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Ebenezer Hopkins, 1755-56.
J. E. Hopkins, 1786.
Isaac Cooper, 1755-56.
Joseph Ellis, 1757.
Archibald Mickle, 1757.
Marmaduke Cooper, 1789-91.
Edward Gibbs, 1789-91.
James Sloan, 1791-93. Samuel Cooper, 1792-93.
John Gill, 1762. John E. Hopkins, 1794.
Joseph Cooper, 1762. John Gill, 1763.
Joha E. Hopkins, 1795-97.
Joseph Mickle, 1795-97.
David Bronson, 1763.
James Hopkins, 1798-99. Jacob Stokes, 1798-99.
Isaac Mickle, 1764-65.
Samnel Clement, Jr., 1764-65.
Jacob Stokes, 1800-2.
John Gill, 1777. John E. Hopkins, 1777.
Jacob Stokes, 1804-6.
John Gill, 1778.
James Hurley, 1804-6.
Hngh Greenan, 1880.
Edward Mills, 1885.
Jacob Stokes, 1779. Samuel Clement, 1807-10.
Edward S. King, 1882.
Joseph L. Moore, 1886.
Morris Hallock, 1882.
Charles G. Barto, 1886.
Wm. H. Chandler, 1882.
Thos. Gordon, 1886.
John G. Miller, 1882.
Isaac Sbarp, 1886.
John Day, 1882.
Joseph A. Starr, 1886.
Thomas McDowell, 1882.
Wm. C. Clarke, 1886.
The following is a list of the names of the freeholders of Newton township from 1723 to 1821. There is no record prior to that time,-
Freeholders from Newton Township.
Joseph Cooper, 1724.
Joseph Kaighn, 1739.
Thos. Sharp, 1724.
James Hinchman, 1739.
Joho Kay, 1725.
Timothy Matlack, 1740.
John Kaighne, 1725. Robert Hubhs, 1740.
Joba Hinchman, 1726.
Isaac Cooper, 1741.
Wm. Cooper, 1726. Ebenezer Hopkins, 1741. Robert Stepbens, 1742.
Joseph Cooper, 1727. Joseph Cooper, Jr., 1727. Robert Zane, 1728. John Kaighn, 1728.
Ebenezer Hopkins, 1742. Robert Stephens, 1743. Ebenezer Hopkins, 1743.
Wm. Cooper, 1729. John Kaighn, 1729. Robert Zane, 1730.
Timothy Matlack, 1744. Joseph Ellis, 1744.
Timothy Matlack, 1745.
John Kaigbn, 1730. Robert Zane, 1731.
Samnal Clement, 1745. Samnel Clement, 1746. Isaac Smith, 1746. Robert Stephens, 1747. Joseph Ellis, 1747.
John Kaighn, 1731. Robert Zane, 1732. Jobo Kaighn, 1732. Tobias Holloway, 1733. Joseph Kaighn, 1733.
Robert Stephens, 1748. Samuel Clement, 1748.
Robert Stephens, 1749.
1856 to 1860. - Benjamin S. Mc-
1856-57 .- Alexander Mckenzie.
1861 .- Samuel T, Murphy.
James Hinchman, 1734. Timothy Matlack, 1734. Joseph Kaigho, 1735. Isaac Cooper, 1735. Timothy Matlack, 1736. Joseph Kaighn, 1736. Timothy Matlack, 1737. Joseph Kaighn, 1737. Timothy Matlack, 1738. James Hincbman, 1738.
John Gill, 1787-88.
Edward Gibbs, 1787-88.
Isaac Mickle, 1758-59.
Jacob Clement, 1758-59.
Robert C. Hillinan, 1879. Joba Gnthridgs, 1879. Wm. Simpson, 1879. Peter Wise (1st, colored), 1879. Lonis T. Derousse, 1880. Morris Hallock, 1880. Aboer Sparks, 1880. Wm. Severna, 1880. John W. Braoning, 1880.
James Kennedy, 1880.
James Kennedy, 1881.
John M. Powell, 1886.
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Gloucester City.
1870-71 .- John C. Stinson.
1872 .- William Emery.
First Ward, 1882. - Hugh Mullin.
1873-74 .- Samuel T. Murphy.
First Ward, 1883-84 .- Thos. Moss.
1875 .- John C. Stinson.
First Ward, 1885-86 .- David J. Doran.
1876 .- Samuel T. Murphy.
1877-79 .- James C. Dobbs.
1879-80 .- Hugh J. Gorman.
Second Ward, 1882 to 1886 .- Pat- rick Mealey.
Freeholders from Stockton Township.
Asa P. Ilorner, 1859.
Joel Clement, 1877.
John W. Potts, 1860-62.
Jacob L. Gross, 1878-80.
William Carter, 1863-65.
John L. Smith, 1881.
Joho J. Lawrence, 1866-68.
Asa P. Horner, 1882.
Joel Horner, 1869-73.
John L. Smith, 1883-86.
John W. Potts, 1874-76.
Freeholders from Waterford Township.
John 1. Githens, 1850-54.
Joel P. Kirkbride, 1858.
Richard Stafford, 1850-54.
Joseph Porter, 1859-60.
John I. Githens, 1855-56.
Joseph L. Thackara, 1861-67.
Joseph L. Thackara, 1855-56.
Samuel S. Cake, 1868-72.
Nixon Davis, 1857. Joseph L. Thackara, 1879-84.
Joseph L. Thackara, 1857. James C. Bishop, 1885-86.
Freeholders from Centre township,-
John D. Glover, 1855.
Abraham Rowand, 1864.
Cooper P. Browning, 1855.
Chalkly Glover, 1866-68.
John P. Brick, 1856.
James Bell, 1870.
Andrew K. Hay.
Uzical Bareford.
Jacob Ware, Sr.
John Carroll.
Charles H. French.
I. F. Bodine.
Matthias S. Simmerman.
George R. Pratt.
Ezra Stokes.
Ziba Cain.
Samuel Norcross.
Andrew Ross.
Joseph Shreve.
Andrew P. Ware.
John J. Sickler.
John R. Dnble.
Isaac S. Peacock.
CENSUS OF CAMDEN COUNTY.
1850
1855
1860
1865
1870
1875
1880
1885
Camden City
9,618
11,217
14,368
18,313
20,045
33,852
41,569
52,884
Newton township.
2,421
3,353
4,055
2,547
8,437
2,541
2,551
3,270
Gloucester township
3,378
2,123
2,320
2,355
2,710
2,501
2,527
2,542
Union township.
3,284
2,453
2,865
3,773
Centre township.
1,158
1,305
1,267
1,718
1,261
1,538
1,723
Delaware township.
2,578
3,058
1,602
1,779
1,625
1,358
1,481
1,572
Waterford township.
1,639
1,593
1,955
1,940
2,071
2,003
2,145
2,098
Winslow township.
1,540
1,855
1,800
1,473
2,050
1,887
2,158
2,180
Washington township.
2,350
1,307
1,177
1,567
Monroe township.
1,417
810
1,664
380
439
741
Total.
25,422
29,160
34,457
38,284
46,193
52,994
64,818
76,685
names of freeholders elected in the township since 1863 could be obtained, --
Richard F. Batten, 1863. Jos. C. Lippincott, 1875-76.
T. J. Wentz, 1864-65. Edward Rulon, 1877-78.
Joshua Sickler, 1866-67.
T. J. Wentz, 1879-80.
Charles Buckman, 1868-69-70.
Henry Steward, 1881-86.
Daniel Turner, 1871-72.
Benjamin Tomlinson, 1881-86.
Hinchman Lippincott, 1873-74.
George H. Higgins, 1881-86.
Merchantville was not entitled to a free- holder until 1885, when a special act was passed by the Legislature creating the office for that borough. Charles B. Coles was elected in 1885 and Charles P. Spangler in 1886.
Freeholders from Delaware township,-
Jacob Troth, 1844.
Asa P. Horner, 1856.
Joseph Kay, Jr., 1844.
Isaac Roberts, 1858.
John M. Haines, 1847. Richard Shivers, 1863.
Benjamin W. Cooper, 1847.
Isaac W. Nicholson, 1870.
Abel Fowler, 1848.
Hngh Sharp, 1881.
Aaron Moore, 1849.
William Graff, 1884.
Job B. Kay, 1851.
William Graff, 1885.
Benjamin Horner, 1851.
Freeholders from Winslow township,-
Charles L. Willits, 1856.
Jos. M. Haines, 1872-74-76-78.
Samuel P. Lippincott, 1858.
John Gill, Jr., 1880-81.
Zebedee Nicholson, 1858.
James Davis, 1882-84.
Abraham Rowand, 1860-62.
John D. Glover, 1885-86.
Benjamin Shivers, 1863.
Freeholders from Gloucester township. The early township records being lost, only the
Gloucester City.
3,682
5,105
5,347
5,966
Stockton township.
1,473
1,350
2,381
2,106
3,093
3,709
Haddon township1
1,560
1,926
Merchantville township.
1 Haddon township was formed from Newton; Centre from Union and Gloucester, in 1855; Gloucester City from Union, in 1868; Stockton from Delaware, in 1859; Washington and Monroe annexed to Gloucester County ; Merchantville was erected from parts of Delaware and Stockton, and Newton was annexed to Camden, in 1871.
1881 .- Patrick Mealey.
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Census of Gloucester County 1732 to 1840 : 1737, 3267; 1745, 3506; 1790, 13,363; 1800, 19,744.
1810
1820
1830
1840
Egg Harbor*
1830
1635
2510
Galloway*
1648
1895
2960
Hamilton*
877
1424
Weymouth*
1029
781
1270
Deptford
2978
3281
3599
2570
Greenwich
2859
2699
2657
2837
Franklin
1137
1574
2077
Woolwich
3063
3113
3033
3676
Was ington.
1726
2059
2332
2837
Gloucester township
662
686
Newton
1951
2497
3298
1863
Camden
3366
Union.
Waterford
2105
2447
3088
3467
To. al
19,189
23,089 28,431 25,445
* Set off to Atlantic County, 1837.
DAVID B. BROWN, surrogate of Camden County since 1866, was born in the village of Black wood, Camden county, on the 21st of March, 1833. His grandfather, John Brown, was a shoemaker, and according to the custom of his day, passed from house to house through the southern part of the county, at- tending to the duties of his trade.
George Brown, the father of Surrogate Brown, was married to Mary Beekley, whose ancestors were Germans. His trade was that of a wheelwright, though he spent much of his time in shipping cord-wood to Phila- del phia and there selling it.
Surrogate Brown obtained his education in the schools of his native place, taught school for a short time, and then engaged in farm- work until he arrived at the age of twenty- eight years. In 1861, when the call for troops from the Northern States was made by President Lincoln for the defense of the Union, Mr. Brown was one of those brave spirits who was quick to respond. He went to Trenton with a companion and was en- listed on May 21, 1861, as a private in Com- pany D of the Third Regiment of New Jer- sey Infantry. He and his comrade were the last two needed to complete the company, most of whose members were from Sussex . County and the northeastern counties of
Pennsylvania. The regiment in which Mr. Brown enlisted, together with the First, Second and Fourth, formed the First Bri- gade of New Jersey Infantry in the three years' service and was sent to the defense of Washington, was within hearing distance of the first battle of Bull Run, though not actively engaged. He participated with his regiment in the Seven Days' Battle and other severe engagements of the Peninsular Cam- paign, under General Mcclellan ; was then transferred up the Potomac River to Alex- andria, where it engaged in a skirmish, aud subsequently, during the year 1862, the sec- ond battle of Bull Run, the first battle of Fredericksburg and the battle of Chantilly. He was promoted sergeant of his com- pany and in the severe engagement at Salem Church, near Fredericksburg, he was severely wounded by a rifle-ball fracturing the ulna bone of his right forearm. While making his way to the rear of his regiment, after receiv- ing his wound, he unexpectedly fell into the hands of the enemy, and placed in a Confed- erate field hospital. While there his wouud was dressed, the ulna being removed by Dr. Todd, of Georgia, a surgeon in the Southern army and a brother-in-law of President Lin- coln. At the expiration of eight days Ser- geant Brown was paroled and first sent to a field hospital, then to a hospital at Washing- ton and later to Chestnut Hill Hospital, near Philadelphia, where he filled out his term of enlistment, and was discharged May 12, 1864. In the mean time, after his wound had partially healed, he served on guard duty at the hospital.
On May 5, 1866, Mr. Brown was ap- pointed surrogate of Camden County by Governor Ward, to fill the unexpired term of Isaac L. Lowe, who died in office. He was elected to the office of surrogate in No- vember, 1866, and re-elected in 1871, in 1876 and in 1881, having served continu- ously in the same office for a period of twenty years, which in itself is a striking evidence
1545
Gloucester.
1074
David B. Brown
Salut T. S' Cealle
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of his ability and efficiency to perform its onerous duties and of the confidence reposed in him by his constituents.
Mr. Brown was married, in 1868, to Mary Cliver, of Camden, though a native of Bur- lington County, who died three years later. In 1873 he was married to Mary E. Haines, of Burlington County, by whom he has two children, Bessie and George S.
Mr. Brown and his family are members of the Methodist Church, and he is a member of T. M. K. Lee Post, No. 5, G. A. R., of Camden.
ROBERT F. STOCKTON HEATH was born in the city of Philadelphia August 20, 1842, and is a son of the late Andrew Heath, well- known as one of the first conductors of the Camden and Amboy Railroad. His prepar- atory education was acquired in the schools of Philadelphia and Camden, and he then entered the Philadelphia High School, from which institution he was graduated. He began business as an employee with the firm of Thomas White & Co., prominent mer- chants of Philadelphia, engaged in the job- bing millinery trade on Second Street, above Chestnut, and then the leading firm in the United States dealing in that line of goods. He continued with this firm until the death of Mr. White, when Lincoln, Wood & Nichols became the successors, and removed the establishment to 725 Chestnut Street, and Mr. Heath was given charge of the manu- facturing department. Upon the dissolution of this firm he became associated with P. A. Harding in the same business, from 1861 to 1865, and then with Thomas Morgan & Co. (Mr. Heath being the company) until the death of the senior partner.
In 1875 he associated as co-partner in the firm of G. P. Muller & Co., and engaged in the manufacture of straw goods at 513 and 530 Arch Street, which firm dissolved by limita- tion at the expiration of eight years, and Mr. Heath, in 1883, began and has since continued the manufacture of ladies' straw goods at an
extensive establishment, 915 Filbert Street, in which he has ahout one hundred and thirty workmen constantly employed. He has fifty sewing-machines running, by which all vari- eties of braid are sewed to the straw goods. The sizing, blocking and finishing at his factory are all done by steam-power, and the color- ing and the pleating of the goods are done in the works. A twelve horse-power engine and a twenty horse-power boiler drive the machinery, and long lines of shafting and floors are used for heating purposes in the drying-rooms. The manufactured goods are sold in all the large cities of the Union from the home office, through a branch house in New York, and by resident salesmen in Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Chicago. His business career has been marked by con- tinned success, and as a manufacturer his ad- vice and opinions are frequently sought for by others and his judgment considered good.
In 1881 Mr. Heath was elected by the Democratic party to represent the First Dis- trict of Camden County in the State Legis- lature, and after serving with ability and credit for one term, was offered a re-election, which, on account of the pressing duties of his own business affairs, he was compelled to decline. At the solicitation of members of both the dominant political parties, in 1885, he accepted the nomination and was elected register of deeds for Camden County, to serve for a term of five years, a position which he now (1886) fills with great ac- ceptance to his constituents.
In 1864 Mr. Heath was married to Josephine, the youngest daughter of Captain Constant Waithman. Their children are Emma, Matilda (deceased) and Clara. The entire family are members of St. Paul's Epis- copal Church, of Camden, of which Mr. Heath is a vestryman. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the order of Odd-Fellows, and assisted in or- ganizing the Knights of Pythias in New Jer- sey, being the first Grand Chancellor of that
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order in the State. Under the old militia system he was captain of Company C, of the Second Battalion, under Col. McKeen, and afterwards held the commission as eaptain of Company B, of the Sixth Regiment, under Col. W. J. Sewell.
EDWARD BURROUGH is a son of Joseph A. and Mary H. Burrough, and was born upon the farm where he now resides, in Delaware township, midway between Merchantville and Colestown, September 5, 1843. He is a member of the fifth gen- eration who have been in possession of that farm in continuons succession, and from reli- able data is of the same family of Burroughs that Edward Burrough, the eminent minister of the Society of Friends (contemporary with George Fox), came from. All of his ances- tors on both sides were members of the Society of Friends, and although by a pecu- liar decree of their Discipline he is not a member of it, yet his religious affiliations remain with that society, under which he was reared. He was given such advan- tages for acquiring an education as the district schools of his youth afforded, going to school during the winter months and working upon the farm during the other portions of the year until he reached his seventeenth year, when he was sent to the Friends' Academy, at Haddonfield, for two winters, and continued to work upon the farm during the summer months. In the fall of 1862 he entered Treemont Seminary, at Norristown, Pa., and completed his scholastic course in a five months' term. Notwithstanding his hap-hazard opportuni- ties, he has acquired a fair education, and he still continues his studious habits. Mr. Burrough was a strong Unionist during the Rebellion, having imbibed from his ancestors their abolition principles. On July 15, 1864, he was one of the company of minute-men who left Camden for the defense of Baltimore under the command of Captain R. H. Lee, and was mustered into the service of the
United States and assigned to duty at Fort Dix, near the Relay House, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ; they were attached to the First Separate Brigade, Eighth Army Corps, under Major-General Lew Wallace, General E. B. Tyler being their brigade- commander. At the expiration of their term of service they returned to Camden and were regularly mustered out.
In the spring of 1865 his father died, which event prevented his return to the army and compelled him to at once begin the business of farming, and although scarcely twenty-one years of age, and loaded with heavy responsi- bilities, he at once applied his energies to lightening his burden and securing himself a home. Being imbued with the idea that farming in New Jersey was as honorable a calling as any other pursuit, and that farmers as a class should learn to honor their business, he took an active interest in organizing the " Farmers' Association " of this county in 1872, and has been an active advocate of the many reforms instituted and carried out by that association, among which was the removal of the calf and stock mar- kets from Philadelphia to Camden, which was soon followed by locating a hay and cabbage market on this side of the river. He was also instrumental in bringing about an amicable arrangement with the ferry companies, whereby a reduction in the rates on teams was secured. His activity in these matters soon attracted the attention of the farmers of Burlington County, and against his wishes he was elected a director of the Moorestown Agricultural Society, and soon after its vice-president, a position he resigned in the spring of 1886. He had several years been a member of the execu- tive committee of the State Board of Agri- eulture, and in February, 1886, he was elected president of the Board, thus placing him at the head of the agricultural interests of the State.
In 1867 he was elected elerk of Delaware
Gunrough
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township, which position he held until the fall of 1878, when he resigned upon receiving the nomination for the Assembly, to which he was elected for two terms.
In 1870 he was appointed an assistant mar- shal to take the ninth United States census of Delaware, Stockton and Haddon town- ships. When the State was redistricted, in conformity with the present public school laws, he exerted himself to have proper school facilities afforded the neighborhood, in which he lived, and succeeded in securing a district school, and was appointed a trustee by the first county superintendent of Camden and Burlington Counties (in which latter county the school building is situated) ; this position he resigned at the annual meeting, but the next year, against his earnest protest, he was elected a trustee, and still continues in that position, and for the last five years has been clerk of the district.
In 1873 he was appointed chairman of the Centennial Committee of the West Jersey Farmers' Conference Club, which committee was also appointed an auxiliary Board for Camden and Burlington Counties by the Centennial Board of Finance. This position brought him in acquaintance with those in charge of this department of the great Exposition and familiarized him with their arduous duties, and the efforts put forth by the citizens of Philadelphia to com- plete the buildings and make the Exposition a success.
In 1878, he was solicited by his political friends to become a candidate for the Legis- lature, and after considerable hesitancy con- sented, and received the nomination of his party in the first Assembly District, and was elected by a majority of one thousand four hundred and eighty-one, being the largest majority ever given to a member of the As- sembly in New Jersey. A redistricting of the State followed his election, which placed him in the Second Assembly district. And in the fall of 1879 he was again nominated by
the Republicans, and although a decided off year in politics, there being only his own and the county collector's name on the ticket (and the canvass consequently a very quiet one), he was again elected by nearly four hundred majority. His career in the Legislature was without spot or blemish, and proved very satisfactory to his constituents, and threw him into the acquaintance of the prominent men of the State of all parties, the respect of whom he ever after maintained. Never of robust health, he yet possessed a sort of wiry constitution, which for twenty years enabled him to perform the work of a much stronger man. He eventually overrated his strength, which brought on a series of heart troubles that prevented him from performing further manual labor. He became a candi- date for the office of county clerk in the fall of 1885. Always a Republican and an ac- tive partisan, he yet never sought an office until he asked the support of his friends for the position above-mentioned. He was sin- gularly successful in his canvass for the nom- ination, and received the entire vote of the convention. Owing to a combination of cir- cumstances over which he had no control, the campaign was an apathetic one and the vote of his party a very small one. He, however, was elected by a small majority, which led his opponents to perpetrate infamous frauds to overcome his majority. Feeling confident that he was fairly and legally elected, he procured able counsel and prosecuted the case to a successful termination, and on the 25th day of February, 1886, he was duly commissioned and qualified as County Clerk of the County of Camden, which position he still holds. He maintains his residence upon his farm, where it is his desire to end his existence.
(In every position that he held he always recognized the rights of all parties in his official acts, maintaining that as they were alike expected to obey the laws, they were equally entitled to be heard; that as an
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office-holder he was as much the servant of the minority as he was of the majority ; but upon strict party issues he was always a firm adherent to the party to which he was allied.)
On the 23rd of November, 1870, he mar- ried Emily Collins, only child of William and Martha Collins, of Moorestown, Burling- ton County. No children have ever rewarded their union, and they are obliged to remain without the endearing prattle of childish voices in their large country home. Edward Burrough has but one sister, the wife of the present Deputy County Clerk, and she, like himself, is childless.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE BENCH AND BAR OF CAMDEN COUNTY.
OUTLINE OF EARLY LEGAL HISTORY OF NEW JERSEY .- After the settlement of the dispute between John Fenwick (who had ac- quired of Lord John Berkley the undivided one-half of New Jersey) and the creditors of Edward Byllynge (February 9, 1674), steps were taken by those interested to procure a division of the territory. This was done by a quintipartite deed, dated July 1, 1676, made between the proprietors of East New Jersey and the proprietors of West New Jersey, which fixed the boundary. This made two separate and distinct provinces of the original territory, each of which estal)- lished a government of its own, with legis- lative, judicial, and executive powers. The proprietors and owners of West New Jersey issued (March 3, 1676) their "concessions and agreements" in forty-four chapters, somewhat in the nature of a constitution, and upon which all the laws passed by the legis- lature should be based. These governments were separately maintained until 1702, when the inhabitants of both provinces joined in a petition to Queen Anne of England, to as-
sume the government. The surrender was signed April 15, 1702, and two days after the Queen accepted it, and November 14th, in the same year, appointed Edward Lord Cornbury, Captain-General and Governor of the Province of Nova Caesarea, or New Jer- sey in America.
This was the commencement of a new epoch in the history of the courts of New Jersey ; and the commission and instructions delivered by Queen Anne to Lord Cornbury, as the first Governor of the new colony, were, in fact, its second Constitution. In these instructions the attention of the Governor was especially called to the laws which he might find in existence, and concerning them he is enjoined as follows : " You are with all convenient speed to cause a collection to be made of all the Laws, Orders, Rules, or such as have hitherto served or been reputed as Laws amongst the Inhabitants of our said Province of Nova Caesarea or New Jersey, and together with our aforesaid Council and Assembly, you are to revise, correct and amend the same, as may be necessary."
Concerning the passage of laws by the General Assembly, it is remarkable that at that early period a provision should have been made in this Constitution, the omission of which in the Constitution of 1776 was so seriously felt, that it was introduced into the Constitution of 1844, and may now be found in nearly all the Constitutions of the differ- ent States of the Union. It is in regard to the intermixing of different laws in one and the same act, and is as follows: " You are also, as much as possible, to observe in the passing of all Laws, that whatever may be requisite upon each different matter, be ac- cordingly provided for by a different Law without intermixing in one and the same Act such Things as have no proper Relation to each other ; and you are especially to take care that no Clause or Clauses be inserted in or annexed to any act which shall be foreign to what the Title of such respective Act imports."
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