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the arsenal, and accounted for by the quartermaster general in his annual report; he shall furnish, upon due requisition, such arms, ordnance and accoutrements, equipments or implements therewith, ammunition, tents, camp equipage or other state property, and such subsistence and forage, to conform as nearly as may be to the rations and forage as shall be prescribed by regulation of this state, to be issued in kind or commuted as may be required at any time for the use and supply of the state forces, at any parade, encampment or station, or as may be required by them when on actual service; he is hereby authorized to nominate and appoint, by and with the admorer or keeper Vice and consent of the commander-in-chief, from time to

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of arsenal.

time, a suitable person as armorer or keeper of the state arsenal, to take charge of the said arsenal, to repair and keep in good and proper order the arms and equipments belonging to this state, that now are or may hereafter be placed under his charge, and the said armorer shall be responsible to the quartermaster general for safe keeping of the said arms and equipments.]

2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 5, 1884.

Section to be amended.

CHAPTER XXIX.

A Further Supplement to an "An act for the construction, maintenance and operation of water works for the purpose of supplying of cities, towns and villages of this state with water," approved April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the first section of the act to which this is a supplement, be amended so as to read as follows:

SESSION OF 1884.

company

certain cities,

[1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly Formation of of the State of New Jersey, That any number of persons, authorized in not less than seven, a majority of whom shall reside in this towns, &c. state, may form a company for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating water works in any city, town, township, village or seaside resort in this state, having a population of not more than fifteen thousand, and not less than five hundred inhabitants, and for the purpose of supplying such city, town, township, village or seaside resort, and the inhabitants thereof with water.] 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 5, 1884.

CHAPTER XXX.

A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act concerning corporations," approved April seventh, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

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bonds before

duties.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Cashiers of the State of New Jersey, That the directors of any banking ations to give corporations having capital stock divided into shares entering upon and created under the laws of this state by special act of incorporation or otherwise, shall require the cashier appointed by them, before he performs or enters upon any duties as such cashier, to give bond or bonds, with good and sufficient security, to be approved by the board of directors thereof, in the penal sum of at least twenty thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of such cashier, and it shall be the duty of the directors of said corporations, as often as once in every year, to pass upon the sufficiency of the said bond or bonds, and if insufficient, to require without delay new and additional bonds and securities to be given.

to perform

2. And be it enacted, That if the directors of said cor- Directors failing poration should fail to perform any or all of the require- requirements,

&c., liable.

Repealer.

ments of the last preceding section they shall be jointly and severally liable to the said corporation to the extent of any defalcation of or deficiency in the funds of said corporation created or caused by said cashier, not in excess of the sum of twenty thousand dollars, the same to be recovered by said corporation in any court of competent jurisdiction of this state.

3. And be it enacted, That all acts, or parts of acts, inconsistent or conflicting with this act be and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 5, 1884.

Authorized to

take and convey

CHAPTER XXXI.

An Act to enable incorporated towns to construct water works for the extinguishment of fires, and supplying the inhabitants thereof with pure and wholesome

water.

1. BE IT ENACTED, by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That any incorporated town in other purposes. this state be, and it is hereby authorized in the manner

water for domestic and

hereinafter provided, to take and convey from such source or sources as may be practicable, into, and through said town, such quantity of pure and wholesome water as may be required for domestic use, the extinguishment of fires and other purposes by the inhabitants residing within the corporate limits of said town; and to this end such town, is hereby authorized by its board of commissioners or other governing body by whatever name it may be called, to appoint three commissioners to Appointment of be called "water commissioners," who shall have the

water commis

sioners.

powers and perform the duties hereinafter mentioned; the first of said water commissioners shall hold his office until the first Monday in May succeeding his appointment, the second for one year, and the third for two

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years from the first Monday in May succeeding their appointment. On the first Monday in May in each year after their appointment, one water commissioner shall be appointed by such town, who shall hold his office for the term of three years. In case a vacancy should occur in Vacancy, how the office of water commissioners, such town, by its commissioners or other governing power, shall appoint a proper person to fill the same and serve the unexpired term. No member of the board of commissioners or other governing power of such town shall be eligible to the office of water commissioner.

to take oath and

2. And be it enacted, That the said water commissioners, Commissioners and every of them, appointed under the provisions of give bond. this act, before entering on the discharge of the duties prescribed by this act, shall severally take and subscribe before the clerk of said town, who is hereby authorized to administer the same, an oath or affirmation, faithfully and impartially to discharge all the duties imposed on them by this act, which said oath or affirmation shall be filed in the office of the clerk of said town; and further, before entering upon the discharge of the duties prescribed by this act, each of said water commissioners shall repair to the board of commissioners or other governing body of said town, and enter into bond to the said town by its corporate name, with two freehold securities to be approved of by the commissioner or other governing power of said town, in such sum not less than three thousand dollars as the said board of commissioners or other governing power may direct, conditioned for the true and faithful performance of all the duties of the said office of water commissioner; no water commissioner shall be interested or concerned, directly or indirectly, in any contract or agreement for furnishing labor or materials in the erection or repair of the works authorized by this act, which said water commissioners may make or cause to be made; but each of said water commissioners shall be entitled to receive, out Compensation. of the revenues arising from said works and created by this act, the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day for each day actually employed, not exceeding in the whole the sum of one hundred dollars in each year.

Empowered to contract and maintain

reservoirs, &c.

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Proceedings in case of disagreement between water commissioners and owner of lands as

3. And be it enacted, That the said water commissioners are hereby invested with all the powers necessary to enable them to construct, keep up and maintain such reservoirs, aqueducts and apparatus for elevating water, as they may deem necessary, from time to time, with such erections, works, establishments and fixtures, as may be, in their opinion, required to effectuate the objects of this act, and to take and use such parts of the waters of any stream necessary for the purposes contemplated by this act, and to lay all pipes under the streets or through private property that may be needed to conduct said water to the reservoirs, and from the reservoirs to such parts of the town and vicinity, as the governing board of said town may, from time to time, deem expedient, and for these purposes, said water commissioners may make all such contracts, and employ all such engineers, workmen and laborers, as they may deem necessary, subject, however, to the restrictions hereinafter provided.

4. And be it enacted, That if it should become necessary, in the opinion of said water commissioners, to lay pipes through any private lands, or if any private lands to compensation. shall be required for erecting reservoirs or other works thereon or from which they may desire to take and use the water of any spring or springs, stream or streams of water, and no agreement can be made with the owner or owners thereof, as to the amount of compensation to be paid for the laying said pipes through said lands, or the price of such lands as the case may be, by reason of the unwillingness of said owners, or any of them, to accept such compensation or price as said water commissioners may deem reasonable, or by reason of the absence or legal incapacity of said owners, or any of them, it shall be the duty of either of the justices of the supreme court of this state, upon application to him by said water commissioners, and after ten days' previous notice in writing of such application to the persons interested, if known and in this state, or if unknown or out of the state, after publication thereof for any term, not less than ten days, in a newspaper published in such town, to appoint three disinterested appraisers, from the county wherein such town is situate, to determine the compensation to be paid for the laying of said pipes through said lands, or the price to be

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