repair the ways and alleys in said township; to prevent and remove all To clean and obstructions and encroachments thereon; to direct and regu streets, &c. late the planting, rearing, trimming and preserving the shade trees in the same, and to authorize or to prohibit the removal or destruction of said trees; to enforce the removal of snow, ice or dirt from the sidewalks and gutters of said streets, highways or alleys, by the owner or occupant of the premises fronting thereon, and also to prevent and forbid the removal of earth, gravel, or any other road making materials from the highways by any person or persons not acting under the authority of the township committee, the committee on streets and highways, or the street commissioner, and also to abate and remove nuisances of every kind in any of the highways or public places of the township; VI. To restrain and punish drunkards, mendicants, vagrants To restrain and beggars in any of the streets, highways, alleys or public vagrants. places of the township; VII. To create and establish a sinking fund for the gradual To create a payment of any indebtedness of the township, and to provide sinking fund. for the raising of a sufficient sum of money, by taxation, in each year to meet the annual installment that shall be required to be paid into such fund, and to provide for the honest and faithful disposition and management of the property of said fund; of sewerage. VIII. To make and adopt a general plan of sewerage and To make plan drainage for the township, or any part or parts therof, and to modify and change the same at pleasure; immoderate IX. To prevent and punish immoderate driving or riding To prevent in any street or highway, driving over or upon any sidewalk, driving. and any cruelty to animals, and to authorize the detaining without warrant, and the arrest of any person who may be guilty thereof; X. To establish and regulate one or more pounds, and to To establish restrain and prevent the running at large or grazing of pounds. horses, cattle, swine and other animals, geese and other poultry in the streets or public places, and to authorize the impounding and sale of such animals or poultry for the penalty incurred and the cost of impounding, keeping and selling the same; running at XI. To regulate and prevent the running at large of dogs, To prevent and to authorize their destruction when so found at large, large of dogs. and also to impose taxes upon the owners of all dogs, not to exceed two dollars upon each dog per annum; Swine. To prohibit XII. To regulate or prohibit the keeping of swine; XIII. To regulate and prohibit any practice of any kind certain prac whatsoever having a tendency to frighten animals or to annoy persons passing in or upon the streets or sidewalks ; tices. To regulate XIV. To regulate the burial of the dead; to prohibit inburial of dead. terments within certain prescribed limits, to purchase land for public burial places, and to direct the keeping and return of bills of mortality; To regulate laying of water and gas pipes. May establish lamp district. May establish XV. To lay and regulate, or prohibit the laying of water or gas pipes in or under the streets and roads, or any part thereof in said township, and to provide street lamps for and to light the streets either by gas or other material. 9. And be it enacted, That the township committee may establish, by ordinance, certain limits in said township, to be called the lamp district," and shall in directing the taxes to be raised in each year designate how much is to be raised for the expense of lighting the streets, and shall provide that such taxes shall be assessed only on property lying within such lamp district, and the assessors shall assess such taxes separately from all other taxes in the minner aforesaid. 10. And be it enacted, That the township committee may fire district. establish, by ordinance, certain limits in said township to be called the "fire district," and it shall be lawful for the township committee, and they are hereby empowered, to enact an ordinance to establish, regulate, equip and control a hook and ladder department, and to raise from year to year by an assessment on the owners of property within the limits of such department, such sum as may be required to defray the expenses of the same. Bounty poll 11. And be it enacted, That all poll taxes imposed by all taxes repealed acts and parts of acts entitled "An Act to authorize the inhabitants of the township of Wes: Orange, in the county of Essex, to raise money to pay bounties to volunteers," approved February twenty-eighth, anno domini eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and also by an act entitled "An Act to authorize the inhabitants of the township of West Orange in the county of Essex, to raise money to pay bounties to volunteers," approved March thirtieth, anno domini, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, upon persons residing in said township shall be and are hereby repealed. 12. And be it enacted, That the township committee, shall have power to pass, alter and repeal any and all such ad dinances ne ditional ordinances, not contrary to the laws of this state or May pass orthe United States, as they may deem necessary to carry cessary to into effect the powers and duties conferred and imposed upon them by this or any other law. carry their powers into effect. violation. 13. And be it enacted, That in all cases where the town- May prescribe ship committee shall have authority to pass ordinances on a penalty for any subject, they may prescribe a penalty or penalties for the violation thereof, either by imprisonment for a term not exceeding thirty days, or by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars or both. taken as evidence in courts. 14. And be it enacted, That the book of records of the Record of orordinances of the said township shall be taken and received dinances to be in all courts and elsewhere, as evidence of the due passage of all the ordinances recorded therein and any volume of ordinances to be printed by the authority of the township committee shall in like manner be taken and received as evidence of their due passage, and the publication of such ordinances in a newspaper, published in the vicinity and circulating in said township shall in all cases be presumed to have been made until the contrary shall be made to appear. 15. And be it enacted, That the township committee shall Taxes. have power to raise by tax in each year such sum or sums of money, not to exceed one per centum of the total valuation of property the year preceding, as they may deem expedient or may be necessary for the following purposes, or any or all of them, to wit: I. For the regulating, cleaning and keeping in repair the For cleaning streets, highways, side and cross walks; and repairing streets. of indebtedness. II. For the payment of any indebtedness of the township, For payment or of any interest upon any such indebtedness, or of any annual installment to the sinking fund that may become due and payable in that year; III. For the maintenance and support of the poor. For support of ticipation of 16. And be it enacted, That the township committee shall poor. have power to borrow money, from time to time, for all pur- May borrow poses for which they are authorized to raise money by tax, money in anin anticipation of the taxes for any current year, to an amount taxes. not exceeding in the whole the sum of ten thousand dollars, and for any special purpose, such as the laying out, opening, straightening, altering or widening of any street, highway or alley, or the grading, graveling, paving, macadamizing or otherwise improving of any street or highway, or any part or parts thereof, in anticipation of assessments for such im Proviso. Duties of the township clerk. Copies of paoffice be taken as evidence. provements, to an amount not exceeding in the whole for any one improvement, the sum of ten thousand dollars, and to secure the payment of such loan by bond or other sealed instrument, sealed with the common seal of the township and signed by the chairman of the township committee and township clerk; provided, the time to be fixed for the payment of such loan, including any renewal or renewals therefor, shall not exceed the term of one year. TITLE II. THE TOWNSHIP CLERK. 17. And be it enacted, That the township clerk shall be the clerk of the township committee and subject to their direction; that he shall attend all their meetings, and keep a true and full record of all their proceedings; that he shall have the custody of the seal and all books and papers of every kind belonging to the township or which may be filed in his office; that he shall engross and attest all ordinances that may be passed by the township committee in a book, to be prepared for that purpose, and shall request the chairman of the township committee to sign the engrossed copy of such ordinances as have been approved by him; that he shall countersign and keep a record of all licenses granted by the chairman of the township committee; that he shall receive and pay over to the township treasurer all moneys which by any law, ordinance or usage are or may be paid to the township clerk; that he shall countersign and seal all bonds, notes or other evidence of indebtedness to be made in behalf of the township under the authority of the township committee, and that he shall in general perform such other duties as are or may be required of him, or of township clerks by this or any other law of this state. 18. And be it enacted, That copies of any and all papers pers in once filed or kept in the office of the township clerk, and of the ordinances or records of the proceedings of the township committee, or any part thereof, certified by the said clerk, under the common seal of the township, shall be received as evidence thereof, in all courts and places whatsoever. TITLE III. THE STREET COMMISSIONER AND OTHER OFFICERS (EXCEPT COM- MITTEE. cers. 19. And be it enacted, That the street commissioner, the Duties of offtown counsel and the pound keeper or keepers, and all such other officers and agents as may be appointed by the township committee, shall respectively possess the powers and perform the duties, and be subject to the obligations and responsibilities, conferred or imposed upon them, from time to time, by any ordinance or resolution of the township committee, or by any general law of this state, except so far as the same may be inconsistent with the provisions of this act. TITLE IV. THE COMMISSIONERS OF ASSESSMENTS. sessments. 20. And be it enacted, That the township committee shall Board of asand may, from time to time, appoint and remove three commissioners of assessment, who shall constitute and be known by the name of "The Board of Assessments;" that it shall Their duties. be the duty of the said board to assess damages in favor of any owner or owners of any lands or real estate that may be taken for, or may be damaged by any such improvement as the laying out and opening of any street, highway or alley, or the constructing of any sewer or drain, or the vacating, straightening, altering or widening of any street, highway or alley, or any part or parts thereof, or the altering of the grade of any street or highway, or any part or parts thereof, as the case may be, and to assess such damages, fairly and equitably, upon the owner and owners of any lands and real estate on the line of said street, highway or alley, which in the opinion of said commissioners will be benefited by such improvement, also to assess the expenses of any such improvement as the laying out and opening of any street, highway or alley, or the constructing of any sewer or drain, or the vacating, straightening, altering or widening of any street, highway or alley, or any part or parts thereof, or the altering of the grade of any street or highway, or any part or parts thereof, as the case may be, fairly and equitably, upon the |