City clerk to notify county boards of tion districts. the purpose of revising and correcting the registry and of adding thereto the names of all persons entitled to the right of suffrage in that election district or precinct at the next election, who shall appear in person before them and establish to the satisfaction of the majority of the board that they are entitled to vote in that election district or precinct at the next charter election or election for municipal officers therein, or who shall be shown. by the written affidavits of a voter residing in the same election district or precinct to be so entitled to vote; a separate affidavit shall be required for each person so registered, which shall contain the address of the affiant and shall be signed by him. 3. Where the territorial districts or voting precincts shall have been changed between the time of holding the changes of elec- election of members of the general assembly and the time of holding any charter election or election for municipal officers, it shall be the duty of the city clerk of said city in which such change shall have been made, to at once notify the county boards of election thereof, by a certificate signed by him and sealed with the city seal, and it shall be the duty of the county board of election to forthwith notify the chairman of the county committee of each of the two political parties which at the last preceding general election cast the largest and next largest number of votes in their respective counties for members of the general assembly, directing said chairman within ten days or shorter time, if said board of election thinks necessary, to nominate election officers for such new election districts or voting precincts; and County board to it shall be the duty of the county board of election appoint election of officers. When district boards to meet. within five days thereafter to appoint the election. officers for such new or changed districts in the manner required by law; the district boards of registry and election so appointed for such newly created districts in said city shall meet on Tuesday five weeks next preceding the next charter election or election for municipal officers in said city, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at the places in their respective election districts or precincts where the next election will be held, and continue in session until nine o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of registering the names of all legal voters resident be made. in the election district or precinct for which they are appointed; they shall make two lists of registries, Registry lists to arranged by streets in the alphabetical order of said streets, and by street numbers if any there be, and if not, by the order of the houses as they occur on the avenue, street or road in such district or precinct; they shall register the names of all persons in their election district or precinct entitled to the right of suffrage therein at the next charter election or election for municipal officers, who shall appear before them for that purpose, and such other persons as shall be shown by the written affidavit of a voter residing in the same election district to be lawfully entitled to vote at the ensuing charter election or election for municipal officers; provided, that no per- Proviso. son shall be registered if his right is challenged unless he shall by affidavit or otherwise prove to the satisfaction of the majority of the board that he is entitled to vote in that election district or precinct at the next election therein; and provided, that no person so applying shall Proviso. be registered unless the majority of the board of registry and election shall be satisfied that he will be entitled to vote at the ensuing charter election or election for municipal officers in that precinct; on the day succeeding such meeting a copy of the registry as made up and arranged under the provisions of this section shall be posted by each of the clerks, in hand-bill form, in some conspicuous place in such election district; the said district boards of registry and election shall also meet in the same place and at the same time on Tuesday four weeks next preceding the charter election or election for municipal officers, and finally on Tuesday three weeks next preceding such election, for the purpose of revising and correcting the registry and adding thereto the names of all persons entitled to the right of suffrage in that election district or precinct at the said next election, who shall appear before them and establish to the satisfaction of a majority of the board that they are entitled to vote in that election district or precinct at the next election therein, or who shall be shown by the written affidavit. of a voter residing in the same election district or precinct to be entitled to vote; a separate affidavit shall be required for each person so registered, which shall County and district boards to perform all duties, etc. County boards to deliver copy of registry lists to city clerks. City clerk to publish notice of meetings of district boards. County boards to canvass vote at charter elections. contain the address of the affiant and be signed by him; such affidavit or affidavits shall be preserved in the custody of the member of the board of registry and election acting as judge until the completion of the registry, and the said affidavit shall be delivered to the county board of elections, to be preserved and treated in the same manner as like affidavits received by district boards of registry and elections at elections of members for the general assembly. 4. The county board of elections and the district boards of registry and election shall at said charter election, or election for municipal officers, perform all the duties required by them to be performed in elections for members of the general assembly; they shall be subject to like penalties and entitled to like compensation. 5. The county boards of election shall deliver to the city clerk of the city in which a charter election or election for municipal officers is to be held, as herein provided, a copy of the registry lists filed with said county board of elections at the previous election for members of the general assembly, to be by the said city clerk delivered to the district boards of registry and election six weeks at least preceding the time fixed for holding any charter election or election for municipal officers in said city. 6. It shall be the duty of the city clerk in each of the said cities to give notice by publication in the form required by law for elections of members of the general assembly of the time and place of the meetings of the district board of registry and election at least two weeks before the first day upon which such district boards of registry and election shall meet. 7. The county board of elections shall canvass the votes at charter elections for elections for municipal officers in the same manner in which they are required by law to canvass the votes for members of the general assembly. 8. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 4. An Act to repeal an act entitled "Supplement to an act entitled 'An act concerning taxes,' approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fortysix," which supplemental act was approved March twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: That the supplement to an act entitled "An act con- Repealer cerning taxes, approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six," which supplement was approved March twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, be and the same is hereby repealed. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 24, 1896. 17-1 S03-438 CHAPTER 5. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act to authorize cities in this state located on or near the ocean, and embracing within their limits or jurisdiction any beach or ocean front, to lay out and open streets and drives, and construct public walks along and upon the beach or ocean front, to grade and otherwise improve the same, to provide the money necessary therefor, and to regulate the use thereof," approved April sixth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Where any public walk or walks have been or may be constructed or built under the authority of the act to which this is a further supplement, it shall be lawful for the common council or other governing body of said. city to issue in the name of the said city, in the manner and way provided in section seven of the act to which this is a further supplement, its bonds in amount not exceeding the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, to be designated" city improvement bonds," the proceeds of the sale of said bonds at not less than par to be used, under the direction of the common council or other governing body of said city, for the purpose of renewing, rebuilding, repairing and maintaining said public walk or walks. 2. The common council or other governing body of said city may, by ordinance, re-locate in whole or in part any public walk or walks which may have been constructed or built or may hereafter be constructed or built under the provisions of the act to which this is a further supplement, as in their judgment shall be to the |