The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-28
LAWSO OF NEW JERSEY
fBY AUTHORITY
PIER CLXXV.

SAA111 A4AAs NG<A<A
A Supplement to the act entitled IAN
act concerning roads," approved March
tw~enty-seventh. one thousand eight
hundrdd and seventy-four.
/. Whereas. under aud by vir,ue of GER
tain acts of the legislature of this state,
commissioners have from time to time
been appointed to lay sui streets and
avenues through lands lying in certain
townships of this state, which commits
toner's have proceeded in pursuance of
the said acts to lay out said streets and
avenues. and 10 ueliueate them on maps
which have been filed in ac-
cordance with the directions
of the said acts SO as to be-
come public records; aud whereas many
of the said reefs aud avenues SO laid
out as aforesaid have never been opened
or used, but are merely streets on paper
which have been disregaided by tue
public and by the township authorities
of the townships through which the
said streets and avenues have been laid,
and are not now, and are not likely tu
be, required for the use OF the public:
and whereas. said streets aud avenues.
so laid out as aforesaid aud deIlueateI
on said maps, constitute a cloud
upon h little of the owners of
the lands through which the said
streets and avenues are laid out which
should be removed. now therefore,
1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Gen
eral Assembly Of the State Of New Jer-
sey, That any street or avenue which has
been laid out through lands In any town.
ship or townships of this state by COM
missioners appointed by virtue of tue pro-
visions of any act or acts of the legisla-
ture OF this state, II which street or
has not been opened, used or
worked for a period of fifteen years next
before the date of the passage of this act,
alnli In nfnd t,n~n AVE- SrL daA1 -.~1 - l-
Gated, aud aIl the proceedings Of the said
commissioners had and taken by them i'll
laying out such sti eet or avenue shall be,
and hereby are declared to be, null and
void; provided, that all owners of the lands
fronting on or bounded by such street or
avenue, and over which the same has been
laid. Shall file, in the Office of the clerk
of the county in which the said street or
avenue has been laid as aforesaid, their
assent, In writing, to the said vacation,
proven or acknowledged before some
officer authorized to take proof and ack-
nowledgment Of deeds in this state, and
by said officer with his certifi-
thereof.
Q. And be it enacted, That it shall be
the duty OF said clerk upon receiving said
assent in writing to endorse upon ig the
date OF its receipt in his said office. and to
it therein, and also to record the same,
with the certificate of the proof or uck-
nowledgment thereon endorsed, in the
book in which are recorded the returns
by the surveyors of the highways of
roads laid out or vacated by them, aud at
the foot of such record to made a note OF
the time when such assent In writing was
for record in his said office, and
the said clerk, for said services by him to
be rendered. shall be entitled to receive
the same fees that he may at the time be
by law entitled to receive for fling and
recording such returns as aforesaid.
8. And be it enacted, That this act shall
effect Immediately.
Approved March IS, 1892.