Overseers of Bloomfield v. Overseers of Acquackanunck

The opinion of the’ Court was delivered by

Ewing, C. J.

By an order of two Justices of the Peace, Halmagh Everson, a pauper, was removed from the township of Acquackanunck to the township of Bloomfield, in the county of Essex. Bloomfield appealed. The order was affirmed in the sessions, and both orders, with a state of the case, are now brought here on certiorari.

The pauper was born in Acquackanunck, and in the year 1812 was bound as an apprentice by indenture to Israel Crane and Daniel D. Beach, of the township of Bloomfield, to serve until he should arrive at the age of twenty-one years. The…