sary, the temporary loan bonds or certificates of the city, bearing interest at a rate not to exceed five per Rate. centum per annum, which temporary loan bonds or cer- tificates may be renewed from time to time until the as- sessments for benefits for such improvements are paid; provided, that the total amount of temporary loan Proviso. bonds or certificates issued under the authority of this act shall not exceed in all the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000). Should the total cost of In case of opening, widening or vacating any street exceed the deficiency. amount of money appropriated therefor in the first in- stance as provided in section two of this act, the said common council, or other board or body having control of the finances of such city, shall appropriate such ex- cess cost over the first appropriation to the board or body having control of the streets and highways, upon their requisition, and provide for the same by the issue 4. And all assessments for benefits conferred by Assessments such improvements and all interest thereon and penal- loan. ties, when collected, shall be credited to the temporary loan bonds or certificates issued on account thereof, and as collected and received shall be used to pay off and retire such temporary loan bonds or certificates, and for no other purpose whatsoever. ties thereon imposed, shall be a first lien upon the lands and real estate especially benefited thereby in con- formity with the provisions of the existing law in force in said city with respect thereto, and shall in all bonds. 6. Such city may issue, from time to time, per- Permanent Purposes of issue. for the purpose of raising money to take up, pay and retire so much and such part of the temporary loan bonds or certificates issued for the cost of any particular improvement or improvements, as will not be provided for by assessments for for benefits assessed and imposed for such improvement or improvements, and also to provide for the payment of any part of the costs of any such improvement or improvements that may be assessed upon Sinking fund. the city at large. The common council or other board or body having control of the finances of such city shall provide each year in the tax levy for the payment of the interest falling due in that year upon any temporary loan bonds or certificates or permanent bonds so issued, and shall also provide for a sinking fund sufficient to meet and pay all permanent bonds issued under the provisions of this act at maturity. Act gives additional funds. Repealer, 7. This act shall not be construed to repeal, modify, supersede or take the place of any law or laws now in force, providing for a capital fund or funds for the opening, widening, vacating or otherwise improving of streets and highways, but is intended to be in addition thereto, and not to prevent or interfere with the raising or providing of capital fund or funds for street improvements and the making of street improvements under any law or laws now in force as well as under the provisions of this act. 8. All acts and parts of acts, general or special, inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 15, 1909. CHAPTER 9. A Supplement to an act, entitled "An act relating to courts having criminal jurisdiction and regulating proceedings in criminal cases (Revision of 1898),' approved June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: to attend 1. In any county in which there are two judges of Stenographer the Court of Common Pleas, the justice of the Su- grand jury. preme Court holding the circuit of such county may designate in writing some person who is a competent stenographer, and who is regularly employed in the office of the prosecutor of the pleas of such county, at a stated salary, to act as assistant to the clerk of the grand jury of such county, in addition to his regular duties in said office; and it shall be lawful, when requested by the grand jury, for the person so designated to attend the sessions of the grand jury and take minutes of the evidence there adduced; provided, the Proviso. person so designated shall not be entitled to any extra compensation for his services as assistant to the clerk of the grand jury. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 16, 1909. CHAPTER 10. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act relating to the management of the New Jersey Reformatory," approved March twenty-first, one thousand nine hundred and one. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Section three of the act entitled "An act relating section 3 to the management of the New Jersey Reformatory, amended. Government, rules, etc. Superintend ent. Salary and term. Assistants. Proviso. approved March twenty-first, one thousand nine hundred and one, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 3. They may establish a system of government for the reformatory, and make all needful rules and regulations for the management thereof and for the care, support, discipline, detention and discharge of the inmates; they may use any method of education and employment which, in their judgment, will best promote the interests of the inmates and secure their reformation; they shall appoint, subject to removal by the Commission for cause, a superintendent who shall hold office for a term of five years; the salary of the superintendent shall be three thousand five hundred dollars per year and, in addition, there shall be provided free maintenance and a house of residence for the said superintendent and his family; the commissioners shall fix and determine the number of subordinate officers, the amount of compensation to be paid to them and the amount and sufficiency of their bonds, if any; provided, however, that no salary greater than one thousand five hundred dollars per year shall be given to any subordinate officer except as otherwise provided. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 11. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to establish a thorough and efficient system of free public schools, and to provide for the maintenance, support and management thereof,' approved October nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and three," which amendment was approved May seventh, one thousand nine hundred and seven. 4 BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: amended. I. Section two of an act entitled "An act to amend Section an act entitled 'An act to establish a thorough and efficient system of free public schools, and to provide for the maintenance, support and management thereof,' approved October nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and three," approved May seventh, one thousand nine hundred and seven, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: amended. 2. Section ninety-one of the act to which this is an Section 91 amendment is hereby amended to read as follows: clerk. 91. Every board of education organized under the District provisions of this article shall, by the majority vote of all the members of such board, appoint a district clerk, who may be elected from among said members, and shall fix his compensation and term of employment. Said district clerk, as such, may be removed by a majority vote of all the members of said board. He shall, Bond. before entering upon the duties of his office, execute and deliver to said board a bond in a sum to be fixed by said board, with surety or sureties to be approved by said board, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. Said board may accept the bond or undertaking of a trust company, or surety or indemnity company, and may pay the annual premium or fee therefor as a current expense of said board. He shall record in a suitable book all proceedings of the board of education, of the annual school meetings and of special school meetings. He shall pay out by orders on the custodian of the school moneys of the school district, and in the manner prescribed by law, all school moneys of the district. He shall keep a correct and detailed account of all the expenditures of school moneys in the district, and shall report to the board at each regular meeting the amount for which warrants shall have been drawn since the date of his last report, the accounts against which said warrants shall have been drawn, and the balance to the credit of each account. At each annual school meeting he shall present Annual his record books and his accounts for public inspection, Records, duties, etc. report. |