STANFORD LIBRARY

ACTS

PASSED BY THE

One Hundred and Twenty-seventh
Legislature.

CHAPTER 1.

An Act to annex to the township of Wall, in the
county of Monmouth, a portion of the borough of
Spring Lake and a portion of the borough of North
Spring Lake in said county.

Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. All that portion of the borough of Spring Lake and all that portion of the borough of North Spring Lake included within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at a point in the westerly line of the right of way of the New York and Long Branch Railroad in a line at right angles to the point formed by the intersection of the middle line of said railroad right of way with the centre line of its pipe or culvert through which the waters of Pollypod bog and marsh are drained into Lake Como; thence westerly at right angles to the centre line of said railroad right of way to a point distant two hundred feet westerly from the westerly side of said railroad right of way; thence southerly parallel with said westerly side or line of said railroad right of way to a point intersected by the prolongation of the northerly line of Ludlow avenue; thence westerly on a line with the northerly line of said Ludlow avenue to a point where the same intersects the west line of the road from Manasquan to Sea

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Plain; thence southerly along the west line of said
road to the present division line between the boroughs
of Spring Lake and North Spring Lake; thence east-
erly along said division line to the centre of said road;
thence southerly along the centre line of said road to
the north branch of Wreck Pond; thence easterly
down the middle of said branch following the south-
erly boundary of the borough of Spring Lake until it
intersects said westerly line of said railroad right of
way; thence northerly along said westerly line of said
railroad right of way to the place of beginning, are
hereby set off from said boroughs and annexed to and
made a part of the township of Wall in the county of
Monmouth.

2. This act shall take effect immediately.

E. C. HUTCHINSON,

President of the Senate.

JOHN G. HORNER,

Speaker of the House of Assembly.

Approved February 24, 1903.

FRANKLIN MURPHY,

Governor.

North Spring
Lake annexed
to Spring
Lake.

CHAPTER 2.

An Act to annex to and consolidate with the mayor
and council of the borough of Spring Lake, the
mayor and council of the borough of North Spring
Lake.

Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. The mayor and council of the borough of North.
Spring Lake and the territory embraced within the
boundaries of said municipal corporation, shall be and
the same is hereby annexed to and made a part of the
mayor and council of the borough of Spring Lake, in
the county of Monmouth.

2. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved February 24, 1903.

CHAPTER 3.

An Act to set apart a portion of the territory of the
township of Gloucester, in the county of Camden,
and to create a new township to be called the town-
ship of Clementon.

Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly
of the State of New Jersey:

1. All that portion of the territory of the township Boundaries.
of Gloucester, in the county of Camden, situate, lying
and being northeast of a line described as follows:
beginning at a corner in the northwestern side line of
Gloucester township in the middle of the Evesham road
between lands of Chalkley Albertson's estate and the
Magnolia Villa land and improvement company; thence
extending in a southerly direction along the line of
lands of said Albertson and others to the middle of the
Chew's Landing and Summerdale road at the corner
to Martin Schubert's land; thence northeasterly along
the middle of said road to the corner between said
Schubert and Charles Jenkins' property; thence south-
easterly in the line between said Schubert and Jenkins
to the Signey run; thence down said run westerly, the
several courses thereof, to its junction with the north
branch of Timber creek; thence up the middle of the
same easterly to its junction with the Little Mill
stream; thence up the middle of the Little Mill stream
southerly to its intersection with a straight line drawn
from the corner of the Warrick road and the Chew's
Landing and Summerdale road to the corner of the
Blackwood and Clementon road and the Laurel Mill
and Little Mill road; thence along said line southerly
to the intersection of the Blackwood and Clementon
road with the Little Mill road; thence along the middle
of the Little Mill road southerly to its intersection with
the middle of the Hickstown and Albion road; thence
along the middle of the said Albion road easterly to

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name.

the middle of Sharp's branch; thence down the said Sharp's branch, the several courses thereof, southerly to the line of Winslow township in the middle of the Berlin and Cross Keys road, and there to end, shall be and the same is set off and detached from the said township of Gloucester, and shall be and the same is hereby created a separate township, to be called the township of Clementon.

2. The inhabitants of said township of Clementon shall be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate in law, and shall be styled and known by the name of "the township of Clementon, in the county of Camden," and they shall be entitled to all the rights, powers, authority, privileges and advantages and be subject to the same regulations, government and liabilities as other townships in the county of Camden are or may be entitled or subject to by the laws of this state.

3. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved February 24, 1903.

Raising funds by general tax for street paving.

CHAPTER 4.

A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act respecting the paving and repaving of streets, avenues and public highways in cities of the first class in this state, and providing for the payment of assessments for especial benefits to property benefited thereby, and the payment of contractors supplying the work and material therefor," approved March twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five.

Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. For the purpose of further paving and repaving streets in cities of the first class in this state, in accordance with the provisions of the act to which this is a

supplement, and to provide for payment of the same, it shall be lawful, after the expiration of the year one thousand nine hundred and three, for the common council, or other legislative body or governing board or body having the control of the finances of any city to which the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement are applicable, to annually cause to be assessed and raised by the tax ordinance or budget of each year for five consecutive years, a sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, which money, so raised as aforesaid, shall be added to the capital fund and account of said city for the paving and repaving of streets, and said money so annually raised shall be expended exclusively for the paving and repaving f streets in such city in accordance with the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, relating to the expenditure of the moneys of said capital fund account.

for raising

2. During the month of January in each year, for Procedure five consecutive years after the expiration of the year funds. one thousand nine hundred and three, it shall be the duty of the common council or other legislative body or board having the control of the finances of such city, to determine whether said sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or some portion thereof, shall be raised by taxation as aforesaid, and if said body or board of such city shall determine by resolution to raise said sum of money, or any portion thereof, in such year, and shall pass a resolution determining so to do, in the manner prescribed by the laws governing such city, then it shall not be lawful for such board or body or common council to afterwards change, repeal or amend the resolution so passed, and it shall be incumbent upon and the duty of such common council, board or body of such city, to insert in the tax ordinance or budget of such year the said sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or such other sum as may have been determined upon as aforesaid, and cause the same to be assessed and raised by tax in said year in like manner as other taxes in such city are assessed and raised.

included in limitation.

3. Where in any such city the amount authorized to Amount not be raised for current general expense is fixed and limited, then so much of the sum annually raised under