New Jersey § acts:saved-40 - (23)

§ acts:saved-40. (23)

1. That whenever the board of water commissioners of any town, incorporated borough,

camp meeting association, or other municipal commission of this state shall find that

said sum of sixty thousand dollars, provided for in the act of which this is a supplement,

is insufficient for the purpose of constructing and fully completing said waterworks,

or that the waterworks and reservoirs, aqueducts, apparatus, erections, works, establishments

and fixtures for supplying water of any such town, incorporated borough, camp meeting

association, or other municipal commission are inadequate to furnish a sufficient

amount of pure and wholesome water for the purpose designated in and contemplated

by said act, that then the said board of water commissioners shall report said fact

to the board of commissioners, or other governing body of such town, incorporated

borough, camp meeting association or other municipal commission, and it shall thereupon

be the duty of such board of commissioners or other board or body to order and appoint

an election of the legal electors thereof, to be held in such town, incorporated borough,

camp meeting association, or other municipal commission, to determine whether an additional

sum shall be raised for said purpose, and if so, what sum, not exceeding, with the

sum already appropriated, in the whole, three hundred thousand dollars; of which

election the clerk of such town, incorporated borough, camp meeting association, or

other municipal commission shall cause public notice of the time and place of holding

the same to be given by advertisements, signed by himself, and set up in at least

five public places in such town, incorporated borough, camp meeting association, or

other municipal commission, and published in one or more newspapers printed therein

at least six days previous to the day of said election, and said clerk shall provide

for each elector voting at such election, ballots to be printed or written, or partly

printed and partly written, on which shall be either the words, “for an additional

appropriation for water supply under the provisions of the act entitled ‘An act to

enable incorporated towns to construct waterworks for the extinguishment of fire,

and supplying the inhabitants thereof with pure and wholesome water,’ and the supplements

thereto, $․․․․․․․․․․,” or “against an additional appropriation for water supply under the provisions of

the act entitled ‘An act to enable incorporated towns to construct waterworks for

the extinguishment of fire, and supplying the inhabitants thereof with pure and wholesome

water,’ and the supplements thereto;” and that the polls for such election shall

be held at the same places and shall be opened and closed at the same hours, and such

election shall be conducted by the same officers, and in the same manner, and such

officers shall return a statement of the result of such election, which shall be entered

in the same manner as is prescribed and provided for in the twentieth section of the

act of which this is a supplement.