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overplus to owner if

charges arising from conveying to the pound, and retain his fees for impounding, keeping and feeding and letting out of the pound said horses, mules, cattle, sheep or swine, and twenty-five cents for advertising sale and collecting the money for each horse, mule, head of cattle, sheep or swine, To return and return the overplus to the owner or owners of the said beast, if he or they shall appear or claim the same; and if no owner or owners shall appear and claim such overplus within six months after such sale, the same shall be paid to the collector of taxes of said township, by him to be held and accounted for as a part of the funds of said township. Penalty for 3. And be it enacted, That any person who shall wilfully interfering interfere with, hinder or stop any horses, mules, cattle, sheep hindering or swine, while being driven to the public pound of any

claimed.

with or

driven to pound.

Inhabitants of townships at

meetings to authorize

township in the county of Hunterdon, so that the animals being so driven shall escape from the person driving them, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars, to be sued for and recovered in an action of debt, with costs of suit, before any justice of the peace of said township, by any person who shall sue for the same.

4. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the inhabitants of each of the several townships of the county of their town Hunterdon, at their annual town meeting, to elect annually antize any number of poundkeepers, not exceeding five, and authorize the erection of an equal number of pounds, to be situated at such places as shall be most convenient for purposes of impounding in said township.

pounds.

Repealer.

5. And be it enacted, That all acts inconsistent with this act be and the same are hereby repealed.

6. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 18, 1874.

CHAPTER CCLXX.

A further supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate Gloucester City, Camden County, New Jersey."

Mayor and

common

powered to

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for the mayor and common council of Gloucester City to issue bonds in the council emname of the mayor and common council of Gloucester City, issue bonds under the common seal of the city and the signature of the mayor and city recorder, for an amount of money not exceeding five thousand dollars in such sums, and payable at such times, as the said mayor and common council shall deem proper, bearing interest at the rate of seven per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, and to pledge the property and credit of the city for the payment of the same; provi- Proviso. ded, that not more than five hundred dollars of the principal of said bonds shall be made redeemable in any one year; provided further, that the bonds so issued shall be redeem- Proviso. able at a period of time not exceeding ten years from the issuing thereof.

of bonds

provided

ation.

2. And be it enacted, That the said mayor and common Payment council of Gloucester City shall yearly and every year until and interthe bonds to be issued by authority hereof, be redeemed and est to be paid off, order to be assessed and collected by tax at the for by taxtime and in the manner that other taxes in said city are assessed and collected, a sum of money sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds as the same shall become due and to pay and discharge the principal at the several times it shall become due and payable, and all such money so raised by virtue of this act shall be applied by the city treasurer to pay the principal and interest of said bonds as the same shall become due and payable.

3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said Proceeds mayor and common council to apply the net proceeds of the of bonds to bonds that may be issued by virtue of this act exclusively exclusively to the building of culverts and common sewers, together of culverts, with the necessary openings, inlets and approaches thereto, &c.

be applied to building

and to such street purposes as the common council may deem necessary and order for the general good of said city. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 18, 1874.

City to purchase a

sultable building

for an armory and

and to keep the

CHAPTER CCLXXI.

An act to authorize and require the City of Elizabeth to furnish an armory for the third Regiment, National Guard State of New Jersey.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the city of Elizabeth is hereby authorized and required to procure for the Third Regiment of the National Guard of the State of New Jersey, drill room either by erection and construction or by purchase, a suitable building for the purpose of an armory and drill room; which building, when so built or purchased, and the lot upon which the same shall stand, shall be the property of said city, but shall be exclusively, for the purposes aforesaid, under the control of the officers of said regiment for the time being; and which building the said city of Elizabeth shall keep in suitable repair at all times.

same in repair.

Council em

the sum of

thousand

Common 2. And be it enacted, That after the passage of this act the powered to city council of said city may appropriate the sum of twentyappropriate five thousand dollars for the purposes aforesaid; and the twenty-five mayor and city council aforesaid are hereby authorized and dollars. empowered to issue bonds of the said city to raise the amount Mayor and aforesaid, which bonds shall be coupon bonds, bearing intermay issue est at the rate of seven per centum per annum, payable in able in not not less than five nor more than twenty years from their date and shall be called armory bonds of the city of Elizabeth.

council

bonds pay

less than

five nor

more than twenty years.

3. And be it enacted, That this act shall be taken to be a public act and shall take effect immediately. Approved March 18, 1874.

CHAPTER CCLXXII.

A further supplement to an act entitled "An act to revise and amend the charter of the town of Orange," approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

Common

empowered

be

real estate

ing thereon

bonds.

1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the common council of the said Council city of Orange shall have power to borrow from time to to borrow time, any further sum or sums of money, not exceeding in mouse in the aggregate the sum of thirty thousand dollars, to be used purchasing in the purchase of real estate, and in the erection thereon of and erecta school-house or school-houses, which shall be under the schoolcontrol and direction of the board of education of the said house. city, and that said common council may secure the re-payment of the said sum or sums so borrowed, together with legal interest thereon, in such manner and upon such terms as to the said common council may seem proper, by the is- May issue suing of bonds, to be signed by the mayor, and countersigned by the city clerk, and sealed with the common seal of said city; and that the principal and interest moneys shall be paid and extinguished in the same manner as any other indebtedness of said city is or may be authorized to be extinguished; provided, however, that this section shall not take Proviso. effect until it shall have been submitted to the legal voters of said city at any election to be held in said city at the same time with the next election for members of the General Assembly; that at such election each voter may cast one ballot on which shall be the words "in favor of bonding the city," or the words "opposed to bonding the city," and if there be more ballots cast on which shall be the words "in favor of bonding the city" than there shall be on which are the words "opposed to bonding the city" then this section shall take effect immediately, and if not, then this section shall be void.

row further

2. And be it enacted, That the said common council shall May boralso have power to borrow a further sum of money not ex-sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, to cover a deficiency now ceeding

twenty

dollars to

cover ex

isting defi

thousand existing, and to secure the re-payment of such sum of money in like manner as is prescribed in the preceding section; the bonds mentioned in the two preceding sections may be Not to be sold by the common council at no greater discount or loss greater loss to the city than five per centum.

ctency.

sold at a

than five

Street com

to have

to or con

the high

ways.

Penalty for

or discount 3. And be it enacted, That the street commissioner of said per centum city shall and may have, possess and exercise, all the pow missioner ers granted to and conferred upon the overseer of the highsame power ways, in and by the twenty-eighth section of an act entitled as granted "An act concerning roads," approved April sixteenth, oue ferred upon thousand eight hundred and forty six; and if the owner or Overseer of owners of any lands mentioned in said section, or other person or persons by his, her, or their order, shall fill up, stop, filling up or or obstruct any gutter, drain or ditch, mentioned in said obstructing section, and which may be or may have been cut, made, or scoured out, cleaned or opened by said street commissioner, or other person by his order, in pursuance of said section, such owner or owners, or other person or persons acting by his, her, or their order, shall forfeit and pay a fine of twenty dollars for each offence, to be recovered by the said city in an action of debt, to be brought before the police justice of the said city, in the same manner as actions for penalties for the violations of ordinances of said city; and that such actions shall be prosecuted, and that execution may issue upon any judgment to be recovered therein, in like manner.

gutters.

Repealer.

4. And be it enacted, That the words "for the lighting of streets, and" in the proviso of section twenty of said act, and all of the words of section fifty-three in said act, which immediately follow the words "otherwise ordered" in said. section, and also the fourth section of a supplement to said act, which supplement was approved March twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, be and the same are each and all hereby repealed.

5. And be it enacted, That this act shall be deemed a public act, and shall take effect immediately. Approved March 18, 1874.

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