ORDINANCES % OP TIIE COMMON COUNCIL THE CI11 OF TRENTON, PASSED SINCE MAY 25, 1847; WITH THE ACTS OF THE LEGISLATURE RELATIVE TO SAID CITY, PASSED SINCE 1847. TRENTON: PRINTED BY PHILLIPS & BOSWELL. 1856 . , v; ; ' ,y ^ %■ 1 : ij '| ' v ■ /;■ j .■> k ~rn ioy , i sj> further sup storage TO THE BOOKS TACKS OFFICE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF TRENTON. C : A further supplement to the act entitled, “An act to in¬ corporate the city of Trenton,” passed the seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. Approved February 28, 1849. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the common State of Neio Jersey , That the common council of the city of to borrow 1 Trenton shall not have power to borrow any sum or sums of mo-SJ^Sthor- iney hereafter on the credit of the said city, unless the same shall ordl ^j)e authorized by an ordinance of said city for some single object ' O or wor k> to be distinctly specified therein; which ordinance shall •^provide the ways and means, exclusive of loans, to pay the interest coof such debt or liability as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge >the principal of such debt or liability within five years from the time of the contracting thereof, and shall be irrepealable until such debt or liability, and the interest thereon, are fully paid and dis¬ charged; and no such ordinance shall take effect until it shall, at an annual election, have been submitted to the people of said city, and t have received the sanction of a majority of all the votes cast for jL and against it at such election : and all money to be raised by the authority of such ordinance shall he applied only to the specific object stated therein, and the payment of the debt thereby created. 2. And be it enacted , That no ordinance shall be finally passed Final pa?*- by the common council, until a subsequent meeting to that at which nances?™ 1 ' it may be introduced. 3. And be it enacted , That so much of the twenty-fifth section f 4 i SUPPLEMENTS Part of for¬ mer act re¬ pealed. of the act to which this is a supplement as is contrary to this act be and the same is hereby repealed. Former eup- 4. And be it enacted , That an act entitled, “ A further supplement pldQCIlt 1*0" « *11 * | • m a a pealed. to the act entitled, an act to incorporate the city of lrenton, pass* ed March seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-four, be and the same is hereby repealed. 5. And be it enacted , That this act shall take effect immediately. A further supplement to the act entitled, “ An act to in¬ corporate the city of Trenton,” passed the seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. Approved March 6, 1850. Assessment 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the to bfmade^ 7 State of New Jersey , That in all cases where the state and county taxes to be collected in said city, in any year, shall be directed by the common council to be assessed and collected before the propor¬ tion or quota of the said taxes to be levied and collected in the said city for such year shall be adjusted and fixed as prescribed by law, it shall be the duty of the assessors of the said city, in making their assessments, to assess the amount of taxes adjusted and fixed as the quota of the said city for the last preceding year; which assess¬ ment, so made, shall be as valid and effectual in law as if made af¬ ter the proportion or quota of tax to be levied and collected in the said city for the current year had been adjusted and fixed as pre¬ scribed by law; and in case of any deficiency in the amount of taxes so assessed, it shall be lawful for the common council to direct the amount of such deficiency to be added to the amount required to be assessed and levied for the next or other subsequent year; pro* vided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to relieve the said city from the obligation imposed, or to be imposed by law, to pay the amount of state and county taxes required to be levied and collected in the said city in each year; and 'provided also , that the ward collectors of said city shall pay over to the collector of the county of Mercer the proportion of state and county taxes di¬ rected to be assessed and levied in said city at the time and under the penalty or penalties that are or may be specified and prescribed by law in regard to the collectors of the several townships of this state. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the assessors TO THE CHARTER. 5 r of said city to include the state and county taxes, and also all taxes Compenea- assessed for city purposes, in one and the same duplicate or as- sor and col* sessment; and the assessors, for making such duplicate or assessment, lLLtor ‘ and the collectors, for performing the duties required of them by law in relation thereto, shall be entitled to receive such compensation as the common council may from time to time by ordinance direct. 3. And be it enacted , That the clerk of said city shall be elected Repealed ii i i . i andre-enact- annually by the common council. ed. 4. And be it enacted, That the number of constables to be elect- constablee. ed in each ward of said city shall be determined from time to time by the common council. 5. And be it enacted, That all vacancies that may occur in any Vacaneiee, of the offices which are elective by the electors of said city, except ed. W 8upph members of common council, may be filled by the common council. 6. And be it enacted, That whenever they shall deem it neces- Board of sarv, the common council may establish a board of health in said beestaSSh- eity, to consist of as many members as the council may determine • eu * said board shall continue in office until dissolved by their own reso¬ lution or the resolution of the common council; said board shall have full power to take such measures, and to make and publish all such orders for the preservation of the public health as they may deem best calculated to promote that end ; and any person who shall refuse to comply with any such order, or who shall oppose, hinder, obstruct, or discourage a compliance with any such order by any other person or persons, shall be deemed guilty of a misde¬ meanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined any sum not ex¬ ceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned at hard labor for any term not exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the court before whom said conviction may be had. 7. And be it enacted , That the common council of said city shall Common have authority, from time to time, to take one or more loans on the thoiizedto credit of the city, for the purpose of paying or consolidating such tJte l0aii8 ’ of the indebtedness of said city as existed on the first day of Jan¬ uary, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty- nine, and to such loans the provisions of the first section of the supplement to the act incorporating said city, approved the twenty- eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, shall not apply; but this section shall not apply to loans to be taken for any other purpose. 8. And be it enacted, That the assessment provided for in the Asseppment supplement to the act to incorporate said city, approved the nine-°* lb4 '' teenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight 5 SUPPLEMENTS hundred and forty-seven, shall be binding and conclusive according to the provisions of said act, unless one half of the persons upon whom the same may be made, their guardians or legal represent¬ atives, shall file their refusal according to the provisions of said act. Part Of for- 9. And be it enacted , That the eighth section of the act referred peai^lf re to in the foregoing section be and the same is hereby repealed. Aldermen. 10. And be it enacted, Thataldermenshallnothereafterbeelect- how elected. the city at large, but one alderman shall, at the annual ward elections, be elected in each ward, who shall be a resident of said ward, and shall hold his office for the term of one year. Part of for- 11. And be it enacted, That anything in the act to which this ptHded.*" te is a supplement, or in any of the supplements to said act which comes within the purview of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed. 12. And he it enacted , That this act shall take effect immediately. An additional supplement to the act entitled, “ An act to incorporate the city of Trenton,” passed the seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. Approved March IS, 1851. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the paring aide- State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for the common coun¬ cil of the said city to pass ordinances for the levelling, grading, curbing, paving, repaving, flagging, or gravelling sidewalks, in any street or streets of said city, by the owners or occupants of lots, alleys, or passage ways fronting on or adjoining such street or streets | and to appoint one or more discieet and skilful petson 01 persons to superintend the said work; and to prescribe the manner in which, and the materials with which the same shall be perform¬ ed ; and to enforce such ordinances, by enacting penalties for non- compliance therewith, to be sued foi and reco\eied, with costs of suit, in an action of debt, by and in the name of the treasurer of the said city, for the use of the city, before any justice of the peace thereof, or any other court having cognizance of the same. 2. And be it enacted, That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or passage way, in front whereof the sidew'alks shall, by any TO THE CHARTER. 7 ordinance of the common council, be directed to be levelled, graded, Proceedings curbed, paved, repaved, flagged, or gravelled, shall neglect to com- neglect or ply with such ordinance for the space of one month from the time pave^&c! of its passage, it shall be lawful for the common council to cause the same to be done under the direction and superintendence of such officer or officers, or person or persons, as they may designate for that purpose, and the expense thereof, certified and sworn or affirmed to by said officer or officers, person or persons, and filed with the city clerk, shall be and remain a lien upon said lot until the same shall have been paid and satisfied, and shall have priority to any recognizance, mortgage, judgment, debt, obligation, or re¬ sponsibility which the said lot may become liable to from and af¬ ter the passage of this act; and to enforce the payment of said expenses, the common council may, at their option, either bring an action on the case in any court of competent jurisdiction, in the name of the treasurer of said city, against the owner or owners of such lot, for so much money laid out and expended by them for the use of such owner or owners, and declare generally and give the special matter in evidence, and recover said expenses, with costs ; or, having first advertised in two of the newspapers publish¬ ed in said city for the space of two months, once at least in each week, giving notice of the time and place of sale, together with a particular description of the lot, and specifying the amount of mo¬ ney so laid out and expended on the same, may, at such time and place, sell at public sale the said lot, for the lowest term of vears at which any person shall agree to take the same, and pay said ex¬ penses and such other expenses as may be incurred by said ad¬ vertisement and sale; and thereupon the mayor of said city, at the request of said common council, may give a declaration of sale to the purchaser thereof under the common seal of said city ; and such purchaser, his or her executors, administrators, or assigns, by virtue thereof and of this act, shall lawfully hold and enjoy the same for his and their proper use until his or her term be fullv completed and ended, and be at liberty to remove all the buildings and materials which he or they shall erect or place thereon ; but he or they shall leave said premises, at the expiration of the term, in as good order and condition as they were at the beginning there¬ of, natural wear and tear only excepted, and shall pay and discharge all taxes which shall be legally assessed thereon during the con¬ tinuance of said term ; if the owner or owners, mortgagee or mort¬ gagees, of said lot shall, within one year after such sale, pay to the said purchaser, his executors, administrators, or assigns the amount 8 SUPPLEMENTS Proviso. Actions to be brought in name of treasurer. of money so by him paid to the city, with the amount paid for any fences erected, constructed, or made thereon, with twelve per cent, interest, then the said owner or owners, mortgagee or mortgagees, as the case may be, shall be entitled to re-enter and repossess the said lot in the same manner, to all intents, as if such sale had not been made. Tenant may 3. And be it enacted, That if the tenant of any lot within the said landicTrd^ 0111 city shall cause the sidewalk in front thereof to be levelled, graded, curbed, paved, repaved, flagged, or gravelled, in obedience to such ordinance, at his own expense, it shall be lawful for him to deduct the same out of the rent, or to recover the same from the landlord or owner, or his legal representatives, with interest and cost, in an action on the case in any court in this state having cog¬ nizance thereof, for so much money by him paid, laid out, and ex¬ pended to and for his and their use; provided , that nothing in this act shall affect any contract or agreement, made or to be made, between landlord and tenant respecting such charges or expenses. 4. And be it enacted , That in all actions to be brought for the recovery of any penalty created or imposed by any ordinance made and passed, or that may be made and passed by said common council, may be brought and prosecuted in the name of “ the Trea¬ surer of the city of Trenton,” without specifying the individual name of the treasurer of said city for the time being; and that no such suit shall abate by reason of any change of the person holding such office. 5. And be it enacted , That the book of records of the ordinances of said common council, and the printed volume or pamphlet ordi¬ nances printed and published by the direction or authority of said common council, shall be received as evidences of the ordinances of said common council in any court of this state. 6. And be it enacted, That all open passage ways, of two rods wide and upwards, which have not been or shall not be made pub¬ lic streets according to law, shall be deemed and taken to be pri¬ vate streets. 7. And be it enacted, That the common council of said city shall rnay'be pav- have authority, whenever to them it shall seem required by the public good, to cause any private street, court, or alley to be graded, paved, or curbed, and flagstones to be laid across the same at proper places, and to cause the expense thereof to be assessed on the owners of property fronting or bordering on said private street, court, or alley ; and the affidavit of said expense, by the person or persons appointed to have said work done, filed with the clerk of Book of re¬ cords to be evidence. Private st’s. Private st’s or alleys may be ed, &c. TO THE CHARTER. Said city, shall fix and determine the amount thereof; and said ex¬ pense shall be a lien on each lot against which it may be assessed for the proportion of said lot, and the same may be collected in the way in which the expense of paving sidewalks is by this act author¬ ized to be collected. b. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the common paving of council, on the application of the owners of three-fourths of the 8treet '* property fronting on any public street, or section of a public street, to order the said street or section of a street (the same having been previously graded) to be paved, flagged, or planked, either in whole or in part, in such manner as they shall deem most advisable, un¬ der the supervision of such officer or person as they shall designate, and to cause the expense of such work, or such part of said ex¬ pense as said common council may direct, to be assessed among the owners of lots fronting on said street or section of a street; and the expense of said work, certified and sworn or affirmed to by the officer or person under whose supervision the same shall have been done, and filed with the clerk, shall fix and determine the amount thereof; and said expense shall be and remain a lien on the lots upon which the same shall have been assessed until the same shall have been paid ; and it shall be lawful for the common council to enforce the payment thereof in the same manner in which, by this act, payment of the expense of paving sidewalks may be enforced ; and that after the said paving, flagging, or planking shall have been once done, then the city shall take charge of and keep the same in repair without further assessment. 9. And be it enacted. That all taxes hereafter assessed in said interest on city shall be chargeable with interest from and after the day on taxes ' which they shall be returned by the ward collectors as delinquents. 10. And be it enacted, That all taxes which may be hereafter Land may assessed upon any lands, tenements, or real estate in said city shall nonpayment be and remain a lien thereon for the space of two years from the o1 tuxes ' date of the tax warrant, notwithstanding any devise, descent, or alienation thereof, or any judgment, mortgage, or other encum¬ brance thereof; and that if the full amount of any such tax, with the interest and costs, shall not be paid and satisfied within two months from the date of such tax warrant, it shall and may be law¬ ful for the common council to advertise, and, if necessary, to sell said lands, tenements, or real estate for the payment of said tax, in¬ terest, and all costs, charges, and expenses, in the same manner as is prescribed by the third section of the act entitled, “ A further supplement to the act entitled, an act to incorporate the city of 10 v SUPPLEMENTS Mistake in name not to invalidate as sessment. Part of for¬ mer act re¬ pealed. Inhabitants of ward au¬ thorized to raise money. Trenton,” which supplement was approved the twenty-sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-five. 11. And be it enacted , That in assessing real estate within said city, no mistake, misnomer, or omission of the name or names of the owner or owners, or any of them, of such real estate shall be sufficient to invalidate the assessment thereof or prevent the re- covery of the tax, provided the premises assessed be sufficiently identified; and that the common council of said city may make all ordinances, rules, and regulations which they shall deem neces¬ sary to secure the identification of the premises assessed, and to have periodical valuations, by competent men, of all the real es¬ tate in said city subject to taxation, to the end that each and every lot or tract may pay its fair and just proportion of tax according to its cash value. 12. And be it enacted , That the thirty-sixth, thirty-seventh, thirty- eighth, and thirty-ninth sections of the act to which this is a sup¬ plement be and the same are hereby repealed. 13. And be it enacted , That this act shall take effect immediately. An act to authorize the inhabitants of the third and fourth wards of the city of Trenton to raise money in support of common schools. Approved March 19, 1351. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey , That the inhabitants of the third and fourth wards in the city of Trenton, at their next ward meeting, shall have power, by a majority of the votes polled, to determine the amount of money to be raised in support of the common schools of said wards, not exceeding in the whole the sum of two thousand dollars, in addition to the sum authorized to be raised by the other wards of said city, which shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other taxes within said city are levied and collected. TO THE CHARTER. 11 An act to annex the borough of South Trenton to the city of Trenton. Approved March 19, 1851. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the Borough of State of New Jersey , That the territory which is embraced within tonmSSd the bounds of the borough of South Trenton, in the township 0 f toTrRnton - Nottingham, in the county of Mercer, be and the same is hereby set off from the township of Nottingham, and annexed to and made a part of the city of Trenton, to all intents and purposes as if said territory had originally been a part of said city; and that the inha¬ bitants of said territory, and their successors for ever, shall be mem¬ bers of the corporation created by the act incorporating said city, by the name, style, and title of “ the Inhabitants of the city of Tren¬ ton ; and that the charter of said city, and the several supplements thereto, and all laws passed in relation to said city, and all ordi¬ nances heretofore passed by the common council of said city, shall have the same force and effect within the territory hereby annexed as they have heretofore held and now rightfully have within the original limits of said city. 2. And be it enacted , That the said “ the Inhabitants of the city Property, of Trenton’’ and their successors shall by this act become, and they in^nhabit^ are hereby declared to be absolutely and completely vested withgfty ofTren- and possess and enjoy all the lands, tenements, hereditaments, pro- ton ‘ • perty, rights, causes of action, and estate whatsoever, both in law and equity, in possession, reversion, or remainder, which at the time this act shall take effect may be vested in or belong to “the Bur¬ gesses and Inhabitants of the borough of South Trenton,” in their corporate capacity as now incorporated, according to such estate and interest as the said “ the Burgesses and Inhabitants of the bo¬ rough of South Trenton,” at the time this act shall take effect, may have or of right ought to have in the same; provided , that Proviso, nothing in this act contained shall affect any suit or suits now pending in the name of “ the Inhabitants of the city of Trenton,” or in the name of “ the Burgesses and Inhabitants of the borough of South Trenton,” or in the name of “ the Inhabitants of the town¬ ship of Nottingham, in the county of Mercer.” 3. And be it enacted. That the justices of the peace elected in Justices ol the township of Nottingham, and now in commission, shall hold their the pcact offices until their respective terms shall expire, as if this act had not been passed: at the expiration of said terms there may be elected n SUPP LE ME NTS Town meet ing in Not¬ tingham. Settlement of paupers. Committee to divide property. Proviso. within the territory hereby set off from said township of Not¬ tingham two justices for each ward herein after created, and with¬ in the remainder of said township one justice ; and the same num¬ ber of justices may be elected from time to time, until the number which each of said wards and said township may be entitled to shall be determined according to law by the next census to be taken by the general government of the United States. 4. And be it enacted , That the next annual town meeting for the township of Nottingham shall be held at the house of Samuel Cros- ley, in the village of Lamberton. 5. And be it enacted , That all paupers who may, when this act shall take effect, be chargeable to the township of Nottingham, shall thereafter be chargeable to and supported by either that town¬ ship or the city of Trenton, as would have been the case had this act been in force at the time said paupers, respectively, acquired the legal settlement by virtue of which they are to be supported; and all persons whose settlements, when this act shall take effect, may be within the bounds of the borough of South Trenton, and who may thereafter become chargeable as paupers, shall be support¬ ed by the city of Trenton. 6. And be it enacted , That the township committee of the town¬ ship of Nottingham, and a committee of five, to be appointed by the common council of the city of Trenton, shall meet on the first Monday in May next at the city hall, in said city of Trenton, at ten o’clock in the forenoon ; and shall then and there, or as soon thereafter as may be, proceed, by writing signed by a majority of the members of each committee, to allot and divide between said township and said city all the paupers of said township, upon the principles laid down in the preceding section ; and all the property and moneys on hand or due to or from said township, in proportion to the taxable property and ratables within the respective limits of said township, as the same shall remain, and the part of said township hereby set off, as valued by the assessor at the last assessment, and the said township of Nottingham and the said city of Trenton shall be liable to pay their respective proportions of the debts due by said township, as allotted and divided as aforesaid; and if any of the persons composing either of said committees should neglect or refuse to meet as aforesaid, those assembled may proceed to make the said division ; and the decision of a majority of those present of each committee shall be final and conclusive; provided, that it shall be lawful to adjourn said meeting from time to time, as a majority of those assembled shall see fit. TO THE CHARTER. 13 7. And be it enacted, That said city of Trenton shall have its pro- Surplus re¬ portion, according to the principle laid down in the preceding sec- ' Lnuc ‘ tion, and to be alloted and divided by the same committees, of the surplus revenue of the general government now deposited with the township of Nottingham, and the interest due thereon, and there¬ upon said township of Nottingham shall be discharged from, and said city of Irenton shall be liable for, so much of said surplus re¬ venue as may be allotted to said city of Trenton. 8. And he it enacted, That the act entitled, “An act to erect Former act part of the township of Nottingham, in the county of Mercer, into n P< ' ^ a borough, to be called the borough of South Trenton,” passed the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and for¬ ty, and all the supplements thereto, be and the same are here¬ by repealed ; but that this repeal shall not affect the rights, if any, which said borough or any individual may have acquired under or by virtue of said act, or any supplement thereto. 9. And be it enacted, That the territory hereby annexed to the Territoryan- city of Trenton shall constitute two wards of said city, the dividing dMdecUnto line between which shall be the middle of the street called Blooms-™ 13 ' bury street, from the Assanpink bridge to its intersection with the middle of the street called Lamberton street, and thence along the middle of Lamberton street to the line of the township of Notting¬ ham ; that part of said territory lying to the east of said dividing line shall be called the third ward, and that part lying to the west of said dividing line shall be called the fourth ward ; the ward call¬ ed the east ward of said city of Trenton shall be called the first . ward, and the ward now called the west ward of said city shall be called the second ward. 10. And be it enacted, That the same number of officers now Officers of required by law to be elected in the several wards of said city, ex _ wards * cept members of common council, shall be elected annually in each of the wards constituted by this act. 11. And he it enacted, That at the first annual ward election in Members of each of the wards created by this act, there shall be elected, besides cou™ the other officers electable, six members of the common council; at the first meeting of the common council thereafter, these mem¬ bers shall, by lot, divide themselves into three equal classes ; the seats of the first class shall be vacated at the end of the first year, of the second class at the end of the second year, and of the third class at the end of the third year, and at every annual ward meet¬ ing thereafter each ward shall choose the same number of mem¬ bers of council as the other wards of said city. U 14 SUPPLEMENTS Ward meet¬ ings. Common council au¬ thorized to jmve gutters. Sewers may be construct¬ ed. 12. And be it enacted , That the annual meetings of the wards hereby created shall be held at the same time and in the same man¬ ner as the ward meetings of the other wards in said city; the first annual meeting of the third ward shall be held at the house now occupied by Benjamin S. Gordon, and the first annual meeting of the fourth ward shall be held at the house now occupied by Charles F. McCoy ; the voters who attend at the hour appointed shall choose three judges and a clerk of the first election, who shall be sworn or affirmed faithfully to execute their offices by any justice of the peace; said officers to hold said elections, and make returns thereof, in the same manner as is required by law of other ward election officers. 13. And be it enacted , That this act shall take effect on the se¬ cond Monday in April next. A further supplement to the act entitled, “ An act to in¬ corporate the city of Trenton,” passed the seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. Approved March 25, 1852. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey , That the common council of said city shall have authority to cause the gutters of any street, or any part of a street, to be properly paved, and, when necessary, repaved, and to have the expense thereof assessed on the owners of property in front of which such gutters may be so paved ; and the affidavit of said ex¬ pense, by the person or persons appointed to have said work done, filed with the clerk of said city, shall fix and determine the amoun thereof; and the said expense shall be a lien on each lot against which it may be assessed for the proportion of said lot, and the same may be collected in the same manner in which the expense of paving sidewalks is now by law authorized to be collected in said city. 2. And be it enacted, That the said common council shall have authority to cause to be constructed proper sewers for the drainage of said city, and to have the expense thereof assessed on the own¬ ers’of property drained thereby ; and the affidavit of said expense, by the person or persons appointed to have said work done, filed with the clerk of said city, shall fix and determine the amount TO THE CHARTER. 15 thereof; and said expense shall be a lien on each lot against which it may be assessed for the proportion of said lot, and the same may be collected in the same manner in which the expense of pav¬ ing sidewalks is by law now authorized to be collected. 3. And be it enacted.. That in making assessments by virtue of Assessment* ... • • r , not invalid ' this act, no mistake, misnomer, or omission of the name or names ated by mis- of the owner or owners of any of the lots shall be sufficient to in¬ validate such assessment; provided, the premises assessed be suffi¬ ciently identified. 4. And be it enacted. That whenever complaint is made to the Complaint* mayor, recorder, or either of the aldermen of said city, of the vio- of ordinan- lation of any ordinance of the common council, whereby the of¬ fender or offenders have become subject to a penally or penalties, it shall be the duty of said magistrates forthwith to send a writ¬ ten notice to the person or persons complained of that, at a certain time and place, he will proceed to investigate the charge, and at such time and place, if upon investigation the said charge shall in the judgment of said magistrate be sustained, he shall issue his warrant for the collection of 'said penalty or penalties, as is now provided by the act incorporating said city of Trenton. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. An additional supplement to the act entitled, “ An act to incorporate the city of Trenton,” passed March twenty- seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. Approved March 10, 1853. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the Boundaries State of New Jersey, That all that part of the city of Trenton, be-° f Jth ward ' ginning at a point in the centre of Warren street, and opposite the centre of Hanover street; thence running easterly along the cen¬ tre of Hanover street, and in a direct line therewith until it strikes the Delaware and Raritan canal; thence up said canal to the cen¬ tre of Perry street; thence easterly along the centre of Perry street, and in a direct line therewith, until it strikes the Assanpink creek; thence up the said creek to the line of the township of Lawrence; thence along the said line to the branch turnpike road; thence along said turnpike road southerly to Warren street; and thence down the centre of said street to the place of beginning, 16 SUPPLEMENTS shall be and the same is hereby erected into and constituted a sepa¬ rate ward, to be called the fifth ward of the said city. Wardoffi- 2. And be it enacted, That at the next annual charter election of c©rs. the city of Trenton, there shall be elected for the first ward and for the fifth ward, each, two members of the common council, one of whom shall serve for the period of one year, and one for the term of two years, and that there shall not be elected any other mem¬ bers of the common council for any of the wards, except it be to fill a vacancy, until the annual election in the spring of eighteen hundred and fifty-four, when, and annually thereafter, at the city election, each ward shall elect two members, who shall hold their Proviso. offices for the term of two years; provided, that each of the pre¬ sent members of the common council shall hold his office according to the term for which he was elected, anything to the contrary not¬ withstanding. Annual elec¬ tion of offi¬ cers. Part of for¬ mer act re¬ pealed. First elec¬ tion. 3. And be it enacted, That the same number of officers now re¬ quired by law to be elected in the several wards of said city shall be elected, annually, in the ward constituted by this act. 4. And be it enacted, That all parts of the act entitled, “ An act to incorporate the city of Trenton,” and all supplements thereto as may conflict with this act and the act passed March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, be and the same are hereby re- 5. And be it enacted, That the first election for said ward shall be held at the house now occupied by Charles C. Gill, called the Madison House hotel; and the voters who attend at the house ap¬ pointed by law for the other wards shall choose three judges and a clerk at the first election, who shall be sworn or affirmed faith¬ fully to execute their offices by a justice of the peace or a city magistrate; said officers to hold said election and make returns thereof in the same manner as is required by law of the other ward election officers. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately* % t TO THE CHARTER.. 17 A further supplement to the act entitled, “ An act to incor¬ porate the city of Trenton,” approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. Approved February 16, 1854. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the Election of State of Aew Jersey , That at the annual election to be held in and clty « officers * for the city of Trenton on the second Monday in April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and at each annual elec¬ tion thereafter, there shall be chosen by the electors of the said city, from among the citizens residing therein and entitled to vote at such election, in the same manner as the mayor is now elected, one clerk, one treasurer, one clerk of the market, one street com¬ missioner, and one marshal, who shall hold their respective offices for the term of one year, and shall severally perform the duties now required by law to be performed by the clerk, treasurer, clerk of the market, street commissioner, and marshal of said city. 2. And be it enacted , That all parts of the act entitled, “An act Part of for- . 1 mer act re- to incorporate the city of Trenton,” and all supplements thereto pealed, that may conflict with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. 3. And be it enacted , That this act shall take effect on the second Monday in April next. An act to ratify and confirm an ordinance passed by tlie* common council of the city of Trenton on the fifth, day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-three.. Approved March 2, 1854. W hereas the common council of the city of Trenton, by an ordi- Preamble, nance entitled, “An ordinance to authorize the Trenton Iron Company to cross certain streets with a railroad,” passed on the fifth day of April, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and fifty- three, authorized and empowered the said company to construct and operate across several of the public streets of said city a railroad from the rolling mill of said company to their wire mill on the Delaware and Raritan canal, which said railroad has been constructed by the said company over lands belonging to them, exclusively, or across which they have the right of way* IS SUPP LEMEN TS except where the same crosses such public streets as aforesaid, and is now operated and used by them under and by virtue of the said ordinance ; and whereas doubts have been expressed whether the common council have power to authorize the con¬ struction and use of the said railroad over or across the public streets of said city—therefore, Ordinance 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey , That it shall and may be lawful for the Tren¬ ton Iron Company to keep up, maintain, and use their said railroad, in conformity with the provisions of the said ordinance ; and that the construction and use of the said road across any of said streets, or any act done by the said company in relation thereto, shall not be deemed or adjudged invalid or illegal for or by reason of any want of power or authority in the common council of the city of Trenton to pass the said ordinance or to grant the authority and privileges thereby conferred. 2. And be it enacted , That this act shall take effect immediately. A further supplement to the act incorporating the city of Trenton, approved March seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. Approved March 17, 1854. Common 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the eliabiifjh fire State of New Jersey , That the common council of the city of Tren- districte ^ J ton may by ordinance establish fire districts in said city, and may direct, from time to time, special taxes to be assessed on and col¬ lected of the owners of buildings and their contents within said districts, for the expense of furnishing said districts with sufficient fire plugs or tanks, together with a supply of water for protection from fire, and the expense of assessing and collecting the same, which assessment and collection may be made by the regular assess¬ ors and collectors, or by special assessors and collectors, as the council may think best; and said taxes shall be a lien on the pro¬ perty so assessed to the same extent as other city taxes now are. orders to be 2. And be it enacted , That it shall not be lawful for said common ble on pre- council to direct, or for the clerk to draw, or for the treasurer to accept or pay, any order that shall not be on its face payable on presentation. 3. And be it enactedi That this act shall take effect immediately. TO THE CHARTER. 19 An act to authorize and enable the city of Trenton to pur¬ chase a part or the whole of the capital stock of the Trenton Water Works Company. . Approved March 2, 1855. Whereas it has been represented to the legislature that, in order Preamble, to secure to the city of Trenton a supply of water adequate for the extinguishment of fires and other public purposes, it is ex¬ pedient that the said city should be the owner of the whole or a majority of the stock of the Trenton WaterWorks—there¬ fore, 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the common State of New Jersey , That it shall be lawful for the common coun- thorizeefto cil of the city of Trenton, whenever it may seem to them expedi-gtock. a C ent so to do, to purchase, in the name and on the behalf of the said city, the whole or a majority of the shares of the capital stock of the president and directors of the Trenton Water Works, and thereby to become possessed of the same l ights and privileges, and be subject to the same liabilities, as other stockholders ; and to the end aforesaid, the said common council are hereby autho¬ rized and empowered to contract such debts and to borrow such sums of money, on the credit of the said city, as shall appear to them to be necessary, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars. 2. And be it enacted , That in case the said common council shall Common make the said purchase, they shall have the right to vote on the appoint di- said shares of stock, or any of them, by proxy, and shall be enti- recturb ' tied to appoint as many directors of said water works as the shares held by the city shall be in proportion to the whole number of shares of said water works; 'provided , that no member of said com-Proviso, mon council shall be appointed such director. 3. And be it enacted , That the said common council are hereby city to i-e empowered to set off such parts of the said city through which the ter district* water pipes of the Trenton Water Works now are or hereafter shall be laid into a district or districts, to be called “ the Water District or Districts,” and to alter the boundaries thereof as occa¬ sion may require; and to impose an annual tax, in such an amount as to them may seem expedient, on all improved lands comprised in said water district or districts the owners or occupants of which shall not take the water for the use thereof from the said president and directors of the Trenton Water Works, the said tax to be as¬ sessed with a view to the value of the. property taxed and to its 20 SUPPLEMENT S' Proceedings in case of re¬ fusal to pur¬ chase stock. Proviso. City may is¬ sue bonds. Application of proceeds of sale of bonds. Application of revenue from stock. rental, and said assessment to be made and collected in sucb man'-- ner, at such times, and by such person or persons, as the said com¬ mon council shall from time to time by ordinance direct; and that said taxes, when imposed in the manner aforesaid, shall have the same force and effect, and be collectable by the same process as other city taxes ; and that the money raised by said tax shall be appropriated to defraying the expense of supplying the said city with water for the extinguishment of fires and other public uses. 4. And be it enacted , T&at if the said city shall purchase any of the said stock, it shall be obligatory on the said city to purchase the shares of any stockholder who may offer to sell the same at its par value within one year from the passage of this act, and to re¬ ceive in payment therefor the bonds of the city, herein after men¬ tioned, or cash, at the option of the city; and in case the common council shall neglect or refuse to purchase any stock offered to the city on the terms aforesaid, for the space of thirty days after such* offer shall be made in writing to the city treasurer, then “ the In¬ habitants of the City of Trenton” shall be and they are hereby made liable to pay to the person or persons so offering such stock the par value thereof, with interest from the date of such offer, to> be recovered in an action on the case, with costs, in any court hav¬ ing jurisdiction of the same; provided, , ths lfcL - the streets, alleys, footways, sidewalks, pavements, crossings, gut¬ ters, drains, or sewers of the city of Trenton, or cause it to be done, or knowingly permit it to be done, or suffer it so there to re¬ main for a longer space of time than four hours, without permission in writing being first had and obtained from the mayor, specifying the position, extent, time, and mode of occupation, (such occupa¬ tion in no case to exceed one half the width of the street) every person offending in the premises shall, for each and every such offence, forfeit and pay to the use of the city any sum not exceed¬ ing eight dollars, and a further sum of two dollars for every twenty-Penalty, four hours the same shall so thereafter remain. 42 STREETS. Sec. IF. That if any person shall put or place any pTougfe r Merchan¬ dise, &c.,not _ . . . ^ . pended U over wbeelbarrow ’ stove ’ box ’ barrel > cask, hogshead, crate, scythe, pavements, rake, pitchfork, spade, shovel, saw, or other wares, merchandise, or clothing, or other articles of trade or sale upon, or suspend any ol the same over any part of the streets, alleys, footways, side¬ walks, pavements, or crossings of the city of Trenton, or cause it to be done, or knowingly permit it to be done, or suffer it so there to remain for a longer space of time than four hours, every person offending in the premises shall, for each and every such offence, forfeit and pay to the use of the city any sum not exceeding eight dollars; 'provided , that this section shall not apply to a space within four feet of the front line of any dwelling house, shop, or other building or lot, if appropriated and used by the owner or occupant thereof. Sec. III. I hat if any person shall put, place, or throw any brick, on streetTor S *’ 0ne ’ eai ^ ] ’ sa,u k gravel, lumber, wood, coal ashes, chips, shavings, sidewalks, leather, cloth, hair scraps, vegetables, refuse, or other article what¬ soever, upon any part of the streets, alleys, footways, sidewalks, pavements, crossings, gutters, drains, or sewers of the city of Trenton (except as is herein above excepted and provided for in the fiist section of this ordinance), or cause it to be done, or know- ingly permit it to be done, or suffer it so there to remain for a longer space of time titan four hours, every person offending - in the premises shall, for each and every such offence, forfeit and pay to the use of the city any sum not exceeding four dollars, and a fur¬ ther sum of one dollar for every hour the same shall so thereafter remain. Proviso. Coal ashes, &c., not to be 0 dug n £f t0 Sec - IV - That if an y person shall dig any hole or pit in any part streets, &C. 0 f the streets, alleys, or sidewalks, or tear up, break, or remove any part of the pavement, sidewalks, or crossings, streets, or alleys of the city of Trenton, or cast, pile, or heap up, on or in the same, any loam, dirt, gravel, sand, lime, brick, stone, lumber, wood, coal, chips, ashes, or other article or refuse of any kind, or cause it to be done or knowingly permit it to be done, or suffer it so there to re¬ main for a longer space of time than four hours, (without permis¬ sion in writing, as herein before provided for,) or in any other manner whatsoever, at any time, obstruct, delay, or hinder or in¬ terrupt the free passage of any person walking, riding, carting, or having occasion to pass and use the same, every person offending in the premises shall, for each and every such offence, forfeit and pay to the use of the city any sum not exceeding eight dollars; proviso. provided , that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to STREETS. 43 prevent the action of the street committee in any repairs, altera¬ tions, or improvements authorized by the common council of the city, or requisite and necessary for the introduction and repairs of water pipes. Sec. V. That if any person shall erect, put, or place, or cause Torches re> , . , . -gulated. to be erected, any porch, stoop, stones, or steps, in or upon any or the sidewalks in any of the streets of the city of Trenton, extend¬ ing or projecting from the house or other building more than five- twelfths of the width of the sidewalk, every person offending in the premises shall, for each and every such offence, forfeit and pay to the use of the city any sum not exceeding ten dollars, and a fur¬ ther sum of five dollars for every twenty-four hours the same shall so remain and continue after conviction as aforesaid. Sec. VI. That whenever any curbstone or pavement along or Broken * . r 1 ° curbs and upon any of the sidewalks of the city of Trenton shall become dis- pavements placed or broken, or worn, or otherwise out of order and needing ed on six . , . days’ notice. repair, tne owner or owners, tenant or occupant, of any house, shop, or lot, in front or upon which such curbstone or pavement may be, shall have the same relaid and repaired, as may be re¬ quired, upon six days’ notice in writing by the street committee of the city, under a penalty or forfeiture of two dollars for every seven days’ neglect or omission. Sec. VII. That if any person offending in any of the premises Penalty for " 1 ° # J 1 infringing aforesaid shall be thereof convicted upon view of the mayor, re- this ordi- corder, or either of the aldermen of the city of Trenton, or con¬ fession of the party offending, or proof of any witness, upon oath or affirmation, the said mayor, recorder, or alderman before whom such conviction may be had shall direct and send his warrant, un¬ der his hand and seal, to the marshal or other officer of the city authorized to execute the same, commanding him to levy the said forfeiture or penalty by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of such offender, with the costs, and to pay the money thereon arising to the treasurer, for the use of the city. Sec. VIII. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances heretofore enacted inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed. nance. 44 STREETS. An ordinance authorizing the widening of the sidewalks on the south side of State street, from Montgomery street to the Delaware and Raritan canal. Passed September 4, 1348. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Foment tx, Sec. I. That the owners, occupants, or agents of the property feet wide, on the south side of that part of State street lying between Mont¬ gomery street and the Delaware and Raritan canal, be notified and directed, by the street committee, to have the foot pavement of the same widened and relaid to the width of twelve feet, neglect f ° r Sec. II. That if any person or persons designated in the fore¬ going section shall neglect or refuse for the space of thirty days to widen, or cause to be widened, the pavement or pavements in front of their property in said street, as above specified, such person or persons so offending shall, upon conviction thereof before the mayor, recorder, or either of the aldermen of the said city, forfeit and pay, for each and every such offence, the sum of two hundred dollars. An ordinance to vacate a street, formerly known as the “ road leading to Beatty’s ferry.” Passed February 17, 1856. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of T> enton , in Common Council assembled\ and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — That aftei the passage of this ordinance, all that certain street in the city of Trenton, beginning at the old ferry formerly known as Beatty s feiry, and ending in Calhoun’s lane, be and the same is hereby vacated. STREETS. 45 An ordinance to rectify an ordinance entitled, “ An ordi¬ nance to vacate a street, formerly known as the road leading to Beatty’s ferry,” passed seventeenth February, eighteen hundred and forty-nine. Passed June 13, 1849. Whereas, in the ordinance above referred to, the name of “ Beat¬ ty’s ferry” is used by mistake, instead of “ Rutherford’s ferry,” therefore— Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — That wherever, in the said ordinance, the name of “ Beatty’s ferry” occurs, the same shall be expunged, and the name of “ Rutherford’s ferry” inserted in the place thereof. An ordinance to vacate part of a road or street, commonly called West Canal street. Passed July 13, 1849. Whereas, a road or street, commonly called West Canal street, was several years ago laid out on the west side of the canal, in the city of Trenton, and many citizens having petitioned that a part of said road or street lying south of State street, which has never been opened, may be vacated, therefore— Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — That all that part of the said road or street, formerly laid out on the west side of the Delaware and Raritan canal, in the city of Trenton, situate between and extending from State street, on the north, to Front street, on the south, be and the same is hereby vacated. STREETS. An ordinance to vacate part of the street commonly called West Canal street. Passed December 3, 1849. Be tt ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the sam.e — That that part of the street commonly called West Canal street, which lies between Front street and the Assanpink creek, be and the same is hereby vacated. An ordinance to vacate a part of West Canal street, be¬ tween Perry and Academy streets. Passed January 26, 1850. Preamble. Whereas the owners of the lands lying on the west side of the canal between Perry and Academy streets, have represented that they contemplate the construction of a large basin thereon for the accommodation of boats and vessels, and have asked, as a means of facilitating said object, that that part of the street, commonly called West Canal street, which is between said Perry and Academy streets, may be vacated; and whereas the common council, being fully impressed with the importance of promot¬ ing the prosperity of the city, by increasing its means of trade and commerce, although unwilling to vacate the whole of said street, as asked for, are nevertheless desirous to encourage the object proposed as far as they can with just regard to the rights and interests of others—therefore, Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — whatpartof Sec. I. That so much of said West Canal street between Perry ed. and Academy streets as lies on the west side of the following line, viz. beginning in said West Canal street, thirty feet from the west side thereof, at a point which is in range with the north side of Academy street, and running thence, the course of said West Canal street, to a point eighty feet short of Perry street, and thence such course as will strike the present point of intersection of the west STREETS. 47 side of said West Canal street and the south side of Perry street) be and the same is hereby vacated ; 'provided however, that this or¬ dinance shall not take effect, unless a basin for the accommodation of boats and vessels shall be constructed on the land lying west of the above described line within the period of one year. Sec. II. That it shall he lawful for the owners of said basin to conditions excavate across said West Canal street a navigable cut or slip, to owS^ofba* connect the canal with the basin aforesaid, and to keep said cut or ea^Se^lipT slip open for ever ; provided however , that the right to keep said cut or slip open shall depend upon and exist only so long as a good and substantial bridge over said cut or slip, of such dimensions, and to be placed by said owners in such position as the street commit¬ tee may approve, shall be kept up and maintained at the cost and charge of the owners of the aforesaid basin. Sec. III. That it shall be the duty of the said owners (and the Posts and privileges granted them in this ordinance are upon this additional kep^up 0 condition) to keep up and maintain along the east side of said basin strong and substantial posts, connected by railing, sufficient to guard against accidents which might arise from the proximity of said basin to said street. A supplement to an ordinance entitled, “ An ordinance to vacate a part of West Canal street between Perry and Academy streets,” passed January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty. Passed January 6, 1851. 13e it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled, amd it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — That the ordinance to which this is a supplement shall take effect if the basin referred to in the proviso to the first section thereof be constructed within three years from the passage of said ordinance, anything in said proviso to the contrary notwithstanding. STREETS, 48 An ordinance to vacate that part of West Canal street lying between Commerce street and the Trenton basin. Passed March 25 , 1851. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — i That all that part of the road or street called West Canal street, situate between and extending from Commerce street, on the north, to the Trenton basin, on the south, be and the same is hereby va¬ cated. An ordinance to require tbe sidewalks along tbe lots front¬ ing on tbe west side of Greene street, between State and Front streets, to be paved to tbe width prescribed by law. Passed August 5, 1850. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same —- Pavement to fe>EC. I. That the owners of lots fronting on the west side of widened. Q. reene street between State and Front streets, and the tenants of those of said lots whose owners do not reside in this city, be and they are hereby required to extend the pavement in front of their respective premises to the width prescribed by the thirteenth sec¬ tion of the ordinance entitled, “ An ordinance concerning the streets, the duty of the street committee and street commissioner,” passed the seventh day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. Gutterstobe Sec. II. That each of said owners or tenants shall have the inwhat a man- gutter pavement in front of his her or their premises relaid at his, her, or their own expense ; and in such relaying, shall put either a course of narrow smooth flagstone or a double course of hard bricks placed edgewise next to the curbstones, to facilitate the passage of water down the gutter. cartways to Sec. III. That wherever within said district any cartway has be paved. J J been stopped up, it shall be the duty of the owners of the lot front¬ ing on said cartway to curb and pave the same corresponding with the adjoining pavements. STREETS. x 49 Sec. IV. That the street committee of the common council are Work to be hereby appointed to superintend the work above directed to be superintend- i i • i*ii iiii ence oi street done, and prescribe the manner in which the same shall be per- committee, formed ; and that the materials to be used in said work shall be such as said committee shall approve. Sec. V. That if the owner or owners of any lot herein before Penalty for referred to, or the tenant of any lot the owner of which does not neglect, reside in this city, shall neglect for the space of four weeks after the passage of this ordinance to comply therewith, he, she, or they so neglecting shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars ; and for every week’s delay thereafter shall forfeit and pay an additional sum of five dollars; to be sued for from time to time, and recovered, with costs of suit, in an action of debt by and in the name of the treasurer of the city, for the use of the city, before any justice of the peace thereof or any other court having cognizance of the same. 1 An ordinance authorizing the widening of the sidewalks in a part of Warren street. Passed October 8, 1851. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. 1. That the owners of property on the east side of Warren pavement $o street, between State and Perry streets, and the owners of property feetvride* on the west side of Warren street, between State and Union streets, be and they are hereby required and directed to have the sidewalks opposite their respective houses, lots, alleys, and passageways widen¬ ed in such manner that said sidewalks shall be fifteen feet in width from the houses to the outside of the curbstones; said curbstones to be set in a straight line from State street to Perry and Union streets, respectively, under the direction of the city surveyor. Sec. II. That said pavements be put down with the materials and in the manner prescribed in the ordinance entitled, “ An ordi¬ nance for grading, curbing, paving, flagging, and gravelling certain sidewalks, and for repaving the same when necessary.” E 50 STREETS, Preamble. An ordinance to accept certain land, dedicated by the owner thereof, to widen a part of Front street. Passed September 2, 1850. Whereas Henry McCall, junior, and Charlotte his wife have by their deed, dated the thirteenth day of July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty, dedicated to “the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton,” for the purpose of widening that part of Front street which is between Montgomery and Stockton streets the following described land, to wit: beginning at a stake on the east side of Montgomery street and on the south side of Front street, as said street has existed heretofore, said stake being forty- three feet from the southwestern corner of Charles H. Bottom’s brick house, measuring from the said corner of said house alon^ tne east side of Montgomery street (said house standing on the northeast corner of Montgomery and Front streets), and running thence, by the south side of Front street, as it has heretofore ex¬ isted. south, eighty-seven and a half degrees east, five hundred and eighty-six feet six inches, to the western side of Stockton street; thence by Stockton street, south one and three quarter degrees west, eleven feet; thence north, eighty-eight and ahalf degrees west, (paiallel to the nortli side of said Front street, as it has heretofore existed) five hundred and eighty-six feet, to Montgomery street; and thence by Montgomery street north, three and a half degrees west, seventeen feet, to the place of beginning, containing two- hundredths of an acre of land ; upon this condition nevertheless, that the said deed shall cease to operate, and become entirely null and void, and that the land so dedicated shall revert to the grantors, their heirs and assigns, who shall be at full liberty to enter upon and enclose and resume the exclusive enjoyment thereof whenever, by any lawful authority, any part of said Front street opposite to or in front of the land so dedicated shall be vacated or authorized to be enclosed within the enclosure of any indivi¬ dual so as to be no longer an open street free in its whole widlh for the use of the public at large, and with a reservation to the grantors, their heirs and assigns, of all the right and interest, either in possession or reversion, in the lands so dedicated, which they would retain had the said land been taken for a public road or street by any other legal proceeding whatever—now therefore, Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of ike City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled , anal it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same *— STREETS. 51 That the ]and so dedicated by the said Henry McCall, junior, Land dem¬ and Charlotte his wife be and it is hereby accepted for the purpose, included in and subject to the condition and reservation contained in the deed Front 6trect of dedication, and that the same is made a part of Front street, as fully as if it had been originally included within the bounds of said street. An ordinance to accept certain lands, dedicated by the owners thereof, as public streets. Passed March 12, 1851. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That the land dedicated by Thomas Cadwalader and Carroll et. Maria C. his wife, James M. Redmond and Ann B. his wife, Wil¬ liam P. Sherman and Sarah Ann his wife, Lewis P. Higbee and Mary his wife, Lucy Ann Higbee, Jacob Waldburg and Elizabeth his wife, and John H. McIntosh and Charlotte his wife, as and for a public street, by deed dated the sixteenth day of May, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty, be and the same is hereby ac¬ cepted ; and that the said street shall be called and known by the name of Carroll street. Sec. II. That the land dedicated by Thomas Cadwalader and Ewing st Maria C. his wife, James M. Redmond and Ann B. his wife, and William P. Sherman and Sarah Ann his wife, as and for a public street, by deed dated the seventeenth day of May, A. D. one thou¬ sand eight hundred and fifty, be and the same is hereby accepted; and that the said street shall be called and known by the name of Ewin qt street. Sec. III. That the land dedicated by Thomas Cadwalader and Elizabeth at. Maria C. his wife, James M. Redmond and Ann B. his wife, and William P. Sherman and Sarah Ann his wife, as and for a public 6treet, by deed dated the eighteenth day of May, A. D. one thou¬ sand eight hundred and fifty, be and the same is hereby accepted; and that the said street shall be called and known by the name of Elizabeth street. Sec. IV. That the land dedicated by James M. Redmond and ogden et. Ann B. his wife, and William P. Sherman and Sarah Ann his wife, 52 STREETS. as and for a public street, by deed dated the twentieth day of May,. A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty, be and the same is hereby accepted ; and that the said street shall be called and known by the name of Ogden street. outiuudst. Sec. V. 1 hat the land dedicated by James M. Redmond and Ann B. his wife, and William P. Sherman and Sarah Ann his wife, as and xor a public street, by deed dated the twenty-first day of May, A. I). one thousand eight hundred and fifty, be and the same is hereby accepted ; and that the said street shall be called and known by the name of Southard street. oss street. Sec. 1 hat the land dedicated by James M. Redmond and Ann B. his wife, and William P. Sherman and Sarah Ann his wife, as and for a public street, by deed dated the twenty-second day of May, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty, be and the same B hereby accepted; and that the said street shall be called and known by the name of Cross street. EK 00 * Seo - VH. That the land dedicated by James M. Redmond and Ann B. his wife, William P. Sherman and Sarah Ann his wife, Charles Hunt and Emeline his wife, and William McKee, junior' atj(i Elizabeth his wife, as and for a public street, by deed dated the twenty-third day of May, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty, be and the same is hereby accepted ; and that the said street shall be called and known by the name of Monmouth street. Tucker St. . Sec. VIII. That the land dedicated by John Bellerjeau and Jane his wife, Daniel Bellerjeau, Johnes Brearley, Eliza Brearley, Ach- sah Brearley, Jane Brearley, William B. Paul and Achsah his wife, James K. Bellerjeau, Samuel O. Bellerjeau, and George P. Fuhr- man and Catharine his wife, as and for a public street, by deed dated the twenty-ninth day July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty, be and the same is hereby accepted ; and that the said street shall be called and known by the name of Tucker street. Ringgold st. . Sec. IX. That the land dedicated by John Bellerjeau and Jane Ins wife, Daniel Bellerjeau, Johnes Brearley, Eliza Brearley, Ach¬ sah Brearley, Jane Brearley, William B. Paul and Achsah his wife, James Iv. Belleijeau, and Samuel O. Bellerjeau, as and for a public street, by deed dated the first day of August, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty, be and the same is hereby accepted ; and that the said street shall be called and known by the name of Ring- gold street. 1 ° Barnes St. Sec. X. That the land dedicated by Joseph C. Potts and Eliza¬ beth his wife, as and for a public street, by deed dated the nine¬ teenth day of October, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty. STREETS. 53 be and the same is hereby accepted ; and that the said street shall be called and known by the name of Barnes street. Sec. XI. That the land dedicated by William Grant, junior, and Commerce • • street. Jane his wife, Joseph Whittaker, Benjamin Fish and Maria his wife, Lucy Ann Higbee, Lewis P. Iligbee and Mary his wife, Jacob Waldburg and Elizabeth his wife, and John H. McIntosh and Char¬ lotte his wife, as and fora public street, by deed dated the sixteenth day of October, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty, be and the same is hereby accepted ; and that the said street shall be called and known by the name of Commerce street. An ordinance locating a continuation of Millliam road, (or Clinton street). Passed November 20, 1854. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — That the way heretofore laid out and used, and dedicated by Gre¬ gory A. Perdicaris and wife, Xenophon J. Maynard and wife, John Yard, junior, and wife, and “ the Mercer Cemetery at Trenton,” to the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, by deed dated the second day of October, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-four, running from the point where the Millham road and East State street meet, and in continuation of the said Millham road (or Clinton street) southerly, fifty-three feet in width to the middle of the Assanpink creek, as described in said deed, and the map thereunto annexed, be and the same is hereby located, accepted, and declared to be a public street of said city. An ordinance to lay out a street from the northerly end of Carroll street to Perry street. Passed April 3, 1855. Whereas, on the sixth day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and Preamble, fifty-three, the common council of this city did adjudge that the E* 54 STREETS. Street laid out. To be known as Carroll street. public good required that a street should be laid out fifty feet wide running from the northerly end of Carroll street to Perry street, the same course as Carroll street now runs ; and whereas the said common council, not being able to agree with the own¬ ers of the lands required for the same, did make application to the mayor for the appointment of three disinterested freeholders of the said city, commissioners to make an estimate and assess¬ ment of the damages that might be sustained by the owners of the land necessary for the laying out of said street; and whereas, pursuant to said application, the mayor did nominate and appoint Samuel S. Stryker, Armitage Green, and Joseph G. Brearley commissioners to make such estimate and assessment, and did appoint a time and place for their meeting, and direct the notice to be given to the persons interested ; and whereas said commis¬ sioners, having taken the oath required by law before the said mayor, did meet at the time and place appointed, and proceed to view said land, with the appurtenances, and to make a just and equitaole estimate or appraisement of the value of the same and assessment of damages, and after taking into view the value of the said land, with the appurtenances, and the injury or benefit to the owners thereof, did report, in writing under their hands and seals, what sum should be paid by the common council for such land, with the appurtenances and damages aforesaid, which re¬ port was filed within ten days thereafter, together with the said application and appointment and oaths of the said commissioners, with the clerk of the city, there to remain of record, as will ap¬ pear by the minutes of the common council and by said report, reference being thereunto had ; and whereas said sum has been paid to the owners of said lands so required—therefore, Be IT ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. I hat a street fifty feet wide be and the same is hereby laid out, running from the northerly end of Carroll street to Berry street the same course as Carroll street now runs, and that the lands required for said street, referred to in the resolutions of council and the said report, are hereby taken and appropriated for that purpose. Sec. II. That said street, being a continuation of Carroll street, shall be also called and known by the name of Carroll street. STREETS. 55 \ An ordinance for grading, curbing, paving, flagging, and gravelling certain sidewalks, and for repaving tlie same when necessary. ' Passed April 7, 1851. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That the owners of lots, alleys, or passage ways, fronting certain ai- on or adjoining either side of Warren street, between the head there- Slaved. t? ' of and a line drawn across said street sixty-eight feet north of the middle of the arch of the Assanpink bridge ; either side of Greene • street, between the head thereof and the wooden floor of the Assan¬ pink bridge; either side of Montgomery street, between Perry street and the wooden floor of the Assanpink bridge; the west side of Stockton street, between Academy street and State street; the west side of Willow street, between the Pennington road and Spring street; the east side of Willow street, between Tucker street and the Feeder; the north side of Washington street, be¬ tween Warren street and the lot belonging to Ephraim Ryno ; tho north side of Front street, between Stockton street and Mont¬ gomery street; either side of Front street, between Montgomery street and Willow street; either side of State street, between tho canal and Calhoun’s lane; either side of Hanover street, between Stockton street and Warren street; either side of Academy street, between Stockton street and Greene street; either side of Perry street, between Stockton street and Warren street ; the south side of Spring street, between Willow street and the west line of Ebe- nezer Claflin’s lot; the north side of Spring street, between Willow street and the west line of Patrick Murphy’s lot; and either side of the Pennington road, between Warren street and Calhoun’s lane, be and they are hereby required (except where the same is already done so as to correspond with the requisitions of this ordinance) to grade, curb, pave, flag, and gravel the sidewalks in front of or adjoining their respective lots, alleys, or passageways, in the man¬ ner and with the materials herein after prescribed. Sec. II. That the street committee of the common council are hereby appointed to superintend said work. Sec. III. That said sidewalks shall be, respectively, raised or low- Sidewalks to ered, as the case may require, to the grades which the present city bt =la " Ltl ' regulator and surveyor may have fixed under his contract with the 56 STREETS. common council. Each sidewalk, when paved, shall have a pitch of not more than one inch nor less than a quarter of an inch to every foot from the line of the street to the curbstones. It shall be the duty of said regulator and surveyor to set, in front of each lot, all the stakes that may be needed to show the proper grade and pitch; for this service he shall be entitled to demand and receive for each lot, from the owner or owners thereof, the sum of two cents per foot, measured along the curbstones. Curbstones, Sec. IV. That the curbstones to be used shall be dressed smooth paving, &c., i . regulated. an< J square on the exposed surfaces. They must be set at the dis¬ tances from the lines of the street prescribed by existing ordinances. On those streets where the distances are not now fixed by ordinance, they must be so set that the distance from the line of the street to the outside of the curbs shall be one-fifth part of the whole width of the street. These distances may be changed at the request of any lot owner, when circumstances may render it advisable, by con¬ sent of the street committee, if approved by the regulator and sur¬ veyor. The curbstones may be such as are procured either from the quarries in the township of Ewing or from those on the Hudson river; if the former, they must be at least five inches thick on the top, eighteen inches deep, and two feet long; if the latter, they must be at least three and a half inches thick on the top, sixteen inches deep, and must average at least three and a half feet long. The stieet committee may allow the omission of curbing opposite to any cartway, and permit the owner or occupant, in lieu of such curbing, to pave with boulders or hard bricks placed edgewise for ease of access. Curbstones, not of the kind above described, which now stand against pavements that do not need to be raised, lowered, or relaid, may remain until such pavements become so worn as to lequiie relaying, when said curbstones shall be removed, and re¬ placed by such as are herein before prescribed. Bricks or Sec. V. That the pavements shall be laid with good hard whole he used for bricks or with smooth flagstones. Where there are dwelling houses on the line of the street, the pavements must extend from the curb¬ stones to the houses ; where therp is no dwelling house, the pave¬ ment need be only six feet wide from the curbstones; but in that case the space between the pavement and the line of the street must be gravelled to the same grade with the pavement. Every cartway crossing a pavement shall have a level surface, at least four feet wide, laid with smooth flagstones ; the residue of such cartway may be paved with boulders or hard bricks placed edgewise. Sec. VI. That in case any pavement heretofore laid on any side- STREETS. 57 walk, or any which may hereafter be laid in conformity with this Repairing to 3. 1 11 1 . , , . be done on ordinance, shall become worn out or broken up so as to render it requisition necessary that said sidewalk be repaved, in whole or in part, it shall committee, be the duty of the owner or owners of the lot, alley, or passage¬ way fronting on or adjoining such sidewalk, on being notified so to do in writing by the street committee of the common council, to have said sidewalk repaved forthwith, in whole or in part, as said notice may require. Said notice shall be sufficient, if delivered to or left at the residence of the owner or any one of the owners (if more than one) residing in this city; but if none of the owners re¬ side in this city, then it shall be sufficient if said notice be set up at some conspicuous place on the premises fronting on or adjoining said sidewalk. Sec. VII. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or Penalty for . . , , . avoidance. passageway, who by this ordinance is or are required to grade, curb, pave, flag, or gravel the sidewalk in front of or adjoining his, her, or their premises, shall not comply in all respects with such requi¬ sition for the space of sixty days from the passage of this ordinance, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each additional week’s delay thereafter. Sec. VIII. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or Penalty for passageway, who shall be notified by the street committee to have notlepann: >' his, her, or their sidewalk repaved, in whole or in part, under the authority of the sixth section of this ordinance, shall not comply with such notice for the space of ten days after the same shall have been delivered, left, or set up, as herein before provided, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each additional week’s delay thereafter. 58 STREETS. A supplement to an ordinance entitled, “ An ordinance for grading, curbing, paving, flagging, and gravelling certain sidewalks, and for repaving tlie same when necessary,” passed April seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. Passed September 1, 1851. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Certain^ai-Q Sec. I. That the owners of lots, alleys, or passageways, front- be paved, ing on or adjoining either side of Broad street, between the Assan- pink bridge and Ferry street; either side of Bloomsbury street, between the Assanpink bridge and Ferry street; either side of Union street, between Ferry street and Market street; either side of Decatur street, between Market street and Bridge street; either side of Fall street, between Union street and Bloomsbury street; either side of Lamberton street, from its intersection with Blooms¬ bury street, to Market street; either side of Bridge street, between Bloomsbury street and Centre street; either side of Willow street, between Front street and the Feeder, be and they are hereby re¬ quired (except where the same is already done so as to correspond with the requisitions of this ordinance) to grade, curb, pave, flag, and gravel the sidewalks in front of or adjoining their respective lots, alleys, or passageways, in the manner and with the materials herein after prescribed. Sec. II. That the street committee of the common council are hereby appointed to superintend said work. be^graded* 0 ^ EC * Hk That said sidewalks shall be, respectively, raised or lowered, as the case may require, to the grades which the present city regulator and surveyor may have fixed under his contract with the common council. Each sidewalk, when paved, shall have a pitch of not more than one inch nor less than a quarter of an inch to every foot from the line of the street to the curbstones. It shall be the duty of said regulator and surveyor to set in front of each lot all the stakes that may be needed to show the proper grade and pitch; for this service he shall be entitled to demand and receive for each lot, from the owner or owners thereof, the sum of two cents per foot, measured along the curbstones. Curbstones, Sec. IV. That the curbstones to be used shall be dressed smooth paving, &c., , regulated, and square on the exposed surfaces. They must be so set that the distance from the line of the street to the outside of the curbs 59 ✓ STREETS. shall be one-fifth part of the whole width of the street. These dis¬ tances may be changed, at the request of any lot owner, when circumstances may render it advisable, by consent of the street committee, if approved by the regulator and surveyor. The curb¬ stones may be such as are procured either from the quarries in the township of Ewing or from those on the Hudson river; if the former, they must be at least five inches thick on the top, eighteen inches deep, and two feet long; if the latter, they must be at least three and a half inches thick on the top, sixteen inches deep, and must average at least three and a half feet long. The street com¬ mittee may allow the omission of curbing opposite to any cartway, and permit the owner or occupant, in lieu of such curbing, to pave with boulders or hard bricks placed edgewise for ease of access. Curbstones, not of the kind above described, which now stand against pavements that do not need to be raised, lowered, or re- laid, may remain until such pavements become so worn as to require relaying, when said curbstones shall be removed, and replaced by such as are herein before prescribed. Sec. V. That the pavements shall be laid with good hard whole Bricks or bricks or with smooth flagstones. Where there are dwelling houses be^isedfbr 0 on the line of the street, the pavements must extend from the curb- pavins ' stones to the houses; where there is no dwelling house, the pave¬ ment need be only six feet wide from the curbstones; but in that case the space between the pavement and the line of the street must be gravelled to the same grade with the pavement. Every cartway crossing a pavement shall have a level surface, at least four feet wide, laid with smooth flagstones; the residue of such cartway may be paved with boulders or hard bricks placed edge¬ wise. Sec. VI. That in case any pavement heretofore laid on any side- Repairing to walk embraced by this ordinance, or any which may hereafter be requisition laid in conformity herewith, shall become worn out or broken up committee, so as to render it necessary that said sidewalk be repaved, in whole or in part, it shall be the duty of the owner or owners of the lot, alley, or passageway fronting on or adjoining such sidewalk, on being notified so to do in writing by the street committee of the common council, to have said sidewalk repaved forthwith, in whole or in part, as said notice may require. Said notice shall be sufficient if delivered to or left at the residence of the owner, or any one of the owners (if more than one) residing in this city ; but if none of the owners reside in this city, then it shall be sufficient if said no¬ tice be set up at some conspicuous place on the premises fronting on or adjoining said sidewalk. 60 STREETS. Penalty for avoidance. Penalty for not repaving. Sec. VII. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or pas* sageway, who by this ordinance is or are required to grade, curb» pave, flag, or gravel the sidewalk in front of or adjoining his, her, or their premises, shall not comply in all respects with such requi¬ sition for the space of thirty days from the passage of this ordi- nace, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each addi¬ tional week’s delay thereafter. Sec. VIII. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or pas¬ sageway, who shall be notified by the street committee to have his, her, or their sidewalk repaved, in whole or in part, under the au¬ thority of the sixth section of this ordinance, shall not comply with such notice for the space of ten days after the same shall have been delivered, left, or set up, as herein before provided, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each additional week’s delay there¬ after. Certain pro* perty ex¬ empted from operation of ordinance. Contingent repeal. An ordinance relative to the paving of tlie sidewalk in front of a certain lot on the west side of Willow street. Passed December 1, 1851. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of Cke same — Sec. I. That the owners of the wharf lot at the intersection of of Willow street and the canal feeder be and they are hereby ex¬ empted from the operation and provisions of the ordinance entitled, “ A supplement to an'ordinance entitled an ordinance for grading, curbing, paving, flagging, and gravelling certain sidewalks, and for repaving the same when necessary,” passed the fifth day of Sep¬ tember, A. D. 1851, so far as the same relate to or affect said lot, upon condition that the owners of said lot cause the same to be paved with the materials and in the manner prescribed in said ordi¬ nance for the paving of cartways, except that the flagstones shall be laid in two parallel courses not less than eighteen inches wide. Sec. II. That it shall be lawful for common council to repeal this ordinance whenever said lot shall cease to be used as a wharf or landing. STREETS. 61 An ordinance for grading, curbing, paving, flagging, and gravelling certain sidewalks, and for repaving the same wlien necessary. Passed March 20, 1053. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembledl, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That the owners of lots, alleys, or passageways, fronting Certain ai- on or adjoining either side of Centre or Second street, in the third bo paved. tC ward, from Broad slreei to Federal street; and either side of Mar¬ ket street, irom Bloomsbury street to the wooden floor of the As- sanpink bridge; and on the north side of Union street, from War¬ ren to Willow street, be and they are hereby required (except where the same is already done so as to correspond with the re¬ quisitions of this ordinance) to grade, curb, pave, flag, and gravel the sidewalks in front of or adjoining their respective lots, alleys, or passageways, in the manner and with the materials herein after prescribed. Sec. 11. That the street committee of the common council are hereby appointed to superintend said work. Sec. III. T hat said sidewalks shall be, respectively, raised or Sidewalks to lowered, as the case may require, to the grades which the present be sraded ' city regulator and surveyor may have fixed under his contract with the common council. Each sidewalk, when paved, shall have a pitch of not more than one inch nor less than a quarter of an inch to every foot from the line of the street to the curbstones. It shall be the duty ol said regulator and surveyor to set in front of each lot all the stakes that may be needed to show the proper grade and pitch ; for this service he shall be entilled to demand and re¬ ceive for each lot, from the owner or owners thereof, the sum of two cents per foot, measured along the curbstones. Sec. IV. That the curbstones to be used shall be dressed smooth Curbstones, and square on the exposed surfaces. They must be set at the dis- regulated, tances from the lines of the street prescribed by existing ordinances. On those streets where the distances are not now fixed by ordi¬ nance, they must be so set that the distance from the line of the street to the outside of the curbs shall be one-fifth part of the whole width of the street. These distances may be changed at the request of any lot owner, when circumstances may render it ad¬ visable, by consent of the street committee, if approved by the p 62 STREETS. Bricks or flagstones to be used for paving. Repairing to be done on requisition of street committee. Penalty for avoidance. regulator and surveyor. The curbstones may be such as are procured either from the quarries in the township of Ewing or from those on the Hudson river; if the former, they must be at least five inches thick on the top, eighteen inches deep, and two feet long; if the latter, they must be at least three and a half inches thick on the top, six¬ teen inches deep, and must average at least three and a half feet long. The street committee may allow the omission of curbing opposite to any cartway, and permit the owner or occupant, in lieu of such curbing, to pave with boulders or hard bricks placed edgewise for ease of access. Curbstones not of the kind above de¬ scribed, which now stand against pavements that do not need to be raised, lowered, or relaid, may remain until such pavements be¬ come so worn as to require relaying, when said curbstones shall be removed, and replaced by such as are herein before prescribed. Sec. V. That the pavements shall be laid with good hard whole bricks or with smooth flagstones. Where there are dwelling houses on the line of the street, the pavements must extend from the curb¬ stones to the houses; where there is no dwelling house, the pave¬ ment need be only six feet wide from the curbstones ; but in that case the space between the pavement and the line of the street must be gravelled to the same grade with the pavement. Every cartway crossing a pavement shall have a level surface, at least four feet wide, laid with smooth flagstones; the residue of such cartway may be paved with boulders or hard bricks placed edge¬ wise. Sec. VI. That in case any pavement heretofore laid on any sidewalk, or any which may hereafter be laid in conformity with this ordinance, shall become worn out or broken up, so as to ren¬ der it necessary that said sidewalk be repaved, in whole or in part, it shall be the duty of the owner or owners of the lot, alley, or passageway fronting on or adjoining such sidewalk, on being no¬ tified so to do in writing by the street committee of the common council, to have said sidewalk repaved forthwith, in whole or in part, as said notice may require. Said notice shall be sufficient if delivered to or left at the residence of the owner, or any one of the owners (if more than one) residing in this city; but if none of the owners reside in this city, then it shall be sufficient if said notice be set up at some conspicuous place on the premises fronting on or adjoining said sidewalk. Sec. VII. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or pas¬ sageway, who by this ordinance is or are required to grade, curb, pave, flag, or gravel the sidewalk in front of or adjoining his, her, . STREETS. 63 or their premises, shall not comply in all respects with such re¬ quisition for the space of sixty days from the passage of this ordi¬ nance, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each addi¬ tional week’s delay thereafter. Sec. VIII. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or pas- penalty for sageway, who shall be notified by the street committee to have his, notrei)avin= ' her, or their sidewalk repaved, in whole or in part, under the authority of the sixth section of this ordinance, shall not comply with such notice for the space of ten days after the same shall have been delivered, left, or set up, as herein before provided, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each additional week’s delay thereafter. An ordinance for grading, paving, curbing, and gravelling certain sidewalks, and for repaving tlie same when ne¬ cessary. Fassed May 2, 1853. Be it ordained and enacted by tlie Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That the owners of lots, alleys, or passageways, fronting warren st., or adioinin^ either side of Warren street south of a line drawn tain limits, to across said street, sixty-eight feet north of the middle of the arch L pave of the Assanpink creek bridge, and either side of Bloomsbury street south of the middle of said arch for the distance of ninety feet, be and they are hereby required to grade, curb, pave, level, fill up, and gravel the sidewalks in front of their respective lots, al¬ leys, or passageways, in the manner and with the materials herein after prescribed. Sec. II. That the street committee of the common council are hereby appointed to superintend said work. Sec. III. That said sidewalks shall be, respectively, raised or sidewalks to lowered, as the case may require, to the grades which the present city regulator and surveyor may have fixed under his contract with the common council. Each sidewalk, when paved, shall have a pitch of not more than one inch nor less than a quarter of an inch STREETS. U to every foot from the line of the street to the curbstones. It shall 5 be the duty of said regulator and surveyor to set in front of each lot all the stakes that may be needed to show the proper grade and pitch • for this service he shall be entitled to demand and receive for each lot, from the owner or owners thereof, the sum of two cents per foot, measured along the curbstones. pa^ngX!; ^ EC * ^ hat tbe cur bstones to be used shall be dressed smooth regulated, and square on the exposed surfaces. They must be so set that the distance from the line of the street to the outside of the curbs shall be one-fifth part of the whole width of the street. These distances may be changed at the request of any lot owner, when circum¬ stances may render it advisable, by consent of the street committee, if approved by the regulator and surveyor. The curbstones may be such as are procured either from the quarries in the township of Ewing or from those on the Hudson river; if the former, they must be at least five inches thick on the top, eighteen inches deep, and two feet long; if the latter, they must be at least three and a half inches thick on the top, sixteen inches deep, and must average at least three and a half feet long. The street committee may al¬ low the omission of curbing opposite to any cartway, and permit the owner or occupant, in lieu of such curbing, to pave with bould¬ ers or hard bricks placed edgewise for ease of access. Curbstones, not of the kind above described, which now stand against pave¬ ments that do not need to be raised, lowered, or relaid, may remain until such pavements become so worn as to require relaying, when said curbstones shall be removed, and replaced by such as are herein before prescribed. flagstones to Sec * V ’ That the Pavements shall be laid with good hard whole paWn^ for bncks or with smooth flagstones. Where there are dwelling houses on the line of the street, the pavements must extend from the curb¬ stones to the houses; where there is no dwelling house, the pave¬ ment need be only six feet wide from the curbstones ; but in that case the space between the pavement and the line of the street must be gravelled to the same grade with the pavement. Every cartway crossing a pavement shall have a level surface, at least four feet wide, laid with smooth flagstones ; the residue of such cartway may be paved with boulders or hard bricks placed ed maybe convenient, shall have the said street so regulated and marked, marked that the owners of land adjoining thereon may know the proper place and height for the curbstones and pavements of the footways against their respective lots. An ordinance for grading, curbing, paving, flagging, and gravelling certain sidewalks, and for repaving the same when necessary. Passed May 8, 1848. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That the owners of lots, alleys, or passageways, fronting certain ai- on or adjoining the south side of Union street, in the second ward, bYpaved.* from Warren to Willow street; either side of Union street, in the fourth ward, from Ferry to Federal street; the south side of Quarry street, from Willow street to the Feeder bridge; and the north side of Quarry street, from Willow street to the east line of Joseph Moore’s saw mill lot, (thence to the Feeder bridge, the north side to be curbed and gravelled only,) be and they are hereby required (except where the same is already done so as to correspond with the requisitions of this ordinance) to grade, curb, pave, flag, and 68 STREETS. Sidewalks to be graded. Curbstones, paving, &c., regulated. gravel the sidewalks in front of or adjoining their respective lots*, alleys, or passageways, in the manner and with the materials herein after prescribed. Sec. II. That the street committee of the common council, are hereby appointed, to superintend said work. Sec. III. That said sidewalks shall be, respectively, raised or loweied, as the case may require, to the grades which the present city legulator and surveyor may have fixed under his contract with the common council. Each sidewalk, when paved, shall have a pitch of not more than one inch nor less than half an inch to eveiy foot from the line of the street to the curbstones. It shall be the duty of said regulator and surveyor to set in front of eaco lot all the stakes that may be needed to show the proper glace and pitch; for this service he shall be entitled to demand and zeceive for each lot, from the owner or owners thereof, the sum of two cents per foot, measured along the curbstones. Sec. iV. 1 hat the curbstones to be used shall be dressed smooth and square on the exposed surfaces. They must be set at the distances from the lines of the street prescribed by exist¬ ing ordinances. On those streets where the distances are not now fixed by ordinance, they must be so set that the distance from the line of the street to the outside of the curbs shall be one-fifth part of the whole width of the street. These dis¬ tances may be changed, at the request of any lot owner, when circumstances may render it advisable, by consent of the street committee, if approved by the regulator and surveyor. The curb¬ stones may be such as are procured either from the quarries in the township of Ewing or from those on the Hudson river; if the former, they must be at least five inches thick on the top, eighteen inches deep, and two feet long; if the latter, they must be a°t least three and a half inches thick on the top, sixteen inches deep, and must average at least three and a half feet long. The street com¬ mittee may allow the omission of curbing opposite to any cartway, and permit the owner or occupant, in lieu of such curbing to pave with boulders or hard bricks placed edgewise for ease of access • and if paved with boulders to have at least two feet of flagstone in the centre. Curbstones, not of the kind above described, which now stand against pavements that do not need to be raised, lowered, or re- laid, may remain until such pavements become so worn as to require relaying, when said curbstones shall be removed, and replaced by such as aie herein before prescribed. Sec. V. That the pavements shall he laid with good hard whefe STREETS. 69 bricks or with smooth flagstones. Where there are dwelling houses Bricks or on the line of the street, the pavements mustexiend from the curb- be ? usedfor° stones to the houses; where there is no dwelling house, ibe pave- p ‘ nm? ' ment need be only six feet wide from the curbstones; but in that case the space between the pavement and the line of the street must be gravelled to the same g>’ude with the pavement. Every cartway crossing a pavement shall have a level surface, at least four feet wide, laid with smooth flagstones; the residue of such cartway may be paved with boulders or hard bricks placed edge¬ wise. Sec. Vf. That in case any pavement heretofore laid on any side- Repairing to walk embraced by this ordinance, or any which may hereafter be laid ^qSion in conformity with this ordinance shall become worn out or broken committee, up so as to render it necessary that said sidewalk be repaved, in whole or in part, it shall be the duty of the owner or owners of the lot, alley, or passageway fronting on or adjoining such sidewalk, on being notified so to do in writing by the street committee of the common council, to have said sidewalk repaved forthwith, in whole or in part, as said notice may require. Said notice shall be sufficient if delivered to or left at the residence of the owner, or any one of the owners (if more than one) residing in this city; but if none of the owners reside in this city, then it shall be sufficient if said no¬ tice be set up at some conspicuous place on the premises fronting on or adjoining said sidewalk. Sec. VIT. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or pas- Penalty for sageway, who by this ordinance is or are required to grade, curb-, <, ' 0ldance ’ pave, flag, or gravel the sidewalk in front of or adjoining his, her, or their premises, shall not comply in all respects with such requi¬ sition for the space of sixty days from the passage of this ordi- nace, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each addi¬ tional week’s delay thereafter. Sec. VIII. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or pas- Penalty for sageway, who shall be notified by the street committee to have his, n ° trepaviIlg ’ her, or their sidewalk repaved, in whole or in part, under the au¬ thority of the sixih section of this ordinance, shall not comply with such notice for the space of ten days after the same shall have been delivered, left, or set up, as herein before provided, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars penalty, and the further Bum of five dollars penally for each additional week’s delay there¬ after. 70 ST REE TS. An ordinance for grading, curbing, paving, flagging, an(f gravelling certain sidewalks, and for repaving the same when necessary. Passed July 19, 1854. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Certain al¬ leys, &c., to be paved. Sec. I. That the owners of lots, alleys, or passageways, fronting on or adjoining either side of Clinton street, from Monmouth street to State street; either side of Jackson street, from Market street to Livingston street; either side of Mercer street, from Market street to Livingston street; either side of New Brunswick turnpike, from the head of Greene street to Rose street; either side of Ferry street, from Warren street to water power bridge; either side of Perry street, from Stockton street to Clinton street (or Millham load); east side of AVillow street, from Tucker street to Penning¬ ton road; either side of Mill street, from Market street to Fair street; either side of Montgomery street, from Perry street to Feeder bridge; east side of Stockton street, from State street to Hanovei stieet; the west side of Stockton street, from State street to Fiout street; either side of Fall street, from Warren street to Fair street; either side of East State street, from Canal bridge to Clinton street; either side of Princeton turnpike, from the head of Warren street to the Presbyterian school house; south side of State street, from Calhoun’s lane to the waste weir bridge, be and they are hereby required (except where the same is already done so as to correspond with the requisitions of this ordinance) to giade, cuib, pave, Hag, and gravel the sidewalks in front of or ad¬ joining their respective lots, alleys, or passageways, in the manner and with the materials herein after prescribed. Sec. II. That the street committee of the common council are hereby appointed to superintend said work. b s “ t0 Sec< 1IL Thal said sidewalks shall be, respectively, raised or low¬ ered, as the case may require, to the grades which the present city regulator and surveyor may have fixed under his contract with the common council. Each sidewalk, when paved, shall have a pitch of not more than one inch nor less than a quarter of an inch to every foot from the line of the street to the curbstones. It shall be the duty of said regulator and surveyor to set, in front of each lot, all the stakes that may be needed to show the proper grade and STREETS; 71 pitch; for this service he shall be entitled to demand and receive for each lot, from the owner or owners thereof, the sum of two cents per foot, measured along the curbstones. Sec. 1\ . That the curbstones to be used shall be dressed smooth curbstones, and square on the exposed surfaces. They must be set at the dis- regulated 0 '’’ tances from the lines of the street prescribed by existing ordinances. On those streets where the distances are not now fixed by ordinance, they must be so set that the distance from the line of the street to the outside of the curbs shall be one-fifth part of the whole width of the street. These distances may be changed at the request of any lot owner, when circumstances may render it advisable, by con¬ sent of the street committee, if approved by the regulator and sur¬ veyor. The curbstones may be such as are procured either from the quarries in the township of Ewing or from those on the Hudson river; if the former, they must be at least five inches thick on the top, eighteen inches deep, and two feet long; if the latter, they must be at least three and a half inches thick on the top, sixteen inches deep, and must average at least three and a half feet long. The street committee may allow the omission of curbing opposite to any cartway, and permit the owner or occupant, in lieu of such curbing, to pave with boulders or hard bricks placed edgewise for ease of access. Curbstones, not of the kind above described, which now stand against pavements that do not need to be raised, lowered, or relaid, may remain until such pavements become so worn as to require relaying, when said curbstones shall be removed, and re¬ placed by such as are herein before prescribed. Sec. V. That the pavements shall be laid with good hard whole Bricks or bricks or with smooth flagstones. Where there are dwelling houses be^seiTfor 0 on the line of the street, the pavements must extend from the curb- pavmg ‘ stones to the houses; where there is no dwelling house, the pave¬ ment need be only six feet wide from the curbstones; but in that case the space between the pavement and the line of the street must be gravelled to the same grade with the pavement. Every cartway crossing a pavement shall have a level surface, at least four feet wide, laid with smooth flagstones ; the residue of such cartway may be paved with boulders or hard bricks placed edgewise. Sec. VI. That in case any pavement heretofore laid on any side- Repairing to 11 1*1 i /» ii*i* • • * « • 1^6 done on walk, or any which may hereafter be laid m conformity with this requisition ordinance, shall become worn out or broken up so as to render it^omnSttee. necessary that said sidewalk be repaved, in whole or in part, it shall be the duty of the owner or owners of the lot, alley, or passage¬ way fronting on or adjoining such sidewalk, on being notified so 72 STREETS. Penalty for avoidance. to do in writing by the street committee of the common council, to have said sidewalk repaved forthwith, in whole or in part, as said notice may require. Said notice shall be sufficient if delivered to or left at the residence of the owner or any one of the owners (if more than one) residing in this city; but if none of the owners re¬ side in this city, then it shall be sufficient if said notice be set up at some conspicuous place on the premises fronting on or adjoining said sidewalk. Sec. VII. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or passageway, who by this ordinance is or are required to grade, curb, pave, flag, or gravel the sidewalk in front of or adjoining his, her, or their premises, shall not comply in all respects with such requi¬ sition foi the space of sixty days from the passage of this ordinance, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each additional week’s delay thereafter. iiotr a epav?ng. ^ EC< ^ l ^ ie ownei * or owners of any lot, alley, or passageway, who shall be notified by the street committee to have his, her, or their sidewalk repaved, in whole or in part, under the authority of the sixth section of this ordinance, shall not comply with such notice for the space of ten days after the same shall have been delivered, left, or set up, as herein before provided, he, she, 01 they shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each additional week’s delay thereafter. All oidinanee relative to the paving of the sidewalk in front of a certain lot on the east side of Decatur street, in the fourth ward. Passed July 19, 1854. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — That the owner of the foundry lot, now occupied hy Messrs. Bird & Weld, on the east side of Decatur street, be and he is heieby exempted from the operation and provisions of the or¬ dinance entitled, “ A supplement to an ordinance for grading, cuibing, paving, flagging, and gravelling certain sidewalks, and for STREETS. 73 Repaving the same when necessary,” passed September first, eigh¬ teen hundred and fifty-one, so far as the same relate to or affect said lot, upon condition that the owner of said lot cause the same to be paved, within sixty days after the passage of this ordinance, with the materials and in the manner prescribed in said ordinance for the paving of cartways, except that the flagstones shall be laid in two parallel courses, each course to be not less than eighteen inches wide. An ordinance for grading, curbing, paving, flagging, and gravelling the sidewalks of an alley in the fourth ward, one hundred and twelve feet north of Bridge street, lead- ing from Warren street to Fair street, and for repaving the same when necessarv. «J Passed September 7, 1854. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That the owners of lots, alleys, or passageways, fronting Certain ai- t leys, &c., tc on the above named alley, on either side, be and they are hereby be paved, required to grade, curb, pave, flag, and gravel the sidewalks in front of or adjoining their respective lots, alleys, or passageways, in the manner and with the material herein after prescribed. Sec. II. That the street committee of the common council are hereby appointed to superintend said work. Sec. III. That said sidewalks shall be, respectively, raised or Sidewalks to lowered, as the case may require, to the grades which the city regulator and surveyor may fix. Each sidewalk, when paved, shall have a pitch of not more than one inch nor less than a quarter of an inch to every foot from the line of the street to the curbstones*. It shall be the duty of said regulator and surveyor to set, in front of each lot, all the stakes that may be needed to show the proper grade and pitch; for this service he shall be entitled to demand and receive for each lot, from the owner or owners thereof, the sum of two cents per foot, measured along the curbstones. Sec. IV. That the curbstones to be used shall be dressed smooth Curbstones, and square on the exposed surfaces. They must be set three feet regulated? firom the lines of the alley. The curbstones may be such as are G \ 74 STREETS. procured either from the quarries in the township of Ewing of fiom those on the Hudson river; if the former, they must be at least thiee inches thick on the top* and fourteen inches deep; if the latter, they must be at least two and a half inches thick on the top, and twelve inches deep. The street committee may allow the omission of curbing opposite to any cartway, and permit the owner or occupant, in lieu of such curbing, to pave with boulders or hard bricks placed edgewise for ease of access. The pavements shall be laid with good hard whole bricks or with smooth flagstones* Every caitway crossing a pavement shall have a level surface, at least two feet wide, laid with smooth flagstones; the residue of such cartway may be paved with boulders or hard bricks placed edge¬ wise. bedouin 0 SeC ' V ‘ That in Case any P avement which may hereafter be laid ofTtreet° n con f ormit y this ordinance shall become worn out or broken committee, up, so as to render it necessary that saifl sidewalk be repaved, in whole or in part, it shall be the duty of the owner or owners of the lot, alley, or passageway fronting on or adjoining such side¬ walk, on being notified so to do in writing by the street committee of the common council, to have said sidewalk repaved forthwith, in whole 01 in part, as said notice may require. Said notice shall be sufficient if delivered to or left at the residence of the owner, or any one of the owners (if more than one) residing in this city; but if none of the owners reside in this city, then it shall be suffi¬ cient if said notice be set up at some conspicuous place on the premises fronting on or adjoining said sidewalk. Penalty for Sec. VI. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or pas¬ sageway, who by this ordinance is or are required to grade, curb, pave, flag, or gravel the sidewalk in front of or adjoining his, her, ? or their premises, shall not comply in all respects with such requi¬ sition for the space of one month from the passage of this ordi¬ nance, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each addi¬ tional week’s delay thereafter. notrepaving. SeC ‘ VIL That if the owner or owners of an y lot > alle y> or pas¬ sageway, who shall be notified by the street committee to have his, her, or their sidewalk repaved, in whole or in part, under the authority of the fifth section of this ordinance, shall not comply with such notice for the space of ten days after the same shall have been delivered, left, or set up, as herein before provided, he, she, 01 they shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each additional week’s delay thereafter. STREETS. 75 An ordinance for grading, curbing, paving, flagging, and gravelling certain sidewalks, and for repaving tlie same when necessary. Passed November 13, 1854. Be it ordained and enacted by tlic Inhabitants of the City oj Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — t Sec. I. That the owners of lots, alleys, or passageways, fronting Certain ai- r . , leys, &c., to on or adjoining the west side of Stockton street, irom Academy be paved, street to Perry street; the south side of Front street, from Mont¬ gomery street to Stockton street; the south side of Livingston street, from Mercer street to Broad street, be and they are hereby required (except where the same is already done so as to correspond with the requisitions of this ordinance) to grade, curb, pave, flag, and gravel the sidewalks in front of or adjoining their respective lots, alleys, or passageways, in the manner and with the materials herein after prescribed. Sec. II. That the owners of lots, alleys, or passageways, fronting Sidewalks to Ijg "ravelled or adjoining the west side of Fair street, between Mill street and Bridge street, be and they are hereby required to gravel the side¬ walks in front of or adjoining their respective lots, alleys, or pas¬ sageways, according to the grade established by the city surveyor; said work to be done in a manner and with materials satisfactory to the street committee. Sec. III. That the street committee of the common council are hereby appointed to superintend said work. Sec. IV. That said sidewalks shall be, respectively, raised or sidewalks to lowered, as the case may require, to the grades which the present city regulator and surveyor may have fixed under his contract with the common council. Each sidewalk, when paved, shall have a pitch of not more than one inch nor less than a quarter of an inch to every foot from the line of the street to the curbstones. It shall be the duty of said regulator and surveyor to set in front of each lot all the stakes that may be needed to show the proper grade and pitch ; for this service he shall be entitled to demand and re¬ ceive for each lot, from the owner or owners thereof, the sum of two cents per foot, measured along the curbstones. Sec. V. That the curbstones to be used shall be dressed smooth curbstones, and square on the exposed surfaces. They must be set at the dis- regulated, tances from the lines of the street prescribed by existing ordinances. 76 STREET'S. S On those streets where the distances are not now fixed by ordi¬ nance, they must be so set that the distance from the line of the street to the outside of the curbs shall be one-fifth part of the whole width of the street. These distances may be changed at the request of any lot owner, when circumstances may render it ad¬ visable, by consent of the street committee, if approved by the regulator and surveyor. The curbstones may be such as are procured either fiom the quarries in the township of Ewing or from those on the Hudson river; if the former, they must be at least five inches thick on the top, eighteen inches deep, and two feet long; if the latter, they must be at least three and a half inches thick o-n the top, six¬ teen inches deep, and must average at least three and a half feet long. *1 he street committee may allow the omission of curbing opposite to any cartway, and permit the owner or occupant, in lieu of such curbing, to pave with boulders or hard bricks placed edgewise for ease of access. Curbstones not of the kind above de¬ scribed, which now stand against pavements that do not need to be raised, lowered, or relaid, may remain until such pavements be¬ come so worn as to require relaying, when said curbstones shall be removed, and replaced by such as are herein before prescribed. Bricks or Sec. VI. 1 hat the pavements shall be laid with good hard whole flagstones to bricks or with smooth flagstones. Where there are dwelling houses be used for ... ° o paving. on the line 01 the street, the pavements must extend from the curb¬ stones to the houses; where there is no dwelling house, the pave¬ ment need be only six feet wide from the curbstones ; but in that case tne space between the pavement and the line of the street must be gravelled to the same grade wdth the pavement. Every cartway crossing a pavement shall have a level surface, at least four feet wide, laid with smooth flagstones; the residue of such cartway may be paved with boulders or hard bricks placed edge¬ wise. liepairing to Sec> Tiiat in case an y pavement heretofore laid on any requiStioii sidewalk ’ or any which may hereafter be laid in conformity with committee. tlnS ordlnance ’ slia11 become worn out or broken up, so as to ren¬ der it necessary that said sidewalk be repaved, in whole or in part, it shall be the duty of the owner or owners of the lot, alley, or passageway fronting on or adjoining such sidewalk, on being no¬ tified so to do in writing by the street committee of the common council, to have said sidewalk repaved forthwith, in whole or in part, as said notice may require. Said notice shall be sufficient if delivered to or left at the residence of the owner, or any one of the owners (if more than one) residing in this city; but if none of the STREETS. 77 » owners reside in this city, then it shall be sufficient if said notice be set up at some conspicuous place on the premises fronting on or adjoining said sidewalk. Sec. VIII. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or pas- Penalty for sageway, who by this ordinance is or are required to grade, curb, pave, flag, or gravel the sidewalk in front of or adjoining his, her, or their premises, shall not comply in all respects with such re¬ quisition for the space of sixty days from the passage of this ordi¬ nance, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each addi¬ tional week’s delay thereafter. Sec. IX. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or pas- Penalty for sageway, who shall be notified by the street committee to have his, her, or their sidewalk repaved, in whole or in part, under the authority of the seventh section of this ordinance, shall not comply with such notice for the space of ten days after the same shall have been delivered, left, or set up, as herein before provided, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each additional week’s delay thereafter. not repaving. An ordinance for grading, curbing, paving, flagging, and gravelling certain sidewalks on either side of Warren or Bloomsbury street, and for repaving the same when ne¬ cessary. Passed October 1, 1855. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That the owners of lots, alleys, or passageways, fronting on Certain ai- or adjoining either side of Warren or Bloomsbury streets, between bYpaved’ 10 the Assanpink creek bridge and Ferry street, in the fourth ward, be and are hereby required (except where the same is already done so as to correspond with the requisitions of this ordinance) to grade, curb, pave, flag, and gravel the sidewalks in front of or adjoining their respective lots, alleys, or passageways, in the manner and with the materials herein after prescribed. G* 78 STREETS. Sidewalks to be graded. Curbstones, paving, &c., regulated. Sec. II. That the street committee of the common council are hereby appointed to superintend said work. Sec. III. That said sidewalks shall be, respectively, raised or lowered, as the case may require, to the grades which the present city regulator and surveyor may have fixed under his contract with the common council. Each sidewalk, when paved, shall have a pitch of not more than one inch nor less than half an inch to eveiy foot from the line of the street to the curbstones. It shall be the duty of said regulator and surveyor to set in front of each lot all the stakes that may be needed to show the proper giade and pitch; for this service he shall be entitled to demand and receive for each lot, from the owner or owners thereof, the sum of two cents per foot, measured along the curbstones. Sec. IV. That the curbstones to be used shall be dressed smooth and square on the exposed surfaces. They must be set at the dis¬ tances from the lines of the street prescribed by existing ordinances. AVheie the distances are not now fixed by ordinance, they must be so set that the distance from the line of the street to the outside of the curbs shall be one-fifth part of the whole width of the street. These distances may be changed, at the request of any lot owner, when circumstances may render it advisable, by consent of the street committee, if approved by the regulator and surveyor. The curb¬ stones may be such as are procured either from the quarries in the township of Ewing or from those on the Hudson river; if the foimer, iney must be at least five inches thick on the top, eighteen inches deep, and two feet long; if the latter, they must be a & t least three and a half inches thick on the top, sixteen inches deep, and must a\eiage at least three and a half feet long. The street com¬ mittee may allow the omission of curbing opposite to any cartway, and peimit the owner or occupant, in lieu of such curbing, to pave with boulders or hard bricks placed edgewise for ease of access, and if paved with boulders to have at least two feet of flagstone in the centie. Curbstones, not of the kind above described, which now stand against pavements that do not need to be raised, lowered, n r re- laid, may remain until such pavements become so worn as to require relaying, when said curbstones shall be removed, and replaced by such as are herein before prescribed.. Hagstooea to Sec ’ V ’ That the Foments shall be laid with good hard whole be^edfor bricks or with smooth flagstones. Where there are dwelling houses on the line of the street, the pavements must extend from the curb¬ stones to the houses; where there is no dwelling house, the pave¬ ment need be only six feet wide from the curbstones; but in that STREETS; 79 case the space between the pavement and the line of the street must be gravelled to the same grade with the pavement. Every cartway crossing a pavement shall have a level surface, at least four feet wide, laid with smooth flagstones; the residue of such cartway may be paved with boulders or hard bricks placed edge¬ wise. Sec. VI. That in case any pavement heretofore laid on any Repairing to sidewalk, or any which may hereafter be laid in conformity^qStion with this ordinance, shall become worn out or broken up so as committee to render it necessary that said sidewalk be repaved, in whole or in part, it shall be the duty of the owner or owners of the lot, alley, or passageway fronting on or adjoining such sidewalk, on being notified so to do in writing by the street committee of the common council, to have said sidewalk repaved forthwith, in whole or in part, as said notice may require. Said notice shall be sufficient if delivered to or left at the residence of the owner, or any one of the owners (if more than one) residing in this city ; but if none of the owners reside in this city, then it shall be sufficient if said no¬ tice be set up at some conspicuous place on the premises fronting on or adjoining said sidewalk. Sec. Vir. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or pas- Penalty for sagewa.y, who by this ordinance is or are required to grade, curb, pave, flag, or gravel the sidewalk in front of or adjoining his, her, or their premises, shall not comply in all respects with such requi¬ sition for the space of sixty days from the passage of this ordi- nace, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each addi¬ tional week’s delay thereafter. Sec. VIII. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or pas- Penalty for sageway, who shall be notified by the street committee to have his, notlLpa ' in ' 7 ’ her, or their sidewalk repaved, in whole or in part, under the au¬ thority of the sixth section of this ordinance, shall not comply with such notice for the space of ten days after the same shall have been delivered, left, or set up, as herein before provided, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each additional week’s delay there¬ after. % 80 STREETS. An ordinance for grading, curbing, paving, flagging, and gravelling certain sidewalks, and for repaving the same when necessary. Passed April 29, 1856. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same— Certain al¬ leys, &c., to be paved. Sidewalks to be graded. Sec. I. That the owners of lots, alleys, or passageways, fronting on or adjoining either side of Jackson street and Mercer street, in the third ward, from Market street to the Philadelphia and Trenton railroad, be and they are hereby required (except where the same is already done so as to correspond with the requisitions of this or¬ dinance) to grade, curb, pave, flag, and gravel the sidewalks in fiont of or adjoining their respective lots, alleys, or passageways, in the manner and with the materials herein after prescribed. Sec. II. That the street committee of the common council are hereby appointed to superintend said work. Sec. HI. That said sidewalks shall be, respectively, raised or low¬ ered, as the case may require, to the grades which the present city legulator and surveyor may have fixed under his contract with the common council. Each sidewalk, when paved, shall have a pitch of not more than one inch nor less than half an inch to every foot from the line of the street to the curbstones. It shall be the duty of said regulator and surveyor to set, in front of each lot, all the stakes that may be needed to show the proper grade and pitch; foi this service he shall be entitled to demand and receive for each lot, from the owner or owners thereof, the sum of two cents per foot, measured along the curbstones. pacing,°&cV ^ £C * That the curbstones to be used shall be dressed smooth regulated, and square on the exposed surfaces. They must be set at the dis¬ tances from the lines of the street prescribed by existing ordinances. On those streets where the distances are not now fixed by ordinance, they must be so set that the distance from the line of the street to the outside of the curbs shall be one-fifth part of the whole width of the street. These distances may be changed at the request of any lot owner, when circumstances may render it advisable, by con¬ sent of the street committee, if approved by the regulator and sur- veyoi. The curbstones may be such as are procured either from the quarries in the township of Ewing or from those on the Hudson liver; if the former, they must be at least five inches thick on the STREETS. 81 top, eighteen inches deep, and two feet long; if the latter, they must be at least three and a half inches thick on the top, sixteen inches deep, and must average at least three and a half feet long. Ihe street committee may allow the omission of curbing opposite to any cartway, and permit the owner or occupant, in lieu of such curbing, to pave with boulders or hard bricks placed edgewise for ease of access; and if paved with boulders, to have at least two feet of flagstone in the centre. Curbstones, not of the kind above described, which now stand against pavements that do not need to be raised, lowered, or relaid, may remain until such pavements be¬ come so worn as to require relaying, when said curbstones shall be removed, and replaced by such as are herein before prescribed. Sec. V. That the pavements shall be laid with good hard whole Bricks or bricks or with smooth flagstones. Where there are dwelling houses be“used e for° on the line of the street, the pavements must extend from the curb- pa ' ing ’ stones to the houses ; where there is no dwelling house, the pave¬ ment need be only six feet wide from the curbstones; but in that case the space between the pavement and the line of the street must be gravelled to the same grade with the pavement. Every cartway crossing a pavement shall have a level surface, at least four feet wide, laid with smooth flagstones ; the residue of such cartway may be paved with boulders or hard bricks placed edgewise. Sec. VI. That in case any pavement heretofore laid on any side- Repairing to walk, or any which may hereafter be laid in conformity with this requisition J J J 9 of street ordinance, shall become worn out or broken up so as to render it committee, necessary that said sidewalk be repaved, in whole or in part, it shall be the duty of the owner or owners of the lot, alley, or passage¬ way fronting on or adjoining such sidewalk, on being notified so to do in writing by the street committee of the common council, to have said sidewalk repaved forthwith, in whole or in part, as said notice may require. Said notice shall be sufficient if delivered to or left at the residence of the owner or any one of the owners fif more than one) residing in this city; but if none of the owners re¬ side in this city, then it shall be sufficient if said notice be set up at some conspicuous place on the premises fronting on or adjoining said sidewalk. Sec. VII. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or Penalty for i -i i • 1 • • • i i a\ oidance. passageway, who by this ordinance is or are required to grade, curb, pave, flag, or gravel the sidewalk in front of or adjoining his, her, or their premises, shall not comply in all respects with such requi¬ sition for the space of sixty days from the passage of this ordinance, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars penalty, 82 STREETS. and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each additional week’s delay thereafter. Penalty for Sec. VIII. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or p b passageway, who shall be notified by the street committee to have his, her, or their sidewalk repaved, in whole or in part, under the authority of the sixth section of this ordinance, shall not comply with such notice for the space of ten days after the same shall have been delivered, left, or set up, as herein before provided, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each additional week’s delay thereafter. An ordinance to specify the conditions on which the Bel- videre Delaware railroad may he constructed through the city of Trenton. . Passed October 11, 1849. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — on whfch S Sec. "^at ^e Belvidere Delaware Railroad Company are railroad may hereby authorized to construct their railroad through the city of be construct- ° J ed. lrenton, on the route now located by them, upon the following conditions, to wit: first, that the grade of said road, where the same crosses any public street, shall be determined and fixed by the street committee and the city surveyor, so as in their judgment will be least injurious and most beneficial to private property and the general interest of the city; second, that the grade so established shall not be alterable by the company without the assent of the common council; third, that all alterations in the grades of the several streets and sidewalks, all resetting of curbs and relaying of pavements, which in the opinion of the street committee and the city surveyor may be rendered necessary by the construction of said railroad, shall be made under the supervision of said street com¬ mittee and surveyor, and paid for by said company; fourth, through the whole city the railroad shall be preserved on a level, as nearly as practicable, to prevent the danger of cars running by their own gravity. Sec. II. That the city surveyor, with the engineer of the said STREETS. 83 railroad company, shall make a report in writing, under their hands City survey, to the common council, as soon as practicable, of the grade which grade, may be determined and fixed as aforesaid, to the end that a per¬ petual record of said grade may be preserved. An ordinance to authorize the Trenton Iron Company to cross certain streets with a railroad. Passed April 5, 1353. Whereas the Trenton Iron Company have secured the right ofpreambie. way through private property for a railroad from the wiie mill, on the Delaware and Raritan canal, to the rolling mill of the said company, on the Delaware river, and desire to construct and operate the same as soon as authority is granted to cross the streets lying on the route of the same—therefore, Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same —- That the Trenton Iron Company are hereby authorized and Company empowered to construct and operate said railroad across the to gowjtj. streets lying on the route of the same, on a level with the giade of the said streets established by the city surveyor, and shall, under his direction, arrange suitable crossing in the usual manner for the passage of vehicles, and keep the same in repair, and may extend the said railroad in front of the state prison to the basin of the said company on Washington street. A.n ordinance to authorize Ilenry 13. Ch.um.ar to consti net a vault. Passed April 3, 1854. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City oj Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That Henry B, Chumar be authorized to construct avauUmay^ vault under the street or wugonvvay in iront of the house No. 12 c a. 84 * STREETS. East State street, in this city, subject to such restrictions as shall herein after be provided. Sec. II. That the depth of said vault be determined by the party sinking it. Sec. III. That the outer lines of the wall upon the eastern and western extremities of said vault shall not extend beyond the outer lines of the walls of the house in front of which it is constructed. Sec. IV. That the southern outer line of the wall of said vault, running parallel with East State street, shall not be moie than eight feet from the curbing, as it now stands, upon the north side Party to re¬ store street to original condition. Construc¬ tion under direction of street com¬ mittee. of the street. Sec. V. That the arch and supporting walls of said vault shall be of such strength as that, in the opinion of the street committee, no accident can occur from any probable external pressure. Sec. VI. That after the arch of the vault shall have been com¬ pleted to the satisfaction of the street committee, the party con¬ structing the vault shall, at his own expense, cause the street over the vault to be put in as good condition as it was previous to tear¬ ing up and opening the same; but he shall not be compelled to keep the street in repair thereafter, except when repairs are re¬ quired by the sinking or giving way of the walls or parts connected with the structure of said vault. Sec. VII. That in constructing said vault, the said Henry E. Chumar shall be under the direction and subject to the control of the street committee, and nothing herein contained shall be undei- stood to give him any authority to do said work, except at such times and within such period as the street committee shall direct and permit; and if at any time after such vault shall be erected, it shall become injurious or dangerous to the public, or shall in any manner hinder or prevent the full and free use of the sidewalk or street, upon which the opinion of common council shall be final and conclusive, then the said Henry B. Chumar, his heiis and as¬ signs, shall cause said vault to be removed, and the said sidewalk and street to be restored to the condition in which it was before said vault was built; and if he or they shall fail to do so after no¬ tice, the same may be done by direction of council, and the said Henry B. Chumar, his heirs and assigns, shall reimburse the city for the expense thereof. Not to inter- Sec. VIII. That in constructing said vault, the said Henry B. t f ero7ga6 Wa ' Chumar is not to interfere with any arrangement of the water or pipes,b gas pipes, without consent of the companies owning said pipes. i STREETS. 85 An ordinance concerning the streets. Passed October 16, 1854'. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That hereafter whenever any person or persons or body Excavations, corporate shall remove the pavement, or make any excavation in filled. 0 be the sidewalks of any of the public streets, lanes, or alleys of the city of 1 renton, it shall be the duty of such person or persons or body corporate to repave the same, or refill the said excavation within the space of forty-eight hours after the taking up of the said pavement or the commencement of making said excavation, and on failure theieof shall be subject to a penalty of one dollar for each houi that he, she, or they shall be or remain in default. Sec. II. That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons or Excavations body corporate, having the right of laying water or gas pipes i n limited * the city of Trenton, to leave open at any one time any trench or excavation in any of the public streets, lanes, or alleys of the said city of a greater length than two hundred feet; and it shall be the duty of such person or persons or body corporate fully and com¬ pletely to fill up such trench or excavation, so as to restore the said street, lane, or alley in all respects to its original condition before making any further or other trench or excavation ; said filling up to be puddled or pounded, as the nature of the soil may require, and to be done and completed within forty-eight hours from and after the commencement of making such trench or excavation; and fur¬ ther, it shall be his, her, or their duty to erect sufficient barriers around such trench or excavation to prevent persons or cattle from falling therein, and if the same shall remain open at night, in addi¬ tion, to place such lights as shall be necessary to warn persons of the danger; and that any person or persons or body corporate fail¬ ing to comply with the requirements or infringing the prohibitions of this section shall forfeit and pay for each and every offence the sum of one hundred dollars. Sec. III. That if the work, or any part thereof mentioned in- street com- the preceding section, in repairing or filling the trenches or exca- woTprof 6 vations aforesaid shall be unskilfully or imperfectly done, it shall perly done * be lawful for the street committee of the said city forthwith to cause the same to be skilfully and properly done, and to keep an account of the expense thereof; and in such case, instead of the H 86 STREETS. Regulations concerning stopcocks. Marshal’s duty in the premises. Street com¬ mittee to is¬ sue permits in certain cases. forfeiture above mentioned, such person or persons or body corpo¬ rate in default as aforesaid shall forfeit and pay a penalty of a sum equal to the whole of the said expense incurred by the said street committee, with an addition of fifty per cent. Sec. IV. That all covers for stopcocks, which shall hereafter be placed in the streets, lanes, or alleys of the said city, shall be laid in a boulder stone pavement, of at least five feet in diameter, and shall be placed two inches above the curbstones on either side where said stopcocks are in the centre of the said streets, lanes, or alleys; and any person or body corporate failing to comply with the requirements of this section shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars. Sec. V. That it shall be the duty of the marshal of the said city to make all necessary complaints for violations of the provisions of this ordinance, and to see that the foregoing fines are collected according to law, for which service, in each case, he shall be en¬ titled to the sum of one dollar. Sec. VI. That in case of any improvement or alteration requir¬ ing a trench or excavation in the sidewalks or in any of the public streets, lanes, or alleys of the said city, which cannot reasonably be completed within the times respectively in this ordinance limited, it shall be lawful for the street committee, or any two of them, on application in that respect made to them, to give a written permit to the person or persons or body corporate desiring to make such improvement or alteration, therein defining the extent and duration of such privileges; and if such person or persons or body corpo¬ rate shall in all respects conform to such permit, then he, she, or they shall not be liable to any of the forfeitures aforesaid; but in case of a violation of such permit, then the same to be void, and the person or persons or body corporate guilty of the violation thereof to be liable to the same penalties as though the said per¬ mit had never been given. *• , * r f. - MARKETS, 87 An ordinance relative to building an addition to tbe pre¬ sent market house north of Hanover street, and for bor¬ rowing tbe sum of two thousand dollars to complete tbe same. Passed August 21, 1848. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That there shall be erected and added to the north end Addition of of the present market in Greene street an addition of one hundred present mar¬ aud thirty feet, corresponding with the present market; the north end thereof to be finished in the style and manner of the present market. Sec. 1 [. That the treasurer of the city is hereby authorized and Proposals for . J J loan of $2000, directed to issue proposals for a loan of two thousand dollars, for erecting the said addition to the present market house, and the faith of the city is hereby pledged to the lenders of the same for the payment thereof, with interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum. Sec. III. That the treasurer shall receive proposals for the whole Certificates sum or for any portion thereof not less than one hundred dollars,£sued. kt ° bf and for the sums borrowed shall issue certificates of stock bearing interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, payable semi-annu¬ ally on the first days of September and March in each year, and the principal reimbursable on the first day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. Sec. IV. That the money borrowed on the certificates issued Money bor- under this ordinance shall be known as a part of the market house a lien on debt, and shall be a lien on the rents of the market houses, which ket houses? rents are hereby pledged for the payment of the principal and interest thereof, in addition to the first section of the act passed June twelfth, eighteen hundred and forty-five. Sec. V. That nothing in this act shall be so construed as toConstruc- . . ,, , . . ,, , , , . tion of ordi* vitiate any or the provisions or the act relative to the market nance, houses, passed June twelfth, eighteen hundred and forty-five; and this ordinance shall go into effect immediately upon the passage thereof. I have examined and considered, and do hereby signify my ap¬ probation of the above ordinance.—Witness my hand, this thirty- first day of August, A. D. 1848. Sam, R. Hamilton, Mayor , Sfc. 88 MARKETS. An ordinance to prevent butcher’s meats from being sold ■out of tbe public markets. Passed March 8, 1851. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Meats to be Sec. I. That from and after the passage of this ordinance, it pubiicma? shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell or barter, or expose for sale or barter, within the corporate limits of the city of Trenton, except in the public market houses of the said city, any fresh beef, mutton, lamb, or veal; and if any person or persons shall hereafter sell or barter, or expose for sale or barter, any fresh beef, mutton, lamb, or veal, in any shop, store, building, street, or other place within the said corporate limits (except in the public market houses as aforesaid), he, she, or they so offend¬ ing shall, upon conviction thereof before the mayor, recorder, or either of the aldermen of the said city, upon the complaint of any person or persons, forfeit and pay, for each and every offence, the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be levied of his, her, or their Proviso. goods and chattels according to law; 'provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent any butcher paying rent for a stall in the public market from selling or disposing of any kind of meat at his dwelling or slaughter house at any time before or after market hours. Sec. II. That»all ordinances and parts of ordinances conflicting with this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed. An ordinance to suspend tlie operation of' certain ordinances, therein mentioned, within the boundaries of the third and fourth wards. Passed May 5, 1851. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — That the operation of an ordinance entitled, “ An ordinance concerning the markets,” passed September eighteenth, eighteen MARKETS. 89 hundred and forty-five, and all supplements thereto, be and the same are hereby suspended in the third and fourth wards of said city of Irenton, until a market house or market houses shall be erected within the boundaries of the same. An ordinance concerning the markets. Passed March 7, 1853. I^E IT ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That from and after the passing of this act, a market shall Market days be held at the market houses in the city of Trenton, on every Tues- “* h ° Ur8 ' day and Thursday, from daylight until two o’clock in the afternoon, and on Saturday, from daylight until two o’clock in the afternoon, and from six until nine o’clock in the evening, in each and every week. Sec. II. That part of Greene street in the city of Trenton lying Market lim- between and extending from State street to Academy street shall its ' be the bounds and limits of the market place; and no person or peisons shall sell, or offer for sale during market hours of any mar¬ ket day, any kind of marketing intended to be disposed of in the common market, except within the above bounds or limits, in any one of the public streets of the city; and any person or persons buying or selling any kind of marketing intended to be disposed of in the common market outside of the above named limits, during market hours on any market day, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar for each and every such offence, to be recovered, with costs, according to law. Sec. III. No kind of vehicle, other than a wheelbarrow, shall, at Vehicles not any time from daylight until nine o’clock in the forenoon, remain in Gieene street between State and Academy streets after having lts ‘ been allowed ten minutes to load or unload the same; and the own- ei or owners, or person or persons having charge of any such ve¬ hicle so remaining in said limits longer than the above mentioned time, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar for each and every such offence, to be recovered, with costs, according to law. Sec. IV. No horse, mare, mule, or oxen shall stand in that part ““ of Greene street between State and Academy streets before nine ttT ket 99 MARKETS. Filth, &c., not to be thrown in market lim- its. o’clock in the forenoon ; and the owner or owners, or person or persons using or having charge of the same, violating the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay one dollar for each and every such offence, to be recovered, with costs* according to law.. Sec. V. No person shall at any time throw, lay, or leave any heads, feet, offal, or other garbage of creatures, or water melon shells, or any other vegetable substances or nauseous matter what¬ soever in any part of Greene street included between State and Academy streets, under the penalty of one dollar, to be recovered, with costs, according to law. Markethours Sec. VI. No person or persons shall sell, or offer for sale within hies and & the market bounds, during any day after the hour of four o’clock in the afternoon of said day, any water or musk melons, or other fruit or vegetables, or leave such water melons or musk melons, or other fruit or vegetables, within such bounds after the above men¬ tioned hour, under the penalty of five dollars for each and every, such offence, to be recovered, with costs, according to law. Penalty for Sec. VII. Any person or persons offering for sale, or selling. ter h & g c.^d.e". within the bounds of the market, bread, butter, meat, or lard, in wefght. m lumps purporting the same to be in pounds, and on the examination. of the clerk of the market such lumps prove deficient in weight, such bread, butter, meat, or lard shall be forfeited, and the clerk of the market shall take charge of the same, as herein after directed. Penalty for Sec. VIII. Any person or persons buying, during market hours, again for SeU any kind of provision, in the common market, or bounds thereof,, higher price. ^ fr wa rd s selling or offering the same for sale for a higher price, shall forfeit and pay five dollars for every such offence, to be recovered, with costs, according to law. Sec. IX. Any person or persons buying any kind of provisions in the common market, or bounds thereof, before nine o’clock in the forenoon, with intent to carry the same to some other market, or place for sale, or to expose the same to sale in the city of Tren¬ ton, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence ten dollars, to be recovered, with costs, according to law. Kb person to Sec. X. Any person or persons buying, during market hours in. tbail 1 twenty the common market, a greater quantity of butter than twenty Sutter . 901 pounds, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence one dollar, to be recovered, with costs, according to law. Stalls not Sec. XI. All stalls, or parts of stalls, excepting those rented to uu'£r dlrec- butchers, and also those rented to others, while occupied by the k°t n n°ouTe ar ’ tenant or tenants with marketing, shall be subject to such rules as committee. market committee, or a majority of them, shall make for the, better regulation of the market. Penalty for buying to sell again. MARKETS. 91 Sec. XII. Steelyards shall not at any time be used within the Steelyards market bounds or limits, in weighing any kind of provisions offered used.° for sale, under the penalty of fifty cents for each and every such offence, to be recovered, with costs, according to tew. Sec. XIII. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the market to attend' Renting of at the City Hall on the Saturday next preceding the first day 0 f 8talle ' April, in each year, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, and rent, under the direction of the market house committee, the several stalls in the market houses for such sum or sums as the market house com¬ mittee shall direct to be affixed to them respectively; [one-fourth See supple- part of said rent to be paid immediately, and one-fourth part to be™mter 2 &,°* paid before the commencement of each succeeding quarter. The 18jJ ’ clerk of the market shall take possession of the stall on the first day of each succeeding quarter, if the money shall not have been paid, and report to the market house committee, and let the same to the first applicant, at the rates aforesaid. No more than two stalls shall be let to or held by any person, on any pretence whatever, and said stalls shall adjoin each other.] No tenant shall rent his stall to any other person for the remainder of his term, or underlet the same in any manner, without the consent of the market house com¬ mittee, for that purpose first had and obtained ; [;provided always Proviso, .that it shall not be let to any person already holding two stalls.] Each tenant shall have possession of his stall on the first day of April next after renting the same, and shall hold possession until the day fixed for lettiing in the succeeding year; 'provided however , Proviso., that the tenants of stalls numbers 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36, in the lower market, shall have possession of their respective stalls on the tenth day of June next after renting the same. Any tenant of a stall violating or neglecting to comply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed thereby to have forfeited all right to the tenure and occupancy of his stall or stalls; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the market forth with to take possession of the same, and relet the same to the highest bidder for the remainder of the term; and it is further provided, that nothing herein contained Proviso shall in any wise conflict with the rights of those butchers who purchased the choice of stalls in the lower market at the first letting of the same. Sec. XIV. No stall or stands in the markets shall be let to any Penalty fo? person or persons, to occupy the same for the sale of shad for a Ses! later period from the annual letting of stalls than the tenth day of June, in each year; and no person shall be allowed to sell the same out of any wagon within the bounds of said market, nor shall be- 92 MARKETS. allowed to use any place in any of the public streets of this city for a fish stand, under a penalty of one dollar, to be recovered, with costs, according to law. No person shall bring shad into this city, and offer or expose the same for sale, after the fifteenth day of June, in each year, under a penalty of one dollar, to be reco¬ vered, with costs, according to law. Penalty for Sec. XV. That if any person or persons shall at any time here- edfish, meat, after sell, or offer for sale, within this city, any fish, meat, or other provisions that are tainted or spoiled, or the flesh or meat of any animal that was diseased at the time of being slaughtered or that died a natural death, or any fruit or vegetables that are in a state of decomposition, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of ten dollars, to be recovered, with costs, according to law. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the market, upon his own know¬ ledge or upon the information of any other person or persons of any of the foregoing abuses, to proceed immediately to prosecute the offenders according to law. clerkofmar- Sec. XV I. The clerk of the market, before he enters upon the bond. a duties of his office, shall, together with two sureties, to be approved of by the common council, become hound to “ the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton” in the sum of seven hundred dollars, with condition, that if he shall in all things well and faithfully perform all and singular the duties required of him by law, as clerk of the market, and shall well and truly pay to the treasurer of the city all such money as shall from time to time be received by him as clerk ol the market, for the use of the city, then the obligation to be void and of no effect, otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue. Regulations of stalls. Hucksters not to sell in market. Sec. XVII. No person or persons, during market hours, shall allow the articles by them offered for sale, nor the tubs, baskets, or other things used by them for their accommodation, to extend into the market house farther than two feet six inches from the inside of the stalls; and if any person or persons shall cause or suffer such articles, tubs, baskets, or other things, to be placed or remain otherwise than is herein directed and mentioned, after receiving notice from the clerk of the market, such person or persons so of¬ fending shall pay for every such offence the sum of fifty cents, to be recovered, with costs, according to law\ Sec. XVIII. No huckster, or person who follows the business of a huckster, or of selling water melons, musk melons, nutmegs,- peaches, pickles, sweet potatoes, green corn, or any article of mar¬ keting at second hand, shall at any time sell or offer for sale within MARKETS. 'Siio bruits of the market place, except on his or their property of* regularly rented market stall, stand, or space, any such articles, un¬ der penalty of forfeiting for every such offence the sum of one dol¬ lar, to be recovered, with costs, according to law. Src. XIX. All butchers and other persons using or occupying Further re- any of the stalls in the market houses, shall, before they leave the stalls! 0113 market, place, or cause to be placed, all blocks and benches used by them in the market houses under the planks of the respective stalls, so that the saia blocks or benches shall not extend in any way beyond the edges of the said planks more than three inches; and if any owner or occupier of the said blocks or benches shall suffer the same to remain or be placed otherwise than is herein di¬ rected, such person so offending shall pay the sum of one dollar, to be recovered, with costs, according to law. Sec. XX. Every person bringing, in any wagon, cart, or other Sales not to carriage, any article or articles to the said market, to be exposed from wagons foi sale therein, shall unlade the said wagon, cart, or other carriage, and remove the said article or articles therefrom before he shall sell or divide, or cut into pieces for the purpose of sale, any such article or articles. Sec. XXI. All kinds of sea fish brought into this city for sale Sea fish mar- shall be placed and kept at the north end of the lower market, and ^ et between the said north end of the lower market and Hanover street; and no wagon containing, or for the sale of sea fish, shall be per¬ mitted to stand in such place later than nine o’clock in the evening; and any person or persons selling or offering for sale, during mar¬ ket hours of any market day, such fish, except within the above limits, or otherwise violating the provisions of this section, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar, with costs, for each and every such offence, to be recovered according to law. Sec. XXI). It shall be the duty of the clerk of the market toDutiest)f attend in the said market in market hours, and at such other times£* 01 as may be necessary, to enforce the rules, laws, and ordinances of the common council respecting the market; to cause the market houses to be kept clean, and to prevent any offal, garbage, or filth from being thrown or remaining in or about the same; to prevent any unsound or unwholesome provisions from being sold ; to attend with the public scales and a sufficient number of sealed weights in market during market hours; to decide disputes between buyers and sellers respecting the weights and measures of things bought a-nd sold in the market; to try scales, weights, and measures ; to weigh and examine all meat, butter, or lard, sold in lumps or offered 94 MARKETS. for sale in the market; and if on trial he shall find the same tiDt of full weight, he is hereby required and commanded to take and se¬ cure the same, one half for his own use, and the the other half to Penalty for interfering with duties of clerk. Clerk to re¬ move filth. Penalty for sellingbutch- er’s meat out of market. See 23d sec¬ tion of third ward market ordinance, March 13, be by him sold, and the moneys arising therefrom to be paid to the treasurer of the said city, for the use of the city; said clerk shall also report in writing, on the first day of every month, all his pro-" ceedings of the previous month to the market house committee. Sec. XXllI. Any person or persons endeavoring to discour^ age the clerk of the market from doing his duty, or officiously interfering therein, thereby encouraging transgressors to persist in violating the ordinances of the city, he, she, or they so offend¬ ing shall forfeit and pay to the use of the city five dollars for each and every such offence, to be recovered, with costs, according to law. Sec. XXIV. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the market to cause all the filth, rubbish, and manure collected within the limits of the market to be scraped off and removed to some safe and convenient place, for the use of the city farm ; and it shall also be the duty of said clerk to wash out the market houses on every Sa¬ turday afternoon, from the first day of April to the first day of October, and once every month during the remainder of the year. Sec. XXV. No person who follows the business of a butcher shall go about the city, and sell or retail within the limits of the city, from a wagon, cart, or otherwise, any of what is generally known as butcher’s meat; and any person or persons offending against this ordinance shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of four dollars, to be recovered, with costs, according to law, one half for the use of the city, and the other half for the informer. Sec. XXVI. That the operation of the preceding section of this ordinance be and the same is hereby suspended in the third and fourth wards of this city, until a market house or market houses shall be erected within the boundaries of said wards. Sec. XXVII. Any person or persons who shall smoke a segar Smoking in or pipe, or shall have or carry a lighted segar or pipe in the mar- WddenT f ° r " ket houses during market hours, shall, after due notice has been given, forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar, to be recovered, with costs, according to law. Sec. XXVIII. That if any person or persons shall wilfully or Penalty for negligently cut, deface, or disfigure any part or parts of the mar- nfarketf. kets erected in this city, he or they shall forfeit and pay for every MARKETS. 95 such offence the sum of five dollars, to be recovered, with costs, according to law. Sec. XXIX. The clerk of the market is hereby authorized and Clerk to col- required to ask, demand, and receive, by suit or otherwise, all and every of the fines and forfeitures incurred by the breach of each and every section of this ordinance. Sec. XXX. It shall not be lawful for the clerk of the market tocierk not to purchase, for any person or persons, any kind of marketing during marketing market hours within the bounds of said market, under the penalty fo1 others * of removal from office by the common council. Sec. XXXI. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the market, clerk and under the direction of the market house committee to designate and rent all stands within the market houses, or the limits thereof stands ’ &c * not otherwise provided for in this ordinance, for such sum or sums as they, or a majority of them, shall deem just and proper. Sec. XXXII. Clerk’s salary.—Repealed. Sec. XXXIII. That this ordinance shall go into effect on the when ordi- nineteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and effect. totake that all ordinances and supplements thereto concerning the mar¬ kets be and the same hereby are* repealed, as soon as this ordi¬ nance goes into effect. A supplement to an ordinance entitled, “ An ordinance concerning the markets,” passed March seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-three. Passed November 20, 1854. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of T? •enton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. Clerk’s salary.—Repealed. Sec. II. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the market to wash Markethous- out and thoroughly cleanse the market houses, at least three times cfetmsedpe- a week from the first day of April to the first day of October, i n nodlcall y- every year, and at least twice a month during the rest of the year; and it shall also be his duty to have the streets around the markets, within the market limits, thoroughly cleansed, under the direction of the market house committee, at least once in each week during the year. 96 MARKETS. \ Rent of stalls to be paid in advance. Part of for¬ mer ordi~ nance re¬ pealed. Sec. III. That hereafter the rent of the several stalls in the ma:> ket houses shall be paid in advance as follows, that is to say: for all stalls rented for a less term than one year, the rent shall be paid in advance on taking possession of the same ; for all stalls rented for a year, one half of the rent shall be paid by the tenant at the time of renting the same, and the other half of said rent shall be paid on the first day of October next thereafter. And it shall be the duty of the clerk of the market to collect all rents when due-; and if any tenant shall fail to pay his rent in the manner herein di¬ rected, his lease for his stall or stalls shall thereby become void, and his right to occupy the same shall be at an end ; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the market to take immediate possession of such stall or stalls, and to report his proceedings to the market house committee, and, under their direction, to rent said stall or stalls to any proper applicant. Sec. IV. That so much of the thirteenth section of the ordinance to which this is a supplement, as provides that no more than two stalls shall be let to or held by any person or persons, be and the same is hereby repealed ; and further, that all parts of said ordi¬ nance inconsistent with the provisions of this supplement shall ba and the same are hereby repealed. A further supplement to an ordinance entitled, “ An ordl- eoncerning the markets,” passed March seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-three. Passed April 3, 1855. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants* of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Salary of Sec. I. That the clerk of the market shall receive for his services clerk of* incii*■ ket. the sum of one hundred’ and fifty dollars per annum, in equal quar¬ terly payments. Market lim- Sec. II. That themarket house committeeare hereby authorized clean. ekept to make such arrangements for the cleaning, at least once in each week, of that part of Greene street within the market limits, as to them may seem most advantageous. mei- 1 ordi.° r " Sec. III. That the first section of an ordinance entitled,. u A cd?c erep8a i'supplement an or( jj nanGe entitled, an ordinance concerning the MARKETS. 97 vnarkets,” passed March first, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and so much of the second section thereof as relates to cleaning the streets around the market houses, which supplement was passed November twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, be and the same are hereby repealed. An ordinance to authorize the establishment of a public market in the third ward. Passed March 13, 1854. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. 1. That John Whittaker and such other persons as may as-j. Whittaker sociate with him for that purpose are hereby authorized and em- authorized powered to erect a market house in the street called Market street, kefhmL^in in the third ward, between Broad street and Jackson street; said tlurd warcL market house shall be on the general plan of the Greene street markets, and not more than two feet wider than said Greene street markets. 1 he floors of said market house shali be fixed under the supervision of the city regulator and surveyor, to the end that the proper grade of the street be not interfered with. Sec. II. Said associates, their heirs and assigns, shall hold said city to have market house with the right or franchise of keeping a market redeniption. therein, and of taking the rents, issues, and profits thereof, as ten¬ ants in common, subject to the right of the city to take said market house at any time on payment of the original cost thereof. Sec. 111. Said associates, before they proceed to rent the said statement of stalls of said market house, shall present to the common council be‘faidbe- 0 their agreement, that the city may take said market house at any lore counciL time hereafter on payment to them, or their legal representatives, of tne original cost thereof, and also an affidavit of said associates setting forth in detail the items of said original cost, and that said cost was at as low a rate as they could reasonably procure the same to be done; and shall also present to council, with said oath, receipts, bills, or other vouchers, showing the items of such cost and expense, and the particular purposes for which they were ex¬ pended ; and 'provided also, that the said John Whittaker and his Proviso, associates shall, before acting under this ordinance, present to com- 98 MARKETS. mon council their acceptance in writing of the terms thereof, which shall be signed by said John Whittaker and each of his said asso- Proviso. ciates; and provided further , that in case said Whittaker oi any of his associates shall at any time sell or transfer their share or in¬ terest, or any part thereof, in said market house, that such transfei shall be by them noted on the book of minutes of common council, under the hands of the parties to such sale or transfer ; and no person shall have a right to be considered or treated by the city as one of said associates, unless his right to be so considered shall ap¬ pear on said book of minutes in manner aforesaid, statement of Sec. IV. That the said statement of the cost and expense Oi be binding erecting said market house shall not be held binding and conclusive above 7 actual upon the city, as to the amount thereof, if at any time it can be cost ' shown that the actual cost of erecting the same is less than the amount so stated. Associates Sec. V. That after the presentation of said agreement and affi- S&X davit, said associates may proceed to rent the stalls of said market and the sittings in the market place at such rates as they may deem reasonable; but no stall shall be rented for a longer period than one year at any one letting. Market days Sec. VI. That a market may be held at said market house on every Tuesday and Thursday, from daylight until one o clock in the afternoon, and on Saturday, from daylight until two o clock in the afternoon, and from six until nine o’clock in the evening, in each and every week. Bounds of Sec. VII. That part of said market street lying between Broad marketplace Jackgon glre0ts shall be the bounds and limits of the market place; and 110 person or persons shall sell or ofier for sale, duiing market hours of any market day, any kind of marketing intended to be disposed of in the common market in any public street of the third ward north of Bridge street, except within the above bounds or limits; and any person or persons buying or selling any kind of marketing intended to be disposed of in the common mai- ket outside the above limits during market hours on any market day shall forfeit and pay a fine of one dollar, with costs. Vehicles not Sec. VIII. No kind of vehicle, other than a wheelbarrow, ex- to stand in * ’ . *1-11-11 • marketlim- cept fish wagons, as herein after provided, shall, at any time irom daylight until nine o’clock in the forenoon, remain within the mar¬ ket limits, after having been allowed ten minutes to load or unload the same, under the penalty of one dollar, with costs, upon the person or persons having charge of said vehicle, nor shall any horse, mare, mule, or ox be allowed to stand in said limits duiing MARKETS. 99 the above period of time longer than ten minutes, under the like penalty, with costs, upon the person or persons having charge of the same. Sec. IX. No person shall at any time throw, lay, or leave any Filth, &e., heads, feet, offal, or other garbage of creatures, or water melon thrown in , . iii i market lim- shells, or any other vegetable substance or nauseous matter what- its. soever, in any part of said market limits, under the penalty of one dollar, with costs. Sec. X. No person shall sell or offer for sale within the market Markethours limits, during any day after the hour of four o’clock in the after- Wes'fruits, noon, any fruit or vegetables, or leave such fruit or vegetables' - within such limits after the above mentioned hour, under the penalty of five dollars, with costs, for every such offence. Sec. XI. If any person or persons offer for sale within the bounds Penalty for of the said market, bread, butter, meat, or lard, in lumps, purport- fn butter, 1Sht ing the same to be in pounds, and on the examination of the agent &c * appointed therefor by the associates, such lumps prove deficient in weight, such bread, butter, meat, or lard shall be forfeited, and said agent shall take charge of the same, as herein after directed. Sec. XII. Any person or persons buying, during market hours, Penalty for any kind of provision in the said market, or bounds thereof, and ag^n fo? Seli afterwards selling or offering the same for sale for a higher price, lnslierpuce * shall pay a penalty of five dollars, with costs, for every such offence. Sec. XIII. Any person or persons buying any kind of provisions Penalty for in the said market, or within the limits of the market place, before sell again, nine o’clock in the forenoon, with intent to carry the same to some other market or place for sale, or to expose the same to sale in the city of Trenton, shall forfeit for every such offence ten dollars, with costs. Sec. XI V. Any person buying, during market hours, iri said No person to market a greater quantity of butter than twenty pounds, shall for- thanTwenty feit and pay for every such offence the sum of one dollar, with butter. 3 0 * costs. Sec. XV. The occupants of all stalls shall be governed by such Associates rules for the regulation of said market as said association may from scribe rules . . ~ .. and regula- time to time prescribe. tions. Sec. XVI. Steelyards shall not at any time be used within the Steelyards said market limits, in weighing any kind of provisions offered for used? be sale, under the penalty of fifty cents, with costs, for every such offence. Sec. XVII. No stall shall be rented for the sale of shad in said Sale of shad market later in the year than the tenth day of June; and no per- regulat perry oi city. Sec. XXIX. That said associates shall signify their acceptance Associates to of the terms of this ordinance by their declaration in writing pre- eeptanceot sented to council within four weeks hereafter; and the said market oulllialue * house shall be finished and occupied on or beforo the fourth day el July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five; and that the said asso- 102 HAY SCALES. L. Stradling to have ex¬ clusive right of hay scales lor 5 years. Mo other hay scales to be erected. Sale for ■weighing. ciates shall have no right to use, occupy, or rent the said marked house, or any part thereof, until council shall declare that in their opinion the associates have complied with the terms of this ordi¬ nance. A supplement to an ordinance entitled, “ An ordinance to authorize the establishment of a public market in the third ward,” passed March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four.. Passed July 2, 1855. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — That John Whittaker and his associates, under the ordinance to which this is a supplement, have further time, until the fourth day of October next, during which to complete and finish the market house to he by them erected under the authority of the ordinance to which this is a supplement. An ordinance concerning the hay scales. Passed October, 9, 1848. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. 1 . The exclusive right and privilege of erecting, maintain¬ ing, and using scales or other device for the weighing of hay or straw in the city of Trenton is hereby vested in Lafayette Strad- ling for the term of five years from the passing of this ordinance. Sec. II. The corporation of said city shall not erect, or suffer any person or persons to erect, maintain, or use any scales or other device for the weighing of any hay or straw in the city of Tren¬ ton during the aforesaid term of five years. Sec. ill. The said Lafayette Stradling is hereby authorized to demand, take, and,receive, for the weighing of any hay or straw, HAY SCALES. 103 the sum of twenty-five cents for every draught so weighed, which sum shall be paid by the owner or person having the same weigh¬ ed, on the delivery of the certificate by the person weighing such hay or straw. Sec. IV. The said Lafayette Stradling, or the person or persons Weight to be by him deputed, shall give to the person or persons for whom Lo or they may weigh hay at the scales or other devise erected, or that may be erected, a certificate of the neat weight of any draught of hay or straw so weighed by him or them, without any additional charge for the same. Sec. A . 1 hat the said Lafayette Stradling, or some person by penalty for- him deputed for the purpose, shall from time to time and at all neglect ’ times during the continuance of the right and privilege by this ordinance vested in him, give immediate attendance, when there¬ unto required, for the weighing of any hay or straw which may be offered any day of the week (Sundays excepted); and if the said Lafayette Stradling shall at any time neglect or refuse for the space of half an hour to attend, either in person or by deputy, for the weighing of any hay or straw as aforesaid without a reasona¬ ble excuse, he shall forfeit and pay the penalty of five dollars, upon due proof made thereof before any one of the city magistrates having cognizance thereof. Slc. VI. If the said Lafayette Stradling shall suffer scales Or Scales not to other device erected by him for the weighing of hay or straw, to get^out of which may be brought for that purpose, to get out of order, and tjlder ‘ ^uflei it so to remain for the space of forty-eight hours without being repaired, then this ordinance and all rights vested in the said Lafayette Stradling shall cease and determine, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. VII. The said Lafayette Stradling, for and in considera- per an- tion of the privileges hereby granted, shall pay to the treasurer of pSd for prt the city of Trenton for the time being the sum of fifty dollars per Vllege ‘ annum, in quarterly payments, in each year, on the first days of April, July, October, and January, and on failure of making such payments as aforesaid for the space of thirty days after the same shall be due the privileges granted by this ordinance shall cease and determine. Sec. VIII. All bay brought to market for sale, and sold in the ah hay enia city of Trenton, shall, before the delivery of the same to the- pur- weighed. 1 '^ chaser, be weighed at the bay scales in the possession of Lafayette- Stradling, under the authority of the common council of the city of Trenton. 104 MAYOR’S OFFICE. Penalty for refusing to have hay weighed. Penalty for purchasing unweighed hay. Weigher to report to council. Weigher may be re¬ moved. Southeast room of first floor of city hall to have fire-proof. City clerk andtreasurer to arrange papers in fire-proof. Sec. IX. That every person or persons who shall bring hay to market for sale, and who shall refuse or neglect to have his or their hay weighed, as directed in the eighth section of this ordinance, or who shall have had their hay weighed at any other scales or device, and deliver the same to any person or persons in this city, he or they so offending shall, upon conviction thereof before any magistrate of this city, forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars penalty. Sec. X. If any person or persons shall purchase any hay brought to market as aforesaid, the same not being weighed as directed by this ordinance, he or they so offending shall, upon conviction thereof before any magistrate of this city, forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars. Sec. XI. That the said Lafayette Stradling shall report once in every six months to the common council the number of loads of hay and straw weighed by him at the scales above provided for. Sec. XII. That nothing in this ordinance shall prevent common council from removing the said Lafayette Stradling from his said office for misconduct therein or wilful neglect of any of the-duties herein before prescribed. An ordinance for furnishing the mayor’s office, erecting a- fire-proof, and for the collecting, classifying, and deposit¬ ing therein all hooks, records, vouchers, and other pub¬ lic documents belonsring to the city of Trenton. CD o li c • BOARD OP HEALTH. 109 Aii ordinance for tlie better preservation of the public health. Passed May 31, 1849. Whereas the disease called the Asiatic cholera has ajiain made Preamble, its appearance in various parts of our country, and in view of the possibility of its once more visiting Trenton, it becomes the duty of the common council to adopt such precautionary means as may tend, as far as human efforts can, to protect our fellow citizens from the ravages of the pestilence—therefore, Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Ti •cnton, in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That the persons appointed by resolution of the com-Board of mon council, on the twenty-fourth day of May, instant, be and stituted.° n they are hereby constituted and established as “the Board of Health of the City of Trenton.” Said board shall continue in exis¬ tence until they shall dissolve by their own resolution ; and vacan¬ cies which may occur therein shall be filled by the common coun¬ cil. Sec. II. It shall be the duty of the said board to keep minutes Board to of their proceedings in a book to be procured at the expense of utes! mm * the city; and particularly to record in such book all cases of Asiatic cholera which may occur, with the manner in which such cases may terminate ; and, at their dissolution, to deposit said book of minutes with the city clerk, to be kept with the public documents of the city. Sec. III. All appropriations to be made by the city council for Appropna- the use of said board shall be paid over to the president thereof, te r*tonboard', and expended, in their discretion, particularly in circulating infor¬ mation and advice, and in the procuring of disinfecting materials for gratuitous distribution among such as are unable to purchase; and the board are hereby required to keep accurate accounts of their receipts and expenditures, and to report the same to council. Sec. IV. It shall be the duty of every householder and owner iiousehold- of every unoccupied lot within the city to remove from the pre-move fifth mises which he, she, or they may so occupy or own, and from such parts of any alley which adjoins said premises, all offensive animal or vegetable matter, and all other kinds of garbage or filth, and thenceforth to keep the said jiremises and alleys free from the ac- K 4 110 BOARD OF HEALTH, Drains, &c, to be purifi ed. Gutters in front of pre mises to be kept clean. Paved parts of city to be divided into districts. Streets, &c., to be exam¬ ined from time to time. cumulation of such animal or vegetable matter or other kinds of garbage or filth. , Sec. V. It shall be the duty of every householder and owner of any unoccupied lot within the city to keep sweet and clean all drains or gutters on his, her, or their premises, and to preserve all sinks and privies in such condition, by proper construction and cleansing, and also by the use of lime or other disinfecting agents, that no offensive smell may arise therefrom. Sec. VI. It shall be the duty of every householder or owner of unoccupied premises and owner or tenant of any lot not built on, in front of whose premises the street gutter is paved, to cleanse said gutter once in each week, on the morning of the days to be fixed by the board of health, as herein after provided, heaping up the dirt in piles, to be ranged half-way between the middle of the street and the gutter; and where the streets are paved entirely across, it shall be the duty of every householder and owner of un¬ occupied property on such streets to cleanse, in front of his or her premises, to the middle of the street. Sec. VII. The board of health are h ereby empowered and re¬ quired to divide the paved parts of the city into as many districts as they may see fit, of as even size as may be with reference to amount of labor, and to give public notice of the limits of said districts, and the day of the week assigned to each for cleansing, as provided in the last section. And the city marshal is hereby re¬ quired to see that all persons neglecting to cleanse, as aforesaid, are warned to conform to the requisitions of this ordinance in that respect. The said marshal is also required to give the matter which may thus be heaped up in the streets to any person or persons who wall promptly remove the same without the city, at his or their expense, on the afternoons of the days of cleansing; or if no per¬ son will take the same away on such terms, then the said marshal is required to employ, at the lowest price for which he can obtain it to be done, some suitable person or persons to remove said mat¬ ter to a convenient place outside the settled parts of the city, to be thence taken by the steward of the poor house, for the use of the poor house farm ; but nothing herein shall be construed to pre¬ vent any person from removing, and appropriating to his own use, the dirt or manure procured by cleansing the gutter in front of his premises, as aforesaid, such removal being made at or before the times of removal aforesaid. Sec. VIII. The board of health are hereby authorized and em¬ powered, from time to time at their discretion, to examine the BOARD OF HEALTH. Ill public streets and alleys and the private premises of individuals, with a view to ascertain the existence of such matters as may tend to the injury of the public health; and all good citizens are hereby enjoined, as they would avoid the imputation of aiding the intro¬ duction or aggravation of the pestilence, to conform to the sug¬ gestions of the said board in all respects. Sec. IX. If the board of health, or any committee thereof, shall offensive find any offensive or injurious matters in any of the public streets,Amoved? 1)6 or along the margin of the river or of the Assanpink creek, and cannot discover by whom the same was deposited there, they are authorized to require the marshal to have the same removed ; and the said marshal is hereby directed to obey said requisition without delay. Sec. X. That if any person shall deposit on the margin of the Penalty for Delaware river or Assanpink creek, or on any vacant lot or public offensive 3 street, any offensive matter whatever, such as the board of health “cant lot, may deem injurious, and, upon notice, such person shall not forth- &c * with remove the same, he or she so offending shall, on complaint and conviction before the mayor, recorder, or either of the aider- men, forfeit and pay, to the use of the city, the sum of five dollars. Sec. XI. If the board of health, on their own view or that of penalty for any committee of their body, shall at any time discover on any jracUons"" private premises any offensive vegetable or animal matter, garbage, or other filth, such as is forbidden by the fourth section of this or¬ dinance, or any drain or gutter which is not kept sweet and clean, or any sink or privy which is not properly constructed or cleansed, or prevented from being offensive, as required by the fifth section of this ordinance, and the occupant of said premises shall neglect to remove said offensive matter or fifth, or to cleanse and purify such drain, gutter, sink, or privy, within three days after being notified to do so by the board of health, or any committee thereof, he .or she shall, on complaint by the president of said board, and conviction thereof before the mayor, recorder, or either of the aldermen, forfeit and pay for such offence the sum of ten dollars, to the use of the city; but nothing in this section shall be construed to take away the remedy provided for the removal of any such nuisance by the seventh section of the ordinance concerning nuisances, passed the twenty-first day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two. Sec. XII. If any householder or other person shall neglect toPenaityfor cleanse the gutter or street before his or her premises, as required cleanse gut- by the sixth section of this ordinance, he or she, on complaint of the te ' 9 ’ &c ' 112 FIRE DEPARTMENT. marshal, and conviction before the mayor, recorder, or either of the aldermen, shall forfeit and pay for every neglect, to the use of the city, the sura of two dollars. Marshal to Sec. NHL It shall be the duty of the city marshal to aid and as- aid board. g j gt t j ie b oar( j 0 f } iea ]th in their efforts, and to deliver all notices and requisitions which said board may see proper to issue. Whenopera- Sec. X1Y. This ordinance shall continue in force during the ex- toccLe.^^istence of the present board of health; and should, at anytime hereafter, the common council desire to establish another board of health, they may do so by resolution, and thereupon all the provi¬ sions of this ordinance shall be again in force, so long as said board or boards shall continue; and all the powers hereby given to the existing board shall belong to such other board, as fully as if this ordinance was again enacted with special reference thereto. An ordinance organizing and regulating tire tire depart¬ ment of the city of Trenton. Passed October 9, 1854. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Department Sec. I- The fire department of the city of Trenton shall here- eontronff^ a f ter consist of such firemen and hose as are now or may hereafter TjP" become attached to the several engine, hose, and hook and ladder companies of this city; said department to be under the control of a chief engineer and as many assistant engineers as there shall be fire companies connected from time to time with said department, who shall be known and distinguished by the appellation of “ Board of Engineers ;” and, for the purpose of effecting the more.coraplete organization of said fire department, the members attached to the several hose, fire engine, and hook and ladder companies of this city, as connected therewith, shall meet in their respective places of meeting on the first Monday in November of each year, and elect an engineer to represent their company in the said board of engineers; the chief engineer and first and second assistant engi¬ neers to be selected by the said board within one week after their election. FIRE DEPARTMENT. 113 of engines. Sec. II. It shall be the duty of the board of engineers to report Board to re- the name of the chief engineer, and first and second assistant engi- of cMefen- neers who may be so elected, to the clerk of the common council, as soon thereafter as practicable, to be reported by the said clerk at the next meeting of council following such election, for their ap¬ proval. Sec. III. No fire engine, hose, or hook and ladder apparatus, Fire appara- durmg any fire in this city, or any report of fire, or at any time, ™^d% b n- under any pretence whatever, shall be taken and removed out its house, unless one of the firemen of the said company shall be present - piesent and assent thereto, under the penalty of ten dollars for e\eiy such offence, to be forfeited and paid by and recovered from any and every person aiding or assisting in or consenting to the violation of any of the provisions of this section, upon conviction thereof before any magistrate of this city. Sec. IV. The chief engineer shall in all cases of fire have the Chief engi- sole and absolute control and command over all the engines andsoieVontmi® persons connected with the fire department; audit shall be the duty of the chief engineer to take proper measures that the seve- lal fire engines be arranged in the most advantageous situation, and be duly worked for the extinguishing of fires ; and in case another file shall originate while on duty, the chief engineer shall direct what engine or hose company shall attend the same : and it, more- ovei, shall be the duty of the chief engineer to examine, once in eveiy three months, into the condition and number of the fire engine houses, number of feet of engine hose and other fire apparatus in the city, and leport the same to common council, together with the names of all the members of the fire department, and the respective associations to which they belong; and whenever any of the said fire engines and othei fite apparatus shall require to be repaired, the chief engineer, under the direction of the fire department com¬ mittee of council, shall cause the same to be well and efficiently done ; and it shall also be the duty of the chief engineer to report in writing all accidents by fire that may happen in this city, with the causes thereof, as well as they may be ascertained, and the num- bei and description of the buildings destroyed or injured, together with the names of the owners or occupants, to the city clerk, who shall keep an accurate register of the same ; and it shall be the duty of the chief engineer to examine, once in three months, into the condition of the fire-plugs and tanks of the city, and see if they re¬ quire any repairs, and if they do, he, under the direction of the committee on the fire department of common council, shall cause K 114 FIRE DEPARTMENT. Provision for absence of chief engi¬ neer. The several branches of the depart¬ ment to be divided into companies. Firemen ex¬ empt from city poll tax. Fames of en¬ gineers, fire¬ men, &c., to ?ie registered Certificates of member¬ ship to be is sued. the same to be well and sufficiently repaired, at the expense of the city. Sec. V. In case of the absence of the chief engineer, the first assistant shall have and exercise all the powers of the chief engi¬ neer; and in case of the absence of the first assistant, the second assistant shall have and exercise the same powers. Sec. VI. The firemen, hosemen, and hook and ladder men shall be divided into companies, to consist of not more than fifty men to each hose company, seventy men to each engine company, with an additional number of forty men to such engine companies as run a carriage carrying hose, and thirty members to each hook and lad¬ der company. Sec. VII. Hereafter all persons connected with the fire depart¬ ment, as herein before organized, shall be exempt from the pay¬ ment of all city poll tax to be assessed by the city, so long as they remain active members of said fire department; and, in order that it may be better ascertained who are entitled to such exemption as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the president or secretary of every fire company, now organized or hereafter to be organized, to make report, through the chief engineer, to the clerk of common council, on or before the last Monday in April in every year, of the names of every person belonging to or acting in the capacity of firemen in their respective companies. Sec. VIII. It shall be the duty of the clerk of common council to register, in a suitable book to be kept for that purpose, the names of engineers, firemen, hosemen, and hook and ladder men belong¬ ing to the several companies, as reported to him by the president or secretary of said companies, as herein before provided. Sec. IX. It shall be the duty of every person belonging to the fire department, or who hereafter shall belong to the same, to pro¬ cure a certificate from the clerk of common council designating bis membership and the name of the company to which he may be at¬ tached ; and the said clerk shall make a minute of the same in a book kept for registering the names of the members of the fire de¬ partment, and endorse said certificate “ Registered in city clerk’s office, this-day of-and no person whose name shall not be so registered, and who shall not procure such certificate as aforesaid, shall be entitled to any of the privileges or immunities provided for in this ordinance ; and the clerk of common council, for the additional service required by this ordinance, shall receive twenty dollars, to be added to the yearly amount he now receives* as compensation for his services. CITY HALL. 115 Sec. X. In order that the engineers may be the more readily dis- Engineers to tinguished at fires, each of the engineers shall wear such equipments fished"by as the board shall hereafter designate, such equipments to be fur- c ‘i ui i jnicutd * nished at the expense of the city. feEC. XI. I he assessors in the several wards of this city, previous Assessors to to making out then duplicates, shall call upon the city clerk, and of exempts, receive from him a list of persons in their wards exempt from the city poll tax, as herein before prescribed. Sec. XII. All ordinances, or parts thereof, heretofore passed, that shall conflict with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. All ordinance concerning the city liall. Passed February 3, 1851. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City cf Trenton, in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That there shall be appointed, annually, by the common city hail council a standing committee, to be called the city hall committee, to have'the who shall have the care and supervision of the city hall building renting and premises, with power to rent the several rooms and offices thereoL thereof for terms not to exceed one year. They may rent the temporary use of the saloon from time to time, the standing price for which shall be five dollars for each occasion on which the same is occupied ; but said committee may, in their discretion, charge a higher or lower price therefor, reporting the reasons for such vari¬ ance to the council, at their next stated meeting. The rent for the temporary use of the saloon shall be required by the committee to be paid in advance. The committee may grant the free use of the saloon to the citizens for public meetings in relation to city affairs. Sec. II. That in the month of January, in each year, the common Keeper of council shall elect, by ballot, some proper person to be keeper of^^ 1 ^, said hall, whose term of office shall commence on the first day 0 f nually * April thereafter, and continue for one year from that time and until a successor shall be appointed. Sec. III. That it shall be the duty of the keeper of the hall to His duties, open, light, and warm the saloon, for the use of persons hiring the same, upon the written order of the city hall committee, and noi 116 CITY HALL. Further du¬ ties. Allowances to, and pri¬ vileges of. Duties of ci¬ ty hall com¬ mittee. otherwise; to be in attendance at all public meetings and exhibi¬ tions which may be held there; to see that no part of the building or furniture is injured ; to prevent all improper conduct and to preserve order; and to enable him more effectually to do this, he is hereby vested with all the power and authority which a consta¬ ble of the city would have in such cases. For the services in this section mentioned, he shall be entitled to have, out of the rent re¬ ceived for each occasion on which said saloon may be so used, the sum of one dollar. In no case shall he act as doorkeeper for, or be employed by the persons renting the saloon, under penalty of forfeiting the compensation aforesaid. Sec. IV. It shall also be the duty of said keeper to ring the alarm bell, under the directions and regulations of the chief engi¬ neer of the fire department, in all cases of fire in this city or its vicinity, and the bell shall not be rung for any other purpose, save for the purpose of calling the people to elections or public meet¬ ings ; to keep every part of the building and furniture clean and in good order, and for that purpose to clean and scrub out tho¬ roughly the public parts and rooms of the said building and its public stairs and passages at least once in each month, and as much oftener as the committee shall direct; to keep safely and provide food for such persons as may be committed to the cells of said building by any magistrate of the city, to be in attendance at all meetings of the common council, and have their chamber properly warmed and lighted. Sec. V. That for supplying food to prisoners, the keeper shall be allowed eight cents per meal. For the other services mentioned in the foregoing section (including all claim on the city for fees as jailor or turnkey), he shall have the use of the dwelling part of the city hall free of rent; this shall include such use of the northwest room of the first floor as may be had without interfering with the use of said room for holding elections; but it is to be distinctly understood that said room is always to be open for holding general and special elections therein. Sec. VI. That it shall be the duty of the city hall committee to keep, or cause to be kept, a book, in which shall be registered all lettings of any part of said hall; and they shall report to the coun¬ cil, at each monthly meeting, what moneys have been received from said building during the previous month, and also the condi¬ tion of the premises, and whether the duties of the keeper have been properly performed. Sec. VII. The keeper of the city hall shall keep clean and in SHADE TREES. 117 good condition the paupers’ lodging room in the rear of the build- To keep in ing, together with the fixtures and furniture therein, and shall fur-peS’iSdglng nish meals and lodging to poor travellers, on the written order 0 f room - the overseer of the poor, at such price as shall be from time to time allowed by council, and shall enforce all such rules in relation to said establishment as the city hall committee shall prescribe. Sec. VIII. That the ordinance entitled, “An ordinance concern¬ ing the city hall,” passed the fourth day of March, A. D. one thou¬ sand eight hundred and fifty-four, be and the same is hereby re¬ pealed. An ordinance for tlie protection of shade trees. Passed January 6, 1851. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That the twenty-first section of the ordinance entitled, Part offor- “ An ordinance concerning the streets, the duty of the street com- “ancefi' mittee and street commissioner,” passed March seventh, eighteen pealed ' hundred and forty-two, be and the same is hereby repealed. Sec. II. That whenever the street committee shall think any Proceedings tiee to be such an obstruction in the sidewalk or gutter as to be adeemed^ 6 nuisance, they may report such opinion to the common council, nuisance - wheieupon the council shall fix upon a time for considering said lepoit, of which time the president shall notify the owner or pos¬ sessor of the premises in front of which such tree may be; and said owner and possessor may appear at such time, in person or by attorney, and be heard upon the question ; and if, upon full hearing and investigation, the council shall determine that such tree shall be lemoved, it shall be the duty of the street committee to have it removed accordingly. Sec. III. That if any person shall cut, bark, injure, or destroy Penalty for any shade tree standing on any sidewalk in this city, he or she so oHnjurinf offending, on conviction thereof before the mayor, recorder, or Uees ' either of the aldermen, shall forfeit and pay such penalty as the officer before whom the same may be tried may adjudge, not ex¬ ceeding twenty-five dollars; and that nothing herein contained 118 CITY SOLICITOR. Duty of mar¬ shal, &c. City solicitor appointed, and his du¬ ties. To advise with council, &c. To draft or¬ dinances. To prosecute and defend actions. Assistant counsel may be employed shall prevent the owner of any tree so injured from recovering by civil action any damage he may sustain by reason thereof. Sec. IY. That it shall be the duty of the clerk of the market, the marshal, constables, and police officers, to prevent the tying of horses to trees along the sidewalks, except by the owners of said trees, or with his or her consent. An ordinance to authorize the appointment of a city soli¬ citor. Passed April 3, 1855. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That the common council shall elect annually, on the first meeting in May, or as soon thereafter as may be convenient, by ballot, a city solicitor, who shall have charge of and conduct the law business of the corporation and all other law business in which the city shall be interested, when so ordered by the common coun¬ cil, and shall have charge of and conduct the legal proceedings ne¬ cessary in opening, widening, or altering streets, and draw all leases, deeds, contracts, and other papers connected with the affairs of the city. Sec. II. He shall from time to time, when required, advise the common council and their committees and officers, respectively, upon all matters which may be submitted to him for his opinion. Sec. III. He shall draw such ordinances as may be required of him by the common council, or any committee thereof. Sec. IV. He shall prosecute and defend, as the solicitor of the corporation, all actions which may be brought by or against them, or any officer thereof, for or by reason of any matter or duty con¬ nected with or growing out of their respective offices, or in which the corporation are interested, in any court in this state, including actions for violations of the ordinances of the common council, or arising under the charter of the city, or under the laws of this state, in which the city is interested. Sec. V. He shall not employ for the said corporation any counsel at the expense of said city, without the assent of the said common council first duly obtained, to act with him as assistant counsel on loans. 119 the tiial or argument of any cause, or in regard to any other mat¬ ter or proceeding. . Sec * ^ sbab be entitled to receive, annually, for the ser- Salary, &c. vices in this ordinance mentioned, the sum of one hundred dollars, for the conducting and argument and trial of all suits and prosecu¬ tions. He shall, nevertheless, be entitled to receive the taxable costs in all actions and proceedings conducted, prosecuted, or defended by him, as such solicitor. „ SeC * VI1, U P on tlie expiration of his term of office, or his re- To deliver signation thereof or removal therefrom, the said solicitor shall s" c ^ ers to forthwith, on demand, deliver to his successor in office all papers ^ in his hands belonging to the city, or any of its officers, and all pa¬ pers in actions prosecuted or defended by him then pending or Undetermined, and a written consent of substitution of his succes¬ sor in all such actions then pending and undetermined. . f EC ' VIIT * He sha11 not brin S an a PPeal in any action in which Nott0 bring judgment shall have been given against the city, except by direc- appea1, &c - tion of the common council. Sec. IX. He shall not institute any suit or action without the ex- Suits not to pressed concurrence of the common council duly obtained. [^instituted, An ordinance to facilitate lighting the streets with gas. Passed June 5, 1848. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That the mayor of the city be requested and required, Mayor an* if this ordinance meets his concurrence and approbation, to con- Contract tract, in due form of law, with the Trenton Gas Light Company p^y. com ' in manner following, that is to say : Whereas the common council of the city of Trenton desire to Preamble, have the principal streets of said city lighted with gas, and the 1 renton Gas Light Company propose, in consideration that council will subscribe ten thousand dollars to their capital stock, to extend the main pipes of their contemplated works, and serve the public lamps therefrom with gas, to meet the wishes of council and the wants of the city: 120 LOANS. Now this indenture, made this - day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, between the Trenton Gas Light Com¬ pany, of the first part, and the Inhabitants of the City of Tren¬ ton, of the second part, witnesseth, that the party of the first part, in consideration of the covenants herein after recited and of the subscription of ten thousand dollars to their capital stock, do cove¬ nant and agree to and with the party of the second part, in manner following, to wit: That they, the party of the first part, in the con¬ struction and erection of their proposed gas works, and in the laying of main pipes therefrom, will continue the same, of suitable size, through the following named streets of Trenton, the following dis¬ tances, that is to say: along Warren street, from the Assanpink bridge to where the Pennington road intersects the said street; along Greene street, from Washington street to the canal feeder; along Front street, from Willow street to Montgomery street; along State street, from Calhoun’s lane to the canal ; along Hanover street, from Greene street to Stockton street; along Perry street, from Greene street to Stockton street. And the said party of the first part further agree, that they will, at the request of the common council of said city, serve the public lamps that may be hereafter erected along the streets and within the limits aforesaid, or such of them as council from time to time may designate, with gas, at a price not to exceed the current rates charged by them to private consumers; and the said party of the first part do further agree, at the expiration of twenty years from this date, to purchase the said stock subscribed by virtue of this agreement at par, should council then elect to sell the same. In consideration whereof, and for the purpose of lighting the said city as aforesaid, the party of the second part hereby covenant and agree to forthwith subscribe for five hundred shares of the capital stock of the Trenton Gas Light Company, and to pay there¬ for, upon the completion of the mains aforesaid along the streets as aforesaid, and upon the party of the first part being ready to serve the gas as aforesaid, and upon the legal execution and tender, by the said party of the first part, to the mayor of the city of the bond of the said party, in the penal sum of twenty thousand dol¬ lars, conditioned for the faithful performance, on their part, of the covenants and agreements by them herein agreed to be performed; and upon the legal execution and tender by the said party of the first part, to the said mayor, of a mortgage, constituting a first lien upon all their lands, buildings, works, mains, and corporate fran¬ chises to secure the fulfilment of the condition of the said bond, LOANS. 121 which payment shall be made in cash, or in the certificates of loan issued by the mayor, under his hand and the corporate seal of said city, each for one thousand dollars, payable to the Trenton Gas Light Company or to their assigns, bearing an interest of six per cent., payable annually; which certificates shall be redeemable in twenty years, shall bear date on the day of their issue, and be transferable by written assignment and delivery. And the said party of the second part further covenant and agree, that upon the completion of the said gas works, they will erect and keep up public lamps along the said streets in which the mains of the said company are to be laid, as aforesaid, at intervals not to exceed four hundred feet; provided, that nothing in these articles of agreement Proviso, shall be so construed as to compel the said the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton to light with gas, or otherwise, the said lamps, or any part thereof. Sec. II. And be it enacted , That the mayor of the city, upon the Certificates fulfilment of the said contract on the part of the Trenton Gas Lightissued. Company, shall forthwith execute, on behalf of the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, ten certificates of loan for one thousand dol¬ lars each, bearing an annual interest of six per cent., and redeem¬ able in twenty years, which certificates he shall pay to the said company, upon receiving from them the bond and mortgage afore¬ said, and a certificate duly executed to the said the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton for five hundred shares of the capital stock of said company, which certificate of stock shall be placed in the keeping of the treasurer of said city. The above ordinance meets my concurrence and approbation. Signed June 7, 1848. Sam. R. Hamilton, Mayor, fyc. An ordinance to provide for raising money by loan to pay the expenses of lighting the city with gas, and to discharge the debts of preceding years, and supply the deficiency.'of means to meet the current expenses of the present year, occasioned by an error in the assessment. Passed December 14, 1848. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled,, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — L 122 LOANS. Proposaisfor Sec. I. That the treasurer of the city is hereby authorized and sued. directed, if approved by the mayor, to issue proposals for a loan of five thousand dollars; and the faith of the city is hereby pledged to the lenders of the same for the payment thereof, with legal interest. Certificates Sec. II. The treasurer shall receive proposals for the whole sum, to be issued. or any part thereof not less than one hundred dollars ; ‘provided , that the said treasurer shall accept no bid for the said loan, or any part thereof, at less than par value; and for the sums borrowed shall issue certificates of loan, bearing interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually on the first days of July and January, in each year ; three thousand dollars of said loan shall be reimbursable on the first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and the remaining two thousand dollars shall be reimbursable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. Certificates Sec. III. The treasurer shall issue the said certificates of loan trsDsi^rdblc ' for such sums, not less than one hundred dollars, each, as the lenders thereof shall prefer; and the said certificates shall be severally trans¬ ferable by the holders .thereof, or their legal attorneys, executors, administrators, or assigns, by endorsement thereon at the office and in the presence of the treasurer of the city for the time being. Sec. IV. This ordinance shall go into effect immediately after the passage thereof. Approved December 18th, 1848. Sam. R. Hamilton, Mayor , fyc. A supplement to an ordinance entitled, “ An ordinance to provide for raising money by loan to pay the expenses of lighting the city with gas, and to discharge the debts of preceding years, and supply the deficiency of means to to meet the current expenses of the present year, occa¬ sioned by an error in the assessments.” Passed January 1, 1849. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Part of for¬ mer ordi¬ nance re¬ pealed Sec. I. That so much of the second section of the said ordinance as relates to the time at which the moneys to be loaned are made reimbursable, is hereby repealed. LOANS. 123 Sec. II. And be it further enacted , That the whole sum of five When loan thousand dollars to be raised by loan, as in the said ordinance is setbic. forth, shall be reimbursable on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty. Sec. III. 1 hat this ordinance shall go into effect as soon as it When to ^ fccilec cflcct shall be approved of by the mayor of the city of Trenton. An ordinance authorizing an agreement with the Trenton Gas Light Company. Passed September 11, 1854. Whereas the Trenton Gas Light Company have proposed to the Preamble, common council to purchase the shares of the stock of said com¬ pany now belonging to the city of Trenton, at the sum of ten thousand dollars, and to annul all agreements heretofore made in relation to said stock between said city and said company, said ten thousand dollars to be payable on the twenty-first day of June, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, and to draw interest, to fall due quarterly, and to be secured by a bond and mortgage on the lands, pipes, fixtures, works, ma¬ chinery, and franchises of said company, said mortgage to be a lien on said lands, pipes, fixtures, works, machinery, and fran¬ chises second only to another mortgage thereon of fifteen thou¬ sand dollars, which said company propose to retain the right to make, if their necessities shall in their opinion hereafter require it; and whereas said company have further offered to permit said city to offset said interest, as the same shall fall due, against any claim which may accrue to said company for gas consumed by said city, if any shall be so consumed; and whereas the com¬ mon council deem such arrangement beneficial to said city— therefore, Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — That whenever the said Trenton Gas Light Company shall have stock be- executed and delivered to the city treasurer a bond and mortgage dtymay°be on the lands, pipes, fixtures, works, machinery, and franchises Q f tranikned - said company, to secure to the city the sum of ten thousand dollars, 124 LOANS. on the twenty-first day of June, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, with interest thereon from the date of said mort- gage, payable quarterly on the first days of January, April, July, and October, in each year, with satisfactory proofs that the same is a first lien upon the mortgaged premises, and also an agreement authorizing any money which may thereafter become due from the city to the company for gas, or so much thereof as may be sufficient for that purpose, to be credited on said mortgage quarterly, in pay¬ ment of the interest thereof, as the same shall fall due, said bond, mortgage, proofs, and agreement to be approved of by the com¬ mon council, that then the mayor is hereby authorized and required to transfer to the said company the shares of stock therein now belonging to the city, to cancel in legal form the mortgage hereto¬ fore given by said company to said city, and to give to said com- pany, under the seal of the city, an agreement, that if hereafter the necessities of said company shall in their opinion render it de- siiable to execute another mortgage on the lands, pipes, fixtures, works, machinery, and franchises of said company, for a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars; that said second mortgage, when executed, shall, notwithstanding its subsequent execution, have priority to the mortgage to the city above referred to, if at the time of the executing said second mortgage said company shall be so situated that giving priority to said second mortgage shall have no further prejudicial effect upon the mortgage of the city. An ordinance to authorize the borrowing of money for the purpose of building a school house. Passed March 19, 1849. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — $6000 to be borrowed. City pledged for payment. Sec. I. That the treasurer of the city of Trenton be and he is hereby authorized to borrow, for the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, the sum of six thousand dollars, for a period of five years, the said sum to be appropriated for the purpose of building a public school house in the city of Trenton. Sec. II. That the said treasurer may pledge the faith of the In¬ habitants of the City of Trenton for the repayment of the said loans. 125 sum; and he is hereby authorized to execute a bond, in the name an on behalf ot the said the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton conditioned for the payment of the said money at the end of five years from the time of borrowing the same, with interest from date payable yearly thereon; and the mayor of the said city is hereby authorized and requested to affix the seal of the said city to said ond which said bond, when thus executed, shall be deemed and considered legal and binding on the Inhabitants of the Citv of 1 renton. J , m : , That , tl,e interest and principal of the said loan interest, *c„ 1 be P aul 111 the manner following, to wit: a sum equal to the t0bepaid * yearly interest and the one-fifth part of the said loan shall be added yearly and every year to the amount to be raised by taxes in the said city, until the said loan and interest be fully paid, which said sum thus raised shall be a fund in the hands of the treasurer of the said city, to be exclusively applied, under the direction of the common council, to the liquidation of the said loan and interest. Sec. IV. That this ordinance shall go into effect immediately men to a ter the same shall be approved of by the people of the said city takeeffect - at their next annual election. ’ An ordinance to cany into effect the vote of the citizens of Trenton in favor of the school house loan. Passed May 9, 1850. Whereas the superintendent of public schools and the school com-Preamble mittee recently recommended the raising, by loan, the sum of six thousand dollars, for the purpose of purchasing a lot, and uildmg a public school house thereon, which recommendation was submitted to the citizens at the last city election; and whereas the result of said election was in favor of said loan, whereby it hath become the duty of the common council to bor¬ row said sum on the credit of the city, upon the best terms upon which they can procure the same—therefore, Te it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , m Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — .^ec. I. That the city treasurer is hereby authorized and required Loan of to cause to be prepared certificates of a loan, to be called theSfzeT L* 126 LOANS. When reim¬ bursable. Certificates not less than $ 100 . Certificates must bring par. Loan to be advertised. “ Public school house loan,” for an amount not exceeding in the whole the sum of six thousand dollars; that said certificates shall pledge the faith of the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton to pay to the payee named therein, or to his or her order, the principal sum mentioned in said certificate at a certain time, to be expressed therein, with lawful interest thereon, on the first day of August, in each year. Sec. II. That the sura of six hundred dollars, part of said loan, shall be made payable on'the first day of August, A. D. eighteen hun¬ dred and fifty-one, and the like sum shall be payable on the first day of August in each succeeding year, until the whole be paid. Sec. III. That no certificate in said loan shall be issued for a less sum than one hundred dollars, nor for a fractional part of one hun¬ dred dollars. Sec. IV. That the city treasurer is authorized to dispose of said certificates of loan for the best price he can obtain for the same, but in no case for less than their par value. Sec. V. That when certificates of loan shall be prepared, the mayor is hereby authorized to sign the same, and to affix thereto the common seal of the city. Sec. VI. That the city treasurer is hereby authorized to make such advertisement for said loan as may be necessary, and shall pay the proceeds to be derived from said loan over to the superintendent of public schools, as soon as he shall receive the same. An ordinance to authorize a loan for the purpose of paying that part of the city debt which became due on the first day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty.. Passed June 6 , 1850. Preamble. Whereas a part of the city debt, amounting to thirteen thousand five hundred and thirty-three dollars and sixty-eight cents, (being the loan authorized in the years eighteen hundred and thirty- eight and eighteen hundred and forty-three, respectively,) be¬ came due on the first day of January last, and the holders of said loans then consented to an extension of the time of payment thereof until the first day of July next, upon the condition that they should have the privilege of taking at par an amount of a new loan equal to that of their respective certificates in the old loans—therefore, LOANS. 127 Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That the city treasurer be and he is hereby authorized $ 13 ,sootob. to borrow, for the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, the sum 0 f borrowe w ith the expense of keeping such swine, goats, or sheep, and take them away, it shall then be the duty of said pound keeper to sell such swine, goats, or sheep by public outcry to the highest bidder, and after deducting the forfeitures aforesaid, to be paid by him to the treasurer of the city; and the expense of keeping such swine, goats, or sheep to be taxed by one of the city magistrates, together with fifty cents for each sale, for his own trouble and at¬ tendance on said sale ; he shall pay the remainder, if any there be, to the treasurer of the city, to and for the use of the city, and shall at the same time render an account of the swine, goats, or sheep, SWINE, ETC* 133 *nd of the sale and deductions, to the clerk of the city, who shall hie such account in his office ; provided always , that if the owner or owners of such swine, goats, or sheep shall at any time within one year after such sale, come forward and prove his property in any such swine, goats, or sheep to the satisfaction of any of the magistrates of the city, such magistrates shall certify the same to the city clerk, who shall draw an order for the balance of the sales of the swine, goats, or sheep so by them proved to be their property, after the legal deductions aforesaid are made, on the treasurer of the city, which order, being countersigned by the said magistrate and piesident of the council, shall be paid by the treasurer out of any moneys in his hands belonging to the city. Sec. V. If the said pound keeper shall neglect or refuse, after Penalty cm being notified or informed that any swine, goats, or sheep are run-LT^S ning at large or trespassing within the said city, to seize and secure the same in public pound, he shall forfeit and pay, for each and every such offence, upon complaint of any person who will make the same, and conviction before any of the magistrates of the said city, the sum of ten dollars, to be levied and applied according to law. Sec. VI. If any person or persons shall molest, obstruct, or him Pound keep- der the said pound keeper in the discharge of his duties under this Stol 66 ordinance, or shall break the said pound, or illegally take therefrom any of the swine, goats, or sheep impounded therein, he, she, or they so offending shall, for each and every such offence, upon com¬ plaint of the said pound keeper, and conviction before any of the magistrates of the said city, forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars, to be levied and applied according to law. Sec. VII. The ordinance entitled, “ An ordinance concerning swine, and goats,” passed February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-two, is hereby repealed. A supplement to an ordinance entitled, “ An ordinance con¬ cerning swine, goats, and sheep,” passed January fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two. Passefi February 5, 1852. Le it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of 2 renton, in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — u 134 LIENS. That the penalty of five dollars, mentioned in the first and third sections of the ordinance to which this is a supplement, be and the same hereby is reduced to the sum of one dollar. Book to be kept. Liens to be entered in book. Owner of lot to be notifi¬ ed. Treasurer to be furnished with state¬ ment. Clerk to en¬ ter satisfac¬ tion. An ordinance concerning liens on real estate. Passed March 30, 1852. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of'the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That it shall be the duty of the city clerk to procure, at the expense of the city, and keep a well bound book, which shall be called “the Book of Liens.” Sec. II. That whenever any claim which the city may have against the owner or owners of any lot, shall have become by law a lien upon said lot, it shall be the duty of said clerk to enter said lien in said book, setting forth the names of the owner or reputed owneis and a description of the said lot, and leaving a margin of two inches wide on the left hand side of the page on which said entry is made; for this service the said clerk shall be entitled to six cents for each hundred words of said entry. Sec. III. That immediately after making said entry, it shall be the duty of said clerk to notify said owner or reputed owner of the fact, that such entry has been made. Should said owner or reputed owner not reside in the city, said notice shall be sent by mail, as soon as the said clerk may ascertain the residence of said owner or reputed owner. Sec. IV. It shall also be the duty of said clerk, immediately after entering said lien, to furnish the city treasurer with a short statement of the amount of said lien and the names of the owners or reputed owners. Sec. V. Whenever any such owner, or any person in his behalf, shall produce to said clerk the receipt of the city treasurer for the amount of said lien, it shall be the duty of said clerk to enter on the margin opposite to said entry the fact, that said lien has been paid and satisfied ; for this service he shall be entitled to receive from the said party the sum of twelve cents. BURYING GROUND. 135 A supplement to an ordinance entitled, “An ordinance concerning the licensing of taverns.” Passed March 31, 1851. Be it ordained and enacted by tlic Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That whenever a license shall be granted to any person License to be to keep an inn or tavern within this city, it shall be the duty of the Sure?.* 0 clerk to make out the license, and endorse thereon, in words at length, the sum assessed by council for such license; and after the person to whom said license is granted shall have entered into re¬ cognizance, as required by law, then to deliver the license to the city treasurer. Sec. II. lhat every person to whom a license shall be granted License to be to keep an inn or tavern shall, before the delivery of the license to whenaLess- him or her, pay to the city treasurer the sum assessed and endorsed 10 * pa d ' thereon as aforesaid ; and no license shall be delivered to any per¬ son by the treasurer until the said assessment shall have been paid to him in full. An ordinance to prevent further interments in burying ground in Hanover street. Passed August 4 , 1851. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — That from and after the passage of this ordinance, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to make, or cause to be made, any interment or interments in the burying ground in the rear of the brick building on the north side of Hanover street, between Montgomery and Greene streets, now occupied as a school house for colored children, under penalty of ten dollars for each offence, which sum shall be levied by warrant, upon due proof of such offence before any magistrate of this city. 136 NUISANCES. Owners to secure banks Committee to superin¬ tend. T)uty of com mittee. Penalty for neglect or refusal. An ordinance to open and clear out Petty run. Passed December 4, 184$. Whereas it has been made to appear to the common council of the city of Trenton that Petty run, in its present condition, is a nuisance requiring the immediate action of the city authorities therefore, Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That each owner of land over whose property Petty run passes, from the point where it rises in the lot at the junction of the canal and feeder, in the city of Trenton, to its terminus near the old State bank, in Union street, shall, upon receiving the notice herein after mentioned, clear out and free from obstructions, on his own premises, the said run, and cut the bed of the same, not to ex¬ ceed six feet deep, and five feet wide, at the discretion ol the com¬ mittee herein after named, and firmly construct the banks of the same, so as to secure them from washing into the said run. Sec. II. That a committee, consisting of William C. Branin, William Boswell, and Aaron H. Vancleve, be and the same are hereby appointed, whose duty it shall be to superintend the clear¬ ing out and widening, in manner aforesaid, of the said run ; and the said committee shall cause a printed notice of the requirements- of this ordinance to he served on each of the land owners, or their tenants, over whose property the said run passes; and it shall be likewise the duty of the said committee to cause the said run to he cleared out, and the bed of the same excavated to the dimensions in the first section prescribed, wherever the said run crosses any of the public streets of the said city ; and the sum of twenty dollars is hereby appropriated to the said committee to meet the expenses incident to this duty. Sec. III. That it shall be the duty of the said committee, and they are hereby empowered to cause, in all cases where the said run has deviated, or been caused to deviate from its original and ancient channel, to he replaced therein, whenever in their opinion the interest of the public will be promoted thereby. Sec. IV. That if any person or persons who shall be notified, as aforesaid, by the said committee to open, clear out, or widen the bed of the said run, in manner, aforesaid, shall for the space of ten days neglect or refuse to perform any of the duties above enjoined* NUISANCES. 137 or upon being notified in writing by the said committee that he, she, or they are required to restore the said run to its original channel, shall refuse or neglect for the like space of time so to do, such per¬ son or persons so offending, upon conviction thereof before the mayor, recorder, or either of the aldermen of the said city, shall forfeit and pay, for each and every such offence, the sum of one hundred dollars. Sec. V. That it shall be the duty of the said committee to sue Committee for all penalties incurred for a violation of any of the provisions ofpenaities this ordinance ; and full power is hereby given to the said commit¬ tee to institute and carry on, in the name of the corporation or otherwise, all such legal suits or prosecutions as in their opinion may be necessary fully to effectuate the provisions of this ordinance. A supplement to an ordinance to open and clear out Petty run. Passed December 8, 1848. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That it shall be lawful for the committee appointed to Nuisances to . i i t • i . i . (, -r, be removed, superintend the clearing out and widening oi Jretty run to cause all nuisances, such as privies, hog pens, and all other matters and things that shall be deemed requisite to put and keep said run in a clear, free, wholesome, and regular stream, to be immediately re¬ moved. Sec. II. That if any person or persons shall refuse or neglect, Perft]ty for after five days’ notice shall be given in writing by said committee^. u ^ alorne “ requesting the removal of any nuisances as aforesaid, such person or persons shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before the mayor, recorder, or either of the aldermen of the city of Trenton, shall forfeit and pay, for each and every such offence, the sum of fifty dollars. 138 NUISANCES. An ordinance to abate a certain nuisance adjoining the raceway of the Trenton Water Power Company. Passed August 2, 1853. Preamble. Whereas it has been sufficiently made to appear to the common council that there is a certain space of low ground, marsh, or gully, adjoining the raceway of the Trenton Water Power Com¬ pany, extending from the old tanyard to where it disappears under the raceway embankment near Federal street, in this city, and that it is during a great part of the year more or less filled with stagnant water and other offensive matter, and is a nuisance to the people of that neighborhood, and greatly injurious to their health, and that such nuisance cannot be abated, except by filling up said space of ground—therefore, Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of 'Trenton, in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Owners of Jots to fill up. Penalty for omission. Street com¬ mittee to see to execution of ordinance. Sec. I. That the several owners of the lots upon which said space of low ground, marsh, or gully, or any part thereof, exists are hereby directed and required to fill up the same with earth, so that it may be solid, and be at least as high as the adjoining high ground, the owner and owners of each lot being required to fill up so much thereof, in manner aforesaid, as is upon his or their own ground. Sec. II. That if any owner or owners of the lots aforesaid shall omit to complete his or their portion of the aforesaid work, or shall in any manner fail to perform the duty required of him or them by this ordinance for the space of fifteen days after notice from the street committee, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty-five dollars for such omission or failure, and also the sum of ten dollars for each additional week’s delay to per¬ form such work thereafter, to be sued for and recovered by the city treasurer, in an action of debt, to and for the use of the city; and further, shall be liable to pay all such expenses as the city may incur in doing such part of the aforesaid work as such owner or owners should have done. Sec. III. That the street committee are hereby charged with the duty of carrying this ordinance into effect, and causing said work to be done in a proper manner by the said property owners, ac¬ cording to the true intent and meaning hereof, or the said penalties to be sued for, as counsel may direct. LAMP S. 139 A supplement to the ordinance entitled, “An ordinance concerning nuisances,” passed the twenty-first of Febru¬ ary, eighteen hundred and forty-two. Passed April 23, 1855. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — ^ec. I. lhat it shall not be lawful to keep any seed horse or ass, or use the same for breeding purposes, in any part of the city, without a written permit from the mayor, which permit shall spe¬ cify the premises whereon said seed horse or ass may be kept and used. Sec. II. That the mayor may issue such permit only when four householders, whose residences are nearest the premises where such seed horse or ass is desired to be kept for use, shall certify in wiiting their belief that the keeping and using of such horse or ass at the place indicated will be no inconvenience or annoyance to any one, and their willingness to have said permit issued. Sec. III. That said permit shall be revocable at the discretion of the mayor, and it shall be his duty to revoke it, whenever requested by any householder whose residence is within one hundred yards ot the place where said horse or ass is kept, or whose windows open upon said place. Sec. IV. That any person who shall violate this ordinance shall be liable to pay a penalty not excee*ding twenty dollars for every day such violation is continued or repeated, to be imposed by the mayor on complaint and satisfactory proof, and collected according to law. An ordinance concerning the city lamps. Passed January 31, 1849, Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — lhat from and after the passage of this ordinance, if any person or persons, without being authorized by the common council so to 140 TREASURER. do, shall light, or cause or procure to be lighted, any one or more of the public lamps of the said city, he, she, or they so offending, upon conviction thereof before the mayor, recorder, or either of the aldermen of the city, shall forfeit and pay a sum, at the discre¬ tion of the magistrate before whom the complaint is tried, not ex¬ ceeding fifty dollars, with the costs of the said prosecution. Salary of treasurer. A further supplement to “ An ordinance concerning the treasurer,” passed February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-two. Passed June 12, 1848. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. From and after the passage of this supplement, the trea¬ surer of the city shall receive at the rate of one hundred dollars an¬ nually, as a compensation for his services, together with a reasonable allowance for books and stationery, instead of the allowance here¬ tofore made him by the said ordinance, and the supplement thereto, passed March third, eighteen hundred and forty-five. To give bond Sec. II. That hereafter the treasurer shall give bond, in the man¬ ner heretofore prescribed by ordinance, in the sum of five thousand dollars, instead of the sum of three thousand dollars. Sec. III. That all the provisions of ordinances heretofore passed inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. A supplement to tlie ordinance entitled, “An ordinance concerning the treasurer,” passed the fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty-two. Passed March 13, 1854. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by ike authority of the same — i CITY DEBT. 141 % That the bond which, by the first section of the ordinance to which this is a supplement the treasurer is required to enter into, with sureties, before he enters upon the duties of his office, shall be in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars; and that all ordinances and parts of oidinances inconsistent with the provisions hereof be and the same are hereby repealed. A supplement to the ordinance concerning the collection of taxes. Passed March 13, 1854. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That from and after the passage of this supplement, all persons who pay their taxes on or before the tenth day of July, of the year when the assessment is made, shall be allowed a de¬ duction of ten per cent.; but no deduction shall be allowed on taxes paid after that time. Sec. II. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances that con¬ flict with this supplement be and the same are hereby repealed. A supplement to an ordinance entitled, 66 An ordinance making provision for the reduction and payment of the debt of the city of Trenton,” passed June fifth, eighteen hundred and forty-three. Passed July 9, 1849. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That the sum of two hundred and forty dollars, to be Provision for raised by tax yearly for five years to pay the principal of the loan KKuT created by the ordinance entitled, “An ordinance concerning the poor house,” passed March twenty-second, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty-nine, shall be paid by the city treasurer, on the first day • 142 STREETS. Interest to be added to fund. Accruing funds to be invested.' Sidewalks to be curbed and paved. Sidewalks to be graded. of August, in each year, commencing on the first day of August next, to the commissioner of the sinking fund, to be by him in¬ vested in the same manner as other moneys belonging to the sink¬ ing fund are now invested. Sec. II. That the moneys to be invested by virtue of this ordi¬ nance shall be a fund in the hands of said commissioner, to be ap¬ plied to the payment of the loan above mentioned, when the same shall fall due, and to no other purpose whatever; but that interest arising from such investment shall be added to and made a part of the general sinking fund. Sec. III. That all sums of money hereafter accruing to the sink¬ ing fund shall be invested in the manner directed in and by the ordinance to which this is a supplement, or by and with the consent and advice of the finance committee, in such public stocks as shall by the commissioner be deemed safe and most for the advantage of said fund. Sec. IV. That an ordinance entitled, “ A supplement to an ordi¬ nance entitled, an ordinance making provision for the reduction and payment of the debt of the city of Trenton,” passed on the seventeenth day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and forty-eight, be and the same is hereby repealed. An ordinance concerning the grading, curbing, paving, flagging, and gravelling of sidewalks, and for repairing the same when necessary. Passed July 22, 1856. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That all sidewalks in front of or adjoining any lot, alley, or passage way, on any street in the city of Trenton, which shall be required, by ordinance to that effect, to be graded, curbed, paved, flagged, and gravelled, shall be graded, curbed, paved, flagged, and gravelled in the manner and with the materials herein after prescribed. Sec. II. r I hat said sidewalks shall be, respectively, raised or lowered, as the case may require, to the grades which the present city regulator and surveyor may have fixed under his contract with STREETS. 143 % the common council, until grades shall have been established by ordinance. After the passage of such ordinance,'all sidewalks or¬ dered to be paved shall be raised or lowered as aforesaid, so as to conform to the grades thereby established. Each sidewalk, when paved, shall have a pitch of not more than one inch nor less than a quarter of an inch to every foot from the line of the street to the curbstones. It shall be the duty of said regulator and surveyor to set, in front of each lot, all the stakes that may be needed to show tie proper grade and pitch ; for this service he shall be entitled to demand and receive, for each lot, from the owner or owners thereof the sum of two cents per foot, measured along the curbstones. , III. That the curbstones to be used shall be dressed smooth Curbstone,, and square on the exposed surfaces. They must be set at the dis-SZet^ tances from the lines of the street prescribed by existing ordinances. Un those streets where the distances are not now fixed by ordi¬ nance, they must be so set that the distance from the line of the street to the outside of the curbs shall be one-fifth part of the whole width of the street. These distances may be changed, at the re¬ quest of any lot owner, when circumstances may render it advisa¬ ble, by consent of the street committee, if approved by the regu¬ lator and surveyor. The curbstones may be such as are procured either from the quarries in the township of Ewing or from those on the Hudson river j if the former, they must be at least five inches thick on the top, eighteen inches deep, and two feet lono-; if the latter, they must be at least three and a half inches thick on the top, sixteen inches deep, and must average at least three and a half feet long. The street committee may allow the omission of curbing opposite to any cartway, and permit the owner or occu¬ pant, in beu of such curbing, to pave with boulders or hard bricks placed edgewise for ease of access. Curbstones, not of the kind above described, which now stand against the pavements that do not need to be raised, lowered, or relaid, may remain until such pavements become so worn as to require relaying, when said curb¬ stones shall be removed, and replaced by such as are herein before prescribed. Sec. IV. That the pavements shall belaid with good bard whole Brick, or bricks or with smooth flagstones. Where there are dwelling houses RS” on the line of the street, the pavements must extend from the curb- paving> stones to the houses; where there is no dwelling house, the pave¬ ment need be only six feet wide from the curbstones; but in that case the space between the pavement and the line of the street must be gravelled to the same grade with the pavement. Every 144 STREETS. Cartways, how paved. Repairing to be done on requisition of street committee. Penalty for not repaving. Street com¬ mittee to re¬ port delin¬ quencies to council. cartway crossing a pavement shall have two level strips of smooth flagstones each, at least one foot wide, separated by a space one foot wide paved with boulders; the residue of such cartway may be paved with boulders or hard bricks placed edgewise. Sec. V. That in case any pavement heretofore laid on any side¬ walk, or any which may hereafter be laid in conformity with this ordinance, shall become worn out or broken up, so as to render it necessary that said sidewalks be repaved, in whole or in part, it shall be the duty of the owner or owners of the lot, alley, or pas¬ sage way fronting on or adjoining such sidewalk, on being notified so to do in writing by the street committee of the common council, to have said sidewalk repaved forthwith, in whole or in part, as said notice may require. Said notice shall be sufficient if delivered to or left at the residence of the owner or any one of the owners (if more than one) residing in this city; but if none of the owners reside in this city, then it shall be sufficient if said notice be set up at some conspicuous place on the premises fronting on or adjoining said sidewalk. Sec. VI. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or pas¬ sageway, who shall be notified by the street committee to have his, her, or their sidewalk repaved, in whole or in part, under the au¬ thority of the fifth section of this ordinance, shall not comply with such notice for the space of ten days after the same shall have been delivered, left, or set up, as herein before provided, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each additional week’s delay thereafter. * Sec. VII. Whenever the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or passageway shall have failed to comply with the requisitions of any ordinance requiring such owner or owners to grade, curb, pave, flag, or gravel the sidewalks in front of or adjoining such lot, alley, or passageway, it shall be the duty of the street committee to re¬ port such delinquency forthwith to the common council. STREETS. 145 [The ordinances beginning on pages 142, 145, 148, and 149, passed since the printing hereof was begun.] An ordinance for grading, curbing, paving, flagging, and gravelling certain sidewalks. Passed July 22, 1856. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That the owners of lots, alleys, or passageways, fronting Sidewalks, on or adjoining either side of Lamberton street, from the Philadel- to behaved*, phia and Trenton railway to Federal street; either side of Centre street, from Federal street to the southerly end of said Centre street; either side of Ferry street, from Broad street to the race¬ way of the Trenton Water Power Company; either side of Bridge street, from Centre street to Broad street; either side of Tucker street, from Willow street to Warren street; either side of Rose street, from the Trenton and New Brunswick turnpike to the feeder of the Delaware and Raritan canal; the south side of Factory street, from Broad street to Lamberton street, and on the south¬ westerly side of Broad street, from Ferry street to the Delaware and Raritan canal, be and they are hereby required to grade, curb, pave, flag, and gravel the sidewalks in front of or adjoining their respective lots, alleys, or passageways, in the manner and with the materials prescribed by an ordinance entitled, “An ordinance con¬ cerning the grading, curbing, paving, flagging, and gravelling of sidewalks, and for repairing the same when necessary.” Sec. II. That the owners of lots, alleys, or passageways fronting Part of side- on or adjoining the northeasterly side of Broad street, from Ferry Broadstreet street to the Delaware and Raritan canal, be and they are hereby ied. e graveI ‘ required to curb and gravel the sidewalks in front of or adjoining their respective lots, alleys, or passageways, in the manner and with the materials prescribed by the ordinance referred to in the first section hereof. Sec. III. That the pavement on the east side of Centre street, Partofside- between Market street and the White horse road, may be made tre atreetto fourteen and a half feet wide, any ordinance to the contrary not- wide/ fee * withstanding. N 146 ASSESSORS AND COLLECTORS. Sec. IV. That the street committee are hereby appointed to su¬ perintend said work. Penalty for Sec. V. That if the owner or owners of any lot, alley, or pas- avoidance. 6a g ewa y t w h 0 by this ordinance is or are required to grade, curb, pave, flag, or gravel the sidewalk in front of or adjoining his, her, or their premises, shall not comply in all respects with such requi¬ sition, for the space of thirty days from the passage of this ordi¬ nance, he, she, or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars penalty, and the further sum of five dollars penalty for each addi¬ tional week’s delay thereafter. An ordinance regulating the fees of assessors and collectors. Passed May 9, 1850. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City oj Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. Assessors’ fees.—Repealed. Sec. II. Collectors’ fees.—Repealed. Names Of Sec. III. That the names of any body politic or corporate, ex- jointiy as- ecutors, administrators, trustees, or other persons, who shall be reckoned as jointly assessed for any property or estate liable to taxation, shall one ‘ be reckoned only as one name in ascertaining the fees of the several assessors. No fees ai- Sec. IV. That no fees shall be allowed or paid to any assessor lessor for* for the name of any person inserted or assessed upon any duplicate, son no'tVub-" who shall not, at the time of such assessment, reside in the ward tioiin'war’d. where such assessment shall be made, or be liable to taxation for property situate in said ward. Collectors to Sec. V. That the said collectors shall pay over to the treasurer t(T treasurer, all moneys collected by them for city purposes; and that the fees -“"of the several assessors and collectors shall be paid to them by the treasurer, upon an order drawn by the city clerk by direction of the common council, and in no other manner whatever. Sections of Sec. VI. That the fourth and fifth sections of an ordinance en- ofmTre- titled, “ An ordinance concerning assessors,” and the fourth section pealed. 0 f an ordinance entitled, “ An ordinance concerning collectors,” severally passed on the fourteenth day of February, A. D. 1842, be and the same are hereby repealed. ASSESSORS AND COLLECTORS. 147 An ordinance concerning assessors and collectors. Passed December 4, 1854. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I, 1 hat the assesors of the several wards of the city ofreea of as* Trenton shall be entitled to receive as compensation for their ser- 868801 " 8 ’ vices as such assessors, the following fees, to wit: the sum of five cents for each person’s name inserted in their respective duplicates whose assessment shall be sustained by the commissioners of ap¬ peal in cases of taxation ; and the further fees following, to wit: the assessois of the first and second wards, each, the amount of three- quaiteis of a dollar per centum upon the amount of assessments entered in their respective duplicates which shall be sustained by the commissioners of appeal aforesaid; the assessor of the third ward, one and a half dollars per centum upon the amount of as¬ sessments entered in his duplicate and sustained as aforesaid; and the assessors of the fourth and fifth wards, the amount of one per centum upon the amount of assessments entered in their duplicates and sustained as aforesaid; and each assessor the sum of six cents for each dog tax entered in his"duplicate and sustained as aforesaid. Sec. II. That the collectors of the several wards of the city of Fees of col- Trenton shall be entitled to receive, as compensation for their ser- lectors ’ \ices as such collectors, the following fees, to wit: the sum of six cents for each person’s name on the respective duplicates in the hands of such collectors whose tax shall be collected by such col¬ lectors; and the further fees following, to wit: the collectors of the first and second wards, each, one dollar per centum upon the amount collected by each upon his duplicate; the collector of the third ward, the amount of two dollars per centum upon the amount col¬ lected by him upon his duplicate; and the collectors of the fourth and fifth wards, the sum of one and a half dollars per centum upon the amount collected by each upon his duplicate ; and each collector the sum of eight cents for each dog tax by him collected upon his duplicate. Sec. III. That the time for the collectors to make a return of D eHnquentg their duplicates to the magistrate shall be on the first Monday ofed August, in each year, instead of the fourth Monday of August, as gust!' 1 Au " heretofore. 148 RAILROADS; Sec. IV. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent and conflicting with the provisions of this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed. Aii ordinance to authorize Ogden D. Wilkinson and Ogden W. Blackfan to construct a railroad, crossing over Willow x street, at its intersection with the Delaware and Raritan Canal feeder. Passed October 17,1856. Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton , in Common Council assembled , and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — That Ogden D. Wilkinson and Ogden W. Blackfan, and their assigns, are hereby authorized and empowered to construct and operate a railroad across Willow street, at or near the southerly end of the bridge over the feeder of the Delaware and Raritan canal, where the same intersects said street, to connect the Belvi- dere Delaware railroad, or a spur therefrom, with the present coal yard of said Wilkinson and Blackfan; provided , that said road shall be constructed upon the present grade of Willow street, as nearly as may be, under the supervision of the city surveyor; that said railroad shall be so maintained and operated as not to interfere with the travel on said street; that whenever the city may alter the grade of Willow street the owners of said railroad shall alter the grade thereof to conform to the altered grade of said street, and that whenever the common council may consider said railroad in¬ compatible with the public interest they may order the same to be removed. RAILROADS. 149 An ordinance to authorize the Belvidere Delaware Railroad Company to lower the grade of their railroad where it where it crosses Calhoun’s lane. Passed November 10, 1856. Be IT ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Trenton, in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same — Sec. I. That the Belvidere Delaware Railroad Company be and Company they are hereby authorized to lower the grade of their railroad, Jadioffail where it crosses Calhoun’s lane, to the depth of three feet below road “ the present grade, upon the following conditions, to wit: First, that the said company shall erect, with good and suitable materials, and for ever keep up and maintain in good order and safe condition, a bridge, at least twenty feet wide, over said railroad, at its inter¬ section with said Calhoun’s lane; provided, that whenever said Cal¬ houn’s lane shall be graded to the city grade, the said Belvidere Delaware Railroad Company shall cause said bridge to be widened to the full width of said Calhoun’s lane. Second, that said company shall fill up a good and sufficient roadway, on said Calhoun’s lane, each way, from the floor of said bridge, with a fall to the present grade, which the city surveyor shall approve, not greater than nine feet to one hundred and sixty feet. Third, that the said company shall fill up or excavate, as the case may require, the said Calhoun’s lane, and all othei stieets connecting therewith, to the new grades which may be rendered necessary in the opinion of the city sur¬ veyor by the change of the grade of said Calhoun’s lane. Fourth, that if the common council shall hereafter cause said Calhoun’s lane to be widened, then said bridge and filling on said Calhoun’s lane shall be extended by the com'pany to the full width of the street, as so widened. Fifth , that said company shall cause the sur¬ face coveting of said filling on Calhoun’s lane, as the same may be at first made or afterwards widened, to be of good hard gravel to the depth of at least one foot; and should it at any time be found necessary, in the opinion of the common council, for the proper preservation of said altered grade of Calhoun’s lane, to pave the roadway or gutters thereof, said paving shall be done by said com¬ pany, on demand of the council. Sec. If. That the city surveyor, with the engineer of said rail-city survey- road company, shall make a report in writing, under their hands, 150 RAILROADS. to the common council, as soon as practicable, of the grade of said railroad, as hereby authorized to be altered, showing its deviation from the original grade, to the end that a perpetual record of the same may be preserved. ERRATA. Page 121, in the 1st line, the word “ the” should be “ ten.” Page 44, the ordinance to vacate “ road leading to Beatty's ferry” was passed February 17, 1849. Page 47, in section 2, 6th line, the word “ pivot” should be inserted before “ bridge.” Page 117, section 8, 9th line from top of page, the words “fifty-four” should be “ forty-four.” Page 60, 6th line of section 1, should be “first” day, &c., instead of “ fifth.” Page 112, 2d line, section 1, read “hosemen” for “hose.” Page 67, the ordinance for grading, &c., Union and other streets was passed May 8, 1854. INDEX. ASSESSORS, COLLECTORS, COLLECTION OF TAXES.—Names of persons jointly assessed to be reckoned as one, p. 146, $ 3; no fees allowed assessor for name of persons not subject to taxation in ward, 4; collectors to pay moneys to treasurer, and fees how paid, 5 ; 4th and 5th sections of or¬ dinance concerning assessors, and 4th section of ordinance concerning collect¬ ors, passed 14th February, 1842, repealed. Fees of, p. 147, $ 1 and 2; delinquents to be returned first Monday in August 3 , collectors to deduct ten per cent, on taxes paid on or before the tenth of July, p. 141. BURYING GROUND.—No interments to be made in school house lot in Hano¬ ver street, near Montgomery, after August 4,1851; penalty for violation, p. 135. CITY DEBT, SINKING FUND.—Provision for paying poor house loan; com¬ missioner of sinking fund to invest certain moneys, p. 141, $ 1; interest to be added to general fund, 2; how sums hereafter accruing to sinking fund to be invested, 3. [The poor house loan has been paid off, and first section is obso¬ lete.] See Loans. CIT\ HALL. City hall committee to have care and renting thereof, p. 115, $ 1, keeper when elected, 2; his duties, powers, compensation for attention at saloon; not to act as doorkeeper, 3; to ring fire bell, keep hail clean, furnish meals to prisoners, 4; allowance and privileges of keeper, 5; duties of commit¬ tee, 6; repealer, 7. CITY SOLICITOR.—Annually appointed, and duties, p. 118, $ 1; to advise with council, &c., 2; to draft ordinances, 3; to prosecute and defend actions, 4; assistant counsel not to be employed without consent of council, 5; his salary and fees, p. 119, 6; to deliver all papers to successor, 7; not to bring ap¬ peal, or institute suit, without direction of council, 8, 9. I-IRE DEPARTMENT.—How constituted; to be under control of engineers; when they are to be elected, p. 112, $ 1; names of chief engineer, &c., to be reported to council, p. 113, 2; fire apparatus not to be removed from house, unless member of company present, 3; chief engineer to have sole control of engines, &c., 4; provision for his absence, p. 114, 5; firemen to bo divided into companies, and number, 6 ; exempt from city poll tax, 7 ; names of en¬ gineers and firemen to be registered, 8 ; certificates of membership to be is¬ sued, &c., 9; engineers to be distinguished by equipments, 10; assessors to procure lists of exempts, 11; repealer. 152 INDEX. HAY SCALES.—L. Stradling to have exclusive right of hay scales for five years,, p. 102, $ 1; no others to be erected, 2 ; rate for weighing, 3; weight to be certified, p. 103, 4; penalty for neglect, 5; scales not to be suffered to get out of order, 6; $50 per annum to be paid for privilege, 7; all hay brought to market to be weighed, 8; penalty for refusing to have hay weighed, p. 104, 9;. penalty for purchasing unweighed hay, 10 ; weigher to report to council, 11 ; weigher may be removed, 12. HEALTH, BOARD OF.—Constituted, and continuance, p. 109, $ 1; to keep minutes, where to be deposited, 2; appropriations by council to be paid to president, and for what purpose; to keep accounts, and report to council, 3; householders, &c., to remove filth from their premises, 4; drains, &c., to be purified, p. 110, 5; gutters to be kept clean, 6; paved parts of city to be di¬ vided into districts, and notice thereof to be given; marshal to warn persons to cleanse premises, and to dispose of the matter heaped in streets, 7 ; streets and premises may be examined by board of health, 8; offensive matter in streets or along river or creek, to be removed by marshal, p. Ill, 9; penalty for depositing offensive matter on vacant lot, or shore of river or creek, 19; penalty for further violations of ordinance, 11 ; penalty for neglect to cleanse gutters, &c., 12 ; marshal to aid board* 13 ; when operations of board to cease, 13; and how revived, 14. LAMPS.—Not to be lighted without authority of council, and penalty for viola¬ tion of ordinance, p. 139. LIENS.—Book of, to be kept, p. 134, § 1; to be entered by clerk, 2; owner of lot to be notified, 3; treasurer to be furnished with statement, 4 ; satisfaction, how entered, 5. LOANS.— Gas Company. —Mayor authorized to contract with company for sub¬ scription of $10,000 to stock by city, and terms of contract, p. 119, § 1; certifi¬ cates of loan for $10,000 to be issued by mayor, at 6 per cent., redeemable in twenty years, when to be paid to company, 2. (This ordinance approved June 7, 1848.) New agreement with Gas Company, September 11, 1854, p. 123. Public school house loan —passed May 9, 1850; treasurer to issue certificates of loan for $6000, pledging faith of city for payment; interest payable annu¬ ally, on August first, p. 125, § 1 ; $600 payable annually, same date ; first pay¬ ment in 1851, p. 126, 2; certificates not less than $100, 3; and not to be sold for less than par, 4 ; mayor to sign and affix seal thereto, 5 ; loan to be adver¬ tised ; proceeds to be paid to superintendent, 6. (See page 124.) To pay debts —approved December 18, 184&; proposals for loan of $5000 to be issued, and faith of city pledged for repayment, p. 121, $ 1 ; certificates to be issued with G per cent, interest, payable semi-annually; no bid for less than par to be accepted, 2, (see p. 122); certificates transferable at treasurer’s office, 3; said loan reimbursable January 1, 1860, p. 123. To pay debt due January 1, 1850—approved June 7, 1850; treasurer to borrow $13,500 for twenty years from July 1, 1850, p. 126, § 1; certificates of loan for the same to be issued, 2; holders in loans now due to have privi¬ lege to July 1 to take same amount in new loan, 3; proceeds, how applied, 4; certificates of old loan to be cancelled, 5. INDEX. 153 To pay debt due July 1, 1855—passed February 10, 1855 ; commissioner of sinking fuud authorized to sell or exchange sufficient scrip to pay said debt, at not less than par, except at auction, p. 127, $ 1; annual appropriation to fund for 1855 to be paid July 1st, 2; balanced revenue of markets, after paying in¬ terest on debt, to be paid to fund, 3. To purchase Water Works —passed April 3, 1855; treasurer to purchase shares of capital stock of company at par, within what time, p. 128, $ 1; bonds for $100,000 to be issued to pay therefor; when payable, interest payable semi¬ annually, p. 129, 2; to be called “ Water loan”; faith of city pledged for pay¬ ment; to be a lien on revenue of company, 3; not subject to city taxes, 4; to be sealed with city seal, and registered, 5; not to be for less denomination than $100, with coupons attached, 6; not to be disposed of for less than par, 7 ; treasurer to receive dividends from stock, pay interest, and set apart ba¬ lance to pay principal, p. 130, 8. See Markets, p. 87 ; see Poor House, p. 130. MAI OR’S AND RECORDS OfFICE.—Southeast room on State street to be furnished for mayor’s office; fire proof to be erected therein, and size of, p. 104, J 1; clerk and treasurer to collect and arrange books, papers, &c., in fire proof, 2; all papers belonging to city to be deposited with clerk, 3. MARKET HOUSES.—Addition to north end of Greene street to be made, and size of, p. 87, § 1; treasurer to issue proposals for loan of $2000; faith of city pledged for payment; interest six per cent., 2 ; certificates of stock to be is¬ sued for not less than $100; interest payable first of September and March- principal reimbursable September 1, 1863, 3; money thus borrowed to be lien on rents, in addition of ordinance of June 12, 1845, 4; not to vitiate pro¬ visions of said ordinance, 5. (See page 128, § 3.) MARKETS.—Butcher’s meats only to be sold in public market houses; penalty for violation; butcher renting stall in market not prevented from selling meat at dwelling, &c., p. 88. Above ordinance not to operate in Third and Fourth wards till market house erected therein, p. 88. See page 98, § 7. Market days and hours, p. 89, § 1; market limits, 2; vehicles not to stand therein before nine o’clock A. M., 3; animals not to stand therein, 4; filth, &c., not to be thrown therein, p. 90, 5; market hours for vegetables and fruits, 6; penalty for selling butter deficient in weight, 7; penalty for buying to sell again for higher price, 8; penalty for buying before nine o’clock to sell again in city, or other place, 9 ; no person to buy more than twenty pounds of but¬ ter, 10; stalls not rented to be under direction of committee, 11; steel¬ yards not to be used, p. 91, 12; renting of stalls, 13; stalls for sale of shad not to be occupied for such sale after June tenth; no person to sell shad in any other place in city, or out of wagon in market limits, 14 ; penalty for selling tainted fish, meat, &c., p. 92, 15 ; clerk to give bond, 16; regulations of stalls, 17; hucksters not to sell in market except at their rented stall, 18; blocks, &c., to be placed under planks of stalls, 19; sales not to be made from wagons, 20; sea fish market, 21; duties of clerk, 22; penalty for interfering with clerk, p. 94, 23; clerk to remove filth, 24; penalty for selling butcher’s meat out of market, 25; suspended in Third and Fourth wards, 26; smoking in markets forbidden, 27; penalty for defacing markets, 28; clerk to collect fines, 154 INDEX. p. 95f 29; eTerk not to purchase marketing for others, 30; clerk and commit¬ tee to rent stands, &c., 31; when ordinance to take effect and repealer, 33. Clerk to wash out market houses, and how often, p. 05, 2 (see page Off); stalls rented for less than a year, whole rent paid in advance ; for one year, paid half yearly in advance ; clerk to collect rents; failure to pay rent when due for¬ feits right to stall; clerk to take possession, and, with committee, to rent said stall, p. Off, 3; that part of section 13 of ordinance concerning markets, pro¬ hibiting renting of more than two stalls to same person, repealed, 4. Clerlds salary, p. 06, $ 1; committee to have market limits cleaned, 2*. • Third Ward Market. —John Whittaker and others authorized to erect the same, p. 07, $ 1; city to have right of redemption, 2'; statement of cost, &c. r to be laid before council; acceptance of'this ordinance to be sent to council;, shares transferred to be noted on minutes of council, 3; statement of cost not to be binding on city, if above actual cost, 4; associates may rent stalls, &c. r 5; market days and hours, 6; market limits, 7 * vehicles or animals not to stand therein, 8 ; filth not to be thrown therein, 9; market hours for vegeta¬ bles and fruits, 10; penalty &r short weight in butter, 11; penalty for buying to sell again for higher price, 12 ; penalty for buying to sell in city or market limits, 13; no person to buy more than twenty pounds.of butter, 14; associ¬ ates may prescribe regulations for stalls, 15; steelyards not to be used, 16; gale of shad regulated,. 17; hucksters not to sell in market, p. 100, 18; sales, not to be made from vehicles, 19 ; sea fish market, 20 ; powers and duties of agent, council may remove him, 21; penalty for interfering with agent, p. 101, 22; twenty-fifth section of ordinance concerning the markets, passed March 7* 1853, to go into operation in Third ward north of Bridge street, 23 ; smoking in market forbidden, 24; penalty for defacing markets, 25 ; agent to complain to mayor of violations of ordinance, 26 ; associates to notify council of name of agent, 27; city may take market house when city pays original cost, 28 ; associates to signify acceptance of this ordinance ; house to be fin¬ ished July 4, 1855 (extended to October 4, see p. 102); associates not to rent stalls till terms of ordinance complied with, 29. NUISANCES.— Petty run, owners of property thereon to clear out same, and secure banks, p. 136, § 1; committee to superintend- said work; power of committee to replace run in original channel, 2; penalty for neglect to clear- out run, 3 ; committee to sue for penalties, 4. Committee authorized to remove nuisances on run, p. 137, § 1 ; penalty for owners neglecting such removal after notice, 4. Owners of low ground along water power, from lanyard to Federal street, to fill up the same, p. 138, § 1; penalty for omission, 2; street committee to see to execution of ordinance, 3. Seed horses, &c., not to be used in city without permit from mayor; pre¬ mises to be specified, p. 139, § 1 ; when such permit may be issued, 2; per¬ mit revocable, and when, 3; penalty for violation, 4. PHYSICIANS AND OVERSEER OF POOR.—Two physicians to be appointed, p. 131, § 1; to visit poor house, 2 ; salary, 3; salary of overseer of poor, 4; repealer. POLICE.—Duties of the marshal, p. 105, § 1, (see page 86, § 3,5, and ordinance- concerning health, $ 7, 9, 13,); watchmen, when to be elected, p. 106,2 ; powers and duty of watchmen, 3; to light and extinguish lamps, p. 107 - , 4;, INDEX. 155 police subject to order of mayor; officers how suspended and tried, and sub¬ stitutes appointed; mayor to make monthly report to council, what to con¬ tain, 5; special police, how appointed and paid, 6 ; mayor to keep record, and what of, 7; salary of mayor, marshal, and watchmen, 8 ; repealer. POOR HOUSE.—Treasurer to borrow $1200 to repair building, p. 130, $ 1 ; payment provided for, 2 ', liquidation of look, 3 ; when to take effect, 4 . RAILROADS.— Belvidere Delaware, may construct road through city on present route; grade, how to be fixed; not alterable by company without consent- alterations of grades and sidewalks, how to be made; to be paid for by com- pany; cais to be prevented running by their own gravity, p. 82, § 1 ; city surveyor and engineer to report grade to council, 2 . Same company may lower grade of road at Calhoun’s lane; they must erect abridge over road twenty feet wide; when said lane graded to. city grade bridge to be widened; roadway each way from said bridge to be filled up, with what fall; company to fill up, &c., other streets necessary by said change of grade; if lane widened, bridge to be widened; surface of filling up on Calhoun’s lane to be one foot deep of gravel; company to pave roadway or gutters when ordered by council, p. 149; city surveyor and engineer to report altered grade to council, 2 . Trenton Iron Company authorized to cross streets on the route of their railroad; to arrange crossings for vehicles under direction of city surveyor; may extend road in front of prison to basin on Washington street, p. 83. Wilkinson & Blackfan authorized to construct branch from Belvidere Dela¬ ware railroad across Willow street to their coal yard; to be upon present grade of said street; not to interfere with travel; grade to be altered if street grade altered ; council may order road to be removed, p. 148. SINKING FUND.—See Loans, p. 127; City Debt, p. 141. SALARIES.—See pages 105, 131. STREETS.—Name of Second street changed to State street, p. 37 , $ 1 ; names of streets to be placed on corners, 2 ; houses to be numbered; tenant may do it when owner nonresident; penalty for noncompliance, 3 . Locomotives or cars not to be stopped on any street, and penalty, p. 38, $ 1 ; boxes, &c., not to be put or kept on sidewalks more than four hours with¬ out permission of street committee, under penalty of eight dollars; not to ap¬ ply to porches, &c., heretofore built, 2 ; streets not to be encumbered with building materials without permission from the mayor, and penalty, p. 41 $ merchandise, &c., not to be placed upon or suspended over pavements- not to apply to four feet from front line of house, &c., p. 42, 2 ; coal, ashes ’& c . not to be put or kept on streets or sidewalks, gutters, &c., 3 ; holes not to be dug m streets, sidewalks, &c.; refuse, &c., not to be thrown on same to ob¬ struct passage way, and penalty; street committee not prevented from re¬ pairing, &c.; repair and introduction of water pipes not prevented, 4 ; porches and steps not to project more than five-twelfths of width of sidewalks p 43 5; broken curbstones and pavements to be repaired on six days’notice 6 - penalty, how collected, 7. See page 40, ordinance to regulate repavin ' 5 Excavations in sidewalks to be refilled, and repaved in forty-eight lionr* n 85, $ 1; excavations or trenches in streets not to be over two hundred feet 156 INDEX. long at one time ; same to be filled up before any other is made; said filling to be puddled or pounded, and done in forty-eight hours; barriers to be erected to prevent persons or cattle falling therein, and if left open at night to place lights, p. 85, 2 ; if the refilling, &c., is not skilfully done, street com¬ mittee to have it done, 3; regulations concerning stop-cocks, p. 86, 4; the marshal to make complaints for violations, and see fines collected, 5; street committee may extend time for completion of work, 6. Dedicated, accepted. —To widen Front street, land on the south side, from Montgomery to Stockton street, p. 50; Carroll, Ewing, Elizabeth, Ogden, Southard, Cross, Monmouth, Tucker, Ringgold, Barnes, Commerce streets, p. 51_2-3 ; a continuation of Clinton street or Millham road from East State to the centre of creek, p. 53. Carroll street continued north to Perry street, p. 53. Vacated, and condition. —Road leading to Rutherford’s ferry, p. 44 ; West Canal street, from State to Front street, p. 45; same street from Front street to the creek, p. 46; part of same street, from Academy to Perry, not to take effect, unless a basin for boats is constructed within one year, (time ex¬ tended to three years, p. 47,) p. 46, § 1; owners of basin to keep a navigable slip to connect with canal open for ever; right to open slip to exist only while pivot bridge is maintained over it, p. 47, 2; posts and railing to be kept up on east side of basin, 3; part of same street between Commerce street and Tren¬ ton basin, p. 48. Pavements widened.— Pavement north side of East State, from Montgomery to Presbyterian church, to be widened, p. 40; south side of State, from Mont¬ gomery street to the canal, and penalty for neglect, p. 44, 2; east side of Wai- ren, from State to Perry, and west side from State to Union, and the materials to be used, p. 49, $ 1, 2. Paving and curbing sidewalks. —Pavements on west side of Greene street, between State and Front, to be widened, p. 48, § 1; gutters in front of same to be relaid, in what manner and at whose expense, 2; cartways, how to be paved, 3; work to be done under superintendence of street committee, pen¬ alty for neglect, 4. By ordinance, passed April 7, 1851, sidewalks are to be curbed, paved, &c., on either side of Warren street, from its head to sixty-eight feet north of mid¬ dle of creek bridge; either side of Greene, from its head to wooden floor ot creek bridge; either side of Montgomery, from Perry to wooden floor of creek bridge; west side of Stockton, between Academy and State; west side of Willow, between Pennington road and Spring street; east side of Willow, between Tucker street and the feeder; north side of Washington, between Warren and Lodge alley; north side of Front, between Stockton and Mont¬ gomery; either side of Front, between Montgomery and Willow ; either side of State, between the canal and Calhoun’s lane; either side of Hanover, between Stockton and Warren; either side of Academy street, between Stockton and Greene; either side of Perry, between Stockton and Warren; south side of Spring street, between Willow and West line of Claflin’s lot; north side of Spring, between Willow street and west line of Murphy’s lot; either side of Pennington road, between Warren street and Calhoun’s lane, p. 55, § 1. Street committee to superintend the work, p. 55, 2; sidewalks to be raised or lowered as required by grades ol city surveyor; not to have pitch more than one inch or less than three-quarters inch; surveyor to set grade stakes, INDEX. 157 and fees, 3 ; curbstones to be smooth dressed; set so that to outside is one-fifth of whole width ot street; distances may be changed, and how; dimensions of curbs; cartways may be paved with boulders; when present curbstones to be removed, p. 56, 4; bricks or flagstones to be used for paving; where no dwelling, pavement need be only six feet wide; cartways crossing pavement, how paved, 5; when pavement worn out, &c., to be repaved on notice by street committee; what sufficient service of notice, 6; penalty for not curb¬ ing in sixty days, p. 57, 7; penalty for not repaving, 8. By ordinance, passed September 1, 1851, sidewalks are to be curbed, paved, &c., on either side ot Broad, between creek bridge and Ferry street; either side of Bloomsbury street, between the creek bridge and Ferry, (see page 77); either side of Union, between Ferry and Market street; either side of Decatur, between Market and Bridge, (see page 72); either side of Fall, be¬ tween Union and Bloomsbury; either side of Lamberton, from Bloomsbury to Market; either side of Bridge, from Bloomsbury to Centre; either side of Willow, between Front street and the feeder, p. 58. The provisions of this ordinance are the same as of the former one, except that the pitch ot the pavement is not to be more than one, nor less than a quarter of an inch, and the work to be done in thirty days, p. 58, GO. By ordinance, passed March 20, 1853, either side of Centre or Second street, in Third ward, from Broad to Federal; either side of Market, from Blooms¬ bury street to creek bridge; north side of Union, from Warren to Willow, pitch to be from one, to a quarter of an inch, p. 61; work to be done in sixty days, p. 62. Other provisions in this and subsequent ordinances the same as hi previous ordinances, except where noted. By ordinance, passed May 2, 1853, either side of Warren street, from a line sixty-eight feet north of the centre ot the arch ot the bridge, to a line ninety feet south of said arch, p. 63. No penalty for not repaving. By ordinance, passed June 6, 1853, the north side of Livingston street, from Broad to the creek, p. 65. By ordinance, passed May 8, 1854, the south side of Union, from Warren to Willow; either side of Union, in Fourth ward, from Ferry to Federal; south side of Quarry, from Willow to feeder bridge; north side of Quarry, from Willow street to east line of Moore’s mill lot, (thence to feeder, to be curbed and gravelled only,) p. 67; pitch to be from one, to half an inch; work to be completed in sixty days, p. 68, 69. By ordinance, passed July 19, 1854, either side of Clinton, from Monmouth to State ; either side of Jackson and Mercer, from Market to Livingston; either side of New Brunswick turnpike, from Greene to Rose; either side of Ferry, from Warren to water power bridge; either side of Perry, from Stockton to Clinton street; east side of Willow, from Tucker to Pennington road; either side of Mill, from Market to Fair; either side of Montgomery, from Perry to feeder bridge; east side of Stockton, from State to Hanover; west side of Stockton, .from State to Front; either side of Falls, from Warren to Fair; either side of East State, from Canal to Clinton ; either side of Princeton turn¬ pike, from Warren to Presbyterian school house; south side of State, from Calhoun’s lane to waste weir bridge, p. 70; pitch to be from one, to a quarter inch; work to be completed in sixty days, 3, 7. By ordinance of September 7, 1854, Delaware alley, in Fourth ward, p. 73. No penalty for not repaving. o 158 INDEX. By ordinance of November 13, 1854, west side of Stockton, from Academy to Perry; south side of Front, from Montgomery to Stockton; south side of Livingston, from* Mercer to Broad, p. 75; pitch from one, to quarter inch; work to be completed in sixty days, 3, 7. By ordinance of October 1, 1855, either side of Warren, from creek bridge to Ferry street, p. 77; pitch from one, to half inch; work to be done in sixty days, 3, 7. By ordinance of April 29, 1856, either side of Jackson and Mercer, from Market to Philadelphia and Trenton railroad, p. 80; pitch to be from one, to half inch; work to be completed in sixty days, 3, 7. Delaware street, by ordinance March 6, 1854, either side, from State to water power, to b'e curbed; pavement to be ten feet wide, of brick; cartways, how paved; street committee to mark the grade, p. 67. General ordinance, passed July 22, 1856.—Sidewalks to be paved, curbed, &c., as directed by this ordinance, p. 142, § 1; to be raised or lowered to suit grades fixed by present surveyor ; pitch of pavement, from one, to a quarter of an inch; surveyor to set grade stakes, fees, two cents a foot, paid by owner, 2; curbstones to be smooth dressed; how set; distances may be changed by street committee and surveyor; dimensions of curbstones; cartways may be paved with boulders; when present curbstones 'to be removed, p. 143, 3; brick or flagstones to be used for paving; where no dwelling house, pavement need be only six feet wide; cartways crossing pavement, how paved, p. 144, 4; worn out pavements to be repaved on notice of committee; what sufficient notice, p. 144, 5; penalty for not repaving, 5, 6; street committee to report delinquencies to council, 7. By ordinance, passed July 22, 1856, sidewalks on either side of Lamberton street, from Philadelphia and Trenton railroad to Federal street; either side of Centre, from Federal street to the southerly end of Centre; either side of Ferry street, from Broad to water power; either side of Bridge, from Centre to Broad; either side of Tucker, from Willow to Warren; either side of Rose, from New Brunswick turnpike to feeder; the south side of Factory, from Broad to Lamberton; the southwesterly side of Broad, from Ferry to canal; materials and work to be as prescribed in general ordinance (p. 140), p. 145, § 1; northeasterly side of Broad, from Ferry to canal, to be curbed and gra¬ velled only, 2; pavement on east side of Centre, from Market street, in Sixth ward, to White horse road, may be fourteen and a half feet wide, 3; street committee to superintend the work, 4; penalty for noncompliance of owners of lots in thirty days, 5. Lots exempted from paving .—The wharf lot at intersection of Willow street and canal feeder exempted from ordinance to curb, pave, &c., passed Septem¬ ber 1, 1851, on condition that sidewalks be paved like cartways; flagstones to be laid, and size, p. 60; council may repeal when lot not used as wharf, 2. Foundry lot on east side of Decatur street exempt from ordinance passed September 1, 1851; owner to pave in sixty days like cartways, p. 72. Vault. —H. B. Chumar authorized to construct vault under street at No. 12 East State street, p. 83; depth at his option; east and west walls not to ex¬ tend beyond his house; not to extend more than eight feet outside of curb¬ ing ; arch and walls to be satisfactory to street committee; street over vault to be restored by party to its original condition; to be constructed under direc- INDEX. 159 tion of street committee ; when declared dangerous by council to be removed, 7; not to interfere with water or gas pipes without consent, p. 84, 8. SWINE, GOATS, &c.—Swine, goats, or sheep not to fun at large or trespass, aud penalty, p. 131, $ 1; pound keeper to be appointed, p. 132, 2; pound to be provided, and animals how disposed of, 3; proceedings in case owner does not appear; excess of sale, when to be paid owner, 4; penalty on pound keeper for neglect, 5; penalty for obstructing pound keeper or breaking pound, 6. Penalty for suffering swine, &c., to run at large reduced to one dollar, p. 133. TAVERNS. Licenses to be delivered to treasurer, p. 135; to be by him de¬ livered upon payment of assessment, 2. TREASURER.—Salary; stationery-allowed, p. 140; to give bond for $15,000. TREES, SHADE. Twenty-first section of ordinance concerning streets, &c., passed March 7, 1842, repealed, p. 117, § 1; proceeding^ in case tree deemed a nuisance, 2; penalty for destroying or injuring trees, 3; duty of officers to prevent tying of horses to trees, &c., 4. WATER WORKS.—See Loans, p. 127. ; AS Vf, M. fj. ». . ~ 7T. • *•. : ;' ; loir ?- - ;; ■ * HHp 'fx ••' ' ' * • Q • £ .; •*