School tax. Amount of school tax. When appropriation available. several school districts in this state in the same manner as the annual appropriation from the income of the state school fund is now apportioned among and paid to said districts; in addition to the amount so determined and appropriated, a state school tax shall be assessed, levied and collected annually upon the taxable real and personal property in this state as exhibited by the latest abstract of ratables from the several counties, made out by the several boards of assessors and filed in the office of the state comptroller; said tax shall be such an amount as will make, when added to the amount determined and appropriated as aforesaid, a sum equal to five dollars for each child in this state between the ages of five and eighteen years, as exhibited by the lastpublished school census, and said tax shall be assessed, levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner as other taxes are assessed, levied and collected. 2. The sum appropriated by the legislature in the annual appropriation act, under the provisions of the first section of this act, shall be available for the school year beginning July first next succeeding the date of the approval of said appropriation act. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. In case objections are made to assessment. CHAPTER 32. An Act providing that any assessment of damages or benefits caused or conferred by any local improvement in cities of the first class, made by any board of commissioners appointed to make all such assessments, may be referred back for revision and correction to the said board or to new commissioners to be appointed. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Whenever objections shall be duly made and filed by any person interested therein to any assessment of damages or benefits caused or conferred by any local improvement made or to be made in any city of the first class in this state by any board of commissioners appointed to make such assessments, and the court having power to confirm such assessment shall consider that the said objections should be sustained, and that the said assessment should be revised and -corrected, it shall be lawful for the said court to refer such assessment for revision or correction to the commissioners who made the same, or to new commissioners to be appointed by the court, to reconsider the subject-matter thereof; and the said commissioners to whom the said report shall be so referred shall return the same corrected and revised, or a new report to be made by them in the premises, to the said court without unnecessary delay, and the same on being so returned shall be confirmed or again referred by the said court in manner aforesaid as right and justice shall require, and so from time to time until a report shall be made or returned in the premises which the said court shall confirm, and such report, when so confirmed by the said court, shall be final and conclusive, as well upon the said city as upon the owners of any lands and real estate affected thereby; in all cases Compensation where the said court shall refer any such assessment to new commissioners the said commissioners shall receive such compensation for their services as may be allowed by the said court to be paid by such city out of its collections from assessments for local improvements made therein. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 15, 1899. Court may con firm or refer again. of new commissioners. CHAPTER 33. A Supplement to an act entitled "An act to provide for drainage and sewerage in cities of this state," approved April seventh, one thousand eight hundred and ninety. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. To provide for expense of relaying any sewers or drains or portions thereof, or of substituting different sewerpipes or drains for portions of those laid or to be laid, under Providing for making improvements, or pre relaying sewers, paring land. Issue bonds. Repealer. the act to which this is a supplement, or for expense of work done or to be done in the permanent improvement of sewers or drains beyond the line of property assessed for benefits, or for work done or to be done, or materials furnished or to be furnished, in the preparation of lands used for treating and disposing of water or sewage under said act, it shall not be necessary to make any assessments of benefits; but the common council or other governing body of such city, in addition to other powers conferred by said act, may by ordinance provide for such expense, whether already incurred or to be incurred, by the issue of bonds pursuant to sections thirty eight and thirty-nine of the act to which this is a supplement, or by the issue of temporary notes or obligations of said city, which temporary notes or obligations may be renewed from time to time, in such manner as to make an equal amount thereof, as nearly as practicable, payable each year during five years from date on which they are or shall be authorized. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect. immediately. Approved March 15, 1899. Section amended. CHAPTER 34. An Act to amend an act entitled "A supplement to an act entitled 'An act to provide for the assessment and payment of costs and expenses incurred in constructing sewers and making other improvements in townships and villages,"" approved March twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, which supplemental act was approved March fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Section one of the act to which this is an amendment is hereby amended to read as follows: a amended. 1. The thirteenth section of the act to which this is Section supplement be and the same is hereby amended so that the said section shall read: Provision for cost, etc., of sewers, etc. 13. For the purpose of paying the costs, damages and expenses of constructing any sewer, or laying out, opening, widening or otherwise improving any street or avenue, the assessment for which is provided for in this act, and all other expenses incident thereto, and the interest upon such expenses, the said board of commissioners is hereby authorized to issue bonds in the name of such board of commis- Issue bonds. sioners, and pledging for the redemption thereof the faith and credit of said board of commissioners, bearing interest at such rate as the said board of commissioners can dispose of said bonds at, and not exceeding legal interest, which bonds shall be made payable at such time or times as the said board of commissioners may at the time of issuing the same determine, not exceeding thirty years from the date of issuing the same; said bonds shall be issued in such sums as the said board of commissioners shall determine, not exceed Amount. ing in the aggregate the amount of the costs, damages and expenses incurred for such improvement ascertained by the commissioners appointed by the court as aforesaid, together with all the expenses incident to said assessment and interest upon the amounts to be refunded for payments made under any former assessment, as provided for in the twelfth section of this act, and the costs incurred, if any, setting aside the original assessment, and may be disposed of by the said board of commissioners from time to time as may be necessary, at the highest and best price for which they can dispose of the same; said bonds shall be issued under the seal of the said board of commissioners, and signed by the president or other head officer and treasurer of such board of commissioners, and shall specify the purpose for which the same are issued, and shall be a lien upon the real estate within the limits of the authority of the said board of commissioners, as well as the property of said board of commissioners. How issued. Lien. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be and Repealer. the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 15, 1899. Writ of possession; when issued. CHAPTER 35. An Act respecting actions between landlord and tenant. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. No writ of possession shall be issued in any action between landlord and tenant hereafter tried before a justice of the peace, either with or without a jury, wherein judgment for possession shall be given, until after the expiration of three days from the rendering of such judgment. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Municipalities may unite in providing sewers. CHAPTER 36. An Act to authorize two or more municipalities in this state to jointly construct and maintain outlet or trunk sewers. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. It shall be lawful for any two or more municipalities in this state, without regard to the form of their incorporation, to jointly provide for and cause to be constructed, and to thereafter maintain, an outlet or trunk sewer or sewers or drains, or either or any of them, in the manner herein provided; and to that end the governing bodies or boards of any two or more municipalities in this state, such boards being charged by law with the duty of constructing sewers or drains in such municipalities respectively, may unite and jointly cause to be made at their joint expense, by competent Surveys, maps, engineers, mechanics and others, surveys, maps, plans, reports and estimates of proposed work and improvements relating to any contemplated outlet or trunk sewer or sewers, etc. |