Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1897-01-20

The bill which the legislature will bt
Ycalled upon toconsider, providing for the
| removal of the County Seat to Pleasant
vile, is as follows, and will be introduced
sometime during the present week.
| An act to provide for the removal ol
the Court House, Clerks Office, Surro,
| gates Office. County Jail and other
| public buildings now at Mays Landing
in the County of Atlantic from said May e
Landing, and the erection thereof at
Pleasantville or on the lands owned by
the County Of Atlantic in the Township
of Egg Harbor, known as the County
Farm or such other convenient place in
said County as may be determined by
the legal voters of said County at q
SPECIAL election to be held for that pur-
pose by authority of the Legislature.
BE it enacted by the Senate and
General Assembly of the State of New
Jersey:
| /. The Court House, Clerks Office,
Surrogate's Office, County Jail and other
| public buildings, now at Mays Landing
in the County of Atlantic shall, within
one year from the date of the approval
of this act be vacated and abandoned as
such and within the said year removed
to, located and erected at Pleasantville
or on the lands owned by the County of
Atlantic in the Township of Egg Harbor,
known as the County Farm, or such
other convenient place in said County as
may be determined by the legal
voters of said County at a special
election to be held for that pur-
pose as hereinafter provided, and that
from and after the time of such location
and erection of the said Court House,
Clerks Office, Surrogate's Office, County
Jail and other public buildings at the
place so determined by the legal voters
of said County, the Circuit Court, the
Court of Oyer and Terminer and General
Jail delivery, the Court of Common
Pleas, the Court of General Quarter
Sessions of the Peace and the Orphans
Court of said Atlantic County shall hold
annually their stated terms at the place
SO designated on the second Tuesday of
April, September and December respect
fully.
2. The said special election shall be
held on the day of
Eighteen hundred and
ninet y-seven under the same regulations
as are now prescribed by law for holding
the general elections for members of the
General Assembly and Senate in this
State. and notice of said special election
shall be given by the Board of Chosen
Freeholders of said County and published
once week for four weeks prior to said
election in two or more newspapers
be the duty of the several election officers
L 4 h. -
all the votes cast, and declare and fort
with certify the result to the Board of
Chosen Freeholders of said County, and
in all respects to perform the same duties
at said election as they are by law re-
quired to do at the election for members
of the General Assembly and Senate of
of this State, and they shall receive the
same compensation therefor as they
receive at general elections.
g. All persons entitled to vote and
y6fing at said election shall have written
or printed, or partly written or printed
on their ballots the name of the place in
said County of Atlantic at which they
desire the said Court House, Clerks
Office, Snrrogate's Office, County Jail
and other public buildings to be located
and erected
4. The said Court House, Clerks
Office, Surrogates Office, County Jail
and other public buildings shall there
upon, within the time hereinbefore
mentioned, located and erected at the
place SO determined by plurality of the
legal voters of said Atlantic County and
hereafter and therefrom be used and
occupied as such.
s. And the Board Of Chosen Free
holders of said Atlantic County shall
Immediately after the result OF said
election shall have been declared and
certified to them acquire, by purchase or
otherwise and receive, have and hold at
such place as may have been determined
by q plurality of the legal voters of said
County, all the lands necessary for the
location and erection of the said Court
House, Clerks Office, Surrogate's Office,
County Jail and other public buildings,
a9d shall also with all convenient speed
proceed with the erection of the said
Court House, Clerks Office, SurrOgate's
Office, County Jail and other public
buildings on the land so acquired, SO
that the same may be completed within
one year from the date OF the approval
of this act.
6. And the Board of Chosen Free
holders of said Atlantic County shall
rasse the necessary sum or sums OF
muney and issue bonds for the acquisi-
tiop .os said lands and the erection of a
Court House, Clerks Office, Surrogate'e
Office, County Jail and other public
buildings thereon in the same manner az
is now provided by law.
Z. This act shall take effect immed-
lately.