The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1871-06-09
The Borough Supplement.

AN ACr FOR THE FURTHER HrdU-
LArioN OF DOiOUGiIS.
SECTION I. BE IL enacted &C.,, That
any application for the incorporation of
n borough under the general borough
acts of first of April, 1891, and third of
April, 1851, shall be laid before the
grand jury at the same torn of the
court when presented whenever the
same can be conveniently done, and in
no case later than tho next subsequent
term of the court, and shall be signed
by the petitioners who Sc names are at
tached thereto within the three months
Immediately preceding its presentation
to tho court, and public notice of the
intended application for borough
charter shall be given in at least one
newspaper of the proper county for a
period of not less than thirty days inn
mediately before the petition shall be
presented. The foregoing regulations
shall also apply to any applicati on to a
court of competent Jurisdiction under
the said acts or either of them for Il
change of borough limits, or to annul
or alter borough charter, or to bring
a borough created or regulated by spec
ial laws under tho operation of the
aforesaid act of third of April, 1851.
SECTION .. The number of members
of any town council of borough where
the number is now fixed at five shall be
hereafter six, and in b. roughs hereafter
incorporated under general laws the
number of such councilmon shall be
six, but the several courts of the Com
monwcalth having jurisdiction TO in
corporate boroughs may in granting an
incorporation or upon application made
to them for the purpose fix or change
the charter of any borough so as to
authorize the burgess or chief executive
officer thereof to serve as q member of
the town council with full powers as
such and to preside at the meetings
thereof.
SECTION 3. In elections for members
for town councils each voter may at his
option bestow his votes singly upon six
candidates, or cumulate them upon any
less number in the manner authorized
by the fourth section of the act to de-
fine the limits and to organize the town
of Bloomsburg, approved March 4, 1870,
and vacancies in any such council shall
be filed in the manner provided in the
fifth section of the same act, but moth.
ing herein contained shall be held to
regulate or affect the manner of choos.
ing the burgess or other principal eXccu-
tive officer of borough even when he
shall be authorized to serve as mem.
Der of the town council.
SECTION 4. Whenever the borough
authorities shall extend the limits oi
such borough they shall file plan OF
plot of such extension in the Office oi
the Court of Quarter Sessions of the
proper county, and notice thereof shall
be published in at least two of the news
papers published in the county, and
any citizen oc the borough or of the
territory annexed shall have the right
to appeal from the ordinance of the
town council annexing such territory
TO the Court Of Quarter Sessions of said
county within thirty days of the filing
of such plan or plot, and thereupon the
said Court shall have power, at its dis
cretion, to decree or refuse such cxtcn'
sion of borough limits in the same
manner as under the third section Of
the act Of first April, 1884, relating tc
boroughs.
Approved June ., 1871.