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

nineteenth, one thousand eight hun
dred aud eighty-nine.
l. BE it enacted by the Senate and GEN
eral Assembly of the State of New Jer-
Sey, That section one Of the act entitled
IAN act to enable boards of chosen free
holders to acquire, improve and maintain
public roads, approved March nine
teenth, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-nine, be and the same is hereby
amended so as to read as follows, viz:
/. Be it enacted by the Senate aud GEN
eral Assembly of the State of New Jer-
sey That it shall be lawful for the ssoard
of chosen freeholders of any county in
this state, by the votes of at least three
fonrths of all the members thereof to &C
quire, improve. maintain aud assume full
aud exclusive control OF any public road
or roads or parts thereof in their county
pose of improving and maintaining the
same as road or 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 as
sumo such control IN any county, with
power to improve and maintain the same,
the said board shall cause map to be
made, or adopt u map already made, on
which the principal public roads or
highways of the couaty snail be
or are laid down, and shall cause
the said board intend to acquire
and assume such control OF TO be plainlv
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
thereafter be improved, maintained aud
kept in safe and convenient condition
for public use as aforesaid exclusively in
the manner provided in this act; and it
shall he lawful for the said boards to re-
linquish control OF any road or part of
any road SO acquired and marked, and to
acquire and assume control 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 acquiring or
assuming control of any public road or
relinquishing the same the said board
shall accurately describe such road in a
written resolution and file n COPY thereof,
certified by the board in the office OF the
county clerk, who shall record the same
IN a book to be provided and kept for that
purpose: the term road, y as used in this
act, shall be constructed to include street,
avenue or other public highway; pro-
vided, that any and all roads heretofore
acquired by any board of chosen free
holders in this state, by the passage Of a
resolution and filing of a map or maps, as
provided In the act to which this is an
amendment, may be improved, and the
money for that purpose raised as If this
section of this amendment had not been
passed.
2. And be it enacted, That the third
section of the said act entitled IAN act TO
enable boards OF chosen freehoIders to
acquire, improve aud maintain public
roads" be and The same Is hereby amend
ed so as to read rs follows. viz, -
g. And be it enacted, That il shall be
lawful for the board OF CHOSEN freehold
ers to cause special tax to be levied,
which shall not in any one year, exceed
the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars,
or to issue bonds of the county, bearing
interest not more than five per centum
per annun, to be known as county road
bonds, for the purpose of raising money
TO pay the cost, OF any part of the COST, of
paving, macadamizing or otherwise inn
proving tile sGid county roads, or any
part thereof, In the manner aforesaid, but
rior to the issuing Of any such bonds che
said board shall make an application to