The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-07-25
CHAPTER XIV.

Act to provide for the division of incorporated
towns, townships and boroughs into wards, and
torregulate representation therein.
Whereas, In the incorporated towns, townships
and boroughs of this state members Of the
municipal governing body are, in most cases,
elected OH general ticket and whereas, rep
resentation based, in the main, or subdivisions
of the body corporate, is better suited to p0pu-
lous communities therefore,
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and General As
sembly of the State of New jersey That in cases
ough not already divided into municipal sub1ivi-
sions ,electing their own representatives to the
municipal governing body there have been polled
at the last presidential or other subsequent cleo
ton, or whenever, in any such municipality,
there shall hereafter be polled at any future else
ton, more than fifteen hundred legal votes, it
shall be the duty of the township committee OR
other governing body of said municipality, at
least fifteen days before any annual municipal
election succeeding the approved of this act, IN
case such votes have been heretofore polled, aEd
in other cases at least fifteen days before any
annual municipal election succeeding such futuEe
election at which such votes may be hereafter
polled, by resolution passed by majority of their
number, at special meeting held for that pra-
pose, of which meeting notice in writing, signed
by the clerk of said municipality, shall be set up
1T five. of the most public places therein, for at
least five days prior to said meeting to divide said
Incorporated town, township or b0nsugh into net
more than three wards having regard, in making
said division, to equality of representation and to
the lines of any existing polling districts, and to
designate such wards by names or nnmbers pro-
yided, however, that no division into wards as
Aforesaid shall be fznade unless the question of
making such division shall have been previously
submitted to the legal voters Of such incorporated
town, township or borough at the annual munich
pal election, or at election to be held for that
purpose, nor unless majority of the 1egal votes
east at sucls election Elall be in favor of making
division mo wards in the manner in this section
provided.
q And be it enacted, That from and after the
annual municipal election next succeeding such
division, thetownship committee or other govern
ing body of avery such Incorporated town, town
ship or borough shall consist of five persons, in
ease said diviGion is intoGwo wards, and ct seven
persons, in case said division is into three wards,
Two of whom snail be elected by the legal voters
of each ward, end one of whom shall be elected
by the legal vaters of the municipality at barge;
that at the annual municipal election next sue
ceeaing such division, the legal voters In each
wand shall elect Ny ballot, ane person to serve as
q member of the township committee or other
governing body ftg the term Of one year, and one
for the term of tive years ana the legal voters OF
said municipality voting in their respective wanes
shall at the same time elect one person from the
municipality at la4ge, to serve as q member fer
the term Of one year and annually thereafter
person to serve as member Of said governing
body for the term of ewo years, aGd by the legal
voters Of the municipality at large, voting in their
respective wards, one member for tae term OF one
year.
incorporated town, township or borough already
divided into wards or municipal subdivisions,
electing their own representatives to the munich
pal governing body, by whatever name said sub
divisions may be called in the act acts creating
the same there have been polled in any such
ward or subdivision at the last presidential or any
subsequent election, more than one thousand legal
votes or whenever in any future election, there
shall be polled in any such subdivision or ward
in any Incorporated town, township or borough,
more than one Thousand legal votes it shah be the
duty of the governing body of said municipality,
at least fifteen days before the annual municipal
election next succeeding the approval of this
In case such votes have been heretofore p0fled,
and in other at least fifteen days before the
annual municipal election next succeeding such
after polled by resolution passed by majority of
their number, at special meeting held for that
purpcsas Of which meeting notice in writing