The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-20
OF MEASURE
FOR BOULEVARD
ALONG THE COAST
Bill Was introduced Last Week
by Senator O. II. Brown,
of Monmouth.

LIE VA "a liz hAAA y al O(GoAi
boulevard to connect the Atlantic
Highlands and Cape May. which was
introduced into the Legislature by
Senator o. H. Brown on Monday, is:
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and Cen
eral Assembly of the State of New
Jersey;
]. There is hereby created a commits
sion to be known as the State Highway
Commission. which shall consist Of the
Governor, the president of the Senate.
the speaker of the General Assembly
and the commissioner of public roads,
who are charged with the powers and
the duties hereinafter specified. Said
commissioners shall receive no COM
pensation for their services. as such,
but only their actual expenses in at
tendance upon their meetings.
.. The commissioner of public roads
shall. under the direction of said COM
mission, prepare a route for an ocean
boulevard, commencing at Atlantic
Highlands. in Monmouth county, and
continuing thence to Cape May, in Cape
May county, following, so far as prac-
ticable, the available and convenient
improved roads now constructed. He
shall select a route as near the coast
line as practicable. Such route, when
prepared and approved by the COM
mission, shall be certified by the con-
~rlission and filed in the office Of the
secretary of state as the official nap
of the route of the said ocean boule-
ward. Any necessary changes made
thereafter shall be certified and filed
in like manner.
3. The commissioner of public roads
shall. after the filing of the said map,
prepare maps and lists showing the
location of the said boulevard in each
county through which it will pass, and
what portion of such roads are now
improved roads, and what portion. il
any. of such roads are not improved;
what portion of said roads are county
roads. and what portion Of such roads,
If any, are municipal roads. and there
after shall deliver to the municipal
clerk Of each municipality along the
route of the said boulevard, and to the
clerk of the board of ~freeholders of
each county through which the said
boulevard is planned to pass, a copy
OF the list and map showing the roads
of such municipality or county to DE
affected thereby. and shall request the
proper authorities of such municipality
or county to take the requisite pro-
cedure for the establishment of the said
boulevard under this act.
4. The boards Of f~reeholders of such
counties and the legislative bodies of
such municipalities are hereby au-
thorized by resolution to cede TO the
state Of New Jersey the control. for
the purpose of maintenance and repair.
ofNthe roadway, from curb to curb. Of
al improved roads so indicated as
aforesaid TO be necessary for the estab-
lishment of any State highway, with
The bridge and culverts, to be here
after maintained and repaired, as a
of a State road system.
5. All boards of freeholders of coun-
ties wherein may be any roads or parts
of roads which are ~unimproved. ana
which are Indicated On any route flee
by said State Highway Commission
as necessary for use as a State high
way. are hereby authorized to proceed
for the immediate improvement thereof
according to the provisions of an act
entitled ian act 10 provide for the per-
manent improvement of public roads In
this State (revision of 1861 approved
March 27, 1905. and h amendments
thereof and supplements thereto. under
the direction of the commissioner of
prbric roads as to the width thereof
and to cede said roads when so i'm
proved to the State of New Jersey, TO
be hereafter maintained and repaired
as a part of the said boulevard as here
provided.
{ TibA hoard nf f~TPah0l0GTS OF any |
and the legislative body of
municipality desiring to improve
eny roads or parts OF roads as provided
In the fifth section of this act are
authorized to issue bonds of the
county or municipality for two
thirds of the estimated cost of said
according TO the provisions of
the ninth section of an act entitled Al
act to provide for the permanent inn
of public roads in this
CRevlsion of 1900, approved
March 81, 1905, and the amendments
thereof and supplements thereto.
Z. This act shall not obligate the State
of New Jersey to accept any improved
roads so coded. nor to repair nor main
the same until the Legislature
shall have made the appropriations
to carry the work into effect.
5. The State Highway Commission
herein provided for shall also prepare
route for a connecting highway across
the State, connecting the several coun-
ty seats of the various counties of the
State with one another. from Newton,
in the county of Sussex, TO Cape May
Court House, in the county of Cape