Elections incorporating boroughs as cities validated. Proviso. CHAPTER 260. An Act ratifying and validating elections held in boroughs of this State on the question of the incorporation as a city. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. All elections heretofore held in boroughs of this State for the purpose of determining on the question of the incorporation of any borough as a city, are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed, notwithstanding notice of said election was not given as required by law; provided, however, that at said election the question of the incorporation as a city received a majority of the votes of the voters voting at said election. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Section 5 amended. Violation of parole. CHAPTER 261. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a parole agent for the State Prison," approved May eleventh, one thousand nine hundred and five. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: I. Section five of the act entitled "An act to establish a parole agent for the State Prison," approved May eleventh, one thousand nine hundred and five, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 5. Whenever, in the opinion of the keeper, a paroled prisoner has so violated the terms, conditions and lim parole. prison. itations of his or her license to be at large that he or she has become unfit to be further at liberty, or if such prisoner has been convicted of crime in any court of this State, or of any other State, or of the United States, it shall be the duty of the keeper to notify the Governor, or person administering the government of the State, and the Governor, or person administering the government of the State, shall have power to issue a revocation Revocation of of such license to be at large. Such revocation shall be made by an order in writing, and shall be signed by the Governor, or person administering the government of the State, and filed with the keeper of the State Prison. Thereupon it shall be the duty of the keeper of the State Return to Prison to issue a warrant for the apprehension and return to prison of the holder of such license to be at large. Said warrant may be served by the parole agent, or any person authorized to serve criminal process in any county of this State. If the person for whose apprehension and return to prison such warrant is issued. is confined in any other penal institution of this State, the serving of such warrant by any authorized person upon the warden or head of such institution shall make it the duty of such warden or head to facilitate the return to State Prison of such person upon the expiration of the then term of imprisonment in such institution. The parole agent appointed by the keeper of the prison Parole agent may apprehend, without any warrant, any such paroled without prisoner, and cause him to be detained in any city prison. or county jail until the determination of the Governor, upon such notification of the keeper of the State Prison, whether or not to revoke the license of such prisoner to be at large. may arrest warrant. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the Repealer. provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved October 2, 1907. Section 8 amended. All moneys CHAPTER 262. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide a uniform procedure for the enforcement of all laws relating to fish, game and birds, and for the recovery of penalties for violations thereof," approved March twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety seven. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Section eight of the act of which this act is amendatory be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 8. All moneys recovered pursuant to the provisions state treasury. Of this act shall be paid to the Treasurer of this State, turned into for the use of the State. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Certificates of indebtedness or bonds issued to pay CHAPTER 263. A Supplement to an act entitled "An act to provide for the drainage of any pond, artificial reservoir, marsh, swamp, bog, meadow, low or wet lands, where the same is necessary for the public health," approved March thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and three. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Whenever any portion of the cost of the work provided for in the act to which this is a supplement for portion of shall be assessed against any municipality or municipalities, such amount so assessed shall be raised and paid of work. by such municipality or municipalities to the said commissioners within six months after notice of said assessment as provided in section twelve of the said act, and the governing body of such municipality or municipalities is hereby expressly authorized and empowered to raise such amount or amounts either by issuing certificates of indebtedness therefor, payable in not more than six years, with interest thereon not exceeding six per centum per annum, or by the issue of bonds as hereafter provided, or part by the issuance of certificates and the balance by bonds, as the governing body shall determine. issuing bonds. 2. When the governing body of such municipality or Method of municipalities shall deem it advisable to issue bonds as hereinabove provided, it shall pass a resolution providing for the number of the bonds and the amount thereof, and the time when said bonds, or any of them, shall be payable, and the rate of interest to be paid thereon, which shall not exceed five per centum per annum, which may be either coupon or registered. Said bonds shall be signed by the mayor, chairman or other executive officer of such municipality, and shall have the corporate seal affixed, and shall be attested by the clerk, and the coupons, if any, shall also bear the signature of the clerk of the municipality, which bonds shall be numbered, and the clerk of the municipality shall keep a register of such bonds, the number thereof and to whom issued in a book provided by the municipality for that purpose. 3. Whenever bonds are issued pursuant to the pro- Sinking fund. visions of this act, the governing body of the municipality shall provide, by resolution, for a sinking fund to be raised by taxation each year sufficient to pay the bonds in full upon maturity. When bonds are issued as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the proper officers to assess and raise by taxation each year a sum sufficient to pay the interest accruing on said bonds. 4. The governing body of such municipality may dis- Sale of bonds. pose of said bonds either at public or private sale, as they may deem advisable, but in no case at less than par and accrued interest. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved October 10, 1907. Improved roads in dif palities accepted and maintained as county road. CHAPTER 264. An Act to enable boards of chosen freeholders to accept roads or sections of roads in cities, towns, townships or boroughs and to maintain the same as county roads. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Whenever any public road or street, or section of ferent munici a road or street, located in any township, town, city, borough or other municipality in this State runs to the boundary of such township or other municipality and is maintained as a township road, and at the boundary of such municipality meets and is continued as another road or street in another municipality in the same county, the board of chosen freeholders of such county may, upon the petition of the common council, township committee or other governing body of such municipalities, respectively, accept such road and thereafter maintain the same as a county road and have exclusive jurisdiction thereof in the same manner as other county roads are maintained and cared for. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Control of water supply vested in municipality. CHAPTER 265. An Act in relation to the furnishing, supplying and use of water within the limits of municipalities in this State maintaining or operating a public water-supply, whether or not the supply of water furnished by the municipality is obtained by contract or is from a plant owned and controlled by the municipality. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: I. It shall not be lawful for any person, firm or corporation to supply water to any other person, firm or |