macadamized or otherwise improved, as to them may seem advisable; of sidewalks, III. To alter the grade of any sidewalk, street or high To alter grade way, or of any part or parts thereof, and to ascertain and &c. establish the boundaries of all streets, highways and alleys in said township, and to prevent and remove all To remove all obstructions and encroachments that may have been or may be made thereon; obstructions. trees. IV. To regulate, clean, and keep in repair all side. To regulate and walks, streets, highways and alleys in said township; to repair sidewalks, direct and regulate the planting, rearing, trimming and To direct the preserving the shade trees in the same, and to authorize planting of shade or to prohibit the removal or destruction of said trees; to enforce the removal of snow, ice or dirt from the To enforce residewalks and gutters of said streets, highways or alleys &c. from sideby the owner or occupant of the premises fronting walks, &c. thereon, and also to prevent and forbid the removal of To prevent reearth, gravel or any other road making materials from moval of earth. the highways by any person or persons not acting under moval of snow, the authority of the township committee, and also to To abate and reabate and remove nuisances of every kind in any of the move nuisances. highways or public places of the township; moderate driving V. To prevent and punish immoderate driving or To prevent imriding in any street or highway, driving over or upon any sidewalk, and any cruelty to animals, and to author- To authorize deize the detaining without warrant, and the arrest of any taining without person who may be guilty thereof; warrant. ing of water, gas or sewer VI. To lay and regulate, or prohibit the laying of To regulate laywater or gas or sewer pipes in or under the streets and roads, or any part thereof, in said township, and to pro- pipes. vide street lamps for, and to light the streets either with To provide street gas or other material; lamps. walks by curb VII. To improve the streets, public roads and high- To improve ways of the township by macadamizing, grading and Stream,& cadamizing, &c., paving the same, or otherwise, under the direction improve side and control of the township committee, and also for the ing, &c purpose of improving the sidewalks in said township, under the like direction and control, by curbing the same; or otherwise, and to determine in what manner any street, road or highway, or any part or parts thereof, shall be so improved; To regulate erection of VIII. To regulate or prohibit the erection of signs or signs or awnings. awnings over the streets or sidewalks. Town committees may pass ordinances, prescribe penalties, prosecute offenders, &c 2 And be it enacted, That for the enforcement of the foregoing provisions of this act, the township committees of the several townships of this shall have power to pass, alter and repeal, from time to time, any and all such ordinances as they shall think proper, to carry into effect the powers conferred by any or all of the foregoing purposes; and shall have authority to prescribe a penalty or penalties for the violation of any ordinance or ordinances, passed for any purpose under the fifth subdivision above, by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars; and may, in the name of the clerk of the township, prosecute offenders against the said provisions or of the said ordinances, before any justice of the peace elected in the townBook of record ship; and that the book of records of the ordinances of the said township shall be taken and received in all courts or elsewhere, as evidence of the due passage of all the ordinances recorded therein. of ordinances received in all courts. Notice to be served upon shall be passed. What such notice shall contain. 3. And be it enacted, That when at any meeting of the owners of lots township committee any ordinance shall be offered at before ordinance said meeting by any member of said township committee, for any of the powers conferred on them by the first, second and third subdivisions hereof, such ordinance shall not be passed until the township committee shall have caused notice to be served upon the owners of lots or lands fronting or bordering upon the street affected by such ordinance, if such owners are known; such notice to contain a copy of the proposed ordinance, and stating the time and place when such ordinance will come before. said township committee for final passage, which notice shall be served on such owner or owners, if known, at least five days prior to said time, by giving to each of them a copy thereof personally or left at their usual place of abode with a member of the family over the age of fourteen years, at which time and place all persons interested in said ordinance may appear and be heard by themselves, or their counsel, for or against the passage of such ordi Ordinances shall be recorded by nance. 4. And be it enacted, That all ordinances that shall heretownship clerk after be passed by any township committee shall be engrossed by the township clerk in a book to be provided in book for that purpose, &c. for that purpose, with a proper index, which book shall be deemed a public record of such ordinances, and shall be an I remain in the custody of the township clerk, and that every such ordinance hereafter passed shall be signed in the said book of the record of ordinances by the chairman of the township committee and the township clerk. shall be pub shall be of no 5. And be it enacted, That every ordinance hereafter Every ordinance passed as aforesaid shall be published one issue in a news-lished in a newspaper printed and circulating in such township, or it none paper or same be printed in such township then in a newspaper printed effect. in the county and circulating in such township, and until such ordinance shall have been so published as aforesaid, the same shall be of no effect. nances, or copies township clerk, 6. And be it enacted, That the said book of the record of The book of ordinances shall be taken and received in all courts as record of ordievidence of said ordinances, and that copies of said ordi- certified by the nances, certified by the township clerk, under the cor- shall be received porate seal of the township, shall likewise be taken and in all courts as received in all courts as evidence of said ordinances, and that the publication of said ordinances in a newspaper, as herein required, shall, in all cases, be presumed to have been made, until the contrary shall be proved. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall be deemed a public act, and shall take effect immediately. Approved March 8, 1893. evidence. CHAPTER LXXII. An Act concerning the collection of arrears of taxes in cities of this state. The receiver of the consent of 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of taxes authorized the State of New Jersey, That in any city of this state in to appoint, with which the collection of arrears of taxes is now performed finance commitby deputy collectors of arrears of taxes, it shall and may finance, addibe lawful for the receiver of taxes of such city, or other to deputy tee or board of. collectors. officer who has heretofore appointed the said deputy collectors in said city, to appoint, with the sanction and consent of the finance committee or board of finance of said city, such additional deputy collectors as may from time to time be necessary for the prompt and efficient, collection of the arrears of taxes in said city; and said additional deputies shall have the same powers, perform the same duties and be subject to the same requirements as the said deputy collectors of arrears of taxes are now subject to in said city. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 9, 1893. Commissioners of assessment CHAPTER LXXIII. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act to provide for sewage and drainage in incorporated townships in which there is a public water supply," approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of shall assess both the State of New Jersey, That whenever in strict confor direct and formity with the provisions of section eight of the act to benefits all lands which this is a further supplement, commissioners of as prospective benefited or to be benefited. sessment so appointed by the circuit court shall determine that the sewage district or drainage area extends so as to include lands lying in adjacent cities, towns or townships, and that the drainage from such cities, towns or townships does or may discharge through the sewer or sewers which may have been constructed under the provisions of the act of which this is a further supplement; that the said commissioners shall assess both for direct and prospective benefits all such lands benefited or to be benefited within the said entire drainage area, and that assessment the township shall clerks of ad ships a copy commissioners. ors, in news said assessments for benefits so assessed shall be a lien upon the lots, plots or parcels of land lying in the said adjacent cities, towns or townships respectively assessed. Upon confirma2. And be it enacted, That upon the confirmation of the tlon of the assessment made in conformity with the act of which this clerk of the is a further supplement the clerk of the township through file with the which the said sewer or sewers have been constructed jacent cities, shall file with each of the clerks of the adjacent cities, toortownf towns or townships whose lands are included in the afore- report of said said assessment a copy of the report of the said commissioners; that it shall be the duty of each of the collectors in said adjacent cities, towns or townships to enter the said assessments, so far as it applies to his municipality, into a book to be kept in his office for the purpose, and he shall give notice for four weeks in some newspaper Notice to be circulating in the said municipality that the said assess- given by collectment report is on file and requiring payment of the paper, that said several sums assessed against any owner of lands and real estate for such improvement within thirty days from and and requiring after the confirmation of said report by the circuit court assessed. of the said county; and in case said assessment shall re- Assessments main unpaid at the expiration of the thirty days from and unpaid after after the first publication of said notice, the said assess- interest. ment shall draw interest thereupon from and after that time at a rate of one per centum per month, except the assessments for prospective benefits, which shall be governed as provided for in section two of the supplement of the act of which this is a further supplement, approved March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one; and the governing bodies of said adjacent cities, towns or townships affected by said assessment shall have the same powers and rights to enforce the payments of said assessments as they have to enforce the collection of taxes or assessments by like proceedings. assessment report is on file payment of sums thirty days draw count of afore kept in a sepa 3. And be it enacted, That all moneys collected on ac- Moneys colcount of the aforesaid assessment by the respective adja- lected on accent cities, towns or townships shall be kept in a separate said assessment fund, which fund shall be applied to reimbursing the rate fund. town through which the said sewer or sewers may have been constructed for such expenses, as said town may have incurred in the carrying out of said improvements; and it shall be the duty of the governing bodies of the |