The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-29
cHApTER cCLIX,
An act providing for the fofgnation and es-
tablishment Of wardsli Id cities Of the first

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tablishment Of wardsiln cities of the first
class in this state.
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That
it shall and may be lawful for the mayor or
chief executive officer of any city OF tie
first class in this state to nominate, and un-
der his land appoint, five persons, residents
of the city in and for which they are APP
pointed, commissioners. whose duty it shall
be, within sixty days after their appoint
ment, to divide the city in and for which
they are appointed into wards, as herein
provided, not more than three OF the said
| commissioners SO appointed in any such city
shall be of the same political party, and they
shall within ten days after their appoint
ment, having first taken and subscribed be-
| fore some officer duly authorized to admin
lister oaths and affirmations an oath or
affirmation faithfully and impartially to
execute and perform the duties imposed up
on them, proceed to divide such cities into
wards; all such wards shall be formed OF
contiguous territory, and IN dividing the
same the said commissioners shall have re-
gard to equality of population; the boundary
and dividing lines of all such wards shall
be properly described, and a map defining
the said lines and showing the extent and
boundaries of such wards shall be made
filed by the said commissioners in the Office
of the city clerk of such city, with a descrip-
ton or statement of such lines, all of which
shall be attested and certified by the said
commissioners under their hands, and shall
there remain of record.
2. And be it enacted, That the acts of a
majority of the said commissioners shall be
deemed and taken to be the acts of all the
said commissioners and shall be valid and
binding when done IN pursuance OF this act:
such commissioners shall have power and
authority to employ in each city, when SO
appointed, a competent surveyor, to aid
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the expenses of the said commissioners and
of the said surveyor, and the compensation
for their services shall be paid for by the
city in and for which they are appointed, in
the same manner that other officers In such
city are paid for services and expenses: each
of the said commissioners shall be paid for
their services under this act the sum OF
three hundred dollars, and the expenses and
services of the said commissioner n their
agents shall be paid in like manner upon the
certificate of the said commissioners, such
expenses, however, in no case to exceed the
sum of five hundred dollars.
s. And be it enacted, That when any such
city shall nave been divided into wards, as
herein provided, and the said map and des-
cription shall nave been filed as herein dl-
rected, all existing ward lines therein shall
be and they are hereby abolished, and the
wards SO designated and described shall be
and continue the wards of the said city, and
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the said city, for or representing the wards.
thereof, shall be appointed for or elected
from the wards as established.
4. And be it enacted, That all officers
elected or appointed for existing wards in
any city wherein the ward lines are changed
and new wards created, as herein provided,
shall continue in Office until their respective
terms of office shall have expired and until
others are duly appointed or elected to take
their places, and that hereafter such NUM-
Der of officers shall be elected or appointed
from the new wards as may be elected or
appointed from the wards now existing.
5. And be it enacted, That when new
wards are created, as herein provided, it
shall be the duty of the commissioners max
ing a division of the said wards, as herein
directed, to divide the said new wards into
election districts or precincts, and cause
boundary lines of thesaine to be marked up
on the map to be made as herein provided;
such election precincts shall be. SO far as
practicable. constituted as not to contain
over six hundred voters, and that when the
division of the same is made, as herein pro-
vided, into election districts or precincts,
and the map herein required to be made has
been filed as herein directed, election dis
tricts or precincts as they now exist IN the
territory SO divided into wards shall be, and
they are hereby abolished, and the new dis
tricts or precincts herein provided for shall
be the election districts or precincts OF the
wards so established.
s. And be it enacted, That the term
"wards," as used in this act, shall include
all divisions of cities known as ''alder-
manic Districts" and that hereafter all such
districts shall be known and designated as
wards.
Z. And be it enacted. That all acts and
parts Of acts Inconsistent with the provis-
ions OF this act be and they are hereby re-
pealed, and that this act shall take effect on
Monday, the fourteenth day of May, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety four.
Passed MAY rs. 1854.