New Jersey § acts:saved-27 - (2)

§ acts:saved-27. (2)

2. That notice shall be given by such board of chosen freeholders of the time and place

of holding the election herein above provided for, by public advertisement in at least

two newspapers circulating in the county in which the same is to be held, for at least

two weeks preceding the same, and that to carry into effect the purposes of this act,

a separate ballot box shall be provided by such board of chosen freeholders at each

polling place in such county, and that any such elector desiring to vote in favor

of having such road under this act, shall cast into such separate ballot box a ballot

with the words “in favor of public road” written or printed thereon, and any such

elector desiring the contrary shall cast a ballot into said separate ballot box with

the word[s] “against public road” written or printed thereon; that the polls for

such election shall be opened at the same hour in the forenoon and closed at the same

hour in the afternoon as the polls for the said election of members of the general

assembly, and such election officers shall make a true and correct statement in writing,

under their hands, of the result of such election, the same to be canvassed and entered

in the records or minutes of the board of canvassers; and the clerk of this last-named

board is hereby required to transmit forthwith to such board of chosen freeholders,

to be filed in the office of the clerk of such board, a brief statement of the result

of the election herein provided for; any ballot box heretofore used at any election

for members of the general assembly aforesaid, or at any election for members of the

board of chosen freeholders of such county, may be used for the purposes of the election

in this act provided for; and any ballot box heretofore used in any such county at

any election like or similar in its nature to that provided for in this act may also

be used for such election.