Title to be in name of. real estate and personal property, which is or may be devised or given to them without regard to value; the title, however, to all such real estate to be taken in the name of "the New Jersey society for the prevention of cruelty to animals," to its own proper use or as trustee for said district society, according to the will of the testator; but the disposition of the same in the latter case to be under the control of the president of said district society. Approved March 27, 1893. Lawful to provide by resolution to further provide for further improve CHAPTER CCLXI. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act to authorize the board of chosen freeholders of any of the several counties of this state to lay out, open, construct, improve and maintain a public road therein," approved April seventh, one thousand eight hundred and eightyeight. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That whenever the board of chosen freeholders of any of the several counties of this ments of roads. state acting under the authority of the above mentioned act to which this is a supplement, and the supplements thereto, and acts amendatory thereof, or either of them have laid out and opened, or shall lay out and open wholly or partially, and have improved, or proceeded to put in process of improvement, or shall improve or proceed to put in process of improvement in accordance with the provisions of said acts and supplements, the whole or any part of any such part of any such public road as is authorized and provided for in and by the provisions of said acts, including any branch or connecting roads, and whether such connecting roads or any of the same be now laid out and opened or shall be laid out and opened in the future; it shall be lawful for said board of chosen freeholders of such county from time to time, when they shall deem it expedient, in order to provide for and secure to the people of such county desirable and serviceable roads of the character before mentioned, with the further improvement thereof as hereinafter provided, by resolution or resolutions, to be passed by at least a majority vote of said board at a regular or stated meeting, to further provide for the improvement and the further improvement of such roads, and to improve and further improve the same as follows: by paving or covering the whole or such portion of the roadway of such roads as they may by said resolution or resolutions designate, Resolution shall with suitable road material, but no stone block pavement shall be used, excepting in paving gutters or waterways, or at the intersection of streets devoted to heavy traffic; by setting curb stone and paving the gutters and waterways along and within said roads or any part thereof; by planting trees along said roads or any parts thereof; Planting trees, by providing a proper plant or plants for the lighting of road. said road or roads, as directed by the act to which this is a supplement or any of said acts supplementary thereto, and to do all other work necessary to make and provide good, well regulated public road or roads of the character before described, serviceable in all weather and seasons. designate. lighting said 2. And be it enacted, That all work herein authorized Work may be shall be performed and carried out as provided in said done by contract. original act to which this is supplementary, or as near thereto as practicable, including the methods and officers already provided for supervision of the work and the proceedings necessary to enable the same to be done, together with the awarding and making of contracts therefor, upon advertisements for bids duly made; in all other things requisite and necessary to be done to carry out and meet the purposes and objects of this act, the same shall conform to the provisions of the said original act and the acts supplementary thereto and amendatory thereof, except in so far as changes, alterations in, or deviations therefrom may be rendered necessary by this act; provided, that the entire cost and expenses, together Proviso. with and including all the original and other cost and expense whatsoever of the laying out, opening, con mile. structing and improvement of such public road, in any Average cost per County as aforesaid, shall not exceed, on an average of the whole length of such roads, the sum of one hundred and forty thousand dollars (including awards for all lands, real estate and property taken, and damages thereto) for each mile thereof, and a proportionate cost for each frac tion of a mile of such roads actually laid out, opened, constructed and fully improved as before provided. Authorized to bonds. Proviso. 3. And be it enacted, That said board of chosen freeissue additional holders is hereby authorized, in order to secure sufficient moneys to meet the requirements and purposes of this act, to provide for and make a new or additional issue or issues of bonds, over and above those provided for and authorized to be issued by the said act to which this is a supplement, and the supplements thereto and amend ments thereof, to an amount or sum requisite and necessary to meet such requirements; provided, however, that the bonds or additional issue of bonds, authorized to be issued under under and by virtue of this supplementary act, shall not exceed the sum of one million dollars; and the bonds to be issued hereunder shall be of like tenor and effect to those authorized to be issued under the original act to which this is a supplement; no part of the moneys to be realized from the sale of such bonds shall be used for any purpose than as authorized and mentioned in said acts, or either of them. Repealer. 4. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts, general, special, local or otherwise, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 27, 1893. CHAPTER CCLXII. An Act to amend an act entitled "A supplement to an act entitled 'An act to authorize the board of chosen freeholders of any of the several counties of this state to lay out, open, construct, improve and maintain a public road therein,' approved April seventh, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight," which supplement was approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one. amended. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Section to be the State of New Jersey, That section one of the aforesaid supplementary act be and the same is hereby amended to be and read as follows: construct roads connect or intersect at conven city, town or 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Authorized to the State of New Jersey, That the board of chosen free- or branches to holders of any county in this state, wherein the result of an election held or to be held upon the question whether ient point any a public road shall be laid out, opened, constructed, im- township. proved and maintained as provided for in the act to which this is a supplement, shall have been or shall be in favor of such public road, is hereby authorized and empowered, without any other or further election, to lay out, open, construct, improve and maintain, in accordance with the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, one or more roads or branches which shall run to and from, and connect or intersect at any convenient point, line or place thereof, any city, town or township of said county, not already connected with the road, or intersected by the lines, or any of them, as already laid out and fixed, of the road provided for in the act to which this is a supplement; provided, however, Proviso. that no such city, town or towuship shall be connected by any such road or branch, as provided for in and by this supplementary act, where the same, or the nearest point, points or boundary lines thereof shall be more than Proviso Proviso. Proviso. one-half mile distant or away from the main road or original road provided for in the said act to which this is a supplement, measured on the shortest and most direct line between the side line of said road and any such boundary line of any city, town or township as aforesaid; and provided, that all said connecting or other road, roads or branches provided for in this supplement shall not, in the aggregate length, distance or like extent exceed one-third the length of the aforesaid main or original road provided for in the said act to which this is a supplement; such connecting or branch road or roads. may be laid out, opened, constructed and improved either upon a direct line from said main or original road and the line of any street, road or avenue already laid out or in existence, or partly upon both, or otherwise, or by means of a road connection or branch road, which shall leave or branch off from said main public road at any point or place to be determined by said board of chosen freeholders by resolution thereof, and after running to or through any such city, town or township, or any part, portion or territory thereof, shall be extended along such line as said board of chosen freeholders may and hereby are authorized to determine by resolution as aforesaid; provided further, that not less than two-thirds of the total or aggregate length, between commencement and ending points of any and all such connecting road or roads, and for the full width thereof, shall be, if laid out, opened and built or made at all, through and over lands acquired or to be acquired by the said board of chosen freeholders for the purposes of such road, by gift, grant, or for a mere nominal consideration, and through and over streets, roads or avenues already laid out and dedicated to public use; it being hereby expressly provided and understood that not more than one-third of the total length of said connecting roads shall be through and over lands the title to which, for the purposes of said connecting road or roads, shall be requisite to be acquired, or shall be acquired by proceedings in condemnation, or by the payment of any but a mere nominal sum or consideration therefor, as aforesaid; and it is further provided, that such connecting road or roads shall be laid out, opened, constructed, improved and maintained in all other respects |