New Jersey, hereinafter mentioned and described, are hereby constituted and declared to be a body corporate in fact and in law, by the name of "The Borough of Highland Park," and shall be governed by the general laws of this state relating to boroughs.

2. The boundaries of said borough shall be as fol- Boundaries. lows: beginning at a point in the boundary line of said township of Raritan, in the Raritan river, at a point where the dividing line between the townships of Raritan and Piscataway intersects said river, and from thence running along said dividing line between said two townships in a northeasterly direction to a point in said dividing line which would be intersected by the center line of the road described in the records of roads of said county of Middlesex, in book C of roads for said county, on page two hundred and seventy-five, thence along the center of said road as described in said record to where a brook known as Mill Brook intersects the said road at or near the property of Edward Kitchenmeister, thence along the center line of said brook its several courses and distances, in an easterly direction to the center line of Duclos Lane, thence southerly along the center line of said Duclos Lane to the center line of the road leading from New Brunswick to Bonhamtown, formerly known as the New Brunswick and Woodbridge Turnpike road, thence along the center line cf said last mentioned road in a westerly direction to the center line of Crowell's Lane, thence southerly along said center line of said lane to the northerly boundary of the farm known as Crowell's farm, thence along the northerly boundary of said farm to the northeasterly corner thereof, in the line of property now or formerly of Michael Fuchs, thence southerly along the dividing line between the said Crowell property and Fuchs property to the Raritan river and boundary line of said township of Raritan, thence up said river its several courses and distances along said township boundary line to the place of beginning.

3. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 15, 1905..

Section amended.

Tax levy voted in November.

CHAPTER 36.

An Act to amend an act entitled "An act concerning the levying of taxes in certain municipalities, approved February fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred and five.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

I. Amend section one of the act entitled "An act concerning the levying of taxes in certain municipalities," approved February fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred and five, so that it shall read as follows:

I.

1. In every municipality of this state, where taxes are raised or fixed by vote of the people at the local or charter elections, except school districts, the said tax levies, for each annual tax levy for the succeeding taxing year, shall be hereafter voted for by the people on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in each year, and with the same registration and upon the same official ballots required by law for the election of state and county officers, and not otherwise; and the said ballots, voted as aforesaid, for such tax levy, shall be canvassed, and the result of any such election determined as now provided by law in the case of county officers, and certified to the clerk of such town, township, village or other municipality. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 15, 1905.

Act repealed.

CHAPTER 37.

An Act to repeal an act entitled "An act for the licensing and taxation of foreign corporations," approved March twenty-ninth, one thousand nine hundred and four.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

I. The act entitled "An act for the licensing and taxation of foreign corporations," approved March

twenty-ninth, one thousand nine hundred and four, be and the same is hereby repealed.

2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 17, 1905.

CHAPTER 38.

An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a thorough and efficient system of free public schools, and to provide for the maintenance, support and management thereof," approved October nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

Section forty of said act be amended so that the Section same shall read as follows:

40.

amended.

dum.

The acceptance of the provisions of either sec- Referention thirty-eight or thirty-nine shall be submitted to the qualified voters of any city at a general or municipal election to be held therein; provided, that such Proviso. submission shall be had and such vote shall be taken whenever the common council, board of aldermen or other legislative body of the city, or the board of education of any school district situate in such city shall have, by resolution, determined that such question shall be so submitted, or whenever at least five per centum of the legal voters of such city, as shown by the election returns of the last municipal election in such city, shall, by their petition, duly signed and delivered to the clerk of such city, have requested that such question shall be so submitted; provided further, Proviso. after the question of accepting the provisions of either section thirty-eight or thirty-nine shall have been submitted to the legal voters of any city, the question of the acceptance of the provisions of such section shall not again be submitted until at least five years Manageshall have elapsed; in any city school district, until the interim.

ment ad

Powers of board.

When board abolished.

Proviso.

organization of a board of education in such school
district as provided in section thirty-eight or thirty-
nine of this act, the administration and conduct of the
public schools and the management and control of the
public school property therein shall remain in and shali
be exercised by any board of education or other body
theretofore having control of the public schools therein;
said board of education or other body shall be here-
after deemed to be incorporated under the provisions
of section forty-five of this act, and shall have all the
powers and be charged with all the duties conferred or
imposed upon a board of education as provided in this
article; and the members of any such board of educa-
tion or other body shall be selected, elected or
appointed at the same time and in the same manner,
and shall serve for the same terms as members of such
board of education or other body have been heretofore
selected, elected or appointed; upon the organization
of a board of education in said district, as provided in
section thirty-eight or thirty-nine, the board of educa-
tion or other body theretofore having charge of the
public schools in such school district, or in such city,
or having custody, charge or management of any fund
or property used for or in the maintaining of public
schools in such district or city, and having no other
function, shall be ipso facto abolished; provided
further, that in any town which heretofore has or
hereafter shall have adopted the provisions of article
six of this act, in which the members of the board of
education shall have been elected at the annual charter
election, such members of the board of education shall
continue to be elected at such charter election until
such town shall have adopted the provisions of either
section thirty-eight or thirty-nine of this act.

2. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved March 17, 1905.

CHAPTER 39.

A Supplement to an act entitled "An act concerning district courts (Revision of 1898)," approved June fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninetyeight.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

I.

Sergeant-at

arms; duties, term,

bond.

The judge of any district court may appoint one or more sergeants-at-arms who shall, respectively, during their continuance in office be invested with and possess all the rights, privileges, powers and duties of a constable of such city or county in all matters and proceedings appertaining to such court; and all papers, warrants and processes issued out of said court shall be as binding and effectual if served or executed by such sergeants-at-arms, respectively, as if served or executed by a constable; such sergeant-at-arms shall exercise all powers conferred on sergeants-at-arms by the act to which this act is a supplement; sergeants-atarms, respectively, when appointed, shall hold office during the pleasure of the judge appointing them; before entering upon the discharge of their duties, such sergeants-at-arms, respectively, shall file in the office of the city clerk of the city in which the district court to which they, respectively, are attached is located a bond, with like condition, surety and penal sum as is required by law to be filed by constables, which bond shall, before being so filed, be approved as to form and sufficiency of surety by the judge making such appointment or appointments; provided, nothing herein shall Proviso. affect any bond heretofore filed by any sergeant-atarms, nor require any sergeant-at-arms heretofore appointed to file a new or additional bond.

2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 20, 1905.