee fully complied with by such corporation. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect imme diately. Approved February 15, 1870. Proceedings of set aside en CHAPTER XXXVII. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An Act concerning roads," approved April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and fortysix. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of surveyors not the State of New Jersey, That no proceedings or return of account of de- surveyors of the highways had or made under the act, to which oath. this is a further supplement, or under any supplement to said fect in official act, shall be reversed, set aside or held to be insufficient by reason of any defect in the official oath or affirmation of any surveyor of the highways, or of the neglect or omission of any such surveyor of the highways to take, subscribe or file such oath or affirmation unless objection shall be made in respect to such oath or the absence thereof at the time of the appointment of such surveyor. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 15, 1870. CHAPTER XLI. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An Act respecting Conveyances," approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six. chancery may acknow of this state. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Masters in the State of New Jersey, That any master in chancery of this take know state, for the time being, shall have authority outside of this ledgments out state to take the acknowledgment or proof of any deed or conveyance, mortgage, defeasible deed or other conveyance in nature of mortgage of any lands, tenements or hereditaments lying and being in this state, or any other instrument of writing under hand and seal, required by the law of this state to be acknowledged or approved, and also to administer outside of this State, all oaths or affirmations, and take all affidavits required to be made or taken by any statute of this state, or necessary or proper to be made, taken or used in any court of this state, or for any lawful purpose whatsoever; and such acknowledgments or proofs and affidavits taken or made in the manner directed by the laws of this state, and certified by the master in chancery, before whom the same shall be made, as by law required, shall have the like force and effect as if said acts were performed within this state, before an officer, lawfully authorized to act in the premises; provided, Proviso. however, that nothing herein contained shall apply to any official oath or affirmation required to be made or taken by any of the officers of this state, nor to any oaths, affirmations or affidavits, which are required to be made or taken on notice. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 15, 1870. Exhibits not to commis sions. CHAPTER LXV. A Further Supplement to "An Act authorizing Commissions and the Taking of Depositions." 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of to be annexed the State of New Jersey, That whenever on the execution of any commission to take the deposition or depositions of any witness or witnesses, to be issued by virtue of the act to which this is a supplement, or whenever on the examination of any witnesses out of this state before a commissioner of this state, or other officer, by virtue of the provisions of the supplement to said act approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, any documentary evidence shall be exhibited before the officer, commissioner or commissioners, taking such deposition or depositions, it shall not be necessary that such documentary evidence shall be annexed to and returned with the depositions of the witnesses so taken; and the said officer, commissioner or commissioners, shall, if requested by the party exhibiting such documentary evidence, mark the same as an exhibit in the suit and return the same to the party offering the same, and the same shall be received in evidence in all respects the same as if annexed to and returned with the said depositions. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 16, 1879. CHAPTER LXXIX. A Further Supplement to the act entitled "An Act relative to the Sale and Disposition of the Real Estate of Infants," approved March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-five. may release 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Feme covert the State of New Jersey, That whenever the mother of any dower in ininfant or infants, or the person entitled to dower in the real fant's lands. estate of any infant or infants, which has been or shall be sold under the provisions of the act entitled "An Act relative to the sale and disposition of the real estate of infants," approved March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-five, or the supplements thereto, is a married woman, it shall be lawful for such married woman to execute an effectual release of her right of dower in such real estate, without her husband joining in or executing the deed of such release, and to receive and hold to and for her own separate use the moneys ordered by the court to be paid to her for or upon such release; and such deeds of release when executed and given as aforesaid, shall have the same force and effect and be as valid and effectual to release the right of dower of any such married woman in the real estate sold, notwithstanding her coverture, as if her husband had joined in or executed said deed, or as if she were sole and unmarried. 2. And be it enacted, That the provisions of any act, so Repeater. far as the same are inconsistent with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 16, 1870. |