Repealer, in the manner as prescribed by an act entitled "An act to regulate elections," and a certificate of the result, showing the number of votes in favor of and against roads, shall be signed by the board of election and within five days thereafter be delivered to the county clerk of said county of Mercer, to be filed; and further provided, that the clerk of the township shall publish the result of said election within ten days in the Princeton Press, a newspaper published in said township. 6. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall be a public act, and take effect immediately. Approved March 27, 1874. CHAPTER CCCCXLVII. A further supplement to the supplements to "An act to divide the township of North Bergen," approved March eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy. Preamble. WHEREAS, the township committee of the township of North Bergen have in pursuance of the several special acts of the legislature, caused a certain public street or highway in said township, called Hamblet Place, to be graded and otherwise improved, and have caused an assessment to be made of the costs and expenses of such improvement, as directed and provided in and by said several acts of the legislature, and have duly confirmed said assessment; and whereas, some of the persons interested in the lands and real estate so assessed for said improvement allege that said assessment is informal and wrong for the reason that the commissioners who made the said assessment have on the map presented with the said assessment to said township committee laid out the lots of land so assessed by them at right angles to said street, which said lots of land have been on a map thereof, filed in the office of the clerk of the county of Hudson, laid out longitudinally, and parallel with said street, and said assessment and map being in all respects proper, just and fair; therefore, map made sioners 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the AssessState of New Jersey, That the said assessment so made and ment and confirmed, as well as the said map so made by the said com- by commismissioners who made the said assessment, be and the same confirmed. is hereby in all things and respects confirmed and declared valid and effectual in law; provided, that this section shall Proviso. not apply to cases where a writ or writs of certiorari is or are allowed within the time provided in the next succeeding section. may be ap 2. And be it enacted, That a writ or writs of certiorari may Certorari be applied for and allowed to remove any of the proceedings plied for. or the assessment, or all of them, to the supreme court; provided, said writ or writs to [be] applied for within three Proviso. months from the passage of this act. sessment township 3. And be it enacted, That whenever any assessment shall When asbe set aside on a writ of certiorari, the township committee set aside, of said township may appoint new commissioners to make committee a new assessment, provided, the court shall order a new assessment to be made. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall be deemed a public act, and shall take effect immediately. Approved March 27, 1874. may appoint new commissioners. CHAPTER CCCCLI. A further supplement to an act entitled "An act concerning corporations," approved the fourteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. WHEREAS, in consequence of the consolidation of the sur- Preamble. rounding cities with Jersey City, the names of many corporations have been repeated, and confusion is thereby produced; therefore, 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the CorporaState of New Jersey, That any corporation now located, or that whom and how name title or the may may hereafter be located within the limits of Jersey City, be changed may change its name or title and assume another name or title by resolution passed at a meeting of its trustees, directors or managers; such resolution shall be certified under its corporate seal, and proved in the same manner as deeds for lands are required to be proved, and when filed in the office of the clerk of Hudson county, such corporation shall be thereafter known as, and may bring and defend actions and suits at law or in equity by such new name; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to relieve any such corporation from any of its legal contracts, obligations, debts, or other liabilities, or release any legal existing obligations, debts, or other liabilities, or rights due to, held by, or belonging to such corporation. Proviso. 2. And be it enacted, That this act is a public act, and shall take effect immediately. Approved March 27, 1874. Notice of CHAPTER CCCCLIII. A further supplement to an act entitled "An act constituting a public road board for the laying out, constructing, appropriating, improving and maintaining public carriage roads in the county of Essex," approved March thirtyfirst, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of meeting of the State of New Jersey, That the public notice required by assessors of the act approved February sixteenth, one thousand eight how given. hundred and seventy, and supplementary to the act to which benefits this is a further supplement, of the first meeting of the assessors of benefits, shall be given by publication thereof in two daily newspapers of said county, daily, sundays excepted, for the space of ten days, and that such notice shall be sufficient, and that this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall take effect immediately. Approved March 27, 1874. CHAPTER CCCCLIV. An act to repeal an act entitled "A supplement to the act entitled 'An act to provide for the assessment and collection of taxes in the township of Acquackanonk, in the county of Passaic,'" approved March sixth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six; approved February twentyeighth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the act approved February twen- Repealer. ty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and entitled "A supplement to the act entitled 'An act to provide for the assessment and collection of taxes in the township of Acquackanonk, in the county of Passaic," approved March sixth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, be and the same is hereby repealed. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 27, 1874. CHAPTER CCCCLV. Supplement to an act entitled "An act concerning roads in the township of Harrington, in the county of Bergen," approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That so much of the second section Repeater. of the act to which this is a supplement, as provides that before the expiration of the term of office of any commissioner, the commission ahall nominate a successor, is hereby Commis sioner in case of vacancy ed. In case of repealed; and on the expiration of the term of office of any commissioner, the freeholders of the district for which such commissioner was appointed shall, at their meeting in April, how elect of the year when such vacancy is to occur, elect by a major. ity vote a commissioner for the said district, who shall be a legal voter in the township, and a freeholder and resident of the district for which he is chosen; if from any cause there failure to be a failure to elect a commissioner at such April meeting, April meet- as herein provided, the commission shall forthwith call a missioners special meeting of the freeholders of such district, by notice of the time and place of such meeting, posted in five meeting. public places in said district, ten days before the time of such meeting, to fill such vacancy; and at such meeting the person receiving a majority vote of the freeholders so elect at ing, com may call special Commis powered to not to be made except in month of sembled, shall be chosen commissioner, as provided in said second section. 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners named in the sioners em- first section of the act to which this is a supplement, or their alter dis- successors, or a majority of them may alter the districts tricts, &c. provided for in the third section of said act, and may divide the township into more than seven road districts; but no alAlteration teration shall be made by them except in the month of January; in case any such alteration is made, or any new district is formed, such alteration or new district shall be clearJanuary. ly marked and designated on the maps filed in the office of the clerk of the county of Bergen, and in the copy thereof, at the office of the commission, or a new map made and filed in said clerk's office, and a copy thereof kept for inspection at the office of the commissioners; a commissioner for any new district so made shall be chosen in the same manner as in the other districts. appoint Commis- 3. And be it enacted, That at any assembly of the freeholders of a district, held as provided in the fifth section of chairman. the act to which this is a supplement, if the commissioner for such district is absent, or unable to preside, or if there be no commissioner for such district, the commissioners shall appoint a chairman for such meeting; and they may make such an appointment provisionally prior to such meeting. When com to declare 4. And be it enacted, That when a road connecting one missioners public road with another, or leading to a railroad station, road to be a shall have been opened, graded and put into good condition for use, by private subscriptions, and twelve freeholders in public road. |