The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-07-13

| cess issued by said mayor, Ill pursuance
/ of the authority conferred and shall have
! power to arrest and take into custody,
without warrant, any offender or Offend
4 ers against the bylaws and ordinances OF
| said borough, and to confine the said Of
| fender or offenders in place provided by
| said council until a hearing can be had
! before the mayor or one of the justices OF
the peace of said county; provided, that
such hearing shall be held within twenty
| four hours unless Sunday should inter-
yene, aud in such case within forty-eight
! hours after the arrest of the offender or
offenders; that said borough marshall
shall possess the same powers, take the
same obligation, perform the same
duties, be subject to the same penalties,
and receive the same fees as any con-
stable of any township in this stote.
26. And be il enacted, That 1t shall not
be lawful for any person or persons 10 sell,
within the corporate limits of any borough
| Incorporated under this act, any spirit
uous or malt liquors in quantities less
than five gallons without having first OBJ
tanned license therefor from the mayor
and council of such borough. or major
itY thereof in council convened, in whom
shall by this act be vested the exclusive
right snd power Of granting the snme,
and imposing such restrictions and pen
alties as they deem necessary in relation
! thereto; providing, however, that nothing
In this section contained shall enable the
counties of the first and second class to
grant licenses for Che sale of liquor.
~. And be it enacted, That for the pur-
pose of laying out. grading or improving
the streets or sidewalks OF any borough
Incorporated under this act it shalt and
may be lawful for the council of said Dor
ough, upon obtaining the written consent
of persons representing one-half or more
of the value of the taxable property in
said borough as represented by the duDli-
cate OF the borough assessor, to borrow
such sum or sums of money. in the name
of the borough, rs may be necessary to
carry out and complete the laying out,
grading or improvement of any street or
streets, sidewalk or sidewalks in said
borough and to secure the payment
thereof by the issuing of bonds or other
instruments uuder the common seal of
the borough and signature of the mayor.
attested by the clerk; said bonds mol to
run for a longer period than twenty years
from the date thereof and to bear interest
at a rate not exceeding the legal rate.
%. And be 1t enacted, That when the
council OF any borough shall Issue bonds
as herein provided that it shall and may
be lawful for the said council TO order
and cause to be assessed and raised by
tax every year such sum of money, in adj
ditiou to other monies to be raised by said
borough, as may be requisite to pay the
interest on said bonds and SO much of The
essary and expedited, and to provide for
the payment of said bonds when due;
pryvided, the provisions of this act shall
not be operative until the people of such
borough shall vote on the issue of such
bonds at the next municipal election TO
be held in such borough, and il a majority
of the legal voters therein shall vote
against such issue, then no such issue of
bonds shall be made.
20. And be it enacted, That the borough
council OF any borough incorporated
under this act may whenever they shall
by ordinance declare it necessary, cause
the brush and wild bushes to be removed
from any lot in such borough, and may
cause any uncovered hole or pit on any
lot in such borough to be filed up, and
the cost of such removal and filing shall
be q lien upon such lot paramount to any
other incumbrance except taxes, and may
be collected, with costs of suit, by action
of debt against the owner OF owners of
such lot in any court of competent juris-
diction, or If such owners or owner be
nonresident, then by attachment; pro-
vided, always, that fifteen DAYS notice TO
the owner or owners of such lot shall be
given before such removal or filling as
aforesaid, which notice shall be in writ
ing, under the signature of the mayor
and seal of the borough, and shall recite
such ordinance and request such owner
or owners to remove such brush or fill
days.
50. And be it enacted, That the com
mon council of all boroughs Incorporated
or organized under the provisions of this
act shall have power, by ordinance, to
provide for the grading and graveling of
The streets in said borough in the follow
ing manner, viz.;-upon the majority of
the property owners on any street or ave-
nue.. or specified part thereof, making APP
plication to the borough council for tile
grading and graveling of any street or
avenue, or specified part thereof, to be
graded and graveled in n specified man
ner, and within a specified time; and it,
at the end of the time so specified by such
council, the owners of the property on
such street or avenue, or part thereof,
shall have neglected to grade and gravel
the same, or any part thereof, it shall be
lawful for such borough council to cause
the same to be graded and graveled at the
expense of such borough, and the costs of
such grading and graveling may be as
sessed by such borough against each
property adjoining such grading and
grayeling to the extent to which each of
such properties is severally benefited by
such grading and graveling.
81. And b5 1t enacted, That the street
committee of each such borough shall,
upon the completion of any grading and
graveling performed by such borough in
pursuance of the preceding section make
an assessment of the several amounts
which each Of such adjoining properties
have been benefited by sucn street i'm
provement, and file such assessments
with the clerk of such borough, whereup-
on the same shall become a lien upon the
land so assessed: and if any such assess
ment shalt remain unpaid by the owners
of the land so assessed for the space of
thirty days after the same is SO filed with
said borough clerk, it shall be lawful for
such borough council to forthwith cause
such lands 10 be sold for the payment of
auch assessments, in the same manner as
land is now sold by law for taxes.
80. And be it enacted, That the borough
councils of all boroughs Incorporated,
or hereafter to be incorporated, under the
provisions of this act, shall have power,
by ordinance, to regulate, establish and
enforce the observance OF building lines
in their respective boroughs, providing
said act shall i'll nowise interfere with
| such building lines as may have hereto
| fore been esUablishen.
! 49, And be it enacted, That it shall be
lawful for the inhabitants of any portion
of this state, embracing an area of NOT
more than two square miles and taxable
| real estate of not less than one hundred
| thousand dollars, and within which area
resides, during any portion of the year, n
| population of not less than two hundred.
and which may now be subject to any ex-
listing form of municipal government, to
| accept OF the provisions of this act and
| become subject TO all the rights, privi-
leges, powers and liabilities therein spe-