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mittees in any township in this state, and
not containing an Incorporated city or
borough wholly or in part within its linn
its, within said township, in pursuance of
a resolution or resolutions of town
meeting ordering the same, and likewise
empowering them to assess the expenses
of such paving or macadamizing, or a
portion thereof upon the owner or own
ers of the premises adjacent to said street
OF streets, road or roads, or part or parts
thereof in accordance with the benefits
conferred upon said premises respectively,
lien upon the same.
r l. Be IL enacted by the Senate and Cen
eral Assembly of the State of New Jersey,
That whenever fifteen or more freehold
ers, residents of any township in this state,
which shall not contain, wholly or 10 part,
within its bounds, any incorporated city
or borough, shall give notice in writing
signed by them, and psblished in at least
one newspaper published in sid township,
for two weeks before the holding Of any
annual or special town meeting to be held
In said township, at least once in each
week 1.-THE date Of which meeting shall to
named in said notice J, that they intend
to have resolution or resolutions Of
Tered at such annual, or special town
meeting, providing for the paving or
macadamizing of the streets or roads Of
said township, or some part or parts
thereof; and in case there shall be no
newspaper published in said township,
said notice shall be published in news
paper printed at the county seat of the
county in which said township shall be
situated, and shall have the same force
and effect as the publication thereof in a
newspaper published in said township:
and whenever such annual or any special
town meeting of any township in this
state shall, after the publication of said
notice in manner aforesaid, by two
thirds vote Of the citizens of said township,
present at said meeting, pass aresolution
or resolutions ordering the paving or
matchmaking of any street or streets,
road or roads, or part or parts thereof,
within the bounds of said township (such
street or streets, road or roads, or part or
parts thereof; to be clearly designated and
limited by such resolution or resolutions),
and shall specifically appropriate money
for that purpose, the township committee
of such township shall be authorized, and
it shall be their duty, to proceed as fol-
lows, viz: the said township committee,
Immediately after the passing of such res
oiution or resolutions, shall make or cause
to- be made map or maps of the street
or streets, road or roads, or part or parts
thereof to be 50 paved or macadamized
in accordance with said resolution or res
olutions; which map or maps shall show
the frontage of each of the premises ad-
joining said street or streets, road or roads,
or part or parts thereof, and likewise the
position Of the outside line of the curb
ing laid along the same, or to be laid in
accordance with the terms of this act; the
township committee shall pay for said
map or maps out of the money specif-
cally appropriated for paving as afore-
said.
2 And be ii enacted, That said town
ship committee, after the passing Of said
resolution or resolutions and the making
of said map or maps, shall be authorized
and empowered to fix the grade of said
street or streets, road or roads, or part or
parts thereof. from curb to curb; and also
to fix the position of the curbing along
and crossings over them
8. And Be II enacted, That said com
mittee shall be authorized and empower
ed to decide, in all instances, what kind
and quality of pavement or macadamized
soad-bed shall be laid in pursuance of the
resolution or resolutions adopted BY the
town meeting aforesaid, unless said town
messing in said resolution or resolutions
shall itself decide upon the kind and quail
ity of said pavement or macadamized
road-bed; providing always, that the
township committee, either in following
the directions of the town meeting or
otherwise, shall in no instance expend an
amount for the materials and labor of lay
ing said pavement OF road-bed in excess
OF the amount specifically appropriated
for that purpose as aforesaid.
4. And be IL enacted, That the said
township committee shall in all instances
be authorized and empowered to fix upon
the kind, quality and dimensions Of the
curbing TO be laid along said street or
streets, road or roads, or part or parts
thereof and to decide whether any or all
curbing which may already be laid shall
remain; unless the said town meeting, in
said resolution or resolutions, shall itself
decide upon the kind, quality and dimeu-
sions of said curbing, or decide to retain
any or all Of the curbing which may
already be laid. -s>ss' q ~ g
S. And be ID enacted, That the said
township shall have power to cause the
said street or streets, road or roads, or part
or parts theresa to be paved or macad-
amized in accordance with the provisions
ofthis act, and to make all contracts that
shall seem advisable to them to that end.
and further, that all contracts made by
them for said purpose, in accordance with
the provisions ofthis act, and none others,
shall be binding upon the townships of
which the members of said committee are
officers, Notwithstanding anything to