Annual salary of CHAPTER IV. A Supplement to an act entitled "An act respecting the court of chancery," approved March twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of vice-chancellors. the State of New Jersey, That the vice-chancellors of this state shall each be entitled to receive an annual salary at the rate of nine thousand dollars and no more; said salaries shall be paid in equal monthly payments by the treasurer of this state on the warrant of the comptroller of the treasury, and shall be in full of all services to be rendered by said officers respectively, and neither of said officers shall be entitled to any per diem or other allowance over and above said salaries. Repealer. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, and that this act shall take effect immediately. Approved January 31, 1893. Section to be further amended. CHAPTER V. An Act to amend an act entitled "A further supplement to an act entitled 'An act respecting the orphans' court, and relating to the powers and duties of the ordinary and the orphans' court and surrogate,'" approved March twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That section twenty-six of the act to which this act is a supplement, as the same was amended by a supplement to said act, approved March seventeenth, anno domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, and as further amended by a further supplement to said act, approved May eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, be and the same hereby is further amended, so as to read as follows: amended. 26. And be it enacted, That when any will shall have Section as been proved and recorded in any state or territory of the United States or the District of Columbia, or in any foreign state or kingdom, and any person shall desire to have the same recorded in this state, for the purpose of making title to lands or real estate in this state, it shall be lawful for any surrogate of any county in this state, upon an exemplified copy of such will and proof thereof being filed in his office, exemplified and attested as a true copy according to the provisions of the act of congress for exemplifying and certifying judicial records of any state, if it be the record of any state or territory of the United States or the District of Columbia, or in the manner required by the laws of the foreign state or kingdom in which such will shall have been proved and recorded, to make it legal evidence in such foreign state or kingdom, if it be the record of a foreign state or kingdom, to record such will and proofs and file the said copy in his office; and any such will and proofs and certificate, upon being so recorded, shall have the same force and effect, in respect to all lands and real estate whereof the testator died seized, as if said will had been admitted to probate and letters testamentary or of administration, with the will annexed thereon, had been issued in this state; and all conveyances of such real estate, heretofore or hereafter made, by any executor or executors, or administrator or administrators, with the will annexed, or the survivor or survivors of them, or by any devisee or devisees or their heirs, shall be as valid as if said will had been admitted to probate in this state, and such record or certified copies of said will and proof and certificate shall be received in evidence in all courts of this state. 2. And be it enacted, That this act mediately. Approved February 8, 1893. shall take effect im Governing body provide by ordi af sewer system. CHAPTER VI. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act to enable incorporated towns to construct water works for the extinguishment of fires, and supplying the inhabitants thereof with pure and wholesome water," approved March fifth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and enlarging the powers and authority of the commissioners appointed under said act. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of nance for control the State of New Jersey, That in all incorporated towns in and management this state, wherein a system (f water works has been or shall be erected and put in operation under the provisions of an act entitled "An act to enable incorporated towns to construct water works for the extinguishment of fires and supplying the inhabitants thereof with pure and wholesome water," approved March fifth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and commissioners have been or shall be appointed and acting pursuant to the terms of said act, and in which a system of sewers has been or shall hereafter be constructed and put in operation under the laws of this state, it shall be lawful for the board of commissioners or other governing body of such incorporated towns to provide by ordinance or resolution, that the water commissioners appointed under the provisions of the act above recited shall take the control, charge and management of the sewer system of said town, and upon entering upon the discharge of their duties under this act, shall have power to authorize connections to be made therewith, and to establish rents for such connections and for the use of the said sewer system, and the time of payment thereof, as they may deem proper; and in their care and management if the said sewer system shall be governed by the same rules and regulations as are provided in the act above recited for the care and government of the water system of said town, so far as the same shall be applicable thereto. authorized to and have power 2. And be it enacted, That said water commissioners, Commissioners after the passage of such ordinance or resolution, shall prescribe rules have authority to prescribe such rules, regulations, con- to employ ditions and restrictions as to the connection with and use laborers. of the said sewer system as in their opinion may be proper or necessary, and shall have power to employ suit. able and proper laborers, workmen, clerks, collectors and assistants in the conduct, management and care of said sewer system upon such terms as they may deem reasonable; provided, that no regular salaries shall be allowed Provided. or paid by said water commissioners to any employee until the agreement therefor shall have been first submitted to and approved by the board of commissioners or other governing body of said towns. interest from lien on premises. 3. And be it enacted, That the rents for connections with Rents draw and use of the said sewer system so fixed by the said time due until water commissioners, shall draw interest from the time paid, and are they become due, and shall be and remain, until paid, a lien upon the premises with which such sewer system shall be connected; and said water commissioners shall have similar remedies for the collection of said rents, with interest and costs, as the said towns have by law for collecting the expense of paving sidewalks in front of lots required to be paved in said towns, which remedies it shall be the duty of said water commissioners to enforce in all cases where the sewer rents shall be more than two years in arrear. managing sewer 4. And be it enacted, That the said water commissioners Estimate to be shall cause a careful estimate to be made of the cost of made of cost of managing, keeping.in repair, and operating the said sewer system annually. system once in each and every year, and estimate approximately the rents to be collected therefrom, for the ensuing year, and shall report the same in writing to the board of commissioners or other governing body of said. towns on the first Monday of April, each and every year. ciency three per 5. And be it enacted, That in case of any deficiency from Case of defithe revenue of said sewer system to meet the expenses centum to be thereof and the principal and interest on the bonds issued added and to construct the same, as they may become due, then it property. shall be the duty of the board of commissioners or other assessed upon Funds deposited in local banks. Receipts and how kept open to inspection, &c. governing body of said towns to add to such deficiency so reported three percentum of the cost of managing and keeping in repair and operating the said sewer system, to cover losses and contingencies, and to assess such deficiency and said three percentum so added as aforesaid, upon all the taxable property in said town in the same manner as other taxes are assessed, and said sums shall be collected by the collector and other officers of said towns, who are by law required to collect taxes, and if not paid by the time required by law for the payment of other town taxes, shall be collected by warrant, and by and in the same manner as other taxes are collected in said towns, and shall be a lien upon the property whereon the same are assessed in like manner as other taxes of the said towns. 6. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said water commissioners to keep all funds which may come to their hands on deposit with one or more of the banks located in said towns, and they shall draw said funds by checks to be signed by at least two of their. members, which said checks shall specify briefly the purposes for which the same are drawn. 7. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the disbursements, said water commissioners to keep an accurate account of the receipts and disbursements connected with said sewer system in proper books to be provided for that purpose, and which shall always be open for the inspection of the board of commissioners or other governing body of said town, and their authorized agents, and which accounts shall be annually, in the month of March, audited by a committee of said board of commissioners or other governing body and a short abstract thereof shall be published with the annual statement of the town finances. 8. And be it enacted, That in addition to the amount water commis- which the said water commissioners are now entitled by law to receive, they shall receive and be paid as full compensation for all time, attention, trouble, and labor bestowed by them upon said sewer system, the sum of fifty dollars each per year. Additional compensation of sioners. Repealer. 9. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be and the same are hereby repealed. |