health to be tigate, &c. to exist in any locality of this state, it shall be the duty of all persons owning or having any interest in or having in their possession or under their control any horse or horses, mare or mares, gelding or geldings, ass or asses, mule or mules, having in or upon them, or being suspected to have in or upon them, such disease, forthwith to notify the local board of health or any member thereof that such disease exists, or is suspected to exist, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the said board of health State board of to notify the state board of health, or some one desig-notified to invesnated by them, to investigate the same and quarantine said animal or animals and the premises where they are kept and take such other precautionary measures as to any animal or animals sick, or as to other animals that have been or are in proximity thereto, as shall be deemed necessary, and to enforce such regulations as are provided for in the law to which this is a supplement or such additional regulations as in the judgment of said state board of health the exigencies of the case may seem to require, or if said board or any member thereof, without notification shall have any reason to believe that the said disease exists in or among any animals in this state, it shall have the same power of inquiry and examination and the same rights of jurisdiction as are herein provided where there has been notification by the owner or person having interest in or possession or control of such animals. call upon local cover diseases. 2. And be it enacted, That the said state board of State board may health may call upon local boards of health to discover boards to discases of the disease known by the name of "glanders and to aid in provisions for their abatement. state board to animals. 3. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of quaran- Proceeding by tining animals the said state board of health or its repre- quarantine sentatives may take and retain in their control property, real and personal, of the owner or person having interest in or possession or control of such sick animal or animals to the extent and for the time necessary in the judgment of said state board of health or its said representatives to prevent the spread of such disease. with glanders to 4. And be it enacted, That the said state board of health, Animals diseased or any member thereof, whenever satisfied that any horse be destroyed, &c. or horses, mare or mares, gelding or geldings, ass or asses, Penalty for refusing or neglecting to notify state board of existence of disease. Who to determine amount to: be allowed for services required by act. mule or mules is or are diseased with glanders, shall cause the same to be immediately destroyed, and all places in which said animal or animals have been kept, to be cleansed and disinfected and kept under quarantine until considered safe. 5. And be it enacted, That any person or persons refusing or neglecting to notify said board of health or a member thereof of the existence or suspected existence of the said disease known by the name of "glanders" among any of the animals aforesaid, shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. 6. And be it enacted, That the governor, the secretary of state and the comptroller shall determine the amount to be allowed to said board, or any member thereof, for services in the oversight and execution of all things in and by this act required to be done. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Passed March 12, 1884. Section repealed. CHAPTER L. A supplement to an act entitled "An act relative to fishing in the North and South Shrewsbury rivers, and in the waters of Sandy Hook and Raritan bay," approved March seventeen, eighteen hundred and eighty-two. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the second section of said act, which reads as follows: [2. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful to draw crab nets, not exceeding sixty feet in length and not less. than three inch mesh, in the North and South Shrewsbury rivers,] be and the same is hereby repealed. Approved March 12, 1884. CHAPTER LI. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate associations for the establishment of lyceums, libraries and literary and scientific societies," (Revision) approved April ninth, eighteen hundred and seventyfive. to mayor or any 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly Lawful for corof the State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for any provide by bycorporation formed under and in pursuance of the provis- laws that the ions of this act, to provide by its by-laws, that the mayor two other public and any two other public officers of any city in which it shall be exshall carry out the purpose for which it shall be formed, shall be ex-officio trustees of such corporation in addition to the trustees such corporation is now by law authorized to elect. offico trustees. and privileges of 2. And be it enacted, That such ex-officio trustees shall To have rights have and exercise all the rights and powers of trustees of trustees. such corporation. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 12, 1884. CHAPTER LII. An Act concerning official newspapers in cities of this State. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly Lawful for city of the State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for to designate what any city in this state, to designate as an official news shall be an official newspaper. paper, in place of any other weekly official newspaper of such city not designated on account of the fact that such newspaper is published in a certain part of such city, any newspaper which shall have been published in such city, at least once a week for a period not less than one year prior to the passage of this act, notwithstanding such paper shall have been published on the day of the week commonly known as Sunday. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Passed March 13, 1884. Penalty for defacing public telegraph or telephone wires or gas or water mains on such bridges without permission. CHAPTER LIII. A further supplement to an act entitled "An act for the punishment of crimes," approved March twenty-seventh eighteen hundred and seventy-four. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly bridges or laying of the State of New Jersey, That if any person shall deface or mar any of the public bridges in this state, or obstruct, or attach, or lay upon any such bridge any telegraph, telephone or electric wires, or any water or gas mains, without permission first had and obtained from the board of chosen freeholders of the county or other proper authority, wherein such bridge is situate, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year, or punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or both. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 13, 1884. CHAPTER LIV. An Act for the encouragement of free libraries in cities. be transferred to certain cities. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly Free library may of the State of New Jersey, That in all cities in which a public library in public library, lyceum and reading room association now exists, incorporated under and in pursuance of an act entitled "An act to incorporate associations for the establishment of lyceums, libraries and literary and scientific societies," (Revision), approved April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and the supplements thereto, the common council, board of aldermen, board of education or other municipal body having control of a free library established and maintained from public moneys, shall have, and such board or municipal body is hereby given, power to lend and transfer without receiving compensation therefor, such free library to such public library, lyceum and reading room association, for such time and upon such provisions for its safety as may be agreed upon between such board or municipal body and such public library, lyceum and reading room Appropriation association, and during the said time said board or to be paid to municipal body shall pay to such public library, lyceum' and reading room association, any sum or sums of money that such board or municipal body may be empowered to appropriate and expend for the establishment and maintenance of a free library, provided the powers hereby Powers not to be given shall not be exercised unless the by-laws of such by-laws of public public library, lyceum and reading room association shall make certain during said last mentioned time, make the mayor of such city and the presiding officer of such board or municipal body and the superintendent of the public schools of said city, ex-officio trustees of such library, lyceum and reading room association, and also make provision for keeping open such free library and the library and reading room of such association in some convenient place for the free use of the teachers and pupils of the public for free library public library. exercised unless library shall provisions. |