ough of Madison as originally incorporated; thence (2) following said railroad in an easterly direction along the fourteenth line (reversed) of the said borough of Madison, as originally incorporated, to the Danforth road, at the fourteenth corner of the boundary line of said borough as originally incorporated; thence (3) departing from said railroad and running in a northerly and easterly direction along the thirteenth line (reversed) of the said borough of Madison, as originally incorporated, and in the Danforth road, to the junction of said road with the Convent road, said junction being the thirteenth corner of the boundary line of the said borough of Madison as originally incorporated; thence (4) along the northerly and easterly boundary lines of the borough of Madison as said borough is now constituted, to the beginning corner of the borough of Chatham; thence (5) along the first line of the borough of Chatham southeasterly in a straight line six thousand six hundred and fifty feet, more or less, to the middle of Passaic river at the junction of said borough line with the boundary line of the county of Morris; thence (6) in a northerly direction down the Passaic river to the junction thereof with the boundary line between the townships of Chatham and Hanover; thence (7) in a westerly direction along the boundary line between the townships of Chatham and Hanover to the place of beginning, shall be and is hereby incorporated into a borough to be called "the borough of Corporate name. Florham Park." 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 9, 1899. CHAPTER 18. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act to provide means for protection against fires in townships," approved March tenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventynine. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. At all annual meetings of the legal voters held in dis- Voting at annual tricts heretofore or hereafter organized under an act entitled election. "An act to provide means for the protection against fires in 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Section amended. Sinking fund commission. CHAPTER 19. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act authorizing cities to create a sinking fund commission and defining their powers," approved March twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Section one of the act entitled "An act authorizing cities to create a sinking fund commission and defining their powers,' approved March twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 1. The council or other legislative body of any city in this state in which there does not now exist a sinking fund commission may, by ordinance, create a sinking fund commission which shall consist of the mayor, comptroller and treasurer of the city, or if there be no comptroller, then of the mayor and the treasurer of the city and one other official of said city to be designated in the ordinance creating such sinking fund commission, and such commission shall be a continuous body, and their duties shall begin immediately upon their qualification as hereinafter set forth; that every member thereof shall, before entering upon the duties thereof, be required to make and file a bond in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, in such form and with such sureties as may be approved by the city or corporation counsel and the board having charge of the finances of the city; that upon the election or appointment of any succeeding mayor, comptroller or treasurer, or other city official becoming a member of said commission as aforesaid, such new member or members of said sinking fund commission shall enter into bond as aforesaid. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be Repealer and the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 9, 1899. CHAPTER 20. A Supplement to the act entitled "An act authorizing a firemen's home for the aged, indigent and disabled firemen of this state, and providing for the regulation and government of such home," approved April second, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. WHEREAS, In and by the said act above mentioned, Bird Preamble. W. Spencer, Benjamin W. Cloud, William M. Jeffries, William T. Corliss, Charles N. Reading, John McKiernan, William H. Brown, George T. Werts, Egbert Seymour, William S. Hancock, comptroller of this state, and William Bettle, commissioner of banking and insurance of this state, and their successors, were appointed and constituted commissioners to provide a proper and suitable firemen's home for the aged, indigent and disabled firemen of this state, with full power and authority to make and enter into necessary and proper contracts for that purpose," pursuant to the provisions of said act; And Whereas, In and by said act, said commissioners, or a majority of them, were authorized and empowered to purchase a proper and suitable building and lands, to be known as the "New Jersey Firemen's Home," for the use, support and maintenance of the aged, indigent and disabled firemen of this state, and to furnish and equip the same ready for use and occupation, at a cost not to exceed the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars; and that to raise and procure the said sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as might be necessary to provide said home and furnish and equip the same ready for use and occupation, the commissioner of banking and insurance, instead of paying to the treasurers of the several firemen's relief associations of this state, as then required by law, the money then in his hands or thereafter to be received by him from fire insurance companies on account of the license and tax of two per centum, and of all payments in lieu of said tax as then were or thereafter might be required by law to be paid by said insurance companies, should, from and after the passage of said act, approved April second, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, hold and retain said moneys in his hands for the purposes of said lastmentioned act, and that none of said moneys should thereafter be paid over to said relief associations until the demands and requirements made upon the same under said act as therein provided should be met and satisfied; and that the commissioner of banking and insurance should, after the passage of said act, from time to time, upon the demand and requisition of said commissioners, pay over to the treasurer of said commissioners, from and out of said moneys, so much thereof, not exceeding the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, as might be necessary and required to provide said home and furnish and equip the same ready for use and occupation, the said moneys to be used and disbursed by said commissioners to provide, furnish and equip said home pursuant to said act. And Whereas, Said commissioners, acting under and pursuant to said act, have purchased a building and lands for said firemen's home at Boonton, Morris county, New Jersey (said building and lands being known as the William G. Lathrop homestead property), for the sum of thirty-six thousand dollars and have taken title to said lands in the names of said commissioners, and on said purchase said commissioners have paid the sum of ten thousand one hundred dollars in cash out of moneys" received from the commissioner of banking and insurance under said act, and to secure the payment of the balance of said purchase-money have made and delivered two mortgages of said lands so purchased to the grantor thereof, for the aggregate sum of twenty five thousand nine hundred dollars, payable ten thousand dollars thereof in one year from the date of said mortgages, ten thousand dollars in two years from the date thereof, and the balance of five thousand nine hundred dollars in three years from the date thereof, with interest at the rate of five per centum per annum ; And Whereas, In order to properly provide and equip said building for use and occupation as a proper and suitable firemen's home for the aged, indigent and disabled firemen of this state, certain repairs and alterations thereto and thereof were and are necessary, and to that end said commissioners have entered into contract for the making of such repairs and alterations at a cost of nineteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars, the same to be completed on or before the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine; And Whereas, It is provided in and by said herein before mentioned act that when said home has been provided and furnished and equipped ready for use and occupation, the said commissioners shall so report to the governor, who shall thereupon appoint a board of managers of the New Jersey firemen's home, and that from and after the appointment of such board of managers, the government, management, care and conduct of said home shall devolve upon and be vested in said board of managers, and that to provide the money and means necessary to govern, manage and sustain said home, the commissioner of banking and insurance shall, from time to time, in each and every year, out of the moneys as aforesaid received or to be received by him from fire insurance companies, pay over to the treasurer of said managers, upon the demand and requisition of said managers, such sum or sums of money as said managers may by resolution demand and require for the proper government, management and conduct of said home, and the care and comfort of its patients and inmates, provided such resolution be approved by the governor; And Whereas, The present commissioners to provide, furnish and equip said home will probably have completed their duties in that respect and been superseded by the said board of managers before said mortgages so as aforesaid given are fully paid and discharged, and provision |