New Jersey § acts:saved-40 - (35)

§ acts:saved-40. (35)

1. Whenever the board of water commissioners of any incorporated town in 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 purposes of constructing and fully completing

said waterworks, or that the waterworks and reservoirs, aqueducts, apparatus, erections,

works, establishments and fixtures for supplying waterworks of any such town, are

inadequate to furnish a sufficient amount of pure and wholesome water for the purpose

designated in and contemplated by said act, that the said board of water commissioners

shall report such fact to the mayor and council, or other governing body of such town,

and it shall thereupon be the duty of [the] such mayor and council or other governing

body of such town to order and appoint an election of the legal electors thereof,

to be held in such town, to determine whether an additional sum shall be raised for

such purpose, and if so, what sum, not exceeding, with the sum already appropriated,

in the whole, five hundred thousand dollars; of which election the clerk of such

town 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, 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 fires 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 fires 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 the 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.