year or years in said township of Montclair; and the collector for the said township of Montclair is hereby required and enjoined to pay the said proportion of the said debts so as aforesaid ascertained, together with the lawful interest that may be or become due thereon, to the collector of the township of Bloomfield, for the use of the said township of Bloomfield, out of the first moneys that shall come to his hands after deducting sufficient to pay the state and county taxes to be paid by said township of Montclair for such year or years, and he shall take the receipt of the collector of said township of Bloomfield therefor, and the inhabitants of the said township of Montclair shall thereupon be free, and discharged and released of and from all liability by reason of the debts aforesaid. assessed and portionately. 8. And be it enacted, That the sums of money voted to be Taxes to be raised for township purposes at the last annual town meeting collected pro of said township of Bloomfield, shall not be assessed and collected in full in said township; but the several sums to be assessed and collected therein for said purposes, respectively, shall bear such proportion to the sums so voted as aforesaid as the taxable property in the whole of said township, shown by the assessment for the year eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, bears to the taxable property in that section of said township not included in said township of Montclair; and the assessor of said township shall assess such amounts so proportionally reduced, and such assessments when made shall be as valid and effectual in law as if the amounts so assessed had been the sums voted to be raised at the annual meeting aforesaid, and nothing in this act shall affect the election of any township officers made at such meeting whenever said officers shall not reside in the new townships hereby created. poor. 9. And be it enacted, That the persons now aided or main- Support of th tained in said township of Bloomfield, by virtue of any laws in regard to the poor, shall hereafter be chargeable under said laws to said townships of Montclair and Bloomfield accordingly, as the settlement or residence of such poor persons may have been within the limits of either townships respectively at the time when said persons became chargeable as aforesaid. take offect. 10. And be it enacted, That this act shall be a public act, Act when to and shall take effect on the third Tuesday in April now next ensuing. Approved April 15, 1868. Substitution of commis sioners. CHAPTER CCCCXXXIII. A Supplement to an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the names of John Shotwell, John D. Littell, Edmund Charles, Silas H. Jessup and Abram Mann, some of the commissioners to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said company be erased in consequence of death, removal &c., and that Adolph Meckert, Jacob Schweitser, Louis Becker, John H. Bonn, Charles Spielmann, Frederick W. Bohnstedt, John Roemmet, George Glaubrecht, be substituted as said commissioners in their stead. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 15, 1868. Preamble. CHAPTER CCCCXXXIV. A Further Supplement to the act entitled "An Act to revise and amend the charter of the city of Newark," approved March eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. WHEREAS, the mayor and common council of the city of Newark, by virtue of the authority in them by law vested, have undertaken and performed, at considerable cost, certain works and improvements under the provisions of an ordinance for the regulating, grading and paving north Broad street, from Mill Brook to its northerly terminus, and curbing and flagging the sidewalks thereof; and of an ordinance to open Parkhurst street from south Broad strect to Tichenor's lane; and of an ordinance to provide for regulating and grading Hunterdon street from Thirteenth avenue to Warren street, and curbing the sidewalks thereof; and also of an ordinance to provide for regulating and grading west Bank street from Bank street to Littleton avenue, and curbing the sidewalks thereof; and of a resolution of the said common council relating to the altering and widening of Market street in that part of said street extending from the New Jersey railroad depot to River street; and assessments therefor have been made respectively, but large sums thereof remain unpaid; and whereas, on account of certain informalities and defects in the proceedings taken with reference to said works and improvements, the city is embarrassed in collecting the costs and expenses of the same; therefore, pointed who assessment of costs, dam ages, &c. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Commissionthe State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for the said ers to be apcommon council in the case of each of the aforesaid works or shall make an improvements respectively, to appoint five disinterested freeholders of said city, residing in different wards, commissioners to make an assessment of the whole costs, damages and expenses of the works or improvement in respect to which they may be appointed, upon the owners of the lands and real estate benefitted or intended to be benefitted, according to the principles prescribed for similar cases in the act to which this is a supplement; and it shall be lawful for the said commissioners, in case that they deem that any owner or owners of lands or real estate has suffered special damage by reason of the defects or informalities that have occurred in tl.e proceedings aforesaid, to so estimate and declare in their report to the common council, and to state what allowance and deduction, if any, should be made from the assessment laid upon such owner or owners, in which case such allowance or deduction shall be charged upon the city at large; and it shall also be lawful for the said commissioners, in case they deem it proper and equitable, that any portion of the whole costs, damages and expenses of either of the said works or improvements should be borne by the city at large, to so estimate and declare in their report, and thereupon they shall assess the balance of the whole amount of such costs, damages and expenses, upon the owners of the lands and real estate benefitted or intended to be benefitted as hereinbefore is directed. ers to take 2. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners before commissionthey enter upon the execution of the duty required of them, cath. shall take the oath prescribed in the one hundred and seventh section of the act to which this is a supplement; they shall make their report, and perform the same duties, and in the same manner, and their assessment shall be proceeded upon by the officers and authorities of said city, and shall become a lien, and shall be collected in the same way as now prescribed in the act to which this is a supplement, in the case of the report of commissioners appointed to make assessments of damages sustained by the opening of streets in said city; and as to the acts and proceedings of said commissioners and the said common council thereupon, all parties shall have the like rights and remedies as in other cases of assessment for improvements of the like description in said city; but no exception shall be taken to any informality, defect or irregularity which has heretofore happened in the proceedings taken with respect to the aforesaid works or improvements. Interest to be 3. And be it enacted, That no interest shall be charged upon the costs, damages and expenses of either of the said works or improvements from the time when the same was ascertained by the common council, except such as may accrue thereon after the first day of April next; but interest shall be charged upon the assessments when made by the said commissioners as now provided in similar cases. charged upon assessments. Act how con. strued. Council may, by ordinance, open streets, &c. 4. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to render it incumbent upon the owner of any lot assessed under either of the proceedings mentioned in the preamble of this act where such assessment was paid, to pay any assessment made against said lot under the new proceedings hereby authorized; but the city treasurer, upon satisfactory proof of the payment of such assessment, shall make entry thereof upon the lists of assessments. 5. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful, lay out and notwithstanding anything contained in an act entitled “An Act authorizing the appointment of commissioners to lay out streets, avenues and squares in the city of Newark," or in any other law of this state, for the common council of the city of Newark, whenever in their opinion the public good requires it, by ordinance, but not otherwise, to be passed by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the said council for the time being (but not by a vote of a less number), to lay out and open any street, road, highway, alley, or square within said city; to order and cause any street, road, highway or alley already laid out, or which shall hereafter be laid out, to be vacated, straightened, altered or widened, and to take and appropriate for such purpose, any lands and real estate, upon making compensation to the owner or owners thereof as in the act to which this is a supplement is mentioned; provided Proviso. however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to require a two-third vote in cases where at the present time a majority vote of the members of the said common council is sufficient. ered. 6. And be it enacted, That the board of assessment and when lists revision of taxes in the city of Newark shall deliver the lists shall be deliv now required by law to be delivered to the receiver of taxes, on or before the tenth day of August in every year, and at the same time shall deliver a certified copy of the same to the auditor of accounts; and the receiver of taxes shall deliver to the city treasurer the lists of taxes used in his office after the final returns of the collector of arrears of taxes shall have been made in every year. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Passed April 15, 1868. CHAPTER CCCCXXXV. An Act to incorporate the borough of Riverside, in the county of Burlington. WHEREAS, the citizens of Riverside, in the county of Bur- Preamble. lington, state of New Jersey, have petitioned the legislature for the passage of an act of incorporation as conducive to the prosperity of the same, and the preservation of order therein, 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Boundaries. the State of New Jersey, That the town of Riverside (lately known as Progress,) in the county of Burlington, shall be and the same is hereby erected into a borough, which shall be called the borough of Riverside, and shall be bounded and limited as follows, to wit: beginning at a point on Rancocas creek, at the mouth of Tarhill run; thence along the said run in a southeasterly direction to the Camden and Amboy railroad; thence along Benton or Fairview street in the plan of Progress, in a southeasterly direction to Hooker street in the |