the expiration of ninety days from the consummation thereof. action by 2. The seller shall make full and truthful answer, in Truthful writing, to each and all of the inquiries made of him seller. by the purchaser, as required in section one; and if such seller shall knowingly and willfully make or deliver, or cause to be made or delivered, to said purchaser any false answer to such inquiries, or shall induce a sale by refusing to make answer to such inquiries, or by fraudulently claiming or pretending ignorance of the matters called for by such inquiries, then, in each of said cases, said seller shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, after indictment, upon conviction thereof. 3. Sellers and purchasers under this act shall include To whom act corporations, associations, copartnerships and indi- applicable. viduals; but nothing contained in this act shall apply to sales made under any order of a court, or to any sales made by executors, assignees for the benefit of creditors, administrators, receivers, or any public officer in his official capacity, or by any officer of a court. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved June 11, 1907. CHAPTER 238. A Further Supplement to "An act to regulate fees," approved April fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: I. Constables of the counties of the first class shall receive per day, for each and every day engaged in attending the Circuit Court, Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, Court of Common Pleas and General Quarter Sessions of the Peace in said counties, a fee of three dollars and fifty cents, which payment shall Pay of con stables in first class counties. Repealer. be in full and in lieu and stead of all fees, mileage or other allowances heretofore allowed. 2. All acts and parts of act inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately. Approved June 11, 1907. Salary. CHAPTER 239. An Act fixing the salary of the State Librarian. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. The State Librarian shall hereafter receive a salary of three thousand dollars per annum, payable in monthly installments out of the treasury of this State. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Section 16 amended. CHAPTER 240. An Act to further amend an act entitled "An act relating to the Court of Common Pleas (Revision of 1900).” approved March twenty-third, one thousand nine hundred, which act was amended by an act approved March thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and two, and further amended by an act approved June twenty-second, one thousand nine hundred and six. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Section sixteen of the act to which this is an amendment be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: county judges. 16. The annual salary of the judges of said court in Salary of counties containing more than two hundred thousand inhabitants shall be seven thousand five hundred dollars; in counties having between one hundred and fifty thousand and two hundred thousand inhabitants, six thousand five hundred dollars; in counties having between one hundred thousand and one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, six thousand dollars; in counties. having between eighty thousand and one hundred thousand inhabitants, four thousand dollars; in counties having between seventy thousand and eighty thousand inhabitants, three thousand five hundred dollars; in counties having between thirty-five thousand and seventy thousand inhabitants, three thousand dollars; in counties having between twenty thousand and thirtyfive thousand inhabitants, one thousand eight hundred dollars, and in counties having less than twenty thousand inhabitants, one thousand two hundred dollars. Such salaries shall be paid by the collector or treasurer of the respective counties in equal monthly payments, and shall be in lieu of all fees and compensation whatsoever for the service of said judges in the Courts of Comman Pleas, Orphans' Court, Courts of Oyer and Terminer, Quarter Sessions, and all other services required to be performed by said judges by virtue of their offices. Such salaries shall be determined and paid How paid. upon the basis of population shown by the latest State or national census promulgated, without regard to the date of appointment of such judge; provided, such Proviso. judge shall consent thereto in writing, filed in the office of the county clerk; and provided, that this act Proviso. shall only apply to those judges of the Court of Common Pleas whose term of office shall hereafter commence, or to those now in office, who shall file their assent in writing, under their hands, to this act in the office of the county clerk of the county for which they are appointed; and all fees which at any time heretofore were paid to or divided among the judges, or paid to any judge of the Court of Common Pleas, are hereby abolished, and shall not hereafter be taxed or collected. 2. This act shall not be interpreted or construed as Act how construed. repealing or affecting the provisions of chapter one 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Petition for purchase of sewer. Notice by township committee. CHAPTER 241. An Act to authorize townships to purchase and acquire sewers, and to provide for the payment of the expense incurred. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Whenever a petition, in writing, of any owners of property to be benefited, not less than ten in number, shall be presented to the township committee of any township, asking that any sewer already constructed in any street or streets, road or roads, in such township, or any part or section of any street or road in such township, be purchased or acquired by said township committee, it shall be lawful for such township committee to adopt a resolution declaring its intention to purchase or acquire the said sewer; and the said township committee shall forthwith cause public notice of such intention to be given by the township clerk in two or more newspapers printed in the county in which such township is located, and circulating in such township, for the space of at least two weeks, and to be published during said period at least three times a week in said newspapers, briefly describing the said sewer and approximately the section or part of the township which is May adopt contract for purchase of ordinance and sewer. drained or sewered, and may be drained or sewered, by May, institute tion proceedings. condemna |