GENERAL PUBLIC ACTS PASSED BY THE One Hundred and Fourth Legislature. CHAPTER I. An Act concerning cities. office of aldermen common coun cil how filled. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Vacancies in the State of New Jersey, That if any vacancy shall occur or in the board of aldermen or common council of any incorporated city of this state by the death, resignation or disqualification of any incumbent, said vacancy shall be filled by the mayor of such city by the appointment of a suitable and discreet citizen of such city, who shall continue in said office until the next regular election. to cities filling of vacan 2. And be it enacted, That the provisions of this act Act not to apply shall not apply to any incorporated city in which the filling of vacancies in the board of aldermen or common council is already regulated by its charter. cies is regulated by its charter. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 5, 1880. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, Governor. WILLIAM J. SEWELL, President of the Senate. SHERMAN B. OVIATT, Speaker of the House of Assembly. CHAPTER II. Section to be amended recited. Section as amended. A Further Supplement to the act entitled "An act.constituting courts for the trial of small causes" (Revision), approved March twenty-seventh, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That section one hundred and thirty-five of the act to which this is a further supplement, which reads as follows, to wit: "135. And be it enacted, That the constables of the sev eral counties of this state shall be entitled to receive from the county collector of the said county, their lawful fees for serving any criminal warrant, together with all and any expenses by them incurred in conveying any offender to the county jail for commitment to the custody of the sheriff, whether any such offender shall be indicted or not, for the offense for which such offender may have been so committed," be amended to read as follows: 135. And be it enacted, That the constables of the several counties of this state shall be entitled to receive from penses of constables to be paid by the collector of said county, their lawful fees for serving any criminal warrant, together with any proper and Fees and ex reasonable expenses by them incurred in conveying any collector of offender to the county jail for commitment to the county. custody of the sheriff, whether such offender shall be indicted or not, for the offense for which such offender may have been committed; provided, that the bill of Proviso. expenses so incurred shall be itemized and shall be certified by the prosecutor of the pleas of said county to be proper and reasonable. Approved February 5, 1880. CHAPTER III. An Act relating to the distribution of law and equity reports and other publications. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That all publications, or republications, of the law and equity reports of this state, and all revisions or digests of laws or reports made or published since January first, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, and hereafter to be made or published, shall be distributed to the president law judges of the common pleas in all counties having such judges, in the same manner as they now are and have been distributed to the justices of the supreme court. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 5, 1880. reports &c. to be law judges of Law and equity distributed to the common pleas. |