The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-17
cxxxYIII.

CHAPTER CXxXvIII.
An act to set off borough commissions
from the townships in which they are
located and providing for their govern
ment.
/. Be it enacted by the Senate mad Cen
eral Assembly of theState of New Jer-
sey, That all those portions of the town
ships of this state containing q borough
commission, comprised within the nfnlts
Of such borough commissions, snaH pc
and hereby are set off form said town
ships and erected into separate and as
tinct municipalities.
2. And be it enacted, That such bor-
ough commissions so set off be ana are
hereby constituted separate eie9tion Gus Gus
tricts, and the persons puallfed 70 vote
shall elect at the times fixed for the por-
ough elections, the election ofacers re-
puired by the statutes regulating elec-
lions.
3. And be it enacted, That at the time
fixed for the said borough elections there
shall be elected by ballot, IN addltlon 20
the officers now or hereafter required 10
be elected in the said borough commls-
sion, an assessor, a collector, one CHOSEN
freeholder, one justiceof the peace, three
commissioners of appeals, one oVerseel
Of the poor, one ~poundkeeper ana one
constable, and the voters shall also up
on the same ballot, vote for the suppore
of money to be raised for the support OF
the Door. for road and street purposes,
the amount OF dog tax, and all other
money necessary for borough purposes,
provided, however, that the amount OF
money to be so raised shall not exfe Su
the limits now or hereafter imposed py
law on borough commissions, ana the
officers SO as aforesaid elected sinai puai-
ify in the safne manner. De under anu
subject to the same duties Obligations
and penalties, have and perform the
same powers and authority and receive
the same fees and compensation as are
imposed upon and given to like oflcerS.
in the several townships in this state.
A. And be it enacted. That the board
of commissioners in any such borough
commission shall, in addition to the
hereafter imposed by law, enjoy the
same privileges have the same power
and authority, perform the same du-
ties and be subject 10 Ihe same pe n,A
after may be vested in or imposed upon
the members of the township commit
tees of the several townships IN this
5. And be it enacted. hat such
borough commission so set o as afore-
said chall be subject to its Just
obligations to which the inhabitants OF
the township where it is located are
subject, and be it entitled to its just and
equitable proportion ct the money ana
itants of sale township, which SAID debts
and liabilities and also said money and
property shall be divided between such
borough commission and the said town
ship in proportion to the taxable prop
erty and ratables as aXed by the as
SCISSOR of said township at the last as
sessment made before the election or
dered to determine whether said borough
commission shall be sererate from said
township within the respective lirlits OF
said township and borough commission,
and any money or property 10 which the
said borough commissioners may be SO
entitled shall be applied by the borough
commissioners of said borough for the
use therein.
c. And be it enacted, That the three
member Of the township committee Of
the township in which such borough
commission shall be located, and Q com
mittee of three of the members of the
board of commissioners in such borough
commission, appointed for that, purpose
by the president of said BOARD, snail meet
at such time and place as shall be des-
ignated by the said board of commission
ers of such borough commission; thirty
lays notice in writing of which meeting:
signed by such president, shall be served
on the clerk of such township personally,
or by leaving it at his residence or place
of abode, and shall at the time ana place
SO DESIGNATED. or as soon thereafter as
may be, proceed to aliot and deVide pc
tween the township and such borough
commission the assets and liabilities. OF
said township in the manner prescribed
in the preceding section, and sue borough
commission and township shall De u
able ts to ds : their dae f byfRe saia pt tooR%0nship
at the time the allotment and diVlslon
aforesaid are made, and the sad com
mittee so meeting as aforesaid. or a ma
their hands and seals, a full, true ana
complete report of their proceedings
and file the same in the once OF vne
shin may b. situate; which said report,
or a certified o thereof, shall be plen-
airy evidence of the allotment oivl-
siors aforesaid; and in case any of the
mefnber Of the said committee shail
neglect or refuse to meet as aforesaid,
those who do meet may proceed 70 MAKE
| said allotment and division, and the de-
cision and report of g. majority OF eaeh
| committee present shall be tina TN con,
| elusive provided that it shall be laWfull
! for said joint committee to adjourn from
| time to time, as a majority shall deter
7. And be it enacted, That this act shall
| not apply to any borough commission
itv of votes at an election held under
the order mentioned in the next section
of this act that said s D oTo4 4ggnn e1If1nissioh
3 And be it enacted. That upon appli-
| cation by a petition signed by ten or
more residents and freenoiders OF 4 n
Justice of the supreme court noiaing
| court in and for the county within
| such borough commission Is sltua{e'
| shall order an election to be held to De
termine whether said borough 7comm1s
sion shall be separated and set of
| from the township within W1hifh II Is 10
| Gated; that the order for such ELECTION
Said horongh commission where such
election is to be held, and the time and
the time for holding the same, Whlch
shall bewithin one month from eht date
of said order; that the applicants for
| said order shall cause notice of the time
and place of such intended appilcatlon 70
be given by publishing such notice IN TWO
published and circulated in
| the county in which said borough COM
mission is situate least n week next
| before said application IS made; thai the
| oaths or affirmations of said applicants
| attached to said petition that they are
residents and freeholders of said Dor
! ough commission shall be prima facie
| evidence of that fact; that a copy OF
said order shall be published once a
| week for two weeks prior to such cleo
| fion in two newspapers published in the
| county within which said township is To-
| Gated, and such other notice of said cleo
| tfongfven as said order may dlrect:
that all such elections shaI pe ~conducteo
| regulations as are now or may here
after be prescribed for holding elections
in the borough commissions of this state.
8. And be it enacted, hat 1t shal! pc
| the election, to canvass all the votes
cast. to declare the result and to GER
| tify under their hands the result of such
| election to the clerk of the county In
| which such election is held, which cer2
tifcate shall contain a recitaleof the or
| der under which the election wat held.
10. And be it enacted, That AL persons
| voting at the election so ordered who are
in favor of the separation of the borough
fbmmissiSn from the township shall
have written or printed, or, partly
| printed, on the ballots For separa-
tion,o and all who are against such sep
| aration shall have written or printed or
partly written or printed, on their ballots
Against separation" that if a majority
of the votes cast at said election have on
them For separation" then it shall be
1 10 ban &c adnfcrrninad that the hnr0llph