CHAPTER LIV. An act to provide for the Collection of Unpaid Taxes for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three in the Township of Westfield in the County of Union. WHEREAS, by reason of the death of Philemon E. Coe, late Preamble, collector of the township of Westfield, in the county of Union, without having made return of those delinquent in the payment of taxes in said township for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three to a justice of the peace as required by law, doubts have arisen as to the enforcement and collection of such taxes; wherefore to enable the collection of such taxes for said year as are now unpaid in said township to be enforced, deman! taxes for 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Collector to the State of New Jersey, That the present collector of said payment of township shall demand payment of all taxes and sums as unpaid sessed in said township for the year eighteen hundred and year 1973. seventy-three on each individual in said township who has failed to pay the same, in person or by notice left at his or her place of residence, if resident or to be found in said township, which notice shall be in writing or printed, and shall set forth the number of acres assessed, the value of the real estate and of the personal estate assessed to each, and of the rate per dollar assessed and the several sums assessed on each for state, county, township, poor, school, road, poll, dog and other taxes as the same are stated in the duplicate for that year, and also the interest on such taxes at the rate required by law, from the day when by law the same were payable, and shall require payment thereof on or before the sixteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. non-pay lector to 2. And be it enacted, That in case of the non-payment of In case of said taxes and said interest at the day last aforesaid, said ment colpresent township collector shall make out a list of the deliver list names of the delinquents with the sums due from them res- of delinpectively thereto annexed, and deliver the same to some some jus quents to peace. tice of the justice of the peace of said county, on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and said justice shall on receiving such list, administer an oath to said collector that the moneys in said list mentioned had been duly demanded as required in this act, and shall give to said collector a receipt for said list, certifying the names of the delinquents and the sums respectively assessed to each, and thereupon and thereafter such warrants, writs, process and Justice au- proceedings may and shall issue, be had or taken, for the thorized to collection and enforcement of said taxes, including said interest as by law might have issued, been had or taken or might issue, be had or taken, if said Philemon E. Coe deceased, had at the time required by law made out and delivered such list of those delinquent in the payment of taxes in said year to a justice of the peace in the manner and at the time required by law. issue warrants, writs, &c. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 18, 1874. Acts heretofore passed relating to City of Newark to be deemed and taken as public laws and not to be specially pleaded. CHAPTER LXVI. A further supplement to an act entitled "An act to revise and amend the Charter of the City of Newark," approved March eleventh, anno domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That such acts of the legislature of this state heretofore passed, with reference to the municipal corporation of the city of Newark, the government thereof, or generally affecting the said city as a corporation or the inhabitants thereof, shall be deemed and taken to be public laws of this state and need not be specially pleaded. 2. And be it enacted, That the ordinances and by-laws of Ordinances said city of Newark as contained, or hereafter to be conlaws to be tained, in the printed books of such ordinances and by-laws deemed issued or to be issued by the city of Newark, or contained and by and taken laws. or hereafter to be contained in the books of ordinances of as public the city of Newark, as made and kept by the clerk of said city of Newark, shall be deemed and taken to be public laws, and need not be specially pleaded. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall be a public act, and shall take effect immediately. Approved February 19, 1874. CHAPTER LXXVI. An act to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors within one mile of Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, in Monmouth county, New Jersey. liquors, not to be one mile of Grove or 1 BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That it shall not be lawful to sell, vend, Spirituous or barter spirituous liquors, wine, ale, beer, or any intoxi- wine, ale, cating liquors of any kind whatsoever, within a distance beer, &c., of one mile from Wesley Lake Bridge, at Ocean Grove and sold within Asbury Park, in Monmouth county, state of New Jersey, ex- Ocean cept for medicinal purposes, at regular drug stores and under Asbury the prescriptions of regularly practicing physicians; any person or persons offending against the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined fifty Penalty. dollars and costs for each offence, said fine to be paid to the overseers of the poor for the support of the poor of the county. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 26, 1874. Park. Proceedings on ap owners of lands on public street or highway amizing or same. CHAPTER LXXXV. An act to provide for and regulate Street Improvements in the Township of Piscataway, in the County of Middlesex. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for the owners plication of of any lands upon the lines of any public street, avenue or highway in the township of Piscataway, to present a petines of any tion in writing, to the township committee of said township, containing a request to have the whole or a certain desigfor macad-nated section of any such street, avenue or highway impaving the proved by being graded and macadamized or paved; upon receiving such petition, it shall be the duty of the township committee to ascertain the length of the street, avenue or highway, or section thereof, designated in such petition, and also the number of lineal frontage feet upon the lines of such street, avenue and highway, or section thereof, owned by the persons subscribing such petition, and if upon investigation it shall appear that the owners of three-fifths or more of the number of lineal frontage feet upon such street, avenue or highway, or section thereof designated in said petition shall have subscribed the same, then the said township committee shall order and cause the work requested in such petition to be done; and said township committee shall establish a suitable grade and curb lines for said street, avenue or highway, and file a map of the same with the town clerk. Township to advertise sals. 2. And be it enacted, That when the said township comCommittee mittee shall order and cause any street, avenue or highway, for propo- or section thereof to be improved under the provisions of this act, they shall, after having advertised for two weeks in one or more newspapers published in said county of Middlesex, for proposals to do said work, proceed to make contracts for the work called for in said petition, with the lowest responsible bidder or bidders thereof, who shall before entering upon the performance of said contract or contracts, execute a bond or bonds to said township committee with one or more sureties, being freeholders in said county, in double the amount of said contract or contracts, conditioned for the faithful performance of the same; but in all cases the estimates, proposals and contracts shall designate separately the grading and the macadamizing or paving and the price or cost of each respectively. to be borne improved nue or 3. And be it enacted, That the entire cost of grading and Expenses macadamizing or paving, and the expenses of overseeing and by owners engineering shall be borne and paid by the owners of the of land on lands along the line of the street, avenue or highway, or street, avesection thereof improved under the provisions of this act; highway. and whenever the cost of such grading and macadamizing or paving and overseeing and engineering shall have been ascertained, the said township committee or a majority of them shall make and sign an assessment of the entire amount of such cost and expenses, upon the lands along the lines of the street, avenue or highway, or section thereof, so improved, pro rata, according to the number of lineal frontage feet upon the lines of such street, avenue, or highway, or section thereof, in the lands of the several owners respectively, and file said assessment in the office of the town clerk of said township; and the township committee shall deliver a copy of such assessment to the township collector; and it Collector shall be the duty of the township collector to collect the empowered said assessments at the same time, in the same manner, and assessby the same means as the county and township taxes; and ments. every such assessment made in pursuance of this act is hereby declared to be a legal, valid and binding assessment against the owners, and upon the property therein designated, and a lien upon the lands upon which said assessment is made; and such lien shall be enforced and assessment collected, if necessary, in the same manner that liens are enforced and taxes are collected by virtue of the provisions of the act entitled "An act to make taxes a lien on real estate, and to authorize sales for the payment of the same," approved March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and the various supplements thereto. to collect sessed ex 4. And be it enacted, That all lands upon which any assess- Lands asment shall be made by virtue of the provisions of this act, empted shall be exempted from all township taxes for road pur- from townposes, whatever, for the period of five years; in case such for road assessment shall be made for macadamizing or paving to a for five width of not less than sixteen feet of the centre of the street, years. purposes, |