License fee. license, the city council of said city may charge any license fee not exceeding three hundred dollars, nor less than one hundred, and the person receiving the same need not be certified to be provided with stabling.

9. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 19, 1872.

draw bridge.

CHAPTER CCXLIII.

An Act to empower the Board of Chosen Freeholders of the county of Union, to build a drawbridge over Rahway river, in the city of Rahway.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the Power to bulld State of New Jersey, That the board of chosen freeholders of the county of Union be, and are hereby empowered to build a drawbridge over Rahway river, to connect Paterson street, as laid down on the map made by the commissioners appointed to lay out streets, avenues and squares in the city of Rahway, with Hopkinson street, as laid down on said map.

2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 19, 1872.

CHAPTER CCXLIV.

A Further Supplement to the act entitled "An Act to revise and amend the charter of the city of Camden," approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy

one.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That so much of section twenty- Repealer. eight of said act, to which this is a supplement, as authorizes the president of the city council of the city of Camden, to call special meetings of said city council, when the public good shall, in his opinion, render it necessary, be and the same is hereby repealed.

2. And be it enacted, That so much of section twenty-nine Repealer. of said act, as requires the ordinances mentioned in said section to be published in the newspapers printed and published in the said city of Camden, before the same shall take effect, be and the same is hereby repealed; and the ordinances mentioned and referred to in said act, shall be published for Ordinances to two weeks, at least once in each week, in three newspapers, printed and published in said city, before the same shall take effect, and the said city council shall designate in which three newspapers the same shall be published.

be published.

notices, &c..

3. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for said Ordinances, city council to publish any notice, advertisement, ordinance published. or petition in any more or greater number of newspapers than is required by law, and whenever any notice, advertisement, ordinance, or petition is required to be published, the same shall be published in such newspapers as city council shall designate.

4. And be it enacted, That hereafter no person shall be appointed by the said city council of the city of Camden a building inspector for said city, unless he shall be a practical builder in the art of building, and shall pass a satisfactory examination before a board composed of five master builders to be selected by the city council, and shall have served a regular apprenticeship in the art of building, and shall have been a master builder at least three years before the time of his appointment.

Building ins

spector.

Discount on payment of taxes.

No deduction allowed on

mortgage debt

5. And be it enacted, That on all taxes assessed and paid before the first day of October in each and every year after such assessment, the receiver of taxes shall deduct therefrom a discount of five per centum.

6. And be it enacted, That after making the valuation of real estate for the real and personal estate in the said city of Camden for which any individual shall be assessed, it shall not be lawful for the assessors or for the commissioner of appeal in cases of taxation in and for the several wards of said city to deduct from such valuation any debt or debts due and owing from such individual, to any creditor or creditors; and that no deduction shall be made in the valuation or assessment of any lot or real estate in said city by reason of any mortgage, judgment or other incumbrance thereon; provided, that in all cases when the holder of any mortgage on any lot or real estate in said city shall not reside in the same ward where the mortgaged premises lie, the tax on the money secured by the said mortgage shall be assessed against and be paid by the mortgagor in the ward where the lands lie; provided further, that in such case the said mortgagee shall not be assessed for such mortgage in the township or county in which he or she resides.

Proviso.

Proviso.

No deduction

on real estate

7. And be it enacted, That in case any real estate in said when mort city shall be subject to a mortgage held by corporations gage is held by whose funds, investments and securities are by law exempt from tax, the said real estate shall be assessed at its full valuation, without any deduction for said mortgage.

corporations.

Council may

a point com missioners.

8. And be it enacted, That hereafter whenever the city council of the city of Camden shall determine to lay out and open any street, road or highway in any part of said city, or to cause any street, road, highway or alley already laid out in any part of said city, to be vacated, opened, altered or widened in pursuance of the seventy-ninth section of the act to which this is a supplement, and commissioners shall be appointed by said city council in pursuance of said section, the said commissioners in estimating and assessing the damages that any owner or owners of any lands and real estate with the appurtenances necessary to be taken for either of said purposes, shall have due regard both to the value of the Commission land and real estate, and to the injury or benefit to the ownassessment of er or owners thereof, by laying out, altering or widening any such street, road, highway or alley, and shall assess against the owner or owners of any lands and real estate necessary

ers to make

benefits.

to be taken for either of said purposes, the amount that any such owner or owners will be benefited by the laying out, altering or widening any such street, road, highway or alley over and above the damages that they shall assess in favor of such owner or owners by reason of laying out, altering or widening any such street, highway or alley, and if in any case said commissioners shall estimate the benefit to such owner or owners to be greater than the damages, they shall so certify in the certificate which they are required by said eighty-second section of said act to make, and shall specially estimate and assess the value of the lands and real estate which will be so damaged, and after such award shall be made the remaining lands and real estate of any such owner or owners shall be liable for the amount by said commissioners assessed as benefits.

Assessment to

9. And be it enacted, That said commissioners shall also assess against the owner or owners of any land or real estate remain a lien. fronting on any such street, highway or alley so determined by said city council to be laid out, opened, widened or altered, the amount that such owner or owners will be benefited by laying out, opening, widening or altering any such street, highway or alley, and shall state such amount in said certificate; and said assessment shall be and remain a lien on the said lands and real estate of such owners respectively fronting on any such street, highway or alley so determined by said city council to be laid out, opened, widened or altered, from the time of the ratification of the said certificate by said city council, until the same be paid and satisfied, and the amount of all assessments for benefits may be collected by said city council from the owners and lands so liable, in the same manner as the costs and expenses of grading, paving and curbing the streets in said city are authorized to be collected by said city, in the act to which this is a supplement, as prescribed in the seventy-seventh section thereof.

Assessments binding.

10. And be it enacted, That when said certificate and the estimates and assessments therein contained are ratified by said city council, the same shall be binding and conclusive upon the owner or owners of any such lands or other real estate, with the appurtenances; provided however, that any Proviso. person or persons conceiving himself, herself or themselves aggrieved by the proceeding of the said city council or the said commissioners, may appeal therefrom, to the supreme court of this state, within thirty days from the time of the

Vacancies, how filled.

Costs and fees

on warrants to

treasurer.

ratification of the said certificate, and the estimates and assessments therein contained by said city council; and the said supreme court shall order a trial by jury, to assess the damages sustained by the party aggrieved, and the amount such party will be benefited, the trial whereof shall be conducted as in other cases.

11. And be it enacted, That in case of the resignation, death or disability of any of the commissioners to be appointed under the seventy ninth section of the act to which this is a supplement, it shall be lawful for the said city council to supply by appointment the vacancy or vacancies caused by such death, resignation or disability.

12. And be it enacted, That all costs and fees hereafter be paid to city collected by the receiver of taxes of said city on any warrant or warrants to him directed for the collection of taxes in said city, shall be by him paid over to the treasurer of said city for the use of said city, at the same time he pays over the taxes by him collected on said warrant or warrants.

Failure of owners to

curb and pave sidewalks, council may order same

done by contract.

13. And be it enacted, That whenever the said city council of the city of Camden shall by any ordinance or ordinares passed in pursuance of the act to which this is a supplement, ordain and direct that the owners of real estate fronting on any street, highway or alley in said city, or on any part thereof, shall curb, pave, grade, flag, macadamize, or otherwise permanently improve the same, or any part thereof, or pave and grade the sidewalks and gutters thereof, or any part thereof, or repair the same or any of them, or any part or section of the same, along and opposite to such owners' property, and said owner or owners shall refuse and neglect to comply with said ordinance or ordinances, and shall not curb, grade, pave, flag, macadamize, or otherwise permanently improve the said street, highway or alley, or pave and grade the sidewalks and gutters thereof, or repair the same as may be by said ordinance or ordinances directed, and in the manner in said ordinance prescribed, for the space of thirty days from the time when the same is required to be done, it shall be lawful for said city council to contract with some person or persons to do the same; and when so done, Contractor to the contractor or contractors doing the same, shall within

file claim or

statement.

thirty days after the same is done, file in the office of the receiver of taxes of said city, a claim or statement, setting forth the proportion of the costs and expenses for which each and every owner or reputed owner of said real estate is