donation, &c., for 8. And be it enacted, That the said board of trustees May receive may have and receive, hold and manage any devise, use of library. bequest or donation heretofore made or hereafter to be made and given for the establishment, increase or maintenance of a free public library within their city. Passed April 1, 1884. CHAPTER LXXIX. Supplement to an act entitled "A supplement to an act entitled 'A further act concerning taxes, making the same a first lien on real estate and to authorize sales for the payment of the same,' approved March fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine," and which said supplement was approved March twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and eightythree. ded. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of section amenthe State of New Jersey, That section one of the act to which this is a supplement, be amended so as to read as follows: an interest in purchased by redeem the same conditions. [1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly Persons having of the State of New Jersey, That the owner or owners, mort- lands sold for gagee or other person, having a legal or equitable interest unpaid taxes and in any lands sold for unpaid taxes under and by virtue of township, may the act to which this is a supplement and purchased by on certain the township, shall have the right to redeem the same, at any time while such tax title is held by the township (even though the redemption period of two years, provided by law, shall have expired,) by paying to such township the sum of money mentioned in the certificate of sale to said township, with interest, costs, expenses and charges thereon, and all subsequent taxes assessed thereon, together with interest, costs, fees and charges, Proviso. When act shall take effect. and that upon receiving such payment, the township shall 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and eighty-four. Passed April 1, 1884. Certain defective conveyances not void. CHAPTER LXXX. AN ACT validating defective conveyances. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That no deed or conveyance of land heretofore made by any sheriff or other officer or auditors in attachment pursuant to any decree, judgment execution or order of any court, shall be null or void because it may lack the affidavit of the officer making the deed of conveyance aforesaid, and the approval of such deed by the chancellor, justice or master as provided for and required by an act of the legislature entitled "An act for the better security of titles to land sold by sheriffs or other officers," approved March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, nor shall the absence of the affidavit and approval therein so required be esteemed cause sufficient to prevent such deed of conveyance from being recorded in the records of deeds; and in any suit at law or in equity wherein the title to the land conveyed by any such deed shall be called in question, the burden of proof shall be upon the party attacking the title conveyed under such deed to disprove the facts which are required by the aforesaid act to be recited in the affidavit of the officer making the deed of convey ance. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Passed April 1, 1884. CHAPTER LXXXI. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act respecting the orphans' court and relating to the powers and duties of the ordinary, and the orphans' court and surrogates," (Revision) approved March twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four. minor children will, the ordinary touching testamentary guardianship. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of where custody of the State of New Jersey, That where, by any last will and is disposed of by testament, the testator shall dispose of the custody and or orphans' court tuition of his minor child or children, and such last will may make order and testament shall be offered for probate, it shall be lawful for the ordinary or orphans' court, upon petition alleging cause, and after notice to the testamentary guardian named in the proffered last will and testament, to enquire into the present custody of such infants, and after hearing make such order touching testamentary guardianship, as may be for the best interests and welfare of the infants. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Passed April 1, 1884. Section to be repealed. Section repealed recited. CHAPTER LXXXII. An Act to repeal section one of "An act fixing the amount to be expended by boards of education in certain cities of this state for permanent improvements in any one year," approved March fourteen, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That section one of the act entitled "An act fixing the amount to be expended by boards of education in certain cities of this state for permanent improvements in any one year," approved March fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, which section was amended by an act approved March ninth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, and which reads as follows: [That in all cities of this state where the boards of education of such cities are now limited by law to the sum of twenty thousand dollars, as the amount which may be expended in any one year for the purchase of land for public schools, or for erecting, altering, furnishing or fitting up any building for school purposes in said cities, it shall hereafter be lawful for said boards of education to expend for the purpose aforesaid, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars in any one year, and no more,] be and the same is hereby repealed. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Passed April 1, 1884. CHAPTER LXXXIII. An Act to ratify and confirm an agreement made between the commissioners appointed on the part of the state of New York and the commissioners appointed on the part of the state of New Jersey, respecting the location of the northern boundary line between the states of New York and New Jersey, and the replacing and erecting of monuments thereon, bearing date the seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three. WHEREAS, Henry R. Pierson, Elias W. Leavenworth and Preamble. Chauncey M. Depew, commissioners duly appointed on the part of the state of New York, and Abraham Browning, Thomas N. McCarter and George H. Cook, commissioners duly appointed on the part of the state of New Jersey, for the purpose of negotiating and agreeing upon the true location of the northern boundary line between the states of New York and New Jersey, and also of replacing any monuments that may have become dilapidated or been removed on said boundary line, and of erecting new ones, have executed a certain agreement in duplicate, which is contained in the words following: [An agreement, made the seventh day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, between Henry R. Pierson, Elias W. Leavenworth and Chauncey M. Depew, commissioners on the part of the state of New York, and Abraham Browning, Thomas N. McCarter and George H. Cook, commissioners on the part of the state of New Jersey. Agreement. WHEREAS, By the first section of chapter CCCXL of the Preamble. laws of the state of New York, for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty, it was recited, among other things, that whereas by an act of the legislature, |