of deeds Legislature. 25. There shall be appointed by the Senate and Gen- Commissioners eral Assembly in joint meeting as many proper and fit appointed by persons (who may be either male or female) as they may deem necessary for each of the counties of this State to be styled and denominated commissioners of deeds. 2. Section twenty-six of the act of which this is an Section amendment be amended to read as follows: amended. years. 26. The commissioners appointed as aforesaid shall Term five be commissioned by the Governor and hold their offices for five years; but in case any commissioner shall remove out of the city, town, township, borough or ward in which he shall reside at the time of his appointment, his commission shall thereupon become void; and further, Removal for all commssioners appointed as aforesaid may be removed from office by the Governor for malconduct during the time for which they were appointed to said office; and malconduct. any commissioner of deeds desiring to resign his office Resignation. 3. Section twenty-seven of the act of which this is an Section amended. mission. tended. State notified. 27. All commissions hereafter issued to commission- Date of comers of deeds shall bear date on the day of their appointment by the joint meeting, and the term of their office shall begin on the first day of May next following the date of said appointment. The term of office of all com- Term exmissioners now in commission shall be extended from the first day of April to the first day of May of the year in which their commission expires. The secretary of Secretary of the joint meeting of the Legislature shall, within three days after the date of appointment, notify the Secretary of State of all persons appointed commissioners of deeds by said joint meeting, together with the city, town, township, borough or ward in which the appointee shall reside. The Secretary of State shall, within three days Notification of after receiving said notice from the secretary of the joint meeting, notify the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county where such appointee shall reside of all appointments made for his county, and the said clerk appointee. Fees. shall, within three days after receipt of such notice, notify, by mail or otherwise, the respective appointees, advising them that if they desire to qualify as such commissioner of deeds they shall do so on or before the first day of May following the date of their appointment, by taking and subscribing an oath or affirmation before the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county for which they shall be appointed to perform well and faithfully the duties required of him by law as such commissioner, and shall pay to the said clerk a fee of one dollar and fifty cents for the use of the county clerk and five Signature and dollars for the use of the State. They shall also affix to a copy of the oath to be filed with the Secretary of State, on blanks to be provided for that purpose, their personal signature and post-office address, which oath, signature and address shall be forwarded by the said clerk to the Secretary of State, together with the State fees, on or before the said fifth day of May. And the Secretary of State shall, on or before the twentieth day of said month of May, forward to the said clerks commissions duly issued as aforeprovided to all persons so qualified, and the said clerks shall deliver the same to the proper persons upon the proper request. address. Commission issued. Section amended. Additional commissioners. Fee. 4. Section twenty-eight of the act of which this is an amendment be amended to read as follows: 28. Whenever in the opinion of the Governor, during the recess of any Legislature, it may be deemed desirable to have additional commissioners appointed for any city, town, township, borough or ward, he may appoint some proper and fit person to hold such position, whose commission shall expire on the first day of May following the date of his appointment, and who shall qualify as provided for in section twenty-seven of this act, except that the fee for the use of the State shall be two dollars. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 13, 1907. CHAPTER 58. A Supplement to an act entitled "An act relative to the writ of certiorari (Revision of 1903)," approved April eighth, one thousand nine hundred and three. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: Time for allowing certiorari I. No writ of certiorari shall hereafter be allowed or issued to review any assessment or assessments made upon the owner or owners of land or lands for benefits limited. assessed in any street opening, flagging, grading, curbing or paving or for the construction or cost of construction of any drain or drains, sewer or sewers, ditch or ditches, unless application for such writ shall be made within sixty days after such assessment or assessments shall have been confirmed by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided, however, that this act shall not affect Proviso. the right of any person or persons to apply for a writ of certiorari to review any assessment for any street opening, flagging, grading, curbing or paving or for the construction or cost of construction of any drain, drains, sewer or sewers, ditch or ditches, which said assessment has already been confirmed and more than sixty days has elapsed since such confirmation; pro- Proviso. vided, however, that application for a writ of certiorari shall be made to review any such last-mentioned assessment within sixty days from the passage of this act. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are Repealer. hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 13, 1907. Freeholders may issue bonds. Amount. CHAPTER 59. A Further Supplement to the act entitled "An act to establish public parks in certain counties in this State and to regulate the same," approved March fifth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: I. To meet the further expenses to be incurred under the provisions of the act to which this is a further supplement for the acquisition, development and improvement of parks and parkways in any county in this State in which said act shall or may be in force and in which the sum limited in said act and in any supplement thereto shall have been already appropriated, the board of chosen freeholders of the said county shall, from time to time, on the requisition of the said board of park commissioners, in the name and on the credit of the said county, borrow money by issuing the bonds of the said county to a sum not exceeding, in the aggregate, two hundred thousand dollars over and above the total amount theretofore issued, such bonds to run for a term not exceeding fifty years, to bear interest at a rate not exceeding four per centum, payable semi-annually; such bonds shall not be sold or disposed of at less than their par value, and may be made payable at any place which the said board of chosen freeholders may determine, and they shall also determine the form of the bond; a sinkSinking fund. ing fund shall be established by the said board of chosen freeholders on the issuing of any such bonds sufficient, with the accumulation thereof, to extinguish the principal of the said bonds so issued when due; the interest and principal of the bonds issued under the authority of this act shall be the debt or obligation of the county wherein they are issued, and the payment thereof shall Time; rate. be provided for by taxation in the same manner that other debts and obligations of the county are provided for by taxation; the proceeds of the sale of said bonds, after deducting expenses for negotiating the same and for engraving and all other expenses connected with their issue and sale, shall be paid over to the said park commission. Proceeds paid commission. to park 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the Repealer. provisions of this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 13, 1907. CHAPTER 60. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act respecting sewers and sewer connectons in cities of this State," approved March twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: Section 1. Section four of the act entitled "An act respecting amended. sewers and sewer connections in cities of this State," approved March twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, be amended so as to read as follows: 4. The Board of Street and Water Commissioners, Common Council, Board of Aldermen, or other municipal body, charged with the construction of sewers in cities of this State shall have power and authority, by resolution, and without notice, to cause house connections, of the number, character and location to be by them determined, to be constructed connecting sewers heretofore or hereafter built or constructed in any street or avenue in such city, and with which house connections were or shall not be made at the time of the construction of such sewers, with the curb line of such street or avenue. House connections resolution. ordered by |