The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-07-25
by AUTHORITY
LAWS OF NEW JERSEY.
CHAPTER /,

A Supplement to an act entitled An act to re-
move the fire and police departments in cities
6 this state from political CONTROL" approved
NV second, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-five.
/. be it enacted by the Senate and General As
Acmbly Of the State of New Jersey, That on or
before tEo first Gay of March III each year, the said
boards of fire and police commissioners, respect
lively, shsl esti~ate il detail the expenses of the
fire and police departments for the ensuing year.
and shall transmit such estimate to the common
council of such city, which sums SO estimated the
said body shall cause to be assessed and raised by
making provision therefor in the tax ordinance of
such year; provided however, that if such esti-
mate for the fire department shall in any year
coed an amount equal to one mill and eleven
hundredths of a miR on one hundred dollars of
the total valuation of the assessed property in
such CITY, as ascertaiHed by the assessors returns
of the previous year. and if such estimate for the
expenses of the police department shall in any
year exceed an amount equal to one mill and
n1ne-tenths of mill on every one hundred dol
lars upon such valuation, that 1t shall be optional
with such common council whether the excess or
any part thereof be raised by taxation in such city
or not; provided, further that the said boards
shall not make any expenditure or incur any in
de5tedness exceeding the amount SO appropriated
and raised.
2. And be it enacted, That all fines, penalties
and other receipts from police courts, where such
courts are or may be established in such Cities
Shall be paid into the treasury Of such city, to be
appropriated and used the common council
may Direct and that all receipts from the sale of
material or from other sources which may be re-
ceived by the fire department in any such city,
shall be used by the said board for the support of
such departmentip addition to the appropriation
made therefor by the common council, as herein
provided.
8. And be it enacted, That whenever and as
often as the common council of any such city
shall, by resolution, direct the treasurer of such
city to credit the said boards with sum or sums
of money for the support of their respective de-
partnaents on account of the appropriations so to
be made as aforesaid it shall be the duty of such
treasurer, Immediately upon receipt of certified
copy of such resolution, to enter on his books the
SUM or sums of money therein mentioned, to the
credit of the respective boards and to pay on
presentation all drafts drawn upon him by the
order of the said boards duly attested by the sig
natHres of the president and secretary thereof to
an amount not exceeding the balance remaining
on his books to the credit of the said boards re-
spcctively and to preserve such drafts to be exhb
ite1 in the settlement Of his accounts treasurer
of such city.
4. And be it enacted, That each of such COM
missioners shall receive an annual salary not
exceeding one thousand dollars, to be paid as
specified in the act to which this is supplement-
5. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of
acts inconsistent with this act be and the same
are hereby repealed, and that this act shall take
effect Immediately.
approved January 81, 1886.