The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-18
H JERSEY CITY NEWS MONDAY, july Is 1892

TO he placed, uuder the govern
ment. control and management of such
board; and such board shall fix such rea.
sonable compensation or salary to be
aid tn such officers and employees, and
the manner of the payment thereof, with
in such limitation as to amount as may be
approved by the mayors OF such cities re-
spectiveiy, and may, in their discretion.
require satisfactory bonds for the faith
full performance of their official duties. TO
be made and executed by such officers
and employees or any of them, and they
shall in that case take and subscribe an
oath or affirmation ia thrully to discharge
the duties of their office. and that such
clerk, street coinmtssi ,ner aud engineer
elected and appointed rs aforesaid shall be
Ii lieu Of and be substituted for, aud shall
act and be recognized In the place of. and
shall in each case respectively be fully in-
vested with all the rights. powers, duties.
privileges and advantages OF any clerk,
+ ct commissioner, engineer, inspector,
superintendent, supervisor ana other per-
sons and employees whatsoever now
within such cities respectively exist
ing, elected or appointed. employed or
holding office or appointment in any such
city, or authorized by law to act in any
such official capacity. Office OF employ
ment aforesaid.
5. And be it enacted, That upon the or
ganization OF the said board of public
No aCk0All u II oLy T v
city all the ~unexpended appropriations
or moneys heretofore made or received by
any municipal or corporate authority
of such city, or by any board, department
or official thereof, ana at that time under
The control or in the custody or the same,
for or GU account, or to the credit of such
beard, department or official on the books
OF such city. or n department or official
thereof, for the purposes of constructions,
erections. improvements, repairs, or the
support. maintenance or expenses Of
Tbs public works or municipal de-
partments, or affairs of such city, by
the PROVISIONS of this act, transferred,
COMMITTEE |, or placed under the manage
ment, control or government of such
board of public works OF such city herein
authorized, shall thereupon imme lately
become subject to the sole and absolute
control and power and disbursement of
such board of public works, and shall
thereafter be expeudei only by authority
OF such board for the purposes for which
such uneXpended balances of appropria-
tons or receipts were assessed. collected
or received by such city, or the municipal
authorities thereof, and the same shall he
paid out by such city or its municipal
authorities rpon the warrants of such
board of public WORKS, in the ma ner and
form as the same are now disbursed and
expended by the municipal authorities of
such cities.
6. And be it enacted, That it shall lie
the duty of the comptroller, auditor,
treasurer or other financial officer or Off
GERS. as the case may be, of such city hav-
ing charge or control of the counts of
such City, to credit the beard of public
works of such city, with the amounts of
the estimates SO appropriated to such
board in any tax levy, budget or orai-
nance, and thereafter the same shall be
disbursed and paid by the financial Off
GERS of such city in the same manner as
the expenses of other subordinate boards
are paid in such CITY.
z. And be it enacted, That it shall be
The duty of he common council, board of
aldermen or other governing body or
TO trd having charge of the finance of the
cities subject to the provisions OF this act,
each and every year hereafter. as now
provided by law therein. to cause such
sun or sums us in their judgment may
be necessary for the current and
necessary expenses of the board of
public works in the various NUM-
cipal departments. matters and things
under the government, control, maB-
agement n maintenance of such board
for the year, to be assessed and raised by
making provision therefor in the tax Or
dinance or budget of the year: provided,
however, that the total amount to be APP
propriated, assessed and raised for such
board of public works shall in nc year be
less than the amount devoted to all such
purposes in SUCH city for the fiscal year
ending next before the passage aad ap-
prevail of III 8 act
S. And be 1t enacted, That in all cities
in this state subject to the provisions of
this act. the mayor thereof shall within
one month after this act shall take effect
therein appoint a city clerk, city comp
%troller, city treasurer, ely counsel. who
shall be a counselior-atlaw, receiver of
taxes. INSPECTOR Of buildings. lamps.
wells aud Pumps. in lieu of, and 10 be
substituted for, aud to act in the place Of,
aud who shall in each place re .pectiveIy
be invested with aud shall lerform all
the powers and duties of any such officers,
by whatsoever title they may be desig-
mated. now authorized by law to act
therein, and the city comptroller in every
such city shall perform all the duties and
a all the powers therein as are enjoined
upon and given to such officers by virtue
of the provisions of AN act entitled, San
act 10 enable cities TO create the office of
comptroller. y approved March tenth. ammo
domini one thousand eight hundred and
eighty, and the common council. board of
aldermen or other governing body of
every city whei elm the office of com ptrol-
Ter does not now exist, subject to the pro-
visions of ibis act, shall. as soon as cou-
veniently may be after this act snail take
effect, by ordinance the better define the
duties and fix the salary or such comp
troller agreeably to the provisions of said
act enabling cities to create the Office of
comptroller; aud which said officers shall
be appointed for the term of three years,
or Until their successors are appointed or
qualified, and shall perform the same
duties and receive The same EN- olumepts
as are now provided by existing laws,
and the terms of the first officers
appointed hereunder shall date from
tue time of their appointment under this
ACT, and that such officers shall @ We
bonds for the faithful discharge or their
duties in such amounts as may now be re-
CURED of such officers in such cities, and
which said bonds shatl be approved as TO
form by the city counsel of such city, and
as to the sufficlency thereof by the MAYORS
thereof; any vacancy in either of the
offices herein provided for shall be filed
in the same manner, but for the uneX-
PRED term only; and all of such officers
shall be sworn IN as such officers are now
sworn In each of laid cities: and
thai the term of service of every such
officer hereinbefore named holding office
in any such city, shall end on the appoint
AS herein provided for; every such officer
whose term of Office shall so end shall i'm
mediately deliver up his office and all
proaerty. books and papers,. matters and
thing whatsoever connected Herewith to
his said successor.
9. And be it enacted, That the city
counsel. to lie appointed under the provl-
siops of this act in every such city, shall
perform all the duties now required by
law or the ordinances of any such city to