Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1 i the act entitled "An act for the taxation of railroad and inal property," approved April tenth, one thousand eight undred and eighty-four, is hereby authorized to execute id file in the office of the secretary of state an instrument, ) be first approved by the attorney-general, waiving Jthe enefit of any such contract and accepting and submitting ) the provisions of the aforesaid act and the supplements icreto; whereupon they shall be bound by the terms of iid act or any supplement or amendment thereto, or any irther act of the legislature, and upon filing any such in- trument the state agrees to surrender its right to take the roperty of any such company under any statute nowexist- ig; provided, that any such company shall execute and file Ptoviso. uch instrument on or before the first day of July, one housand eight hundred and eighty-five; provided, further. Proviso, hat the lessee or grantee of the railroad or canal of any uch company shall join in such instrument. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect imme- liately. Approved March 18, 1885. CHAPTER XCII. A Supplement to an act entitled " An act relative to oaths and affidavits," (Revision), approved March twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four. I. Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly he State of New Jersey, That all oaths, affirmations and affi- '% davits to any application, petition, inventory, account or oth- er proceeding in any orphans' court or before any surrogate mater in required to be made or taken by any applicant, petitioner1 assignee, executor, administrator, guardian, appraiser or any other person may hereafter be made and taken before any master in chancery of this state, and any application, petition, inventory, account or other proceedin...