The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-09-04
LAWS OF New JERSEY,
TBY AUTHORITY
CHAPTER oCCLIII.


An Act authorizing the division of townships int
lighting districts and the erection and main
Of streetlights therein, and the election
street light commissioners in said district
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assem-
bly, of the State of New Jersey, That the township
committee of any township in any county of tn
second and third class in this state may at any time
set off and divide the said township into districts Il
/ be designated by numbers, and may alter the SAM
/ from time to time, and SHALL by resolution to b.
entered at length upon their minutes, define and de
clare the limits boundaries and numbers of said dis
tr Ct and the same being defined and declared
shall be deemed and taken street-ghtng districts
and sha II be known and designated by and unde
the corporate of the street-lighting distric
number -, which said district when desig
nated shall be body corporate and shall possess
and be deemed to have power to sue and be sued
complain and defend in any court of law equity
to make and use common seal, and all other cor
porate power necessary for the carrying out the pow
err hereinafter conferred.
O. And be it enacted, That ON the first Tuesday Of
June each year the legal voters Of said district sc
designated are hereby authorized to meet for thu
purpose of eectng three persons who shall be known
and designated as commissioners OF street-lightine
district number - and at said time the said
legal shall determine by ballot, by the vote Of
the majority Of those present and voting the sum Of
money to be raised and expended within such dis
trc the ensuing year for the erection and main
tenance of streetghts; the said meeting for the cleo
ton of said issoners and the determination OF
said sum to be raised shall be held at such public
place within the district the said township com
m ittee may designate and notice of said time and
place OF such election shall be given by the township
places within the said district ten days before the
said election that the polls said election shall be
open at two oeock in the afternoon and close at
en- O'Clock in the evening" The voters there assembled
before any votes cast sha II elect by viva voce
vote Judge, inspector and clerk of said election.
g. And be it enacted That the sum fixed and ap-
proprated by the majority Of said votes cast shall be
certified forthwith to the commissioners elected as
azores i'd who shall forthwith certify to the same
and give notice to the township assessor of the sum
SO fixed who shall the same upon the taxable
property within said district in the same manner
township taxes are assessed and said money shall be
assessed levied and collected in the same manner
that other township moneys are assessed and it shall
be the duty of the Hector Of the township In which
said district situate to pay over all moneys received
BY him which shall have been assessed as aforesaid
to the said commissioners.
L. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners
are hereby empowered to expend said moneys for
the purpose of lighting the streets within said dis
tricts and make contracts for said districts with
electric light gas companies for the erection and
maintenance OF said street lights during their term
of flee; the sum to be paid by virtue of said con-
tract shall not exceed the amount voted for at said
election and the said commissioners are hereby en-
powered determine what streets shall be lighted
within said districts and where street lights shall be
erected and the number of the same.
g. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of
acts Inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
And be It enacted, That this act shall take effect
Immediately
Passed May %, 1894.