taxes are assessed, collected and paid over; if a deficiency Deficiency. shall exist in consequence of the receipt of less than onethird of the cost from the state treasury, the board of chosen freeholders shall have authority to borrow on temporary loans to the amount of such deficiency until the next annual taxes shall be assessed, collected and paid over to the county. more than one county. 4. If the said road shall run through more than one If the road is in county the petition to the state commissioner of public roads shall be signed by at least two-thirds of the owners of the land and real estate bordering on said road in each county before the governor shall be required to appoint the five commissioners mentioned in the first section of this act; and each of the said counties shall bear the expenses of the acquirement of the said road in proportion to the length thereof within the said counties, and all proceedings after the appointment of the said five commissioners that may be required by virtue of this act shall be had separately and independently in each of the said counties. 5. Any road so acquired shall forever thereafter be a free county road, and the duty of keeping the same in good order and repair shall devolve upon the county officers in like manner as heretofore provided for free stone roads. 6. When the said turnpike roads shall have been so acquired the board of chosen freeholders shall apply to the circuit court of the county for the appointment of commissioners to estimate and assess the peculiar benefits conferred by such acquirement upon the lands and real estate bordering on the road so acquired, of the time and place of which application notices shall be given by ten days' publication in two daily newspapers printed and circulating within the said counties, then by two weeks' publication in two weekly newspapers printed and circulating therein, at which time and place or at such other time and place as the court shall designate, shall without unnecessary delay, appoint three commissioners, who shall be freeholders and residents of the county in which the application is made, to assess the benefits aforesaid; the said court shall have power to remove any commissioner and appoint another in his place and also fill Road to be free tained by and main county. Benefits asmissioners ap sessed by com pointed by court. Method of assessing benefits. any vacancy that may occur in the office of any commissioner at any time. 7. The said commissioners shall then proceed in like manner as the commissioners appointed to assess the benefits conferred by the improvement of the public roads of this state under and by virtue of an act of the legislature entitled "An act to provide for the permanent improvement of the public roads of this state," approved March twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, and the supplements thereto, and the report of the said commissioners when filed and approved shall be a lien upon the properties assessed in like manner, and the said assessment shall be collected in like manner as the assessment in the said act last before mentioned. 8. This act shall take effect immediately. Broad Tires. CHAPTER 76. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to enable township committees to encourage the use of broad tires on wagons and carts by a rebatement of taxes." 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That section one of an act entitled "An act to enable township committees to encourage the use of broad tires on wagons and carts by a rebatement of taxes," approved March sixteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, which reads as follows: "1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That township committees be and they are hereby authorized, when in their judgment it is for the public good, to pass an ordinance allowing a rebate of taxes for township or road purposes to all owners or possessors of wagons and carts used in said township for transportation of goods, wares, merchandise, produce, passengers, and for general farm, freight and express purposes, having tires of not less than four inches in width; provided, the said rebate shall not exceed fifty cents for each wheel in use in any one year," be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That township committees be and they are hereby authorized, when in their judgment it is for the public good, to pass an ordinance allowing a rebate of taxes for township or road purposes to all owners or possessors of wagons and carts used in said township for transportation of goods, wares, merchandise, produce, passengers, and for general farm, freight and express purposes, having tires of not less than four inches in width; provided, the said rebate shall not exceed one dollar for each wheel in use in any one year. 2. That this act shall take effect immediately. Passed March 24th, 1896. APPENDIX C. NEW JERSEY. 1. All road taxes are to be paid in money. 2. The office of overseer of highway is abolished. 3. The roads of a township are placed under the management of the township committee, and money may be raised by township bonds for grading, macadamizing and improving the same; bonds to be authorized by vote at the annual town meeting. 4. Under the County act, the Board of Chosen Freeholders of any county may designate certain roads as county roads, and improve the same by the issue of county bonds; townships to pay one-third of the cost. 5. Under the State Aid law, whenever the owners of two-thirds of the lands fronting on any public road will undertake to pay onetenth of the cost of improving such road, the Board of Chosen Freeholders may cause such improvements to be made, the State paying one-third of the cost up to, at present, the limit of $100,000 per year. 6. Under the act for the acquirement of turnpike roads for free public use, whenever the owners of two-thirds of the land fronting on any turnpike toll-road pray that said road may be acquired for free public use, and that they are willing to pay ten per cent. of the entire cost of such road, the Governor appoints five commissioners to estimate and determine the fair and just value of said road; after having arrived at such value, if the State Road Commissioner ratifies the same, the board may purchase, the State paying one-third of the cost and the county paying the balance, fifty-seven per cent. Receiving many inquiries how to proceed to lay out roads, change location, &c., to save correspondence we give the following quotations from the statutes. ---- |