The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1895-07-09
ESTABLISHED 1879.

persons interested therein may be heard, and the
sad board may adjourn such hearing from tint
10 time until they have completed the considera
ton thereof and made report thereon as hereii
directed and any person who may deem himsel
such report to the city council Of said city at It
next stated meeting after the fling of such report
and If the said city council shall refuse TO ratifJ
the it shall be returned by the said city coun-
ell to the said board of assessors for further consd-
GRAFTON, and so from time to time until such report
shall be duly ratified and confirmed
[ g. And be it enacted That upon the ratification
( Of any such assessment of benefits the report
thereof shall be transmitted Immediately to the
officer charged by law with the collection Of taxes,
anu 1t shall be the duty of such officer thereupOn
to give notice in two of the newspapers published
in said city. that such assessments have been duly
returned to him for collections all such assess
ments shall draw interest from the date of confirm
alton at the rate of seven per centum per annum,
and with the costs of collection shall be and be-
come, from the date of confirmation, a first and
paramount lien upon the lands and real estate so
assessed, which lien shall remain until such as
sessmeDt is paid
10. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
OF the collector of taxes to whom any such
ment shall have been returned, in addition to the
publication of the return thereof TO him for col
lection as herein provided, as far as practicable,
to cause notice to be given to every person as
sessed of the amount of assessment made against
him or her, with the costs which have been incur
red in the collection OF this same and the interest
which has accrued thereon but it for any reason,
such notice is not given to OF received by the per-
son OF persons assessed, it shall in way impair
the right of the city to collect the assessment 80
made; in all cases in which assessments so made
and returned shall remain unpaid for the space of
six months from the date of confirmation, il shall
be lawful to collect the by a sale Of the prop
erty assessed and it shall be the duty Of the said
collector within one year after any such assessment
shall have been returned to him, to make sale
thereof as herein directed he shall, before making
such sale, make advertisement thereof IN Two OF
re newspapers PH RlishSd IA said cas- for
Of four weeks at least once each week, giving no.
tce OF the time and place Of sale, together with
description Of the lot tract CT land assessed by
the letter or number by which it is designated on
the city atlas, and specifying the amount of money
assessed, laid out and expended on the same and
the said land and real estate at public sale for the
lowest torn of years at which any person will
agree to take the same, not extending fifty years.
and pay the assessment, with interest thereon, and
all other expenses incurred subsequent to the
hrmatiOn thereof; and thereupon the mayor of
the said city, at the request of the city council
and deliver declaration of sale to the purchaser
thereof and such purchaser, his executors, admin
istrators or assigns, by virtue thereof and under
the authority of this act, shall lawfully hold and
enjoy the said lands and real estate, for his and
their own proper use, until said term shall be fully
completed and ended and they shall be at liberty
TO remove therefrom all buildings and improve
ments they shall erect place thereon during the
said term, and every such purchaser, mis- heirs and
assigns, shall pay all taxes which shall be lawfully
assessed against the said lands and real estate DUR
ing the said term; provided, however, that If the
owner of any such lands and real estate, or any
person having an estate therein, or any mortgage
thereof shall, within six months after such sale,
pay to the purchaser his executors administrators
or assigns, the amount of money so paid by him to
said city, with the amount paid for any improve
ments made thereon, and all taxes paid by such
purchaser with interest at the rate OF twelve per
Oentum per annum, such owner, or person having
an estate therein, mortgage, the case may be,
shall be entitled to re enter and possess the said
lands and real estate and hold the same and have
such rights therein as If the said sale had not been
made.
IL. Aud be it enacted, That it shall be lawful
for the city council in every case to much
of the cost, damage and expense of any public i'm
provement authorized by and made under the au-
thOrity of this act, represents the special and
peculiar benefit conferred upon the owners Of
land and real estate benftted thereby, to be as
sessed thereon in the manner herein provided, in
proportion to the benefit each shall be deemed to
receive, the balance OF such cost damage and eK-
pense to be imposed upon and borne by the city
and provided for by general taxation or the said
city council may, at its option, provide that the
entire expense of any such improvement shall be
borne by the city at large and shall have power,
within the limitations herein imposed, to provide
r. And be it enacted That all assessments upon
lot owners in said city, which may be made for
any purpose authorized by this act, to be au-
thorlzed by law, shall be made upon the lots or
subdivisions Of lots they stand recorded on the
or for taxes or in entering liens there
on it shall be sufficient to describe said lot OF sub
divisions of lots by the letters and numbers and
streets by which they are distinguished the city
atlas, together with the name or names of the own
er or owners thereof as the same appears in the
register by the city surveyor; if in any case the
not be asceriained, such assessments may be made
against the lots so designated with the declara-
tiOn that the owners name Is unknown.
10. And be it enacted, That whenever, by the
judgment of any court wherein any certiorari has
been, is or may be brought, or any assessment
made under the provisions of this act has been or
is set aside or reversed for irreguarity or in
formality in such assessment, 1t shall be lawful for
the city council to cause new assessment to be
made of so much of the amount of the original as
sessment as may be set aside, OF of the amount
thereof still remaining unpaid, to become lien
of the date Of the confirmation Of the original as
ses9ment and TO be proceeded with ~ all respects
In aonformity With the provisions Of tAiz aat-and
a. And be It enacted, That whenever, by reason
OF any informaity or ilegality in any proceedings
of the said city council or Of the board of city as
SCISSORS, surveyor or other agent Of the city council
or official of the city, in altering or widening a
street alley, any assessment shall be set aside by
judicial authority it shall be lawful for the city
council to reinstltute the proceedings set aside,
upon the same basis upon which the original pro-
ceedings based, or otherwise if they see fit SO
to do, and lawfully proceed therein the same
though the former proceedings had not been had,
or the said city council may reinsttute said pro-
ceedings from the point where such informality or
illegally may have been so decreeu, and whenever
the city council shall discover that any such pro-
ceedings are liable to be set aside by Judicial
thOrity, they may reinstitute said proceedings
from the point where such informality Illegally
commences, and no assessment shall be deemed in
valid in consequences thereof, but no writ Of GER
tiorari shall be allowed or issue to remove any
sessment made upon the owner or owners Of lands
or real estate for any work or improvement made
or to be made, unless the same be applied for with
in sixty days after the confirmation of such ASSESS
ment by the city council of such city.
TO- And be 1t enacted, That whenever any pub
lie improvement shall be made, or ordered to be
made, under the provisions of this act, and the
expense thereof ordered to be assessed by the board
of city assessors, and any member of the board Of
city assessors shall be interested in said improve
ment, either as an owner Of property to be taken
or to be assessed, or in any other way, except
merely as a taxpayer in said city, such assessor
shall not be deemed competent to assist in making
the assessment connected with such improvement,
but the city council shall, by majority vote Of all
its members, elect some disinterested resident In
said city to act with the remaining members OF
the board of assessors in making said assessment;
such person. before entering upon his said duties,
shall take and subscribe an oath OF affirmation be-
fore the city clerk, to be filed by him, faithfully
and honestly to perform said duties; no report of
assessment shall be considered Illegal in c0nse-
quence of the incOmpetency of any Of the persons
making such report, If majority of the persons
making such assessments were competent and dis
interested and it shall be lawful for the city
council to make such reasonable compensation for
the services of any person so appointed to fill such
vacancy as 1t may determine.
16. And be 1t enacted, That this act shall take eff
feet Immediately.
Approved March %, 1895.