Compensation. of this act shall be the same as overseers of the poor in townships. 3. The compensation of such overseer of the poor shall be fixed by the common council, or other governing body, of such city. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. Council to connections to curb. CHAPTER 23. An Act respecting sewers and sewer connections in incorporated towns of this state. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: I. In all incorporated towns where sewers are now build house laid and constructed, or now being laid and constructed, or which may hereafter be laid and constructed in any street or highway of any incorporated town, the common council, board of aldermen or other municipal body charged by law with the construction of such sewers in such incorporated towns, shall have power and authority to build and construct house connections from such sewers proper to the curb line of the lots fronting on the street or streets or highways through which such sewer or sewers shall or may be built, laid or constructed. Payment 2. In all incorporated towns where sewers are now laid and constructed in any street or streets, highway or highways, and house connections from such sewers proper to the curb line of the lots fronting on said street or streets, highway or highways, have been made and constructed, and the person or persons making and constructing such house connections have not been paid by the said town or towns, or by any person or persons, for the work, labor and material used in the making and constructing such house connections, it shall be lawful for, and the said common council, board of aldermen, or other municipal body, charged with the construction of such sewers in such incorporated town or towns, is hereby authorized and empowered to accept on behalf of such town or towns, the said house connections so built and constructed, and to pay for the same, and upon such payment being made by such town, to the person or persons entitled to receive the same, the said house connections, so built and constructed, shall become and be the property of such town. shown on 3. Said house connections shall be shown on a Connections map, to be prepared by said body or board before the map. introduction of an ordinance or final resolution providing for the acceptance of, or construction of such house connections, which map shall be open to the inspection of the property owners of said town for at least ten days prior to the passing of such ordinance or final resolution providing for the acceptance of or construction of such house connections. 4. The costs and expenses of making and providing such house connections with such sewers shall be charged to and borne by the lots and subdivisions of lots especially benefited thereby, and shall be assessed against the same in the same manner and by the same authority making assessments for sewers or other public improvements in said incorporated towns; the words "house connections" in this act shall be construed to include connections made or to be made or pipes laid or to be laid between the line of any sewer and the curb line of any street or avenue in which said sewer is laid, whether or not there shall be any house or building upon the property or lot in front of which such connection is or shall be laid. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 10, 1905. Costs rectly to charged di lots bene ted. CHAPTER 24. An Act to incorporate the borough of Oaklyn, in the county of Camden. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: name. I. The inhabitants of that portion of the township Corporate of Haddon, in the county of Camden, contained within the limits hereinafter set forth, are hereby constituted Boundaries. Holding of first elec tion. and declared to be a body politic and corporate in fact and in law by the name of "The Borough of Oaklyn," and shall be governed by the general laws of this state relating to boroughs. 2. The territorial limits of the said borough shall be as follows, to wit: Beginning at a point in the centre of the White Horse turnpike where it crosses Newton creek, continuing in a southwestwardly direction following the centre line of Newton creek to a point in the centre of the Mount Ephraim and Blackwood turnpike; thence south along the centre of the Mount Ephraim and Blackwood turnpike to the centre of Peters creek; thence in an eastwardly direction following the centre line of Peters creek by its various courses to a point in the centre of the White Horse turnpike, twenty-five feet, more or less, north from the north line of Nicholson road; thence north following in the centre of the White Horse turnpike to a point in line with the line dividing the property of William Bettle and property of the Bettlewood Land Company, or the land formerly owned by Edward Bettle; thence in an eastwardly direction at right angles with the White Horse Turnpike along the line dividing the property of William Bettle and the property of the Bettlewood Land Company to a point in the centre of Newton creek; thence in a northerly direction changing to a westwardly direction to a southwestwardly direction following down the centre line of Newton creek by its various courses to the centre of the White Horse turnpike, or the place of beginning. 3. The first election of officers in and for said borough of Oaklyn shall be held within thirty days after the passage of this act, and notice thereof shall be given by the clerk of the said township of Haddon, county of Camden aforesaid; said notice shall be published in a newspaper circulating in the territory hereinbefore described for eight days prior to said election, and shall also be posted for the same length of time in five of the most public places therein, and the said election shall be held in the manner now prescribed for the election of borough officials. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 13, 1905. CHAPTER 25. An Act to amend an act entitled "A supplement to an act entitled 'An act to establish standard packages for cranberries,' approved March twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight," which supplement was approved April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: I. amended. Section one of the act entitled "A supplement to Section an act entitled 'An act to establish standard packages for cranberries,' approved March twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight," which supplement was approved April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, is amended to read as follows: cranberry I. The legal and standard barrel to be used for Standard buying and selling cranberries in this state, or for barrel. transporting the same outside of this state, shall be of the following size, to wit: head, sixteen (16) inches diameter, including the bevelled edge; staves, twentyeight and one-half (281⁄2) inches long, bilge fifty-eight and five-eighths inches (585-8) inches, outside circumference; distance between heads, inside measurement, twenty-five and one-half (252) inches, and such barrel shall be branded or stenciled in a durable manner "standard." 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 13, 1905. CHAPTER 26. An Act to incorporate the borough of Audubon, in the county of Camden. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: name. I. The inhabitants of that portion of the township Corporate of Haddon, in the county of Camden contained within the limits hereinafter set forth, are hereby constituted and declared to be a body politic and corporate, in fact and in law, by the name of "The Borough of Audu Boundaries. Holding of first elec tion. bon," and shall be governed by the general laws of this state relating to boroughs. 2. The territorial limits of the said borough shall be as follows: Beginning at a point in the centre of the Blackwoodtown turnpike road, also in the centre of Peter's creek; thence along the centre line of the said Camden and Blackwoodtown turnpike road, in a southeasterly direction to the centre line of the south branch of the Newton creek; thence up the middle of the same the various courses and distances thereof, to the centre line of the road leading from Haddonfield to Mount Ephraim, which said point is a corner to the borough of Haddon Heights; thence along the centre of said road leading from Haddonfield to Mount Ephraim and along the boundary line of the borough of Haddon Heights northeastwardly, crossing the White Horse turnpike road, to a point in the boundary line of the borough of Haddonfield, and also another corner to the boundary line of the borough of Haddon Heights; thence along said boundary line of the borough of Haddonfield northwestwardly, and continuing along the northerly line of the Brickyard road, to the westerly line of Cuthbert's or the Mill road; thence along the same southwestwardly, to the middle of the White Horse turnpike road; thence along the same southeastwardly, to the middle of the aforesaid Peter's creek; thence down the same, the various courses and distances thereof, to the place of beginning. 3. The first election of officers in and for said. borough of Audubon, shall be held within thirty days after the passage of this act, and notice thereof shall be given by the clerk of the said township of Haddon, county of Camden aforesaid; said notice shall be published in a newspaper circulating in the territory hereinbefore described for eight days prior to said election, and shall also be posted for the same length of time in five of the most public places therein and the said election shall be held in the manner now prescribed for the election of borough officials. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. |