CHAPTER LV.

An Act to amend an act entitled "An act authorizing municipalities governed by commissioners to pave and improve streets and avenues and provide for the payment thereof," approved March eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Section to be the State of New Jersey, That section one of said act be amended. and the same hereby is amended so as to read as follows:

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1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Governing body the State of New Jersey, That whenever the governing body in municipality of any municipality, by whatever name the same may be commissioners known, and however created, governed by commissionere, lution providing shall be desirous of causing any street or streets, avenue for an election to or avenues, or portions thereof, lying within the limits of street improvesuch municipality to be paved, macadamized or otherwise made. improved, it shall be lawful for such body, after the consent of a majority of the owners of real estate on the street or streets to be improved has been obtained in favor of such improvement, by a majority vote of all the members thereof, at any regular meeting thereof, to call an election of such voters of such municipality, by a resolution of such body, stating the time of holding such election; that the object is to obtain the consent of voters contents of such to the paving, macadamizing or improving of a street or streets, avenue or avenues (which shall be named in the resolution), or some portion thereof (which shall be described in the resolution), and to the assessment and collection of a portion of the cost of such improvement upon all the property adjoining and abutting on such improvement, and also the amount of money proposed to be expended for such improvement; and if it is proposed to issue the bonds mentioned in section eighteen of the act hereby amended, said resolution shall also state that it is proposed to issue bonds of said municipality,

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resolution.

All contracts hereby legalized.

Amendment not to affect proceedings.

pledging the faith, credit and property thereof, for the payment, with interest, by the said municipality of the proportion (not exceeding three-fifths) of the cost of such improvement not assessed upon the property fronting thereon.

2. And be it enacted, That any and all contracts executed by any such municipality for paving, macadamizing or otherwise improving streets or avenues, or parts of them, are hereby legalized and confirmed, notwithstanding any informality in the proceedings.

3. And be it enacted, That no suit or proceedings in any court of record shall be defeated or affected by this amendment.

4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 7, 1893.

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CHAPTER LVII.

A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act relative to sales of lands under a public statute or by virtue of any judicial proceedings," approved March twentyseventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the twelfth section of the act entitled "An act relative to sales of lands under a public statute or by virtue of any judicial proceedings," approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

12. And be it enacted, That if any master in chancery or or disqualifica, the sheriff of any county who hath made or shall make in chancery or sale of any lands, tenements, hereditaments and real the court out of estate by virtue of an execution against the same shall issued may ap abscond or depart from the state or be disqualified by point another to law or shall die or have died, or in any way become in

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capable of making a deed or conveyance for the same, it shall be lawful for the court out of which the said execution issued, upon satisfactory proof that such sale has been fairly and legally made, to appoint another master in chancery or the then sheriff of the county, who shall have full power on tender of the purchase money, or if the purchase money or any part of it has been paid, then on proof of such payment and on tender of the residue if any there be, to sign, seal and deliver to the said purchaser or his legal representative a deed or conveyance of the lands, tenements, hereditaments and real estate so sold, which deed shall be as good and valid and have the same force and effect as if the master or sheriff who made Effect of such such sale had signed, sealed and delivered a deed or conveyance for the same in due form of law, and the moneys received on such conveyance shall be paid to the person entitled thereto by law.

2. And be it enacted, That this act act shall be deemed a public act and take effect immediately. Approved March 8, 1893.

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CHAPTER LVIII.

A Supplement to an act entitled "An act for the preservation of clams and oysters," approved April fourteenth, anno domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.

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1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Special officers, the State of New Jersey, That in order to better carry out and enforce the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement, and the acts supplementary thereto, it shall be lawful for the directors of any association of oystermen duly incorporated under the laws of this state to appoint special officers, not exceeding three in number,

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officers are paid.

who shall be citizens of this state, and who shall be and hereby are empowered at all times while holding the Office or position of such special officer, upon their own view, to arrest any person or persons who may be found violating or infringing any of the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement or of any of the acts supplementary thereto, and to bring him or them before a magistrate for examination.

2. And be it enacted, That such special officers shall be paid for their services under this act by the association appointing them and not otherwise.

3. And be it enacted, That this act shall be deemed a public act, and shall take effect immediately. Approved March 8, 1893.

Extending time for completion of, certain railroad.

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CHAPTER LIX.

An Act for extending the time for completing certain railroads.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the S'ate of New Jersey, That whenever the time limited for the completion of any railroad authorized to be constructed within this state under any special or general act has expired or shall expire before the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninetyfour, such time shall be and the same is hereby extended for the further period of two years from the passage of this act; provided, however, that this act shall not apply unless money has actually been expended in surveys or location of route, or in acquisition of right of way or in construction since January first, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six; provided, further, that this act shall not apply to any corporation unless such corporation shall first, and as the condition precedent to the exercise of any power granted by this act, file in the office of the

secretary of state an agreement, to be approved by the governor and attorney-general, waiving all right of exemption from taxation, and from privileges and advantages arising from any law or contract, if any there be, establishing any special mode of taxation of any such corporation and the further agreement to be bound by any general law of this state now in existence or that may be hereafter passed, taxing such corporations as are now authorized to be taxed by the legislature of the state under any general law, and further agreeing that the exercise of any power granted by this act shall not in any way affect the rights of this state, if any there exist, to take the property of such corporations under any existing law of this state, and agreeing, further, that all laws affecting such corporations shall be subject to alteration or repeal by the legislature.

2. And be it enacted, That this act shall be deemed a public act and shall take effect immediately. Approved March 8, 1893.

CHAPTER LX.

An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the chosen freeholders in the respective counties of the state" (Revision), approved April sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Section to be the State of New Jersey, That section twenty-eight of said amended act, which reads as follows:

"28. And be it enacted, That the county collectors of the several counties of this state shall be entitled to receive two cents, and no more, for each dollar of all taxes and other moneys which they shall receive and pay to the order of such corporation; but in case the board of chosen freeholders of any of the counties in this state.