The Jersey City news., 1906-10-31
ELECTION NOTICE


| Pursuant to law notice is hereby gwen
that the acceptance or reiectlon OF an
Act of the Legislature or the state or
New Jersey entitled, A further supple
1nent to an Act entitled, An Act to re-
move the FIRE and police departments IN
cities OF this State from political controlS
approved May second, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty five. 4 approved May
IT, 1905, viii be submitted to the voters
of the City of Jersey City, at the gen
| eral election TO be held in the said city
on the sixth day Of November, A. d..
1 1906.
| The following is a copy of the Act
above referred to-
CHAPTER 242.
A Further Supplement to- an Act entitled
AN Act to. remove the police and IRE
/ departments in the cities Of this State
from political control, approved May
| second one thousand eight hundred and
] eighty-fve.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Gem
eral Assembly of the State OF New Jer-
/ sey
! 1. Section one. of the Act to which this
Act is a supplement be amended SO as
to read as follows:
/ l. The board of fire commissioners in
cities of the first class. created by the
/ Act to which this Act is further sup
plement, shall fix the compensation of
| the permanent members of the fire de-
partment as follows:
To battalion or district chiefs, the
sum of not less I xAs twenty hundred
| dollars per annum; to the captain or
foreman of each respective company, the
sum of not less than sixteen hundred
dollars per annum; to lieutenants or as
! sistant forenen, the nleof not less than
/ fourteen hundred dollars per annum; to
each permanent member OF the first
! grade, the sum of not less than thirteen
hundred dollars per anrIun; TO each per-
manent member Of the second grade,f the
| sum of not less than elisven hundred dol
1 lars per anpum; to each permanent mem
/ ber of the third grade the sum of not less
] than ten hundred dollars per annum; to
each permanent member of the fourth
grade, the sum of not less than eight
hundred dollars per annum; the above
sums to be paid in monthly or semi
monthly payments to the above battalion
or district chiefs. captains, foremen,
heutenants or assistant foremen and per-
manent members of the first, second,
third and fourth grades. The said COM
pensation TO begin on the first day Of the
next calendar month after this act shall
go into effect.
2. All Acts and parts of Acts incon-
sistent with this Act be and the same are
hereby repealed, and this Act shall take
! effect Immediately provided however,
/ that none of the foregoing provisions
/ shall take effect in any city until the ac--
j ceptance OF rejection of this Act shall
have been submitted, as herein provided,
| to a popular vote; such submission shall
! be made and the vote hereinafter pro-
| vided for taken at the next election,
whether general municipal or soosial,
and it shall be the duty of the county
clerk, at least ten days before any such
election, to give public notice by pabli-
cation in two or mores newspapers pub
I lie md no. i,,xx al,
/ said election is to be held, that such sub
mission viii be made at the eEsuing
/ election, stating briefly the question to
be submitted as he. Gin provided.
There shall be printed on each oficiel
ballot to be used at such election beneath
ing words: act of one thousand nine
! hundred end six increasing the eompen-
sation of frcmen" vi h the word @for"
and the word against above and i'm
mediately preceding su-lt proposition.
And the legal voters of such city shall
at such election so decide upon the ac-
ceptance or r2jectioniof this Act by the
use of such ballots. If the word "for'
be marksd off Or defaeed upon the bal
/ lot, it shall be counted as vote against
the. same; if the word against be
! marked off or defaced upon the ballot it
shall be counted as a vote in favor. there
of; and in case neither the word for
I OF the WCIQ dgalnSt De marked OH or
defaced upon the ballot, it shall not be
counted as a vote either for or against
such proposition. s
3. The acceptance or rejection of this
Act shall be determined by the result of
4 such election, and if there shall be found,
on canvass of all the votes east, to be
made as herein provided, that majority
of ballots have been cast in favor Of this
Act. then this Act, but not otherwise,
shall take effect Immediately in such ity;
the return of the election officers and GER
tifcate of the results of the votes cast
in every election district or voting pre-
cinct in such city for and against the ac-
ceptance OF this Act shall be filed forth
with after the close Of said election by the
I officers conducting thesame with the clerk
of the city wherein such election is held,
and it shall be the duty of the clerk to
tabulate the said returns and canvass
the votes so cast in all the election dis
tricts in said city and certify upon such
tabulated Statement the number of votes
cast for the acceptance of this Act and
the number of votes cast against the ac-
eeptance of this Att, aud he shall file
such tabulated statement with his certifi-
! cate thereon in his cifice, there to remain
of record.
Approved May 1T, 1906.
Done in accordance with said act,
JOHN ROTHERHAM.
County Clerk of Hudson County, N. j..
@ ce of the County Clerk, Jersey
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