CHAPTER 26.

An Act concerning attorneys and counselors-at-law.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

counsel of cities,

1. Any attorney or counselor-at-law of this state shall be Who may be deemed to be eligible to the office of attorney or solicitor for any city, borough, corporate town or township.

etc.

2. All laws, general or special, inconsistent with the pro- Repealer. visions of this act are hereby repealed; provided that this Proviso. act shall not apply to any cities whose charters require that the city attorney or solicitor shall be a counselor for any prescribed period.

3. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 13, 1899.

CHAPTER 27.

An Act relative to salaries of mayors in cities of the second class.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of

the State of New Jersey:

1. The common council or other governing body of any Mayor's salary. city of the second class shall have power to fix, by ordinance,

the salary of the mayor of such city at not more than twentyfive hundred dollars per aunum, and to provide for the payment thereof.

vote of people.

2. Before any ordinance shall be passed under the pro- Submission to visions of this act, the common council or other governing body of any city of the second class shall, by resolution, submit to the electors of such city the question of the acceptance or rejection of this act; if a majority of the electors voting

at any charter election in such city shall vote to accept the
provisions hereof, this act shall then, but not otherwise, go
into effect in such city.

3. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved March 14, 1899.

Corporate name.

Description of boundaries.

CHAPTER 28.

An Act to incorporate the borough of New Providence, in
the county of Union.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the
State of New Jersey:

1. The inhabitants of that portion of the county of Union
contained within the limits of the township of New Provi-
dence, hereinafter set forth, are constituted and declared to
be a body politic and corporate in law by the name of "the
borough of New Providence," and -hall be governed by the
general laws of this state relating to boroughs.

2. The territorial limits of the said borough shall be as follows, to wit: Beginning at a point in the middle of the Passaic river, said point being the division line between the townships of Summit and New Providence; thence following the meanderings of the river up to a large white oak tree on the south side of the bank, and distant about ten hundred and eighty feet from the middle of Johnson's bridge; thence running in a southerly direction, to a stake on the north side of the main road called Passaic valley road, said point being distant one hundred feet easterly from the east side of Joshua Kendall's house; thence still in a southerly direction and following the courses of Pike's road, five hundred feet westerly and parallel to said Pike's road, to a point in the middle of Stony Hill road, said point being opposite a large chestnut tree standing on the south side of the road, and also distant about five hundred feet westerly from a large buttonball tree standing at the southeast corner of Stony Hill road and said Pike's road; thence running in an easterly direction, to the middle of Stony Hill road and Pike's road; thence running southerly, along

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the middle of the continuation of Pike's road leading
to Scotch Plains, five hundred feet, to a point opposite
a windmill; thence running easterly, parallel to Stony Hill
road and five hundred feet distant therefrom, to a cedar tree
on the west side of the road leading from Stony Hill road to
Feltville, said point being two hundred feet south of
the second bridge over a little stream on said Feltville road;
thence running still easterly and about five hundred feet
southerly, from and running parallel with said Stony Hill
road, to a tulip tree about one foot thick in the division line
between the townships of New Providence and Summit;
thence following the division line between the townships of
Summit and New Providence, to the place of beginning.
3. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved March 14, 1899.

CHAPTER 29.

An Act to further amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the chosen freeholders in the respective counties of the state," approved April sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

amended.

1. The eighth section of said act, as the same was amended Section by an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to incorporate the chosen freeholders in the respective counties of the state' (Revision), approved April sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six," which amendatory act was approved March fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

8. The said corporation may annually elect some fit person, being a resident in the county and not a member of such corporation, for their clerk, whose duty it shall be to keep the minutes and enter the orders and proceedings of the corporation in a book to be kept for the purpose, and who

Clerk; his

duties, compen

sation, etc.

Deputy-clerk.

Proviso.

shall have the custody of the common seal, and the papers,
deeds, writings, documents, and books relating to the said
corporation, and whose further duty it shall be to perform
such services in keeping the records and minutes of the
several committees of said corporation as the corporation
shall prescribe, which duties, or any of them, may be per-
formed either by the said clerk in person or by his deputy
for that purpose appointed, as the said corporation may from
time to time prescribe; and the said clerk and his deputy, if
any, shall, before entering upon the execution of the duties
of said office, severally take and subscribe an oath or affirma-
tion before the director of the board, who is hereby author-
ized to administer the same, that he and they will well and
faithfully discharge all the duties appertaining to the said
office; and the said clerk shall be entitled to such per diem
compensation or annual salary as the corporation may by
resolution from time to time fix, which compensation shall
include payment for all services to be performed by the
deputy clerk, if any; provided, that in counties having less
than seventy thousand inhabitants the per diem compensation
or annual salary of the clerk and deputy clerk for the perform-
ance of all and every the duties and services aforesaid shall
not exceed in the aggregate six hundred dollars per annum.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved March 15, 1899.

Additional building.

Power of trustees.

CHAPTER 30.

An Act to provide an additional building and furnishing the same for the state industrial school for girls.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. The trustees of the state industrial school for girls are hereby authorized to erect on the grounds of the state industrial school for girls an additional building for the accommodation of the inmates and to furnish the same.

2. The building authorized by the first section of this act shall be built by contract or otherwise, as the trustees of the

state industrial school for girls shall deem for the best inter-
est of the state, and the said trustees shall have power to
employ architects, engineers, superintendents and mechanics
as may be necessary, to advertise for proposals, to make a
contract or contracts for the whole or any part of said work,
and to incur all necessary expenses to carry out the provi-
sions of this act, the cost and expenses incurred not to
exceed the sum of seventeen thousand five hundred dollars;
provided, however, that the plans and contracts for such Proviso.
improvement shall be first submitted to and be approved by
the governor before any work is done or expense incurred;
and provided further, that no money shall be drawn from the Proviso.
treasury for the purpose of this act until the same shall have
been specifically appropriated according to law.

legislature.

3. The said trustees shall make to the legislature at its Report to next session and each succeeding session until said building is completed a full and detailed report of its proceedings and expenditures under this act.

4. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 15, 1899.

CHAPTER 31.

An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a system of public instruction" (Revision), approved March twenty seventh, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. Section seventy-seven of the act to which this is an Section amendment, is amended so as to read as follows:

amended.

77. For the purpose of maintaining free public schools Appropriation. there shall be appropriated each year from any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sum, not less than one hundred thousand dollars, as may be determined by the legislature in the annual appropriation

act; said sum shall be apportioned among and paid to the Apportioned.