The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1894-07-11

city in and for which they are appointed, COM
missioners, whose duty it shall be. within six
ty DAYS after their appointment, to divide the
city in and for which they are appointed into
wards, as herein provided; not more than
three of the said commissioners 50 appointed
in any such city shall be Of the same political
party, and they shall within ten days after
their appointment, having first taken and sub
scribed before some officer duly authorized to
administer oaths and affirmations an oath or
affirmation faithfully and impartially to ex-
ecute and perform the duties imposed upon
them proceed to divide such city into wards
all such wards shall be formed of contiguous
territory, and in dividing the same the said
commissioners shall have regard to equality
of populations the boundary and dividing lines
of all such wards shall be properly described,
and map defining the said lines and showing
the extent and boundaries of such wards shall
be made and filed by the said commissioners
in the Office of the city clerk of such. city,
with a description 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 an the
said commissioners, and shall be valid and
binding when done In pursuance OF TINS act
authority to employ in each city, when so
appointed, competent surveyor, to ald them
in the discharge of their duties; and the ex-
penses 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 hun.
dred dollars, and the expenses and services Of
the said commissioners and their agents shall
be paid in like manner upon the certihcate OF
the said commissioners; such expenses, now
ever. in no case to exceed the sum OF flve nun
bred dollars.
g. And be it enacted, That when any such city
shall have been divided into wards, as herein
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shall have been flied as herein directed all ex-
isting 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 aud thereafter all officers elected
or appointed in the said city, for or representing
the wards thereof, shall be appointed for or
elected from the wards as established.
d. And be il enacted, That all officers elected
or appointed for existing wards in any city
wherein the ward lines are changed and new
wards created, herein provided, shall con
tinue 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 number of officers shall
be elected or appointed from the new wards as
may be elected or appointed from the wards now
existing.
created as herein provided, it shall be the duty Of
the commissioners making division OF the said
wards as herein directed, to divide the said new
wards uto election districts precincts, and
boundary lues of the same TO be marked upon the
map to be made as herein provided such election
precincts shall be, so tar practicable, constituted
as not to contain six hundred voters and that
when the division of the same is made, as herein
provided into election districts or precincts, and
the map herein required to be made has been made
and filed as herein directed, election districts or
precincts as they exist in the territory di-
vlded into wards shall be. and they are hereby,
abolished and the new districts precincts herein
provided for shall be the election districts pre-
cincts of the wards est bished.
G. And be it enacted, That the term Wards" as
used in this act, shall include all divisions of cities
known as "aldermanc Districts and that hereafter
all such districts shall be known and designated as
wards.
T. And be il enacted, That all acts and parts OF
acts Inconsistent with the provisions of this act be
and they hereby repealed, and that this act
shall take effect Monday, the fourteenth day of
May, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
Passed May IL, 1894