The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-09-15
CHAPTER XII.

An act to enable boards Of Chosen Free
holders to acquire, improve and main
tain public roads.
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and
General Assembly of the State of New
Jersey, That it shall 0e lawful for the
Board of Chosen Freeholders of any county
in this State to acquire. improve, main
tain and assume full and exclusive con-
troll OF any public road or roads or parts
thereof in their county, SO far US may be
necessary for the purpose of improving
and maintaining the same as a road OF
roads for carriages or other vehicles, but
for no other purpose, except such roads
or avenues as are now under the control
of any county road board; that in order to
acquire and assume such control In any
county with power to improve and main
tain the same the said board shall cause
map to be made, or adopt map already
made, on which the principal public roads
or highways of the county shall be, or
are, laid down, and shall cause The roads
or parts OF roads which the said board in
tend to acquire and assumeSsuch control
of to be plainly indicated thereon, and
shall file the said map, when so marked,
in the office of the clerk Of the county:
whereupon the roads or parts of roads so
marked or indicated on the said map shall
become and be known as county roads,"
and shall therea4ter be improved, main
tanned and kept in safe and convenient
condition for public use as aforesaid, ex-
clusively, in the manner provided by this
act f; and 1t shall be lawful for the said
boards to relinquish control of any road
or part of any road so acquired and
marked, and to acquire and assume con-
troll of other roads or parts of roads in the
county from time to time, with the same
power to improve and maintain the same;
In either of which cases the said map
shall be changed accordingly in acquir-
ing or assuming control of any public
road, or relinquishing the same, the said
board shall accurately describe such road
in written resolution, and file copy
thereof, certified by the clerk of the
Board, in the office of the County Clerk,
who shall record the same in book to
be provided and kept for that purpose !;
the term ''road, as used in this act, Shall
be construed to include street, avenue or
other public highway.
2. And be 1t enacted, That 1t shall be
lawful for the Board of Chosen Free
holders to cause the said county roads, or
any part thereof, to be graded, paved with
Telford, macadamized, or otherwise i'm
proved by means of stone or gravel for a
width of at least twelve feet in the centre
thereof, wherever such improvement
may be required to keep the same con-
stantly in good condition all such pave
ments or other improvements Except re-
pairs costing not more than one hundred
u0llarS) snail De done under contract
with said Board; but no contract for any
such work shall be awarded, or be valid
for any purpose if awarded, unless a
notice specifying the work and materials,
and inviting bids or propositions TO do or
furnish the same shall have been pub
lished for at least three weeks, at least
once in each week, In two newspapers
published and circulating Ia the county,
and representing different political par
tics; every contract made for improving
any county road, or part thereof, shall
be based upon carefully prepared specin-
cations Of the work and materials re-
quired, 70 which reference shall be ex