52:9-1. State director of United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company; appointment, compensation and duties

The following acts and parts of acts are hereby saved from repeal:

a. Sections 3 and 4 of an act entitled "An act to prescribe and declare the mode of appointing certain officers," approved April sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six (L.1846, p. 188 [Rev.1877, p. 745, s.s. 10, 11; C.S. p. 3785, s.s. 9, 10] ).

b. Sections 1, 3 and 4 of an act entitled "An act prescribing the duties of the directors on behalf of the state of the Delaware and Raritan canal and Camden and Amboy railroad and transportation companies," approved April sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six (L.1846, p. 157 [Rev.1877, p. 748, s.s. 26, 28, 29; C.S. p. 3793, s.s. 44 to 46] ), together with the supplement thereto approved March ninth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight (L.1848, p. 218 [Rev.1877, p. 748, s. 30; C.S. p. 3793, s. 47] ).

c. An act entitled "An act to provide compensation to the state directors of the Delaware and Raritan canal and the Camden and Amboy railroad and transportation companies," approved March fourth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven (L.1847, p. 174 [Rev.1877, p. 1409, s. 1; C.S. p. 3794, s. 48] ). [These acts provide for the appointment, oath, compensation and duties of the state directors of the Delaware and Raritan canal and Camden and Amboy railroad and transportation companies. By L.1872, c. 223, s. 2, p. 568, but one state director is to be appointed by the legislature in joint meeting. Pursuant to the authority contained in L.1867, c. 69, p. 114, as amended by L.1872, c. 223, p. 567, the aforesaid joint companies, together with the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company, consolidated into one corporation under the name of "The United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company" (see L.1872, p. 1402) ].