Contracting municipalities etc. and for participation in the benefits and in the cost of construction, operation and maintenance of the same, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon in any such contract or contracts. And the said last-mentioned municipality or municimay borrow, palities shall have like power to borrow money, make and issue notes or other temporary obligations and bonds, as is given by this act to the municipalities first entering into contract with the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners. Control and maintenance of sewers upon completion. Time for noncontracting municipalities to cease sewering portion of river. 9. Upon the completion of such intercepting sewer or sewers, plant and works, and appurtenances, the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners are authorized and directed to retain and have the sole control and charge of the said sewer or sewers, plant and works, and appurtenances, and every municipality using such intercepting sewer or sewers, plant and works, is hereby required to pay annually to the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners, on demand, its proportion of the cost of maintenance and operation of the same, as the same may be certified to it from time to time by the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners, pursuant to the terms of said contract, which said cost of maintenance and operation shall be raised and provided for by the said municipalities by taxation, or by the issue of temporary loan bonds in anticipation of taxation. In case the sewer or sewers, plant or works, first contracted to be built under this act shall not be built and put in practical operation by the twelfth day of Deceminto excepted ber, one thousand nine hundred and ten, then and in that case the municipalities lying in whole or in part within. the Passaic valley sewerage district, and not entering into contract with the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioner for the construction of an intercepting sewer or sewers, plant or works, under this act, shall have two years from the time within which such sewer or sewers shall be put into practical operation within which to cease to discharge all sewage and other polluting matter into the said portion of the said river. Keeping of accounts, auditing and publication. It shall be the duty of the Comptroller of this State to cause the accounts of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners to be annually audited at the expense of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners, and the result of such audit shall be printed with the financial report of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners. The said Board of Sewerage Commissioners shall at all times keep full and accurate account of its receipts and expenditures and liabilities, and shall annually cause a detailed statement thereof to be published and a copy thereof mailed to the clerk of each of the contracting municipalities. commissioners. Said commissioners shall be liable for Liability of any unlawful act, as are now members or officers of any public body, and no commissioner shall be, directly or indirectly, interested in any contract awarded under the provisions of this act, or in furnishing material or supplies therefor to any contractor, or in furnishing security for the performance of any contract. Use of plans, etc., belong ing to Pater son. In case the city of Paterson shall, pursuant to the provisions of this act, enter into contract with the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners for the construction of an intercepting sewer or sewers, plant and works, and appurtenances, then and in that case the said city shall turn over to the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners all plans, maps, data and reports which it may have produced, purchased or secured, and which it may now own relating to the subject of sewage and sewage disposal, and the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners shall credit to the city of Paterson therefor Credit on said contract the sum of eight thousand dollars ($8,000), and the said sum shall be taken to be a part of the construction cost of said sewer or sewers, plant and works. therefor. act. 10. In case, for any reason, any section or provision Validity of of this act shall be questioned in any court, and shall be held to be unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall not be held to affect any other section or provision of this act. rights, pow ers and name. II. For the purpose of removing any doubt which Corporate may exist as to the corporate power and authority of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners to enter into and perform the contracts herein and hereby authorized, and to execute and perform the duties herein imposed upon the said commissioners, the said Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners heretofore appointed, Repealer. and their successors in office, are and shall continue to be a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession under the name of Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners, with power to sue and be sued, with power to adopt and use a corporate seal, and with the right, power and authority to acquire, hold, use and dispose of all such property, real or personal, as may be proper or necessary, and with all other power or authority proper or necessary to carry out and effectuate the purposes for which the said board is created. 12. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 13. This act shall take effect immediately. Appointment of clerical assistance and compensation. Repealer. CHAPTER II. An Act to regulate the appointment and compensation of clerks and assistants in the offices of city clerks in the cities of the first class. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. It shall be lawful for the city clerk of any city of the first class in this State, by and with the consent of the board of aldermen or common council therein, to appoint such clerks and assistants in the office of such city clerk, and to increase or decrease the number thereof, as the public business may require, and to fix the salaries of such clerks and assistants, and the board of finance or body having control of the finances of such city shall provide the moneys necessary to pay the salaries of such clerks and assistants. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 26, 1907. CHAPTER 12. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act concerning corporations (Revision of 1896)," approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: amended. 1. Section six of the act to which this is an amend- Section ment is hereby amended to read as follows: for business lawful. 6. Upon executing, recording and filing a certificate Association pursuant to all the provisions of this act, three or more purposes persons may become a corporation for any lawful purpose or purposes whatever, other than a savings bank, a building and loan association, an insurance company. a surety company, a railroad company, a telegraph company, a telephone company, a canal company, a turnpike company, or other company which shall need to possess the right of taking and condemning lands in this State, or other than a corporation provided for by "An act concerning banks and banking (Revision of 1899)," or by "An act concerning trust companies (Revision of 1899)," or by "An act concerning safe deposit companies (Revision of 1899)." It shall, however, be lawful to form a company hereunder for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating railroads, telephone or telegraph lines outside of this State; provided, that any company organized under the provisions of this act for cremation purposes shall, before beginning business, file a certified copy of its certificate of incorporation with the State Board of Health and obtain from said board a license to carry on said business, under such rules and regulations as said board may prescribe. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 26, 1907. Proviso; companies to cremation file copy of certificate. Preamble. Section amended. Appropria tion. Proviso. Premises vested in State. Funds turned over to commis sion. CHAPTER 13. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act relative to the Princeton Battle Monument," approved April third, one thousand nine hundred and two. WHEREAS, The United States Congress has appropriated the sum of thirty thousand dollars toward the erection of a monument or statue in commemoration of the Battle of Princeton; and WHEREAS, The "Princeton Battle Monument Association," a corporation organized under the laws of this State for the purpose of erecting a monument or statue in commemoration of the Battle of Princeton has received by private subscriptions, and is now receiving from week to week private subscriptions for said purpose; therefore, BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Section one of the act to which this act is amendatory be and the same hereby is amended to read as follows: 1. The sum of thirty thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated, when such sum shall be included in the annual appropriation bill, out of any moneys in the treasury, to be paid as hereinafter specified, towards the erection of a monument or statue of granite or marble on a tract of land in Princeton, New Jersey; provided, that before said money, or any part thereof, be paid to the commissioners hereinafter mentioned or simultaneously therewith, the said association shall convey their right in the premises on which said monument or statue is to be erected to the State of New Jersey, to be used for the said purpose only, and shall also pay to the said commissioners such a sum of money as will, together with the sum paid for the said land, |