The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-11

sIfall determine BY ordinance or resolu-
ton the moneys to be appropriated 10
the public schools during the year IN
Guiding therein the quota of any such
city of the annual appropriation made by
the State for the support of public
schools; and the said common council are
hereby empowered to raise by tax such
sums of money for the support of pub
lie schols, as required by the aw of the
state, or such suTns in addition thereto
as said council may deem expedient or
necessary; and all moneys SO raised and
appropriated shall be expended by said
board Of education for the support of
public schools in such city or school dis
triet according to the provisions of their
act of Incorporation and the state laws
in relation to public schools.
49. And be it enacted That the board
of education shall take charge of the pub
lie school houses in any such city or
school district and shall cause all neces-
and are also empowered to establish
public schools of different grades, ad-
apted to the age and progress of the
pupils, including evening schools for APP
prentices, minors and adult persons; to
select and employ teachers; to provide
school books, school furniture and school
libraries for the schools; to purchase
heating apparatus and fact or otherwise
provide for The heating and lighting OF
such school houses and incur such in
cidental expenses for the MAINTENANCE
to adopt rules and regulations for the
admission of pupils, the Investigation and
inspection of theHs schools, and the gov
ernlnent and the studiec to be pursued
therein.
a. And be it enacted, That whenever
cation shall. with their annual estimate
the superintendent and the boaro of edu-
aforesaid, represent to the ommon coun-
ell that it is expedient to buy land and
erect q school house thereon. with the
estimated cost thereof, the common coun-
Gil shall have the owe to raise the
whole or any part of money required for
such purpose. or by loan on the credit of
ed it shall be paid over to the superin-
tendent of public schools, to be applied to
the object aforesaid.
45. And be it enacted that the said SUI
p~erintendent and board of education shall
at the close of the fiscal year prepare a re-
port embracing the number. of schools
a ander IN, fnelf n charge, s2eeir + d dneir grad the
teachers, the number of pupils on the
roll and the average attendance in each
expenditures of the board during the
year, under the respective heads of re-
pairs of neutrality-suspicious. of teachers
school furniture, school libraries, heating
and fuel and incidental expenses, and
shall transmit said annual report to the
common council, and a cop thereof to
the state superintendent of public
schools.
46. And be it enacted, That the city
treasurer shall. in each year, from time
to time pay over to the aid school super
intendent such sum of money as shall
have been ordered to be raised by tax for
the support of public schools in such city,
not required by the law of this state to be
paid to the county collector, on warrants
to be igned by the said superintendent
and countersigned by the comptroller.
STREETS, HIGHWAYS, DRAINS, SEW
ERS AND ASSESSMENTS THERE
FORE.
AZ. And be it enacted. That it shall be
lawful for the common counci of any city
in this state. whenever in their opinion
the nJlhIin 0nnd rnnlirnG If 6U or4inonan-
l. To- lay out, accept and open any
street, road, highway or alley, public park
or square within said city. and to order
and cause any street, road, highway or
alley already laid out to be vacated
Strengthened, altered or widened, and to
take and appropriate for any, such pur-
estate upon making compensation to
the owner or owners thereof, as he is
hereinafter mentioned and provided, and
such power shall belong exclusively to
the said common council; and they may
at their discretion. by ordinance, accept
such lands as may be dedicated by the
and thereupon shall be bound to keep up,
repair and maintain streets or alleys
laid out by other legal proceedings;
II. To order and cause sewers or
drains to be constructed, and if neces-
saty, to take ana appropriate, for the
purpose of constructing such drains or
sewers, any lands and real estate, uaon
making compensation to the owner or
owners thereof, and to make a just end
equitable assessment upon all the own
ers of land and real estate peculiarly
benefit each shall Re deemed to a ,qilire
of the cost, damages and expenses So
Incurred;
IL. To order and cause any streel or
section of a street to be graded, gravel
ed, paved, fiaggedor otherwise improved
aud regulated in such name as they
may deem advisable, an to assess the
cost and expense of such Improvement
nDOn the owners of Dr0nPrtV bQnAiftPd
thereby; in no case, however, shall any
shall any assessment for benefits made
under the authority of this act exceed
the special and peculiar benefits which
the owner or owners of said property
shall receive by reason of Improvement.
As. And be it enacted, Thai no ordi-
nance shall shall be adopted by the common On
performing any work under and by vir-
tue of the provision of the last preceding
section of this act or either of the sub
divisions thereof, or under and by vir-
tue of this act, until public notice shall
be given of the intention of the common
council to cause such improvement to
performed and to that end it shall be
the duty of the city clerk, by direction of
the COMMON council, to give notice in
two or more newspapers published and
circulated in any such city, for at least
ten days, of the intention of the common
council to cause such improvement to
performed, briefly describing such work
or Improvement, and requesting such
persons as nay object thereto, to pre-
sent their objections in writing at the
office of city clerk, on or before a day
to be specified in said notice, not less
than ten days from the time of such di-
r~ection, and at a time thereafter the
common council may proceed to consider
such ordinances as aforesaid.
40. And be it enacted. That whenever
any ordinance shall be passed by the
common council for maxim any improve
mert or performing any work under
and by virue of the provisions of this
act, all further acts and proceedings
which it may be necessary, for the said
common council to take to carry out
said improvement or work to completion,
and al orders relating thereto, may be
by resolution and not by ordinance. oioa
so. And be it enacted, a whenever
the common council shall determine, by
road, highway or. alley, public park or
square within said city, or to alter,
widen or straighten any street, road,
highway or alley, or to make any sew
err or drain in any part of said city, and
to take and appropriate for such pur-
hereby authorized to treat with the own,
er Or owners thereof, and make such
compensation therefor as they shall
Judge reasonable, and thereupon shall re-
ceive from such owner or owners a
conveyance of such lands and real es-
tate to the city, and such compensation
shall constitute q, part of the whole
amount of costs, damages and expenses
to be assessed under and in pursuance of
the provisions contained in this act.
81. And b. it enacted, That when the
said common ouaCi cannot agree with
the owner or owners of such required
lands or other real estate for the same,