An Act to encourage the emigration and settlement of the free people of color of New Jersey in Liberia

March 17, 1855, Acts 79th Legislature, ch. CXIX, p.321.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the act, approved twenty-fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, appropriating money to the New Jersey Colonization Society, and which act expired by its own limitation, be revived, and extended for five years from the date of expiration.

2. And be it enacted, That the treasurer be directed to pay, to the order of the New Jersey Colonization Society, the unexpended appropriation of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, as well as the appropriation of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and the current year, to be applied by them in building houses and other necessary expenditures for the reception and accommodation of emigrants previously to their arrival in Liberia.

Approved March 17, 1855.