Section 2 amended. May issue bonds. Amount. Time. Rate. Sinking fund. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Section two of the act entitled "An act to enable the Board of Chosen Freeholders of any of the several counties of this State to construct and reconstruct bridges over and across navigable rivers or streams therein in certain cases, and providing for the regulation thereof," approved March twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, as amended by an act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to enable the boards of chosen Freeholders of any of the several counties of this State to construct and reconstruct bridges over and across navigable rivers or streams therein in certain cases, and providing for the regulation thereof,' approved March twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two," approved April sixth, one thousand nine hundred and eight, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 2. To defray and meet the cost and expense of erecting, constructing or reconstructing any bridge or bridges under the authority of the first section of this act, and of all draws, apparatus, appliances and things required therefor, including all expenses necessarily incident thereto, the Board of Chosen Freeholders of any such county is hereby authorized to issue bonds of such county, in the proper corporate name thereof, for such sum or sums as said board may deem necessary for such purpose or purposes, which said bonds shall run for, and be made due and payable, not exceeding thirty years from the date of the issue thereof, shall bear interest at not exceeding five per centum per annum, and shall be issued in such sums as such board shall by resolution determine, which bonds shall be signed by the director of such board for the time being and the county collector of the county, under the corporate seal thereof, and shall state upon their face for what purpose the same are issued, and shall be sold for not less than par, and annually thereafter such board shall place in the tax levy a sufficient sum to meet the interest on said bonds, and a further sum to be deposited in a sinking fund, to be created for the pur pose, to pay and discharge such bonds at maturity; 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 6. An Act relative to the printing and to facilitate the use of the pamphlet laws of this State. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. At the top of each page of the pamphlet laws of this State as published annually, containing the text of the acts of the Legislature, shall be printed in legible type of the size known as bourgeois, and in a convenient place for reference, the number of the chapter or chapters printed in whole or in part on the page below. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 9, 1909. Chapter reference at top of page. 1 Section 20 amended. Section 69 amended. Attachment may issue for $500. CHAPTER 7. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act concerning District Courts (Revision of 1898),' approved June fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight," which amendatory act was approved April first, one thousand nine hundred and eight. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: I. Section twenty of the act to which this is an amendment be amended to read as follows: 20. Section 69 of the act to which this is an amendment is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 69. If any creditor, his agent or attorney shall make oath or affirmation, either that he verily believes that his debtor absconds from his creditors, and is not, to his knowledge or belief, resident in this State at the time, or that the person against whose estate an attachment is about to be issued is not, to the knowledge or belief of said creditor, resident in this State at the time, and that he owes to said creditor a certain sum of money, specifying as nearly as he can the amount of the debt or balance, the clerk of any District Court of this State shall, and he is hereby required to issue out of said District Court an attachment under his hand and the seal of said court for any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, directed to a constable, or a sergeant-at-arms, who shall execute the same in the folHow executed. lowing matter, that is to say, the officer to whom it is directed shall go to the house or lands of the defendant, or to the person or house of the person in whose custody or possession the defendant's property or estate may be, and then and there declare, in the presence of one credible person, at the least, that he attaches the rights and credits, moneys and effects, goods and chattels of such defendant, at the suit of the plaintiff in the said writ named; the property attached shall be inventoried and appraised by the officer, with the assistance of one disinterested person, and safely kept by Property inventoried. State of filed. demand the officer, and his inventory and appraisement shall be annexed to and returned with the writ, and such writ shall bind the property attached from the time of executing the same; and upon the return of such attachment the said judge of the District Court shall appoint a day for the hearing of the said cause not less Hearing. than twenty days from the issuing of the said writ; on or before which day so appointed the plaintiff in the said attachment shall file a copy of his account, or state of demand, and if the creditor shall make sufficient proof of the debt due to him the said court shall give judgment therein for the plaintiff and award execution thereon to the constable against the effects of the defendant, as in other cases cognizable before said court, but the effects of the defendant thereon taken shall not be sold in less than one month (unless the same are perishable) to the end that the debtor, or his friend, may redeem the same, and in the meantime the same Redemption, shall be safely kept in such manner as the court shall direct, or the same may be disposed of, if the situation of the property, the expenses of its care, or its nature shall require, whereupon, on the written order of the court, on application for that purpose, and filed with the clerk, execution shall issue immediately for the sale of the property attached. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 15, 1909. sale of effects. CHAPTER 8. An Act to provide funds to be used for opening, widening and vacating streets and highways in cities of the first class in this State. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: I. It shall be lawful for the common council or other body having control and management of the finances Funds for provements, street im Amount. Sum needed certified to of cities of the first class in this State, in their discretion, at the request of the board or body having the control and management of streets and highways in such city, to provide funds for the opening, widening and vacating of streets and highways therein, not to exceed in all the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000), and to place from time to time, such sum or sums as may be necessary for such purposes, at the disposal of the board or body having the control and management of streets and highways, to be used by such board or body for the opening, widening or vacating of any particular street or streets, or parts thereof, under the conditions and limitations hereinafter specified. 2. Whenever the board or body having the control financial body. and management of streets and highways in such city shall, by resolution, determine upon the amount of money necessary or desirable for a fund for the purpose of opening, widening or vacating any particular street or streets at that time, they shall prepare and present to the common council or other body having control of the finances of such city, a certificate setting forth the amount of money which, in the judgment of said board or body, is necessary for the opening, widening or vacating of the particular streets or streets, which said board or body, at that time, proposes to open, widen or vacate, together with the facts, estimates and information upon which said such judgment is based, and the said common council, or body having the control of the finances of the city in its discretion may, thereupon, by resolution, appropriate to the said board or body having the control and management of the streets and highways of such city, such amount of money, to be used for such purposes by said board or body. Temporary loan bonds. 3. In order to provide the money necessary and required for such opening, widening or vacating, and appropriated from time to time for such purposes, the common council, or other board or body having control of the finances of such city, shall issue, or cause to be issued, from time to time, as may be neces |