The Charter and Gen 
 
 eral Ordinances of the 
 
 City of Plainfield, N. J. 
 
 EXCLUSIVE OF THE BUILDING CODE 
 
 IN EFFECT JANUARY 1, 1912 
 
 Published by Authority of 
 THE Common Council 
 1912 
 
Charter of the 
 City of Plainfield, N. J. 
 
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 1912 
 
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 CHARTER OF THE CITY OF PLAINFIELD 
 
 Approved April 4, 1872. P. L. 1872, p. 1134 
 
 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the 
 State of New Jersey, That all the inhabitants residing in the terri- 
 torial limits of the present city of Plainfield, in the county of Union, 
 be, and are hereby ordained, constituted and declared to be one 
 body politic and corporate, in fact and in name, by the name and 
 style of “Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield.” 
 
 2. And be it enacted, That hereafter there shall be chosen in 
 said city, from among the citizens thereof, one mayor, one city judge, 
 eleven members of the common council,* one assessor, one collector, 
 one treasurer, two chosen freeholders, two constables,! two jus- 
 tices of the peace,! one clerk for each election district, three 
 judges of election for each election district, and three commissioners 
 of appeals. 
 
 The annual election in and for said city shall be held on the 
 first Tuesday of December of each and every year, and at such place 
 or places as the common council shall direct or appoint, of which 
 time and place or places the clerk of said city shall cause public 
 notice to be given by advertisement, to be set up in at least five 
 public places in said city, and published in two newspapers, if so 
 many there be printed therein, at least ten days previous to the 
 date of such election. 
 
 At the first election of officers, after the passage of this act, 
 which shall be held on the first Tuesday of May next, there shall be 
 elected in said city by the legal voters thereof, from among the citi- 
 zens of the same, all of the officers of the city government, except- 
 ing the mayor, enumerated in this section, and the term of office of 
 each and all of the officers then elected shall expire at noon of the 
 first Monday of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and 
 at the annual election to be held on the first Tuesday of December 
 of each and every year, there shall be elected all of the officers of the 
 city government, excepting the mayor, enumerated in this section, and 
 the officers chosen at such elections shall enter upon and hold office 
 from noon of the first Monday of January following their election 
 
 ♦Chap. 143, P. L. 1881, p. 175. Chap. 32, P. L. 1883, p. 38. 
 t Chap. 68, P. L. 1876, p. 82. Chap. 196, P. L. 1880, p. 291. 
 
 ! Art. 6, Sec. 7; Art. 7, Sec. 8, Constitution of N. J. Elected for fiye years. 
 
 NOTE — The general laws of the State, passed since the granting of 
 this charter, have modified its provisions in so many particulars, that it 
 can be safely consulted only in connection with such laws. 
 
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 until noon of the first Monday of January of the next succeeding 
 year. 
 
 At the annual election to he held on the first Tuesday of De- 
 cember, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, there shall be chosen one 
 mayor, to hold office from the first Tuesday of May, eighteen hun- 
 dred and seventy-three, until noon of the first Monday of January, 
 eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and after the year eighteen hun- 
 drd and seventy-two the mayor shall be elected biennially, and 
 shall serve for two years. 
 
 3. And be it enacted, That the poll of each election shall be 
 opened and closed at the time appointed by law and the three 
 judges of election, in each election district, shall be the officers of 
 said election; and in case of the absence, death, disability or refusal 
 to serve of any of said officers of election, on the day of election, 
 the lawful voters present shall elect, viva voce, a person or persons 
 to supply such vacancy or vacancies, that the name of each voter at 
 such election shall be written on the poll list by the clerk, and after 
 the poll shall be closed the said judges of election shall immediately 
 count the votes given for the several candidates and certify the re- 
 sult under their hands and seals, and deliver said certificate to the 
 clerk of said city, who shall file and preserve the same in his office, 
 and the persons having the greatest number of votes shall be 
 deemed to be elected to the offices for which they shall be voted for 
 respectively, and shall hold their offices for the terms specified in 
 this act. 
 
 4. And be it enacted, That the mayor shall be the chief execu- 
 tive oflScer of the city, and shall see that the laws of the state and 
 the ordinances of the city are faithfully observed therein. 
 
 He may recommend the common council to pass such measures 
 as he may deem necessary or expedient for the welfare of the city. 
 
 He shall maintain peace and good order therein, and in case 
 of a riot or tumultuous assembly, may take command of the police 
 force of the city to suppress it. 
 
 In case of persons violating or being suspected by him of vio- 
 lating any criminal laws of this state, or penal ordinance of the 
 city, he shall posssess the same power and authority which justices 
 of the peace possess in criminal cases. 
 
 He shall sign all licenses directed to be issued by the common 
 council, and all bonds, obligations or other evidences of indebted- 
 ness issued by the city. 
 
 5. And be it enacted. That the common council shall have 
 power to appoint from time to time, a city clerk, a street commis- 
 sioner, an overseer of the poor, and such other subordinate officers 
 as they shall think necessary for the governing of said city; pro- 
 vided, that no appointment of officers herein named shall be valid 
 
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 unless made by a vote of a majority of all the members of said 
 common' council; every person who shall be appointed to any office 
 under the provisions of this act, shall be a resident and elector of 
 said city, and may continue in office" until removed therefrom by a 
 vote of a majority of all the members of the common council, or 
 until another person is appointed to succeed him. 
 
 6. And be it enacted, That all persons residing in said city, 
 entitled to vote by the constitution of this state at elections by the 
 people, shall be entitled to vote at all elections under this act, and 
 the said citizens so entitled to vote shall be capable of holding any 
 office created by this act of incorporation with the exception that no 
 person shall be elected or serve as mayor or common councilman, 
 unless he shall have resided in said city at least one year immedi- 
 ately preceding said election. 
 
 7. And be it enacted, That the persons elected for members of 
 the common council, or a majority of them, shall have the power, 
 from time to time, and at all times hereafter, to hold a common 
 council within said city, at such time and place as may be appointed 
 by the ordinances and resolutions of the said common council; to 
 meet upon their own adjournments, and to call special meetings 
 by request of any three members of said council in writing, ad- 
 dressed to the clerk of said council, or by order of the president 
 of said council, and that the whole legislative power of the cor- 
 poration of said city shall be exclusively vested in the said common 
 council;* provided, that no ordinance or by-law shall be at any time 
 enacted or passed, altered or repealed, except by a concurrence of 
 at least six members of said common council, and unless the same 
 shall have been introduced before the said common council at a 
 previous meeting. 
 
 8. And be it enacted. That the mayor of said city shall, before 
 he enters upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe before a 
 judge of the court of common pleas of the county of Union, or any 
 officer authorized to administer the same, an oath or affirmation 
 that hd will faithfully and justly perform all the duties of said office 
 to the best of his ability; and that the city judge, members of the 
 common council, clerk, assessor, collector, treasurer, street commis- 
 sioner, judges of election, commissioners of appeal, and all other 
 officers appointed or elected by virtue of this act, shall before they 
 enter upon their respective duties, take and subscribe before the 
 said mayor, t who is hereby authorized to administer the same, the 
 like oaths or affirmations; and it shall be the duty of the said clerk 
 to file and preserve the said oaths and affirmations in his office; and 
 
 * Further powers of Common Council, Secs. 2-3, Supplement to Charter, 
 1874. 
 
 t Or City Judg-e — Sec. 2 Charter Supplement, 1873. 
 
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 all such oaths or affirmations shall be taken within five days* after 
 the day of election or appointment. 
 
 9. And be it enacted, That in the absence of the mayor, the 
 city judge of said city shall administer such oaths and afl&rmations 
 of office as the mayor is authorized by this act to administer; and 
 during such absence the other official duties of the mayor shall be 
 discharged by the president of the common council. 
 
 10. And be it enacted, That in- case of a vacancy happening 
 in any office created and made elective by this act, by death, resigna- 
 tion, removal, or otherwise, except in officers of election, on the day 
 of election, it shall be filled by the said common council within thirty 
 days thereafter, and the said appointment shall continue until the 
 next annual , election, and no longer. 
 
 11. And be it enacted. That the treasurer and collector of said 
 city, before they enter upon their respective offices, shall each exe- 
 cute a bond to the inhabitants of the city of Plainfield, conditioned 
 for the true and faithful perforjnance of all the duties of their said 
 offices in such sums and with such freehold security as the common 
 council shall approve and direct. 
 
 12. And be it enacted. That the clerks of election, judges of 
 election, assessor, collector, and commissioners of appeal, shall re- 
 spectively possess the power and perform the duties of like officers 
 in any township of this state, so far as shall be consistent with the 
 provisions of this act; and in addition thereto the city clerk shall 
 attend all meetings of the common council of said city, keep ac- 
 curate minutes of their proceedings, and insert the same in a book 
 to be provided for that purpose, and in like manner record all ordi- 
 nances passed by the common council, and shall do and perform 
 all such other duties as the said common council may from time to 
 time prescribe, and the power and duties of the treasurer and street 
 commissioner, if not otherwise provided for in this act, shall be those 
 enjoined by the ordinances of the said common council. 
 
 13. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of the treas- 
 urer of the said city to receive and pay out all moneys belonging to 
 the said city, under the direction and by authority of the said com- 
 mon council; to make out annually, on the second Tuesday in De- 
 cember, or oftener, should the said common council so require, and 
 publish in two newspapers printed in said city, if so many there be, 
 a detailed and true statement of all moneys received into the treas- 
 ury, and of all moneys disbursed therefrom, from the commencement 
 of his official year to the date aforesaid. 
 
 14. And be it enacted. That it shall and may be lawful for the 
 
 Within ten days — Sec. 2 Charter Supplement, 1873. 
 
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 common council of said city to pass such ordinances or by-laws 
 as to them shall seem meet and necessary: 
 
 For regulating, leveling, grading, paving, graveling, cleansing 
 and keeping in repair the streets, roads, highways, alleys and cross- 
 walks in said city; provided, that the expense of paving any street, 
 road, highway or alley with stone or wood shall be equitably as- 
 sessed upon and paid by the owners of property fronting thereon: 
 
 For preventing or removing all obstructions, encroachments,, 
 encumbrances and nuisances, or any of them, from the streets, roads, 
 highways, sidewalks, alleys, enclosures and lots in said city; 
 
 For ascertaining and establishing the grades and boundaries of 
 all streets, alleys and sidewialks in said city: 
 
 For causing the territory embraced within the boundaries of 
 said city to be accurately surveyed and mapped for roads, streets and 
 avenues, and 
 
 For establishing lamp and police districts within said city, and 
 provide for assessing within each respective district the cost of 
 lighting and maintaining police patrol, either or both, within such 
 districts: 
 
 For curbing, grading, paving, flagging, graveling, cementing: 
 or planking side-walks in said city: 
 
 For preventing or removing all obstructions, impediments, en- 
 cumbrances or nuisances on any street or street-crossing, caused by 
 any railroad company or its agents: 
 
 For preventing persons from riding, driving or passing over or 
 upon the sidewalks, except when necessary to cross the same with 
 horses, wagons, carts, or carriages of any description: 
 
 For lighting the streets and alleys in said city: 
 
 For preventing or regulating the running at large of horses, 
 cattle, goats, geese, dogs and swine: 
 
 For preventing the immoderate riding or driving through or in 
 any street or alley of said city: 
 
 For keeping sidewalks and gutters free from snow, ice, and 
 other impediments: 
 
 To enact health laws, and establish a board of health: 
 
 To provide for the relief of the poor, and for the establishment 
 and maintenance of an alms-house or work-house and a city hospital, 
 and to direct and order what persons shall be placed therein and 
 for what length of time: 
 
 For preventing or suppressing any riots, routs, disturbances, 
 breaches of the peace or disorderly assemblage, in any street, alley, 
 house, or place in said city: 
 
 For sinking and regulating pumps, wells and cisterns in the 
 streets or enclosures of said city for the extinguishing of fires: 
 
 For regulating fire engine, hose and truck companies: 
 
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 For the prevention and suppression of fires: 
 
 For regulating the keeping of gunpowder and other combustible 
 or dangerous materials: 
 
 For cleansing of chimneys and regulating the same: 
 
 For appointing policemen — regular or special — watchmen, and 
 other subordinate officers, and prescribing their powers, duties and 
 compensation: 
 
 For regulating weights and measures: 
 
 For establishing and regulating one or more public pounds: 
 Foe restraining vagrants, mendicants and street beggars: 
 
 For erecting, repairing and regulating a city hall and city jail: 
 For assessing and collecting taxes: 
 
 For regulating and conducting city elections: 
 
 For preserving peace and good order: 
 
 For preventing or suppressing all gaming and disorderly houses: 
 For regulating or preventing the carrying on of any trade, busi- 
 ness or manufacture likely to promote or cause fires, or otherwise 
 to endanger the health or well-being of the inhabitants of said city: 
 To regulate and control the manner of erecting dwelling-houses 
 and other buildings, and 
 
 To prohibit within certain limits, to be from time to time by it 
 ‘prescribed, the building or erection of any dwelling-house, store, 
 stable, or other building of wood, or other combustible materials: 
 
 To prevent the setting up or construction of furnaces, stoves, 
 boilers, ovens or other things, in such a manner as to be dangerous: 
 For the sewerage or drainage of said citj^: 
 
 For laying down iron, lead, glass, wood or other pipes for the 
 conveyance of water or gas in the streets, highways, alleys, and 
 sidewalks of said city, and for regulating the same: 
 
 For the protection and regulation of shade trees: 
 
 For the suppression and punishment of vice and immorality: 
 For licensing taverns and saloons: 
 
 And the said common council shall or may enact or pass such 
 and so many other ordinances or by-laws for the peace, good gov- 
 ernment, order, well-being and convenience of the said city as they 
 may deem necessary, proper and expedient, not repugnant to this 
 act, or to the constitution of this state, or of the United States.* 
 
 15. And be it enacted, That the justices of the peace, chosen 
 freeholders, commissioners of appeal, inspectors of elections, asses- 
 sors, collector, constables, pound keepers and the overseer of the 
 poor shall perform such duties as by the laws of this state now 
 appertain to and devolve upon such officers in the townships of this 
 
 * Further powers under Secs. 2, 3, Charter Supplement, 1874, and for lay- 
 ing’ stone crosswalks, Sec. 58 of this act. See also Secs. 7, 30, 31, 32 
 and 3D. 
 
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 -State, subject to the provisions of this act or any ordinance or ordi- 
 nances passed by virtue thereof; and the collector of revenue shall 
 pay over all moneys received by him for the city, as soon as col- 
 lected, to the treasurer of said city, who shall pay over to the treas- 
 urer of the state, or to the collector of Union county, the full quota 
 of taxes required by law to be raised in said city for state and county 
 purposes, so far as the same may have been collected. 
 
 16. And be it enacted, That the ordinances of the common 
 oouncil of said city shall begin in the following manner, to wit: The 
 inhabitants of the city of Plainfield, by their common council, do 
 ■enact as follows: 
 
 17. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the 
 common council of said city to order and cause to be assessed and 
 raised by tax, in any one year, such sum or sums of moneys as may 
 be necessary for the support of the city poor, and such further sum 
 not exceeding ten thousand dollars, as they shall deem expedient for 
 the current expenses of said city, and for all other objects and pur- 
 poses authorized by this act,* which amounts shall be assessed and 
 collected in the same manner as the assessors and collectors of 
 townships are or may be by law required to assess and collect the 
 -state and county tax, which taxes when collected, shall be paid into 
 the hands of the treasurer of said city, and be subject to the order 
 of the said common council. 
 
 18. And be it enacted. That the common council may prescribe, 
 by ordinance, fines and penalties for the violation of any of its ordi- 
 nances; provided, however, that the amount of fine shall in no case 
 exceed the sum of one hundred dollars, or the term of imprisonment 
 twenty days,t reserving the right of trial by jury, if demanded by 
 the defendant, in all cases where the punishment prescribed may 
 be imprisonment or the amount of the fine exceeds the sum of twenty 
 ■dollars.! 
 
 All suits for the enforcement or violation of ordinances shall 
 T)e brought before the city judge, or in the event of his absence or 
 inability to act, from sickness or otherwise, then the said suits shall 
 be brought before the mayor; and the proceedings before the mayor 
 ;shall be conducted in the same manner as before the city judge, and 
 the said mayor, for the purposes of such trials, shall possess all the 
 •powers vested in the city judge. 
 
 The judgments rendered by the city judge or the mayor, when 
 acting in the absence of the said judge, may be executed by any 
 policeman of said city, and in the manner prescribed by the warrant. 
 
 * And additional amount provided for by extra tax. Sec. 26 of this act. 
 
 May borrow $5,000 in anticipation of taxes. Sec. 27 of this act. 
 t Sixty days, &c.. Sec. 3, Charter Supplement, 1874. 
 
 :? See Sec. 1, Charter Supplement, 1873. 
 
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 writ, execution or other process issuing out of the said court, and 
 the said policeman to whom such process shall be delivered, shall 
 execute the same and make return thereof as set forth in such pro- 
 cess, and the city judge or the mayor shall have power to commit 
 to the jail of the county of Union, and the jailor of said county shall 
 receive and safely keep all persons who may be committed to the 
 jail of said county by the city judge or mayor, for the term ex- 
 pressed in the warrant of commitment, and all the expenses of keep- 
 ing such persons shall be borne and paid by the said county of 
 Union. 
 
 The process and proceedings requisite for the proper and effi- 
 cient execution of the provisions of this section shall be those spec- 
 ified in an act entitled “An act constituting courts for the trial of 
 small causes,” as far as the same may be applicable, and said act, 
 for., such purposes, shall constitute and form a part of this act. 
 
 19. And be it enacted, That the city judge shall have all 
 powers* in criminal matters that justices of the peace in and for 
 the several counties of this state now have, and shall have like pow- 
 ers as are given to the mayor, to cause to be arrested, and committed 
 without process, any person guilty, or that he may have reason to 
 believe guilty of any crime, or misdemeanor, or breach of the peace, 
 and to try all causes or complaints arising from the violation of any 
 ordinance of said city. 
 
 20. And be it enacted, That the city judge to be elected t as 
 provided for by this act, shall be at the time of his election, a prac- 
 ticing attorney at law, and shall receive as compensation for the 
 performance of his official duties the sum of three hundred dollars 
 per annum. 
 
 21. And be it enacted. That the city judge shall have jurisdic- 
 tion, and is hereby empowered on oath or affirmation made accord- 
 ing to law, that any person or persons has or have been guilty of a 
 violation of any of the ordinances of said city, to issue a process, 
 either in the nature of a summons, or of a warrant, as to him may 
 seem most advisable, against the person or persons so violating such 
 ordinance, which process shall, when in the nature of a warrant, be 
 returnable forthwith, and when in the nature of a summons be re- 
 turnable in not less than three, nor more than six days; that such 
 process shall state what ordinance the defendant or defendants 
 named therein has or have violated, and in what manner the same 
 has been violated, and then on the return of such process, or at the 
 time to which the city judge shall have adjourned the same, the 
 said city judge shall proceed to hear the testimony, and to determine,. 
 
 * Further rights and powers, Sec. 8, Charter Supplement, 1873. 
 t Term of three years. Sec. 8, Charter Supplement, 1873. 
 
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 and give judgment in the matter, without the filing of any pleadings; 
 and the city judge shall, if judgment be rendered for the plaintiff, 
 forthwith issue execution against the goods and chatties, and against 
 the body of the defendant, or defendants. 
 
 Provided, that in all cases when the fine or penalty shall exceed 
 twenty dollars, or when the punishment may be imprisonment, there 
 may be a trial by jury, to be conducted as in cases now triable by 
 jury in courts for the trial of small causes, and also an appeal, as in 
 cases where appeal may now be had from judgments in courts for 
 the trial of small causes. 
 
 Provided further, that no fine shall he imposed exceeding fifty 
 dollars* for such offence, and no term of imprisonment shall ex- 
 ceed sixty days for each offence. 
 
 And also provided, that all cases and matters pending in the 
 city judge’s court, at the expiration of his term, or resignation, or 
 death, or inability to serve, shall he continued before his successor, 
 who shall have jurisdiction of the same, as if such city judge were 
 personally present; all books and records of said court shall be the 
 property of the city, and as such shall be preserved and transferred 
 by the city judge to his successor. 
 
 22. And be it enacted. That the officers empowered to serve 
 processes issued by the city judge shall be, besides the constables 
 elected or appointed within said city, the policemen of said city, and 
 said processes shall be returned in the same manner so far as cir- 
 cumstances may permit, as warrants for the arrest of persons, issued 
 out of the courts for the trial of small causes are returned, and that 
 the defendant or defendants named therein shall, if the city judge 
 sees fit to adjourn the hearing of the charge made, and so orders, 
 enter into recognizance, as near as may be, in the manner directed 
 in the courts for the trial of small causes, in the amount of penalty 
 named in the process, or in any proceedings to be brought for the 
 recovery of the same, with such surety as may be approved by the 
 city judge, unto the mayor and common council of the city of Plain- 
 field, for his or their appearance on the day to which said hearing 
 may be adjourned, and in default of such appearance, the said recog- 
 nizance may be prosecuted and collected in the same manner as the 
 same might have been if the said recognizance had been taken in a 
 proceeding in courts for the trial of small causes. 
 
 23. And be it enacted. That in all cases in which persons shall 
 bring certioraris to remove the order, proceedings or judgment given 
 or made by the said city judge, it shall be lawful for the said city 
 judge to charge and receive before delivery of the return thereto 
 at the rate of ten centg per folio for the same. 
 
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 One hundred dollars, Sec. 3, Charter Supplement, 1874. 
 
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 24. And be it enacted, That no justice of the Supreme Court 
 shall grant or allow any certiorari to remove any order, proceedings 
 or judgment to be had or made by the city judge of said city, unless 
 the party applying for such certiorari shall enter into bonds with 
 the mayor and common council of the city of Plainfield in the sum 
 of one hundred and fifty dollars, with one or more good surety or 
 sureties, conditioned that such applicants shall prosecute such cer- 
 tiorari in the Supreme Court, shall pay the penalty recovered before 
 the said city judge, with interest and costs, if the judgment be af- 
 firmed, and shall in all things stand by and abide the judgment of 
 the Supreme Court respecting the order, proceeding or judgment 
 given or made by said city judge, which said bond shall be tendered 
 to said justice granting such certiorari, to be by him filed with the 
 clerk of the Supreme Court, for the benefit of said mayor and com- 
 mon council, and on failure thereof no certiorari shall be allowed. 
 
 25. And be it enacted, That if any proceedings of the said city 
 judge shall on removal by certiorari, be affirmed by the Supreme 
 Court, the plaintiff in certiorari shall pay to the defendant all costs 
 on such suit in the 'Supreme Court, but if such proceedings be re- 
 versed, then the plaintiff in certiorari shall not be liable to pay any 
 costs; the provisions of this section and of the last preceding section 
 shall extend to the Circuit Court of the county of Union. 
 
 26. And be it enacted. That whenever hereafter a greater sum 
 of money than the said sum* of ten thousand dollars shall, in the 
 opinion of the said common council be necessary to be raised in any 
 one year for the use of said city, then in such case the said common 
 council are hereby authorized to give notice to the inhabitants of 
 said city, by advertisements published in two newspapers printed 
 in the said city, if so many there be, at least fifteen entire days be- 
 fore the day of holding any election hereinafter mentioned, and by 
 printed handbills put up in five of the most public places of said city 
 for a like period, that an election will be held at the time and place 
 therein mentioned, the said time and place to be designated by the 
 said common council, to vote such a sum of money to be raised by 
 tax in the said city as the said common council may think necessary 
 to be raised for the uses of the said city, and which sum of money 
 shall be stated in the said notice, at which said election only such 
 persons shall be entitled to vote as may be entitled to vote at any 
 regular annual election of said city, the voting to be by ballot, writ- 
 ten or printed, or partly written or partly printed, for or against the 
 sum of money proposed by the said common council in and by their 
 said notice, which said ballot shall contain the word “money,” or 
 the words “no money;” the time of opening and closing the poll at 
 
 * See Sec. 17. 
 
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 such election, and the mode and manner of conducting the same, 
 shall be as is prescribed by this act for annual elections, and every 
 sum of money so voted by any resolution of the said common council 
 to be raised by tax in the said city, and approved of by a majority 
 of the whole number of lawful ballots cast in any such election, shall 
 be assessed, collected and regulated according to the thirty-fifth 
 section of this act, excepting so far as relates to the time of assessing 
 and collecting said taxes, which time shall be fixed by the common 
 council.* 
 
 27. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the said 
 common council to borrow money on the credit and in- the name of 
 said city, except when necessary to anticipate the collection of taxes, 
 and then for an amount never to exceed in the aggregate the sum of 
 
 ^ five thousand dollars, or for a period later than sixty days after the 
 taxes for the current year are finally due; and every such temporary 
 loan or loans shall be fully paid and redeemed out of the taxes so 
 collected.* * 
 
 28. And be it enacted, That the duly elected members of the 
 common council of said city shall assemble in the council chamber 
 on the Thursday eveningt following the annual city election, at 
 the hour of eight o’clock, for the purpose of having the official oath 
 or affirmation administered to them respectively by the mayor or city 
 judge; and should the said common council not then organize, it 
 shall be the duty of the city clerk to call the members elected togeth- 
 er for that purpose, within ten days after the date of their election. J 
 
 29. And be it enacted. That every ordinance and supplement 
 to an ordinance passed by the common council of said city shall, 
 before it takes effect and becomes a law, be at once presented to 
 the mayor by the city clerk, with a certification by said clerk, as to 
 the date of such presentation; and if the said mayor approve of it 
 he shall sign it, if not, he shall return it, with his objections, and 
 file it and them with said clerk, within ten days after he received it; 
 and the said common council shall, at its first meeting thereafter, 
 or at the first subsequent meeting, enter the said objections at length 
 upon its journal, and proceed to reconsider such returned ordinance 
 or supplement, and if a majority of all the members of the said 
 council agree to pass the same, it shall take effect and become a law; 
 but, in every such case, the vote shall be taken by ayes and noes, 
 and entered upon the journals; and if such ordinance or supplement 
 shall not be returned within ten days, as aforesaid, it shall take 
 effect and become a law in like manner as if the mayor had signed 
 
 ♦ See Secs. 4 and 6, Charter Supplement, 1874. 
 
 **See Secs. 5 and 6, Charter Supplement, 1874. 
 
 t Within ten days after election or appointment, Sec. 2 of Charter Sup- 
 plement, 1873. 
 
 t See Sec. 3, Charter Supplement, 1873. 
 
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 it; and each and every ordinance of supplement so passed, as afore- 
 said, shall be attested by the city clerk and published in' two news- 
 papers printed in said city, if so many there be, ten days* before 
 such ordinance or supplement shall go into effect; and similar ten 
 dayst public notice shall be sufficient for the intended adoption 
 by the said common council of any ordinance, supplement or 
 regulation. 
 
 30. And be it enacted, That the common council of said city, 
 or a majority thereof, shall have the exclusive right and power to 
 regulate and prohibit the sale of spirituous and fermented liquors 
 within said city as they deem most conducive to the public good; 
 no person or persons shall in any manner sell or dispose of spirituous 
 or fermented liquors unless licensed so to do by the common council; 
 the amount of assessment to be paid by the applicant for a license 
 shall be fixed by the said common council, or a majority thereof, 
 at or before the time of granting such license, and all moneys which 
 may be derived from granting such licenses shall be paid to the 
 treasurer for the use of said city. 
 
 31. And be it enacted, That the common council of said city 
 shall have the sole exclusive power of licensing all circuses, or other 
 shows and exhibitions whatsoever, proposed to be performed or ex- 
 hibited within the limits of said city, on such terms and subject to 
 such restrictions as the said common council may prescribe, which 
 said power of licensing the said common council may, by ordi- 
 nance, J delegate to the mayor or city judge of said city; and all 
 moneys which may be derived from granting such licenses shall be 
 paid to the treasurer for the use of said city. 
 
 32. And be it enacted. That the common council of said city 
 shall have power by ordinance or resolution, to grant or allow such 
 fees or compensation to the several officers of said city as to the 
 said council shall seem necessary and proper; provided, that the 
 mayor shall not receive for the performance of his official duties a 
 sum exceeding three hundred dollars per annum; and that the 
 members of the common council shall not receive, directly or in- 
 directly, any compensation for the performance of their official 
 duties. 
 
 33. And be it enacted. That the place of meeting of the said 
 common council shall be open for the admission of all peaceful and 
 orderly persons who shall be desirous of being present while the 
 said council shall be in session on public business, and the said com- 
 
 * Two insertions in legal newspapers required by Chap. 226, P. L. 1881, 
 p. 295. See also Sec. 7, Charter Supplement, 1873. 
 t Fourteen days. Sec. 5, Charter Supplement of 1873. 
 
 $ Ordinance relating to Shows and Exhibitions — Approved July 9. 1869; 
 amended November 10, 1884. Also ordinance approved Dec. 8, 1897. 
 
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 mon council shall have full power to enforce the preservation of 
 order. 
 
 34. And be it enacted, That the assessor shall, with strict im- 
 partiality, assess taxes upon all persons and property within the said 
 city, and the collector shall collect the same at such time and in 
 such manner as the assessors and collectors of townships are or may 
 be required by law to assess and collect taxes in townships. 
 
 Provided, That all lands within the limits of said city, held as 
 farm lands and not for building purposes, shall be valued and taxed 
 as farm lands in the same manner as they heretofore were taxed 
 for township purposes. 
 
 And in case of the non-payment of taxes, the said collector shall 
 return on the first day of December annually, the names of all delin- 
 quents, with the sum due from them, respectively, and to such city 
 magistrate as the said common council shall by ordinance or resolu- 
 tion direct; and the said magistrate shall thereupon issue his war- 
 rant or warrants to the city policemen or any of them, or such!^ other 
 person as the common council shall for that purpose nominate and 
 appoint, requiring him or them to levy the tax so in arrears in the 
 manner prescribed by the laws of the State of New Jersey relative 
 to the collection of taxes in townships. 
 
 Pi'ovided further. That the said collector shall not be entitled 
 to charge fees on account of any name mentioned in said warrant 
 -or warrants, unless the tax due from said delinquent be actually 
 collected, and that all real estate lying within the limits of the city 
 shall be liable to be assessed and taxed for city purposes. 
 
 35. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of appeal, in 
 cases of taxation, shall meet annually on the third Tuesday of Octo- 
 ber, and at such other times as the common council may designate 
 in the event an extra tax is ordered to be raised, as provided for in 
 section twenty-seven, to hear and determine all complaints of unjust 
 taxation; they shall sit from two o’clock P. M. until five o’clock 
 P. M., or longer if found necessary, to dispose of all cases submitted 
 to them for consideration, and shall give public notice of the time 
 and place of such intended meeting in two newspapers printed in 
 said city, if so many there be, at least ten days previous to such 
 assembling. 
 
 36. i\nd be it enacted, That the policemen of said city shall 
 have the power to arrest and take into custody, without warrant, 
 any offenders against the by-laws and ordinances of said city, and 
 to confine said offender or offenders in a place provided by the said 
 common council, until a hearing can be had before the mayor or the 
 city judge of said city; provided, that such hearing shall be held 
 within twenty-four hours after the arrest of such offender or of- 
 fenders, unless such arrest is made after two o’clock P. M., on Sat- 
 
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 urdays, in which case the hearing shall be had before twelve o’clock: 
 M., on the following Monday. 
 
 37. And be it enacted, That all actions to be brought under 
 and by virtue of this act, may be brought and prosecuted in ^he 
 name of “The Treasurer of the City of Plainfield,” without specify- 
 ing the individual name of the treasurer of said city for the time- 
 being, and the book of records of the ordinances and by-laws of the 
 common council shall be taken and received as evidence of the due 
 passage, by said common council, of all ordinances and by-laws re- 
 corded therein, and the publication by the authority of the said 
 common council, of their ordinances and by-laws in a volume or 
 pamphlet, shall in like manner be taken and received as evidence of 
 the due passage thereof, and the publication of the said ordinances- 
 and by-laws in the public newspapers shall be presumed to have been 
 made until the contrary be proved. 
 
 38. And be it enacted, That upon the trial of any issue, or 
 upon the judicial investigation of any fact to which issue, or inves- 
 tigation “The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield” are a party, or 
 in which they are interested, no person shall be deemed an incom- 
 petent witness or juror by reason of his or her being an inhabitant 
 of said city; and that if any person shall be sued or impleaded by 
 reason of anything done by virtue of this act, it shall be lawful for 
 such person to plead the general issue, and to give this act and the 
 special matter in evidence at the trial. 
 
 39. And be it enacted. That it shall be lawful for the said 
 common council, by ordinance, to lay out or open any street, road 
 or highway, in any part of the said city, and to cause any street,- 
 road, highway, or alley already laid out in any part of the said city, 
 to be vacated, opened, altered or widened whensoever and so often 
 as they shall judge the public good requires the same to be done. 
 
 And the said common council shall give a written or printed 
 notice to the owner or owners of any lands or real estate, with the 
 appurtenances, necessary to be taken for either of said purposes, or 
 to his, her or their legal representatives, of their intention to take 
 such land or other real estate and appurtenances, and appropriate- 
 it for such street, road, highway or alley, and shall treat with such 
 person or persons for the same. 
 
 And if any such person or persons shall refuse to treat for any 
 such land or other real estate, with the appurtenances, or the said 
 common council cannot agree with such person or persoris for the- 
 same, then it shall be lawful for the said common council to appoint 
 three judicious and disinterested citizens of said city, as commis- 
 sioners, to make an estimate and assessment of the damages that 
 any such owner or owners will sustain by opening, laying out, alter- 
 ing or widening, any such street, road, highway, or alley, and in 
 
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 estimating and assessing such damages the said commissioners shall 
 have due regard as well to the value of the land and other real es- 
 tate with the appurtenances, as to the injury or benefit of the owner 
 or owners thereof, by laying out, altering or widening any such 
 street, road, highway or alley. 
 
 And after making their award of damages, they shall deduct 
 from the same the amount of the estimated benefits, if any, to the 
 owner or owners, or occupiers; and if in any case the commissioners 
 » shall estimate the said benefits to be greater than the said damages, 
 they shall so declare it in their report. 
 
 Provided, That no street, road, highway or alley in said city 
 shall be laid out, opened or extended against the written remon- 
 strance of those persons owning a majority in interest of the front- 
 age land lying on that portion of the street, road, high\vay or alley 
 proposed to be laid out or opened. 
 
 And provided further, That no street, road, highway or alley 
 that is now or may hereafter be opened shall be altered or widened 
 against the written remonstrance of those persons owning one-half 
 of the frontage land lying on the street, road, highway or alley pro- 
 posed to be widened or altered, said remonstrance to be presented 
 and filed with the city clerk within twenty days after he shall have 
 published in the city newspapers the intention of the said common 
 council to pass ordinances authorizing such improvements to be 
 made, and the filing of such remonstrance with the city clerk shall 
 be deemed and taken as sufficient evidence of such remonstrance 
 having been made. 
 
 40. And be it enaeted. That the said commissioners, before 
 they enter upon the execution of the duty required of them shall be 
 sworn or affirmed before the mayor, or any person authorized by law 
 to administer oaths, to make the assessment and estimate submitted 
 to them fairly and impartially, according to the best of their skill 
 and judgment, and the said common council may remove such com- 
 missioners and appoint others for any cause that, to said common 
 council, may seem just. 
 
 41. And be it enacted. That the said common council shall 
 appoint a time and place within the said city for the said commis- 
 sioners to meet, notice thereof shall be given by advertising the same 
 in two newspapers printed in the city of Plainfield, if so many there 
 be, two weeks before the time of meeting, which notice shall specify 
 the street, road, highway or alley proposed to be laid out, altered 
 or widened, the alterations propo^sed to be made, and the lands or 
 real estate, with the appurtenances, intended to be taken for such 
 purposes, and 
 
 The said commissioners, or a majority of them when met, shall 
 have power to swear and examine witnesses, and shall view the 
 
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 premises, if necessary, and make just and true estimates and assess- 
 ments, and report their proceedings to the common council, sufficient- 
 ly in detail to enable the common council to determine the principle 
 upon which such estimates and assessments were made. 
 
 Such report shall be filed with the city clerk, and be open to 
 the inspection of the public for ten days, previous to its presentation 
 to the common council, and notice of such filing shall be published 
 in each of the city newspapers ten days previous to such presentation. 
 
 Parties interested may file with the city clerk written objections 
 to said report, stating the nature and extent of their interest and 
 the grounds of their objections to it. 
 
 All such objections shall be filed within ten days after the first 
 publication of the notice of the filing of the report. 
 
 The said commissioners shall have full power to reconsider and 
 change their report if objected to, or if they refuse so to do either 
 in whole or in part, they shall deliver such objections with their 
 report to the common council, and the common council may ratify 
 the action and report of the commissioners, or alter said report, 
 in respect to the matter specified in the objections, or the said com- 
 mon council may recommit the report to the commissioners for 
 further consideration in respect to such matters, or any other matter 
 connected therewith; and in the event of a recommitment, the said 
 commissioners shall, as far as may be necessary, comply with all the 
 requirements of this section. 
 
 When the common council shall have taken final action upon 
 said report, it shall be binding and conclusive upon the owner or 
 owners of any such lands or real estate, with appurtenances, sub- 
 ject only to the appeal hereinafter given; and upon payment ol" the 
 damages so awarded, or upon a tender and a refusal thereof, it shall 
 be lawful for the common council to cause the said land or real es- 
 tate, with the appurtenances, to be converted and used for the pur- 
 poses aforesaid. 
 
 Provided, however, that any person or persons, conceiving him- 
 self, herself, or themselves aggrieved by the proceedings of said 
 common council, may appal therefrom to the Circuit Court of the 
 county of Union, within sixty days from the time of making the 
 final order of the common council, and the said Circuit Court shall 
 order a trial by jury to assess the damages sustained by the party 
 aggrieved, the trial whereof shall be conducted as in other cases 
 of trial by jury. 
 
 Provided, that any person intending to appeal as aforesaid snail 
 notify the city clerk of suc^ intended appeal, within ten days after 
 the ratification by the common council of the report from which 
 such appeal is intended. 
 
 43. And be it enacted. That in case of non-payment v'ithin 
 
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 sixty days after the estimates and assessments shall have b«en rati- 
 fied by the common council of any damages estimated and assessed, 
 as aforesaid, with interest from the date of the assessment, and in 
 case of no appeal to the said Circuit Court, as aforesaid, the person 
 or persons entitled thereto may sue for and recover the same from 
 the said city, in an action of debt, with costs, in any court having 
 cognizance thereof, and the said proceedings of the said commis- 
 sioners and common council, or the award of the said jury, as the 
 case may be, shall be conclusive evidence against the defendants. 
 
 43. And be it enacted, That in order to provide for the pay- 
 ment of the damages assessed as aforesaid, for the laying out and 
 opening any street, road or highway in the said city, or for the 
 altering or widening of any street, road, highway or alley already 
 laid out in the said city, and of all other necessary expenses incident 
 to such laying out, altering or widening, the said common council 
 shall ascertain the whole amount of such damages and expenses, and 
 shall cause to be made a just an4 equitable assessment thereof 
 among the owners and occupants of all the lands, tenements and real 
 estate benefitted thereby, in proportion, as nearly as may be, to the 
 advantages each shall be deemed to acquire, and the common council 
 shall appoint three judicious and disinterested citizens of said city 
 to make every such assessment, who, before they enter upon the 
 execution of their trusts, shall be sworn or affirmed before any per- 
 son residing in said city authorized by law to administer oatns, to 
 make said assessments fairly, according to the best of their skill and 
 judgment; and 
 
 A report in writing of such assessment, signed by a majority 
 of such persons, being returned to the common council, and ratified 
 by them, shall be binding and conclusive upon the owners and occu- 
 pants of such lands, tenements and real estate to be assessed re- 
 spectively;* and 
 
 Such owners or occupants shall also respectively, on demand, 
 pay to such persons as shall, be authorized by the said common coun- 
 cil to receive the same, the sums at which such lands, tenements and 
 real estate shall be assessed, to be applied to the payment of the 
 damages and expenses of laying out, altering or widening the said 
 street, road, highway or alley as aforesaid; and 
 
 On default of such payment, or any part thereof, it shall be 
 lawful for the mayort of said city, by direction of the common 
 council, to issue a warrant under the common seal, to levy the same 
 by distress and sale of the goods and chatties of such owner and 
 occupant refusing or neglecting to pay the same, rendering the over- 
 
 * See Sec. 11, Charter Supplement, 1874. 
 
 t City Judge may issue warrant. — Sec. 6, Charter Supplement of 1873. 
 
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 plus, if any, after deducting the charges of such distress, to such 
 owner or occupant, or his or her legal representatives. 
 
 Provided, always, that nothing in this section contained shall 
 affect any agreement between landlord and tenant respecting the 
 payment of any such charges, but they shall be answerable to each 
 other in the same manner as if this supplement had not passed. 
 
 And further, if any such assessment or any part thereof, shall 
 be paid to any person, when by agreement or by law the same ought 
 to have been borne or paid by some other person, then it shall be 
 lawful for the person paying the same to sue for and recover the 
 same, with interest and costs of suit before any court having cogniz- 
 ance thereof, as so much money paid for the use of the person who 
 ought to have paid the same; and the assessment aforesaid and proof 
 of payment shall be conclusive evidence in said suit; and 
 
 In all cases where there is no argreement to the contrary, the 
 owner or landlord, and not the occupant or tenant, shall be deemed 
 the person who ought in law to bear and pay every such assessment. 
 
 All the provisions of section forty-one relating to the form of 
 the report and filing of the same with the city clerk, and giving 
 notice thereof, and the subsequent proceedings thereon, as far “as 
 the same may be applicable, shall be regarded as appertaining to 
 this section. 
 
 44. And be it enacted, That in case any assessment made as 
 aforesaid shall not have been complied with, by the payment of the 
 sums thereby assessed, it shall be lawful for the common council 
 to cause the same to be advertised in one or more public newspapers 
 printed in said city for at least one month, requiring the owner or 
 occupants of such lands, tenements and real estate respectively, to 
 pay the sums at which the same shall have been assessed, to the 
 treasurer of said city; and 
 
 In default of such payment, such lands, tenements and real 
 estate will be sold at public auction, to ^satisfy such assessment, and 
 the interest, costs, charges and expenses thereof; and 
 
 If, notwithstanding such notice, the said owners or occupants 
 shall refuse or neglect to pay such assessment, and the expenses of 
 such advertisement, then it shall and may be lawful for the said 
 common council to cause to be collected the amounts of said assess- 
 ments, for the benefits so n^ade, as aforesaid, upon any lands or real 
 estate, with the interest, costs, charges and expenses by a 
 sale of said lands and real estate, as hereinafter provided; and 
 to cause public notice thereof to be given for the space of four weeks, 
 by setting up advertisements of such sale in five public places in said 
 city, and publishing the same in one or more public newspapers 
 printed and published in said city, for the term above mentioned, 
 
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 being the four weeks next preceding such sale, which notices sliaU 
 be signed by the city clerk, and shall contain a brief description of 
 the premises to be sold, and for what purpose, and the amount of 
 said assessment against the same, with the costs, charges, and ex- 
 ponses, and the day, hour, and place of such sale; and 
 
 It shall be lawful to sell said land and premises at public auc- 
 tion for the shortest term, not exceeding one hundred years, for 
 which any person or persons will agree to take the same and pav 
 such assessment, interest, costs, charges and expenses, and to cause 
 to be executed under the common seal of said city a certificate of 
 said sale, and deliver the same to the purchaser or purchasers there- 
 of, within ten days after such sale. 
 
 Provided, That it shall not be lawful to sell the same until six 
 months* after the completion and return of said assessment, nor 
 until the owner or owners of said real estate be personally notified 
 to pay said assessment, if non-resident, and their place of residence 
 may be found with reasonable diligence. 
 
 45. And be it enacted, That the owner, mortgag^-e, occup?nt, 
 or any person or persons having a legal or equitable interest in any 
 lands or real estate sold for assessments, as aforesaid, may redeem 
 the same at any time within two years from the time of such sale, 
 by paying to the city treasurer, for the use of the purchaser, his 
 heirs or assigns, the said purchase money together with any other as- 
 sessment properly chargeable thereon, and which the purchaser may 
 have paid, with the interest on said purchase money at the rate of 
 twelve per centum per annum from the time of such sale, or from 
 the time of such payments; and the certificate of said treasurer, 
 stating the payment and showing what property such payment is 
 intended to redeem, shall be evidence of such redemption, which 
 sum of money, so paid, the said treasurer shall cause to be refunded 
 to the purchaser, his heirs and assigns. 
 
 46. And be it. enacted. That if any lands or real estate so sold 
 shall not be redeemed as by this act provided, the common council 
 shall execute to the purchaser, his legal representative or assigns, a 
 declaration of sale under their common seal, signed by the mayor, at- 
 tested by the city clerk, containing a description of the premises, the 
 fact of assessment, advertisement and sale, the date of ^he sale, and 
 the period for which the premises were sold, which declaration .shall 
 be recorded in the office of the city clerk, and until the sam.e shall 
 have been recorded, such lands and real estate may bo redeemed as 
 hereinbefore provided, notwithstanding the period of two years may 
 have expired from the time of said sale; and 
 
 Such declaration of sale shall be presumptive evidence that such 
 
 Sixty days — Sec. 9, Charter Supplement of 1874. 
 
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 sale and proceedings were regularly made according to the i)ro- 
 visions of this act, and such purchaser or purchasers, and his and 
 their legal representatives, shall by virtue thereof lawfully hold and 
 enjoy such lands and real estate, with the rents, issues and profits 
 thereof, for his and their own jiroper use against the owner or ov/n- 
 ers thereof, and all persons claiming under him or them, until the 
 term shall be completed and ended for which the purchaser or pur- 
 chasers may have agreed to take the same; and at the expiration of 
 said term shall peaceably and quietly yield up such lands and real 
 estate to the lawful owner or owners thereof, and shall be liable 
 for any injury or waste by him or them done or committed therein, 
 in the same manner as the tenant for a term of years. 
 
 Provided, That whenever satisfactory evidence shall be pro- 
 duced to the common council that any lands so sold belong to an 
 idiot, lunatic or infant, for whose estate no guardian shall have been 
 appointed, the said common council shall direct the mayor and city 
 clerk to postpone the execution of a declaration of sale of such lands 
 until at least four months after they shall have evidence that such 
 disability has been removed, or guardian or trustee to their estate 
 appointed, and until the expiration of said four months, such guard- 
 ian or trustee or person whose disability has been removed may re- 
 deem such lands as hereinbefore provided. 
 
 47. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the city clerk 
 to record in proper books kept for that purpose all certificates of 
 sale and assignment thereof, to give certificates of search in relation 
 thereto, to any person applying for the same, and to cancel such 
 certificates of sales and assignments thereof, so recorded, when the 
 land and real estate for which they were given shall be redeemed on 
 certificate of the city treasurer of such redemption, and to file such 
 certificate in his office; it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to 
 make out two receipts for all property redeemed, one for the person 
 redeeming, and one to be filed in the office of the city clerk. 
 
 48. And be it enacted. That the amount of any assessment shall 
 be and remain a lien on the lot or lots assessed from the time of 
 the completion and return of such assessment in manner aforesaid, 
 until the same shall be paid and satisfied, and that it shall be law- 
 ful for the said common council, instead of the remedies hereinabove 
 provided, if they shall see fit, in case of a refusal or neglect to pay 
 an assessment made as aforesaid, to sue for and recover the amount 
 of such assessment from the person or persons who, under the pro- 
 visions of this supplement ought to pay for the same, or his, her or 
 their legal representatives, with interest and costs of suit, in any 
 court of this State having cognizance thereof, in an action on the 
 case for so much money by them paid, laid out and expended for 
 
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 such person or persons, his, her or their legal representatives; and 
 the said assessment shall be conclusive for the plaintiff in every such 
 action. 
 
 49. And be it enacted, That no street, road, highway or alley 
 hereafter to be laid out or opened in said city shall be recognized, 
 considered or treated as a public street or highway, road or alley, 
 unless the same be laid out and opened under the direction of the 
 said common council in manner aforesaid. 
 
 50. And be it enacted, That in case any owner or owners of 
 any land or real estate necessary to be taken for the laying out, 
 opening, altering or widening any street, road, highway or alley in 
 the said city shall be non compos mentis, or out of the State, or can- 
 not be found on reasonable inquiry, and no agent or legal repre- 
 sentative of such owner can, on like inquiry, be found in this State, 
 then it shall be lawful for the common council of said city to pro- 
 ceed to the appointment of the commissioners mentioned and pro- 
 vided for in the fortieth section of this act, after publishing in a 
 newspaper printed in said city, for the space of two weeks, at least 
 once in each week, a notice of the intention of said common council 
 to take such land or real estate and appropriate it for such street, 
 road, highway or alley. 
 
 51. And be it enacted. That in case the common council and 
 the owner of any such land or real estate shall agree upon the sum 
 to be paid therefor, such sum shall constitute a part of the whole 
 amount of damages and expenses to be assessed under and in pur- 
 suance of the provisions named in section forty-four of this act. 
 
 52. And be it enacted. That in case the owner or owners of 
 any lands, tenements or real estate mentioned in the forty-fourth 
 section of this act, be under age, non compos mentis, out of the State, 
 or cannot be ascertained on reasonable inquiry made under the di- 
 rection of the common council, and the assessment made on such 
 lands, tenements or real estate in pursuance of the provisions of 
 said forty-fourth section, remain unpaid for the space of thirty days 
 after the same shall be made, it shall be lawful for the common 
 council, without demand from such owner or owners, to proceed to 
 the advertisement first mentioned in the forty-fifth section of this 
 act, and the sale provided for in said section in the manner in said 
 section pointed out. 
 
 .53. And be it enacted. That it shall be no valid objection 
 against laying out or opening any highway, street or road in said 
 city, that the ending point of the same is not in a public highway; 
 proAided, the same be laid out or opened in conformity with the pro- 
 visions of this supplement. 
 
 .54. And be it enacted. That it shall and may be lawful for the 
 
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 common council of said city to make and establish ordinances and 
 regulations for the paving or macadamizing of any street or section 
 of a street and for curbing, grading, paving, flagging, graveling, 
 cementing or planking of any sidewalks, in any street or section of a 
 street in said city, by the owners or occupants of lands, tenements or 
 real estate fronting on or adjoining such street or section of a street, 
 and to appoint one or more discreet and skilful person or persons 
 to superintend the said work and prescribe the manner in which 
 the same shall be performed, and to enforce such ordinances and 
 regulations by enacting penalties for non-compliance therewith. 
 
 Provided, That before any such ordinance or regulation shall 
 be adopted by the said common council, notice of such intended 
 action shall be published by the city clerk in two newspapers printed 
 in said city, if so many there be, for the period of at least fourteen 
 days.* 
 
 55. And be it enacted, That if the owner or owners of any 
 lands, tenements or real estate, in front whereof the street shall, 
 by such ordinance or regulation be directed to be paved or macad- 
 ized, or the sidewalk curbed, graded, paved, flagged, graveled, ce- 
 mented or planked, shall neglect to comply with such ordinance or 
 regulation, it shall be lawful for the said common council to cause 
 such improvement to be made at the expense of the city on account 
 of the owners of such real estate, and the amount paid by the city 
 for such work shall be a lien on such real estate from the time of 
 its completion, and shall bear interest at the rate of twelve per 
 centum per annum from the date of payment by the city. 
 
 Such amount paid or agreed to be paid for such work shall be 
 regarded as an assessment, and the said common council shall cause 
 an advertisement to be inserted in two newspapers printed in said 
 city, if so many there be, for three weeks at least, stating the amount 
 of such assessment and requiring the owner or owners of such lands, 
 tenements or real estate to pay the same to the treasurer of said city, 
 appointing a day and place when and where such lands, tenements, 
 or real estate will be sold at public auction, if default shall be made 
 in such payment, for the lowest term of years at which any person 
 shall offer to take the same, in consideration of advancing the sum 
 assessed, as aforesaid; and 
 
 If notwithstanding such notice and demand, the owner or own- 
 ers of such lands, tenements or real estate shall neglect to pay such 
 assessment, with costs and charges thereof, and of the said adver- 
 tisement or advertisements, it shall be lawful for the said common 
 council to cause such lands, tenements or real estate to be sold at 
 public auction for a term at the time, for the purposes and in the 
 
 * See Sec. S, Charter Supplement, 1S74. 
 
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 manner expressed in said advertisement, and to give a declaration 
 of such sale to the purchaser thereof, under the common seal of said 
 city; and 
 
 Such purchaser, his or her executors, administrators or assigns, 
 shall by virtue thereof, and of this act, from and after the expiration 
 of the term hereinafter named for redemption lawfully hold and 
 enjoy the same for his, her and their own proper use against the 
 owner or owners and all claiming under him, her or them, until his, 
 her or their term therein shall be fully completed and ended, and be 
 at liberty to remove all the buildings and materials which he, she 
 or they shall erect or place thereon; but he, she or they shall Idave 
 such lands, tenements or real estate, at the expiration of the term, 
 in sufficient fence, and the sidewalk in front thereof in the order 
 required by such ordinance or regulation. 
 
 Provided, That if, after defraying the actual expense of paving 
 or macadamizing the street, or of curbing, grading, paving, flagging, 
 graveling, cementing or planking the sidewalk in front of any lands, 
 tenements or real estate so sold, as aforesaid, in the manner 
 directed by such ordinance, or regulation, and deducting all reason- 
 able charges attending the sale, a surplus of the purchase money 
 shall remain in the hands of the treasurer of said city, the same 
 shall forthwith be paid to the owner or owners of such lands, tene- 
 ments or real estate, or his, her or their legal representatives. 
 
 And provided further, That the lands, tenements or real estate 
 so sold may be redeemed by the owner, mortgagee, occupant or 
 person interested therein, or by any other person for and in behalf 
 of the owner, mortgagee or claimant of such lands, tenements or 
 real estate, at any time within two years after the sale for assess- 
 ments, by paying to the treasurer of said city, for the use of the 
 said purchaser, the purchase money, together with any other sum 
 paid for taxes or assessments 'which the said purchaser may have 
 paid, chargeable on such lands, tenements or real estate, and which 
 he is hereby authorized to do, with interest thereon at the rate of 
 fifteen per centum per annum in. addition thereto; and the cer- 
 tiflcate of the treasurer of said city stating the payment, showing 
 what lands, tenements or real estate such payment is intended to 
 redeem, shall be evidence of such redemption. 
 
 56. And be it enacted, That the amount of the assessment or 
 estimate to be made, as aforesaid, on any lands, tenements or real 
 estate in said city, shall be and remain a lien thereon from the time 
 of the completion and return of such assessment or estimate, in 
 manner aforesaid, until paid or otherwise satisfled; and 
 
 That it shall be lawful for the common council of said city, 
 instead of the remedy hereinafter stated, if they shall see fit, in case 
 the owner or occupant of any lands, tenements or real estate within 
 
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 the city shall neglect to comply with such ordinance or regulation in* 
 respect to the street or the sidewalk in front thereof, to sue for and 
 recover, in the name of the treasurer of said city, the amount of 
 such assessment or estimate and costs thereof from the owner or 
 owners or such lands, tenements or real estate, or his, her or their 
 legal representatives, with interest and costs, before the mayor or 
 city judge of said city, or in any court having cognizance thereof, 
 in an action on the case for so much money by them paid, laid out 
 and expended, to and for the use of such owner or owners, or his, 
 her or their legal representatives; and in every such action the said 
 assessment or estimate, with the proof of the amount paid, shall be 
 conclusive evidence for the plaintiff. 
 
 57. And be it enacted, That if the tenant or tenants of any 
 lands, tenements or real estate within said city shall cause the street 
 in front thereof to be paved or macadamized, or the sidewalk to be 
 curbed, graded, paved, flagged, graveled, cemented or planked in 
 obedience to such ordinance or regulation, at his, her or their own 
 expense, it shall be lawful for him, her or them to deduct the same 
 out of the rent, or recover the same from the landlord or owner or 
 owners, or his, her or their legal representatives, with interest and 
 costs, in an action on the case, before the mayor or the city judge 
 of said city, or in any court having cognizance thereof, for so much 
 money by him, her or them paid, laid out and expended to and for 
 his, her or 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. 
 
 58. And be it enaeted. That it shall and may be lawful for 
 the common council of said city to cause stone walks to be laid across 
 any street at the general expense of said city. 
 
 59. And be it enacted. That it shall and may be lawful for 
 the common council Of said city to speciflcally deflne by ordinance 
 the manner in which all assessments shall be levied and collected, 
 and to make such regulations as may be necessary to carry into effect 
 the true intent and meaning of this act; that any assessment by 
 virtue of the provisions of this act, or of the act and supplement, 
 thereto, to which this is a supplement, shall bear interest at the 
 rate of twelve per centum per annum, from the day tne same is rati- 
 fled by the city council, and not before, and shall continue and 
 remain a lien upon the lands and real estate so assessed until the 
 said assessment, with the interest and expenses accruing thereon,., 
 shall be paid or the amount therof discharged by the sale of the said 
 lands or real estate by the city. 
 
 60. And be it enacted. That all expenses for improvements in 
 paving or macadamizing any street or portion of a street shall be' 
 assessed upon and paid by the lands and real estate fronting on such 
 
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 street or portion of a street; all expenses for grading, curbing, 
 flagging, planking or cementing sidewalks shall be paid by the 
 owners of the real estate in front of which such sidewalks are thus 
 improved; all expenses for the construction of sewer or under- 
 drains shall be assessed upon all the lands and real estate lying with- 
 in the district drained by such sewer or under-drains in proportion 
 to the benefit received; all expenses for improvements in opening, 
 altering, widening and grading streets, and for grading sidewalks, 
 where such grading is included in a contract for grading the streets, 
 adjoining such sidewalks, shall be assessed upon and paid by the 
 lands and real estate benefited by the same in proportion to the 
 benefit received. 
 
 61. And be it enacted, That the common council of said city 
 may make and establish ordinances providing for the assessment of 
 the cost of grading and paving any street intersections, upon the 
 owners of lands and real estate, to the center of the block each way 
 from the intersection thus improved. 
 
 62. And be it enacted, That whenever any street, or part of 
 any street in the said city, occupied or used by the track of any 
 railroad company, shall require to be altered or widened for the 
 convenience of public travel, or graded, paved or macadamized, and 
 proceedings for altering or widening, or grading, paving or macad- 
 amizing the same shall have been taken under the provisions of this 
 act, it shall be lawful for the commissioners appointed by the city 
 council, and whose duty it shall be to make a just and equitable 
 assessment of the whole amount of the costs, damages and expenses 
 of such altering or widening, and the costs, and expenses of such 
 grading, paving or macadamizing among the owners of all the lands 
 and real estate benefitted thereby, to assess such portion of said 
 costs, damages and expenses upon the corporation or company own- 
 ing or using said railroad track as shall to them seem equitable and 
 just, and such assessment shall be lien upon any property of said 
 corporation or company in the city of Plainfield, and may also be 
 enforced in the same manner as the assessment upon such owners 
 of land and real estate benefited thereby. - 
 
 63. And be it enacted. That whenever any ordinance shall be 
 passed by the common council for making any improvements or per- 
 forming any work in relation to the opening, altering or widening 
 of any street, the construction of any sewer or drain, the widening, 
 leveling, grading, curbing, guttering, paving, flagging, graveling or 
 planking any street or sidewalk, all further action which may be 
 necessary to carry out and complete such improvement or work, 
 and all orders relating thereto, may be done by resolution and not 
 by ordinance. 
 
 64. And be it enacted. That no street, road, highway or alley. 
 
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 or any portion thereof within said city shall be paved or macada- 
 mized by any process or with any material, whether patented or 
 not, against the written remonstrance of a majority of all the front- 
 age ownership of land lying on said street, or portion of a street, 
 road, highway or alley proposed to be thus improved, and that when- 
 ever the common council of said city shall determine to cause any 
 street, or section of any street, road, highway or alley to be paved 
 or macadamized, then a majority in interest, as specified in this sec- 
 tion, may agree with the contractor or contractors for doing the 
 work as to the price to be paid for the proposed improvement, and 
 such stipulated amount as agreed upon shall be the price paid for 
 the work when completed. 
 
 Provided, however, the agreement as to the price to be paid 
 between the property owners and the contractor or contractors shall 
 be made within the time fixed in the ordinance adopted by the com- 
 mon council providing for the contemplated improvement, and if for 
 any reason the property owners fail to agree with the contractor or 
 contractors within the time specified in the ordinance, as aforesaid, 
 then it shall be lawful for the common council to make the contract 
 with the contractor or contractors, and order the work done. 
 
 65. And be it enacted. That whenever the common council of 
 said city shall determine to cause any street improvement to be made 
 which shall contemplate the use of any patented process or mater- 
 ials, and the owners of one-half of the property in running feet 
 along the line of the intended improvement shall remonstrate, in 
 writing, against the use of any specified patent, in making such 
 improvement, or petition for the use of any specified patent, the said 
 common council shall cause the said work to be done in accordance 
 with the request of such proportions of owners. 
 
 66. And be it enacted. That this act shall be taken and deemed 
 to be a public act, and may at any time be amended, altered or 
 appealed by the legislature of this state; provided, that all amend- 
 ments or alterations relating to the raising of money by loan or 
 taxation shall before taking effect, be submitted to the electors of 
 said city, and be approved by a majority thereof, voting by ballot, 
 at an election held in conformity with the requirements of this act 
 relating to annual elections. 
 
 67. And be it enacted. That all laws and parts of laws incon- 
 sistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby 
 repealed; but this repeal shall not affect any proceeding had or 
 commenced under the same when this act takes effect, nor any rights 
 or dues which the City of Plainfield or any person or persons were 
 entitled to by virtue thereof. 
 
 68. And be it enacted. That this act shall take effect imme- 
 diately. 
 
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 CHARTER SUPPLEMENT 
 
 Approved April 1, 1873. P. L. 1873. P. 482. 
 
 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the 
 State of New Jersey, That for the violation of any of the ordinances 
 of said city there may be imposed a fine not exceeding one hundred 
 dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, or either fine or 
 imprisonment, as the court having jurisdiction may decide and 
 whenever an imposed fine is twenty dollars or under there shall not 
 be granted a trial by jury.* 
 
 2. And be it enacted, That official oaths or affirmations under 
 the charter to which this is a supplement, may be administered by 
 either the mayor or city judge, and all such oaths or affirmations 
 shall be taken within ten days after the day of election or appoint- 
 ment. 
 
 3. And be it enacted. That the duly elected members of the 
 common council of said city shall meet in the council chamber on 
 the first Monday in January, at the hour of eight o’clock p. ni., for 
 the purpose of organizing for the transaction of business, and should 
 the said common council not then organize, it shall be the duty of 
 the city clerk to call the members together for that purpose within 
 ten days thereafter. 
 
 4. And be it enacted. That the city assessor shall with strict 
 impartiality assess taxes upon all persons and property within the 
 said city, between the first day of May and the first day of July, 
 annually, and the city collector shall collect the same between the 
 first day of July and the first day of September, annually, and shall 
 on the first Monday in September, annually, return to the city 
 judge the names of all delinquents with the sums due from them 
 respectively; and the time for the commissioners of appeal in cases 
 of taxation to meet shall be on the fourth Tuesday in July, annually. 
 
 5. And be it enacted. That fourteen days from the date of first 
 publication shall be sufficient public notice of the intended adoption 
 by the common council of any ordinance, supplement or regula- 
 tions. 
 
 6. And be it enacted. That in addition to the mayor of said 
 city it shall be lawful for the city judge by direction of the common 
 council, to issue a warrant as section forty-three of the act to which 
 this is a supplement provides. 
 
 7. And be it enacted. That each and every ordinance or sup- 
 plement when approved by the mayor or finally adopted by the 
 common council, shall be of legal effect ten days after the date of 
 one publication thereof in each of the official newspapers printed in 
 said city. 
 
 *See Sec. 3, Charter Supplement, 1874. 
 
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 8. And be it enacted, That the city judge shall have all the 
 rights, powers and jurisdiction that justices of the peace have for 
 the trial of civil actions before them; he shall be elected to serve for 
 three years; his court shall be a court of record, the proceedings in 
 which shall be the same as in courts for the trial of small causes 
 and subject to the same laws as far as applicable; judgments ren- 
 dered in said court may be appealed from in all cases in which 
 appeals are allowed in courts for the trial of small causes in the 
 same manner, and the common council shall provide a suitable and 
 convenient place where the court of the city judge may be held.* 
 
 9. And be it enacted, That the common council of said city 
 may provide by a general ordinance that if any party be convicted 
 of violating any of its ordinances, and shall fail or neglect to pay 
 the fine prescribed for such violation and the costs of suit within 
 two days after conviction, the city judge may in his discretion cause 
 •such party to be committed to the county jail until such fine and the 
 costs are paid or for any period not exceeding ten days,t but this 
 contingency alone shall not entitle any party to a jury trial. 
 
 10. And be it enacted. That no writ of certiorari shall be 
 granted unless the party applying therefor shall present to the cir- 
 cuit judge and file with the clerk of the court, before the issuing 
 of the writ, a statement under oath, of the reasons on which the 
 application for the writ is based, and the argument on the writ shall 
 be had only on such reasons and at the same term of court to which 
 It is made returnable, unless the court or judge granting such writ 
 shall allow further time. 
 
 11. And be it enacted. That all laws and parts of laws incon- 
 sistent with the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 12. And be it enacted. That this act shall be deemed and taken 
 to be a public act and shall take effect immediately. 
 
 CHARTER SUPPLEMENT 
 
 Approved March 18, 1874 — P. Tj. 1874, p. 302. 
 
 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General xlssembly of the 
 ■state of New Jersey, That the mayor shall nominate and, by and 
 with the advice and consent of the common council, appoint all of- 
 ficers of the city not required to be elected, except city clerk and 
 janitor of the council chamber, and that no evidence of indebtedness 
 against the city shall be valid unless signed by him. 
 
 * See Sec. 7, Charter Supplement, 1874. 
 
 t Sixty days’ imprisonment — Sec. 3, Charter Supplement, 1874. 
 
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 2. And be it enacted. That the common council shall have full 
 -power to pass ordinances: 
 
 To prevent and punish injuries to public lamps: 
 
 To abate or remove nuisances of every kind, and to compel the 
 owner or occupants of any lot, house, building, shed or place, wherein 
 may be carried on any business or calling, or in or upon which there 
 may exist any matter or thing which is or may be detrimental to the 
 health of the inhabitants, to cleanse, remove or abate the same, 
 from time to time, as often as they may deem necessary at the ex- 
 pense of the owner or occupants thereof: 
 
 To offer and pay rewards for the apprehension and conviction 
 of persons engaged in the commission of crime, or in violation of 
 any of the city ordinances. 
 
 Every conviction had before the city judge, either with or with- 
 out a jury trial, shall be reviewed by writ of certiorari and not 
 otherwise; such writ to be allowed, heard and determined by the 
 presiding judge of the circuit court of Union county. 
 
 3. And be it enacted, That the common council may prescribe 
 by ordinance what shall be the extreme penalty for each violation 
 of any of its ordinance what shall be the extreme penalty for each 
 violation of any of its ordinances; such penalty shall not exceed one 
 hundred dollars fine, or sixty days’ imprisonment, or both, and the 
 • court having jurisdiction of suits brought for the enforcement of 
 said ordinances may, in its discretion, impose the same or any less 
 penalty than that prescribed by said common council; and if the fine 
 imposed be not paid, the party convicted of any such violation may 
 be committed by the judge of said court, in his discretion, to the 
 
 -city or county jail, or such other place as the common council may 
 provide, for any period not exceeding twenty days; no judgment for 
 the violation of any ordinance shall be reversed for any imperfection, 
 omission, defect in or lack of form, nor for any error except such as 
 shall or may have prejudiced the defendant in maintaining his de- 
 fence upon the merits. 
 
 4. And be it enacted. That it shall and may be lawful for the 
 common council of said city to order and cause to be assessed and 
 collected by tax in any one year, for the current expenses of said 
 city and all other objects and purposes authorized by the act to 
 which this is a supplement not otherwise and specially provided for, 
 such sum of money as a percentage of forty cents on each hundred 
 dollars of assessed valuation upon all persons and property within 
 said city will produce, which sum of money shall be-in lieu of all 
 other taxation authorized or contemplated by the act to which this 
 is a supplement, and shall be assessed upon the same basis of valua- 
 tion and collected in the same manner as the assessors and collec- 
 
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 tors of townships are or may be by law required to assess and colloct 
 the state and county taxes, and which money, when collected, shall 
 be paid into the hands of the treasurer of said city and be hold by 
 him subject to the order of said common council, and in no event 
 shall the percentage of taxation herein named be increased, but the 
 same may be reduced at the pleasure of the said common council. 
 
 5. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the common 
 council of said city to authorize and direct the mayor and city treas- 
 urer to borrow on the credit and in the name of said city, in antici- 
 pation of the collection of taxes in any one year the sum of seven 
 thousand dollars five hundred dollars, and every such temporary 
 loan shall be fully paid and redeemed out of the moneys first re- 
 ceived from the year’s tax collection so anticipated. 
 
 6. And be it enacted, That sections seventeen, twenty-six and 
 twenty-seven of the act to which this is a supplement be and the 
 same are hereby repealed; provided, sections four and five of this 
 are ratified by a popular vote, and all other parts of said act and 
 supplements thereto inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be 
 and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 7. And be it enacted. That the name of the court in which the 
 City Judge shall hear causes, shall be called the City Court of Plain- 
 field; in proceedings for the enforcement of city ordinances; he shall 
 have the same powers as in the trial of civil actions; the impression 
 of a seal, the device of which shall be prescribed by the common 
 council,* upon any process or paper signed by him shall be sufficient 
 for all purposes, at the time' specified in any process returnable be- 
 fore him or to which any matter was adjourned he may proceed to 
 hear and dispose thereof; whenever it shall be necessary to give evi- 
 dence of a judgment or other proceedings before him the entry of 
 such judgment or other proceeding on his docket or a transcript 
 thereof, certified by him under his hand and seal, shall be sufficient 
 evidence thereof. 
 
 8. And be it enacted. That wherever, in sections fourteen, fifty- 
 four, fifty-five, fifty-seven, sixty and sixty-two, of the act to which this 
 is a supplement, the words “paving or macadamizing’’ or the words 
 “paved or macadamized’’ are used the same shall read “paving, 
 graveling or macadamizing,” or “paved, graveled or macadamized,” 
 as the case may be. 
 
 9. And be it enacted. That where the words “six months” occur 
 in the last paragraph of section forty-four of the act to which this 
 is a supplement, the same shall be altered so as to read “sixty days.” 
 
 10. And be it enacted. That the last paragraph of section forty- 
 three of the act entitled “An act to amend the Charter of the City of 
 
 * Device adopted April 1.3, 1874. 
 
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 Plainfield,” approved April fourth, one thousand eight hundred and 
 seventy-two, is hereby amended by substituting the words “forty-one” 
 for the words “forty-two.” 
 
 11. And be it enacted, That hereafter the Commissioners ap- 
 pointed to estimate and assess the damages that any owner or owners 
 of lands or real estate, with the appurtenances will sustain, by open- 
 ing and laying out, altering or widening any street, road, highway or 
 alley in the city of Plainfield, shall also ascertain all other necessary 
 expenses, incident to such laying out, opening, altering or widening, 
 and shall also discharge and perform all other duties now required 
 to be performed by the commissioners provided'for by section forty- 
 three of the act to which this is a supplement. 
 
 12. And be it enacted, That this act shall be deemed and taken 
 to be a public act, and shall take effect immediately, except so much 
 thereof as relates to the raising of money by taxation and loans, 
 which portion shall become of effect when ratified by a majority of 
 the ballots cast by the legally qualified voters of said city, at an elec- 
 tion to be regularly called 'and held by direction of said common 
 council. 
 
 13. And be it enacted. That all laws and parts of laws incon- 
 sistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
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 AN ACT 
 
 FOR THE RELIEF OF THE CITY^ OF PLAINFIELD. 
 
 Approved March 19, 1874. P. L. 1874, p. 330. 
 
 Supplement to an Act to Amend the Charter of the City of Plain- 
 field, approved April Fourth, One Thousand Eight Hundred and 
 Seventy-two. Approved March 18, 1874. 
 
 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the 
 State of New Jersey, That whenever by reason of any informality or 
 illegality in any proceedings of the common council of the city of 
 Plainfield, or of the commissioners of assessments, surveyors, or 
 other agent of the common council or officers of the city, in laying 
 out, opening, altering, widening, or closing streets, avenues, or pub- 
 lic squares, or in grading, altering the grade, paving, curbing, gut- 
 tering and flagging the sidewalks of any street or avenue, or con- 
 structing any sewer or drain, any assessments shall be set aside by 
 judicial authority, it shall be lawful for the common council to re- 
 institute the proceedings set aside upon the same basis upon which 
 the original proceedings were based, or otherwise if they shall see fit 
 so to do and lawfully proceed therein the same as though the former 
 proceedings had not been had, or the said common council may rein- 
 stitute said proceedings from the point where such informality or il- 
 legality may have been so decreed, and whenever the common coun- 
 cil shall discover that any such proceedings are liable to be set aside 
 by judicial authority they may reinstitute said proceedings from the 
 point where such informality or illegality commences and no assess- 
 ment shall be deemed invalid in consequence thereof, but no writ of 
 certiorari shall be allowed or issue to remove and assessment made 
 upon the owner or owners of land and real estate for any work or im- 
 provement made or to be made, unless the same be applied for within 
 six months after the confirmation of such assessment by the com- 
 mon council of said city, and this section shall apply as well to all 
 proceedings heretofore set aside by judicial authority by reason of 
 any informality or illegality as to those which may hereafter be so 
 set aside. 
 
 2. And be it enacted. That this act shall take effect immed- 
 iately. 
 
 Approved March 19, 1874. 
 
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 AN ACT 
 
 IN RELATION TO THE EXTENSION OF THE BOUNDARIES OF 
 THE CITY OF PLAINFIELD. 
 
 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the 
 State of New Jersey, That the limits of the City of Plainfield shall be 
 and the same are hereby extended on the northeasterly line by con- 
 tinuing the said line in the center of the Terrell road in a south- 
 easterly direction to the center of the road intersecting the same at 
 the Jackson school-house; thence along the center of said last men- 
 tioned road in a southwesterly direction to the road known as the 
 extension of Leland avenue; thence in a southerly course to the in- 
 tersection of the Randolph road with the Short Hill road; and also to 
 extend the southwesterly boundary of said city so as to include 
 within the city limits all that portion of the township of Plainfield 
 lying between the present southwesterly boundary of said city and 
 the counties of Somerset and Middlesex. 
 
 2. And be it enacted, That the township of Plainfield is hereby 
 abolished; that the assessor and collector of said township elected 
 or appointed shall remain in and perform the duties of their re- 
 spective offices for the term for which they were elected or appoint- 
 ed, after which the assessor and collector of said city shall have the 
 same powers and perform the duties as the assessor and collector of 
 said township are now required to perform. 
 
 3. And be it enacted. That this act shall take effect immed- 
 iately. 
 
 Approved March 6, 1878. 
 
 t 
 
GENERAL ORDINANCES of the 
 CITY of PLAINFIELD, N. J. 
 
 EXCLUSIVE of the BUILDING 
 CODE 
 
 IN EFFECT JANUARY 1, 1912 
 
 PUBLISHED by AUTHORITY of the 
 COMMON COUNCIL 
 
GENERAL ORDINANCES 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CITY OF PLAINFIELD 
 
 IN EFFECT JANUARY 1ST, 1912. 
 
 An Ordinance Dividing the City of Plainfield into Wards. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the City of Plainfield is hereny divided into 
 four wards. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the first ward shall comprise all the territory, and 
 its inhabitants, in the City of Plainfield lying northwest of the cen- 
 ter line of the right of way of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, 
 and northeast of a line running from the intersection of the center 
 line of Cherry street, or Park avenue, with the Central Railroad of 
 New Jersey to the central line of Front street, and thence along the 
 center line of Front street to its intersection with the center line of 
 Somerset street, and thence along the center line of Somerset street 
 to the boundary line of the city in the middle of Green Brook. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the second ward shall comprise all the territory, 
 and its inhabitants, in the City of Plainfield lying southeast of the 
 center line of the right of way of the Central Railroad of New Jer- 
 sey and northeast of the central line of Cherry street, or Park ave- 
 nue, from its intersection with the Central Railroad southeasterly 
 to the city boundary line. 
 
 Sec. 4. That the third ward shall comprise all the territory, 
 and its inhabitants, in the City of Plainfield lying southeast of the 
 center line of Fourth street and southwest of the center line of 
 Cherry street, or Park avenue, in said city. 
 
 Sec. 5. That the fourth ward shall comprise all the territory, 
 and its inhabitants, in the City of Plainfield lying northwest of the 
 center line of Fourth street and southwest of the center line of 
 Cherry street, or Park avenue, commencing where the same inter- 
 sects the center line of Fourth street and running thence to the 
 center of Front street, and thence continuing along the center of 
 
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 Front street to the intersection of Somerset street; and thence along 
 the center of Somerset street to the boundary line of the city in the 
 middle of Green Brook. 
 
 Sec. 6. That at the annual city or charter elections hereafter 
 held in the City of Plainfield, there shall be elected by and from 
 among the inhabitants of each of the said wards two counCilmen, 
 one Justice of the Peace, if there is a vacancy in the office of Justice 
 of the Peace in said ward to be filled at such election, one J udge of 
 Election, one Clerk of Election and two Inspectors of Election for 
 each of the polling districts in said wards; and there shall also be 
 elected by and from among the inhabitants of the city at large three 
 Conncilmen and the other general city officers whose election is not 
 herein specifically provided for by wards.* 
 
 Approved July 12, 1881. 
 
 Amended by Ordinance approved July 7, 1909. 
 
 An Ordinance Fixing the Boundaries of Election Distidcts, 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common 
 Council, do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the First Ward of the City of Plainfield is 
 hereby divided into four election districts with boundaries as here- 
 inafter specified to be known respectively as the first, second, third 
 and fourth election districts of the First Ward. 
 
 Sec. 2. The first election district of the First Ward shall in- 
 clude all the territory and the inhabitants thereof contained in that 
 portion of the First Ward which is bounded and described as follows: 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Park Avenue 
 and the center line of the right of way of the Central Railroad of 
 New Jersey, and running thence in a northeasterly direction along 
 the center line of said right of way to the center line of Washington 
 Street; thence along the center line of Washington Street in a north- 
 westerly direction to the center line of East Front Street; thence 
 along the center line of East Front Street in a southwesterly direc- 
 tion to the center line of Elm Place; thence along the center line of 
 Elm Place in a northwesterly direction to the City Line in Green 
 Brook; thence along the City Line in Green Brook in a southwesterly 
 direction to the center line of Somerset Street; thence along the cen- 
 ter line of Somerset Street in a southeasterly direction to the center 
 line of Front Street; thence along the centre line of Front Street in 
 a northeasterly direction to the center line of Park Avenue; thence 
 along the center line of Park Avenue in a southeasterly direction to 
 
 * See P. L. 1883, p. 38. P. L. 1908, p. 129. 
 
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 the center line of the right of way of the Central Railroad of New 
 Jersey, the point or place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the second election district of the First Ward shall 
 include all the territory and the inhabitants thereof contained in 
 that portion of the First Ward bounded and described as follows: 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Elm Place 
 and the City Line in Green Brook and thence running in a south- 
 easterly direction along the center line of Elm Place to the center 
 line of East Front Street; thence along the center line of East Front 
 Street in a northeasterly direction to the center line of Washing- 
 ton Street; thence along the center line of Washington Street in a 
 southeasterly direction to the center line of East Third Street; 
 thence along the center line of East Third Street in a northeasterly 
 direction to the center line of Richmond Street; thence along the 
 center line of Richmond Street and Norwood Avenue in a north- 
 westerly direction to tJie City Line in Green Brook; thence along 
 the City Line in Green Brook in a southwesterly direction to the 
 center line of Elm Place, the point or place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 4, That the third election district of the First Ward 
 shall include all the territory and the inhabitants thereof contained 
 in that portion of the First Ward which is bounded and described 
 as follows: 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Norwood 
 Avenue and the City Line in Green Brook; thence along the center 
 line of Norwood Avenue and Richmond Street in a southeasterly 
 direction to the center line of East Third Street; thence along the 
 center line of East Third Street in a southwesterly direction to the 
 center line of Washington Street; thence along the center line of 
 Washington Street in a southeasterly direction to the center line 
 of the right of way of the Central Railroad of New Jersey; thence 
 along the center line of the right of way of the Central Railroad of 
 New Jersey in a northeasterly direction to the center line of Berck- 
 man Street;- thence along the center line of Berckman Street, 
 in a northwesterly direction to the center line of East Front 
 Street; thence along the center line of East Front Street in 
 a northeasterly direction to the center line of Farragut Road; 
 thence along the center line of Farragut Road in a northwesterly 
 direction to the City Line in Green Brook; thence along the City 
 Line in Green Brook in a southwesterly direction to the center line 
 of Norwood Avenue, the point or place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 5. That the fourth election district of the First Ward 
 shall include all the territory and the inhabitants thereof contained 
 in that portion of the First Ward lying northeast of the center line 
 of Farragut Road and the center line of Berckman Street, and south- 
 
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 east of the center line of East Front Street between Farragut Road 
 and Berckman Street, being all that portion of the First Ward not 
 included in the First, Second and Third Districts thereof. 
 
 Sec. 6. That the Second Ward of the City of Plainfield is here- 
 by divided into four election districts with boundaries as hereinaf- 
 ter specified to be known respectively as the first, second, third and 
 fourth election districts of the Second Ward. 
 
 Sec. 7. That the first election district of the Second Ward shall 
 include all the territory and the inhabitants thereof contained in 
 that portion of the Second Ward bounded and described as follows; 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Park Avenue 
 and the center line of the right of way of the Central Railroad of 
 New .Jersey and running thence in a southeasterly direction along 
 the center line of Park Avenue to the center line of Cedar Brook; 
 thence in a northerly direction along the center line of Cedar Brook 
 to the center line of Watchung avenue; thence in a westerly direc- 
 tion along the center line of Watchung Avenue to the center line 
 of Franklin Place; thence in a northerly direction along the center 
 line of Franklin Place to the center line of East Seventh Street; 
 thence in a southwesterly direction along the center line of East 
 Seventh Street to the center line of Washington Street; thence in 
 a northwesterly direction along the center line of Washington Street 
 to the center line of the right of way of the Central Railroad of 
 New Jersey; thence in a southwesterly direction along the center 
 line of the said right of way to the center line of Park Avenue, 
 the point or place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 8. That the second election district of the Second Ward 
 shall include all the territory and inhabitants thereof contained in 
 that portion of the Second Ward bounded and described as follows: 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Park Avenue 
 and the center line of Cedar Brook and running thence in a south- 
 easterly direction along the center line of Park Avenue to the City 
 Line; thence in an easterly, northerly and northeasterly direc- 
 tion along the City Line to a point where the same would be inter- 
 sected by the center line of Putnam Avenue if extended; thence 
 in a westerly direction along the center line of Putnam Avenue as 
 thus extended and as opened to the center line of Franklin Place; 
 thence in a southerly direction along the center line of Franklin 
 Place to the center line of Watchung Avenue; thence in an east- 
 erly direction along the center line of Watchung Avenue to the 
 center line of Cedar Brook; thence in a southwesterly direction 
 along the center line of Cedar Brook to the center line of Park 
 Avenue, the point or place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 9. That the third election district of the Second Ward shall 
 
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 include all the territory and the inhabitants thereof contained in 
 that portion of the Second Ward which is bounded and described 
 as follows: 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Washington 
 Street and the center line of the right of way of the Central Rail- 
 road of New Jersey; thence in a southeasterly direction along the 
 center line of Washington Street to the center line of East Seventh 
 Street; thence in a northeasterly direction along the center line of 
 East Seventh street to the center line of Franklin Place; thence in a 
 southeasterly direction along the center line of Franklin Place to the 
 center line of Putnam Avenue; thence along the center line of Put- 
 nam avenue in an easterly direction to the center line of Berckman 
 Street as projected; thence in a northwesterly direction along the 
 center line, of Berckman Street as projected and as opened to the 
 center line of the right of way of the Central Railroad of New Jer- 
 sey; thence in a southwesterly direction along the center line of the 
 right of way of the Central Railroad of New Jersey to the center 
 line of Washington Street, the point or place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 10. That the fourth election district of the Second Ward 
 shall include all the territory and the inhabitants thereof contained 
 in that portion of the Second Ward which is bounded and described 
 as follows: 
 
 Beginning at a point in the center line of Berckman Street 
 where the same intersects the center line of the right of way of the 
 Central Railroad of New Jersey; thence running, in a southeasterly 
 direction along the center line of Berckman Street as opened and 
 as projected to the center line of Putnam Avenue; thence in easterly 
 direction along the center line of Putnam Avenue as the same 
 would run if extended in its present course to the City Line; thence 
 in a northeasterly and northwesterly direction along the City Line 
 to the center line of the right of way of the Central Railroad of 
 New Jersey; thence in a southwesterly direction along the center line 
 of the right of way of the Central Railroad of New Jersey to the 
 center line of Berckman Street, the point or place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 11. That the Third Ward of the City of Plainfield is here- 
 by divided into four election districts with boundaries as herein- 
 after specified to be known respectively as the first, second, third 
 and fourth election districts of the Third Ward. 
 
 Sec. 12. That the first election district of the Third Ward 
 shall include all the territory and the inhabitants thereof contained 
 in that portion of the Third Ward which is bounded and described 
 as follows: 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Fourth 
 Street and the center line of Park Avenue; running thence along^ 
 
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 the center line of Park Avenue in a southeasterly direction to the 
 center line of West Seventh Street; thence southwesterly along 
 the center of West Seventh Street to the center line of Plainfield 
 Avenue; thence northwesterly along the center line of Plainfield 
 Avenue to the center line of Fifth Street; thence northeasterly 
 along the center line of Fifth Street to the center line of Liberty 
 Street; thence northwesterly along the center line of Liberty Street 
 to the center line of Fourth Street; thence northeasterly along the 
 center line of Park Avenue, the point or place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 13. That the second election district of the Third Ward 
 shall include all the territory and inhabitants thereof contained in 
 that portion of the Third Ward which is bounded and described as 
 follows: 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Park Ave- 
 nue and the center line of Seventh Street; running thence along 
 the center line of Park Avenue in a southeasterly direction to the 
 City Line; thence in a westerly direction along the City Line to 
 the center line of Plainfield Avenue; thence in a northerly and north- 
 westerly direction along the center line of Plainfield Avenue to the 
 center line of West Seventh Street; thence in a northeasterly di- 
 rection along the center line of West Seventh Street to the center 
 line of Park Avenue, the point or place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 14. ^That the third election district of the Third Ward 
 shall include all the territory and inhabitants thereof contained in 
 that portion of the Third Ward which is bounded and described as 
 follows: 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Fourth Street 
 and the center line of Liberty Street; running thence along the cen- 
 ter line of Fourth Street in a southwesterly direction to the center 
 line of Grant Avenue; thence in a southeasterly and southerly direc- 
 tion along the center line of Grant Avenue to the City Line; thence 
 in an easterly direction along the City Line to the center line of 
 Plainfield Avenue; thence along a northerly and northwesterly direc- 
 tion along the center line of Plainfield Avenue to the center line of 
 West Fifth Street; thence in a northeasterly direction along the 
 center line of West Fifth Street to the center line of Liberty Street; 
 thence in a northwesterly direction along the center line of Libery 
 Street to the center line of Fourth Street, the point or place of be- 
 ginning. 
 
 Sec. 15. That the Fourth election district of the Third Ward 
 shall include all the territory and inhabitants thereof contained in 
 that portion of the Third Ward which is bounded and described as 
 follows: 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Fourth 
 
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 Street and the center line of Grant Avenue; running thence along 
 the center line of Fourth Street in a southwesterly direction to the 
 City Line; thence in an easterly direction along the City Line to the 
 center line of Grant Avenue; thence in a northerly and northwest- 
 erly direction along the center line of Grant Avenue to the center 
 line of Fourth Street, the point or place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 16. That the Fourth Ward of the City of Plainfield is 
 hereby divided into six election districts with boundaries as here- 
 inafter specified to be known respectively as the first, second, third, 
 fourth, fifth and sixth election districts of the Fourth Ward. 
 
 Sec. 17. That the first election district of the Fourth Ward 
 shall include all the territory and inhabitants thereof contained in 
 that portion of the Fourth Ward which is bounded and described 
 as follows: 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Somerset 
 Street and the City Line in Green Brook; thence along the center 
 line of Somerset Street in a southeasterly direction to the center 
 line of Front Street; thence northeasterly along the center line of 
 Front Street to the center line of Park Avenue; thence south- 
 easterly along the center line of Park Avenue to the center line of 
 West Fourth Street; thence southwesterly along the center line of 
 West Fourth Street to the center line of New Street; thence north- 
 westerly along the center line of New Street to the center line of 
 West Front Street; thence southwesterly along the center line of 
 West Front Street to the center line of Washington Avenue; thence 
 northwesterly along the center line of Washington Avenue to the 
 City Line in Green Brook; thence northeasterly along the City Line 
 in Green Brook to the center line of Somerset Street, the point or 
 place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 18. That the second election district of the Fourth Ward 
 shall include all the territory and inhabitants thereof contained in 
 that portion of the Fourth Ward which is bounded and described 
 as follows: 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of the City Line in Green Brook 
 and the center line of Washington Avenue, thence southeasterly 
 along the center line of Washington Avenue to the center line of 
 West Front Street; thence northeasterly along the center line of 
 West Front Street to the center line of New Street; thence south- 
 easterly along the center line of New Street to the center line of 
 West Fourth Street; thence southwesterly along the center line 
 of West Fourth Street to the center line of Plainfield Avenue; 
 thence northwesterly along the center line of Plainfield Avenue to 
 the center line of West Front Street; thence southwesterly along 
 the center line of West Front street to the center line of Geraud 
 
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 Avenue; thence northwesterly along the center line of Geraud Ave- 
 nue to the City Line in Green Brook; thence northeasterly along 
 the City Line in Green Brook to the center line of Washington Ave- 
 nue, the point or place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 19. That the third election district of the Fourth Ward 
 shall include all the territory and inhabitants thereof contained in 
 that portion of the Fourth Ward which is bounded and described 
 as follows: 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Geraud Ave- 
 nue and the City Line in Green Brook; thence southeasterly along 
 the center line of Geraud Avenue to the center line of West Front 
 Street; thence northeasterly along the center line of West Front 
 Street to the center line of Plainfield Avenue; thence southeasterly 
 along the center line of Plainfield Avenue to the center line of West 
 Fourth Street; thence southwesterly along the center line of West 
 Fourth Street to the center line of Grant Avenue; thence north- 
 westerly along the center line of Grant Avenue and the center line 
 of West End Avenue to the City Line in Green Brook; thence 
 northeasterly along the City Line in Green Brook to the center line 
 of Geraud Avenue, the point or place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 20. That the Fourth election district of the Fourth Ward 
 shall include all the territory and inhabitants theerof contained in 
 that portion of the Fourth Ward which is bounded and described 
 as follows: 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of the City Line in Green Brook 
 and the center line of West End Avenue; thence southeasterly along 
 the center line of West End Avenue and the center line of Grant 
 Avenue to the center line of the right of way of the Central Rail- 
 road of New Jersey; thence southwesterly along the center line of 
 said right of way of the Central Railroad of New Jersey to the 
 City Line; thence westerly along the City Line to the City Line 
 in West Front 'Street; thence southwesterly along the City Line in 
 West Front Street to the City Line in Jefferson Avenue; thence 
 northwesterly along the City Line in Jefferson Avenue to the City 
 Line in Green Brook; thence northeasterly along the City Line in 
 Green Brook to the center line of West End Avenue, the point 
 or place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 21. That the fifth election district of the Fourth Ward 
 shall include all the territory and inhabitants thereof contained 
 in that portion of the Fourth Ward which is bounded and described 
 as follows: 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Grant Ave- 
 nue and the center line of West Fourth Street; thence southwesterly 
 along the center line of West Fourth Street to the center line of 
 
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 Monroe Avenue; thence northwesterly along the center line of Mon- 
 roe Avenue to a point where the same would intersect the center 
 line of the right of way of the Central Railroad of New Jersey if 
 extended; thence northeasterly along the center line of said right 
 of way of the Central Railroad of New Jersey to the center line 
 of Grant Avenue; thence southeasterly along the center line of 
 Grant Avenue to the center line of West Fourth Street, the point 
 or place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 2 2. That the sixth election district of the Fourth Ward 
 shall include all the territory and inhabitants thereof contained in 
 that portion of the Fourth Ward which is bounded and described 
 as follows: 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of the center line of West Fourth 
 Street and the center line of Monroe Avenue; thence northwest- 
 erly along the center line of Monroe Avenue to a point where the 
 same would intersect the line of the right of way of the Central 
 Railroad of New Jersey if extended; thence southw'esterly along 
 the center line of said right of way of the Central Railroad of New 
 Jersey to the City Line; thence easterly along the City Line to the 
 center line of West Fourth Street; thence northeasterly along the 
 center line of West Fourth Street to the center line of Monroe 
 Avenue, the point or place of beginning. 
 
 Sec. 23. That an ordinance entitled “An Ordinance to Re- 
 adjust the Boundaries of Election Districts,” approved December 29, 
 1897, as amended, and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances 
 which conflict with any of the provisions of this ordinance, be and 
 the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Adopted by the Common Council June 5, 1911; approved by 
 the Mayor June 6, 1911. 
 
 GEORGE W. V. MOY, 
 
 Attest: Mayor. 
 
 J. T. MacMURRAY, 
 
 City Clerk. 
 
 An Ordinance to Regulate the Appointment and Tenure of Office of 
 Appointable Officers. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfleld, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Mayor to nominate to 
 the Common Council, and, subject to its approval, appoint on the 
 first day of January in each year, a suitable person for each officer 
 of the city, appointable by the Mayor, by and with the advice and 
 consent of the Common Council; and every person so nominated and 
 
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 appointed for any city' office, when confirmed by the Common Coun- 
 cil, and officially qualified, shall enter upon the duties of the office 
 to which he is nominated and appointed, and unless sooner removed 
 shall continue in such office until the first day of January next ensu- 
 ing, or until the confirmation of another person nominated and ap- 
 pointed to succeed him. 
 
 Sec. 2. If any nomination and appointment by the Mayor for 
 any city officer shall, upon vote thereon of the Common Council be 
 not confirmed, or in case any vacancy in any city office shall occur 
 at any time, it shall be the duty of the Mayor to nominate to the 
 Common Council, and subject to its approval, appoint at each suc- 
 -ceeding regular or adjourned meeting a different person for such of- 
 ^ fice, not before nominated for such office during the then current 
 
 year, until a nomination or appointment for such office shall be con- 
 firmed. 
 
 Sec. 3. Any city officer nominated and appointed by the Mayor 
 and confirmed by the Common Council may upon complaint of any 
 citizen be removed from office at any time by the affirmative vote of 
 a majority of the members of the Common Council, for neglect of 
 duty or misconduct in office; but before any such removal, the offi- 
 cer charged with any such neglect or misconduct shall be informed 
 of the complaint against him, and, if he so desire, shall have an op- 
 portunity to be heard concerning the same before the Common 
 •Council at such time and place as the Common Council may appoint 
 and designate for that purpose. 
 
 Sec. 4. All ordinances and resolutions and parts of ordinances 
 and resolutions, which conflict with any of the provisions of this 
 ^ordinance, are hereby repealed and abrogated. 
 
 Sec. 5. This ordinance shall take effect immediately. 
 
 Approved December 13, 1877. 
 
 Amended by Ordinances approved August 5, 1884, and June 7, 
 1910. 
 
 An Ordinance to Create and Define the Duties of a Board of Police 
 and a Police Force. 
 
 (As Amended.) 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. The Mayor, the President of the Common Council, 
 and the Committee on Police shall constitute a Board of Police, which 
 Board shall possess such powers and perform such duties as are 
 herein prescribed. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Board of Police may hold such meetings at such 
 times and places as they may determine and appoint, and shall have 
 
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 full authority and control over the city jail and other buildings used 
 for police purposes, and over the entire police force, subject, how- 
 ever, to the ultimate control of the Common Council. The said 
 Board of Police shall have power to hear and determine complaints 
 against policemen charging misconduct or disobedience of any of the 
 rules and regulations established or which may be established for 
 the police force or police department, and in case of conviction, the 
 said Board of Police may order deduction from the pay of the police- 
 man so convicted, not exceeding five dollars for each offense and the 
 deduction so ordered shall be made from the next installment of 
 salary to fall due to such policeman. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Police Force shall consist of such number of regu- 
 lar and special policemen, each of whom shall be a resident and 
 legally qualified voter of this city, as the Common Council shall 
 from time to time deem necessary and by resolution order to be 
 appointed. The said Police Force shall rank as follows: Chief of 
 Police, Captain, Sergeant, Detective-Sergeant, Roundsmen, Patrol- 
 men, Doorman. 
 
 The duties of the several members and officers of said Police 
 Force shall be those prescribed by the laws of the State, the ordi- 
 nances of the city and the rules and regulations”lhat may from time 
 to time be prescribed and established by resolution of the Common 
 Council for the better government and discipline of the Police De- 
 partment. The Patrolmen shall be divided into five (5) classes: 
 
 Class A — Fifth year of service and over. 
 
 Class B — Fourth year of service. 
 
 Class C — Third year of service. 
 
 Class D — Second year of service. 
 
 Class E — First year of service. 
 
 Provided, that the Common Council upon recommendation of 
 the Police Board may advance a Patrolman from a lower to a higher 
 class for especially good work or meritorious service, whether he 
 shall have served his full time, specified above, or not. 
 
 That beginning with the first day of January, 1908, the salaries 
 of the members of the force who are regular Policemen be and are 
 hereby fixed at the following rates, that is to say: 
 
 Chief $1,600 per annum 
 
 Captain 1,200 per annum 
 
 Sergeant 1,140 per annum 
 
 Detective-Sergeant 1,140 per annum 
 
 Roundsmen 1,080 per annum 
 
 Patrolmen: 
 
 Class A $1,000 per annum 
 
 Class B 960 per annum 
 
 Class C '. 924 per annum 
 
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 Class D 86 4 per annum 
 
 Class E 7 92 per annum 
 
 Doorman 720 per annum 
 
 The times from which the several dates of service in the police 
 department of the city are to he calculated, are the dates at which 
 the continuous service of said policemen, respectively, commenced, 
 and said Sergeant, Detective-Sergeant, Roundsmen, Patrolmen and 
 Doorman, respectively, shall be paid at said rates for the number 
 of full days only of service actually performed by them respectively. 
 
 In each month, except that they severally may, at the discretion of 
 the Board of Police, be paid for any time during which they sever- 
 ally shall be disabled from the performance of duty by reason of 
 physical injuries, provided that the Board shall be satisfied that such 
 injuries were the direct result of personal violence inflicted upon 
 them, respectively, in the performance of their respective duties; 
 and provided further that any member of the force who is temporar- 
 ily absent from duty because of sickness or disability of any nature, 
 shall receive full pay during the first two weeks of such absence or 
 disability, and half pay during the following two weeks, and if such 
 illness or disability should extend over a longer period than four 
 weeks, it shall be necessary for the Common Council to provide by 
 resolution for any further payment of salary to such officer; and 
 hereafter, each of such officers and policemen shall provide, at his 
 own expense all uniforms and other wearing apparel necessary for 
 their use respectively, as from time to time required by the Board 
 of Police in compliance with the rules of the Department. 
 
 Sec. 4. The police force shall be under the general supervision 
 and direction of the said Board of Police, and no person not a mem- 
 ber of the police force, duly nominated and appointed by the Mayor, 
 with the advice and consent? of the Common Council, shall at any 
 time be permitted to exercise any authority or control over the City ^ 
 jail or any building used for police purposes, or over or concerning 
 any person confined therein, or over any member of the police force, 
 or to perform any police duty save as is in this ordinance otherwise 
 specially provided. 
 
 Sec. 5. Each of the regular policemen shall devote all his time 
 to the duties of his office, and shall be vigilant in detecting and ar- 
 resting all offenders against any city ordinance or any law of the 
 state within said city and in preserving the public peace and pro- 
 tecting the rights of persons and property, and when on duty shall 
 wear such dress or badge as the Board of Police may designate, but 
 no service shall be required of special policemen excepting when 
 called for by the Mayor or Board of Police, save in cases of sudden 
 emergencies requiring the performance of police duty, in all which 
 cases such special policemen shall be ready for any detailed service 
 
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 required of them by the Mayor or the Board of Police, or such mem- 
 ber of the regular police as the Board of Police may designate for 
 the time being as Chief of the Police Force. 
 
 Sec. 6. In case of riot or other sudden emergency, the Mayor, 
 or in his absence any member of the Board of Police, may call into 
 active service with full police powers, such number of extra special 
 policemen as they may deem necessary to suppress such riot or meet 
 such emergency; but the services of such extra policemen shall cease 
 with the occasion which called them into service. 
 
 Sec. 7. The Ordinance entitled “An ordinance to create and 
 define the duties of a Board of Police and a Police Force,” approved 
 December 13, 1877, is hereby repealed, but this section shall not be 
 construed to revive any ordinance which was repealed by the ordi- 
 nance hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 8. In case any complaint shall be preferred against any 
 policeman, charging him with incapacity, mis-conduct, non-resi- 
 dence or disobedience of the just rules and regulations established 
 or which may be established for the police force or police depart- 
 ment of said city, and the Board of Police shall be of opinion that 
 said charges, if proved, ought to be followed by suspension without 
 pay or removal from office of said policeman, said Board of Police 
 shall thereupon file said complaint or a more formal complaint to 
 be drafted by the Counsel to the Corporation, if said Board shall so 
 direct, in the office of the City Clerk either before or af- 
 ter hearing before the said Board of Police, as said Board of Police 
 may elect, and refer the proceedings thereon to the Common Coun- 
 eil. The Common Council in either case upon receiving the com- 
 plaint shall cause not less than three days’ notice to be given to the 
 person charged, of the time and place, when and where the Com- 
 mon Council will proceed to publicly examine into said charges and 
 to afford the person so charged a fair trial upon said charges and 
 every reasonable opportunity to make his defense if he has or 
 chooses to make any. At the time and place so fixed for such public 
 examination and trial, or at such time or times to which the same 
 shall be adjourned, the said public examination and trial shall be 
 had before the Common Council by the oral examination of such wit- 
 nesses pro and con as may be offered in accordance with the statute 
 in such case made and provided, and in case as the result of trial 
 ^the person so charged shall be found guilty, the Common Council 
 may order deduction of pay, reduction of rank or suspension or re- 
 moval from office. It shall be discretionary with the Common Coun- 
 iCil whether to permit the defense to be conducted by counsel. 
 
 Sec. 9. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances, so far as 
 ;they are inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved February 28, 1882. 
 
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 Amended by Ordinance — Adopted March 3, 1884; and Re- 
 adopted April 7, 1884, notwithstanding the objections of the Mayor, 
 Amended by Ordinances — Approved July 10, 1896, December 
 28, 1906, February 4, 1908, and March 24, 1911. 
 
 An Ordinance to Define the Tenure of Office of Regular Policemen. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the regular policemen of the City of Plainfield 
 now in office, and all who may hereafter be duly appointed thereto, 
 shall severally hold their respective offices as such regular police- 
 men during good behavior, efficiency, and residence in the City of 
 Plainfield, and shall not be removed from the police force for politi- 
 cal reasons, or for any other cause than incapacity, misconduct, 
 non-residence, or disobedience of just rules and regulations estab- 
 lished, or which may be established, for the police force or police 
 department of J:he City of Plainfield, provided that any member of 
 the police force who shall be absent from duty without just cause 
 for the term of five days shall at the expiration of said five days 
 cease to be a member of such police force. 
 
 Sec. 2. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances so far as 
 they confiict with the provisions of this ordinance be and the same 
 are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved December 29, 1898. 
 
 An Ordinance — A General Ordinance to provide for the payment of 
 pensions to qualified Retired Members of the Police Force of the 
 City of Plainfield. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. Whenever the Common Council shall ascertain and 
 determine, and by resolution adjudge and declare, that any mem- 
 ber of the police force of said city who at the time of the adoption 
 of such resolution shall have honorably served upon the police force 
 of said city for twenty years continuously and reached the age of not 
 less than sixty years is, in the judgment of the Common Council, 
 entitled to be retired upon a pension, said Common Council may 
 thereupon, upon the written request of said member of the police 
 force of said city, and upon receiving and accepting his resignation, 
 adopt a further resolution that such member thereupon be forthwith 
 constituted a retired member of said police force. 
 
 Sec. 2. That forthwith after receiving and accepting such resig- 
 
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 nation and after the adoption of both of said resolutions provided for 
 in Section 1 of this ordinance, and not otherwise, such retired mem- 
 ber of the police force of said city, constituted as such and desig- 
 nated as such in said resolution, shall be entitled to receive and shall 
 be paid a yearly pension of five hundred dollars, payable in monthly 
 installments, during the term of his natural life. 
 
 Sec. 3. This ordinance shall take effect ten days after the date 
 of one publication thereof in each of the official newsapers printed 
 in said city. 
 
 Approved August 1, 1910. 
 
 An Ordinance to Adopt the Provisions of An Act Entitled, ‘Mn Act 
 Providing for the Pensioning of Police Officers and Policemen 
 in Certain Municipalities of This State,” Approved March 30, 
 1911. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: , 
 
 Section 1. That the provisions of an act of the Legislature of 
 the State of New Jersey entitled, “An Act providing for the Pension- 
 ing of Police Officers and Policemen in certain Municipalities of 
 this State,” approved March 30, 1911, are hereby duly adopted by 
 the Common Council of the City of Plainfield. 
 
 Sec. 2. That all Ordinances or parts of Ordinances in conflict 
 with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved October 19, 1911. 
 
 An Ordinance to Provide for the Office of Counsel to the Corporation. 
 
 Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Plain- 
 field, in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted 
 by the authority of the same: 
 
 Section 1. There shall be an officer of the city appointed an- 
 nually who shall be known as Counsel to the Corporation, and who 
 must at the time of his appointment, have been a resident and en- 
 gaged in the practice of law in the city for at least one year. 
 Approved June 22, 1869. 
 
 Amended by Ordinance — Approved December 7, 1881. 
 
 An Ordinance to Prescribe the Duties of the Counsel to the Corpor- 
 ation. 
 
 Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Plain- 
 field, in Common Council assembled, and it is hereby enacted 
 by the authority of the same: 
 
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 Section 1. The Corporation Counsel shall have the 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 Council; and shall have charge of and conduct the legal 
 proceedings necessary in opening, widening or altering streets. 
 
 Sec. 2. 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. 3. He shall draw such ordinances as may be required of 
 him by the Common Council or any committee thereof. 
 
 Sec. 4. He shall, when required by the Common Council, pre- 
 pare the draft of any bill to be presented by the Corporation of the 
 City to the Legislature for passage, with a proper memorial for the 
 passage thereof. 
 
 Sec. 5. He shall prosecute and defend, as the Counsel to the 
 Corporation, all actions which may be brought b}" or against it, or 
 any officer thereof, for or by reason of any matter or duty connected 
 with or growing out of their respective offices, or in which the Cor- 
 poration 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. 6. He shall, on the first regular meeting of the Common 
 Council, in the months of November and May, in each year, report 
 to the Common Council the titles of all actions in his hands, prose- 
 cuted or defended by him, and then pending and undetermined, with 
 such other information in respect thereto as he may deem necessary 
 or proper. 
 
 Sec. 7. He shall keep in proper books to be provided by the 
 Common Council for that purpose, a register of all actions prose- 
 cuted or defended by him, and of all proceedings had therein. 
 
 Sec. 8. The salary to be paid to the Counsel to the Corporation 
 shall be a full compensation, as between him and the Corporation, 
 for all the services he may be required to render by this ordinance; 
 he shall, nevertheless, be entitled to receive the taxable costs in all 
 actions and proceedings which may be conducted, prosecuted, or de- 
 fended by him as such, counsel. 
 
 Sec. 9. Upon the expiration of his term of office, or his resig- 
 nation thereof, or removal therefrom, the Counsel to the Corpora- 
 tion shall forthwith, on demand, deliver to his successor in office, 
 all deeds, leases, contracts, and other papers in his hands, belonging 
 to the Corporation or any of its officers, and all papers in actions 
 prosecuted or defended by him, then pending and undetermined, to- 
 gether with his register thereof, and of the proceedings therein, and 
 
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 a written consent of substitution of his successor in all such actions 
 then pending and undetermined. 
 
 Sec. 10. He shall institute an action in any of the cases in 
 this ordinance mentioned, when instructed to do so by the Common 
 Council or any committee thereof, or upon the complaint of any 
 other person, when in his judgment, the public interest requires that 
 the same shall be prosecuted. 
 
 Sec. 11. He may, by and with the consent of the Mayor, or the 
 Committee on Laws and Ordinances, compromise with the party 
 complained of, either before or after an action shall have been 
 brought, for any violation of an ordinance of the Common Council, 
 when the penalty does not exceed one hundred dollars, and when in 
 his judgment, the public interest does not require that an action 
 should be prosecuted therefor. 
 
 Sec. 12. In all actions which he is required to prosecute he 
 shall appear as the attorney and counsel of the corporation. 
 
 Sec. 13. He shall not bring an appeal in any action in which 
 judgment shall have been given against the corporation, except by 
 direction of the Common Council. 
 
 Sec. 14. He shall, on the first Monday in the months of No- 
 vember and May, in each year, report to the Treasurer a statement, 
 under oath, of the actions instituted by him and settled before 
 judgment, of the complaints compromised by him in which no action 
 shall have been commenced, and of all actions prosecuted to judg- 
 ment, with the result thereof, whether for or against the corpora- 
 tion, and whether an execution has been issued thereon, and, if so, 
 whether it has been collected, and shall include therein a particular 
 account, item by item, of all penalties or other moneys which he may 
 have received for the corporation, and from whom they were re- 
 ceived, respectively, and on what account, and when paid; he shall 
 also state therein, item by item, an account of officers’ or court fees 
 paid by him, and on what account and when they were, respective- 
 ly, paid; and shall exhibit, at the foot of the account, the balance 
 thereof whether for or against the corporation. 
 
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 Sec. 15. If the account shall exhibit a balance in his hands in 
 favor of the corporation, he shall forthwith pay over such balance 
 to the Treasurer, and shall thereupon receive from the Treasurer 
 a voucher for the payment thereof, which he shall forthwith exhibit 
 to the City Clerk, and shall, at the same time, leave with him a 
 copy thereof. 
 
 Sec. 16. If the account exhibit a balance against the corpora- 
 tion, the Treasurer, upon being satisfied of the correctness thereof, 
 shall certify the same, which shall authorize an order to be drawn 
 in accordance with the form set forth in the city ordinance, pre- 
 
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 scribing the duties of the City Treasurer, for the amount of such 
 balance. 
 
 Sec. 17. Every officer employed by Counsel to the Corporation 
 to serve process in an action brought by him in the name of the cor- 
 poration, shall pay to the Counsel to the Corporation all moneys 
 which he may receive, both for penalties and costs, upon a judg- 
 ment, and the Counsel to the Corporation shall, at least once in every 
 month, pay the officer so employed by him his legal fees and costs. 
 
 Approved July 26, 1869. 
 
 An Ordinace to Preserve the Purity of Well Water. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons 
 to dig, or cause to be dug, or to use, or permit to be used, within 
 the corporate limits of said city, any sink, cess-pool, or other re- 
 ceptacle for waste, of a greater depth than eight feet below the 
 surface of the ground; or to convert any well into such a receptacle; 
 or to use any well so converted without first filling the same to the 
 required depth of eight feet. 
 
 Sec. 2. That any person or persons offending against the pro- 
 visions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit and 
 pay the sum of twenty dollars for each and every such offence, one- 
 lialf to go to the informer and the other half into the city treasury. 
 And, in addition thereto, it shall be incumbent upon such offending 
 person or persons to thoroughly clean out, or cause to be so cleaned 
 out, and then filled up to the aforesaid established depth of eight 
 feet below the surface of the ground, any such condemned sink, 
 cess-pool, receptacle or well. 
 
 Sec. 3. That in the event of non-compliance with the conclud- 
 ing portion of the preceding section, at the expiration of fifteen days 
 from the infliction of penalty, it shall be the duty of the Street 
 Commissioner to cause such cleansing and Ailing to be properly 
 done, at the cost of the person or persons so offending, and to place 
 a certified bill of expenses thereby incurred in the hands of the Cor- 
 poration Counsel for collection. 
 
 Approved November 6, 1872. 
 
 An Ordinance to Regulate the Digging of Graves. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That no grave for the interment of human remains 
 shall be hereafter dug within said city, of a less depth than six feet 
 
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 below the surface of the ground, when the length of the grave 
 measures five feet or over; and none of a less depth than five feet, 
 when the length measures four feet, or between that and five feet, 
 and none of a less depth than four feet, when the length measures 
 three feet, or between that and four feet. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the penaltj^ for each violation of this ordinance 
 shall be a fine of ten dollars, to be imposed upon each person so 
 offending. 
 
 Approved July 16, 1872. 
 
 An Ordinance to Protect Ice Ponds. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That it shall not be lawful for any person or per- 
 sons to throw or place, or cause to be thrown or placed, upon the ice 
 of any private pond, within the corporate limits of said city, any 
 stones, wood, dirt, rubbish, or offal of any description. 
 
 Sec. 2. That for every offense against the provisions of this 
 ordinance, each person so offending shall upon conviction thereof, 
 forfeit and pay the penalty of five dollars. 
 
 Approved December 17, 1872. 
 
 An Ordinance to Prescribe Conditions to be Complied with Before 
 any Private Streets or Roads Dedicated or Offered for Dedica- 
 tion Shall be Accepted by the City. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That any person or corporation contemplating lay- 
 ing out or locating and constructing any street or road in the City 
 of Plainfield shall before beginning such construction submit to the 
 Street Commissioner, the proposed plans therefor, in which shall 
 be included an accurate designation of the location and grades of 
 such street or streets, road or roads, and the sidewalks thereof, as 
 proposed to be laid out as aforesaid, and the proposed manner of 
 construction. Upon receipt of such plans by said Street Commis- 
 sioner, together with a petition for their approval, said Street 
 Commissioner shall consult with the Committee on Streets 
 of the Common Council, and thereafter give a hearing to said pe- 
 titioners, if they so request; after such hearing said petitioners may 
 alter such plans if they so desire, and request the approval of said 
 Street Commissioner of the plans so altered. 
 
 If said original or altered plans shall be approved by said Street 
 Commissioner, he shall so indicate therein in writing signed by him 
 
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 and file said plans in his office, and endorse thereon the date of such 
 filing. Unless monuments properly defining the lines of the proposed 
 street or road on any such plan have been already set, hard stone 
 monuments, at least four inches square on top and at least two feet 
 long, shall be forthwith set in sufficient numbers to definitely lo- 
 cate the lines of the proposed street or road. All curved streets 
 or roads shall be laid out with regular curves and sufficient data 
 shall be shown on the maps to enable the streets or roads to be 
 accurately located. 'Such approval of said plans or any other action 
 by said Street Commissioner with respect thereto, or with respect 
 to said proposed streets or roads, shall not operate as an acceptance 
 of the same as public streets or roads, and acceptance of the same 
 as public streets or roads shall not be effected except by ordin- 
 ance of the Common Council, the Common Council hereby reserving 
 full discretion in the premises, and the powers of the Common 
 Council in regard to streets and roads shall not be abri.igei by 
 this ordinance in any manner. 
 
 Sec. 2. After the passage of this ordinance, no proposed 
 street or road in the City of Plainfield shown on any plan filed 
 and approved by the Street Commissioner as aforesaid shall be 
 laid out, located anew, altered, widened, or changed in grade, ex- 
 cept in accordance with said plans, and no street or road hereto- 
 tofore or hereafter offered for dedication or acceptance by the City 
 shall be accepted otherwise than by ordinance of the Common Coun- 
 cil. If any person or corporation shall hereafter construct or open 
 for public travel any private street or road the location, direction, 
 width and grades of which and the manner of construction there- 
 of have not previously been approved in writing by said Street 
 Commissioner in the method provided in this ordinance, then no 
 public sewer, drain, fire hydrant or street lamp shall be laid or 
 placed in or upon, or any public work of any kind done upon, 
 any such private street or road so constructed or opened for public 
 travel except by ordinance of the Common Council. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Street Commissioner may in his discretion 
 cause a suitable sign to be erected at any place where any private 
 street or road intersects any public street or road, to indicate that 
 such street or road is not a public highway, but no damages shall 
 be recoverable by any person against the City for any injury al- 
 leged to have resulted from any failure to erect such a sign. 
 
 Sec. 4. Nothing in this ordinance shall prevent the Com- 
 mon Council or Street Commissioner from permitting suitable sewers 
 laid or to be laid in such private streets or roads by private prop- 
 erty owners to be connected with the sewers of the City. 
 
 Approved Sept. 10, 1910. 
 
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 An Ordinance Relating to the Duties of the City Clerk 
 
 Be it ordained and enacted by the Inhabitants of the City of Plain- 
 
 field, in Common Council Assembled, and it is hereby enacted 
 
 by the authority of the same: 
 
 Section 1. It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to have 
 charge of, and keep on file in his office, all of the records, books, 
 papers, contracts and documents of the city. Also to present, or 
 cause to be presented forthwith to the Mayor for his signature, 
 all contracts to which the City of Plainfield may hereafter become 
 a party. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to act as City Auditor, 
 and to receive for examination, all claims against the City of Plain- 
 field (except for salaries of city officers, which are fixed by the 
 charter or the Common Council) that may be presented for that 
 purpose not less than five days before any regular meeting of the 
 Common Council, and to examine and submit all such claims with 
 his report to the Common Council at the regular meeting thereof 
 ensuing the presentation of such claims. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to notify im 
 writing every person who shall be appointed to any office or duty 
 by the Common Council. 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to enter in- 
 a book, provided for that purpose, with a proper index, all reso- 
 lutions which shall hereafter be adopted by the Common Council. 
 
 Sec. 4. Every ordinance hereafter ordered to its third reading 
 shall forthwith be properly engrossed by the City Clerk; and all' 
 subsequent action by the Common Council in relation thereto shall 
 be upon such, or a similar engrossed copy. 
 
 Sec. 5. Whenever an ordinance hereafter shall be ordered to 
 its third reading, it shall be the duty of the City Clerk forthwith to^ 
 cause to be published, in the manner prescribed by the Charter,, 
 notice of the intended adoption of the same. 
 
 (Sec. 6. Repealed by ordinance approved March 6, 1876.) 
 
 Sec. 7. All ordinaces of parts of ordinances inconsistent with’ 
 the provisions of this ordinance, shall be and the same are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 Approved December 5, 1871. 
 
 Amended by Ordinance approved December 31, 1888. 
 
 An Ordinance Relating to the City Physician 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council,, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. There shall be nominated and appointed by the 
 
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 Mayor, subject to confirmation by the Common Council, on the 
 first Monday in February in each year, a competent and resident 
 physician of the city, to be called the City Physician. 
 
 Sec. 2. He shall, when requested by the Overseer of the Poor, 
 or Chairman of Alms Committee, professionally attend any of 
 the city poor and furnish them needful advice and medicine. And 
 further when required by the Board of Health he shall visit such 
 sick persons as said Board may have charge of in the interest of 
 the public health, and give all necessary assistance in such cases. 
 
 Sec. 3. In case of any person dying within the City, unat- 
 tended by a physician, he may be required by the Mayor, Chairman 
 of the Alms Committee, or Board of Health, to view the body and 
 furnish a certificate of death, made out on the blank forms pro- 
 vided by the State Board of Health. 
 
 Sec. 4, He shall present to the Common Council a written re- 
 port on the first Mondays of May, August, November and Febru- 
 ary, giving the names of all the city poor attended by him during 
 the preceding quarter, and stating the character of the disease of 
 said poor persons. 
 
 Sec. 5. The salary of the City Physician shall not exceed four 
 hundred dollars per annum, payable in like manner as other sal- 
 aried officers of the city, which sum shall be full compensation for 
 all professional services rendered and medicines furnished by him 
 under the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 6. The ordinance entitled “An ordinance to establish 
 the office of City Physician and to prescribe his duties,” approved 
 July 15, 1876, is hereby repealed, but this section shall not be 
 construed to revive any ordinance which was repealed by the or- 
 dinance hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 7. All ordinances and parts of ordinances, resolutions 
 and parts of resolutions, inconsistent with the provisions of this 
 ordinance are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved June 4, 1890. 
 
 Amended by ordinance approved March 21, 1892. 
 
 An Ordinance Relating to the Morals, Peace and Good Order of the 
 City of Plainfield 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the several acts and offences in the ordinance 
 herein named are hereby prohibited, and any person found guilty 
 of any of them shall be subject on each conviction thereof to the 
 
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 penalties herein provided for them respectively, which shall be for 
 the use of the City of Plainfield, that is to say: 
 
 Sec. 2. For disturbing the quiet of the city, or of any lawful 
 assembly of persons, or of any neighborhood, family or person with- 
 in the city by any loud or unnecessary noise with kettles, bells, 
 drums, or other articles, or by shouting, or by using any profane, in- 
 decent or obscene language, or any indecent conduct whatever, or 
 by quarreling, assaulting or fighting, or otherwise disturbing the 
 public peace, any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or im- 
 prisonment not exceeding sixty days in the city or county jail, or 
 both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the Court before 
 whom a conviction thereof shall be had. 
 
 Sec. 3. For throwing stones, sticks or any hard, dangerous 
 or offensive substances in or into any street, byway or public place, 
 or at any cars, vehicles, houses, buildings or fences within the city 
 limits, any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprison- 
 ment not exceeding sixty days in the city or county jail as afore- 
 said. 
 
 For distributing, strewing about or placing in any street or 
 public place, areaway or yard, or upon the steps or porch of any 
 building, or causing to be distributed, strewed about or placed, any 
 papers, circulars, cards or pamphlets, except such papers or other 
 matter as may be ordered or subscribed for by the occupants of the 
 premises, any sum not exceeding twenty dollars for each offense. 
 
 For sweeping, casting, throwing or depositing, or causing to be 
 swept, cast, thrown or deposited, upon any public street, sidewalk, 
 gutter, alley or other public place within the City of Plainfield, any 
 paper, rags, straws wood, boxes or other rubbish, any sum not 
 exceeding twenty dollars for each offense. 
 
 For depositing upon the surface of any lot bordering upon any 
 street, lane or alley of said city, any rubbish or matter likely to 
 decompose or be blown about by the wind or using any such sub- 
 stances to fill in or raise the surface or level of any ground in the 
 city, unless a written permit is first obtained therefor from the 
 Board of Health, any sum not exceeding twenty dollars for each 
 offense. 
 
 Sec. 4. For setting off fire crackers or squibs, throwing fire- 
 balls made of combustible materials, or making bon-fires on the 
 streets or public ways or firing or discharging any gun, pistol or 
 fowling-piece, or any kind of fire-arms, or cannon, in any public 
 street, within the city limits, except on the Fourth Day of July, any 
 sum not exceeding twenty dollars. 
 
 Sec. 5. For knowingly causing a false alarm of fire, a sum 
 
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 not exceeding one hundred dollars, or sixty days’ imprisonment in 
 the city or county jail, or both fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Sec. 6. For keeping, or causing or permitting to be kept a 
 house, shop, room or place of any description, in which any kind 
 of disorder or noise is made, or permitted, to the alarm, annoyance 
 or disturbance of the neighborhood, or in which persons assemble, 
 or to which persons resort for the purpose of buying or drinking 
 spirituous or fermented liquors, or which place is injurious to the 
 public health, public quiet or public morals, or in which is kept any 
 table or device of any kind, upon or by which any game of chance 
 or hazard shall be played, any sum not exceeding one hundred dol- 
 lars, or thirty days’ imprisonment in the city or county jail, or both 
 fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court. 
 
 Sec. 7. For bathing, washing or swimming in the day time, 
 when naked, or insufficiently clothed, in any brook, lake or pond 
 within the city limits, any sum not exceeding ten dollars. 
 
 Sec. 8. For being intoxicated in any street, alley or other 
 public place in the city, any sum not exceeding ten dollars, and 
 double that sum for every subsequent offense. 
 
 Sec, 9. For selling, giving or delivering any intoxicating liquor 
 to a minor, either to drink or carry away, or selling or giving such 
 liquors to a person who is intoxicated or in the habit of being intox- 
 icated, a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or sixty days’ im- 
 prisonment, or both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Sec. 10. For intentionally driving or riding any horse or other 
 beast of burden, (whether attached to a vehicle or not), in any 
 streets, alleys or highways of the city, faster than an ordinary trav- 
 eling gait, or for intentionally leading, driving or riding any beast 
 of burden on any sidewalk of the city, any sum not exceeding five 
 dollars; and for such fast driving or riding as above named, when a 
 collision is thereby produced with any person, vehicle or other thing, 
 or any injury is occasioned by such driving or riding, any sum not 
 exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the city or 
 county jail not exceeding sixty days, or both, in the discretion of the 
 Court. Provided, that this section shall not apply to persons driv- 
 ing horses attached to sleighs while trotting in an easterly direction 
 on North avenue between the easterly side of Berckman street and 
 the easterly limits of the city, on days other than Sunday, commonly 
 called the first day of the week. 
 
 Sec. 11. For unnecessarily obstructing the streets or byways 
 of the city with any kind of vehicles, o^ with boxes, lumber, timber, 
 wood or any other thing, any sum not exceeding ten dollars; and 
 for continuing any of the above obstructions after having been noti- 
 fied to remove them by the Street Commissioner (or any other 
 
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 ■officer of the city government authorized to give such notice), any 
 sum not exceeding ten dollars for each day of such continuance, 
 not exceeding one hundred dollars on any one conviction; provided 
 that the provisions of this section shall not be construed to prevent 
 persons who are building from occupying one-half the width of the 
 sidewalk and one-third the width of the roadway in front of the 
 place where they are so building, upon their first obtaining from the 
 Street Commissioner or the Common Council a written permit so 
 to do. 
 
 Sec, 12. For intentionally obstructing or hindering any city 
 officer in the performance of his duty, or for wilfully refusing or 
 neglecting to assist any city officer, when lawfully required to do so 
 by him in the execution of any process in the suppression of a breach 
 of the peace, in case of an escape, or when he is resisted in the dis- 
 charge of his duty, a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars or im- 
 prisonment in the city or county jail not exceeding sixty days, or 
 both, in the discretion of the Court. 
 
 Sec. 13. If any person knowingly and wilfully resist or oppose 
 any officer of this city, or any person authorized by law, in serv- 
 ing, or attempting to serve any writ, bill, order or process whatever, 
 or when arresting any person violating any of the ordinances of this 
 city, either with or without warrant, he shall be punished by a 
 line not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than five dollars, 
 or imprisonment in jail not exceeding sixty days, or both such fine 
 and imprisonment, at the discretion of the Court. 
 
 'Sec. 14, If any person shall intentionally break, or injure, 
 .or cause to be broken or injured, any fire alarm box owned by the 
 city, or any street lamp used or lighted by, or rented to the city, he 
 shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty 
 dollars, or imprisonment in the city or county jail not exceeding 
 .thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the Court. And if any 
 person shall make complaint and secure conviction under this sec- 
 tion, he shall be entitled to one-half of any fine imposed in such 
 case, and upon payment of the fine so imposed the Mayor or City 
 Judge, as the case may be, shall pay the informer one-half of said 
 fine so collected. ' 
 
 Sec. 15. If any person, except the regular lamp-lighter and 
 his assistants, light or extinguish any street lamp, such person, on 
 conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty-five 
 dollars for each offence. 
 
 Sec. 16. If any person tether any horse, sheep, goat, or neat 
 cattle on or upon any road, street, lane, alley, square, park or pub- 
 lic place, within the city limits, he shall, upon conviction, be nun- 
 ished by a fine not exceeding ten dollars for each offence 
 
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 Sec. 17. If any person permit any horse, sheep, goat, or neat 
 "Cattle to feed on or upon any road, street, lane, alley, square, park 
 er public ground, within the city limits, whether in charge of any 
 person or not such person shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine 
 not exceeding ten dollars. 
 
 Sec. 18. It shall.be the duty of the police to take and secure 
 in some proper place any of the animals described in the preceding 
 sections 16 and 17, until the fine is paid or their release is ordered 
 by the Mayor or the City Judge. 
 
 Sec. 19. If any person play ball in any of the streets of the 
 City of Plainfield, he shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine 
 not exceeding five dollars for each offence. 
 
 Sec. 2 0. If any person within the city limits, between sun- 
 down and sunrise of any day, make any bon-fire in any of the public 
 streets, he shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not ex- 
 ceeding five dollars. Dry leaves may be burned in the gutters 
 -of streets during the forenoon of any week day, but all debris result- 
 ing from said burning must be removed within twelve hours of day- 
 light after said leaves are burned. 
 
 Sec. 21. If any person wilfully break down, or injure any 
 fence or inclosure belonging to or in the possession of other per- 
 sons, or shall carry away any portion of such fence or inclosure, 
 without the owner’s consent, such person shall, on conviction, be 
 -punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprison- 
 ment in the city or county jail not exceeding sixty days, or both, 
 in the discretion of the Court. 
 
 Sec. 2 2. If any person obstruct the free passage of pedes- 
 trians by loitering or assembling on the streets, or on the corners 
 of the streets, or on the sidewalks, or in front of any private or 
 public building, or church, or place where religious services are held, 
 or interfere with, or annoy in any way whatever, persons going to 
 or returning from any place where religious or other .services have 
 been held, such person so offending shall, on conviction, be pun- 
 ished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprison- 
 ment in the city or county jail not exceeding sixty days, or by both 
 fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court. 
 
 Sec. 23. No person shall fiy any kite in the public streets of 
 this city, under the penalty, upon the conviction thereof, of being 
 fined any sum not exceeding five dollars for each offence. 
 
 Sec. 2 4. If and person leave any horse or team standing un- 
 tied in any of the streets of thi^ city, unless the same is in charge 
 -of some person competent to care for the same, he shall be liable, 
 on conviction, to be fined any sum not exceeding ten dollars for 
 -each offence. 
 
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 Sec. 2 5. No person shall drive any horse before a sleigh or 
 sled through any of the streets of this city, unless there shall be 
 a sufficient number of bells attached to the harness of such horse 
 and sleigh or sled, to warn persons of the approach thereof, 'under 
 the penalty of being fined any sum not exceeding ten dollars for 
 each offence. 
 
 (Sections 2 6, 2 7 and 2 '8 repealed by ordinance approved May 
 21, 1878). 
 
 Sec. 2 9. When any party is convicted of violating any of the 
 ordinances of this city, and fails or neglects to pay the fine imposed 
 for such violation, and the cost of suit, within two days after con- 
 viction, the City Judge may, in his discretion, cause such party to 
 be committed to the city or county jail for any period not exceeding 
 twenty days. 
 
 Sec. 30. In all proceedings for the violation of any ordin- 
 ance, the costs thereof shall be added to the penalty, and such 
 costs shall be those allowed for similar services in Courts for the 
 trial of small causes. 
 
 (Sec. 31, repealed by ordinance approved December 30, 1879). 
 
 Sec, 32. Whenever in describing or referring to any person, 
 party, matter or thing, any word importing the singular number 
 or masculine gender is used in this or any other ordinance, the 
 same shall be understood to include, and shall apply to several per- 
 sons ahd parties, as well as one person or party, and females as 
 well as males, and bodies corporate as well as individuals, and sev- 
 eral matters and things as well as one matter and things, unless it 
 be otherwise provided, or there be something in the subject or con- 
 tract repugnant to such construction. 
 
 Sec. 33. That ordinances relative to the peace and quiet of 
 of the city, approved January 14, 1874. 
 
 To prevent horses, cattle, etc., from running at large, approved 
 July 6, 1869. 
 
 Relating to the morals, peace and good order of the city, ap- 
 proved July 6, 1869, April 29, 1872, and July 10, 1872. 
 
 To prohibiting the playing of ball, etc., approved September 
 29, 1870. 
 
 To prevent bonfires and false alarms, approved January 2 4, 
 1871. 
 
 For preserving peace and good order, approved July 16, 1872. 
 
 To secure to pedestrians the unobstructed use of public walks, 
 approved August 15, 1872. 
 
 To prevent persons from destroying and meddling with street 
 lamps, approved October 9, 1872. 
 
 And all other ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent 
 
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 with the provisions of this ordinance, be, and the same are hereby 
 repealed. But nothing herein contained shall in anywise be con- 
 strued to affect any proceeding now pending under any ordinance, 
 but such proceeding shall be proceeded with and be determined in 
 the same manner as if this ordinance had not been passed. 
 
 (Amendment of January 4, 1875). 
 
 Sec. 1. If any person shall make complaint to the Mayor or 
 City Judge of the violations of sections 6 and 9 of this ordinance, or 
 either of said sections, and shall secure a conviction under the same, 
 in that event said person shall be entitled to one-half of any fine 
 imposed by the Mayor or City Judge, under sections 6 and 9 of 
 said ordinance or either thereof. 
 
 Sec. 2. Upon the payment of the fine so imposed and collect- 
 ed, the Mayor or City Judge shall pay to the informer or informers 
 the one-half of said fine so collected. 
 
 (Amendment of September 15, 1883, as amended by ordinances 
 approved November 3, 1891, and September 9, 1895). 
 
 Sec. 3. No person shall cry or openly expose for sale any 
 wares, merchandise, fruit, herbs, meats, fish, goods or chattels, 
 or keep open any shop, store or place in which said articles are 
 sold, or in which the occupation of barber, shoemaker, blacksmith, 
 silversmith or other trade requiring the exercise of manual labor is 
 carried on, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, 
 except in cases of necessity and the sale of milk and medicine. And 
 any person violating this section shall upon conviction thereof be 
 fined in a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or be imprisoned 
 in the city or county jail not exceeding ten days, or both, in the 
 discretion of the Court. Provided, however, that this section shall 
 not apply to any person who habitually observes the seventh day, 
 commonly called Saturday as the Sabbath and who carries on his 
 business within his premises in such a manner as not to disturb 
 the religious observance of Sunday as the Sabbath. 
 
 Sec. 4. No person shall maliciously injure, cut down or other- 
 w’ise destroy any tree, shoot or the guards placed around the same, 
 or any lamp post standing in any of the streets or public grounds in 
 the city, or tie any horse or other animal thereto, under a penalty 
 not exceeding fifteen dollars for each offence. No person shall tie, 
 paste, nail, tack, or otherwise attach any writing, picture, paper, 
 or sign to any tree standing in any street or public grounds of said 
 city, or otherwise mar or deface any such tree, under a penalty 
 not exceeding fifteen dollars for every offence. No person shall 
 tie, paste, nail, tack or otherwise attach any writing, picture, paper 
 or sign, except street signs, to any telegraph, telephone or electric 
 
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 light pole standing in any street or public grounds of said city, un- 
 der a penalty not exceeding fifteen dollars for every offence. 
 
 Original ordinance approved April 23, 1874. 
 
 Amended by ordinances approved January 4, 187 5, December 
 7, 1881, September 15, 1883, October 7, 1884, November 3, 1891, 
 December 8, 1891, December 27, 1893, September 9, 1895, May 23, 
 1901, June 11, 1907, August 6, 1907, NovemlDer 8, 1911. 
 
 An Ordinance for the Suppression of Vice and Immorality 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Coun- 
 cil, do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That no person or persons shall on the first day 
 of the week, commonly called Sunday, sell, dispose of, or offer or 
 expose for sale, or cause or permit to be sold, disposed of or of- 
 fered or exposed for sale, any cider of any description, under pen- 
 alty of a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each and every of- 
 fence. 
 
 Sec. 2. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances so far 
 as they are inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby re- 
 pealed. 
 
 Approved February 7, 1896. 
 
 An Ordinance to Provide for the Relief and Support of the Poor 
 of the City of Plainfield.* 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Coun- 
 cil, do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Common Council, in pur- 
 suance of the authority conferred by the Charter, to order and 
 cause to be assessed and raised by tax in each year such sum or 
 sums of money as may be necessary for the support of the city poor, 
 and the moneys so raised shall constitute a separate fund for such 
 purpose, and be disbursed by the City Treasurer only on warrants 
 issued by order of the Common Council. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Mayor to nominate to the 
 Common Council and, subject to its approval, appoint, on the first 
 Monday in February in each year, a suitable person for Overseer 
 of the Poor, whose powers and duties shall be such as are herein 
 prescribed, and who, when confirmed by the Common Council, 
 
 * See P, L., 1S93, p. 495, and P. L. 1901, p. 41. See also P. L. 1911, p. 350. 
 
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 and officially qualified, shall enter upon his duties, and unless sooner 
 removed, continue in office until the first Monday in February 
 next ensuing, or until the confirmation of another person nominated 
 and appointed to succeed him; and such Overseer of the Poor shall 
 receive such compensation for his services, to be paid out of the 
 moneys raised for the relief and support of the city poor, as may 
 from time to time be fixed by resolution of the Common Council. 
 If any such nomination and appointment shall, upon vote thereon 
 by the Common Council, be not confirmed, or in case any vacancy 
 in the office of the Overseer of the Poor shall occur at any time, it 
 shall be the duty of the Mayor to nominate to the Common Coun- 
 cil, and subject to its approval, appoint at each succeeding regular 
 or adjourned meeting, a different person for Overseer of the Poor, 
 not before nominated for that office during the then current year, 
 until a nomination and appointment for that office shall be con- 
 firmed. 
 
 Sec. 3. No person shall receive support or relief out of the 
 moneys raised in pursuance of the first section of this ordinance 
 who has not obtained a legal settlement, or become legally en- 
 titled to relief in this city, or who has any relative able and legally 
 bound to relieve or maintain him or her; and no male person 
 over the age of eighteen years, able to work, shall receive support 
 or relief except in return for labor performed by him, either upon 
 the city streets under the direction of the Street Commissioner, or 
 otherwise, under the direction of the Mayor; and in any such case 
 only to an extent equal to the fair value of such labor performed. 
 
 Sec. 4. No person otherwise entitled thereto shall receive 
 support or relief, except on personal application to the City Judge, 
 or in his absence, to the Mayor, at such time and place as the City 
 Judge or Mayor shall appoint; and upon every such application the 
 officer to whom the same is made shall examine the applicant upon 
 oath or affirmation touching his or her name, age, place of birth, 
 occupation, family and relatives, place or places of residence for 
 the three years next preceding, and his or her last place or places 
 of legal settlement, and as to whether he or she is then receiv- 
 ing relief from any, and if so, what other source, or has before re- 
 ceived support or relief ftom this city, and if so, when and for 
 what time, the necessity for the relief sought, and such other mat- 
 ters as such officer may deem important to be considered in con- 
 nection with such application; and the testimony of every such ap- 
 plicant concerning the matters aforesaid shall be reduced to writ- 
 ing and subscribed by him or her; and upon every application such 
 officer shall satisfy himself as to the ability of the applicant to work, 
 and he may require such further evidence touching any of the 
 
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 matters aforesaid as lie may doem necessary in order to enable him 
 to determine the justness of such application; but in any case it 
 shall appear by the certificate of the City Physician that any per- 
 son seeking or needing relief is physically or mentally incapable 
 of making the personal application and oath or affirmation afore- 
 said, the same may be dispensed with, and the aforesaid particulars 
 concerning the person seeking or needing relief shall be ascertained 
 by such officer by the best other obtainable evidence. If therefore 
 it shall appear to such officer that such applicant is entitled to re- 
 lief, he shall give to the Overseer of the Poor a certificate to that 
 effect, which in case of every application shall state whether in the 
 opinion of such officer such applicant is able to work and which 
 shall be attached to the evidence taken upon such application, and 
 the Overseer of the Poor shall file such certificate and evidence in 
 the office of the City Clerk within two days after he shall have re- 
 ceived the same. 
 
 Sec. 5. The Oversoer of the Poor, before granting relief to 
 any person on the certificate of the City Judge or Mayor, shall enter 
 in a well-bound, properly-indexed book, to be procured by him at 
 the cost of the city poor fund, and kept by him for that purpose, 
 the name, age, place of birth, sex, residence and occupation of such 
 person, whether such person has a legal settlement in this city, 
 is at the timo receiving any, and if so, what relief from any other 
 source, and whether he or she has any relative able or legally bound 
 to relieve or maintain him or her, and if so, who; together with a 
 memorandum of the causes which have operated to constitute such 
 person a pauper, so far as the same can be ascertained; and after 
 such entry shall have been made, the Overseer of the Poor may 
 grant such person such relief as in his judgment the necessities of 
 such person shall require, by an order or orders signed by him on 
 such person or persons or association or corporation as he may 
 designate, subject to and in accordance with the requirements of the 
 sixth section of this ordinance, for beef, salt pork, salt fish, flour, 
 oat meal, yeast, bread, beans, rice, potatoes, coffee or tea, milk, su- 
 gar, salt, vinegar, pepper, coal, wood, clothing, soap, candles, or kero- 
 sene oil and matches, or one or moro of such articles, and no others, 
 except as hereinafter provided; but in no case shall the Overseer 
 of the Poor grant to any person a greater number or more of sneh 
 articles, nor shall such relief continue for a longer period than 
 the actual necessities of such person shall require, and before is- 
 suing any order for supplies or for relief of any kind under this 
 ordinance the Overseer of the Poor shall satisfy himself by proper 
 investigation that the relief sought is at the time actually necessary 
 in the particular case; and no such order, to be filled in the dis- 
 
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 cretion of the person in whose favor the same is drawn, shall in 
 any case be granted, but every such order shall clearly specify and 
 state upon its face the items, nature, quality and quantity of the 
 articles to be furnished, and in no case shall relief granted consist, 
 in whole or part, of money or credit; but other supplies may be 
 furnished by the Overseer of the Poor on certificate of the City 
 Physician, previously obtained, that such other supplies are neces- 
 sary to the health of the person in whose behalf such certificate 
 shall be made; and in every case, before delivering any order or 
 relief, the Overseer of the Poor shall enter in a separate book, to 
 be by him procured at the expense of the city poor fund, and kept 
 for such purpose, a statement of the date of such order, and in 
 whose favor issued, and of the nature and items of the relief granted, 
 and the quality and quantity of all articles ordered to be supplied 
 and to whom granted. 
 
 Sec. 6. The Overseer of the Poor shall receive and consider 
 all written offers which shall from time to time be made to him 
 to furnish any article or articles by the fifth section of this or- 
 dinance authorized to be supplied to poor persons, and if, before 
 granting relief in any particular case, he shall have received from 
 any person or persons, or association or corporation any offer or 
 offers which remain in force to supply such article or articles as is, 
 or are, or shall be needed or appropriate in such case at any speci- 
 fied price or prices, such article or articles needed or appropriate 
 in such case shall be obtained from, and the order therefor shall be 
 on, the person or persons, association or corporation, who or which 
 shall have offered to supply such articles, or similar articles, at 
 the lov/est price mentioned in any offer to furnish such or similar 
 articles received by him. Provided, however, that the Overseer of 
 the Poor shall transmit to the Common Council at its regular meet- 
 ing on the first Monday of each month all offers to provide articles 
 by this ordinance authorized to be supplied to poor persons, which 
 shall have been received by him during the month next preceding, 
 and that the Common Council may from time to time designate 
 by resolution the person or persons, or association or corporation, 
 upon whom or which any or all orders for supplies to poor per- 
 sons under this ordinance shall be drawn; and in cases other than 
 those provided for by the third section of this ordinance may declare 
 whether any labor shall be performed in payment therefor. 
 
 Sec. 7. The books of the Overseer of the Poor shall at all 
 times be open to the inspection of any resident of the city, and on 
 the first Monday in February in each year shall be. submitted to the 
 Common Council. On the first Mondays of February, May, August 
 and November in every year, the Overseer shall present to the 
 
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 Council a report of his doings for tho next preceding quarter, and 
 no relief after the first Monday of February of each year shall be 
 granted by him until this ordinance to any person previously aided, 
 without a new application to the City Judge or Mayor as provided 
 in section four of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 8. All claims against the city for supplies furnished un- 
 der this ordinance, shall be sent to the Overseer of the Poor with all 
 his orders, in pursuance of which such supplies were furnished at- 
 tached and verified by the affidavit of the claimants or one of them 
 in the following form: 
 
 Union County, 1 
 
 I ss 
 
 City of Plainfield, J 
 
 being duly sworn, deposes and says 
 
 that he is the claimant named in the annexed account 
 
 for supplies, amounting to dollars; that the said account is in 
 
 all things just and true, and that all of the articles enumerated 
 therein were actually furnished and delivered by said claimant in 
 pursuance of written orders by the proper authorities, all of which 
 orders are hereunto annexed: that the prices in said account men- 
 tioned are fair and reasonable, and no greater than those charged 
 for goods of like description to ordinary customers; that no fees, 
 perquisites, commissions, percentages or allowances of any kind 
 whatever have been made or agreed to be made, and that none will 
 be made directly or indirectly to any person in consideration of 
 the purchase or procurement of said articles or any of them from 
 said claimant, and that the amount of said claimant is wholly un- 
 paid and is justly due to said claimant. 
 
 Sworn to before me this 
 
 .... day of . . . . 1 . . . 
 
 and if such claims shall appear to the Overseer of the Poor to be 
 correct, he shall attach to each of them his affidavit in the fol- 
 lowing form: 
 
 Union County, 
 
 City of Plainfield, 
 
 being duly sworn, deposes and says 
 
 that he is the Overseer of the Poor of said City of Plainfield; that 
 
 the annexed claim for supplies amounting to dollars, is in 
 
 all things just and true, and that all the orders thereto attached 
 in pursuance of which such supplies were granted, were given by 
 him under the ordinance entitled “An Ordinance to provide for the 
 
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 Relief and Support of the Poor of the City of Plainfield,” adopted 
 
 by the Common Council in 18. with all the provisions of 
 
 which ordinance he has fully complied. 
 
 Sworn to before me this 
 
 . . . .day of. ... 1. . . 
 
 and all claims for supplies furnished upon the certificate of the City 
 Physician, shall in addition be accompanied by his affidavit in the 
 following form: 
 
 Union County, 
 
 Ciiy of Plainfield, 
 
 being duly sworn, deposes and says 
 
 that he is the City Physician of the City of Plainfield; that the sup- 
 plies mentioned in the annexed claim amounting to dollars, 
 
 were furnished in pursuance of his certificate of the necessity there- 
 for, previously given, and that in his judgment such supplies were 
 necessary to the health of the person for whose relief the same wore 
 ordered. 
 
 Sworn to before me this 
 
 . . . .day of . . . . 1. . . 
 
 and all such claims with the accompanying orders and affidavits, 
 shall then be presented by the Overseer of the Poor to the Com- 
 mon Council through any one of the members, and all claims so 
 authenticated and appearing on examination by the Common Coun- 
 cil or its appropriate committee, to be correct shall be ordered to 
 be paid. 
 
 Sec. 9. If any person certified by the City Judge or Mayor 
 under this ordinance to be entitled to relief shall be in need of 
 shelter, the Overseer of the Poor may provide necessary shelter 
 for such person, but no such shelter shall be provided at city expeuse 
 for a term exceeding two months, unless before the expiration of 
 such two months the Overseer of the Poor shall have made known 
 to the Common Council the name of the person needing such shel- 
 ter, and whether he or she is able to work; the place where it is 
 proposed to furnish such shelter; the price which it is proposed to 
 pay therefor; whether it is proposed that any, and if any what labor 
 shall be performed by such person, in whole or in part payment 
 therefor; and whether any other persons receiving relief under this 
 ordinance are sheltered in the same place, and the Common Coun- 
 cil shall have investigated the case through its appropriate com- 
 mittees, and shall have authorized the same, and all claims against 
 
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 the city for shelter supplied under this ordinance shall state 
 whether any, and if any, what labor has been performed by the per- 
 son sheltered, in whole or in part payment therefor, and the fair val- 
 ue thereof; and in every such case proper credit shall be given to the 
 city upon such claim for the fair value of such labor; and each 
 such claim shall be presented in writing to the Overseer of the Poor 
 accompanied by the affidavit of the claimants or one of them, that 
 the shelter for which such claim is made has actually been supplied 
 by such claimants or claimant, in pursuance of orders by the Over- 
 seer of the Poor, that all of the statements in such claim are true; 
 and that the amount of such claim is justly due from the city to 
 such claimants or claimant, and unpaid; and if the Overseer of 
 the Poor shall upon examination find such claim correct, he shall 
 at once transmit the same to the Common Council, accompanied 
 by his own affidavit to the effect that the shelter for which such 
 elaim is made was supplied by the claimants or claimant therein 
 mentioned in pursuance of orders by him, under and in accord- 
 ance with the requirements of this ordinance; that the price there- 
 in charged for such shelter is the price authorized to be paid there- 
 for by the Common Council, and that such claim is in all things 
 just; and all claims for shelter so authenticated and appearing on 
 examination by the Common Council or its appropriate committee 
 to be correct, shall be ordered to be paid. 
 
 Sec. 10. It shall be lawful for the Common Council to cause 
 any person certified by the City Judge or Mayor under this ordin- 
 ance to be entitled to relief, to be placed in any incorporated char- 
 itable institution at the time located in this city to be there re- 
 lieved, cared for, or supported and from time to time to furnish the 
 means of such relief or support in such institution from the city poor 
 fund. 
 
 Sec. 11. The legal status and liabilities of all poor persons 
 in this city, and the powers and duties of the Overseer of the Poor 
 over and concerning them, shall be such as are defined and speci- 
 fied in the act of the Legislature of this State entitled “An Act 
 for the settlement and Relief of the Poor,” passed March 27, 1874, 
 excepting in so far as the same are otherwise define! and regulated 
 by this ordinance, provided, that all such applications as are by said 
 act directed to be made to one or two Justices of the Peace, shall 
 be made to the City Judge, or in his absence to the Mayor, and that 
 all duties by said act imposed upon one or two Justices of the Peace 
 shall be performed by the City Judge, or, in his absence, by the 
 Mayor. 
 
 Sec. 12. Any person who shall in any affidavit or deposition 
 required by this ordinance wilfully make any false statement or 
 
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 shall in any other respect offend against this ordinance shall, upon 
 conviction thereof, be punished for each offence by fine not ex- 
 ceeding fifty dollars recoverable for the use of the city, or by im- 
 prisonment in the city or county jail for any term not exceeding 
 sixty days, or both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Sec. 13. Any Overseer of the Poor appointed under this or- 
 dinance may, upon complaint of any person, be removed from office 
 at any time by the affirmative vote of a majority of all the mem- 
 bers of the Common Council for neglect of duty, or misconduct 
 in office; but, before any such removal, the Overseer charged with 
 any such neglect or misconduct shall be informed of the complaint 
 against him, and if he so desires shall have an opportunity to be 
 heard concerning the same before the Common Council at such time 
 .and place as the Common Council may appoint and designate for 
 that purpose. 
 
 Sec. 14. The ordinance entitled “An ordinance to provide for 
 the Relief of the Poor in the City of Plainfield,” passed August 
 12th, 1878, and all ordinances and resolutions and parts of or- 
 dinances and resolutions which conflict with any of the provis- 
 ions of this ordinance are hereby repealed and abrogated. 
 
 Sec. 15. This ordinance shall take effect immediately. 
 
 Adopted March 15, 1880. 
 
 Re-adopted April 19, 1880, notwithstanding the objections of 
 the Mayor. 
 
 Amenilei by ordinance approved March 5, 1889. 
 
 All Oidiiiance Conceiniiig the Industrial Home, and the Inmates 
 
 Thereof. 
 
 'The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the Alms House of the City shall be known 
 and designated as the City Industrial Home. 
 
 Sec. 2. That it shall be the duty of the Overseer of the Poor, 
 .and he is hereby authorized and empowered, to direct and assign 
 the persons under his charge in the said Industrial Home to such 
 employment or occupation as they may respectively be capable of 
 pursuing, and especially to make such arrangements that all the 
 Tabor in the said Industrial Home shall be accomplished by the in- 
 mates thereof, if consistent with their ability. To determine 
 ’Whether any inmate who alleges physical disability, infirmity or 
 Tllness, as an excuse for failure to perform such labor as may be 
 .assigned to said inmate, is feigned or genuine, said Overseer may 
 
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 call to his aid the City Physician, whose duty it shall he to make 
 examination in the premises, and report his conclusion to said Over- 
 seer. 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of said Overseer of the Poor and 
 the Superintendent and the Matron of said Industrial Home to care- 
 fully observe and strictly enforce the Rules and Regulations adopt- 
 ed by the Common Council from time to time, in relation to the gov- 
 ernment and discipline of the said Industrial Home. 
 
 Approved June 5, 1900. 
 
 An Ordinance Providing for the Licensing and Regulating of Ped- 
 dlers, Hawkers, Cartmen, and the Owners and Drivers of Vehi- 
 cles used for hire; and Concerning Street Traffic Regulations. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the Mayor of said City is hereby authorized 
 to grant licenses under his hand and the seal of the city to so many 
 and to such persons as he shall think proper, of good moral char- 
 acter, and otherwise qualified according to the provisions of this 
 ordinance, and to incorporated companies, to carry on, wholly or in 
 part, within the limits of the city, the business of peddler, hawker 
 or cartman, to drive or keep for use for hire hack, omnibus, stage, 
 truck, motor vehicle or other vehicle for the transportation of pas- 
 sengers, baggage or merchandise, according to the provisions of this 
 ordinance; and the City Clerk shall keep a detailed record of all 
 licenses so granted. 
 
 Sec. 2. That every application for any such license shall be in 
 writing, signed by the applicant, stating his place of residence, and 
 the purpose for which such license is asked. Every applicant for a 
 peddler’s or hawker’s license shall specify whether he proposes to 
 conduct his business with a horse and wagon or with a handcart or 
 on foot without wheeled vehicle. Every applicant for driver’s license 
 shall endorse on his application the names of three reputable citi- 
 zens to whom reference is made as to the character of the applicant. 
 Every applicant for a license for a motor vehicle shall set forth in 
 his application that his motor vehicle has seating capacity for at 
 least four passengers, and that he has equipped his said motor ve- 
 hicle with a taxameter of standard make affixed to the front axle of 
 said motor vehicle and so constructed and adjusted as to indicate 
 automatically on the dial of said taxameter the charges for distance 
 in accordance with the charges fixed by this ordinance. Every appli- 
 cant under this ordinance for a license of any kind shall definitely 
 agree in his said application to conform to and abide by the regula- 
 
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 tions prescribed or to be prescribed hereafter by the Board of Po- 
 lice of the City of Plainfield with the approval of the Mayor, to reg- 
 ulate traffic upon the public streets and with respect to the standing 
 and movement of vehicles at or near the several railroad stations 
 and other places of public assemblage or crowded vehicular traffic. 
 
 Sec. 3. That no person or corporation shall pursue, or in any 
 manner carry on, as owner or as agent for another, within the limits 
 of said city, the business of peddler or hawker without being first 
 licensed therefor, according to the provisions of this ordinance, un- 
 der a penalty of ten dollars for each and every offense, provided that 
 nothing herein contained shall prevent farmers and gardeners from 
 selling the products of the farms owned or occupied by them, or 
 milkmen from carrying on their business in said city without a 
 license under this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 4. That no person or corporation shall drive, keep or use 
 for hire or wages, or cause to be driven, kept or used for hire or 
 wages any cart, truck, hack, omnibus, stage, motor vehicle or other 
 vehicle for the transportation of passengers, baggage or merchandise 
 of any kind, wholly or in part within the limits of said city, without 
 being first licensed therefor, according to the provisions of this ordi- 
 nance, under penalty of ten dollars for each and every offense, (pro- 
 vided that none of the requirements contained in this section shall 
 apply to owners or drivers of any livery stable vehicles, other than 
 those vehicles kept by them for the use of passengers solicited at 
 the railway stations or elsewhere within the city limits. One license 
 and one only shall be required for each cart, truck, hack, omnibus, 
 stage, motor vehicle or other vehicle, but for each driver other than 
 the owner of such licensed cart, truck, hack, omnibus, stage, motor 
 vehicle or other vehicle, a separate license shall be required. 
 
 Sec. 5. That each license granted under the provisions of this 
 ordinance shall expire on the first day of March next following the 
 granting of the same, and shall state the object for which it is giv- 
 en, the name of the person or corporation licensed, the number of 
 the license, and the date of its expiration, and shall be signed by the 
 Mayor and attested by the City Clerk and countersigned by the Chief 
 
 of Police. 
 
 Sec. 6. That for licenses under this ordinance the fees to be 
 paid shall be as follows: 
 
 For license as aforesaid: 
 
 (a) To the owner in case of a hack, omnibus or stage with 
 
 one horse $5.00 
 
 (b) To the owner in case of a hack, omnibus or stage with 
 
 two horses $7.50 
 
 (c) To the owner in case of an expressman with one horse 
 
 and wagon $5.00 
 
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 (d) To the owner in case of an expressman with two horses 
 
 and wagon $7.&0 
 
 <e) To the owner in case of a truckman with one horse 
 
 and wagon $5.00 
 
 (f) To the owner in case of a truckman with two horses and 
 
 wagon $7.50 
 
 <g) To the owner in case of a cartman with one horse and 
 
 wagon $5.00 
 
 (h) To the owner in case of a cartman with two horses and 
 
 wagon $7.50 
 
 <i) To the owner in case of a motor vehicle, as defined in 
 Chapter 113 of the Laws of New Jersey for the year 
 
 1906 $10.00 
 
 <j) To the driver in case of a separate driver’s license addi- 
 tional to the owner’s license $1.00 
 
 <k) To the owner in case of a peddler with one horse and 
 
 wagon $25.00 
 
 (l) To the owner in case of a peddler with hand-cart $20.00 
 
 (m) To the owner in case of a peddler on foot without 
 
 wheeled vehicle $15.00 
 
 A duly licensed expressman, truckman or cartman may have 
 one assistant for each licensed wagon. A duly licensed peddler with 
 horse and wagon may have one assistant and only one. 
 
 In each instance the license fee shall be paid to the City Clerk 
 prior to the issuing of the license, and shall be paid by the City 
 Clerk to the City Treasurer for the use of the city. In addition to 
 the fee for license hereinabove specified, every person or corpora- 
 tion licensed shall prior to receiving his or its license pay to the 
 City Clerk the City Clerk’s fee of fifty cents for issuing the license. 
 
 Also in addition in each case $1.00 to be deposited with the 
 Chief of Police for badge, said $1.00 to be returned on return of 
 badge. 
 
 Sec. 7. That no person licensed under this ordinance nor any 
 person in the employ of any person or corporation licensed under this 
 ordinance, shall stand or remain upon any sidewalk or in any street 
 or any other public place in this city, for the purpose of soliciting 
 custom or selling or exposing for sale any wares or merchandise lon- 
 ger than ten minutes at any one time, if requested to move from 
 any such place by any officer of the city, or by the owner or occu- 
 pant of any premises in front of or opposite which any such person 
 may then be as aforesaid; but upon such request to move, such per- 
 son so requested shall move with the vehicle, goods, wares and mer- 
 chandise in his charge to a point' at least 250 feet distant from the 
 point from which he may be requested to move before stopping for 
 the purpose of soliciting custom; and at no time shall any person or 
 
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 corporation licensed under this ordinance, or any person in the em- 
 ploy of such licensed person or corporation, solicit custom in such 
 way as to obstruct travel or cause annoyance or damage to any per- 
 son, or solicit custom or proclaim merchandise for sale in a loud 
 or boisterous manner; and at all times any person licensed under 
 this ordinance, or any one in the employ of any person or corpora- 
 tion licensed under this ordinance, shall move from any point in any 
 public place or street at which such person may be awaiting or so- 
 liciting custom or selling or exposing for sale any wares and mer- 
 chandise, when requested so to do by any police officer of the city. 
 And any and every person who or corporation which shall violate 
 any of the provisions of this section shall, on conviction, be pun- 
 ished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars. Provided, that nothing 
 , in this section shall be construed to prevent the licensed hackmen, 
 expressmen or truckmen from standing with their vehicles on North 
 avenue for a longer time than ten minutes subject to the other pro- 
 visions of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 8. That every person or corporation so licensed with re- 
 spect to any hack, omnibus, stage, motor vehicle or other vehicle 
 for the transportation of passengers must have a lamp on both sides 
 of each vehicle which must be lighted from one hour after sunset 
 to one hour before sunrise and shall as soon as licensed, cause the 
 number of his or its license to be permanently and conspicuously 
 placed or painted in figures, not less than one inch and a half in 
 height, upon the outside of the lamps on both sides of each vehicle 
 for which said license shall have been granted, and every person so 
 licensed, and the driver of every such vehicle shall wear in a con- 
 spicuous place upon his person while engaged in the business for 
 which the license shall have been granted, so as to be easily seen, 
 a badge to be furnished by the city, with the corresponding number 
 thereon, and shall also place and keep fastened within his vehicle in 
 a conspicuous place to be designated by the Chief of Police, a card or 
 plate to be furnished by the city, with the words, “Hack License,” 
 and the number of the license and the year for which it was issued, 
 and also a card or plate to be furnished by the city specifying the 
 rates of fare and other regulations. 
 
 Every expressman, truck man and cartman, as soon as he or it 
 receives a license shall fasten permanently on each side of his or its 
 wagon a plate to be furnished by the city with the words, “Licensed 
 Expressman,” “Licensed Truckman,” or “Licensed Cartman,” as 
 the case may be, with the number of the license and the year and 
 date for which issued, and every such license and every driver there- 
 for shall also wear a badge, which will be furnished by the city, 
 on which the number of the license is plainly displayed. All cart- 
 men licensed for the collection of ashes and other waste material. 
 
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 shall provide themselves with wagons or carts to be approved by 
 the Street Commissioner and shall sign an agreement to transport 
 and dump and must transport and dump all such material in places 
 designated or to be designated by the Street Commissioner. Any 
 violation of any of the foregoing provisions of this section shall not 
 only subject the party licensed and the driver to the penalty here- 
 inafter provided, but for the second offence, to a revocation of the 
 license. 
 
 Every peddler with horse and wagon shall as soon as licensed 
 place on each side of his or its wagon a plate to be furnished by 
 the city, giving the number of his or its license, and the year for 
 which licensed, and every such person, and every person acting on 
 behalf of a corporation so licensed, shall wear on his person in a 
 conspicuous place, a badge to be furnished by the city with the cor- • 
 responding number. If the wagon or badge is loaned, hired, or al- 
 lowed to be used by any other person than the person lawfully en- 
 titled, that shall constitute an offense under this section, and in 
 addition to the penalty hereinafter provided, shall subject the owner 
 to a revocation of the license. 
 
 Every person licensed as a peddler with hand-cart or on foot 
 without wheeled vehicle, and every person acting on behalf of a 
 corporation so licensed, shall wear on his person in a conspicuous 
 place a badge, to be furnished by the city, with the number of the 
 license, and if this badge is loaned or hired or allowed to be used 
 by any other person than the person lawfully entitled to wear it, 
 that shall constitute an offense under this section, and in addition 
 to the penalty hereinafter provided, shall subject the owner to a 
 revocation of the license. Every person or corporation violating 
 any of the provisions of this section of the ordinance, shall, on con- 
 viction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars 
 lor each offence. 
 
 Sec. 9. That any license granted under this ordinance may be 
 suspended or revoked by the Mayor or City Judge upon proof to 
 the satisfaction of either that such licensed person, or in case of a 
 corporation, any person acting on its behalf, has been guilty of 
 fraud with respect to making charges against any passenger of pas- 
 sengers, or that the owner or driver of any motor vehicle has prac- 
 ticed fraud with respect to the recording by his taxameter of the 
 distance traveled, or the charges for distance, or has violated any 
 other city ordinance, or without justifiable cause has been disre- 
 spectful toward any passenger or toward any person seeking to be- 
 come a passenger; provided, that no license shall be so suspended 
 or revoked without reasonable opportunity first afforded to the 
 licensed person or corporation to be heard on his or its own behalf; 
 and every person or corporation who or which shall during the s.us- 
 
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 pension or after the revocation of his or its license, carry on the 
 business for which such license was granted, shall, on conviction, be 
 punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence. 
 
 Sec. 10. That any person or corporation licensed under this 
 ordinance to use for hire or wages any hack, omnibus, stage, motor 
 vehicle or other vehicle for the carriage of passengers, may charge 
 therefor the following rates, but no more, that is to say: 
 
 (a) As to all vehicles except “motor vehicles” as defined in 
 chapter 113 of the Laws of New Jersey for the year 1906, for the 
 carriage of any passenger or passengers from any point within to 
 any point within that part of the city included within the following 
 boundaries, that is to say: Beginning at a point where the north- 
 easterly side line of Johnston Avenue produced would intersect 
 Green Brook; thence along said line and the northeasterly side line 
 •of Johnston Avenue to North Avenue; thence in the same course 
 in a direct line to the northwesterly side line of South Avenue; 
 thence along said side line of South Avenue to the easterly side line 
 of Woodland Avenue, produced; thence along said line and the east- 
 erly line of Woodland Avenue to the southerly side line of Martine 
 Avenue; thend;e along said side line of Martine Avenue to the east- 
 erly side line of Hillside Avenue; thence along said side line of Hill- 
 ;side Avenue to the southerly side line of Randolph Road; thence 
 along said side line of Randolph Road to the southwesterly side line 
 • of Plainfield Avenue; thence in a straight line to the intersection of 
 the southwesterly side line of Spooner Avenue with the southeasterly 
 side line of West Eighth Street; thence along said side line of West 
 Eighth Street to the southwesterly side line of Grant Avenue; thence 
 along said side line of Grant Avenue and the southwesterly side line 
 •of West End Avenue to the northwesterly city line in Green Brook; 
 thence following the northwesterly city line to the intersection of 
 said city line with the northeasterly side line of Johnston Avenue, 
 produced, the point and place of beginning; twenty-five cents for one 
 -passenger carried and fifty cents for two or three passengers carried 
 from the same point to the same destination at the same time and 
 •from any point within to any point without the aforesaid limits the 
 •sum of fifty cents for one passenger and twenty-five cents for each 
 .additional passenger; provided, however, that after eleven o’clock 
 at night until five o’clock in the morning, the charges may be double 
 the said fares; and whenever any such hack, omnibus, stage or other 
 vehicle shall be engaged by the hour the person licensed to use for 
 hire or wages any such hack, omnibus, stage or other vehicle may 
 charge one dollar for the first hour and seventy-five cents for each 
 ..additional hour. 
 
 (b) As to all “motor vehicles” as defined in Chapter 113 of 
 .the Laws of New Jersey for the year 1906: For any number of pas- 
 
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 sengers from one to four inclusive, for the first half mile or fraction 
 thereof, thirty cents; for each quarter mile thereafter, ten cents; for 
 each six minutes waiting, ten cents; and for ordering such motor ve- 
 hicle within one mile and a half from any stand or station to the 
 point ordered at which the passenger or passengers enter said motor 
 vehicle, no charge shall be made; and for ordering such motor ve- 
 hicle more than a mile and a half from any stand or station to the 
 point at which the passenger or passengers enter said motor vehicle, 
 a charge may be made at the rate of twenty cents for each mile or 
 fraction thereof in excess of one mile and a half; provided, that chil- 
 dren under ten years of age shall not be counted as passengers if 
 accompanied by older persons. 
 
 (c) That any person licensed under this ordinance as Express- 
 man may charge for the delivery of each trunk, bag or other piece of 
 baggage the following rates, but no more, that is to say: Prom any 
 point within to any point within the boundaries described in para- 
 graph (a), twenty-five cents and from any point within to any point 
 without said boundaries, fifty cents. 
 
 That every person or corporation licensed as aforesaid and the 
 driver of every hack, omnibus, stage, motor vehicle, or other ve- 
 hicle for the carriage of passengers or baggage who shall demand 
 for any service mentioned in this section more than the amount or 
 rate fixed herein for such service shall, on conviction thereof, be 
 punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for the first offence, 
 and by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars and a forfeiture of the 
 license which may have been issued, for any offence subsequent to 
 the first. 
 
 Sec. 11. That the first applicant to any person or corporation 
 licensed to drive, keep or use for hire or wages any hack, omnibus, 
 stage, motor vehicle or other vehicle for the transportation of pas-- 
 sengers wholly or in part within the limits of the City of Plainfield, 
 shall be entitled to conveyance to any point that the said applicant 
 may desire to reach within the city limits; and any refusal on the 
 part of the driver or owner of such licensed vehicle to comply with 
 the request shall render liable said owner or driver to a fine not 
 exceeding twenty dollars for the first offence, and twenty dollars 
 for a second offence, and twenty dollars and the revocation of the 
 license for a third offence. 
 
 Sec. 12. No owner or driver of any hack, omnibus, stage,- 
 motor vehicle or other vehicle shall, for the purpose of securing cus- 
 tom, occupy with his vehicle any portion of the street in front of 
 any railroad station or any place of public assemblage or entertain- 
 ment in such a manner as to obstruct public travel. It shall not be- 
 lawful at or near the said railroad stations or at or near any place- 
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 or any person connected with any such vehicle, or any person acting 
 for or in the interest of the owner or driver of any such vehicle, to 
 proceed beyond the curb line for the purpose of soliciting or securing 
 custom, and it shall not be lawful for any such aforesaid person to 
 solicit custom in a noisy, persistent or offensive manner. Any per- 
 son or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section 
 shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding 
 twenty dollars for each offence. 
 
 Sec. 13. The Board of Police of the City of Plainfield, with the 
 approval of the Mayor, is hereby authorized to prescribe and promul- 
 gate from time to time reasonable regulations, not inconsistent here- 
 with, with respect both to licensed and unlicensed vehicles, to regu- 
 late street traffic generally, and particularly to regulate the standing 
 and movement of vehicles at or near the several railroad stations 
 and other places of public assemblage or crowded vehicular traffic. 
 It shall be the duty of all owners and drivers of vehicles to comply 
 with such regulations, and any person who or corporation which 
 shall fail to comply with any of such regulations shall be deemed 
 guilty of violating this section, and, on conviction thereof, shall be 
 subject to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence. The 
 intention of the Common Council is that this section shall be deemed 
 to be separable from the other sections of this ordinance, and not 
 essential to the validity of said other sections. 
 
 Sec. 14. That if any section of this ordinance shall for any 
 reason be held to be unconstitutional or invalid, it shall not affect 
 the other provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 15. That the Ordinance entitled “An Ordinance to provide 
 for the licensing and regulation of peddlers, hawkers, cartmen, 
 motor vehicles, hack, omnibus, stage and truck owners and drivers,” 
 approved March 14, 1882; and ordinances amendatory thereof and 
 supplemental thereto; and the Ordinance entitled “An Ordinance to 
 regulate the standing of hacks, stages, etc.,” approved December 16, 
 1874, and ordinances amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto; 
 and all other ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent here- 
 with, be and the same are hereby repealed, and all ordinances and 
 liarts of ordinances which were repealed or abrogated by any ordi- 
 nance hereby repealed shall continue to be so repealed and shall 
 be deemed abrogated. 
 
 Approved February 18, 1910; amended by ordinance, approved 
 April 12, 1910. 
 
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 An Ordinance to Establish and Regulate Public Pounds in Plainfield. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That two pound-keepers shall be appointed an- 
 nually, to hold office from the time of their appointment until the 
 first Monday of the next succeeding February, or until their succes- 
 sors are appointed. 
 
 Sec. 2. The pound-keepers so appointed, (unless provision is 
 otherwise made by the Common Council for a public pound or public 
 pounds), shall each provide a public pound within the city limits, 
 and shall keep a register of all aniinals impounded in their respective 
 pounds together with the names of the persons impounding them, 
 and an account of all moneys received or paid out by them respec- 
 tively in connection with such pound, and each of said pound-keepers 
 shall at the expiration of his term of office make a report of his 
 receipts and disbursements to the Common Council. They shall be 
 entitled to receive the like fees which pound-keepers in townships 
 in this state are entitled to receive by the state law for similar ser- 
 vices. 
 
 Sec. 3. All horses, mules, cattle, swine and goats found run- 
 ning at large within the city limits may be taken by any person to 
 one of the public pounds, whereupon it shall be the duty of the 
 pound-keeper in charge of such pound to receive and confine any 
 such animal or animals until it or they shall be lawfully sold or re- 
 deemed. 
 
 Sec. 4. If the owner of any animal or animals impounded shall 
 apply to the pound-keeper in charge for the redemption thereof and 
 shall tender him one dollar for each animal impounded, in addition 
 to the legal fees for keeping and feeding the same, then upon 
 receipt of such sum or sums by the pound-keeper, such animal or 
 animals shall be surrendered and delivered to the owner thereof. 
 
 Sec. 5. All impounded animals not redeemed by the owner or 
 owners within ten days after they are impounded, shall be sold by 
 the pound-keeper in the same manner and subject to the provisions 
 as to notices and disposition of the proceeds of sale (except that the 
 Clerk of the Common Council shall be substituted for the Clerk of 
 the Township), contained in 12th section of the chapter in relation 
 to fences, of the Revision of the Statutes of the State of New Jersey. 
 
 Sec. 6. If any person shall rescue, or attempt to rescue, any 
 animal that shall have been found running at large from the custody 
 of any person who shall be driving or taking the same to the pound, 
 such person or persons so offending shall, upon conviction thereof, 
 be punished by a fine of five dollars for each animal so rescued or 
 attempted to be rescued. 
 
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 Sec. 7. If any person shall break open, or attempt to break 
 open, any public pound within the limits of this city, or take or let 
 out any animal impounded therein, such person so offending shall, 
 upon conviction, be punished by fine not exceeding twenty dollars 
 for each offence. 
 
 Approved December 7, 1881. 
 
 An Ordinance to Establish a Board of Health. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That pursuant to the statute in such case made and 
 provided, the Board of Health of the City of Plainfield shall consist 
 of five members who shall be appointed by the Mayor and confirmed 
 by the Common Council. At the next regular meeting of the Com- 
 mon Council after this ordinance shall be of legal effect, the Mayor 
 shall nominate and, subject to the approval of the Common Council, 
 appoint three persons to be members of said Board to hold office 
 until the first Monday of February next, or until the nomination and 
 confirmation of their successors respectively, and two persons to 
 hold office until the first Monday in February in the year eighteen 
 hundred and eighty-nine, or until the nomination and confirmation 
 of their successors respectively. Upon the first Monday in February 
 of each and every year hereafter, the Mayor shall nominate, and sub- 
 ject to the approval of the Common Council, shall appoint the suc- 
 cessors of those members whose terms of office regularly expire at 
 that time, to hold office until the first Monday of February of the 
 second year succeeding such appointment, and until their successors 
 are appointed respectively. Vacancies shall be filled in the same 
 manner as above provided, but shall be for the unexpired term only. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Board of Health so constituted and appointed 
 shall have all the powers conferred by the general laws in the 
 premises, and in addition thereto, the powers conferred by the City 
 Charter and Ordinances upon the Board of Health of the City of 
 Plainfield. 
 
 Sec. 3. That all ordinances inconsistent herewith are to the 
 extent of such inconsistency hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved November 8, 1887. 
 
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 An Ordinance Relating to the Street Commissioner of the City of 
 
 Plainfield 
 
 (As amended.) 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. The Street Commissioner shall before entering 
 upon the duties of his office, execute a bond in the sum of one thou- 
 sand dollars to the inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, conditioned 
 for the true and faithful performance of all the duties of his office, 
 with at least two sureties, who shall be freeholders, to be approved 
 by the Common Council, and when approved said bond shall be 
 filed with the City Clerk. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Street Commissioner shall be the Overseer of the 
 roads, streets and public grounds in the City of Plainfield, under the 
 direction and supervision of the Committee on Streets and Public 
 Health, and it shall be his duty to keep the roadways thereof in 
 repair, and to direct and superintend such work, and it shall also 
 be his duty to detect and discover every nuisance which may exist 
 in the streets of said city and forthwith to remove the same, and 
 to prevent said streets from being improperly obstructed and en- 
 cumbered and to prevent the maintenance or continuance of any 
 nuisance or anything of an offensive or unwholesome nature within 
 said streets or public grounds. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Street Commissioner is hereby authorized to or- 
 der to be removed any article or thing whatsoever which may en- 
 cumber or obstruct any of the sidewalks, gutters or streets in viola- 
 tion of this or any other ordinance of this city, and in case the same 
 shall not be removed within twelve hours after notice to that effect 
 has been given to the offender then it shall be lawful for the Street 
 Commissioner to cause the same to be removed to sonie suitable 
 place. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Committee on Streets and Public Health of the 
 Common Council shall have power to direct the Street Commis- 
 sioner to do any necessary work or repairs on the streets, sidewalks 
 or public grounds without the consent or direction of the Common 
 Council, providing the expense of such work and repairs do not ex- 
 ceed the unexpended sums appropriated by resolution of the Com- 
 mon Council. 
 
 Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the said Street Commissioner 
 under the direction and supervision of the Committee on Streets 
 and Public Health, to attend to the execution of all the ordinances 
 and resolutions of the Common Council for the regulating, grading, 
 paving, or otherwise improving the roadways, sidewalks or public 
 
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 grounds of this city, and he shall when required by the Common 
 Council, inquire into and report upon all applications before the 
 Common Council in relation to any kind of work to be done in or 
 upon the public streets. 
 
 Sec. 6. That it shall be the duty of the Street Commissioner 
 to keep a time book in which shall be recorded the names of persons 
 employed, the character of services rendered, the days or parts 
 thereof so employed and the rate per day allowed, and he shall 
 present to the Common Council on or before the first Monday in 
 each month, a detailed account of all indebtedness incurred by him 
 in the discharge of his duties for the preceding month including a 
 summary of the time book for the same period. The Street Com- 
 missioner shall not present for payment any bill for labor em- 
 ployed by him except in cases in which prior to the presentation of 
 such bill, said Street Commissioner shall have actually paid for 
 such labor the amount charged in said bill therefor, and no such 
 bill of the Street Commissioner shall be audited unless it shall be 
 made to appear by affidavit accompanlying such bill that with this 
 requirement the Street Commissioner has fully complied. 
 
 Sec. 7. All persons who shall obstruct, molest, disturb or in 
 any wise hinder the said Street Commissioner or persons employed 
 by him, in the discharge of any duties mentioned in this ordinance, 
 shall be liable upon conviction thereof to a fine of ten dollars. 
 
 Sec. 8. All persons neglecting or refusing to comply with the 
 orders and directions of the Street Commissioner hereinbefore au- 
 thorized and required under this ordinance shall be liable upon con- 
 viction thereof to a fine of five dollars for each and every such 
 offence. 
 
 Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the Street Commissioner to re- 
 port to the Counsel to the Corporation every infraction of this ordi- 
 nance or any ordinance relating to the streets, sidewalks or public 
 grounds in said city which shall come to his knowledge. 
 
 Sec. 10. The ordinance entitled “An ordinance defining the 
 duties of the Street Commissioner,” approved June 8, 1869, and 
 amended March 31, 1874, is hereby repealed. 
 
 Original ordinance approved February 2 8, 1882. 
 
 Amended by ordinance, approved December 31, 1887. 
 
 (Amendment of October 10, 1899.) 
 
 Section 1. That no person shall be eligible to the office of 
 Street Commissioner of the City of Plainfield who is not a duly quali- 
 fied Civil Engineer, and the incumbent of the office of Street Com- 
 missioner shall be ex-officio City Surveyor of said city, and shall 
 perform the duties of said last named office without extra compen- 
 
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 sation, except where by statute special compensation may be au- 
 thorized. This ordinance shall apply to the present incumbent of 
 the office of Street Commissioner, who from the date on which this 
 ordinance shall take effect, shall be ex-officio City Surveyor as 
 aforesaid. 
 
 Approved October 10, 1899. 
 
 An Ordinance Concerning the Storage of Petroleum or Kerosene Oil 
 Within the City of Plainfield. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That no person or persons shall store, or keep, or 
 have on hand, or permit to be stored, kept or had on hand at one 
 time, within the City of Plainfield, petroleum or kerosene oil in 
 quantity exceeding two hundred and twenty-five barrels. 
 
 Sec. 2. That no person or persons shall store, or keep, or have 
 on hand, or permit to be stored, or kept, or had on hand, at one 
 time within the City of Plainfield, petroleum or kerosene oil in 
 quantity exceeding ten barrels, unless the same shall be contained 
 within a building of one story only above the ground, the outside 
 walls and roof of which building are of brick, stone, iron, slate or 
 other incombustible substance, and unless further there shall be 
 constructed, on the premises adjacent to said building, a substantial 
 wall of masonry, iron or other incombustible substance, which wall 
 shall be of such dimensions, and shall be so placed as to make it 
 impossible, in case the maximum quantity of petroleum or kero- 
 sene oil named in section 1 of this ordinance should escape from 
 such building, for any of such petroleum or kerosene oil to flow be- 
 yond the said wall. 
 
 Sec. 3. That any person or persons, convicted under section 
 1 or 2 of this ordinance, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 
 one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, 
 or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Sec. 4. That no petroleum or kerosene oil, whether in bar- 
 rels, casks, tanks, or other vessels, shall be stored or kept upon any 
 sidewalk or. roadway of said city, nor shall barrels, casks, tanks, or 
 other vessels that have been used to contain petroleum or kerosene 
 oil be stored or kept upon any sidewalk or roadway of said city; 
 and any persons who shall violate any of the provisions of this 
 section, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding 
 fifty dollars for each and every offence. 
 
 Sec. 5. That upon conviction of any person or persons 
 under any section of this ordinance, it shall be lawful for the chief 
 
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 engineer of the Plainfield Fire Department to serve a notice, written 
 or printed, or partly printed and partly written, upon the person 
 or persons so convicted, requiring all petroleum or kerosene oil, 
 and all barrels, casks, tanks, or other vessels that have been used 
 to contain the same to be removed from the premises, described 
 in the complaint on which said conviction was obtained, within five 
 days from date of service of such notice, and for every failure to 
 comply with such notice, within said five days from date of service, 
 the person or persons so failing to comply with such notice, shall 
 be deemed guilty of an offence under this section, and upon con- 
 viction be punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, 
 or imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, or by both such fine 
 and imprisonment. 
 
 Approved December 31, 1888. 
 
 Amended by ordinance approved March 5, 1889. 
 
 An Ordinance to Regulate the Handling of Illuminating Fluids. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That it shall not be lawful for any person or per- 
 sons keeping for sale kerosene oil or any other kind of illuminating 
 fluid, to draw or permit the same to be drawn from any barrel, cask, 
 can, or other vessel, by artificial light, unless said light be at least 
 fifteen feet distant from the article so drawn. 
 
 Sec. 2. That for each offence against the provisions of this 
 ordinance every person or business firm so offending shall, upon 
 conviction thereof, forfeit and pay the penalty of ten dollars. 
 Approved June 10, 1874. 
 
 An Ordinance to Regulate and License Pawnbrokers 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That no person, corporation, member of co-part- 
 nership, or firm, shall hereafter carry on the business of pawn- 
 broker in the City of Plainfield without first having obtained from 
 the Mayor thereof a license authorizing such person, corporation, 
 member of co-partnership, or firm to carry on the same, which li- 
 cense shall designate the house in which such business is to be 
 conducted. 
 
 Sec. 2. That any person, corporation, member of co-partner- 
 ship, or firm receiving such license shall pay to the City therefor the 
 
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 sum of fifty dollars, and every such license shall expire one year 
 from the date of its issuance, and may be renewed upon payment of 
 the license fee and compliance with the other requirements of the 
 laws of the State and the ordinances of the City of Plainfield in the 
 premises. 
 
 Sec. 3. That before said license shall be issued, the party 
 applying for the license shall execute a bond to the inhabitants of 
 the City of Plainfield in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, with 
 condition prescribed in the act entitled, “An act to regulate and 
 license pawnbrokers,” approved March 29, 1887. 
 
 Sec. 4. That any person or persons, or corporation, who shall 
 violate the provisions of the act referred to in Section 3 of this 
 ordinance, shall be liable to the penalties in said act provided, 
 namely, for violation of the provisions of the first section of said act, 
 the penalty of one hundred dollars, for each and every day of the 
 continuance of said violation, and for the violation of either or any 
 of the other sections, and provisions of said act, a fine of fifty dol- 
 lars. 
 
 Approved December 3, 1890. 
 
 An Ordinance to Establish, Regulate and Control a Fire Department 
 in the City of Plainfield. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the Fire Department of the City of Plainfield 
 shall consist of one Chief Engineer, a First and Second Assistant 
 Engineers, and as many permanent men as the Common Council 
 may from time to time designate to act as Drivers, Tillermen and 
 Hosemen; also one Engineer of Steamer, and six Call Men for each 
 hose or hook and ladder company that may be organized under this 
 ordinance to act as hosemen and laddermen and to perform such 
 other duties as shall be required of them at a fire by their superior 
 officers. 
 
 The following companies shall be organized immediately upon 
 this ordinance taking effect as law: 
 
 Hose Company, No. 1. 
 
 Hose Company, No. 2. 
 
 Hose Company, No. 3. 
 
 Hook and Ladder Compan 3 % No. 1. 
 
 Engine Company, No. 1. 
 
 and other similar companies may thereafter be organized as the 
 Common Council may from time to time deem necessary, and order, 
 either by resolution or by ordinance. 
 
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 Sec. 2. All members now employed in the Fire Department at 
 stated salaries shall be retained and form a part of and be included 
 in the employees enumerated above and continue in service as such, 
 • and shall be subject to all rules and regulations adopted by the 
 Board of Engineers and to the provisions of this ordinance to the 
 same extent as new appointees. 
 
 Sec. 3. The Chief Engineer shall be the Fire Marshal and 
 Fire Inspector of the City of Plainfield, and shall perform such duties 
 as shall devolve upon him as such by the laws of the State, and the 
 ordinance of the City of Plainfield. He shall keep an accurate record 
 of the names of the officers and members of the Department and all 
 appointments and transfers, resignations and removals of firemen 
 as the same shall take place from time to time, and such other par- 
 ticulars as may be necessary and proper. He shall have sole and 
 entire command of fires and alarms of fire over all members of the 
 Department, apparatus and appurtenances belonging to the same, 
 and all other persons aiding and assisting the Department at fires. 
 In addition to performing his duties as Building Inspector he shall 
 
 • devote his whole time to the service of the Department, and shall 
 report the condition of the Department to the Committee on Fire and 
 Buildings as often as they shall request. He shall order the differ- 
 ent fire companies out to work, wash, drill or for inspection, at such 
 time and place as he may designate, and whenever he may deem it 
 necessary for the efficiency of the Department. In the absence or 
 disability of the Chief Engineer, the First Assistant, and in the 
 absence of both the Chief and First Assistant, the Second Assistant 
 
 .shall assume command and perform the duties of the Chief. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Chief and Assistant Engineer shall constitute and 
 be called the “Board of Engineers.” They shall make such rules 
 and regulations for conducting the Department not inconsistent with 
 the laws of the State or ordinances of the city, as they may deem 
 advisable, subject to approval by the Common Council. 
 
 Sec. 5. The Chief Engineer and the Assistant Engineers shall 
 be nominated by the Mayor and confirmed by the Council in the 
 same manner as other city officers, and they and drivers, ladder- 
 men and hosemen, after confirmation, shall hold their offices and 
 
 • continue in service as such during good behavior, efficiency and resi- 
 dence in the city, and shall not be removed from office or employ- 
 ment for political reasons or any other cause than incapacity, mis- 
 
 • conduct, non-residence, or disobedience of just rules and regulations 
 which are or may be established for the government of the Depart- 
 ment. 
 
 Sec. 6. The Chief Engineer or Acting Chief shall be respon- 
 
 • sible for the property of the Department. He shall see that the 
 .steam and chemical engines, hose wagons, trucks, hose and horses. 
 
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 and all other property belonging to the Department are kept con- 
 stantly in order for immediate and efficient service, and shall report, 
 immediately any repairs that may be necessary to the property in. 
 his charge to the Committee on Fire and Buildings. 
 
 Sec. 7. Persons to be eligible to membership in the Depart- 
 ment must be citizens of the United States, of good moral character,, 
 and able to read and write the English language. They shall be in 
 good health, sound in body and mind, and capable of performing 
 the duties required of th^m. (In case of permanent employees, they 
 must be certified to by the City Physician that they are physically 
 capable of performing the duties required of them). They must be' 
 nominated by the Mayor, recommended by the Board of Engineers- 
 and confirmed by the Common Council, and before entering upon 
 their duties as members of the Department they shall sign an agree- 
 ment, to be deposited with the Chief Engineer, that they shall abide- 
 by and conform to the ordinance and such rules governing the same 
 which may be approved by the Common Council. All applications- 
 for membership shall be made in the handwriting of the applicant, 
 who shall present the same in person to the Mayor, the Committee 
 on Fire and Buildings or the Board of Engineers. 
 
 Bee. 8. The pay of the force is hereby fixed as follows, the- 
 said rates to take effect from the first day of January, 1911: 
 
 Chief Engineer $1,350 per annum; 
 
 First Assistant Engineer 1,200 per annum- 
 
 Captains 1,140 per annum - 
 
 Engineer of Steamer 82.50 per annum 
 
 Drivers, Tillermen and Hosemen shall be divided into five- 
 classes according to their respective terms of service as follows: 
 
 Class A — Fifth year of service and over. 
 
 Class B — Fourth year of service. 
 
 Class C — Third year of service. 
 
 Class D — Second year of service. 
 
 Class E — First year of service. 
 
 Provided, That the Common Council upon recommendation of 
 the Mayor may advance any regular Firemen, Drivers, Tillermen or ■ 
 Hosemen from a lower to a higher class for especially good work 
 or meritorious service, whether he shall have served his full time, 
 specified above or not. 
 
 That from the first day of January, 1911, the salaries of the 
 Drivers, Tillermen and Hosemen or other regular appointed Firemen 
 shall be as follows, according to their class: 
 
 Class A $1,000 per annum 
 
 Class B $960 per annum 
 
 Class C....C $924 per annum^- 
 
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 Class D $792 per annum 
 
 Class E $720 per annum' 
 
 The members of the Fire Department known and designated 
 as “Call Men” shall perform at least ninety per cent, of duty at all 
 fires or alarms of fires in each year; and such members shall re- 
 ceive as compensation, the sum of fifty-five dollars per annum, pay- 
 able in two semi-annual payments of twenty-seven dollars and fifty 
 cents for each of the six months ending June 30th and December 
 31st in each year, except that when a Call Man shall act as Captain 
 of Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, he shall receive one hundred 
 dollars per annum, payable semi-annually, and when any Call Man 
 shall act as Engineer of Steamer, he shall receive eighty-two dollars 
 and fifty cents per annum, payable semi-annually, but no salary 
 shall be paid to a Call Man until he shall have signed a stipulation 
 that he will render service as contemplated in this section. ^ 
 
 The salaries of Drivers and Tillermen shall be as follows ac- 
 cording to class: 
 
 First Class, Sixty Dollars per month. 
 
 Second Class, Fifty-five Dollars per month. 
 
 Third Class, Fifty Dollars per month. 
 
 Fourth Class, Forty Dollars per month. 
 
 (Sec. 9 repealed by ordinance approved March 2 4, 1911). 
 
 Sec. 10. Captains of Companies shall be appointed from mem- 
 bers thereof by the Chief Engineer, subject to the approval of the 
 Committee on Fire and Buildings and confirmed by the Common 
 Council; they shall have command and control of their companies 
 and all members shall obey their orders implicitly. They shall see 
 that the apparatus in their care, and the building in which the same 
 is deposited, and all articles in or belonging to the same are kept 
 clean and in order for immediate use. They shall preserve order 
 and discipline at all times in their respective companies, and en- 
 force a strict compliance of the rules and regulations of the De- 
 partment and the orders of the Chief Engineer. 
 
 Sec, 11. The Call Men of the several companies shall, upon 
 an alarm of fire from the section of the City to which they are 
 assigned to duty, proceed promptly to the place of the fire, and per- 
 form any duty that may be required of them. They shall remain 
 on duty until relieved by order, which shall ''be given only by the 
 officer in command. They shall, when on duty at fires, wear the 
 regulation fire hat or badge. 
 
 Sec. 12. Upon going to or returning from an alarm of fire, 
 in no case shall persons not members of the Department be allowed 
 to ride on any apparatus of the Department. 
 
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 Sec. 13. All Call Men will be regarded as part of the work- 
 ing force, and may b€ used by the officer in command at fires as 
 he may deem proper. And they will be required to perform at least 
 ninety per cent, of duty per annum. Any driver of an engine, hose 
 wagon, hook and ladder truck or supply wagon, driving over a line 
 of hose, unless it cannot be avoided, shall be subject to dismissal. 
 If any permanent member refuses or neglects to pay any just debt 
 contracted for the necessaries of life during his connection with the 
 Department, or assigns his pay, it shall be deemed sufficient cause 
 for his suspension or dismissal. Any officer or member making a 
 false report of a member of the Department, either concerning per- 
 sonal character or conduct, to the discredit or detriment of any 
 member, or any officer making a false record in the journal, shall 
 be liable to dismissal. No permanent officer or permanent member 
 of the Department shall attend a caucus or political convention as a 
 delegate, distribute tickets at any election or take any part what- 
 ever in political matters other than to exercise the right of suf- 
 frage. All members of the Department must address officers by 
 their respective titles. Any officer or member having business with 
 the Committee on Fire and Buildings shall transact the same 
 through the Chief Engineer. No subscriptions, paper or books shall 
 be circulated under the auspices of any company for the purpose 
 of collecting money from citizens without the consent of the Com- 
 mittee on Fire and Buildings. Should any member become disabled 
 or sick while in the faithful performance of duty, he shall be en- 
 titled to such pay as the Committee on Fire and Buildings shall 
 deem proper. 
 
 Sec. 14. Any member of the Fire Department who shall upon 
 trial be found guilty of violating any of the ordinances or rules 
 and regulations governing the Fire Department, shall in the dis- 
 cretion of the Common Council be subject to censure, reprimand, 
 forfeiture of pay, or discharge from the service. 
 
 Sec. 15. Firemen at call will be required to attend every fire 
 or alarm of fire in their district. Any officer or member absent, 
 except in case of sickness or death in the family, or out of the city 
 with permission, will be fined the sum of one dollar ($1.00). Call 
 Men who shall have performed seventy-five per cent, of fire duty 
 in the company of which he is a member shall have all fire fines 
 refunded him that may have been charged against him during the 
 year. No member of the force shall loan the Department Badge 
 under the penalty of dismissal, and any member losing his badge 
 shall purchase one at his own expense. 
 
 Sec. 16. All complaints by the Chief Engineer or Assistant 
 Engineers against any fireman or firemen for misconduct or neglect 
 
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 in the performance of his or their duties, shall be forthwith reported 
 to the Committee on Fire and Buildings. 
 
 Sec. 17. All complaints made hy citizens or persons of good 
 repute to the Mayor or any member of the Common Council against 
 any fireman or firemen for misconduct or neglect in the perform- 
 ance of his or their duties, shall he forthwith reported to the 
 Committee on Fire and Buildings. 
 
 Sec. 18. No intoxicating beverage of any description whatso- 
 ever shall be allowed on the premises of the Fire Department. 
 Any member of the Fire Department intoxicated while on duty 
 shall be deprived of his badge and suspended for six months or 
 dismissed, at the option of the Common Council. 
 
 Sec. 19. No person or persons except officers and members 
 of the Department shall at any time enter the houses of the De- 
 partment, except the Mayor of the City, members of the Common 
 Council, and visitors accompanied by members, or any police officer 
 in the proper discharge of his duty, and no boys shall be permitted 
 in any house of the Department, or to have any access whatever 
 to the apparatus in going to or returning from fires or alarms. The 
 foremen are hereby enjoined to enforce the provisions of this sec- 
 tion. 
 
 Sec. 20. No person shall enter any engine, hook and ladder 
 or hose house in the city with intent to injure the same or the 
 fire engine or other apparatus contained therein, or injure or mu- 
 tilate at any time or place any fire engine or other apparatus, or 
 any public cisterns, fire wells, hydrants, or fire plugs, or draw water 
 therefrom for any purpose, except when properly engaged in ex- 
 amining their condition, or for the use of the fire engines belonging 
 to or controlled by the city, and any person violating any of the 
 provisions of this section, shall on conviction, be punished by a 
 fine of not less than Five or more than Twenty Dollars for each of- 
 fence, and shall furthermore be liable for all damages or injury 
 done. 
 
 Sec. 21. No person shall during a fire drive a wagon, cart or 
 other vehicle over any hose or other fire apparatus, under penalty 
 of Ten Dollars for each offence. 
 
 Sec. 22. No person shall wilfully hinder or molest or attempt 
 to do any violence to any officer or member of the Fire Department 
 or other city officer while in the performance of his duty at a fire, 
 or in going to or returning from a fire or alarm of fire, in charge 
 of any fire engine or other apparatus, under penalty of Ten Dol- 
 lars for each offence. 
 
 Sec. 23. No person or persons shall raise, create or continue 
 a false alarm of fire under penalty of Ten Dollars for each offence. 
 
 Sec. 2 4. No person or persons shall for any purpose take or 
 
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 cause to be taken beyond the corporate limits of the city any of the 
 apparatus of the Fire Department, except by consent of the Mayor 
 or Common Council, or in accordance with the rules and regula- 
 tions of the Board of Engineers. 
 
 Sec. 25. It shall be the duty of the Common Council to pro- 
 vide for fuel, lights and other necessary expenses for the mainten- 
 ance of the Fire Department and to keep the houses and fire ap- 
 paratus in proper condition and repair. No supplies shall be or- 
 dered or expenses incurred under this section without the written 
 ard-er of the Chief Engineer or one of the Assistant Engineers, in 
 the absence or inability of the Chief Engineer, and no bill shall be 
 presented to the Common Council until the same shall be certified 
 by one of the Engineers to be correct. 
 
 Sec. 26. Any member of the Fire Department who shall vio- 
 late any of the foregoing sections of this ordinance, to which no 
 penalty is attached, or shall be guilty of any riotous or disorderly 
 ■conduct when on duty, shall be liable to be removed as a fireman. 
 
 Sec. 2 7. That upon the organization of the several companies 
 hereinafter mentioned, and until the further order of the Com- 
 mon Council, the said companies shall, severally, take possession 
 of the Fire Department apparatus and other property of the city 
 used in connection therewith, as follows: 
 
 Hose Company No. 1 shall forthwith take possession of that 
 now in possession of G-azelle Engine Company No. 1. 
 
 Hose Company No. 2 shall forthwith take possession of that 
 now in possession of Plainfield Engine Company No. 2. 
 
 Hose Company No. 3 shall forthwith take possession of that 
 now in possession of Alert Hose Company. / 
 
 Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 shall forthwith take pos- 
 session of that now in possession of Zephyr Hook and Ladder Com- 
 pany and 
 
 Engine Company No. 1 shall forthwith take possession of the 
 Chemical Engine and appurtenances, but the Common Council 
 may from time to time, by resolution, make such changes or other 
 regulations respecting the possession and management of the appar- 
 atus and other property of the city used for the Fire Department 
 purposes as said Common Council may deem expedient. 
 
 Sec. 28. That the ordinance entitled “An ordinance to estab- 
 lish, regulate and control a fire department in the City of Plain- 
 field,” approved April 3rd, 1888, and amended by ordinance ap- 
 proved June 5th, 1888, and all other ordinances and parts of ordin- 
 ances inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved May 6, 189 9. Amended by ordinances approved Oct. 
 5, 1903, Dec. 28, 1906, April 6, 1908, March 24, 1911, May 5, 1911. 
 
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 An Ordinance to Abolish the OflSce of Veterinary Surgeon of the 
 Fire Department of the City of Plainfield. 
 
 Whereas, It is the sense of the Common Council that the pub- 
 lic interests require that the office of Veterinary Surgeon of the Fire 
 Department of the City of Plainfield should be abolished; therefore 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common 
 'Council, do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the ofiice of Veterinary Surgeon of the Fire 
 Department of the City of Plainfield be and the same is hereby 
 abolished. 
 
 Sec. 2. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances incon- 
 rsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved March 2 4, 1911. 
 
 An Ordinance to License Inns and Taverns and to Regulate and 
 Prohibit the Sale of Spirituous and Fermented Liquors. 
 
 (As Amended). 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Coun- 
 cil, do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. All applications for license to keep an inn and 
 •tavern within said city shall be in writing, addressed to the Com- 
 mon Council, shall be signed by the person or persons desiring such 
 license, shall state the purpose for which a license is asked, and the 
 place wherein such business is proposed to be carried on, and a 
 •certificate shall be annexed thereto, signed by at least ten reputable 
 'Citizens and freeholders of said city (three of whom shall reside 
 within one thousand feet of the place proposed for license, and 
 -all of whom shall be residents of the same ward in which the busi- 
 ness is to be carried on), who have not within one year theretofore 
 signed any similar certificate, stating that the applicant is known 
 fo be of good repute for honesty and temperance, and provided 
 with at least two spare rooms with beds, bedding and furniture 
 more than are necessary for the use of applicant’s family. 
 
 Sec. 2. Before any person or persons shall receive a license 
 to keep an inn or tavern within said city, such person or persons 
 «hall become bound by recognizance in writing to the “Inhabitants 
 of the City of Plainfield’’ in the sum of one hundred dollars as prin- 
 cipal, with two sufficient sureties, being freeholders within said city, 
 in the sum of fifty dollars each, to be taken before the City Judge 
 
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 in or out of court, with condition following, to wit: The condition- 
 
 of this recognizance is such that whereas, the above bounden A. B. 
 is licensed by the Common Council of said City of Plainfield to 
 keep an inn and tavern within said city until the first day of March 
 next ensuing the date hereof, if therefore the said A. B. during 
 the continuance of the said license shall not keep a disorderly inn 
 and tavern, nor game himself, nor suffer any person to game in 
 said inn and tavern for money or the value of money, nor violate 
 the laws made concerning inns and taverns, but shall during the said 
 term in all things respecting him as an inn-holder and tavern-keep- 
 er, use and maintain good order and rule, and find and provide good, 
 wholesome and sufficient lodging, diet and entertainment for man, 
 and stabling and provender for horse, and observe the directions of 
 the law relating to inns and taverns, then this recognizance to be 
 void, or else to remain in full force and virtue. 
 
 Sec. 3. Every inn and tavern-keeper licensed under the pro- 
 visions of the foregoing sections, shall be liable to the same condi- 
 tions, requirements and restrictions as are imposed upon inn and 
 tavern-keepers under the general law of the state; provided, that na 
 such license shall be taken or construed as authorizing the sale, by 
 such inn and tavern-keeper, of any spirituous or fermented liquors. 
 
 Sec. 4. That license may be granted to any persop duly li- 
 censed to keep an inn and tavern in said city to sell spirituous 
 and fermented liquors in his inn and tavern; all applications for 
 such license shall be in writing addressed to the Common Council, 
 signed by the applicant, setting forth the purpose for which such 
 license is asked, and the inn and tavern wherein such business is 
 purposed to be carried on, and such application shall have a certi- 
 ficate annexed thereto, signed by at least ten reputable citizens 
 and freeholders of said city (three of whom reside within one- 
 thousand feet of the said inn and tavern), and all of whom shall 
 be residents of the same ward in which the business is to be car- 
 ried on, stating that the applicant is known to them to be of good 
 repute and honesty and temperance, and thereupon the said Com- 
 mon Council may, in their discretion, grant such license; provided, 
 that the said certificate may be signed by the same citizens and free-- 
 holders as have already signed the certificate required to be annexed 
 to his application for license to keep an inn and tavern; and pro-- 
 vided further, that before any license is granted to sell spirituous 
 and fermented liquors as provided for by the ordinance, the Clerk 
 of the Common Council shall have caused or shall cause to be in- 
 serted in each official newspaper in the city, within ten days after 
 such application was or is made, a notice in the following form,, 
 with the blank spaces properly filled in, to wit: 
 
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 Plainfield, N. J 1 . . . 
 
 Notice is hereby given, that has applied to the Com- 
 
 mon Council of the City of Plainfield, for a license to sell spirituous 
 
 and fermented liquors at No street, which application is 
 
 signed by , citizens and freeholders. All persons know- 
 
 ing of any reasons why such license should not be granted, are re- 
 quested to make known the same in writing, to the City Clerk, on 
 
 or before the .day of , 1. . ., The 
 
 expense of publishing such notice shall be added to the fee required 
 to be paid and shall be paid by the applicant for such license, be- 
 fore receiving such license; and all communications which may be 
 received by the City Clerk in response to any such request, shall 
 be by him immediately delivered to the Committee on Licenses 
 of the Common Council, if there be such committee, or if not, to 
 the Common Council. 
 
 Sec. 5. That saloon-keepers and persons other than inn and 
 tavern-keepers may, in the discretion of the Common Council, be 
 licensed under this ordinance to sell spirituous and fermented liquors 
 within said city. All applications for such license shall be in writ- 
 ing, and made as required by the next preceding section in the case 
 of inn and tavern-keepers, and the owner of the place proposed for 
 license (if*the applicant be not the owner) must be one of the sign- 
 ers to the certificate required to be annexed to the application. Such 
 certificate shall be signed only by reputable citizens and freehold- 
 ers of said city, who have not within one year theretofore signed 
 any similar certificate. In every certificate annexed to applications 
 for license to sell spirituous and fermented liquors within said city, 
 whether by inn and tavern-keepers, saloon-keepers or other persons, 
 every freeholder recommending the granting of such license shall 
 clearly designate the street in which he lives, and what, part there- 
 of he lives, and also the location and nature of, and his interest in, 
 the real property by virtue of the ownership of which he shall sign 
 such certificate. And further every such freeholder shall make af- 
 fidavit to be annexed to said certificate, and application for license, 
 in which affidavit he shall set forth the street in which he lives, 
 and in what part thereof he lives, and also the location and nature 
 of, and his interest in the real property, by virtue of the ownership 
 of which he shall have signed such certificate, and, how he ac- 
 quired said real property, and if it was by deed he shall state the 
 date of the deed and the book and page of the record thereof in 
 the County Clerk’s office, and if it was by devise, he shall state thb 
 date of the will and the place and book and page of the public 
 record of such will, and if it was by descent, he shall state the 
 name, and time and place of the death of the last ancestor from 
 
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 whom the land descended to said freeholder. And no license what- 
 ever shall be granted unless the application therefor and the cer- 
 tificate and affidavits thereto annexed shall he in compliance with 
 all the requirements under this ordinance. No person shall be 
 deemed competent to sign the certificate first referred to in this 
 section who shall within one year theretofore, have signed a cer- 
 tificate annexed to any application for license to keep an inn and 
 tavern, or to sell spirituous and fermented liquors therein, and no 
 woman, and no man who from illiteracy is unable to read and write 
 the English language, shall be deemed competent to sign any of 
 the certificates required by this ordinance, or any part thereof, ex- 
 cept in the case of the owner of the place proposed for license when 
 under this ordinance such owner’s signature is made necessary, nor 
 shall any woman be deemed competent to receive a license under 
 this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 6. That before receiving any license provided in the last 
 preceding section, the person licensed shall become boun^ by recog- 
 nizance in writing to the inhabitants of the City of Plainfield in the 
 sum of two hundred dollars as principal, with two sufficient sure- 
 ties in the sum of one hundred dollars each, conditioned as fol- 
 lows, to wit: The condition of this recognizance is such that where- 
 
 as the above bounden A. B. is licensed to sell spirituoifs and fer- 
 mented liquors at on street, in the City 
 
 of Plainfield, until the first day of March next ensuing the date 
 hereof, if therefore the said A. B. during the continuance of said 
 license shall not keep a disorderly house, nor game himself, nor suf- 
 fer any person to game in said house for money or the value of 
 money, nor violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, or the 
 ordinances of said city made or to be made concerning the business 
 whereunto the said A. B. is licensed as aforesaid, but shall in all 
 things during the continuance of said license keep and maintain 
 good order and rule in his said place of business, and in all things 
 comply with and observe the provisions of the ordinances of said 
 city now made and to be made concerning such business, then this 
 recognizance to be void, else to be and remain in full force and 
 virtue. 
 
 Sec. 7. Licenses to sell spirituous, vinous, malt or brewed 
 liquors in any quantity from one quart to five gallons may be 
 granted under this ordinance, upon the applicant presenting to the 
 Common Council written application therefor, signed by such ap- 
 plicant and setting forth the purpose for which such license is? 
 asked, and the place in which the applicant proposes to conduct his 
 business, accompanied by a certificate recommending the applicant 
 to be a fit and suitable person to be licensed, signed by at least 
 
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 fiv€ freeholders in and residents of the City of Plainfield, three of 
 whom reside in the same ward in which said proposed place of 
 business is situated and within one thousand feet of said proposed 
 place of business of said applicant; but no such license shall be 
 taken or construed to authorize any such licensed person to suffer 
 or permit any of said liquors, sold under and in pursuance of such 
 license, to be drunk on or about the premises where sold; and no 
 person or corporation licensed under any other section of this or- 
 dinance but not licensed under this section shall sell, or offer or 
 expose for sale, any of the liquors aforesaid in any quantity to per- 
 sons or families in dwellings, or any of the liquors aforesaid in 
 quantities from one quart to five gallons to any persons or corpora- 
 tions, under a penalty of a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each 
 offense. That every licensed person engaged in furnishing or supply- 
 ing liquors to persons or families in dwellings, shall carry with him 
 while so engaged the license for inspection, under the penalty of five 
 dollars for every neglect so to do; and when the licensee shall find 
 it necessary in the prosecution of his business to use more than one 
 vehicle for the delivery of spirituous, vinous, malt and brewed liquors, 
 or any of them theretofore ordered from such license at his place of 
 business, the City Clerk shall issue to such licensee a certificate for 
 every additional vehicle, which certificate shall be carried by the 
 driver of such vehicle for inspection, under the penalty of five dol- 
 lars for every neglect so to do. The City Clerk shall demand such 
 evidence as he may deem necessary before issuing any certificate. 
 That the loan of any certificate aforesaid to any person not author- 
 ized to use the same shall subject the offender to the penalty 
 of a revocation of the license under which the certificate is issued. 
 
 Sec. 8. If any person licensed under this ordinance shall be 
 convicted of being drunk in his own licensed place of business, such 
 person may be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty dollars; 
 and -such conviction shall be sufficient cause for the revocation of 
 such license by the Common Council. 
 
 Sec. 9. No person or persons licensed under this ordinance 
 shall permit any drunkenness, riot or other disorderly conduct in 
 his, her or their licensed place of business, or on his, her or their 
 premises; and any person offending against the provisions of this 
 section shall, upon conviction thereof before the City Judge be 
 fined, for the first offence, in any sum not exceeding twenty dol- 
 lars, and for each subsequent offence in any sum not exceeding one 
 hundred dollars. 
 
 Sec. 10. Every person licensed under this ordinance shall, 
 within one month from date of the license, put up or fix a sign 
 on the front of the place licensed, with his, her or the firm’s (if it 
 
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 be a firm) name thereon; and shall keep such sign up during the 
 whole period of the license; and shall also cause the said license 
 to be properly framed and hung up to public view in the public 
 room of the place licensed. 
 
 Sec. 11. If any person or persons not licensed according to 
 the provisions of this ordinance shall expose for sale, sell or dis- 
 pose of, or cause or permit to be exposed for sale, sold or disposed 
 of, directly or indirectly, within said city, any spirituous or fer- 
 mented liquors, or any composition of which spirituous or fermented 
 liquors shall form a part (except such as shall be compounded 
 and intended for use as medicine) such person or persons 
 shall be deemed guilty of an offence, and upon conviction thereof 
 before the City Judge shall be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty 
 dollars for each offence; provided, that said prosecution shall be be- 
 gun within six months from the date of the commission of such 
 offence; and provided further, that nothing in this ordinance shall 
 be construed to apply to druggists filling prescriptions from prac- 
 ticing physicians, or to prohibit any person from selling metheglin, 
 currant or other native wine made by the seller. 
 
 Sec. 12. No person or persons licensed under this ordinance 
 shall carry on the business or trade for which such license was 
 granted in any other place than that designated in said license, nor 
 shall such license be assigned or transferred, nor shall such licensed 
 person or persons assume to give authority or permission to any 
 other person or persons to carry on such licensed business, but 
 such license as to any and all other persons and places than those 
 named therein shall be void, and any person or persons who in dis- 
 regard of the prohibitions of this section shall carry on any such 
 business under a license so assigned or transferred, or under an au- 
 thority or permission thus given, shall be liable to the same pen- 
 alties as may be inflicted upon persons selling without license. 
 
 Sec. 13. No person or persons licensed under this ordinance 
 shall, between the hours of eleven o’clock at night and six o’clock 
 the following morning or upon the first day of the week, commonly 
 called Sunday, sell or offer, or expose for sale or furnish, or permit 
 to be sold, offered or exposed for sale or furnished to any person 
 or persons, any spirituous or fermented liquors of any kind or any 
 composition thereof, or at any time sell, offer or expose for sale, or 
 furnish or permit to be offered or exposed for sale, sold or 
 furnished any of such liquors or any compound thereof, to any 
 minor, intoxicated or weak-minded person, nor shall such licensed 
 person or persons at any time incite, encourage or permit any game 
 or device to be played, practiced or carried on within such licensed 
 place, or in any shed, out-house or other place in the occupancy of 
 
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 such licensed person (billiards or nine-pins, if named in such li- 
 cense, alone excepted), or any betting or gaming for money or 
 anything of any value whatever; and any person convicted of a 
 violation of any of the provisions of this section shall be fined in 
 any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned for 
 any term not exceeding sixty days, either or both, in the discretion 
 of the court. 
 
 Sec. 14. All prosecutions under this ordinance shall be by 
 affidavit or information filed before the City Judge, and in all cases 
 where said prosecution shall be for the offering for sale, selling or 
 exposing for sale or otherwise disposing of any spirituous or fer- 
 mented liquors, it shall be sufficient in such affidavit or information 
 to describe such liquors as spirituous or fermented liquors, as the 
 case may be, without specifying particularly the kind or descrip- 
 tion thereof, and evidence may be given upon the trial of the sale, 
 offering for sale or otherwise disposing of any particular kind of 
 liquor included in the general description so given. All such infor- 
 mation shall be brought by the Corporation Counsel in the name of 
 “The Treasurer of the City of Plainfield.” And whenever a fine 
 shall be imposed and collected for violation of any of the provis- 
 ions of this ordinance, one-half of such fine shall be paid to the 
 person making the complaint upon which the conviction for such 
 violation shall have been had, and the other half thereof shall 
 be paid to the City Treasurer for the use of the city. 
 
 Sec. 15. In all cases of the prosecution of any person licensed 
 under this ordinance for any offence against any of the provisions 
 thereof, it shall be the duty of the Judge, upon conviction of such 
 licensed person, to declare his recognizance forfeited. 
 
 Sec. 16. All licenses under this ordinance shall be granted 
 by resolution of the Common Council, be made out by the City 
 Clerk, signed by the Mayor, issued under the common seal of the 
 city, attested by the City Clerk, and shall continue in force until 
 the first day of March next after the date of such license, and no 
 longer, provided, that any person duly licensed to keep an inn and 
 tavern may be granted license to sell spirituous and fermented 
 liquors in his said inn and tavern for the six months beginning 
 May first and ending November first of the year in which said li- 
 cense is granted, and such license shall expire on the said first day 
 of November, and that all licenses shall be subjected to be revoked 
 any time by resolution of the Common Council for a violation or 
 neglect of any of the provisions of this ordinance or of any other 
 ordinance which the Common Council may pass relative to the 
 business authorized by such license, and it shall be the duty of the 
 City Clerk to furnish immediately to the person or persons whose 
 
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 license shall be so revoked a copy of such resolution, and any per- 
 son acting under such license, after notice of the revocation there- 
 of, shall be liable to all the penalties imposed by this ordinance as 
 fully as though no such license had ever been issued. Before re- 
 ceiving such a license the applicant shall be required to sign in 
 duplicate a stipulation to be written, printed or stamped, both on 
 the face of said license and on the stub to which the same is at- 
 tached as follows: “I hereby agree to be bound by and to con- 
 
 form to all the ordinances of the City of Plainfield, under which 
 this license is granted, under penalty of forfeiture of this license.” 
 
 Sec. 17. Before receiving a license issued under this ordin- 
 ance, the licensed person or persons shall pay the following fees: 
 To the Mayor and City Clerk each one dollar, and in addition the 
 following fees, viz: For each license to an inn and tavern-keeper to 
 sell spirituous or fermented liquors, the sum of one thousand dollars 
 ($1,000) when said license is to expire on the first day of March, 
 following, the sum of four hundred dollars when said license is to 
 expire on the first day of November following, provided, that persons 
 licensed to keep an inn and tavern without the privilege of selling 
 spirituous and fermented liquors, shall not be required to pay any 
 fees except those to the Mayor and City Clerk. For each license 
 to a person other than an inn and tavern-keeper to sell spirituous 
 and fermented liquors the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000). For 
 each license to sell spirituous, vinous, malt or brewed liquors in 
 any quantity from one quart to five gallons, as provided in section 
 seven (7) of said ordinance (one place only to be. included in each 
 license) the sum of Eight Hundred Dollars ($800), provided, that all 
 license fees under this ordinance, other than those to the Mayor 
 and City Clerk, shall be paid to the City Treasurer and his re- 
 ceipt shown to the Mayor before such license shall issue; and pro- 
 vided further, that no such license shall be of any validity what- 
 ever, until such license fees are in fact paid to the City Treas- 
 urer; and on failure to pay any such fees within twenty days from 
 the time the Common Council shall have granted any such ap- 
 plication for license the said action of said Common Council shall 
 no longer authorize the. issuance of a license under said japplica- 
 tion to the person failing to pay as aforesaid, unless the Common 
 Council at the first meeting following the expiration of said twenty 
 days shall so direct. 
 
 Sec. 18. The City Clerk shall keep a correct list of all li- 
 censes issued under this ordinance in a book to be provided for 
 that purpose, in which shall be entered the name of the licensed 
 person or persons, the business for which said license has been 
 given, and the names of * the freeholders and citizens certifying 
 to the application for such license; which book shall, at all rea- 
 
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 sonable times, be open to the inspection of any citizen of said city 
 desiring to examine the same. 
 
 Sec. 19. No person licensed under this ordinance shall keep 
 open or cause or permit to be kept open his bar-room or room in 
 which spirituous or fermented liquors are customarily sold or per- 
 mit persons to congregate there in between the hours of eleven 
 o’clock at night and six o’clock of the following morning, and any 
 person convicted of violating this section shall be liable to a fine 
 of one hundred dollars or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 
 sixty days or both. 
 
 Sec. 20. That no person licensed to sell spirituous or fer- 
 mented liquors shall suffer or permit in his bar-room or any other 
 room in which spirituous or fermented liquors are sold by him, or 
 in any adjoining room connected therewith, any musical perform- 
 ance of any kind, vocal or instrumental, or both, or any mechanical 
 music, or any acting, dancing, juggling, sleight of hand, boxing, 
 wrestling, or any similar performance, show or exhibition. 
 
 Sec. 21. Every person licensed to sell spirituous or ferment- 
 ed liquors shall so arrange the doors, windows and partitions of 
 his bar-room or saloon that a full and unobstructed view of the in- 
 terior thereof, including the bar, may be had from the street through 
 the doors or windows, or both, between the hours of 11 P. M. 
 each and every Saturday, and 6 A. M. the following Monday. And 
 no window, blind, screen, partition, curtain or other article shall 
 be so left or placed as to prevent between the hours named the 
 full and unobstructed view from the street of the interior of said 
 saloon or bar-room. 
 
 Sec. 22. No person licensed to sell spirituous or fermented 
 liquors shall at any time sell or dispose of spirituous or fermented 
 liquors from any bar that cannot, between the hours named in 
 Section 21, be plainly seen from the streets. 
 
 Sec. 23. Every violation of any of the provisions of the three 
 next preceding sections of this ordinance shall be punished by a 
 fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment not ex- 
 ceeding sixty days or both, at the discretion of the court. 
 
 Sec. 24. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances incon- 
 sistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed; provided, that 
 no offence committed and no liability or penalty incurred previous 
 to the time when this ordinance shall go into effect shall be dis- 
 charged or affected by anything in this ordinance contained; and all 
 proceedings and prosecution for such offences, liabilities and pen- 
 alties shall be instituted or proceeded with as the case may be in 
 all respects as if this ordinance had not been adopted. 
 
 Sec. 25. That any license heretofore granted and now in force. 
 
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 or that may hereafter be granted, under the provisions of this or- 
 dinance, may, at the discretion of the Common Council, be re- 
 newed by the Common Council for the period of one year from date 
 of the expiration thereof, upon application of the licensed person 
 or persons respectively, and it shall not be requisite in order to 
 such renewal that the application therefore shall have annexed there- 
 to any certificate of citizens or freeholders or any affidavit or affi- 
 davits; provided, that such applicant for renewal of license shall 
 not have been theretofore convicted of violating any of the or- 
 dinances of the City of Plainfield, or any of the laws of this State; 
 and provided further, that before receiving any renewal of license 
 as herein contemplated, the applicant shall enter into recognizance 
 in the same manner as if said license was applied for or granted 
 under the appropriate foregoing section of said ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 2 6. That upon petition of any person duly licensed un- 
 der this ordinance, or his legal representative, the Common Council 
 may, pursuant to Chapter CLXXIX of the public laws of New Jer- 
 sey for the year 1892, permit a transfer of the license held by such 
 applicant to another person to be named in such application, to be 
 designated in said application, upon the payment of a transfer fee 
 hereby fixed at the sum of Twenty-five Dollars in each case. 
 
 Sec. 2 7. That in order to enable the Common Council more 
 effectively to regulate the sale of spirituous and fermented liquors 
 within said city as they deem most conducive to the public good, 
 the place in which any applicant for license to sell spirituous and 
 fermented liquors, or for license to sell spirituous, .vinous, malt or 
 brewed liquors, under any of the preceding sections of this ordin- 
 ance proposes to carry on his business under such license, is hereby 
 required to be accurately set forth in the application for such li- 
 cense, and to be within the territory comprised within the follow- 
 ing boundary lines, to wit: 
 
 Beginning at a point in the city line at Green brook distant 
 one hundred and fifty (150) feet northeasterly from the center line- 
 of Watchung avenue; thence running southwesterly along said city 
 line to the center line of Grove street; thence southeasterly along 
 the center line of Grove street to the center line of West Front 
 street; thence southwesterly along the center line of West Front 
 street to a point distant one hundred and fifty (150) feet south- 
 westerly from the center line of Central avenue; thence southeaster- 
 ly in a course drawn parallel with the center line of Central avenue 
 distant one hundred and fifty (150) feet southwesterly therefrom 
 to the tracks of the main stem of the Central Railroad of New 
 Jersey as the same now lies; thence northeasterly along said tracks 
 to a point on said tracks distant one hundred and fifty (150) feet 
 
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 southwesterly from the center line of Park avenue; thence south- 
 easterly in a course drawn parallel with the center line of Park 
 avenue and distant one hundred and fifty (150) feet southwest- 
 erly therefrom to a point in said course distant one hundred and 
 fifty (150) feet southeasterly from the center line of West Fourth 
 street; thence northeasterly in a course drawn parallel with the 
 center line of West Fourth street and East Fourth street and dis- 
 tant one hundred and fifty (150) feet southeasterly therefrom to 
 a point in said course and the projection thereof distant one hun- 
 dred and fifty (150) feet northeasterly from the center line of Wat- 
 chung avenue; thence northwesterly in a straight line to the point 
 of beginning. 
 
 Provided, nevertheless, that the foregoing provisions of this 
 section shall not prevent the granting of any renewal of any license 
 lawfully in force at the time this section takes effect to the same 
 person who shall have been the lawful holder of such licence con- 
 tinuously from that time to the time of such renewal. 
 
 Supplement approved May 23, 1901. 
 
 Section 1. That license, to be known as special hotel license, 
 may be granted to any person duly licensed to keep an inn and tav- 
 ern in said city, to sell spirituous and fermented liquors to guests 
 at their meals served between the hours of 6 o’clock a. m. and 11 
 o’clock p. m., in the regular dining room of said inn and tavern, 
 in connection with and as part of such meals and in no other man- 
 ner and at no other time or place. All applications for such license 
 shall be in writing, addressed to the Common Council, signed by 
 the applicant, setting forth the purpose for which such license is 
 asked and the location of the dining room wherein said spirituous 
 and fermented liquors are proposed to be furnished to guests as 
 aforesaid, and the hours for regular meals, and such application 
 shall have annexed thereto a certificate similar to that required by 
 section 4 or section 2 5 of the ordinance to Which this is a supple- 
 ment. Said license shall expire on the first day of March following the 
 granting of such license, and the fee to be paid therefor shall be 
 the sum of One Hundred Dollars, in addition to the fee of One 
 Dollar to the Mayor and One Dollar to the City Clerk. 
 
 Sec. 2. That no person or persons licensed under section 1 
 of this ordinance, shall keep a bar-room, or bar, or expose for sale, 
 sell or dispose, or permit to be exposed for sale, sold or disposed of, 
 directly or indirectly, any spirituous or fermented liquors, or any 
 composition of which spirituous or fermented liquors shall form a 
 part, at any place other than the regular dining room of his inn and 
 tavern specified in the application for such license, or at any time 
 other than the hours for regular meals specified in said applica- 
 
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 tion, or to any person or persons other than those then and there 
 partaking of such meal or meals, or otherwise than as part of such 
 meal or meals, and any person of persons who shall violate any 
 of the provisions of this ordinance shall, on conviction, be fined 
 in a sum not exceeding One Hundred Dollars, or imprisoned for a 
 term not exceeding sixty days, or either or both at the discretion of 
 the court. 
 
 Original ordinance approved Feb. 10, 1892. Amended by or- 
 dinances approved April 7, 1894; July 12, 1898; Feb. 7, 1901; Ncv. 
 17, 1904; Sept. 5, 1905; May 3, 1909. Supplement approved May 
 23, 1901. 
 
 An Ordinance to Provide for the Erection of Barriers to Prevent 
 
 Accidents. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Coun- 
 cil, do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. It shall be the duty of all persons who may be en- 
 gaged in erecting or making any addition to any building, paving 
 any street, constructing any sewer or drain, laying pipes for gas, 
 water or other purposes, making any excavation or causing obstruc- 
 tions of any kind whatever in or upon any street or sidewalk of 
 this city, whereby accidents or injuries might be occasioned, to 
 erect a railing at such excavations or work, in such manner as to 
 prevent accidents or injuries to persons or property passing through 
 such streets, and to continue such railing until the obstruction is re- 
 moved, which must be within three months from the beginning of 
 such obstruction. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall also be the duty of all such persons to place 
 upon such railing or obstruction, at a time not later than thirty 
 minutes after sunset of each day, suitable and sufficient lights, and 
 keep them burning through each night during the continuance of 
 such obstruction. 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall be the further duty of every person using 
 any of the streets or sidewalks of the city for any of the purposes 
 mentioned in the first section of this ordinance, to cause said 
 streets and sidewalks, on completion of the work, to be left in a 
 condition satisfactory to the Street Commissioner, which condition 
 shall be as good as when such work was begun. 
 
 Sec. 4. Every violation of either of the preceding sections 
 of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty 
 dollars for each offence. 
 
 Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Counsel to the Corporation, 
 upon receiving satisfactory information of the violation of this or- 
 
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 dinance, forthwith to institute, and with due diligence, prosecute 
 proceedings for the collection of the penalties herein provided for. 
 
 Sec. 6. The ordinance entitled “An ordinance to provide for 
 the erection of barriers, etc., to prevent accidents,” approved June 
 10th, 1871, and amended July 3d, 1871, is hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved February 28, 1882. 
 
 An Oi*dinance Relating to Streets and Sidewalks and Encroach- 
 ments Thereon, 
 
 (As Amended). 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Coun- 
 cil, do enact as follows: 
 
 Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 repealed Nov. 10, 1894. 
 
 Sec. 5. No sidewalk or part of any sidewalk now or hereafter 
 laid with brick or flagging in any part of the city, shall hereafter 
 be taken up or the brick or flagging be removed therefrom for any 
 purpose, without the written permission of the Street Commissioner 
 first obtained, and every person who shall take up or remove any 
 part of any such sidewalk, without such permission, shall, on con- 
 viction thereof, be punished by fine not exceeding ten dollars for 
 each offence. 
 
 Sec. 6. No person shall erect, project or suspend any sign 
 over any sidewalk or the established line of any street, to a greater 
 distance than two feet from the street line, or permit the contin- 
 uance of any sign so erected or projected, nor shall construct any 
 window which shall extend from the wall of any building into or 
 over any street, nor shall construct any cellar door, platform, stoop, 
 steps or fence which shall extend into or encroach upon any street 
 or sidewalk, without the permission of the Common Council first 
 obtained; every person who shall violate this section, shall on con- 
 viction thereof be punished by fine not exceeding twenty dollars 
 for each offence. 
 
 Sec. 7. No person shall throw or deposit or cause to be deposited 
 into or upon any public street, avenue or sidewalk, or into or upon 
 any public ground in the city, any turf, stone, clay, sand, earth, 
 ashes, or dangerous or offensive substance, except snow and ice 
 which may have fallen or been formed upon sidewalks, and ashes,' 
 sawdust or sand which may be strewn upon sidewalks, in pursu- 
 ance of the provisions of the ordinance entitled “An ordinance to 
 provide for keeping street sidewalks and gutters free from snow, 
 hail, slush and ice,” passed December 3d, 1877, and re-adopted De- 
 cember 17th, 187 7, and no person shall take up or remove from any 
 
public street, avenue or sidewalk or from any public ground in the 
 city, any turf, stone, sand, clay or earth, without the permission of 
 the Street Commissioner first obtained; every person who shall vio- 
 late this section, shall on conviction thereof be punished by fine not 
 exceeding twenty dollars for each offence. 
 
 Sec, 8, All trees standing along the public streets of the city, 
 whose branches extend or shall extend over the sidewalks or road- 
 way shall be trimmed from the main trunk to a height of not less 
 than ten feet from the surface of the ground, so as to prevent in- 
 jury to the public health, impediment to travel and obstruction to 
 street lights, unless the Street Commissioner shall otherwise direct 
 or permit. 
 
 Sec, 9. The Street Commissioner shall cause this ordinance 
 to be carried into effect, and every person who shall obstruct or 
 molest said officer or any person or persons employed by him in the 
 performance of such duty, shall be punished by a fine not exceed- 
 ing twenty-five dollars for each offence. 
 
 Sec. 10. The ordinance entitled “An ordinance in regard to 
 improvements on streets, sidewalks, and regulating the putting up 
 of awnings, signs, etc.,” approved July 19th, 18 69; and the ordi- 
 nance entitled “An ordinance to amend an ordinance entitled ‘An or- 
 dinance in regard to improvements to streets, sidewalks, and regu- 
 lating the putting up of awnings, bay-windows, signs, etc., approved 
 July 19th, 1869,’ ” approved April 24th, 1874; and the ordinance 
 entitled “An ordinance for the trimming of trees,” approved June 
 1, 1870; and the ordinance entitled “An ordinance to prohibit signs 
 over the sidewalks,” approved June 28th, 1872, and the ordinance 
 entitled “An ordinance to protect the streets and sidewalks and oth- 
 er protection,” approved May 21, 1878; are hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 11. All ordinances and parts of ordinances which were 
 repealed or abrogated by any ordinance hereby repealed, shall con- 
 tinue to be so repealed and shall be deemed abrogated. 
 
 Approved December 7, 1881. 
 
 Amended by ordinances approved June 6, 1894, and November 
 10, 1894. 
 
 An Ordinance to Provide for Keeping Street Sidewalks and Gutters 
 Free from Snow, Hail, Slush and Ice. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. It shall be the duty of the owner or owners, lessee 
 or lessees, occupant or occupants, and person or persons having 
 charge of every lot or parcel of land upon which is or may hereafter 
 
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 be erected any building, or of any lot or parcel of land which is or 
 may hereafter be vacant, situated on or adjoining any public and 
 improved street in this city, the sidewalks of which are now or 
 hereafter may be flagged, cemented, planked or graveled, severally, 
 to keep a pathway at least four feet in width over the street side- 
 walk and the street gutters to the width of one foot outwardly from 
 and adjoining the curb or edge of the sidewalk along the entire 
 front of each such lot or parcel of land, or if any such lot or parcel 
 of land be situated upon a corner formed by intersecting streets, 
 to keep such pathway and gutters along both the front and sides of 
 each such lot or parcel of land, to the respective width aforesaid, 
 free from snow, hail, slush and ice, save as provided in the second 
 section of this ordinance; and it shall be the duty of such persons 
 severally to remove or cause to be removed from such pathway and 
 gutters, to the respective widths aforesaid, all snow, hail, slush and 
 ice which may have fallen or been formed, thereon, within four 
 hours after the same shall have so fallen or been formed, excepting 
 in cases when such snow or hail shall have fallen or such slush or 
 ice shall have been formed during any night, in all which last men- 
 tioned cases the same shall be so removed within four hours after 
 sunrise of the next following morning. 
 
 Sec. 2. If in any case such snow, hail, slush or ice shall be so 
 congealed that the same cannot be removed without injury to the 
 sidewalks or gutters where the same has fallen or been formed, it 
 shall be the duty of the owner or owners, lessee or lessees, occupant 
 or occupants, and person or persons having charge of every such 
 lot or parcel of land, severally to cause the snow, hail, slush or ice 
 which shall have been so congealed, to be strewn with ashes, saw- 
 dust or sand within four hours after such congelation shall have 
 happened, excepting in cases where such congelation shall have hap- 
 pened during any night, in all which last mentioned cases such snow, 
 hail, slush and ice shall be so strewn with ashes, sawdust or sand 
 within four hours after sunrise of the next following morning; and 
 in all cases mentioned in this section all snow, hail, slush and ice 
 which shall have been so congealed, shall be so removed from the 
 sidewalks and gutters aforesaid to the respective widths aforesaid, 
 within four hours after the same shall have become thawed to such 
 an extent as to render such removal practicable without injury to 
 such sidewalks or gutters, save in cases where the same shall have 
 become so thawed during any night, in all which last mentioned 
 case’ the same shall be so removed within four hours after sunrisd of 
 the next following morning. 
 
 Sec. 3. For each violation of this ordinance every person vio- 
 lating the same shall be subject to a penalty of flve dollars, recov- 
 erable for the use of the city. 
 
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 Sec. 4. The ordinance entitled “An ordinance concerning snow 
 and ice,” passed December 2 6th, 1870, and all ordinances and parts 
 of ordinances amendatory thereof or in addition thereto, and all 
 ordinances and parts of ordinances which conflict with any of the 
 provisions of this ordinance, are hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 5. This ordinance shall take effect immediately. 
 
 Adopted December 3, 1877. 
 
 Re-adopted December 17, 1877, notwithstanding the objections 
 of the Mayor. 
 
 An Ordinance Concerning the Removal of Snow and Ice from Side- 
 walks and Gutters. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfleld, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows; 
 
 Section 1. That the owner, occupant, lessee or other person 
 having the charge of each and every dwelling house, store, or other 
 building or lot or lots of grounds, shall within the flrst four hours 
 of daylight after every fall of snow or hail, or after the formation 
 of any ice upon the sidewalk adjoining said premises, cause the said 
 snow or ice (unless said ice shall have been strewn with ashes, saw- 
 dust or sand) to be removed from the flagging, cement, concrete, 
 planks, crushed stone, graveled surface or other artiflcial covering 
 thereof; and shall also cause the gutter in front thereof to the 
 width of one foot outwardly from and adjoining the curb line to be 
 cleaned out so as to allow the water to run freely along the same, 
 and any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall 
 on conviction be punished by a flne not exceeding flve dollars; pro- 
 vided, that this section shall not apply to any sidewalk which shall 
 not at the time have been laid either to the whole width or a part 
 thereof with flagging, cement, concrete, planks, boards, crushed 
 stone, graveled surface or some artiflcial covering. 
 
 Sec. 2. That as to all sidewalks and gutters of any street or 
 highway that is graded, curbed and flagged, the Street Commis- 
 sioner shall at an expense not exceeding one cent per front foot, in 
 all cases in which the owner of the land shall fail to remove the 
 snow and ice within twenty-four hours after such sidewalks or gut- 
 ters were covered with snow or ice, remove said snow or ice from 
 said sidewalks and gutters as directed by the statute in such case 
 made and provided, and in such case the costs and expense paid 
 and incurred by said street commissioner for removing the snow 
 and ice from any sidewalk or gutter as aforesaid shall be certifled 
 by said Street Commissioner to the city assessor, “and the same 
 
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 shall be added to the taxes of the lot or lots or parcels of land in 
 front of the sidewalks and gutters from which the snow and ice 
 was removed, and shall be a part of the same as a first and para- 
 mount lien upon said land and premises.” 
 
 Approved April 9th, 1895. \ 
 
 An Ordinance Concerning Footways and Sidewalks. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. The tenant, occupant, or any person having the 
 care of any building or lot of land bordering on any streets, lane, 
 court, square, of public place within the city, where there is any 
 footway or sidewalk, and in case there may be no tenant, occupant, 
 or other person having the care of the whole of any such building 
 or lot, the owner shall put, maintain and keep such footway or side- 
 walk in good and sufficient repair, even on the surface, and so con- 
 structed as freely to shed water, and for the width of at least three 
 feet, if said footway or sidewalk be that wide, if not, then for the 
 whole width thereof, shall make and keep it free from turf, grass, 
 weeds, stubble and other foreign substances; and in all cases in 
 which at any time any footway or sidewalk is not in the condition 
 required by this section, such tenant, occupant, owner, or other 
 person, as aforesaid, shall forthwith cause the same to be repaired 
 or put in above condition in conformity herewith. 
 
 Sec. 2. The Street Commissioner is hereby authorized to no- 
 tify and order persons liable under the preceding section to comply 
 with the requirements thereof; and every such person neglecting 
 or refusing to comply therewith within one week after such notifica- 
 tion and order of the Street Commissioner shall be liable, on con- 
 viction thereof, to a fine not exceeding ten dollars, and for each 
 and every week thereafter that such neglect or refusal shall con- 
 tinue any further sum not exceeding ten dollars; and in case such 
 neglect or refusal shall continue for the space of nine days after 
 such notification and order of the Street Commissioner, the Street 
 Commissioner may cause the necessary repairs to be made and the 
 person or persons convicted under this or the preceding section 
 shall be liable for the costs incurred in making such repairs in addi- 
 tion to the fine. 
 
 Approved December 4, 1883. 
 
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 An Ordinance Concerning the Construction, Maintenance and Repair 
 
 of Sidewalks. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That all sidewalks of flag stone or concrete of not 
 more than four feet in width which shall hereafter be constructed 
 under this ordinance shall be constructed so that the nearest edge 
 of the sidewalks of flag stone or concrete shall be the following 
 distances from the curb line, that is to say: on sidewalks having a 
 width of twenty feet or more between the property line and the 
 curb line, a distance of eight feet from the curb line; on sidewalks 
 having a widths of twelve feet or more and less than twenty feet 
 between the property line and the curb line, a distance of six feet 
 from the curb line; on sidewalks having a width of ten feet or more 
 and less than twelve feet between the property line and the curb 
 line, a distance of four feet from the curb line; on sidewalks having 
 a width of less than ten feet between the property line and the curb 
 line, said walks of fiag stone or concrete shall be laid so that the 
 side lines shall be at equal distance respectively from the property 
 line and the curb line; except that on Jackson Avenue all sidewalks 
 of fiag stone or concrete of not more than four feet in width shall 
 be laid so that the nearest edge of the walks of fiag stone or con- 
 crete shall be thirteen feet from the curb line, and all such side- 
 walks on Leland Avenue shall be so laid that the nearest edge of the 
 walks of fiag stone or concrete shall be five feet from the curb line; 
 provided, that in any case on application to the Common Council 
 for that purpose, the Common Council may by resolution specially 
 direct the distance which any sidewalks of fiag stone or concrete 
 may be laid from the curb line as the Common Council shall deem 
 to be for the best interests of the City. 
 
 Sec. 2. That all sidewalks in said city shall be well and suf- 
 ficiently constructed, repaired and maintained at the expense of 
 the abutting land owners, so as to be even on the surface and so laid 
 and constructed as freely to shed water and for the width of at least 
 four feet free from turf, grass, weeds, stubble and other foreign 
 substances. 
 
 Sec. 3. That within that portion of said city described as fol- 
 lows, viz: 
 
 Beginning at a point in the southeasterly side of Green Brook 
 at the northeasterly side line of Parragut Road and running thence 
 along said line of Parragut Road to the southeasterly side line of 
 East Pront street; thence along said line to the northeasterly side 
 line of Berckman street; thence along said line to the northwesterly 
 side line of South avenue; thence along said line to the easterly side 
 
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 line of Belvidere avenue; thence along said line to the easterly side 
 line of Woodland avenue; thence along said line to the southerly 
 side line of Prospect avenue; thence along said line to the southerly 
 side line of West Ninth street; thence along said line to the north- 
 easterly side line of Madison avenue; thence along said line to south- 
 erly side line of Stelle avenue; thence along said line to the south- 
 westerly side line of Plainfield avenue; thence along said line to the 
 southeasterly side line of West Eighth street; thence along said line 
 to the southeasterly side line of Grant avenue; thence along said line 
 to the southeasterly side line of West Seventh street; thence along 
 said line to the southwesterly side line of Monroe avenue; thence 
 alone said line to the northwesterly side line of South Second 
 street; thence along said line to the southwesterly side line of Grant 
 avenue; thence along said side line and the southwesterly side of 
 West End avenue to Green Brook; thence along the same to the 
 place of beginning; also on both sides of Central avenue from Stelle 
 avenue to Elizabeth street; also on both sides of West Front street 
 from Grant avenue to the westerly city line; and on both sides of 
 Park avenue from Ninth street to Randolph Road; also on both sides; 
 of East Front street from Farragut Road to Terrill Road; also on 
 both sides of South avenue from Belvidere avenue to Terrill road; 
 also on both sides of Arlington avenue from West Ninth street to 
 Randolph Road; also within the portion of said city described as 
 follows: Beginning at the southerly corner of West Seventh street 
 and Monroe avenue, and running thence along the southeasterly side 
 line of West Seventh street to the city and county line; thence along 
 said line in a westerly direction to the southwesterly side line of 
 Clinton Avenue; thence along said line to the northwesterly side 
 line of Dunellen avenue; thence along said line to the northeasterly 
 side line of Compton Avenue; thence along said line to the north- 
 westerly side line of West Front Street; thence to the southerly 
 corner of South Second Street and Monroe Avenue; thence along 
 the southwesterly side line of Monroe Avenue to the place of be- 
 ginning; also on both sides of Randolph Road from Plainfield Ave- 
 nue to Central Avenue; also within the portion of said city described 
 as follows: Beginning at the southeasterly corner of Prospect and 
 Hillside Avenues, and running thence along the easterly side of 
 Hillside Avenue to the southerly side of Randolph Road; thence 
 along said side line to the southwesterly side line of Park Avenue; 
 thence along said side line to the southerly side line of Prospect 
 Avenue, produced, thence along said side line to the place of begin- 
 ning; also within the portion of said city described as follows: be- 
 ginning at the northerly corner of Farragut Road and East Front 
 Street, and running thence along the northwesterly side of East 
 Front Street to the northeasterly side of Leland Avenue; thence 
 
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 along said side line to the southeasterly side line of South Avenue; 
 thence along said side line to the northeasterly side line of Berck- 
 man Street; thence along said side line to the southeasterly side line 
 of East Front Street; thence along said side line to the northeasterly 
 side line of Farragut Road, produced; thence along said line to the 
 place of beginning; also on both sides of North Avenue from Leland 
 Avenue to Terrill Road; in all cases in which the sidewalks are not 
 already constructed of blue stone flagging properly laid to the grade 
 flxed by ordinance or otherwise legally established, sidewalks shall 
 be constructed, repaired and maintained at the expense of the abut- 
 ting land owners, composed of blue stone flagging, smooth and even 
 on the surface, and properly laid under the direction of the Street 
 Commissioner; the flags shall not be less than four feet long, trans- 
 versely to the length of the street, not less than two feet wide 
 lengthwise of said street, and not less than one and one-half inches 
 thick in the thinnest part; provided, that upon first obtaining written 
 permit from the Street Commissioner, sidewalks may be constructed 
 of concrete slabs of same dimensions as specified for flagging, except- 
 ing that said slabs shall be not less than three inches thick, and shall 
 be composed of concrete containing at least one part of Portland 
 cement to two and one-half parts of sand and two and one-half 
 parts of broken stone, on similar permit, and sidewalks may be con- 
 structed of concrete laid in place, the construction of which walks 
 shall be under the direction and subject to the approval of the 
 Street Commissioner. The Street Commissioner shall give the cor- 
 rect lines and grades in all cases. 
 
 Sec. 4. Within that portion of the City of Plainfield described 
 in Section 3, in all cases in which ^dewalks are not already curbed 
 with stone, concrete or similar substance, properly laid to the grade 
 fixed by ordinance or otherwise legally established, said sidewalks 
 shall be curbed and the curbs repaired and maintained at the expense 
 of the abutting land owners, the curbs to be of blue stone not less 
 than four inches thick in the thinnest part and sixteen inches in 
 depth, smooth and even on the surface, and laid under the direction 
 ■of the Street Commissioner. That all return curbs shall have a 
 radius of six feet, no place to be less than three feet two inches in 
 length. The Street Commissioner shall give the correct lines and 
 grades in all cases. 
 
 Sec. 5. That within that portion of the City of Plainfield de- 
 scribed in Section 3, all sidewalks and curbs shall be laid and main- 
 tained at the grade flxed by ordinance or otherwise legally estab- 
 lished, and where any sidewalk or curb or any part thereof is or 
 shall become above or below the grade, so flxed or established, or is 
 or shall become broken or uneven on the surface, such sidewalk or 
 curb shall be repaired, put to grade, relaid or the broken parts 
 
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 replaced, as the case may require, at the expense of the abutting 
 land owner. 
 
 Sec. 6. It is hereby made the duty of the owners of land abut- 
 ting on the sidewalks of said city to comply with the preceding sec- 
 tions of this ordinance under the direction and supervision of the 
 Street Commissioner. The Street Commissioner is hereby author- 
 ized to serve, or cause to be served by any of the police officers of the 
 city, notices in writing upon the owners or occupants of said lands 
 requiring the necessary specified work to said sidewalks to be done 
 by said owners or occupants within a period of thirty days from the 
 date of service of such notice, and shall file with the City Clerk a 
 list of the names of parties on which notices have been served; if 
 any said lands are unoccupied and the owner cannot be found within 
 the city, the said notice shall be mailed, postage prepaid, to his or 
 her post office address if the same can be ascertained. In case such 
 owner is a non-resident of the city and his or her post office address 
 cannot be ascertained, then the notice may be inserted for four 
 weeks, once a week, in the official newspapers of the city. The 
 notices referred to in this section shall be signed by the Street Com- 
 missioner. 
 
 Sec. 7. That in case the owner or occupant of such lands 
 shall not comply with the requirements of the notice specified in the 
 preceding section, said Street Commissioner shall file in the office 
 of the City Clerk due proof of the service or publication of the afore- 
 said notice and thereupon the Common Council may cause the 
 required work to be done and paid for out of the moneys of the 
 city to the credit of the Street Department; the cost of such work 
 shall be certified by the Street Commissioner to the City Collector; 
 upon filing the said certificate, the amount of the cost of such work 
 shall be and become a lien upon the said abutting lands in front of 
 which such work was done, and shall be collected in the manner 
 provided by law, and shall bear interest at the same rate as other 
 assessments; or payment may be enforced by action in any court of 
 competent jurisdiction, as provided by the statute. 
 
 Sec. 8. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances incon- 
 sistent herewith are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved April 10, 1899; amended by ordinances approved 
 August 4, 1902; June 5, 1905; June 6, 1906; October 5, 1908. 
 
 An Ordinance Concerning the Consti-uction and Repair of Sidewalks 
 
 and Curbs. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That all sidewalks not already laid out under prior 
 
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 ordinances of said city shall have a width not less than one-fifth of 
 the entire width of the street, and shall be raised, from the curb- 
 stone line to the side of the street adjoining in the proportion of 
 one-half inch to one foot, unless otherwise specially directed by reso- 
 lution of the Common Council. 
 
 Sec. 2. That, all sidewalks of blue stone flagging or concrete 
 which shall hereafter be constructed under this ordinance shall be 
 constructed so that the nearest edge of the blue stone flagging or 
 concrete. shall be the following distances from the side lines of the 
 streets, that is to say: On streets having a width of eighty feet or 
 more, a distance of eight feet; on streets having a width of seventy 
 feet or more and less than eighty feet, a distance of five feet; on 
 streets having a width of more than sixty feet and less than seventy 
 feet, a distance of three feet; on streets having a width of fifty feet 
 or more and not more than sixty feet, a distance of two feet, and 
 on streets having a width of less than fifty feet, said blue stone flag- 
 ging or concrete shall be so laid that the sides of the same shall be 
 at equal distances respectively from the side line and the curb line; 
 provided, that in any case, on application to the Common Council 
 for that purpose, the Common Council may by resolution specially 
 direct the distance which any blue stone flagging or concrete may 
 be laid from the side line as the Common Council shall deem to be 
 for the best interests of the city. 
 
 Sec. 3. That all sidewalks in said city shall be well and suf- 
 ficiently constructed, repaired and maintained at the expense of the 
 abutting land owners, so as to be even on the surface and so laid 
 and constructed as freely to shed water and for the width of at 
 least four feet free from turf, grass, weeds, stubble and other foreign 
 substances. 
 
 Sec. 4. That within that portion of said city described as 
 follows, viz: 
 
 Beginning at a point in the southeasterly side of Green Brook 
 at the northeasterly side line of Leland Avenue and running thence 
 along said line of Leland Avenue to the southeasterly side line of 
 Berkeley Avenue produced; thence along said line produced and said 
 line of Berkeley Avenue to the easterly side line of Denmark Road; 
 thence along said line to the easterly side line of Ravine Road; 
 thence along said line to the southerly side line of Charlotte Road 
 produced; thence along said line produced and said line of Charlotte 
 / Road to the southeasterly side line of Belvidere Avenue; thence 
 along said line to the easterly side line of Woodland Avenue; thence 
 along said line to the southerly side line of Prospect Avenue; thence 
 along said line to the easterly side line to Hillside Avenue; thence 
 along said line to the southerly side line of Randolph Road; thence 
 
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 along said line to the easterly side line of Plainfield Avenue; thence 
 along said line to the southeasterly side line of Sherman Avenue; 
 thence along said line to the westerly City Line; thence along said 
 line to the westerly side line of Evona Avenue; thence along said 
 line to the southwesterly side line of Clinton Avenue; thence along 
 said line to the southeasterly side of Green Brook; thence along 
 the same to the place of beginning; also on both sides of East Front 
 Street from Leland Avenue to Terrill Road; also on both sides of 
 West Front Street from Clinton Avenue to the westerly City Line; 
 also on both sides of North and South Avenues from Leland Avenue 
 to Terrill Road; also on both sides of Central Avenue from Randolph 
 Road to Elizabeth Street; also on both sides of Park Avenue from 
 Randolph Road to the southerly City Line; also on both sides of 
 Plainfield Avenue from Sherman Avenue to the southerly City Line, 
 in all cases in which the sddewalks are not already constructed of 
 blue stone fiagging, or concrete, properly laid to the grade fixed by 
 ordinance or otherwise legally established, sidewalks shall be con- 
 structed, repaired and maintained at the expense of the abutting 
 land owners, composed either (1) of blue stone flagging, smooth 
 and even on the surface, and properly laid under the direction of 
 the Street Commissioner, said blue stone flags to be not less than 
 four feet long transversely to the length of the street, not less than 
 two feet wide lengthwise of said street, and not less than one and 
 one-half inches thick in the thinnest part; or (2) of concrete, to be 
 laid in conformity with the specifications for* cement sidewalks as 
 set forth in Standard Specifications for Portland Cement Sidewalks 
 and Curbs, filed in the office of the City Clerk April 11th, 1910. 
 The Street Commissioner shall give the correct lines and grades in 
 all cases. 
 
 Sec. 5. Within that portion of the City of Plainfield described 
 in Section 4, in all cases in which sidewalks are not already curbed 
 with stone, concrete or similar substance, properly laid to the grade 
 fixed by ordinance or otherwise legally established, said sidewalks 
 shall be curbed and the curbs repaired and maintained at the ex- 
 pense of the abutting land owners, the curbs to be either (1) of 
 blue stone not less than four inches thick in the thinnest part and 
 sixteen inches in depth, smooth and even on the surface, or (2) or 
 concrete, constructed in conformity with specifications for curbs set 
 forth in the Standard Specifications referred to in Section 4 of this 
 ordinance, and laid under the direction of the Street Commissioner. 
 That all return curbs shall have a radius of six feet, no piece to be 
 less than three feet two inches in length. The Street Commission- 
 er shall give the correct lines and grades in all cases. 
 
 Sec. 6. That within that portion of the City of Plainfield de- 
 
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 scribed in Section 4, all sidewalks and curbs shall be laid and main- 
 tained at the grade fixed by ordinance or otherwise legally estab- 
 lished, and where any sidewalk or curb or any part thereof is or 
 shall become above or below grade so fixed or established, or is or 
 shall become broken or uneven on the surface, such sidewalk or curb 
 shall be repaired, put to grade, relaid or the broken parts replaced, 
 as the case may require, at the expense of the abutting land owner. 
 
 Sec. 7. If after the passage of this ordinance the owner or 
 owners of lands affected thereby shall neglect for the space of thirty 
 days to make the improvement to the sidewalks thereof by this ordi- 
 nance directed and required, the Common Council may cause such 
 improvements to be made under the direction and supervision of 
 the Street Commissioner as authorized by the statute in such case 
 made and provided. Before proceeding to make any such improve- 
 ment, the Common Council shall cause notice of such contemplated 
 improvement to be given to the owner or owners of any land thereby 
 affected, which notice shall contain a description of the property 
 affected, sufficiently definite in terms to identify the same, as well as 
 a description of the required improvements and a notice that unless 
 said improvement shall be completed within thirty days after the 
 service thereof it is the intention of the City to make said improve- 
 ment or cause the same to be made pursuant to the authority of 
 the Act of the Legislature entitled “An Act to authorize cities to con- 
 struct and repair sidewalks and curbs, and to provide for the pay- 
 ment of the cost thereof,” approved April 13th, 1908. Such notice 
 shall be served as in said Act directed, and proof under oath of the 
 publication or service of such notice shall be filed within two days 
 thereafter in the office of the Collector of said City. 
 
 If such improvement shall not be completed within the time 
 and in the manner directed in said notice, the Street Commissioner 
 shall thereupon forthwith proceed to cause such improvement to 
 be made by the City under his direction as authorized by this ordi- 
 nance and said Act of the Legislature. 
 
 Sec. 8. When any improvement of the character hereinbefore 
 mentioned shall be made by the City pursuant to said Act of the Leg- 
 islature, a true and accurate account of the cost and expense thereof 
 shall be kept by the Street Commissioner and apportioned among 
 the several properties improved in proportion to the frontage of 
 their respective lands, and a true statement of such cost under oath 
 or affirmation of said Street Commissioner shall forthwith be filed 
 by him with the Collector of said City, whereupon said charge shall 
 be and remain a first lien upon the lands and real estate thereby 
 improved, and shall bear the same rate of interest as other assess- 
 ments made under the laws governing said City, and shall be col- 
 
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 lected in the same manner as assessments are now collected under 
 such laws, and in case of the non-payment of such charges the land 
 and real estate subject to such liens may be sold in the manner pro- 
 vided for the sale of lands for the non-payment of assessments made 
 under such laws. 
 
 Sec. 9. That all ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsist- 
 ent herewith are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved July 15, 1910. 
 
 Amended by Ordinance. Approved August 15, 1911. 
 
 An Ordinance Relating to Vaults and Cisterns in the Streets of 
 
 Plainfield 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That no person shall construct any vault or cistern 
 in any street, except by and with the consent of the Common Coun- 
 cil, or the Committee on Streets thereof, and then only on the pay- 
 ment of such sum as shall be from time to time established by reso- 
 lution of the said Common Council, and in all cases the same shall 
 be completed and furnished within the time prescribed by the said 
 Committee on Streets under the penalty of twenty dollars. 
 
 Sec. 2. That all vaults shall be constructed of stone or brick, 
 and the grating or opening into the street shall be within twelve 
 inches of the coping or area in front of the house to which said vault 
 shall belong or within twelve inches of the curbstone, under the pen- 
 alty of twenty dollars, to be paid by the owner or person making or 
 causing the same to be made. 
 
 Sec. 3. That no person shall remove, or cause, or procure, 
 or permit to be removed, or insecurely fixed so that the same can 
 be removed in its bed, any grate or covering to the opening or aper- 
 ture of any vault in the City of Plainfield, under the penalty of ten 
 dollars. 
 
 Sec. 4. That the last preceding section shall not be construed 
 so as to prevent the removal of any such grate or covering; provided, 
 the aperture of such vault, during the removal of such grate or cov- 
 ering, shall be enclosed with a strong box or curb, at least twenty- 
 four inches high; and in no case shall such grate or covering be re- 
 moved and left off the opening except while said opening is being 
 continuously used for the purpose of passing anything through said 
 aperture. 
 
 Sec. 5. That no person or persons shall suffer or permit the 
 aperture or covering to any such vault in the streets or sidewalks 
 
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 of the City of Plainfield, to remain open for any period between sun- 
 set and sunrise the next morning, under the penalty of ten dollars. 
 
 Sec. 6. That all grates to vaults shall be made of iron, the 
 bars whereof shall be three-fourths of an inch wide and one-half 
 of an inch apart, or such vaults shall be covered with patent vault 
 lights or iron, under a penalty of ten dollars, to be paid by the own- 
 ers thereof or the occupant of the house to which the same shall 
 belong. 
 
 Sec. 7. That it shall be the duty of every owmer or occupant 
 of any lot in the City of Plainfield during construction of any vault 
 or cistern in any street, and also during the use of any portion of 
 any street for temporary storage of building materials, and also dur- 
 ing the making of excavations in any street, and also during the 
 obstruction of any street for any other purpose, to keep and main- 
 tain a passageway over the sidewalk in front of said premises for 
 the width of five feet, if the sidewalk be of that or greater width, 
 and if not then for the entire width of said sidewalk in a condition 
 passable and safe for the traveling public, under penalty of fifteen 
 dollars, to be paid by the owner or occupant thereof for each of- 
 fense, and the further penalty of ten dollars for every day the same 
 shall be continued in condition not passable and safe as aforesaid, 
 after being notified by due process of such fact. 
 
 Approved July 2, 1889. 
 
 An Ordinance Designating the Streets or Highways of the City of 
 Plainfield, in and Through Which the Posts and Poles of the 
 New York and New Jersey Telephone Company may be Placed 
 and the Manner of Placing the Same. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. The route for the line of the New York and New Jer- 
 sey Telephone Company, in and through the City of Plainfield, and 
 the streets and highways of said citj% in which the posts or poles of 
 said Company may be placed, and the manner of placing the same, 
 are hereby designated and prescribed as follows: 
 
 Beginning at Terrill Road, in the eastern limit of the city on 
 the north side of South Avenue, running thence along the north side 
 of South Avenue to the east side of Richmond Street; thence cross- 
 ing Richmond Street to the south side of East Fourth Street; thence 
 along the south side of East Fourth Street seven hundred and 
 seventy-five (775) feet; thence diagonally one hundred and twenty- 
 four (124) feet to the north side of East Fourth Street; thence along 
 the north side of East Fourth Street two hundred and seventy-tw’O 
 
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 (272) feet; thence diagonally one hundred and nineteen (119) feet 
 to the south side of East Fourth Street; thence along the south side 
 of East Fourth Street two hundred and ninety-seven (297) feet and 
 ten (10) inches; thence diagonally one hundred and twenty-eight 
 (12 8) feet to the north side of East Fourth Street; thence along the 
 north side of East Fourth Street to the east side of Broadway; 
 thence along the east side of Broadway to the north side of North 
 Avenue; thence along the north side of North Avenue to the west 
 side of Park Avenue; thence along the west side of Park Avenue to 
 the north side of West Front Street; thence along the north side of 
 West Front Street to the east side of Madison Avenue; thence along 
 the east side of Madison Avenue to the south side of West Third 
 Street; thence along the south side of West Third Street to the west 
 side of Liberty Street; thence along the west side of Liberty Street 
 to the south side of West Eighth Street; thence along the south side 
 of West Eighth Street to the east side of Plainfield Avenue; thence 
 along the east side of Plainfield Avenue to the south side of Ran- 
 dolph Road; thence along the south side of Randolph Road four hun- 
 dred and seventy-five (475) feet; thence diagonally one hundred 
 and forty-six (146) feet to the north side of Randolph Road; thence 
 along the north side of Randolph Road to the west side of Madison 
 Avenue; thence to the south side of Randolph Road; thence along 
 the south side of Randolph Road to Park Avenue; thence along the 
 west side of Park Avenue to the city limits. 
 
 Also beginning on the east side of Woodland Avenue at its 
 junction with South Avenue; thence along the east side of Woodland 
 Avenue sixty-six (66) feet; thence to the west side of Woodland 
 Avenue; thence along the west side of Woodland Avenue four hun- 
 dred and seventy-five (475) feet; thence to the east side of Wood- 
 land Avenue and north side of Park Lane; thence along the north 
 side of Park Lane one hundred and seventy-one (171) feet; thence 
 to the south side of Park Lane and the west side of Denmark Road; 
 thence along the west and south side of Denmark Road to the west 
 side of Berkeley Avenue; thence along the west side of Berkeley 
 Avenue to Ravine Road; thence to the east and south side of Berke- 
 ley Avenue; thence along the south side of Berkeley Avenue to the 
 west side of Belvidere Avenue. 
 
 Also beginning at the corner of South Avenue and Leland Ave- 
 nue; running thence along the west side of Leland Avenue to the 
 north side of North Avenue; thence along the north side of North 
 Avenue to the east side of Netherwood Avenue; thence along the 
 east side of Netherwood Avenue to East Front Street. 
 
 Also beginning at the southwest corner of Fifth and Richmond 
 Streets; running thence along the west side of Richmond Street to 
 the south side of LaGrande Avenue; thence along the west side of 
 
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 Riclimond Street to the south side of Putnam Avenue; thence along 
 the south side of Putnam Avenue to Kensington Avenue. 
 
 Also beginning at the southwest corner of East Fourth Street 
 and Broadway; running thence along the south side of East Fourth 
 Street to the east side of Sycamore Street; thence along the east side 
 of Sycamore Street two hundred (200) feet; thence to the west side 
 of Sycamore Street; thence along the west side of Sycamore Street 
 to East Sixth Street. 
 
 Also beginning at the northwest corner of Park Avenue and its 
 intersection with the Central Railroad of New Jersey; thence along 
 the west side of Park Avenue to Fourth Street; thence to the east 
 side of Park Avenue; thence along the east side of Park Avenue to 
 Fifth Street. 
 
 Also beginning at the southeast corner of Park Avenue and 
 East Front Street; thence along the south side of East Front Street 
 three hundred and forty-three (343) feet; thence diagonally one 
 hundred and thirty-four (134) feet and six (6) inches to the north 
 side of East Front Street; thence along the north side of East Front 
 Street one hundred and ninety-two (192) feet; thence diagonally 
 one hundred and thirty-nine (139) feet to the south side of East 
 Front Street; thence along the south side of East Front Street six 
 hundred (600) feet to its junction with Elm Place; thence to the 
 west side of Elm Place; thence along the west side of Elm Place to 
 the city limits on Green Brook. 
 
 Also beginning at the northwest corner of Liberty and West 
 Third Streets; running thence along the north side of West Third 
 Street one hundred and ninety (190) feet; thence diagonally one 
 hundred and seventy-seven (177) feet to the south side of West 
 Third Street; thence along the south side of West Third Street nine 
 hundred and fifty (950) feet; thence diagonally one hundred and 
 ninety-two (192) feet to the north side of West Third Street, near 
 its junction with Muhlenberg Place; thence along the east side of 
 Muhlenberg Place to the north side of South Second Street; thence 
 along the north side of South Second Street to the Pond Tool Works. 
 
 Also beginning at the northwest corner of West Third Street 
 and Plainfield Avenue; thence along the west side of Plainfield Ave- 
 nue to West Second Street. 
 
 Also beginning on the south side of Eighth Street, at the junc- 
 tion of Liberty Street; thence along the south side of Eighth Street 
 to Division Street. 
 
 Also beginning on the west side of Plainfield Avenue at its 
 junction with Randolph Road; thence along the west side of Plain- 
 field Avenue to the south side of Sherman Avenue; thence along the 
 south side of Sherman Avenue to Grant Avenue; thence along the 
 west side of Grant Avenue to the north side of Eighth Street. 
 
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 Also beginning on the east side of Madison Avenue, at its junc- 
 tion with Randolph Road; thence along the east side of Madison 
 Avenue five hundred and sixty-nine (569) feet; thence diagonally 
 one hundred and twenty-four (124) feet to the west side of Madison 
 A. venue; thence along the west side of Madison Avenue to the south 
 side of West Ninth Street; thence along the south side of West 
 Ninth Street sixteen (16) feet; thence diagonally one hundred and 
 forty (14 0) feet to the north side of West Ninth Street; thence along 
 the north side of West Ninth Street to Park Avenue; thence to the 
 south side of East Ninth Street; thence along the south and east 
 side of East Ninth Street to Broadway. 
 
 Also beginning at the corner of Prospect Avenue at its junction 
 with East Ninth Street; thence along the south side of Prospect Ave- 
 nue to Hillside Avenue; thence to the north side of Prospect Avenue; 
 thence along the north side of Prospect Avenue to Rahway Avenue. 
 
 Also beginning at the corner of Second Place, at its junction 
 with East Ninth Street; thence along the south side of Second Place 
 to Crescent Avenue. 
 
 Also beginning at the corner of Rose Street, at its junction with 
 Randolph Road; thence along the west side of Rose Street to Arling- 
 ton Avenue. 
 
 Also beginning at the northeast corner of Front and Somerset 
 Streets; thence along the east side of Somerset Street to Green 
 Brook. 
 
 Sec. 2. The said posts or poles shall be located, placed and 
 erected within and adjacent to the curb line, as shown by the 
 official maps of the City of Plainfield, and at the points or places 
 now occupied by the post or poles of the said New York and New 
 Jersey Telephone Company; and said posts or poles may also be 
 placed and erected at all other points or places upon said streets 
 which may be indicated by the Street Committee of Common Coun- 
 cil of said city for the erection of said posts or poles, if otherwise 
 legally located, which places so indicated shall not be more than 
 one hundred and fifty (150) feet apart, and all poles hereafter 
 erected shall be erected under the supervision of said Street Commit- 
 tee and in accordance with the Rules and Ordinances of said city, 
 and shall be located within eighteen inches of the curb line. 
 
 Approved by the Mayor April 10, 1889. 
 
 An Ordinance Designating the Streets of the City of Plainfield in 
 and through which the Posts and Poles of the Plainfield Electric 
 Light Company, its Successors and Assigns, may be Placed and 
 the Manner of Placing the Same. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by the Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
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 Section 1. That pursuant to an act entitled “An act concern- 
 ing corporations, approved April 7th, eighteen hundred and seventy- 
 five,” which supplement was approved May 10th, eighteen hundred 
 and eighty-four; all the streets, lanes and highways of the City of 
 Plainfield are hereby designated as the streets in which the Plain- 
 field Electric Light Company, its successors and assigns, may place 
 and maintain posts and poles to sustain th« necessary wires and fix- 
 tures for the supply and distribution of electricity, for electric lights, 
 heat and power, for the period of ten years from November first, 
 eighteen hundred and ninety, and tho manner of placing the same 
 shall be as follows: 
 
 The said posts or poles shall be located, placed or erected with- 
 in and adjacent to the curb line as shown by official maps of the City 
 of Plainfield, including the points or places now occupied by the posts 
 or poles of the said Plainfield Electric Light Company; and said posts 
 or poles may also be placed or erected at any other points or places 
 upon said streets, lanes or highways as may be indicated for that 
 purpose by the Common Council of the City of Plainfield or some 
 committee thereof authorized by the Common Council and all poles 
 hereafter erected shall be erected under the supervision of said 
 Common Council, or its authorized committee and in accordance 
 with the rules and ordinances of said city, and shall be located within 
 eighteen inches of the curb line. 
 
 Sec. 2. That on the first day of November, nineteen hundred, 
 the rights and privileges hereby conferred upon or secured to the 
 said Plainfield Electric Light Company, its successors and assigns, 
 shall, at the option of the said inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, 
 cease and determine, and said Plainfield Electric Light Company, 
 its successors and assigns, shall upon request of the said inhabitants 
 of the City of Plainfield, by its Common Council, execute under the 
 corporate seal of said Company and deliver to said inhabitants of the 
 City of Plainfield, a surrender and release of all rights and privi- 
 leges granted or secured by this ordinance, to carry out the true 
 intent and meaning hereof. And said Plainfield Electric Light Com- 
 pany shall file with the City Clerk within ninety days next after 
 passage of this ordinance its acceptance under its corporate seal and 
 signed by its president, of the conditions, terms, provisions, restric- 
 tions and regulations hereof, and every of them, and in default there- 
 of, it shall be understood and held that it declines to accept the 
 same and thereupon the rights, powers and privileges to it granted 
 or secured hereby, shall forever cease and be at an end, in the same 
 manner and with the same effect as if this ordinance had never 
 been passed. 
 
 Approved November 15, 1890. 
 
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 An Ordinance Designating the Streets and Highways of the City of 
 Plainfield in, through and upon which the Posts or Poles of the 
 Plainfield Gas and Electric Light Company may be Placed and 
 Maintained, and the Manner of Placing the same, and Providing 
 for the Construction, Maintenance and Use by Said Company 
 of Underground Conduits, Cables, Wires, Manholes and Ap- 
 purtenances for the Distribution of Electricity for Light, Heat 
 and Power. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the following streets and highways of the 
 City of Plainfield are hereby designated as and for the streets and 
 highways in, through or upon which the posts or poles of said Plain- 
 field Gas and Electric Light Company may be placed, maintained 
 and' used by said Company, subject to the provisions of the General 
 Statutes of the State of New Jersey in such case made and pro- 
 vided, and subject to the regulations contained in this ordinance, 
 or that may be imposed by the corporate authorities or legislative 
 body of the City of Plainfield: 
 
 Albert street, Arlington avenue, Arlington place, Berckman 
 street, Belvidere avenue, Berkeley avenue. Church street, Carlton 
 avenue. Central avenue, Charlotte road. College place, Compton ave- 
 nue, Cottage place, Crescent avenue, Clinton avenue, Dunellen ave- 
 nue, Division street. Eighth street, west, Elizabeth street, Elmwood 
 place. Elm place, Essex street, Evona avenue. Field avenue. First 
 place. Fifth street, east. Fifth street, west, Fourth street, east, 
 Fourth street, west, Franklin place. Front street, east. Front street, 
 west. Fifth street, west of Grant avenue, Giraud avenue. Grant ave- 
 nue, Grove street. Hillside avenue, Irving place, Kensington avenue, 
 Lee place, Madison avenue, Martine avenue, Monroe avenue, Muhlen- 
 berg place, Netherwood avenue. New street. Ninth street, east. Ninth 
 street, west. North avenue, east of Richmond street. North avenue, 
 between Park avenue and Watchung avenue, Norwood avenue, Park 
 avenue. Park terrace, Plainfield avenue, Prospect avenue, Putnam 
 avenue. Ravine road, Rahway road, Richmond street, Sanford ave- 
 nue, Scott avenue. Second street, east. Second street, west. Second 
 street, south. Second place, Sixth street, east. Sixth street, west, 
 Park avenue to Plainfield avenuo. Sixth street, west, west of Grant 
 avenue. Seventh street, east. Seventh street, west, Sherman avenue, 
 Somerset street, South avenue, Spooner avenue, Stelle avenue. Third 
 street, east. Third street, west. Third place, Washington street, 
 Washington avenue, Watchung avenue, Webster place, West End 
 avenue, Westervelt avenue. Woodland avenue. 
 
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 Sec. 2. That the manner of placing said posts or poles shall 
 be as follows: 
 
 They shall be firmly planted in the ground, adjacent to and 
 within eighteen inches of the curb line on streets where curb lines 
 have been established, and secured by cement or grouting wherever 
 necessary to maintain the poles in an erect position, and said posts 
 or poles shall not be less than one hundred feet apart. 
 
 Sec. 3 . 1 That said Plainfield Gas and Electric Light Company 
 be and is hereby authorized to construct and maintain for the uses 
 of its business of generating and distributing electricity for the 
 purposes of light, heat and power, a system of subways or under- 
 ground conduits, including the necessary manholes and street open- 
 ings and lateral connections to property lines beneath the surface 
 of the streets and other highways in said city, and to drain same 
 to storm sewers, and to place, maintain and operate in its system 
 of subways or underground conduits the wires, cables or other elec- 
 trical conductors necessary for its business, and to construct, main- 
 tain and use for such purposes a system of electrical conductors in 
 connection with the necessary poles and appurtenances for the dis- 
 tribution of electricity from such conduits. 
 
 Sec. 4. That said system of subways herein authorized shall 
 be constructed as follows: The same shall be at least three feet 
 
 below the surface of the streets where located, with manholes where 
 necessary, level with the surface of the street; the trenches shall be 
 carefully back-filled and the material thoroughly rammed to the 
 satisfaction of the Street Commissioner; the work of rolling and 
 repairing the pavement shall be done by the Street Commissioner, 
 and the cost of said work shall be paid by said Plainfield Gas and 
 Electric Light Company; and all the work of constructing shall be 
 carried on under the supervision of the Street Commissioner. In 
 case the said company shall fail to restore, relay or repair, or cause 
 to be restored, relaid or repaired, any pavement or street surface 
 within forty-eight hours after receiving notice from the Street Com- 
 missioner that such work is required, said Street Commissioner shall 
 have the right to cause such work to be done and the cost thereof 
 shall be paid by the said Company. 
 
 Sec. 5. That said Company shall indemnity the said inhabi- 
 tants of the Cijty of Plainfield against, and assume all liability and 
 damages which may at any time arise, come or occur to said city 
 from any injury to persons or property from the doing of any work 
 herein authorized, or any work done upon, under or along any of 
 the streets of the said city by said company, or from neglect of the 
 company or its employees to comply with the provisions of any ordi- 
 nance of said city relative to the use of streets or highways or public 
 
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 places, particularly as to the erection and maintenance of lights and 
 guards at or about excavations; and the acceptance by the Company 
 of this ordinance shall be an agreement by it to pay to the Common 
 Council of Plainfield any sum of money for which the city may be- 
 come liable from or by reason of such injury or damage. 
 
 Sec. 6. That said company shall construct such subways and 
 appurtenances at the rate of at least sixteen hundred feet (1,600) 
 each year from the date of the approval or final adoption of this 
 ordinance until the following streets are clear of wires and poles of 
 said company, viz.: 
 
 West Front street and East Front street from Central avenue 
 to Watchung avenue; 
 
 Park avenue from Front street to Fourth street; 
 
 North avenue from Park avenue to Watchung avenue; 
 
 Watchung avenue from East Front street to East Fourth street. 
 
 The Common Council shall have option to designate in what 
 order subways in the streets specified in this section shall be laid; 
 and the said company shall be at liberty to construct subways in the 
 other streets specified in the first section of this ordinance earlier 
 than herein specified, upon said company applying to the Common 
 Council and obtaining special permisison in the premises. 
 
 Sec. 7. That this ordinance shall be void unless said company 
 shall file with the Clerk of said city its acceptance hereof within 
 twenty days from and after the passage hereof, which acceptance 
 shall be taken and construed to be a consent to the terms and pro- 
 visions hereof, and an agreement by said company to perform what- 
 ever is hereby required within the time or times herein limited, and 
 the said company shall also within said period of twenty days file 
 wth the Treasurer of said city a bond, with sureties to be approved 
 by the Mayor, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for 
 the faithful performance of the terms and conditions of this 
 ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 8. That said company shall pay into the Treasury of said 
 city all advertising and printing fees incurred by the city under this 
 ordinance, and this ordinance shall take effect immediately. 
 
 Approved July 12th, 1898. 
 
 An Ordinance Granting Permission to the New York and New Jersey 
 Telephone Company, its Successors and Assigns, to Lay and 
 Maintain Underground Conduits, Cables, Wires and Manholes 
 for Electrical Conductors in the City of Plainfield, New Jersey, 
 to be Used for Telephone and Telegraph Purposes. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
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 Section 1. That the New York and New Jersey Telephone 
 Company, its successors and assigns, be and it hereby is authorized 
 and empowered to construct and maintain for the uses and pur- 
 poses of its business aforesaid, a system of subways or underground 
 conduits, including the necessary manholes and street openings, and 
 lateral connections to property lines beneath the surface of the 
 streets, avenues and other highways in the City of Plainfield, and 
 to place, maintain and operate in said system of subways or under- 
 ground conduits the wires, cables or other electrical conductors nec- 
 essary for its said business; also to construct, maintain and operate 
 for such purposes a system of electrical conductors in connection 
 with the necessary poles for distribution from the electrical con- 
 ductors to be placed in the subways or underground conduits herein 
 before mentioned. 
 
 Sec. 2. And be it further ordained that the following streets, 
 avenues and highways and parts thereof are hereby designated for 
 the construction of the underground conduits of said company to 
 be opened only after the adoption of a resolution granting permis- 
 sion in each street. 
 
 Front street from the Eastern to the Western limits of the city. 
 
 Somerset street from the Northern limits of the city to Front 
 street. 
 
 Park avenue from Front street to Randolph road. 
 
 North avenue from Park avenue to Watchung avenue. 
 
 Watchung avenue from Front street to Kensington avenue. 
 
 East Fifth street and South avenue from Watchung avenue to 
 Leland avenue. 
 
 Eighth street from Park avenue to Plainfield avenue. 
 
 Sixth street from Watchung avenue to Plainfield avenue. 
 
 Central avenue from Front street to Randolph road. 
 
 Fourth street from Watchung avenue to Plainfield avenue. 
 
 Liberty street from Front street to Eighth street. 
 
 Washington avenue from Front street to the Northern limits 
 of the city; 
 
 and all other streets, avenues and highways of said city as may be 
 necessary and from time to time designated in permits to be issued 
 by the Street Committee for the construction of such conduits; said 
 company may on the same streets, avenues and parts thereof erect 
 the necessary poles, fixtures and supports for distributing its electri- 
 cal conductors along, across and above the surface of the streets 
 in connection with said subways; said poles shall be placed inside 
 and within eighteen (18) inches of and adjacent to the curb line; 
 said cables shall in all cases be placed under the carriage-way and 
 within five (5) feet of the curb line, unless obstructions make it 
 
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 necessary to go further from the curb line, and then only after 
 written permission has been given by the Committee on Streets and 
 Sewers, and shall be placed at least eighteen (18) inches below the 
 surface of the street. 
 
 Sec. 3. And be it further ordained that the said manholes 
 shall be located beneath the surface of the streets at such points 
 along the line of the subways or underground conduits as may be 
 necessary or convenient for placing and operating the electrical con- 
 ductors which the said company may from time to time place in 
 said subways or underground conduits, and shall be so constructed 
 as not to interfere with the passage of the public over and along 
 the said streets; and the said company shall restore any street or 
 avenue which may be disturbed in the construction or maintenance 
 of said subways or conduits and manholes to the condition in which 
 it was at the commencement of the work thereon, and free from 
 any cost or expense whatever to the City of Plainfield. And the said 
 company and its servants and employes in the laying of any wires 
 or conduits, in excavating or replacing the earth in any street, alley 
 or public place, and of the pavement thereon, shall be under the 
 supervision of the Street Commissioner, and shall promptly comply 
 with any order of said commissioner in reference thereto. The earth 
 removed in making any excavation shall be restored, and the pave- 
 ment taken up shall be relaid by the said company in as good con- 
 dition as before the making of such excavation or taking up of such 
 pavement, and thereafter shall be maintained in as good con- 
 dition as the surrounding pavement, until such street, avenue or 
 highway in each case shall be repaved by the city. No street, ave- 
 nue, alley or public place shall be incumbered for a longer period 
 than shall be necessary to execute the work for which the excavation 
 is made. The cost of restoring the earth or otherwise, arising from 
 such excavations, and the laying of pavements and repairs thereto, 
 caused by the opening of any such avenue, street, alley or public 
 place, shall be paid by said company, and said work shall be done 
 under the supervision of the Street Commissioner. In case the com- 
 pany shall fail to restore, relay or repair any pavement or street 
 surface within 48 hours after receiving notice from the Street Com- 
 missioner that such work is required, said Street Commissioner shall 
 have the right to cause such work to be done, and the cost thereof 
 shall be paid by the company. 
 
 Sec. 4. And be it further ordained that said company shall 
 indemnify the Common Council of the City of Plainfield against and 
 assume all liability and damages which may at any time arise, come 
 or occur to said city from any injury to persons or property frbm the 
 doing of any work herein mentioned, or from the neglect of the 
 company or its employes to comply with the provisions of any ordi- 
 
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 nance of the city relative to the use of streets or other public places, 
 especially as to the putting up of lights or barriers at or around ex- 
 cavations; and the acceptance by the company of this ordinance 
 shall be an agreement by it to pay to the Common Council of Plain- 
 field any sum of money for which the city may become liable from 
 or by reason of such injury and damage. 
 
 Sec. 5. And be it further ordained that the said company shall 
 file with the Mayor or City Clerk its acceptance of this ordinance 
 within twenty (20) days from the date when -such ordinance shall 
 take effect, and shall also file with the City Treasurer a satisfactory 
 bond with sureties approved by the Mayor in the sum of three thou- 
 sand dollars ($3,000), that it will faithfully comply with and per- 
 form all of the terms and conditions of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 6. And be it further ordained that the said The New York 
 and New Jersey Telephone Company shall provide sufficient space 
 in said subways or underground conduits to accommodate the tele- 
 graph or telephone wires or conductors operated from time to time 
 by the Police, Fire and other Departments of the City of Plainfield. 
 
 Sec. 7. And be it further ordained that said company shall pay 
 into the City Treasurer all advertising and printing fees incurred 
 by the city under this ordinance, and that this ordinance shall take 
 effect immediately. 
 
 Approved November 11, 1897. 
 
 An Ordinance for Preventing or Removing from the Streets of the 
 City of Plainfield Obstructions, Encroachments, Encumbrances 
 and Nuisances, and Concerning the Laying Down of Iron, Lead, 
 Glass, Wood or other Pipes for the Conveyance of Water or 
 Gas in said Streets. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Coun- 
 cil, do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That no person or persons, or corporation, shall 
 place or cause to be placed upon any of the streets, roads, high- 
 ways, sidewalks or alleys of said city, any pipes or castings of 
 iron or other metal, or of other hard substance without first ob- 
 taining from said Common Council a designation of the streets, 
 roads, highways, sidewalks or alleys in which the same may be 
 placed, and the manner of placing the same, under penalty of a 
 fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offence. 
 
 Sec. 2. That no person or persons, or corporation, shall dig 
 or plow, or otherwise disturb the surface of any of the streets, roads, 
 highways, alleys or sidewalks of said city, without first obtain- 
 ing from said Common Council a designation of such streets, roads, 
 
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 highways, alleys and sidewalks, and of the manner in which the 
 work may be done, under a penalty of a fine not exceeding one 
 hundred dollars for each offence. 
 
 Sec. 3. That no person or persons, or corporation, shall lay 
 down, or cause to be laid down, iron, lead, glass, wood or other 
 pipes, for the conveyance of water or gas in the streets, highways, 
 alleys and sidewalks of said city withoutx first obtaining from the 
 Common Council of said city a designation of the streets, highways, 
 alleys and sidewalks in which the same may be laid, and in what 
 part thereof the same may be laid, and the manner of laying the 
 same, under a penalty of a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars 
 for each offence. 
 
 Sec. 4. That any person or persons who, or corporation which, 
 shall fail to remove from the streets, highways, sidewalks or alleys 
 of said city, any pipes or castings of iron or other metal, or other 
 hard substance, that shall have been placed or caused to be placed 
 thereon by such person or persons, or corporation in violation of 
 Section 1 of this ordinance, within twenty-four hours after being 
 notified so to do by the Street Commissioner of said City, shall be 
 liable to the penalty of twenty dollars fine for each day that such 
 failure to remove as aforesaid shall continue. 
 
 Sec. 5. That any person or persons who, or corporation which, 
 shall fail to remove from the streets, roads, highways, sidewalks or 
 alleys of said city, any iron, lead, glass, wood or other pipes for the 
 conveyance of water or gas, that such persons or corporation may 
 have laid down or caused to be laid down contrary to the provisions 
 of Section 2, 'of this ordinance, within twenty-four hours after being 
 notified so to do by the Street Commissioner of said city, shall be 
 liable to the penalty of twenty dollars fine for each day that such 
 failure to remove as aforesaid shall continue. 
 
 Sec. 6. That nothing in the preceding sections of this ordinance 
 shall be construed to prevent the repair of pipes laid in pursuance 
 of the provisions of this ordinance, nor the repair of any gas pipes 
 that shall have been laid prior to the adoption of this ordinance, 
 nor to prevent the temporary use or disturbance of the streets, roads, 
 highways, alleys and sidewalks for the purpose of making such re- 
 pairs. 
 
 Sec. 7. That no person or persons, or corporation shall carry 
 on or maintain a system of water works within the limits of the 
 said City of Plainfield until there shall first have been introduced 
 into said city a system of sewerage adequate and sufficient to carry 
 off such water as may be supplied by said system of water works so 
 as not to endanger the health or well-being of the inhabitants of said 
 city; but nothing in this ordinance contained shall be construed to 
 apply to or interfere with the contract heretofore entered into be- 
 
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 tween said city and the Water Works Company of Plainfield. Any 
 person or persons or corporation who shall violate any of the pro- 
 visions of this section shall be liable to the penalty of a fine not ex- 
 ceeding one hundred dollars for every day that such violation shall 
 continue. 
 
 Approved December 24, 1890. 
 
 An Ordinance Concerning the Use and Repair of Streets. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That in case the surface of any of the streets or 
 sidewalks of said City shall have been disturbed or shall be disturb- 
 ed by any person or persons or corporation, it shall be the duty of 
 such person or persons or corporation respectively within ten days 
 after such disturbance, or in case the same shall have already been 
 made before the date on which this ordinance shall go into effect, 
 then within ten days from the date last referred to, to cause said 
 streets or sidewalks to be put as nearly as practicable in as good 
 condition as the same were in before being disturbed as aforesaid, 
 so that the same shall be hard, smooth, and even on the surface and 
 of the same grade and level as before said disturbance was begun. 
 And it shall further be the duty of any such person or persons or 
 corporation in case any such disturbance as aforesaid or any work 
 done in connection therewith by such person or persons or corpora- 
 tion has caused or shall at any time or times cause any depression 
 or elevation in any street or sidewalk so disturbed to remedy said 
 defect within ten days after being notified by the Street Commis- 
 sioner in writing so to do. Any person or persons who or any cor- 
 poration which shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance 
 shall on conviction thereof be punished by a fine not exceeding one 
 hundred dollars for each and every offence. 
 
 Approved September 15, 1891. 
 
 An Ordinance to Establish Street Numbers for Parcels of Real Es- 
 tate in the City of Plainfield. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the several parcels of real estate fronting on 
 the streets, avenues, roads, lanes and alleys of the City of Plainfield 
 shall be numbered and each of said parcels shall be known and 
 designated by the number or numbers indicated on the official tax 
 maps of said City, adopted by resolution of the Common Council 
 
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 February seventh, nineteen hundred and ten, on file with the Col- 
 lector of Taxes, and entitled as follows: “Block Assessment Maps 
 of the City of Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, First Ward, 
 
 1909,” “Block Assessment Maps of the City of Plainfield, Union 
 
 County, New Jersey, Second Ward, 1909,” “Block Assessment Maps 
 of the City of Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey, Third Ward, 
 
 1909,” “Block Assessment Maps of the City of Plainfield, Union 
 
 County, New Jersey, Fourth Ward, 1909,” all made by F. J. Hub- 
 bard, Civil Engineer, and said maps are hereby adopted as the offi- 
 cial maps of the City of Plainfield for the purpose of establishing 
 street numbers, and the numbers shown on said maps are hereby 
 established as the proper numbers of said parcels of real estate re- 
 spectively. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the owner or owners of each and every dwelling 
 house or store which now fronts upon any of the public streets, 
 avenues, roads, lanes or alleys of said city on which the proper 
 number is not now placed as hereinafter specified, shall within sixty 
 days after this ordinance goes into effect, cause the proper number 
 of such dwelling house or store to be placed in figures in some sub- 
 stantial manner in some conspicuous place on the front part of such 
 dwelling house or store, so as to be plainly visible from the side- 
 walk, and in default of compliance herewith, shall be liable to a 
 penalty of five dollars for each and every offence. * 
 
 Sec. 3. That the owner or owners of every dwelling house or 
 store that may hereafter be erected within the limits of said City, 
 shall, within thirty days after the completion thereof, cause the 
 proper numbers of such dwelling house or store to be placed in fig- 
 ures in some substantial manner in some conspicuous place on the 
 front part of such dwelling house or store so as to be plainly visible 
 from the sidewalk, and in default of compliance herewith, shall be 
 liable to a penalty of five dollars for each and every offence. 
 
 Sec. 4. That to enable the owner or owners of any parcel of 
 real estate fronting on any of the streets, avenues, roads*, lanes or 
 alleys of said City to ascertain the correct number thereof, it shall 
 be the duty of the Collector of Taxes, upon application made to him, 
 to allow such applicant to inspect said official maps and said official 
 maps shall also at all proper times be open to the inspection of the 
 public at the office of the Collector of Taxes. 
 
 Sec. 5. That in case the owner of any lot or lots shall at any 
 time desire the renumbering thereof he shall be at liberty to apply 
 to the Common Council by petition, which petition shall be accom- 
 panied by a properly prepared map showing the changes desired, 
 and clearly showing how the numbers for the entire block would 
 stand in case such renumbering is ordered. The applicant shall pre- 
 sent with his said petition, proof by affidavit that a copy of said 
 
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 petition together with notice of his intention to apply to the Com- 
 mon Council has been served upon all of the owners of property 
 fronting on the said block or published in all the officials papers of 
 said City at least ten days prior to date of presentation of such peti- 
 tion, and thereupon the Common Council may in its discretion by 
 resolution order said block to be renumbered in the manner specified 
 in such application or in such other manner as they may deem best. 
 In case the Common Council order any change in the numbering of 
 said block, a map duly authenticated shall be filed with the Collector 
 of Taxes showing the changes as made, and upon said map being so 
 fi’ed, the numbers designated thereon shall, as to the block in ques- 
 tion, supersede those on the original maps referred to in this ordi- 
 nance. 
 
 Sec. 6. That the ordinance entitled “An Ordinance to Provide 
 a New System of Street Numbers,” approved March 22, 1892, and 
 all other ordinances or parts of ordinances, so far as they are incon- 
 sistent herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved December 5, 1910. 
 
 An Ordinance Locating the Tracks of the Plainfield Street Railway 
 Companjs and Regulating the Construction and Operation of 
 the Same and Granting Permission to said Company to use 
 Electric Motors as the Propelling PoAver of its Cars. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the tracks of the Plainfield Street Railway 
 Company’s railway be and are hereby located pursuant to the route 
 designated in their articles of incorporation in the following streets 
 and avenues of the City of Plainfield, to wit: 
 
 Beginning at a point at the intersection of West Sixth street 
 with the' southwesterly line of Park avenue and running thence 
 through West Sixth street westerly to Plainfield avenue; thence 
 through Plainfield avenue southerly -to West Seventh street; thence 
 through West Seventh street westerly to Monroe avenue; thence 
 through Monroe avenue northerly to West Fourth street; thence 
 through West Fourth street easterly to Grant avenue; thence 
 through Grant avenue northerly to West Front street; thence 
 through West Front street to the southwesterly side line of Park 
 avenue, and also from Front street through Somerset street to the 
 line of North Plainfield township. 
 
 And said Street Railway Company is hereby given the right to 
 construct, maintain and operate its street railway in said streets 
 within the City of Plainfield. A detailed plan of construction shall 
 
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 be filed with the City Clerk by said company and be approved by 
 said Common Council before any work is done under the permission 
 herein granted. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the said company shall construct, maintain and 
 operate a double track street railway in Front street from Grant 
 avenue to Park avenue, and in other streets and avenues and por- 
 tions thereof above designated. The said company shall construct, 
 maintain and operate a single track street railway to be laid upon 
 the middle line of the street (except when by ordinance of the Com- 
 mon Council shall otherwise expressly determine) with suitable 
 turnouts and switches; Provided, that no turnout shall be more than 
 one hundred and fifty feet in length, nor within five hundred feet 
 of any other turnout on the same street; and provided also, that 
 every turnout shall be laid equally on each side of the middle line 
 of the street. 
 
 Sec. 3. Said Company shall keep in repair to the satisfaction 
 of the Committee on Streets, the paving or other surface material 
 of the portion of streets, roads and bridges occupied by its tracks^ 
 and in addition shall so keep in repair eighteen inches on each side 
 of the said streets, roads, and bridges occupied by its tracks; or, if 
 not so kept and maintained, the repairs thereto may be made by or 
 under the direction of said Committee on Streets, and to their satis- 
 faction, and the expense thereof shall be paid on demand by said 
 company to said city; Provided, that the said Committee on Streets 
 or a majority of them, shall give at least ten days’ notice, in writing, 
 of the intention to make such repairs; the said notice to be served 
 upon any officer or employee of said company who may be found at 
 their office or depot. 
 
 Sec. 4. The said company and its officers, servants, agents or 
 employees shall not nor shall any or either of them be allowed to 
 shovel, throw or place any snow, ice or slush alongside the said track 
 or tracks, in any street or streets, in such manner as to obstruct 
 other public travel therein; but, when removing such snow, ice or 
 slush from said track or tracks, the said company or its said officers, 
 servants, agents or employees, shall cause the same to be immediate- 
 ly levelled between said track or tracks and the gutter lines on each 
 side thereof; under a penalty of twenty dollars to be paid by said 
 company, or by any of its said officers, servants, agents or employees 
 so offending to said city, for each and every offence. 
 
 Sec. 5. The rails to be used for said railway shall be of steel, 
 and shall be of the best and most approved quality and pattern of 
 side bearing rails, of not less than 66 pounds to the yard, and the 
 sleepers, ties, chairs and spikes shall severally be of the best quality 
 of their respective kinds; and both material and workmanship shall 
 be subject to the inspection and approval of the Committee on 
 
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 Streets; and said railway shall not be operated for the transporta- 
 tion of passengers, or fares be collected thereon, until such approval 
 and acceptance by said Common Council or a majority of them. 
 
 Sec. 6. The company shall, in laying its tracks, switches and 
 turnouts, conform in all cases, to the grade lines of the streets, as 
 now established, or as they may be hereafter changed or established 
 by the Common Council; and said company shall in case of any 
 such change of grade, conform thereto, and alter such tracks, 
 switches and turnouts at their own expense, and without unneces- 
 sary delay, and under the direction of said Committee on Streets; 
 or in case of default, the said Committee on Streets shall make such 
 a change, or cause the same to be made, and the expense thereof 
 shall be paid, on demand, by said company to said city; Provided, 
 ten days’ notice of the committee’s intention to make such change 
 shall be given, and served in the same manner as in case of repairs 
 as aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 7. In passing over the gutters of any cross street where 
 the bottom of such gutters is or may be below the grade line of 
 such railroads, the rails shall be securely laid and fastened upon 
 iron bridges of the most approved pattern; and such bridges shall be 
 extended on each side of the track or tracks to the gutter line of 
 the street in which said track or tracks is or are laid; the bridges 
 and work to be subject to the inspection and approval of said Com- 
 mittee on Streets, in every particular. 
 
 Sec. 8. During the construction of said railroad, no unneces- 
 sary hindrance or obstruction to ordinary travel upon any such 
 street or streets, shall be permitted; and if any accident or other 
 casualty shall happen or occur, at any time, to any person or prop- 
 erty, because or by reason of any work connected with such con- 
 struction of said railroad or afterward because or by reason of any 
 operation thereof, or through the carelessness or negligence of any 
 of the company’s officers or servants, agents or employees the said 
 company shall be liable therefor, and shall indemnify and save 
 said city harmless from all cost, loss or damage by reason thereof. 
 
 Sec. 9. No car belonging to said company shall be allowed to 
 stand in or obstruct any cross street, or to stand upon any cross- 
 walk, for any purpose or purposes whatsoever; nor to stand or re- 
 main in any one position, upon any street, for more than five min- 
 utes at one time; except when said car shall be unavoidably ob- 
 structed or detained without the fault or negligence of said com- 
 pany, or any of its officers, servants, agents or employees under the 
 penalty of five dollars to be paid by said company to said city for 
 each and every offence. And that cars stopping to take up or let 
 off passengers at any street crossing, shall in all cases do so upon 
 the far side of such street crossing. 
 
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 Sec. 10. The said city reserves the right to dig or excavate in 
 or upon any such street in which said railway shall be so constructed 
 for the purpose of laying, examining, repairing or replacing any 
 water or sewer pipe or other pipe or making or shutting off any con- 
 nection therewith, or for the purpose of making any other public 
 improvement, or of doing any other public work of any kind whatso- 
 ever; and the said company shall not have any recourse against 
 said city therefor, for damages or otherwise, because of any deten- 
 tion or obstruction to the travel upon said railroad arising there- 
 from. • 
 
 Sec. 11. If the said company shall fail to build or construct 
 that part of said road lying between the point at the corner of Mon- 
 roe avenue and West Seventh street and the point at the intersection 
 of Front street and the southwesterly line of Park avenue, with its 
 turnouts and switches in the manner aforesaid, and to put the same 
 in complete operation for the transportation of passengers, within 
 six months next after the passage of this amended ordinance, and 
 the rest of said road within nine months after the passage of a reso- 
 lution by the Common Council directing said company to proceed 
 and complete the road as aforesaid, daily and every day for the 
 space of three consecutive months, all the rights, powers, and priv- 
 ileges, and every one of them, of said company, their successors or 
 assigns, under and by virtue of this ordinance, shall thereupon 
 cease and be determined, and this ordinance shall become null and 
 void, so far as the grant of any such right, power or privilege to 
 said company is concerned and, in either of such cases, the Com- 
 mon Council expressly reserve the right to cause the said railroad, 
 or any part or parts thereof, so constructed, to be removed from 
 said street or streets, or any of them and to sell and dispose of the 
 materials thereof by public auction, and, after paying all the ex- 
 penses of such removal and sale and of repairing the said street 
 or streets, and of restoring the same as nearly as possible to its or 
 their original condition to pay the balance of the proceeds of such 
 sale to the said company, or its successors or assigns; Provided, that 
 no notice of such sale shall be required to be given, other than an 
 advertisement, signed by the City Clerk, and published in one or 
 more newspapers printed and published in said city. 
 
 Sec. 12. That the cars shall be of the pattern known as the 
 vestibule cars. They shall be lighted by electricity and properly 
 heated in Winter, and shall be similar in construction and design 
 to the cars of the Rapid Transit Street Railway Company of the 
 City of Newark, N. J. The company shall use upon its cars the Cli- 
 max or other noiseless gearing, and shall have proper bells or gongs, 
 and shall be run at a speed of not more than twelve miles an hour. 
 
 Sec, 13. That the cars to be used on said railroad shall be pro- 
 
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 pelled by electricity supplied by overhead wires; that the poles 
 necessary for the overhead electric construction shall be of steel or 
 iron, they shall be placed between curb lines and sidewalk, opposite 
 each other, and shall be located as nearly as may be one hundred 
 and twenty-five feet apart. The trolley wire shall be properly 
 guarded so as to prevent other wires coming in contact therewith. 
 The current used by said company to propel its cars shall not ex- 
 ceed five hundred volts. 
 
 Sec. 14. That the fares charged for the transportation of pas- 
 sengers over the said railway within the City of Plainfield, shall be 
 as follows: Children under four years of age, free; children over 
 four and under ten years of age not occupying seats required by 
 other passengers, three cents. All others five cents. School tickets 
 shall be sold for three cents to all children actually attending school, 
 and to all teachers engaged in teaching school within the City of 
 Plainfield. That said company shall maintain a system of transfers 
 for a continuous ride within the city limits for a single fare on all 
 lines now or hereafter owned or operated by said company, and also 
 to give and receive like transfers to and from all the lines of other 
 street railways upon any equitable basis that can be agreed upon 
 by said companies. And in case of failure of any two of said com- 
 panies to agree upon any such equitable basis of transfer, the ques- 
 tion shall be submitted to three arbitrators, one to be chosen by each 
 of the disagreeing companies, a like number by the Common Council 
 of the City of Plainfield, and a fifth by those so chosen, the decision 
 of a majority of such arbitrators to- be final and conclusive and 
 binding upon each of the companies. 
 
 Sec. 15. That no license fee shall be charged for the running 
 of the cars of the said company for the period of five years from the 
 date of the adoption of this ordinance; that for each and every year 
 next following said first term of five years there shall be paid to the 
 city a license fee of twenty dollars per annum for every car oper- 
 ated by said company. 
 
 Sec. 16. That the cars of the said company shall be run under 
 the following minimum headway: Between six A. M. and ten A. M., 
 fifteen minutes; between ten A. M. and three P. M., thirty min- 
 utes; between three P. M. and eight P. M., fifteen minutes; between 
 eight P. M. and midnight, thirty minutes. The said headway to be 
 reduced as the service requires. Said company shall run its cars in 
 both directions along all portions of its route so that there shall be 
 an equal number of trips each way daily. 
 
 Sec. 17. That when any improvements or other method of 
 furnishing power for the propulsion of cars by electricity shall have 
 been determined to be a practical success, by a commission consist- 
 ing of three electrical engineers, one to be selected by the Common 
 
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 Council, one by the said company, and the third by the two so 
 chosen, such company shall within six months after the passage of 
 a resolution by the Common Council requiring the same to be done, 
 and notice thereof given to said company to adopt such improve- 
 ments or take down their overhead construction, and substitute 
 therefor such new methods of propulsion; Provided, such commis- 
 sion may be appointed at any time the Mayor and Common Council 
 may by resolution require, and the said company shall appoint its 
 representative within thirty days after the adoption of such resolu- 
 tion, or forfeit the permission hereby given; and if such commission 
 shall report in favor of the adoption of such improvements or meth- 
 od for propulsion of cars by electricity hereby permitted, another 
 commission or commissions may be appointed as often as the Com- 
 mon Council may require in the same manner and subject to the 
 same condition. 
 
 Sec. 18. In case such substitution is made, or the said com- 
 pany shall forfeit the permission hereby given by refusal to appoint 
 a member of the commission as in the last section provided for, the 
 Common Council may order the poles and overhead construction of 
 the said company taken down, and the said company shall within 
 ninety days from the service of such order upon the President or 
 any director of said company take down and remove such poles and 
 overhead construction, and restore the pavement of the street or 
 streets to its original condition within that time. In case the poles 
 and overhead construction are not removed or the street restored 
 to its original condition by any company within ninety days from the 
 service of such order, the same shall be done by the Street Commis- 
 sioner, at the expense oT said company, and the company shall in 
 that «ase pay all expenses connected therewith on demand, and in 
 case the city shall remove such poles and overhead construction, 
 the same shall thereupon become and be the property of the city. 
 
 Sec. 19. That said company upon the final adoption of this 
 ordinance and before exercising any of the rights and privileges 
 granted hereby, shall, as a condition precedent, file with the City 
 Clerk of the City of Plainfield a contract to be executed by said 
 company and duly approved by the Corporation Counsel, wherein 
 said company covenant and agree with the inhabitants of the City of 
 Plainfield to abide by and perform all the matters and things in this 
 ordinance as the same shall be amended by the proposed amendment 
 introduced April 4, 1892, on the part of said company to be observed, 
 kept and performed; that it will, at any and all times hereafter, fully 
 indemnify and protect the City of Plainfield of and from any and all 
 suits, actions and proceedings that may be brought and maintained, 
 or sought to be brought and maintained, by any person or corpor- 
 ation for, on account of or by reason of, the adoption or mainten- 
 
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 ance by said company, its successors or assigns of said electric sys- 
 tem aforesaid, or the construction or maintenance of said electric 
 system, or any thing connected therewith, or any act of omission 
 or commission by said company, its successors or assigns or any of 
 its agents or servants, at any time or times, and shall whenever re- 
 quested by said city, fully defend any and every such action, suit or 
 proceeding. 
 
 Sec. 20. That said company shall also at the same time herein 
 above specified for filing said contract, file a bond to the city in the 
 sum of twenty thousand dollars to be approved as to form by the 
 Common Council and Corporation Counsel of said city, conditioned 
 for the full and faithful keeping, observance and performance of the 
 terms and conditions in this ordinance “as the same shall be amend- 
 ed by the proposed amendment introduced April 4, 1892,” contain- 
 ed, on part of said company to be kept, observed or performed. And 
 in case the conditions or terms upon which said company is granted 
 permission to locate its tracks and maintain and operate its road or 
 any of the terms or conditions of the said contract are violated; the 
 city reserves the right to revoke the permission herein granted, to 
 remove the tracks of the said company and all the constructions 
 made in the streets of the city by the said company, its successors or 
 assigns. 
 
 (Amendment of May 4, 1892.) 
 
 That in case it shall be hereafter judicially determined that 
 the provisions of the ordinance to which this is an amendment or the 
 provisions of said ordinance as amended hereby, which authorize 
 the erection of poles in the streets of the city are invalid, the inten- 
 tion of the Common Council and of the said Plainfield Street Rail- 
 way Company is that the rest of the ordinance shall remain in force 
 subject to the option of the Common Council to repeal the same in 
 case said company fail within six months after notice to agree with 
 the Common Council upon some other method of propulsion for 
 their street cars. 
 
 Approved April 27, 1891. 
 
 An Ordinance Authorizing the Plainfield Street Railway Company 
 to Extend the Location of Its Tracks. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the Plainfield Street Railway Company be and 
 is hereby authorized to extend the location of its tracks as follows: 
 From the southwest side line of Park avenue on West Front street, 
 through East Front street to Peace street, thence through Peace 
 
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 street to its intersection with the northeasterly side line of North 
 avenue, the track to be a single track to be laid in the centre of said 
 streets (with the necessary switches and turnouts on Peace street at 
 the end of the route), under the same restrictions as are applicable 
 with respect to the route heretofore located by ordinance, Provided, 
 that said company, upon the final adoption of this ordinance, and 
 before exercising any of the rights or privileges granted hereby, 
 shall, as a condition precedent, execute and file with the City Clerk 
 a contract and a bond to be duly approved by the Corporation Coun- 
 sel, which contract and bond shall be of like tenor and effect as 
 specified in sections numbered 19 and 20 in the original ordinance 
 locating the tracks of said company, except that said contract and 
 bond shall apply and relate to the extension hereby granted. 
 
 Approved October 4, 1892, 
 
 An Ordinance Locating the Tracks of the Extension of the Plainfield 
 Street Railway Company, and Regulating the Construction and 
 Operation of the Same, and also Concerning the Compensation 
 to be Paid by said Plainfield Street Railway Company to the 
 City of Plainfield. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the tracks of the extension of the Plainfield 
 Street Railway Company’s railway be and are hereby located in the 
 following streets, roads and alleys of the City of Plainfield: 
 
 Route 1. From the present terminus of the road in Watchung 
 avenue through Watchung avenue to East Fifth street, through East 
 Fifth street to Richmond street, through Richmond street to Put- 
 nam avenue, and through Putnam avenue to Woodland avenue, 
 through Woodland avenue to South avenue, through South avenue 
 to the station of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, at Netherwood. 
 Also from Watchung avenue, through Fourth street to Grant ave- 
 nue. 
 
 Route 2. From the present terminus of the road in Front 
 street at Grant avenue to the city line at Dunellen. 
 
 And in those portions of said streets, roads and alleys marked 
 out and shown on map filed in the office of the City Clerk of said city 
 entitled “Map showing location of tracks, turn-outs and poles for 
 proposed extension of Plainfield Street Railway, No. 2, and signed 
 by John T. Fritts, Vice-President, dated September, 1895,” to which 
 reference is made and the same hereby made a part of this ordi- 
 nance; and the said company is hereby given the right to construct, 
 maintain and operate its extension to its street railway in said por- 
 
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 tions of said streets, roads and alleys under and subject to certain 
 restrictions and regulations hereinafter specified or referred to; the 
 same being usch restrictions and regulations as the Common Coun- 
 cil hereby deem requisite for the public interests, as well as subject 
 to such further reasonable regulations as may be hereafter enacted 
 by said Common Council. A detailed plan of construction shall be 
 filed with the City Clerk by said company, and be approved by said 
 Common Council before any work is done under the permission 
 herein granted. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the said company shall construct, maintain and 
 operate a single track railway for said extension, to be laid upon 
 the middle line of the street, except on Watchung avenue; between 
 North avenue and East Fourth street, and shall construct the tracks, 
 switches, turnouts and poles in the manner and at the points and 
 places indicated for the same on said map. The poles shall be con- 
 structed and set and the wires strung thereon in the same manner 
 as the poles are constructed and set in the ground, and wires strung 
 on poles on the line of street railways now operated in the City of 
 Plainfield by the Plainfield Street Railway Company. 
 
 Sec. 3. That said company shall keep in repair to the satisfac- 
 tion of the Committee on Streets, the paving or other surface mater- 
 ials of the portion of streets^ roads and bridges occupied by it§^ 
 tracks, and in addition shall so keep in repair eighteen inches on 
 each side of the portion of said streets, roads and bridges occupied 
 by its tracks. In case of double tracks, or switches or turnouts, 
 the expression “occupied by its tracks” shall be construed to mean 
 all space in the street between the outermost rails. In case the city 
 shall at any time determine to pave or repave any street or section of 
 a street, the said company shall forthwith repave any portion of said 
 street or section of street which may be occupied by the company’s 
 tracks and for eighteen inches beyond, with same material and in 
 same manner, and shall do so at the company’s expense under the 
 supervision of the Street Commisioner. If said company shall at any 
 time fail to comply with any of the requirements of this section, 
 the work or repairs hereinabove specified may be done or made by 
 or under the direction of said Committee on Streets, and to their 
 satisfaction, and the expense thereof shall on demand be paid by 
 said company to said city; Provided that the said Committee on 
 Streets or a majority of them shall give at least ten days’ notice in 
 writing of the intention to do such work or make such repair, said 
 notice to be served upon any officer or employee of said company 
 who may be found at their office or depot. 
 
 Sec. 4. The said company and its officers, servants, agents or 
 employees shall not, nor shall any or either of them be allowed to 
 shovel, throw or place any snow, ice or slush alongside the said 
 
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 track or tracks, in any street or streets, in such manner as to ob- 
 struct other public travel therein; but, when moving said snow^ ice 
 or slush from said track or tracks, the said company or its officers, 
 servants, agents or employees shall cause the same to be immedi- 
 ately levelled between said track or tracks and the gutter lines on 
 each side thereof unless the fall of snow shall have been too heavy to 
 make it practicable to level the same as aforesaid; in which latter 
 case the said company shall pay its pro rata of the expense of the 
 removal of said snow. Upon violation of any of the provisions of 
 this section, there shall be incurred a penalty of ten dollars for every 
 city block on which such violations shall take place, but said penalty 
 shall not aggregate more than one hundred dollars in any one’ day; 
 said penalties to be paid to the city by the said company or by any 
 of its said officers, agents or employees so offending for each and 
 every offence. 
 
 Sec. 5. That the rights and privileges intended to be given by 
 this ordinance to said company are subject to all limitations, provis- 
 ions, terms and conditions set forth and contained in sections 5, 6, 
 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 18 of the ordinance of the city, en- 
 titled, “An ordinance locating the tracks of the Plainfield Street 
 Railway Company and regulating the construction and operation of 
 the same and granting permission to said company to use electric 
 motors as the propelling power of its cars,” approved April 2 7, 1891, 
 to the same extent and with the same effect as if said sections were 
 re-enacted in full as a part of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 6. That the gauge of the tracks of said company to be 
 hereafter laid shall be four feet eight and one-half inches, and the 
 other tracks of said company already laid may be made of the same 
 gauge. That all the cars of the said company shall be similar to 
 those now in use by it or such as shall be approved by the Common 
 Council of said city. They shall be lighted by electricity, and prop- 
 erly heated in Winter. Said company shall use upon its cars the 
 Climax or other noiseless gearing and equip said cars with proper 
 bells or gongs, and said cars shall be run at a speed of not more 
 than ten miles an hour. ISp salt shall be used by said company on 
 any part of its tracks. For violation of any of the conditions of this 
 section there shall be incurred a penalty of ten dollars for each of- 
 fence and ten dollars additional for every day that such violation 
 shall continue, not exceeding one hundred dollars on any ©ne con- 
 viction. 
 
 Sec. 7. That said company shall on or before the first day of 
 March, 1896, equip each street railway car by it operated or run 
 within the City of Plainfield, with fenders of the most approved 
 pattern, to be approved by the Mayor of the city, and so attached 
 to the car as best to protect from injury persons or vehicles using 
 
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 the streets or riding on the said cars; that after said last mentioned 
 date no street railway car, the motive power of which is electricity, 
 shall be operated or run upon any of the streets of said city, unless 
 such car is equipped with fenders as above required, and in case any 
 such car is operated or run contrary hereto the said company and 
 every person or persons who shall either as president, manager, con- 
 ductor, motorman or otherwise be engaged in so operating or run- 
 ning any such car shall be deemed to have violated this section, 
 and on conviction shall forfeit and pay fifty dollars for each day 
 during which such violation shall continue, not exceeding one hun- 
 dred dollars for any one conviction. 
 
 Sec. 8. The said company shall build -or construct its exten- 
 sions in the order specified in Sec. 1, and if the said company shall 
 fail to build or construct the lines mentioned in route 1 of this ordi- 
 nance with turnouts and switches in the manner aforesaid, and put 
 the same into complete operation for the transportation of passen- 
 gers within nine months after the passage of this ordinance, and if 
 the said company shall fail to build or construct the lines mentioned 
 in route 2 of this ordinance with turnouts and switches in the man- 
 ner aforesaid, and put the same into complete operation for the 
 transportation of passengers within twelve months after the pas- 
 sage of this ordinance; or shall afterwards fail or neglect to operate 
 the same as aforesaid, all the rights, powers and privileges and 
 every one of them of said company, their successors or assigns, un- 
 der and by virtue of this supplemental ordinance, shall thereupon 
 cease and determine, and this ordinance shall be null and void so far 
 as the grant of any such right, power and privilege to said company 
 is concerned, and in either of such cases the Common Council ex- 
 pressly reserves the right to cause the said railroad or any part or 
 parts thereof, so constructed, to be removed from said street or 
 streets, or any of them, and to sell and dispose of the materials 
 thereof by public auction, and after paying all the expenses of such 
 removal and sale and of repairing the said street or streets, and of 
 restoring the same as nearly as possible to its or their original con- 
 dition, to pay the balance of the proceeds of such sale to the said 
 company, or its successors or assigns. Provided, that no notice of 
 such sale shall be required to be given, other than advertisement, 
 signed by the City Clerk, and published in any one or more news- 
 papers printed and published in said city. The time during which 
 the said company shall be delayed in the prosecution of its work 
 or in the operation of its road or in any section thereof by injunction 
 or other legal proceedings in the courts of New Jersey, or the fed- 
 eral courts in New Jersey, shall not be included within the nine 
 and twelve months within which the said extensions are to be con- 
 structed and put into complete operation. 
 
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 Sec. 9. The said company shall for each and every mile of 
 street occupied by its tracks laid already or that shall hereafter be 
 laid by said company, whether under the provisions of the ordinance 
 hereinabove referred to, approved April 27, 1891, or the amendment 
 thereof approved May 4, 1892, or under the ordinance entitled, “An 
 Ordinance authorizing the Plainfield Street Railway Company to 
 extend the location of its tracks,” approved October 4, 1892, or un- 
 der this ordinance, or under any other ordinance and also for every 
 mile of street occupied by tracks that may be owned or operated 
 or that may be hereafter owned or operated by said company within 
 the limits of the City of Plainfield, pay or cause to be paid to the 
 collector of taxes of said city for the use of the said city, the follow- 
 ing sums, to wit: For the year beginning January 1, 1896, fifty 
 dollars a mile; for the year beginning January 1, 1897, seventy-five 
 dollars a mile; for the year beginning January 1, 1898, seventy-five 
 dollars a mile; for the year beginning January 1, 1899, one hun- 
 dred dollars a mile; for the year beginning January 1, 1900, one 
 hundred dollars a mile; for the year beginning January 1, 1901, 
 one hundred and twenty-five dollars a mile, for each and every mile 
 of track; said payments to be made each and every year on or be- 
 fore the last day of each year. For the years succeeding that begin- 
 ning 1901 the said company shall pay at the same rate as for the 
 year 1901, provided that when the gross receipts in any one year 
 from the entire system within the City of Plainfield and the Borough 
 of North Plainfield shall equal or exceed eighty thousand dollars,, 
 then for that year and annually thereafter, the said company shall 
 pay annually to said City Collector for the use of said city five per 
 cent, of the gross earnings of said company, and said gross earnings 
 shall be construed to include all earnings of said company and full 
 proportion on all earnings on through traffic to be calculated ac- 
 cording to the proportion between the entire length of the journey 
 and the number of miles traveled within the limits of the City of 
 Plainfield or the Borough of North Plainfield or both as the case 
 may be. That to enable the city to ascertain from time to time 
 the amount of gross earnings of said company the books of the 
 company shall be open to inspection by the Finance Committee of the 
 Common Council or such other person or persons as the Common 
 Council for that purpose shall designate. The payment provided 
 for in this section shall be in lieu of all license fees for cars, 
 whether provided for in prior ordinances or not. 
 
 Sec. 10. That the tracks and cars of said company shall be 
 used for the carrying of passengers only; that no freight shall be 
 carried by said company or over its tracks, and that no luggage 
 other than hand luggage actually carried by passengers shall be 
 carried or allowed upon the cars of said company or any other cars 
 
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 passing over said tracks. Nothing herein contained, however, shall 
 prevent the company from carrying the U. S. mail. That cars 
 shall not be run in trains of more than two cars over any of the 
 tracks of said company, and that all cars shall stop upon being sig- 
 naled by any foot passenger at any street corner past which said 
 tracks are or shall be laid, and passengers shall be freely allowed to 
 board said cars or alight therefrom at any street corners, and said 
 company shall cause the cars to come to a full stop and sound the 
 gong or bell immediately before turning any curve on road now con- 
 structed or to be constructed. Any violation of any of the provis- 
 ions of this section by said company or any of its employees shall 
 be subject to a penalty of twenty dollars fine for each and every 
 offence. 
 
 Sec. 11. That in case the said company shall lease its tracks, or 
 any section of the same, or sell, or assign its franchises, or attempt 
 so to do, said company shall cause to be inserted in any such lease, 
 deed, bill of sale, assignment or other transfer, a stipulation and 
 agreement and condition that the same is made subject to the pro- 
 visions of this ordinance, and that the lessee, vendee, assignee or 
 other person to whom such lease, conveyance, assignment or trans- 
 fer may be made or attempted to be made in accepting the same 
 agrees to be bound thereby and to conform thereto, and will in turn 
 insert a clause similar to that required by this section in case of 
 any lease, conveyance, assignment or transfer thereof to be made, 
 so that no persons or corporations shall acquire any rights in the 
 premises except subject to the same terms and conditions as herein 
 provided. 
 
 Sec. 12. That said company upon the final adoption of this 
 ordinance and before exercising any of the rights and privileges 
 granted hereby, shall as a condition precedent file with the City 
 Clerk of the City of Plainfield a contract to be executed by said 
 company and duly approved by the corporation counsel, wherein 
 said company covenant and agree with the inhabitants of the City 
 of Plainfield, to abide by and perform all the matters and things 
 herein, on the part of said company required to be observed, kept 
 and performed; that it will, at any and all times hereafter, fully in- 
 demnify and protect the City of Plainfield of and from any and all 
 suits, actions and proceedings that may be brought and maintained, 
 or sought to be brought and maintained, by any person or corpora- 
 tion for, on account of or by reason of, the adoption or maintenance 
 by said company, its successors or assigns, of said electric system 
 aforesaid, or the construction or maintenance of said electric system 
 or any thing connected therewith, or any act of omission or com- 
 mission by said company, its successors or assigns or any of its 
 agents or servants, at any time or times, and shall whenever re- 
 
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 quested by said city, fully defend any and every such action, suit or 
 ] proceeding. 
 
 Sec 13. That said company shall also at the same herein above 
 specified for filing said contract, file a bond to the city in the sum of 
 twenty thousand dollars to be approved as to form by the Common 
 Council and Corporation Counsel of said city, conditioned for the 
 full and faithful keeping, observance and performance of the terms 
 and conditions in this ordinance contained, on the part of this com- 
 pany to be kept, observed and performed. And in case the condi- 
 tions or terms upon which said company is granted permission to lo- 
 cate its track and maintain and operate its road or any of the terms 
 or conditions of said contract are violated, the city reserves the right 
 to revoke the permission herein granted, to remove the tracks of 
 the said company and all the constructions made in the streets of the 
 city by said company, its successors or assigns. 
 
 Sec. 14. The company shall file with the City Clerk, within 
 thirty days next after the passage of this ordinance, their accept- 
 ance, under their corporate seal and signed by their president, of 
 the terms and provisions, restrictions and regulations hereof, and 
 everyone of them, and, in default thereof, it shall be understood and 
 held that they decline to accept the same, and thereupon all rights, 
 powers and privileges, to them granted thereby, shall forever cease 
 and be at an end, in the same manner and with the same effect as if 
 this ordinance had never been passed. 
 
 Approved January 3rd, 1896. 
 
 An Ordinance Locating the Tracks of the Extension of the Plainfield 
 Street Railway Company in Richmond Street and East Second 
 Street, and over a Private Right of Way to the Line of the 
 City of Plainfield in Terrill Road, and Authorizing and Empow- 
 ering the Construction and Operation and Maintenance of the 
 same and Granting Permission for Said Company to Use Elec- 
 tricity as the Propelling Power of its Cars and Prescribing the 
 Terms and Conditions Upon Which the Said Location of the 
 Tracks and Permission are Granted. 
 
 Whereas, The Plainfield Street Railway Company, a street rail- 
 way corporation organized under the provisions of the laws of the 
 State of New Jersey, and operating a street railway in the City of 
 ' Plainfield, did present their petition or application to the Mayor and 
 Common Council of the City of Plainfield, New Jersey, praying the 
 said Mayor and Common Council of the City of Plainfield for their 
 consent to the construction, operation and maintenance of an ex- 
 tension of its street railway in the City of Plainfield, from a point in 
 
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 its present line of tracks in East Fifth street opposite to Richmond 
 street; thence westerly through Richmond street to East Second 
 street; thence northerly through East Second street to the present 
 terminus of East Second street between Netherwood avenue and 
 Leland avenue; thence along a right of way through private property 
 to the line of the City of Plainfield in Terrill road, and, 
 
 Whereas, Public notice has been duly given of such applica- 
 tion and of the intention of the Council of the City of Plainfield, 
 to consider the same by publication and also by posting a copy of 
 the said notice in five or more of the most public places in the said 
 City of Plainfield, at least fourteen days prior to the date fixed for 
 the meeting of the said Council of the City of Plainfield to consider 
 said application; and. 
 
 Whereas, Upon the day fixed by said notice for said hearing 
 and upon the days to which the said hearing was regularly ad- 
 journed, public hearing was given to all persons desiring to be heard, 
 in favor of or opposed to or in anywise interested in the said ap- 
 plication for the location of the said tracks of the said street railway 
 company and the said matter having been duly considered by the 
 Council of the City of Plainfield, and the said Council having deter- 
 mined to grant permission for the construction, maintenance and 
 operation of such street railway upon the streets, highways or pub- 
 lic places designated in such petition, and the said company having 
 filed with the clerk of the City of Plainfield, the consent in writing 
 of the owners, or their duly authorized legal representatives, of at 
 least one-half in amount of the lineal feet of property on said Rich- 
 mond street from East Fifth street to East Second street and on 
 East Second street, from Richmond street to the present terminus 
 of East Second street between Netherwood avenue and Leland ave- 
 nue, and thence along a right of way through private property to 
 the line of the City of Plainfield in Terrill road. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the tracks of the extension of the Plainfield 
 Street Railway Company’s Railway be and are hereby located in 
 the following streets, roads and alleys of the City of Plainfield: 
 Prom a point in the present ilne of tracks of the Plainfield Street 
 Railway Company in East Fifth street, opposite to Richmond street; 
 thence westerly through Richmond street to East Second street; 
 thence northerly through East Second street to the present ter- 
 minus of said East Second street, between Netherwood avenue and 
 Leland avenue; thence along a right of way through private property 
 northeasterly on a curve having a radius of four hundred and sev- 
 enty-one feet and eight-tenths of a foot, two hundred and one feet 
 and seventy-four hundredths of a foot; thence north twenty-one 
 
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 degrees and five minutes east two hundred and eigthy-three feet and 
 twenty-three hundredths of a foot; thence easterly on a curve with 
 a radius of one thousand and eleven feet and five-tenths of a foot, 
 four hundred and five feet and fifteen hundredths of a foot; thence 
 north forty-four degrees two minutes east, two thousand three 
 hundred and four feet and twenty hundredths of a foot to the line 
 of the City of Plainfield in Terrill road, and in those portions of said 
 streets, roads and alleys marked out and shown on map filed in the 
 office of the City Clerk of said city, entitled “Map showing location 
 of tracks, turnouts and poles for proposed extension of Plainfield 
 Street Railway, No. 3” and signed by Thomas A. Nevius, President, 
 dated August, 1898, to which reference is made and the same here- 
 by made a part of this ordinance, and the said company is hereby 
 given the right to construct, maintain and operate its extension to 
 its street railway in said portions of said streets, roads and alleys, 
 under and subject to certain restrictions and regulations hereinafter 
 specified or referred to, the same being such restrictions and regu- 
 lations as the Common Council hereby deem requisite for the public 
 interests as well as subject to such further reasonable regulations 
 as may be hereinafter enacted by said Council. All rights and priv- 
 ileges under this ordinance conferred upon said company shall cease 
 and expire on the first day of January, A. D., 1998, and thereupon 
 on demand, said company will forthwith remove all of its said tracks 
 from the streets, lanes and alleys of said city. A detailed plan of 
 construction shall be filed with the City Clerk by said company and 
 be approved by said Common Council before any work is done un- 
 der the permission herein granted. This ordinance is furthermore 
 passed upon the express condition that if at any time hereafter the 
 said city or its Common Council shall locate the tracks of any other 
 street railway company or grant consent to the location of the 
 tracks of any other street railway company over that portion of 
 Richmond street lying between the southerly line of North avenue 
 and the northerly line of East Third street, such other street rail- 
 way company shall have the right to use the tracks and poles of 
 said Plainfield Street Railway Company that may be laid or erected 
 on said portion of Richmond street in common with said Plainfield 
 Street Railway Company upon terms to be agreed upon between 
 such other company and said Plainfield Street Railway Company, 
 or in case said two companies shall fail for the space of thirty 
 days next after demand made upon them by such other company 
 to agree upon the terms, then upon terms to be established and 
 determined by the Common Council of said City of Plainfield. 
 
 Sec. 2. That said company shall construct, maintain and op- 
 erate a single track railway for said extension, to be laid upon the 
 middle line of Richmond street and East Second street to the pres- 
 
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 ent terminus of East Second street; thence along a right of way, 
 through private property, to the line of the City of Plainfield in 
 Terrill road; it shall construct, operate and maintain a double track 
 street railway, and shall construct the tracks, switches, turnouts 
 and poles in the manner and at the point and places indicated for 
 the same on said map; the poles shall be constructed and set and 
 the wires strung rthereon in the same manner as the poles are con- 
 structed and set in the ground and wires strung on poles on the 
 line of street railway now operated in the City of Plainfield by the 
 said Plainfield Street Railway Company. 
 
 Sec. 3. That said company shall keep in repair to the satis- 
 faction of the Committee on Streets the paving or other surface ma- 
 terial of the portion of streets, roads and bridges occupied by its 
 tracks and in addition shall so keep in repair eighteen inches on 
 each side of the portion of said streets, roads and bridges occupied 
 by its tracks. In case of double track or switches or turnouts, 
 the expression “occupied by its tracks,” shall be construed to mean 
 all space in the street between the outermost rails. In case the city 
 shall at any time determine to pave or repave any street or section 
 of street, the said company shall forthwith repave any portion of 
 said street or section of street which may be occupied by the com- 
 pany’s track and for eighteen inches beyond, with same material 
 and in same manner, and shall do so at the company’s expense un- 
 der the supervision of the Street Commissioner. If said company shall 
 at any time fail to comply with any of the requirements of this 
 section, the work or repairs hereinabove specified may be done or 
 made by or under the direction of the said Committee on Streets, 
 and to their satisfaction, and the expense thereof shall on demand 
 be paid by said company to said city; provided, that the said Com- 
 mittee on Streets or a majority of them shall give at least ten days’ 
 notice in writing of the intention to do such work or make such 
 repairs, said notice to be served upon any officer or employee of 
 said company who may be found at their office or depot. 
 
 Sec. 4. The said company and its officers, servants, agents or 
 employees shall not nor shall any or either of them be allowed to 
 shovel, throw or place any snow, ice or slush along the side of said 
 track or tracks in any street or streets in such a manner as to ob- 
 struct other public travel therein; but, w'hen moving said snow, ice 
 or slush from said track or tracks the said Company or its officers, 
 servants, agents or employees shall cause the same to be immedi- 
 ately leveled between the said track or tracks and the gutter line 
 on each side thereof unless the fall of snow shall have been too 
 heavy to make it practicable to level the same aforesaid; in which 
 latter case the said company shall promptly remove all such excess 
 of snow. Upon violation of any of the provisions of this section. 
 
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 there shall be incurred a penalty of Ten Dollars for every city block 
 in which any such violation shall take place, but said penalty shall 
 not aggregate more than One Hundred Dollars in any one day or on 
 any one conviction; said penalty to be paid to the city by the said 
 company or by any of its said officers, agents or employees so offend- 
 ing for each and every offence. 
 
 Sec. 5. That the rights and privileges intended to be given by 
 this ordinance to said company are subject to all limitations, pro- 
 visions, terms and conditions set forth and contained in sections 
 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 18 of the ordinance of the city 
 entitled “An ordinance locating the tracks of the Plainfield Street 
 Railway Company and regulating the construction and operation 
 of the same and granting permission to said company to use elec- 
 tric motors as the propelling power of its cars,” approved April 
 twenty-seventh, 1891, to the same extent and with the same effect 
 as iJ said sections were re-enacted in full as part of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 6. That the gauge of the tracks to be laid hereunder 
 shall be four feet eight, eight and one-half inches. That all the 
 cars of the said company shall be similar to those now in use by it 
 or such as shall be approved by the Common Council of said city. 
 They shall be lighted by electricity and properly heated in winter. 
 Said company shall use upon its cars the Climax or other noiseless 
 gearing and equip said cars with proper bells or gongs, and said 
 cars shall be run at a speed of not more than ten miles an hour. 
 No salt shall be used by said company on any part of its tracks. 
 For violation of any of the conditions of this section there shall be 
 incurred a penalty of ten dollars for each offence and ten dollars ad- 
 ditional for every day that such violation shall continue, not ex- 
 ceeding one hundred dollars on any one conviction. 
 
 Sec. 7. The cars to be operated or run upon the extension of 
 the railway of the Plainfield Street Railway Company hereby author- 
 ized to be constructed shall be equipped with fenders of the pat- 
 tern approved by the Mayor of the city, and so attached to the cars 
 as best to protect persons and vehicles using the street and persons 
 riding on the cars from injury. 
 
 Sec. 8. The said company shall build or construct the exten- 
 sion hereby authorized with turnouts and switches in the manner 
 aforesaid and put the same into complete operation for the trans- 
 portation of passengers on or before July 1st, A. D., 1899, and up- 
 on failure so to do or upon failure or neglect to operate the same 
 as aforesaid all the rights, powers and privileges and every one of 
 them of the said company, their successors and assigns, under and 
 by virtue of this supplemental ordinance shall thereupon cease and 
 determine and this ordinance shall be null and void so far as the 
 grant of any such rights, power and privilege to said company is 
 
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 concerned, and in either of such cases the Common Council ex- 
 pressly reserve the right to cause the said railroad or any port or 
 parts thereof, so constructed, to be removed from said street or 
 streets or any of them and to sell and dispose of the material thereof 
 by public auction, and, after paying all the expenses of such removal 
 and sale and of repairing the said street or streets and of restor- 
 ing the same, as nearly as possible to its or their original condition, 
 to pay the balance of the proceeds of such sale to the said company 
 or its successors or assigns, provided, that no notice of such sale shall 
 be required to be given, other than an advertisement signed by the 
 City Clerk, and published in any one or more newspapers printed 
 and published in said city. The time during which the said company 
 shall be delayed in the prosecution of its work or in the operation 
 of its road or in any section thereof by injunction or other legal 
 proceedings in the courts of New Jersey, or the Federal Courts 
 shall not be included within the period within which the said ex- 
 tension is to be constructed and put into complete operation. 
 
 Sec. 9. All tracks of the Street Railway Company now laid 
 or hereafter to be laid, are to be copiously watered throughout their 
 entire length and for the space of two feet on each side thereof, twice 
 in each day, from the 15'th day of May to the 1st day of October 
 in each year; once before 11 A. M., and once after 2 P. M., and in 
 case of the failure of the Street Railway Company so to do, to the 
 satisfaction of the Street Commissioner or the Common Council, 
 said company shall pay to the Treasurer of the City of Plainfield 
 the sum of $20.00 per day for each and every day such failure 
 shall continue to exist; such payment to be considered as liquidated 
 damages for such default. 
 
 Sec. 10. The said company shall for the fifty years beginning 
 January first, 1899, as compensation for the rights granted under 
 this ordinance, pay the Collector or other receiving officer of the 
 City of Plainfield, for the use of the said city, a sum equal to five 
 per cent, of the gross earnings of the company on the tracks hereby 
 authorized to be laid, and for the succeeding twenty-five years shall 
 pay to the Collector or other receiving officer of said city, for the use 
 of said city, a sum not to exceed seven and one-half per cent, and 
 not less than five per cent, of the gross earnings of the company 
 upon the tracks; and during the next twenty-four years a sum not 
 greater than ten or less than five per cent, of the gross earnings 
 upon said tracks. The percentages to be paid as aforesaid for 
 either or both of said last periods of twenty-five and twenty-four 
 years respectively, if not mutually agreed upon between the said 
 city and the said company within sixty days respectively after the 
 beginning of said respective periods shall be fixed within the limits 
 of the percentages as above specified by three arbitrators, one to 
 
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 1)6 appointed by the city, one by the said company and the third by 
 the Circuit Court of the County of Union on five days’ notice, and 
 if for either or both of said periods last referred to said company 
 shall fail to agree with the city upon the percentage or percentages, 
 and also fail to appoint its arbitrator, and notify the city in writing 
 of said appointment within five days after notice to appoint such ar- 
 bitrator, then the percentage or percentages to be paid by said 
 company annually for such period or periods, respectively, shall be 
 the maximum percentage for such period or periods above speci- 
 fied. The gross earnings shall be construed to be all the earn- 
 ings of the company upon said tracks hereby authorized to be laid, 
 including the full proportion of the earnings on traffic within the 
 City of Plainfield and other traffic to be computed according to the 
 proportion between the length of the journey and the number of 
 miles traveled upon the tracks hereby authorized to be laid, provided 
 that the annual gross earnings of the said company upon said tracks 
 hereby authorized to be laid shall for the purpose of entitling the 
 eity to said percentage, and fixing the minimum sum on which said 
 percentage shall be paid, be deemed and taken to be not less than 
 such sum as would be produced by adding to all fares of five cents 
 each or less than five cents each, paid during the year upon said 
 portion of said tracks, two and one-half cents each for all other 
 passengers carried upon said tracks or any portion thereof, above 
 the age of ten years, and one and one-half cents each for all other 
 passengers between the age of four and ten years carried over any 
 portion of the tracks hereby authorized to be laid during the year. 
 And to enable such calculation to be readily made the said com- 
 pany, its successors or assigns, will at all tihies cause separate re- 
 turns to be made and properly tabulated in its books showing the 
 number of passengers carried and the fares paid upon the line of 
 tracks hereby authorized to be laid or any portion thereof, and the 
 number of passengers carried on any part of said '‘tracks who paid 
 more than five cent fares per passenger, or who paid fares beyond 
 the line of tracks hereby authorized, and also showing the num- 
 ber of passengers carried upon any portion of any of the tracks 
 -of said company located within the territory of the City of Plain- 
 field or the Borough of North Plainfield, and the fares paid by 
 them, whether such fares were paid within or without such terri- 
 tory, and a further table showing the proportion of earnings re- 
 ferred to in the first part of this paragraph; and annually between 
 the first day of January and the fifteenth day of January 
 in each year the said company, its successors and assigns, 
 will file with the City Clerk of said city a complete and 
 •detailed statement, signed by its president or vice-president 
 .and its treasurer, showing in fact what were the gross earnings 
 
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 for the year ending the first day of said month upon said tracks, 
 and a table similarly signed showing in detail the total minimum 
 amount of gross earnings as they would be calculated according to 
 the terms of this section, and similar statement showing gross earn- 
 ings on all the tracks of said company within the City of Plain- 
 field or the Borough of North Plainfield, either and both. That 
 to enable the City to ascertain from time to time the amount of 
 gross earnings of such company, or to ascertain any facts required 
 to be entered as aforesaid, the books of the company shall from 
 time to time when required, be opened in Plainfield to inspection 
 by the Finance Committee of the Common Council or such other 
 person or persons as the Common Council for that purpose shall 
 designate. The payment provided for in this section shall, as to the 
 line of tracks hereby authorized, be in lieu of all license fees for 
 cars whether provided for in prior ordinances or not, but the mon- 
 eys to be paid by said company to the city, as to all tracks hereto- 
 fore authorized, shall be determined according to prior ordinances, 
 except that in determining the amounts payable to the city under 
 such prior ordinances, there shall be added to gross receipts on the 
 other tracks the gross receipts of the line of tracks hereby author- 
 ized, and when the total in any one year shall equal or exceed 
 Eighty Thousand Dollars for the entire system within the City of 
 Plainfield and the Borough of North Plainfield, including gross 
 earnings on tracks hereby authorized, then for that year and an- 
 nually thereafter, there shall be paid as aforesaid to the collec- 
 tor of said city, for the use of the city, five per cent, of the gross 
 earnings on tracks heretofore authorized, and on gross earnings on 
 tracks hereby authorized, the percentages hereinabove specified for 
 the same — the intent hereof being that as to the tracks authorized 
 by this ordinance, compensation or the percentage basis above par- 
 ticularly set forth shall be chargeable from the beginning; and as 
 to the tracks authorized by prior ordinances, compensation to the 
 city shall be paid as at present until the total gross receipts of 
 said company on all its tracks within the territory of said city and 
 borough, including tracks authorized by this ordinance, shall equal 
 or exceed Eighty Thousand Dollars, and after that percentages shall 
 be chargeable on all gross receipts as hereinabove particularly 
 specified. 
 
 Sec. 11. That the tracks and cars of said company shall be 
 used for the carrying of passengers only; that no freight car or cars 
 shall be run over any of its tracks, that no freight shall be carried 
 by said company or over its tracks and that no luggage other than 
 hand luggage actually carried by passengers shall be carried or al- 
 lowed upon the cars of said company, or any other cars passing over 
 said tracks. Nothing herein contained, however, shall prevent the 
 
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 company from carrying tho U. S. Mail. That cars shall not be run in 
 trains of more than two cars over any of the tracks of said com- 
 pany, and that all cars shall stop upon being signalled by any 
 foot passenger at any street corner past which said tracks are or shall 
 be laid, and passengers shall be freely allowed to board said cars 
 or alight therefrom at any street corner, and said company shall 
 cause the cars to come to a full stop and sound the gong or bell im- 
 mediately before turning any curve or crossing such street or streets 
 as may be designated by the Common Council on road now con- 
 structed or to be constructed. Any violation of any of the provis- 
 ions of this section by said company or any of its employees shall 
 be subject to a penalty of Twenty Dollars fine for each and every 
 offence. 
 
 Sec. 12. That all the duties or obligations imposed upon said 
 Plainfield Street Railway Company by this ordinance or the contract 
 hereinafter referred to shall be binding and obligatory upon said 
 company, its successors and assigns, and in case the said company 
 shall lease its tracks or any section of the same, or sell or assign 
 its franchise, or attempt so to do, said company shall cause to be 
 inserted in any such lease, deed, bill of sale, assignment or other 
 transfer a stipulation and agreement and condition that the same 
 is made subject to the provisions of this ordinance, and the con- 
 tract herein referred to, and that the lessee, vendee, assignee or 
 other person to whom such lease, conveyance, assignment or trans- 
 fer may be made or attempted to be made in accepting the same 
 agrees to be bound hereby and to conform thereto and will in turn 
 insert a clause similar to that required by this section ip case of 
 any lease, conveyance, assignment or transfer thereof to be made, 
 so that no person, or corporations, shall acquire any rights in the 
 premises except subject to the same terms and conditions herein 
 and in said contract provided. 
 
 Sec. 13. That the said company upon the final adoption of 
 this ordinance and before exercising any of the rights and priv- 
 ileges granted hereby shall as a condition precedent execute on its 
 part (after properly filling blanks for dates) and file with the City 
 Clerk of the City of Plainfield a contract between said company 
 and inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, in the words and figures 
 contained in the draft of said contract filed with the City Clerk De- 
 cember 12, 1898, and endorsed “Contract between Plainfield Street 
 Railway Company and Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, referred 
 to in Street Railway ordinance introduced December 12, 1898,” and 
 said contract shall thereupon be duly executed on behalf of the City 
 by the Mayor and City Clerk and impressed with the corporate seal 
 of said city. 
 
 Sec. 14. That said company shall also at the same time here- 
 
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 inabove specified for filing said contract file a bond to the city in 
 the sum of twenty thousand dollars to be approved as to form by 
 the Common Council and Corporation Counsel of said city, condi- 
 tioned for the full and faithful keeping, observance and perform- 
 ance of the terms and conditions in this ordinance contained, and also 
 the terms and conditions contained in the contract referred to in 
 the last preceding section on the part of this company to be kept, 
 observed and performed. And in case the condition or terms upon 
 which said company is granted permission to locate its tracks and 
 maintain and operate its road or any of the terms or conditions of 
 the said contract are violated, the city reserves the right to re- 
 voke the permission herein granted, to remove the tracks of the said 
 company and all the constructions made in the streets of the city 
 by said company, its successors or assigns. 
 
 Sec. 15. The said company shall within thirty days next after 
 the passage of this ordinance, file with the City Clerk its acceptance 
 of said ordinance and of the contract hereinabove referred to, in- 
 cluding all the agreements, terms, provisions, restrictions and regu- 
 lations, and every one thereof in said ordinance or contract contained, 
 which said acceptance shall be under the corporate seal of said com- 
 pany and shall be signed by the president of said company; and in 
 default of the filing of such acceptance within the time limited afore- 
 said, it shall be understood and held that said company declines to 
 accept the same, and thereupon all rights, powers and privileges 
 to them granted thereby shall forever cease and be at an end in 
 the same manner and with the same effect as if this ordinance had 
 never been passed. 
 
 Approved December 29th, 1898. 
 
 An Ordinance Locating the Tracks of the Southeasterly Extension 
 of the Plainfield Street Railway Company, and Authorizing 
 and Empowering the Construction and Operation and Main^ 
 tenance of. the Same, and Granting Permission for Said Com- 
 pany to Use Electricity as the Propelling Power of its Cai*s, 
 and Prescribing the Terms and Conditions Upon Which the said 
 Location of the Tracks and Permission are Granted. 
 
 'Whereas, The Plainfield Street Railway Company, a street rail- 
 way corporation organized under the provisions of the laws of the 
 State of New Jersey, and operating a street railway in the City of 
 Plainfield, did present their petition or application to the Mayor and 
 Common Council of the City of Plainfield, New Jersey, praying the 
 said Mayor and Common Council of the City of Plainfield for their 
 consent to the construction, operation and maintenance of an ex- 
 
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 tension of its street railway in the City of Plainfield, in Arlington 
 avenue, from the present line of the Plainfield Street Railway Com- 
 pany in West Fourth street to Randolph road; in Randolph road 
 from Arlington avenue to Park avenue; in Park avenue from Ran- 
 dolph -road to a point 1,652.19 feet southerly from the center of 
 Randolph road; thence through a private right-of-way to a point 
 near Woodland avenue; thence parallel with Woodland avenue in a 
 southerly direction to the city and county line; as particularly in- 
 dicated on a map dated and filed October 2, 1899, in the City Clerk’s 
 office, entitled “Map showing Location of Tracks, Turnouts and 
 Poles for Proposed Extension of Plainfield Street Railway, No. 4;’’ 
 and. 
 
 Whereas, Public notice has been duly given of such application 
 and of the intention of the Common Council of the City of Plain- 
 field to consider the same, by publication, and also by posting a 
 copy of the said notice in five or more of the most public places in 
 ihe said City of Plainfield, at least fourteen days prior to the date 
 fixed for the meeting of the said Common Council of the City of 
 Plainfield to consider said application; and. 
 
 Whereas, Upon the date fixed by said notice for said hearing, 
 and upon the days to which the said hearing was regularly ad- 
 journed, public hearing was given to all persons desiring to be 
 heard, in favor of or opposed to or in anywise interested in the said 
 application for the location of the said tracks of the said Street 
 Railway Company, and the said matter having been duly consid- 
 ered by the Common Council of the City of Plainfield, and the said 
 Common Council having determined to grant permission for the 
 construction, maintenance and operation of such street railway up- 
 on the streets, highways or public places designated in such petij 
 tion, and the said Company having filed with the Clerk of the City 
 of Plainfield the consent in writing of the owners, or their duly 
 authorized legal representatives, of at least one-half in amount of 
 the lineal feet of property on said Arlington avenue from West 
 Fourth street to Randolph road, on Randolph road from Arling- 
 ton avenue to Park avenue, on Park avenue, from Randolph road 
 to a point 1,652.19 feet southerly from the center of Randolph road, 
 and on the private right-of-way hereinafter described. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Coun- 
 cil, do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the tracks of the southeasterly extension of 
 the Plainfield Street Railway Company’s railway be and are here- 
 by located in the following streets, roads and alleys of the City of 
 Plainfield: 
 
 Beginning at the intersection of the center lines of Arlington 
 avenue and West Fourth street as the same are now laid out and 
 
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 opened and running thence along said center line, of Arlington ave- 
 nue, as follows: South forty-three degrees ^and nine minutes east 
 
 (S 43 deg. 9 min. E) a distance of three hundred and seventy and 
 sixty-nine one-hundredths (370.69) feet to the center of West Fifth 
 street; thence south forty-three degrees and three minutes east (S 
 43 deg. 3 min. E) a distance of three hundred and forty-eight and 
 nine-tenths (348.9) feet to the center of West Sixth street; thence 
 south forty-two degrees and twenty-one minutes east (S 42 deg. 21 
 min. E) a distance of one hundred and seventy-two and fifty-six one- 
 hundredths (172.56) feet to a point; thence south forty degrees and 
 twenty-one minutes east (S 40 deg. 21 min. E) a distance of two hun- 
 dred and fifty-two and three-tenths (252.3) feet to the center of 
 West Seventh street; thence south forty degrees and seventeen min- 
 utes east (S 40 deg. 17 min. E) a distance of thirteen hundred and 
 seventy-nine and twenty-one one hundredths (1379.21) feet to a 
 point of curve; thence curving to the left with a radius of one hun- 
 dred and thirty- two and five-tenths (132.5) feet a distance of ninety- 
 eight and ninety-seven one hundredths (98.97) feet to a tangent 
 point; thence south eighty-three degrees and five minutes east (S 
 83 deg, 5 min E) a distance of fifty and three-tenths (50.3) feet 
 to a point of curve; thence curving to the right with a radius of 
 two hundred and seven and thirty-three one-hundredths (207.33) 
 feet a distance of one hundred and forty-one and twelve one-hun- 
 dredths (141.12) feet to a tangent point; thence south forty-four 
 degrees and five minutes east (S 44 deg. 5 min. E) a distance of 
 twelve hundred and fifty-two and twenty-one one-hundredths 
 (1252.21) feet to a point of curve; thence curving to the right with 
 a radius of three hundred and twenty-five and fifty-one one-hun- 
 dredths (325.51) feet to a distance of two hundred and thirty-eight 
 and seven-tenths (238.7) feet to a tangent point; thence south two 
 degrees and four minutes east (S 2 deg. 4 min. E) a distance of five 
 hundred and eighty-one and ninety-eight one-hundredths (581.98) 
 feet to the centre of Randolph road; thence along said center of 
 Randolph road south eighty-eight degrees and thirteen minutes 
 east (S 88 deg. 13 min. E) a distance of ten hundred and sixty- 
 four and two-tenths (1064.2) feet to a point distant eleven and 
 five-tenths (11.5) feet easterly at right angles from the center of 
 Park avenue; thence along Park avenue and eleven and five-tenths 
 (11.5) feet east of the center line of the same south eleven degrees 
 and seventeen minutes east (S 11 deg. 17 min. E) a distance of 
 sixteen hundred and fifty-two and nineteen one-hundredths 
 (1652.19) feet to a point distant forty-one (41) feet south of the 
 division line between properties of J. L. Brewster and Nathan H. 
 Randolph; thence through a private right-of-way parallel with said 
 division line and distant forty-one (41) feet at right angles there- 
 
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 from, north eighty degrees and seven minutes east (N 80 deg. 7 
 min. E) a distance of two hundred and fifty-four (254) feet to a 
 point of curve; thence curving to the left with a radius of five hun- 
 dred (500) feet a distance of one hundred and forty-three and sev- 
 en-tenths (143.7) feet to a point of reverse curve; thence curving 
 to the right with a radius of five hundred (500) feet a distance of 
 one hundred and forty-three and seven-tenths (14 3.7) feet to 
 a tangent point in division line between properties of Nathan H. 
 Randolph aforesaid and the heirs of Elkanah Randolph; thence 
 along said division line north eighty degrees and seven minutes 
 east (N 80 deg. 7 min. E) a distance of nine hundred and nineteen 
 and ninety-four one-hundredths (919.94) feet to a stone and north- 
 westerly corner of property of the Hillside Cemetery Association; 
 thence curving to the right with a radius of five hundred (500) 
 feet a distance of one hundred and forty-one and ninety-five one- 
 hundredths (141.9 5) feet to a point of reverse curve; thence curv- 
 ing to the left with a radius of five hundred (500) feet a distance 
 of one hundred and forty-one and ninety-five one-hundredths 
 (141.95) feet to a tangent point distant forty (40) feet in a south- 
 erly direction at right angles from the northerly line of property 
 of the Hillside Cemetery Association aforesaid; thence parallel with 
 said line north seventy-nine degrees and fifty-eight minutes east 
 (N 79 deg. 58 min. E) a distance of five hundred and thirty (530) 
 feet, more or less, to a point of curve; thence curving to the right 
 with a radius of one hundred (100) feet, a distance of two hun- 
 dred and forty (240) feet; more or less, to a tangent point dis- 
 tant forty (40) feet west at right angles from the easterly side of 
 Woodland avenue; thence parallel with the easterly side of Woodland 
 avenue and distant forty (40) feet westerly at right angles there- 
 from as follows: South four degrees and twenty-eight minutes 
 
 west (S 40 deg. 2 8 min. W) a distance of thirty (30) feet, more or 
 less; south nine degrees and thirty minutes west (S 9 deg. 30 min. 
 W) five hundred and thirty-seven and five-tenths (537.5) feet, more 
 or less; south eight degrees and nineteen minutes west (S 8 deg. 
 19 min. W) a distance of one hundred and forty-nine and five- 
 tenths (149.5) feet, more or less; south one degree and fifty-eight 
 minutes east (S 1 deg. 58 min. E) a distance of three hundred and 
 twenty-two (322) feet, more or less; south ten degrees and twenty- 
 one minutes east (S 10 deg. 21 min. E) three hundred and fifty- 
 five and five-tenths (355.5) feet, more or less, to the city line, and 
 in those portions of said streets, roads and alleys, marked out 
 and shown on map filed in the office of the City Clerk of said city, 
 entitled “Map Showing Location of Tracks, Turnouts and Poles for 
 Proposed Extension of the Plainfield Street Railway, No. 4,” and 
 dated October 2, 1899, to which reference is made and the same is 
 
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 hereby made a part of this ordinance, and the said company is here-^ 
 by given the right to construct, maintain and operate its extension 
 to its street railway in said portions of said streets, roads and al- 
 leys, under and subject to certain restrictions and regulations here- 
 inafter specified or referred to, and the same being such restric- 
 tions and regulations as the Common Council hereby deem requi- 
 site for the public interests, as well as subject to such further rea- 
 sonable regulations as may be hereinafter enacted by said Coun- 
 cil. All rights and privileges under this ordinance conferred upon 
 said company shall cease and expire on the first day of January, 
 A, D., 1999, and thereupon, on demand, said company will forth- 
 with remove all of its tracks from the streets, lanes and alleys of 
 said city. A detailed plan of construction shall be filed with the 
 City Clerk by said company and be approved by said Common Coun- 
 cil before any work is done under the permission herein granted. 
 
 Sec. 2. That said company shall construct, maintain and op- 
 erate a single track railway for said extension, to be laid in the 
 center of said streets or highways, except in Park avenue, where 
 the center line of the track shall be eleven and one-half feet 
 east of the center line of Park avenue, and in Arlington avenue, 
 from a point one hundred and twenty-five feet southeast of the cen- 
 ter of West Fourth street to a point fifty feet northwest of the cen- 
 ter of West Fifth street, where the center line of the track shall be 
 two and one-half feet northeast of the center line of Arlington ave- 
 nue, said portion of the track to be connected with the present 
 track in West Fourth street, and with the proposed track in Ar- 
 lington avenue by reverse curves, and as shown on map, and shall 
 construct the track, switches, turnouts and poles in the manner and 
 at the points and places indicated for the same on said map; the 
 poles shall be constructed and set and the wires strung thereon 
 in the same manner as the poles are constructed and set in the 
 ground and wires strung on poles on the line of street railway now 
 operated in the City of Plainfield by the said Plainfield Street Rail- 
 way Company. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the rights and privileges intended to be given 
 by this ordinance to said company are subject to all limitations, pro- 
 visions, terms and conditions set forth and contained in sections 5, 
 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17 and 18 of the ordinance of the city en- 
 titled, “An Ordinance locating the tracks of the Plainfield Street 
 Railway Company and regulating the construction and operation of 
 the same and granting permission to said company to use electric 
 motors as the propelling power of its Cars,” approved April 27, 
 1891; also in sections 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the ordinance- 
 of the city entitled, “An ordinance locating the tracks of the ex- 
 tension of the Plainfield Street Railway Company in Richmond 
 
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 street and East Second street and over a private right-of-way to the 
 line of the City of Plainfield in Terrill road, and authorizing and 
 empowering the construction and operation and maintenance of the 
 same, and granting permission for said company to use electricity 
 as the propelling power of its cars, and prescribing the terms and 
 conditions upon which the said location of the tracks and permis- 
 sion are granted,” approved December 2 9, 1898, to the same ex- 
 tent and with the same effect as if said sections were re-enacted 
 in full as part of this ordinance, excepting that in section 10 of the 
 latter ordinance the period of fifty years referred to, shall as to the 
 present ordinance begin on January 1, 1900, instead of on January 1, 
 1899. 
 
 Sec. 4. The said company shall build or construct the exten- 
 sion hereby authorized, with turnouts and switches, in the manner 
 aforesaid, and put the same into complete operation for the trans- 
 portation of passengers on or before July 1, 1900, and upon failu-re 
 so to do or upon failure or neglect to operate the same as afore- 
 said, all the rights, powers and privileges, and every one of them 
 of the said company, their successors and assigns, under and by 
 virtue of this supplemental ordinance, shall thereupon cease and 
 determine, and this ordinance shall be null and void so far as the 
 grant of any such rights, power and privilege to said company is 
 concerned, and in either of such cases the Common Council expressly 
 reserve the right to cause the said railroad, or any part or parts 
 thereof, so constructed, to be removed from said street or streets or 
 any of them, and to sell and dispose of the material thereof by public 
 auction, and, after paying all the expenses of such removal sale, 
 and of repairing the said street or streets, and of restoring the 
 same, as nearly as possible, to its or their original condition, to 
 pay the balance of the proceeds of such sale tQ the said company, 
 or its successors or assigns, provided, that no notice of such sale 
 shall be required to be given, other than an advertisement, signed 
 by the City Clerk, and published in any one or more newspapers 
 printed and published in said city. The time during which the said 
 company shall be delayed in the presecution of its work, or in the 
 operation of its road, or in any section thereof, by injunction or 
 other legal proceedings in the courts of New Jersey, or the Fed- 
 eral courts, shall not be included within the period within which 
 the said extension is to be constructed and put into complete oper- 
 ation. 
 
 Sec. 5. That the said company upon the final adoption of this 
 ordinance, and before exercising any of the rights and privileges 
 granted hereby, shall, as a condition precedent, execute on its part, 
 and file with the City Clerk of the City of Plainfield, a bond to the 
 city in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, to be approved as to 
 
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 form by the Common Council and Corporation Counsel of said city, 
 conditioned for the full and» faithful keejling, observance and per- 
 formance of the terms and conditions of this ordinance contained. 
 And in case the condition or terms upon which said company is 
 granted permission to locate its tracks and maintain and operate 
 its road are violated the city reserves the right to revoke the per- 
 mission herein granted, to remove the tracks of the said company 
 and all the constructions made in the streets of the city by said 
 company, its successors or assigns. 
 
 Sec. 6. That the cars of said company shall be run on a head- 
 way of not more than thirty minutes in each direction over 
 the extension herein authorized, from the time in the morning when 
 the cars begin running on the other lines of said company in the 
 City of Plainfield until eleven o’clock P. M. When the gross earn- 
 ings upon the extension herein authorized shall amount to fifteen 
 dollars per car per day, the cars shall be run upon the same sched- 
 ule as that in operation upon the other lines in this city. 
 
 Sec. 7. The said company shall within thirty days next after 
 the passage of this ordinance, file with the City Clerk its accept- 
 ance of said ordinance, including all the agreements, terms, pro- 
 visions, restrictions and regulations and every one thereof in said 
 ordinance contained, which said acceptance shall be under the cor- 
 porate seal of said company, and shall be signed by the president 
 of said company; and in default of filing of such acceptance within 
 the time limited aforesaid it shall be understood and held that said 
 company declines to accept the same, and thereupon all rights, pow- 
 ers and privileges to them granted thereby shall forever cease and 
 be at an end in the same manner and with the same effect as if 
 this ordinance had never been passed. 
 
 Sec. 8. That the said company shall not run its cars at a 
 greater speed than four miles per hour during the hours between 
 8 o’clock A. M. and 5 o’clock P. M. on days in which school is in 
 session on Arlington avenue between West Fourth and West Fifth 
 streets. 
 
 Approved November 4, 1899. 
 
 An Ordinance Concerning Firearms and Otlier Deadly Weapons. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Coun- 
 cil, do enact as follows: 
 
 (Section 1 repealed by ordinance approved June 20, 1910). 
 
 Sec. 2. That no person shall carry within the limits of the 
 City of Plainfield concealed upon or about his person, any pistol, 
 dirk, butcher or bowie knife, stiletto, dagger, sword, or spear 
 
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 in a cane, brass or metal knuckles, razor, slug shot or other deadly 
 weapon, under a penalty of a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for 
 each and every offence; provided, that this section shall not apply 
 to officers of the law or persons who are threatened with bodily 
 harm. 
 
 Approved April 9th, 1895. Amended by ordinance approved 
 June 23, 1909. 
 
 An Ordinance Regulating and Prohibiting the Discharge of Fire- 
 Arms and Fireworks. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. No person or corporation shall within the limits of 
 the City of Plainfield fire or discharge any cannon, toy cannon, 
 gun, revolver, or toy pistol, or other appliance for discharging 
 metal or paper caps, such as are used in toy pistols, or fire-arms of 
 any description whether the same be loaded with blank or full 
 charge; provided, that this section shall not apply to persons engaged 
 in military exercises or to members of the Police Department while 
 on duty, or to the use of a revolver, pistol or other fire-arm in 
 defense of life or property. 
 
 Sec. 2. No person or corporation shall fire or discharge any 
 firecracker, torpedo, or fireworks of any character, or any other 
 thing containing or composed of powder or other explosive or com- 
 bustible material, or set in motion any balloon containing a lighted 
 torch or burning material of any kind, upon any street, lane, high- 
 way or public place of the City of Plainfield. 
 
 Sec. 3. No person or corporation shall within the limits of 
 the City of Plainfield fire or discharge any firecracker, torpedo or 
 firework, or set in motion any balloon containing a lighted torch or 
 burning material of any kind, except that firecrackers made of soft 
 paper loosely wrapped containing no other explosive but black pow- 
 der and not over five inches in length and torpedoes not over three- 
 quarters of an inch in diameter and fireworks other than sky- 
 rockets having sticks attached, or any balloon containing a lighted 
 torch or burning material of any kind, may be set off and dis- 
 charged upon private property on the Fourth day of July of any 
 year, unless the Fourth day of July falls on Sunday, and in such 
 event then on the Fifth day of July, between the hours of six o’clock 
 in the morning and twelve o’clock midnight, but at no other time, 
 I)rovided, however, that at any time the Mayor may upon written 
 application made at least twenty-four hours before the time when 
 said event is to occur, give permission for the display and discharge 
 
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 of fireworks except sky-rockets having sticks attached or any balloon 
 containing a lighted torch or burning material of any kind, at a 
 time and place to be specified and under the direction of a person 
 or persons to be named in the written permit issued by the Mayor. 
 
 Sec. 4. Any person or corporation violating any of the pro- 
 visions of sections one, two and three of this ordinance shall on con- 
 viction be punished by a fine not exceeding Twenty Dollars for each 
 offence. 
 
 Sec. 5. That section one of an ordinance entitled “An ordi- 
 nance concerning fire-arms and other deadly weapons,” approved 
 April 9, 1895, as amended, and all other ordinances and parts of 
 ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved June 20, 1910. 
 
 An Ordinance to Provide for the Licensing of Auctioneers. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That licenses may be granted by the Common Coun- 
 cil to such and so many persons of good moral character as the 
 Common Council shall from time to time think proper, to carry on 
 the trade or business or to act in the capacity of auctioneers. 
 
 Sec. 2. That every application for any such license shall be 
 in writing signed by the applicant stating his place of residence and 
 that he applies for license under the provisions of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 3. That no person shall carry on the trade or business of 
 auctioneer in said city or sell or attempt to sell at public auction in 
 said city any merchandise, goods, chattels or personal property 
 whatsoever without being first licensed under the provisions of this 
 ordinance under penalty of a fine not exceeding fifty dollars for each 
 and every offence, but nothing in this ordinance contained shall be 
 construed to apply to sales made at public auction under and by vir- 
 tue of legal process. 
 
 Sec. 4. That every person licensed under this ordinance shall 
 at the time of receiving such license pay therefor to the City Clerk 
 to be by him paid to the City Treasurer for the use of the city the 
 sum of twenty-five dollars, and in addition thereto the Clerk’s fee 
 of fifty cents for issuing said license. 
 
 Sec. 5. That every license granted under the provisions of 
 this ordinance shall expire on the first day of March next following 
 the date of such license. 
 
 Approved March 21, 1892. 
 
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 An Ordinance Relating to the City Treasurer and Regulating the 
 Receipt and Disbursement of City Moneys. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of .Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. The City Treasurer shall, before entering upon the 
 duties of his office, execute a bond in the sum of Twenty-five Thous- 
 and Dollars to the Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, conditioned 
 for the true and faithful performance of all the duties of his office, 
 with such freehold security as the Common Council shall approve 
 and direct, which bonds shall be submitted to the Common Council 
 for its approval, and, when so approved, shall be deposited with the 
 City Clerk for safe keeping. 
 
 Sec. 2. The City Treasurer shall receive all moneys belonging 
 to or in any way appertaining to the City, unless otherwise provided 
 by law, and shall forthwith deposit the same in such bank or banks 
 as the Common Council shall from time to time designate as the 
 depositories of city moneys, in the name of “The Treasurer of the 
 City of Plainfield.” 
 
 Sec. 3. City moneys, except where otherwise provided by law, 
 shall be disbursed only upon warrants drawn on the City Treasurer 
 as follows: 
 
 (1) Upon the “Library Fund” such warrants shall be signed 
 
 by the President and countersigned by the Treasurer of the Board of 
 Directors of the Public Library and Reading Room. ' 
 
 (2) Upon the appropriation for the Board of Health, such 
 warrants shall be signed by the President and countersigned by the 
 Secretary of said Board. 
 
 (3) In all other cases, such warrants shall be signed by the 
 President of the Common Council and countersigned by the City 
 Clerk, as Auditor. 
 
 Provision may be made by resolution for substitutionary sig- 
 nature and counter signature in case of absence of any or either of 
 the officers named. 
 
 In all cases where claims must be submitted to the Mayor for 
 approval or disapproval, the signatures and counter-signatures, 
 original or substitutionary, herein provided for, shall afford plenary 
 evidence that the claim embraced in the warrant has either been 
 approved by the Mayor, or, if disapproved by him, has been ordered 
 to be nevertheless paid. If a claim has been marked “disapproved” 
 by the Mayor and the claim has been ordered to be nevertheless 
 paid, pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided, that 
 fact, and the date of such action, shall be noted on the claim. 
 
 Every warrant drawn on the “Library Fund” shall be accepted 
 in writing by the City Treasurer, if there be sufficient to the credit 
 
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 of that fund in the designated depository in which by law it must be 
 separately kept, and such warrant shall thereupon be honored as a 
 draft or check on that fund. 
 
 Every warrant drawn on the appropriation for the Board of 
 Health shall be accepted in writing by the City Treasurer, if there 
 be sufficient funds to the credit of that appropriation, and the City 
 Treasurer shall, in writing, on said warrant, direct payment thereof 
 by a bank, being one of the designated depositories of city moneys; 
 and such warrant shall thereupon be honored as a draft or check 
 on that bank. 
 
 Upon every other warrant, if for a claim properly audited, the 
 City Treasurer, if there be sufficient funds wherewith to pay the 
 same, shall, in writing, on said warrant, direct payment thereof by 
 a bank, being one of the designated depositories of city moneys; 
 and such warrant shall thereupon be honored as a draft or check on 
 that bank. 
 
 In each case, such direction of payment shall be considered an 
 acceptance of such warrant as a draft on the City Treasurer. 
 
 Sec. 4. The City Treasurer shall keep in a suitable book or 
 books in such manner as directed by the Common Council, or its 
 appropriate committee, the separate accounts of the several funds 
 for which moneys shall be received or paid out by him, each under 
 its proper head and title, so that the account of each of these funds 
 shall show at all times the exact amount to the credit or debit of such 
 fund. The Treasurer shall also keep a detailed record of all assess- 
 ments made or authorized to be made by the Common Council, set- 
 ting forth the date and purpose of each assessment, the name of 
 persons assessed, the amount assessed against each, and the date of 
 the payment of the same. 
 
 Sec. 5. Whenever the Common Council shall authorize money 
 to be borrowed on the credit and in the name of the City in antici- 
 pation of the collection of taxes, the City Treasurer shall prepare 
 and sign a note for the amount so authorized to be borrowed, pay- 
 able at such time as shall be fixed by the Common Council, which 
 note shall likewise be signed by the Mayor, and unless otherwise 
 directed by the Common Council the City Treasurer shall cause 
 such note to be discounted at one of the designated depositories of 
 city moneys; the net proceeds thereof shall be credited to the 
 account of the Treasurer of the City of Plainfield in such bank, and 
 credited by the City Treasurer to the fund for which the money was 
 borrowed. At the maturity of the note so discounted, the amount 
 thereof shall be chargeable against said account. 
 
 Sec. 6. The City Treasurer shall render to the Common Coun- 
 cil at each of its regular meetings a statement of all moneys received 
 and disbursed by him from the date of his last preceding statement; 
 
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 and at the last meeting in each year he shall render a statement 
 of all moneys received and disbursed by him during the current year, 
 and he shall submit for inspection his books to the Mayor or Com- 
 mon Council or its appropriate committee, or any city officer the 
 Common Council shall designate, whenever requested to do so. 
 
 Sec. 7. No claim or demand of any kind against the City, 
 except as by law or this ordinance otherwise provided, shalj be paid 
 or directed to be paid by the City Treasurer, unless first regularly 
 allowed and ordered paid by the Common Council, and a statement 
 in writing to that effect duly signed by the City Clerk be filed with 
 the City Treasurer. Upon receiving from the City Clerk said writ- 
 ten statements of claims or demands allowed and ordered paid by 
 the Common Council, the City Treasurer shall forthwith prepare 
 warrants for the payment thereof, and have them properly signed 
 as herein provided, and direct payment thereof by a designated 
 depository of city moneys, as herein provided. 
 
 Sec. 8. Upon the warrants provided for in the last section 
 being returned to City Treasurer after payment, the same shall be 
 attached to the original claim. All paid warrants shall be filed by 
 the City Treasurer, regularly numbered, and a detailed record of 
 each shall be kept by him. The City Treasurer shall also require 
 proper receipts for all checks or drafts issued by him, and shall file 
 the same in regular order, and safely preserve as vouchers all such 
 receipts as well as the claims and paid warrants hereinbefore first 
 referred to, subject to the orders of the Common Council. 
 
 Sec. 9. All ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent 
 herewith, and particularly the ordinance entitled “An Ordinance 
 Relating to the City Treasurer and the Payment of City Moneys,” 
 approved February 8, 1893, and amended by ordinance approved 
 July 12, 1897, are hqreby repealed; but no ordinance or part of 
 ordinance heretofore existing shall be revived by such repeal. 
 
 Approved July 6, 1911. 
 
 An Ordinance to Regulate the Use of Bicycles, Tricycles and Sim- 
 ilar Vehicles, and Other Road Vehicles in the Public Streets. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That all bicycles, tricycles and similar vehicles when 
 in use on the public highways, streets, or places of the city are 
 hereby required to have a lamp cjf such illuminating power as to be 
 plainly seen one hundred yards ahead, attached thereto and kept 
 lighted between one hour after sunset and sunrise. 
 
 Sec. 2. That all bicycles, tricycles and similar vehicles shall 
 carry a suitable alarm bell attached to the handle bar of such ma- 
 
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 chine, which, when rung, may be heard one hundred feet distant. 
 That such bell shall be sounded as an alarm by the rider of such 
 vehicle upon approaching another vehicle from the rear, or upon 
 approaching pedestrians crossing the street or upon the approach 
 of another vehicle on the same street or on a street intersecting 
 the street ridden upon. 
 
 Sec. 3. That no person shall ride upon any bicycle, tricycle, or 
 similar machine upon any sidewalk within the limits of the City of 
 Plainfield; provided, that the term sidewalk as used in this ordi- 
 nance shall be construed to mean such sidewalks only, concerning 
 which the city has power to pass ordinances under and by virtue of 
 paragraph V, Section 1 of Chapter 8 of the Public Laws of 1896; 
 and provided further that this section shall not apply to the riding 
 of any bicycle, tricycle or similar machine upon any sidewalk when 
 necessary to ride upon such sidewalk in passing from private prem- 
 ises to the roadbed of any street, or vice versa. 
 
 Sec. 4. That every violation of any of the provisions of this 
 ordinance shall render the offender subject to a fine not exceeding 
 the sum of five dollars ($5) for each offence, and that the Justice, 
 Police Judge, Recorder or other Magistrate who may have jurisdic- 
 tion over such offences in violation of this ordinance, may impose 
 such fine in his discretion, as he may think proper, not exceeding 
 the sum of five dollars ($5), for each offence. 
 
 Approved May 12th, 1896. 
 
 An Orclinance to Regulate the Rate of Speed of Vehicles in Public 
 
 Streets. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That no person or persons shall ride any bicycle, 
 tricycle or similar vehicle, or drive any horse or other beast of bur- 
 den attached to any carriage or other vehicle on any of the public 
 roads or streets of the City of Plainfield at a greater rate of speed 
 than the rate of ten miles per houf’, and any person or persons vio- 
 lating this ordinance shall, on conviction thereof, be subject to a 
 fine not exceeding five dollars for each offence. 
 
 Approved Feb. 20, 1897- 
 
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 An Ordinance Authorizing the Central Railroad Company of New 
 
 Jersey to Lay Down and Maintain a Siding or Turnouts Across 
 
 North Avenue and to Run and Operate Engines and Cars 
 
 Thereon. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the Central Railroad Company of New Jersey 
 be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to lay down, con- 
 struct and maintain, one railroad track across North avenue in the 
 City of Plainfield, and to run and operate railroad engines and cars 
 on and over said railroad track across said North avenue, and that 
 such authorization is granted upon the following terms and condi- 
 tion: 
 
 A. That the point where such single railroad track shall cross 
 said North avenue shall be between lands of said Railroad Com- 
 pany on the south side and lands of Charles H. Leonard on the 
 north side of said North avenue, and not nearer than fifty (50) feet 
 on Berckman street and not farther from said Berckman street than 
 two hundred and fifty (250) feet. 
 
 B. That said single railroad track shall be laid and maintained, 
 as nearly as possible, at right angles to said North avenue. 
 
 C. That said single railroad track shall be so laid and main- 
 tained that the top of the rails shall be on a level with said avenue. 
 
 D. That for one foot on the outside of the rails, and between 
 the rails, the said Company shall lay and maintain in good order 
 on a level with the rails, planking, so that the crossing of said rail- 
 road track by vehicles shall be easy and convenient, such planking 
 to extend a width equal to three-fifths of the carriage or driveway 
 of said avenue. That the roadway of said North avenue, adjacent to 
 said crossing, be continually maintained on a level with said planks, 
 and that the planks shall be renewed when, in the opinion of the 
 Street Commissioner, it is necessary. 
 
 E. That said Railroad Company in the laying down and main- 
 tenance of said single railroad track shall make such culverts or 
 drain, or both, on the gutter lines of the avenue to pass the surface 
 water fiowing in said gutters as shall be required by the Street Com- 
 missioner of said city. 
 
 F. That said Railroad Company shall erect a sign or signal post 
 on one side of said railroad track on the curb line, to be lettered 
 “Railroad Crossing; Look out for the Locomotive.” 
 
 G. That said Railroad Company shall cause every engine, car, 
 cars, engine and car or car or cars, which shall be moved across 
 said avenue to be preceded in the going direction of said cars or en- 
 gines by a fiagman to warn person traveling upon said avenue of the 
 
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 approach of said cars or engines, and no cars or engines shall be 
 moved at a greater speed than such person can walk. 
 
 H. That the authorization above granted shall be terminable on 
 thirty days’ notice by a resolution of the Common Council to that 
 effect, served on said Railroad Company, and in such case said Rail- 
 road Company shall forthwith remove all tracks and rails from said 
 avenue and restore the said avenue to the condition in which it 
 now is. 
 
 Approved Nov. 6th, 1897. 
 
 An Ordinance to License and Regulate Junk Shop Keepers. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That licenses may be granted by the Common Coun- 
 cil to such and so many persons of good moral character, and other- 
 .wise qualified according to the provisions of this ordinance, as the 
 Common Council shall from time to time think proper, as keepers of 
 junk shops. 
 
 ’Sec. 2. That every application for such license shall be in 
 writing, signed by the applicant, and shall state his place of resi- / 
 dence. 
 
 Sec. 3. Every person to whom a license shall be granted as 
 the keeper of a junk shop shall enter into bond to the Mayor and 
 Common Council of the City of Plainfield, with good and sufficient 
 surety to be approved by the Mayor, in the penal sum of two hun- 
 dred dollars, conditioned for the due observance of all such ordi- 
 nances of the City of Plainffeld as may be passed or in force, respect- 
 ing junk shops and the keepers of junk shops, at any time during 
 the continuance of such license. Every license which shall be 
 granted any keeper of any junk shop shall designate the house and 
 place in which the person receiving such license shall be authorized 
 to carry on said business. 
 
 Sec. 4. Every keeper of a junk shop so licensed as aforesaid 
 shall be authorized to keep at such house or place, what is com- 
 monly called a junk shop, for the purchase and sale of junk, rags, 
 old ropes, old iron, brass, copper, tin, lead and other old materials, 
 old bottles old glass, old tinware, or other second-hand articles, 
 and it shall be lawful for any keeper of a junk shop so licensed as 
 aforesaid, to keep, use and drive a cart or carts, wagon or wagons in 
 the City of Plainffeld for the purchase and sale of junk, rags, rope, 
 
 . old iron, brass, copper, tin, lead and other old metals, old bottles, old 
 glass or old tin ware; provided, that such cart or wagon so kept, 
 used and driven by or for him shall be duly and separately licensed 
 
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 and that every such cart or wagon shall be marked with the name 
 at length, the street and number of his place of business and the 
 number of his license in plain letters and figures. 
 
 Sec. 5. No person shall keep what is commonly called a junk 
 shop for the purchase and sale of the articles enumerated in the 
 preceding section of this ordinance, and no person shall drive or 
 draw or cause or procure to be used, or driven or drawn, any cart, 
 wagon or other vehicle for the purchase or sale of either of such 
 articles without first being licensed by the Common Council as 
 hereinbefore provided under the penalty of not less than ten nor 
 more than twenty dollars for each and every offense, but the full 
 penalty of twenty dollars to be imposed upon conviction for a sec- 
 ond offence. 
 
 Sec. 6. No keeper of a junk shop shall receive in the line of his 
 business any article or thing by way of pledge or pawn, nor shall 
 he loan or advance any sum of money on the security of any such 
 article or thing under the penalty of twenty dollars for each and 
 every offence. 
 
 Sec. 7. No keeper of a junk shop shall receive or purchase any 
 goods, articles or thing whatsoever from any minor, apprentice or 
 servant, knowing or having reason to believe him or her to be such, 
 under penalty of twenty dollars for each and every offence. 
 
 Sec. 8. No keeper of a junk shop shall receive or purchase in 
 the way of his business any goods, articles or thing whatsoever from 
 any person or persons whatsoever between the setting of the sun 
 and the hour of seven o’clock of the following morning, under the 
 penalty of twenty dollars for each and every offence. 
 
 Sec. 9. Every keeper of a junk shop shall provide and keep a 
 book in which shall be fairly written at the time of each purchase 
 a description of the article so purchased, the name and residence 
 of the person or persons from whom such purchase was made and 
 the day and hour of such purchase. 
 
 Sec. 10. The said book shall be at all reasonable times open 
 to the inspection of the Mayor, Chief of Police, and City Judge, or 
 any of them, or of any person who shall be duly authorized in writ- 
 ing for that purpose by any one of them who shall exhibit such 
 written authority to such keeper of a junk shop. 
 
 Sec. 11. Every keeper of a junk shop who shall violate or 
 neglect or refuse to comply with any of the provisions of the last 
 two preceding sections of this ordinance shall for every offence for- 
 feit and pay the sum of twenty dollars. 
 
 Sec. 12. No person shall keep a junk shop without being 
 licensed for that purpose as aforesaid, or shall carry on such busi- 
 ness or keep such junk shop at any other house or place than the 
 one designated in such license, or shall continue to carry on such 
 
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 business after such license may have expired or been revoked under 
 the penalty of twenty dollars for each and every offence. 
 
 Sec. 13. Every keeper of a junk shop shall have and keep a 
 sign on the outside and in front of his shop or other place used by 
 him for carrying on such business on which shall be plainly set forth 
 in conspicuous letters his name and his licensed business under the 
 penalty of twenty dollars for each and every week he shall make use 
 of such shop or other place as aforesaid without having such sign so 
 put up and maintained. 
 
 Sec. 14. If any goods, articles or things shall be advertised in 
 any newspaper published in the City of Plainfield as having been 
 lost or stolen, and if such goods, articles or things, or any such, 
 answering to the description of the goods, articles or things so ad- 
 vertised, or any part or portion thereof, shall then be in, or there- 
 after come into, the possession of any keeper of a junk shop, he or 
 she shall forthwith give information thereof in writing to the Chief 
 of Police, and shall also state from whom the same were received, 
 under the penalty of twenty dollars for each neglect or offence. 
 
 Sec. 15. Every keeper of a junk shop who shall receive or be 
 in possession of any goods, articles or things which may have been 
 stolen or lost, or alleged dr supposed to have been lost or stolen, 
 shall forthwith, on a demand to view the same, present the same to 
 the Mayor, Chief of Police, City Judge, or to any policeman or 
 other person who may be authorized by any of the above named of- 
 ficers or magistrates to make such demand upon a penalty of twenty 
 dollars for every neglect or refusal so to do. 
 
 Sec. 16. That there shall be charged to each person or per- 
 sons licensed as aforesaid and paid to the City Clerk for the use of 
 the city on the issuing of such license with the privilege of using one 
 junk wagon or cart the siim of twenty-five dollars, and for each ad- 
 ditional junk wagon or cart the sum of ten dollars. 
 
 Sec. 17. All licenses granted for the purpose aforesaid shall 
 expire on the first day of March next after the same shall have been 
 granted and shall state the number of such license and the location 
 thereof, and the name of the person licensed. All such licenses may 
 be renewed, annually, subject in all things to the same conditions, 
 provisions and changes as in and for the original license. 
 
 Sec. 18. It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to notify the 
 Chief of Police of and every license issued by him, to whom and for 
 what time and purpose, and to furnish the Treasurer at least once 
 in each and every month with a report of the number of licenses 
 issued, together with the moneys due the City Treasurer for the 
 same. 
 
 Sec. 19. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to cause 
 the provisions of this ordinance relating to fines and for failure to 
 
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 comply with the provisions therof, to be carried strictly into effect. 
 
 Sec. 20. It shall also be the duty of the City Clerk to keep a 
 register of all licenses granted under the provisions of this ordi- 
 nance, wherein shall be stated the number of the license, the local- 
 ity and such other data as may be necessary. 
 
 Sec. 21. Any person or persons who shall purchase or sell any 
 of the goods, wares or merchandise mentioned in this ordinance 
 without first taking out a license therefor, or after their license 
 has expired, or when revoked, shall for each such offence be sub- 
 ject to the penalty mentioned above in section five. 
 
 Sec. 22. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions 
 of this ordinance to which no penalty is attached in any preceding 
 section, shall forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding the sum of twenty 
 dollars. 
 
 Approved July 14th, 1900. 
 
 An Ordinance Concerning the Sending of Indigent Patients to JMuhl- 
 enberg Hospital, and Their Care and Maintenance Therein. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That the mode of sending indigent patients to 
 Muhlenberg Hospital for support and maintenance pursuant to any 
 contract, or under any law of this State or ordinance of the City, 
 shall be by written order signed by the City Physician, Overseer of 
 the Poor, Mayor or City Judge, and the mode and terms of paying 
 for the care and maintenance of such patients so sent to such Hos- 
 pital shall be by warrant for such amount as may have been or shall 
 be agreed upon by contract between said Hospital and the City, 
 and payable after substantial performance of such contract by 
 Muhlenberg Hospital. 
 
 Approved March 7, 1905. 
 
 An Ordinance Concerning Dogs. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Coun- 
 cil, do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That hereafter no person shall keep, harbor or 
 maintain any dog, or suffer one to be kept, harbored or maintained 
 within the City of Plainfield, unless a license to keep such dog has 
 first been obtained from the City of Plainfield in the manner here- 
 inafter provided, and any person keeping, harboring or maintain- 
 ing, or suffering to be kept, harbored or maintained any dog within 
 
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 the City of Plainfield without having obtained such license shall be 
 guilty of a violation of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 2. The City Clerk of the City of Plainfield is hereby au- 
 thorized to issue such license in the name of the inhabitants of the 
 City of Plainfield to any person applying therefor in writing and pay- 
 ing a license fee of two dollars and fifty cents, which license when 
 so issued shall be valid and remain in force only until the 20th day 
 of May next following the issuing thereof. 
 
 Sec. 3. The written application for a license as hereinbefore 
 provided, shall be signed by the owner or person having the cus- 
 tody of such dog, and shall set forth the place of residence of the 
 applicant and the owner shall state the place where such dog is to 
 be kept, and shall contain a description of such dog, including its 
 name, color, breed and sex. All licenses issued pursuant to such 
 application shall be consecutively numbered, and shall among oth- 
 er things contain a brief description of the dog to keep which such 
 license is issued, including its name, color, breed and sex, the name 
 of the owner, and shall state the place at which such dog is to be 
 kept. 
 
 Sec. 4. Any person or association in the City of Plainfield 
 owning five or more dogs which are kept for breeding, show or 
 sporting purposes may obtain a kennel license, which shall entitle 
 the holder thereof to establish and maintain within said City a 
 kennel for the purpose of keeping dogs for breeding, show and 
 sporting purposes. Such license shall be issued by the City Clerk 
 upon a written application signed by such person or association 
 which which shall set forth the place of residence of the appli- 
 cant, the place where such dogs are to be kept and the breed of such 
 dogs. All licenses issued pursuant to such applications shall have 
 plainly written or printed upon them the words “Kennel License,” 
 and shall set forth the facts stated in the application. Kennel li- 
 censes shall be valid and remain in force only until the 2 0th day of 
 May next following the issuing thereof. There shall be attached 
 to the collar of each dog kept pursuant to a kennel license, the tag 
 required by this ordinance, each of which tags shall bear the num- 
 ber of such license. Such license shall be issued upon the pay- 
 ment of a license fee of ten dollars and in addition thereto there 
 shall be paid to the City Clerk for each tag provided by him the 
 sum of twenty-five cents. All provisions of other sections of this 
 ordinance not in conflict with the provisions of this section shall 
 apply to any and all dogs kept pursuant to a kennel license. The 
 license fee of ten dollars required by this section shall be in lieu of 
 any license fee otherwise provided for by this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 5. Every dog to keep which a license is issued shall wear 
 a collar to which shall be attached a metal tag bearing the number 
 
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 of such license; such tag to be furnished by the City Clerk at the ex- 
 pense of the City. The tags used for each year shall be different 
 in size, shape or color from the tags used the preceding year that 
 the appearance of the tag will differentiate with sufficient certainty 
 the year for which the tag is issued, and three full years shall 
 elapse before a tag of the same size, shape or color is again pro- 
 vided. If a tag is lost a new one may be obtained from the City 
 Clerk upon satisfactory proof being furnished that a license to keep 
 the dog for which tag is desired had been previously issued for the 
 then current year and upon payment therefor of the sum of fifty 
 cents. 
 
 Sec. 6. Any person who shall substitute or use any tag in 
 place of the one furnished, by the City, or shall allow any dog 
 owned, kept, harbored or maintained by him to leave premises oc- 
 cupied by such person without having a proper tag attached to the 
 collar of such dog shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this or- 
 dinance. 
 
 Sec. 7. The City Clerk shall on or before the 1st day of June 
 in each year transmit to the chief of police a statement showing 
 all licenses to keep dogs issued as aforesaid. The chief of police 
 upon receipt of such statement shall ascertain by the officers up- 
 on their respective beats, what persons have failed to comply with 
 this ordinance, and all such persons shall thereupon be proceeded 
 against before the City Judge of the City of Plainfield. 
 
 Sec. 8. The Mayor of the City of Plainfield may at any time 
 when in his judgment the public safety demands it, order and di- 
 rect by public notice that no dog shall be allowed to leave the 
 premises of the person owning or entitled to the custody of such 
 dog unless securely confined upon a leash and accompanied by a 
 person over the age of twelve years. Such notice shall be published 
 at least three consecutive times in the official newspapers of the 
 City, and shall state how long the said order is to remain in force. 
 Any person who shall, after the issuing of such order, and during 
 the time same shall remain in force, suffer, allow or permit any 
 dog owned, kept or harbored by him to go upon any of the streets 
 or public places of the City of Plainfield, or upon any premises 
 other than those owned or occupied by him unless securely confined 
 upon a leash and accompanied by a person over the age of twelve 
 years, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 9. The Common Council at its first regular meeting in May 
 of each year, shall establish a pound and the Mayor shall prior to 
 such meeting appoint a pound-keeper, subject to confirmation of 
 the Common Council, who shall hold office at the pleasure of the 
 Common Council. The said pound-keeper, any police officer, or any 
 person specially appointed by the Mayor for that purpose, may seize 
 
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 and convey to the pound any dog found upon any of the streets or 
 public places of the City of Plainfield without the tag provided for 
 by this ordinance, as well as any dog found upon any of the streets 
 or public places of said city not confined upon a leash as provided 
 for by this ordinance, during the time that any order issued by 
 the Mayor, as hereinbefore provfded, shall remain in force. The own- 
 er, if known, of any dog so seized and impounded shall be notified 
 thereof by the City Clerk as soon as possible thereafter. The said 
 pound-keeper and any person specially appointed by the Mayor as 
 aforesaid, shall wear a suitable badge to be provided by the City 
 Clerk indicating his authority. Any person authorized to seize 
 any such dog shall be entitled to receive as compensation for his 
 services the sum of fifty cents for each dog delivered by him at the 
 pound, to be paid to him by the pound-keeper who shall be re-im- 
 bursed by the City. Should any person appointed as aforesaid seize 
 any dog other than such as is without a tag, or during the period 
 within which dogs are required to be confined upon a leash, any dog 
 other than such as is not so confined he shall be deemed guilty of 
 a violation of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 10. Every dog so seized and impounded, shall be kept, 
 fed and kindly treated by the said pound-keeper for a period of not 
 less than seventy-two hours from the time of impounding, and the 
 owner or person entitled, to the custody of any dog so seized and 
 impounded may within said period redeem said dog upon paying 
 to the said pound-keeper the sum of one dollar for each twenty- 
 four (24) hours or part thereof that the said dog is so impounded, 
 one-half of which shall be for the use of the said pound-keeper, 
 and the other half for the use of the city. No dog so seized and 
 impounded shall be redeemed by the owner thereof or released by 
 the poundkeeper unless a proper license and a tag are procured for 
 said dog previous to such release. 
 
 Sec. 11. After the expiration of such period of seventy-two 
 hours any dog remaining in the pound and not redeemed shall be 
 killed in a humane manner by the said pound-keeper. For every 
 dog received by the pound-keeper at the pound and subsequently 
 killed, the pound-keeper shall receive the sum of fifty cents to be 
 paid by the city. The pound-keeper shall also receive the sum of 
 twenty-five cents per day for each unredeemed dog during the said 
 period of seventy-two hours. 
 
 Sec. 12. The expense of furnishing the licenses and tags here- 
 in provided for, the fees paid for seizing and impounding any dog, 
 the expense of keeping all dogs while in the pound and the fee 
 paid to the pound-keeper for each dog killed shall be borne and paid 
 by the City and shall be paid out of its general fund. All sums 
 received for licenses and tags, and one-half of the amount re- 
 
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 C€ived for the redemption of any dog, shall belong to the City and 
 shall be paid into its general fund. Out of the license fees received 
 as aforesaid the City Clerk shall be paid the sum of twenty-five cents 
 for each license issued by him. The amounts so paid and received 
 by the pound-keeper shall be reported by him in writing to the City 
 Clerk on the last Friday of each month, which said report shall be 
 presented to the Common Council at its next regular meeting. 
 
 Sec. 13. The word “dog” whenever used in this ordinance, 
 shall include all dogs, male and female. 
 
 Sec. 14. Any person found guilty of violating any of the pro- 
 visions of this ordinance shall upon conviction be punished by a 
 fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence. Conviction for 
 any violation of this ordinance shall not be a bar to prosecution 
 for any other or further violation thereof, and a failure to com- 
 ply with any of the provisions of this ordinance after such convic- 
 tion shall constitute a new violation thereof and shall be punishable 
 as herein provided. 
 
 Sec. 15. No license shall be required for any dog brought 
 into the City of Plainfield for the purpose of being exhibited at a 
 bench, kennel or dog show, provided such dog is not allowed to 
 leave the building or enclosure where exhibited unless in the cus- 
 tody of an adult person and confined by a leash and does not re- 
 main within the City limits for a period exceeding fifteen days. 
 
 Sec. 16. An ordinance entitled “An Ordinance Concerning 
 Dogs,” approved July 6, 1887, and the various amendments thereof 
 approved respectively June 1, 1891; May 4, 1892; January 3, 1895; 
 and September 1, 1898; and all other ordinances or parts of ordin- 
 ances in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance, are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 Approved May 3, 190 9. Amended by ordinance approved June 
 20, 1910. 
 
 An Ordinance to Guard Against Danger of Fire and Explosion in con- 
 nection with the use of Illuminating Gas or Fuel Gas in Build- 
 ings. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That all pipes more than one and one-quarter in- 
 ches in diameter used for the supplying of illuminating gas or fuel 
 gas to buildings hereafter erected in the City of Plainfield shall have 
 a properly installed gas cut-off at the curb line of the streets in which 
 such pipes are or shall be connected with gas mains. In case any such 
 building is supplied through two or more pipes, the aggregate ca- 
 pacity of which exceeds the capacity of a pipe one and one-quarter 
 
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 inches in diameter, each of the pipes supplying such building shall 
 have such cut-off installed as herein provided. Any person who, or 
 corporation which, shall lay or cause to be laid any such pipe or 
 pipes, without such cut-off or cut-offs at the curb line, shall on con- 
 viction be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for 
 each offence. 
 
 Sec. 2. That no person or corporation shall supply illuminat- 
 ing gas or fuel gas, or allow the same to be supplied to any build- 
 ing hereafter erected in the City of Plainfield through pipes more 
 than one and one-quarter inches in diameter, or through two or more 
 pipes the aggregate capacity of which exceeds that of a pipe one and 
 one-quarter inches in diameter, without having a properly installed 
 gas cut-off for each of such pipes at the curb line of the street in 
 which such pipes are or shall be connected with gas mains, under a 
 penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars fine for each offence. 
 
 Sec. 3. That all gas pipes now used or that may hereafter be 
 used to supply illuminating gas or fuel gas from gas mains in 
 streets to any school building, church building, Sunday school 
 building, hotel building, factory building or any building containing 
 a theatre, public assembly room, music hall or concert hall, whether 
 such building be now erected or shall be erected hereafter, and 
 whatever may be the size of such gas pipes, shall be furnished with 
 a gas cut-off properly installed at the curb line of the streets adjacent 
 to such buildings in which such gas pipes are or may hereafter be 
 connected with gas mains. 
 
 Sec. 4. That on or after the first day of September in the year 
 nineteen hundred and nine no person or corporation shall supply 
 illuminating ga« or fue^ gas, or allow the same to be supplied to 
 buildings specified in section 3 of this ordinance, whether such 
 buildings be now erected or shall be erected hereafter in the City 
 of Plainfield, and whatever may be the size of such gas pipes, unless 
 gas cut-offs shall be first installed at the curb line as provided in 
 said section 3 of this ordinance under a penalty not exceeding one 
 hundred dollars for each offence. 
 
 Approved August 2, 1909. 
 
 An Ordinance Concerning the Assessment and Collection of Taxes 
 in the City of Plainfield. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That all taxes shall be payable as soon as the tax 
 duplicate shall be delivered to the Collector; that where any taxes 
 shall not be paid on or before the twentieth day of December fol- 
 
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 lowing their assessment, interest thereon from and after that date 
 shall be added at ten per centum per annum; that the Commission- 
 ers of Appeal in cases of taxation* in said City shall meet on the 
 Fourth Tuesday of November annually, and shall give at least eight 
 days’ notice of such meeting in writing set up at six or more of the 
 most public places in said City, or advertised in the official newspa- 
 pers of said City, and may adjourn from day to day until they have 
 completed their work; that all city officers charged with any duty 
 with respect to the assessment or collection of taxes shall promptly 
 perform the duties severally devolving upon them in respect thereto, 
 in strict conformity with the Act entitled “An Act for the assess- 
 ment and collection of taxes,” approved April 8th, 1903, and acts 
 amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and other general 
 statutes applicable to said City; and that all ordinances and parts 
 of ordinances inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved October 24, 1905. 
 
 An Ordinance to License, Regulate and Prohibit Shows and Exhi- 
 bitions. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That no person or corporation shall, for any price, 
 gain, or reward, exhibit or cause to be exhibited in the City of 
 Plainfield any traveling or other show, circus or menagerie, or give 
 or have or cause to be given or had any theatrical or variety per- 
 formance or play, concert or other entertainment, or have to make, 
 or cause to be had or made, any exhibition of whatsoever nature, or 
 maintain or conduct or cause to be maintained or conducted any 
 theatre, opera house, music hall, or other place of public entertain- 
 ment, without first obtaining a license therefor, to be granted by the 
 Mayor, as herein prescribed; provided, however, that the provisions 
 of this ordinance shall not apply to a concert or entertainment given 
 for charitable or benevolent purposes. 
 
 Sec. 2. That no owner, occupant or other person or persons 
 having the possession or care of any house, building or room or any 
 lot of land within the City of Plainfield, shall suffer or permit any 
 such traveling or other show, circus or menagerie, theatrical or 
 variety performance or play, concert or other entertainment, or any 
 exhibition of whatsoever nature such as are mentioned in the pre- 
 ceding section of this ordinance, to be exhibited, acted, shown forth 
 or performed for any price, gain or reward, in or upon his, her or 
 
 * See P. L. 1906, p. 210, County Board of Taxation takes the place of Com- 
 missioners of Appeal. 
 
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 their said house, building or room or lot of land, unless the party 
 or parties so causing such traveling or other show, circus or men- 
 agerie, theatrical or variety performance or play, concert or other 
 entertainment, or any exhibition of whatsoever nature as aforesaid, 
 shall first obtain such license in the manner herein prescribed. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the license fees to be charged for such licenses 
 respectively shall be as follows, to wit: 
 
 For a license for a circus with or without a menagerie the sum 
 of not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars for each day; 
 
 For a license for a concert the sum of not exceeding Ten Dol- 
 lars for each concert; 
 
 For a license for a theatre, opera house, or music hall, the sum 
 of One Hundred Dollars a year; and for a license for any other 
 place or public entertainment, the sum of not exceeding Twenty-five 
 Dollars a year; and each such license for a theatre, opera house, 
 music hall, or other place of public entertainment, shall expire on 
 the first day of January following the date of the granting of such 
 license; 
 
 For any moving picture show or entertainment, the sum of 
 not exceeding Ten Dollars for each day; 
 
 For any exhibition or entertainment for which the amount of 
 the license fee is not herein specifically fixed, the fee to be charged 
 for such license shall not exceed the sum of Twenty-five Dollars for 
 '^ach such exhibition or entertainment. 
 
 Sec. 4. That the Mayor shall have the authority to determine 
 the amount of any license fee within the limits aforesaid, and to 
 decide whether a license is required under the terms of the preced- 
 ing section when there is doubt upon application, and also authority 
 to grant or withhold a license. Upon the Mayor deciding to grant 
 any license, and the payment of the license fee to the Treasurer of 
 the City of Plainfield or the Chief of Police, and the production of 
 his receipt therefor to the Mayor, there shall be given to the appli- 
 cant a license which shall state the name of the person licensed and 
 the purpose and length of time or number of exhibitions or enter- 
 tainments for which the license is granted. The Mayor shall also 
 have authority to revoke any such license upon proof to his satis- 
 faction after reasonable notice to the person or corporation holding 
 such license and reasonable opportunity for him or it to be heard, 
 that such licensed person or corporation, or any person acting on 
 his or its behalf has given or caused to be given any exhibition of 
 any nature whatever of an immoral nature or tendency, or in vio- 
 lation of any law of the State or any ordinance of the City, and after 
 such revocation such person or corporation shall be deemed to be 
 not licensed and be and remain liable under this ordinance in the 
 same manner as if such license had never been granted. 
 
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 Sec. 5. No moving picture show shall be given at any time 
 or in any place within the said City without the written permission 
 first obtained by the Mayor, in which shall be set forth the time 
 and place at which such moving picture show may be given. 
 
 Sec. 6. That any person or persons who shall violate any of 
 the provisions of this ordinance shall on conviction be subject to a 
 fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars or imprisonment not ex- 
 ceeding sixty days or both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Sec. 7. That the ordinance entitled “An Ordinance relating to 
 shows and exhibitions,” approved July 9, 1869; the ordinance to 
 amend said ordinance, approved November 10, 1884; the ordinance 
 entitled “An Ordinance to license, regulate and prohibit shows and 
 exhibitions,” approved December 8, 1897; the ordinance entitled 
 “A Supplement to an ordinance entitled ‘An Ordinance to license, 
 regulate and prohibit shows and exhibitions,’ approved December 8, 
 1897,” approved July 12, 1898; and all other ordinances and parts 
 of ordinances which conflict with any of the provisions of this ordi- 
 nance be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved July 19, 1910. 
 
 An Ordinance to Authorize the Issuing of Municipal Bonds for the 
 Purpose of Obtaining Money from the sale thereof for the 
 Permanent Improvement of Streets and Highways of the City 
 of Plainfield, Pursuant to Chapter 200 of the Laws of 1898, 
 During the A"ear 1910. ^ 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Coun- 
 cil, do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That for the purpose of obtaining money from the 
 sale thereof for the permanent improvement of the streets and 
 highways of said City during the calendar year 1910 with perma- 
 nent and durable material of a kind to be determined in each in- 
 stance by the Common Council before the work is commenced, to 
 an amount not exceeding fifteen dollars per capita for each of the 
 Inhabitants of said City according to the last official census, but not 
 for more than the amount limited by law, the Common Council of 
 said City do hereby, pursuant to the Act of the Legislature of said 
 State entitled “An Act to authorize the improvement of streets and 
 highways in cities of this State, and to provide for the payment 
 of the expense of the same, and for the assessment of the benefits 
 of such improvement upon the land and real estate benefitted there- 
 by,” and acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, author- 
 ize the issuing of thirty coupon municipal bonds of the City of 
 Plainfield of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) each, and amounting 
 
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 in all to Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000), which bonds shall be 
 dated July 1st, 1910, and shall bear interest at the rate of five per 
 centum (5 per cent.) per annum, payable semi-annually, and be pay- 
 able three years from the date thereof, with the option to the City 
 to redeem or pay off the said bonds, or any one or more of them, 
 at any time after one year from the date thereof and before three 
 years from date thereof, on giving personal notice to said holders 
 of said bonds or thirty (30) days’ notice by advertisement in the 
 official newspapers of the City of the intention to make such re- 
 demption or payment, which bonds shall be signed by the Mayor 
 and bear the corporate seal of the City and be attested by the City 
 Clerk, and may severally or collectively when ordered by resolu- 
 tion of the Common Council be sold for an amount not less than 
 par value; and there shall be raised by tax in each year hereafter 
 such sum of money as may be necessary to pay the interest on all 
 outstanding bonds and the principal of such bonds as may mature 
 during that year, and the money derived from the assessments upon 
 the property benefitted shall when collected be held as a fund 
 toward the payment of said bonds. 
 
 Sec. 2. That before any improvement shall be authorized pur- 
 suant to the Act of the Legislature referred to in Section 1, it shall 
 be necessary to enact an ordinance designating the street or streets 
 or parts thereof to be improved, together with the kind of pavement 
 proposed to improve them, and all work shall be given out upon 
 contract to the lowest responsible bidder and only after bids there- 
 for have been solicited and received, the Common Council to have 
 the right to reject any and all of such bids. 
 
 Sec. 3. That streets of parts of streets to be improved with 
 durable macadam pavement shall be so improved in accordance with 
 the following specifications, that is to say, durable macadam pave- 
 ment with bituminous binder, shall be laid to a depth running from 
 six (6) inches in the center to four (4) inches at the side, as shown 
 on plan entitled “Plan showing standard cross-sections of streets 
 of the City of Plainfield, N. J., filed in the office of the City Clerk 
 April 30, 1910,” said macadam pavement to be in every respect 
 equal to the macadam with bituminous binder on Union Street be- 
 tween Arlington Avenue and Stelle Avenue in said City. The or- 
 dinance specially designating said streets or parts of streets shall 
 also designate in each instance the width to which said macadam 
 shall be laid. 
 
 Sec. 4. That after said improvements shall have been com- 
 pleted, the Common Council shall, pursuant to the statute in such 
 case made and provided, apply to the Court of Common Pleas of 
 the County of Union for the appointment of Commissioners to esti- 
 mate and assess benefits upon the owners of the lots or parcels 
 
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 of land and real estate peculiarly benefitted by such improvements, 
 in proportion, as near as may be, to an amount equal to the amount 
 of benefits actually acquired by the lands and real estate bordering 
 on said streets or portions thereof respectively, by reason of such 
 improvements respectively; and in case the costs and expenses afore- 
 said shall exceed the amount of said benefits, the excess thereof 
 shall be paid by the City at large and raised by general tax; no 
 property or owner thereof to be in any case assessed beyond the 
 amount of benefit actually derived from said improvements. 
 
 Approved .June 7, 1910. 
 
 An Ordinance Concerning Street Railway Companies, Their Cars, 
 Motors, Roadbed, Tracks, Wires and Appurtenances. 
 
 The Inhabitants of the City of Plainfield, by their Common Council, 
 
 do enact as follows: 
 
 Section 1. It shall be the duty of all street railway companies 
 operating one or more lines of street railway within the limits of 
 the City of Plainfield to maintain their roadbed, tracks, wires and 
 appurtenances occupying or being upon or over any portion of any 
 street or public highway in the City of Plainfield, in good condition 
 and repair, and to repair any defects which may be found to exist 
 therein within ten days after such defects would by the exercise of 
 reasonable care and inspection have become apparent. Any such 
 company violating any of the provisions of this section shall on con- 
 viction be punished by a fine of twenty-five dollars for each offense, 
 and every day any such defect shall continue after written complaint 
 made to the City Judge under this section shall constitute a new 
 offence. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Street Commissioner of said 
 City to' examine the tracks and overhead equipment of all street 
 railway companies in any of the public streets of said city at least 
 once in every three months, and to report forthwith to the Mayor 
 any defects which may be found to exist therein. Upon receipt of 
 any such report, it shall be the duty of the Mayor to give written 
 notice to the company affected thereby, requiring it forthwith to re- 
 pair such defect or defects, which notice may be served by the Mayor 
 or Chief of Police or any regular police oflicer upon any officer or 
 agent of said company, and a copy thereof shall on the same day 
 be sent by registered mail, postage prepaid, to said company at its 
 principal office in this State. Any such company refusing, failing 
 or neglecting to comply with the requirements of any notice herein 
 authorized, for a period of thirty days after the date of service and 
 mailing thereof as aforesaid shall on conviction be liable to a fine 
 
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 of twenty dollars for each and every day such defects shall continue 
 after the expiration of said period. 
 
 Sec. 3. No car shall be used or operated upon any of the streets 
 of said City as a street railway car, the wheels of which shall be flat- 
 tened either in one or more places, so as to cause in the ordinary 
 operation of the car either loud and unnecessary noise or unneces- 
 sary jar on account of such flattening, and such car or cars may be 
 ordered off the tracks by the Mayor forthwith until the needed re- 
 pairs shall be made. 
 
 Sec. 4. No car shall be used or operated upon any of the 
 streets of said City as a street railway car by a motor or motors of 
 such defective construction or in such defective condition as to pro- 
 duce loud and unnecessary noise or unnecessary jar in the ordinary 
 operation of such car, and any car operated by such motor or mo- 
 tors may be ordered off the tracks by the Mayor forthwith until the 
 defective condition of such motor or motors shall be remedied. 
 
 Sec. 5. Every order given by the Mayor under sections 3 or 4 
 of this ordinance shall be in writing directed to the company oper- 
 ating such car, and shall specify the number of the car and the 
 character of the defects to be remedied. Said order may be served 
 by the Mayor or Chief of Police or any regular policeman upon any 
 officer or agent of said company, and a copy of said order shall on 
 the same day be sent by registered mail, postage prepaid, addressed 
 to said company at its principal office in this State. 
 
 Sec. 6. Any street railway company which shall violate any of 
 the provisions of sections 3 or 4 of this ordinance, or refuse, fail or 
 neglect to comply with the requirements of any order provided for 
 by said sections of this ordinance shall on conviction be liable to 
 a fine of fifty dollars for each offence, and each day’s violation of 
 any of the provisions of said sections of this ordinance or of any 
 order given as directed in said sections of this ordinance shall con- 
 stitute a new offence. 
 
 Approved Nov. 14, 1911. 
 
Index to Charter 
 
 Section. 
 
 N. B. — The references are to the sections. 
 
 ACTIONS — for violations of ordinances, before whom to be tried 18 
 In whose name to be brought and prosecuted 37 
 
 ALLEYS 14 
 
 ALMSHOUSE — establishment and maintenance of 14 
 
 AMENDMENTS — of Charter provided for 66, 67 
 
 ANIMALS 14 
 
 ANNUAL ELECTION — time and place 2 
 
 APPEAL — Commissioners of, how many and when chosen. ... 2 
 
 What powers to possess 12, 15 
 
 When to meet 35 
 
 From Award of Street Commissioners 41 
 
 ARRESTS — may be made by police 36 
 
 Persons, arrested, where to be confined and tried 36 
 
 ASSESSMENT — when to be a lien 48, 55, 56, 59 
 
 Payment of, when may be sued for 42, 48, 56 
 
 When to be conclusive evidence for plaintiff 42, 43, 48 
 
 For streets, how to be recovered when not paid by owner. . 43 
 
 Sale for non-payment of 44 
 
 Proceedings for non-payment of, when to be 
 
 taken 42, 45, 46, 47 
 
 How to be levied and collected 59, 60, 61 
 
 ASSESSOR, CITY — when to be chosen 2 
 
 What oath to take 8 
 
 What powers to possess and duties to perform. . . .12, 15, 34 
 
 To assess taxes 17, 34 
 
 To continue in office — page 35. 
 
 Time for assessment of taxes — sec. 4, page 29. 
 
 BOARD OF HEALTH 14 
 
 BONDS — or recognizance may be made 22 
 
 On Certiorari 24 
 
 BOUNDARIES — of City, defined — page 35, and 1 
 
 BY-LAWS — how to be enacted, passed, altered or repealed. 
 
 29 
 
186 INDEX TO CHARTER 
 
 Section. 
 
 CATTLE — running at large, how to be regulated 14 
 
 CERTIFICATE — of sales for assessments 45, 46, 47 
 
 Redemption from assessment sales 46, 47, 55 
 
 CERTIORARI — fees for writ of 23 
 
 Conviction reviewed by sec. 2, page 31. 
 
 How granted 24 
 
 How made — sec. 10, page 30. 
 
 Costs on writ of 25 
 
 CHARTER — when to take effect 68 
 
 A public act 66 
 
 When adopted 68 
 
 Amendments of, when to be submitted to the people 66 
 
 CHIMNEYS — right to regulate 14 
 
 CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS 2 
 
 CITY BOUNDARIES — page 35. 
 
 CITY CLERK — how appointed 5 
 
 To give notice of annual election 2 
 
 Before whom to take and subscribe the oath of office 8 
 
 To file and preserve all official oaths 8 
 
 To attend meetings of Common Council 12 
 
 To keep and record minutes of Common Council 12 
 
 To record ordinances of Common Council 12 
 
 To attest ordinances and present to Mayor 29 
 
 To receive and file remonstrances against street openings. . 39 
 
 To record Certificates and Assignments of sale 47 
 
 To give Certificates of Search in relation thereto 47 
 
 To cancel such Certificates 47 
 
 CITY COURT — place of holding, sec. 8, page 30. 
 
 Name and seal — sec. 7, page 32. 
 
 CITY HALL AND JAIL — may be erected 14 
 
 CITY JUDGE — oath, duties, &c 2, 8, 9, 18, 19, 21 
 
 Qualifications and salary 20 
 
 His Court — Sec. 8, page 30. 
 
 Term of service — Sec. 8, page 30. 
 
 May commit to jail — Sec. 9, page 30. 
 
 Rights and powers of — Secs. 6 and 8, pages 29 and 30. 
 
 CITY OFFICERS — how elected, appointed, removed 2, 5 
 
 CITY TAXES — amount and manner of assessing 17, 34 
 
 I 
 
INDEX TO CHARTER 
 
 187 
 Section. 
 
 COLLECTOR, CITY — when chosen, and power of 2, 12, 15 
 
 To take oath of office 8 
 
 To execute bond 11 
 
 When and how to collect taxes 34 
 
 To continue in office — page 35 
 
 COMMISSIONERS OF APPEAL 2, 12, 15 
 
 To take oath of office 8 
 
 When to meet, what notice of meeting to give 35 
 
 COMMISSIONERS — for estimating damages, etc., by street 
 
 openings 39 
 
 Who to be and how appointed 40, 43 
 
 Report of what to contain 41, 43 
 
 To take oath 40 
 
 W^hen to meet 41 
 
 May examine witnesses 41 
 
 To file with City Clerk estimates and assessments 41 
 
 When estimates, etc., to be conclusive, 41, 43 
 
 Shall ascertain incidental expenses, etc. — Sec. 11, page 33. 
 Appeal from decision of 41 
 
 COMMON COUNCIL— when chosen, and how long to serve. ... 2 
 
 Qualifications of members 6 
 
 When to assemble, and for what purpose, after election. .7, 28 
 
 Power of a majority to hold meetings 7 
 
 Special meeting of, how called 7 
 
 Majority necessary to pass ordinances 7 
 
 Meetings to be open 33 
 
 What officers to appoint 5 
 
 Not to receive compensation for official duties 32 
 
 Wxien and what vacancies to fill 10 
 
 Power to pass Ordinances — Secs. 2, 3, page 31, and 7, 14 
 
 To fix compensation of City Officers 32 
 
 How to pass Ordinance when returned by Mayor 29 
 
 To approve bond of City Treasurer and Collector 11 
 
 To direct to what magistrate the names of delinquent tax- 
 payers shall be returned 34 
 
 May order assessments for current expenses 17, 26 
 
 Taxes, when collected, to be subject to order of 17 
 
 What proceedings to take for raising additional money, . . 2 6 
 
 When and to what extent may borrow money, etc 2 7 
 
 Power of, to regulate sale of liquor 30 
 
 Majority necessary to grant liquor licenses 30 
 
 May establish Ordinances respecting streets and sidewalks. 54 
 How to proceed if owners fail to comply with Ordinances. . 55 
 
 When may order streets to be paved by the city 55- 
 
188 
 
 INDEX TO CHARTER 
 
 Section. 
 
 When to cause paving to be done in accordance with re- 
 quest of property owners 65 
 
 May make and impose fines 18, 21, 54 
 
 May order publication of Ordinances, etc., in volume 37 
 
 What power may delegate to Mayor 31 
 
 Meeting to organize — Sec. 3, page 29. 
 
 May reinstate proceedings when set aside by informality 
 or illegality — page 34. 
 
 Complaints, how brought 37 
 
 CONSTABLE 15, 22 
 
 CONVICTION OF CRIME — reward for, — Sec. 2, page 31. 
 
 CORPORATE NAME OF CITY 1 
 
 CROSS-WALKS — how to be regulated, laid, and paid for. . .14, 58 
 
 CURRENT EXPENSES — how provided for 17 
 
 DAMAGES — for street openings, how to be estimated, etc., 
 
 39, 40, 41 
 
 How collected 39 to 4 5 
 
 How to be ascertained, etc 43, 51 
 
 DEMAND — for payment of assessments when necessary 43, 44, 45 
 
 When unnecessary 52 
 
 DISORDERLY HOUSE 14 
 
 DOGS 14 
 
 ELECTIONS — General provisions respecting, 2, 3, 6, 12, 14, 26 
 
 EVIDENCE — what to be 56 
 
 Who competent to give 38 
 
 Remonstrance filed, to be sufficient evidence 39 
 
 Award of Commissioners, when to be conclusive evidence. . 42 
 
 Declaration of sales, when to be presumptive evidence. ... 46 
 
 Assessment, when to be conclusive evidence for plaintiff. . 48 
 
 Treasurer’s certificate evidence of redemption 55 
 
 FARM LAND — how to be valued and taxed 34 
 
 FAST DRIVING — may be regulated 14 
 
 FEES — for return of writ of certiorari 23 
 
 For city officers how granted 32 
 
 FINES AND PENALTIES — may be prescribed by Counsel. . . 18, 21 
 
 For violation of Ordinances — Secs, 1, 9, pages 29, 30. 
 
 Full extent of, — Sec. 3, page 31. 
 
 FIRE ENGINE COMPANIES — how to be regulated 14 
 
 GAMING — and Disorderly Houses 14 
 
 GAS PIPES 14 
 
INDEX TO CHARTER 
 
 189 
 Section. 
 
 GENERAL ISSUE 38 
 
 GRADE OF STREETS — how to be regulated 14 
 
 GUN POWDER — and other dangerous material 14 
 
 HEALTH — Board of 14 
 
 HIGHWAYS 14, 39, 43, 49, 53 
 
 HOSPITAL 14 
 
 HOUSES — Gaming and Disorderly 14 
 
 IMMORALITY — how to be suppressed 14 
 
 INTERSECTIONS OF STREETS — to be graded, etc 61 
 
 JAIL — City 14 
 
 How long imprisoned in 36 
 
 County, who may he sent to 18 
 
 JANITOR — how appointed — Sec. 1, page 30 and 5 
 
 JUDGES OF ELECTION — how many, when chosen, and duties. 2 
 To take oath of office 8 
 
 JUDGMENT — not to be reversed for defects in form — Sec. 3, page 31 
 
 JUROR — no person incompetent to act as 38 
 
 JUSTICES OF THE PEACE 2, 15 
 
 JURY TRIAL 18, 21 
 
 LAMPS — injuries to, how punished — Sec. 2, page 31.. 
 
 LICENSE — for sale of liquors 30 
 
 Money derived from, to whom paid 30 
 
 Majority of Common Council necessary to grant 30 
 
 For circuses and exhibitions 31 
 
 LIGHTING STREETS 14 
 
 LIEN, ASSESSMENTS — when to be liens on property of persons 
 
 and corporations .....48, 55, 56, 59 
 
 MAPS — of streets and avenues 14 
 
 MAYOR — who qualified to be, and act as 6, 9 
 
 When and for what time to be elected 2 
 
 To take oath of office 8 
 
 Compensation of 32 
 
 When and to whom to administer oath 8 
 
 For what purposes to be Justice of the Peace 4 
 
 What Licenses to grant 4, 31 
 
 To sign declaration of sale, etc 46 
 
190 INDEX TO CHARTER 
 
 Section. 
 
 When may issue warrant 43 
 
 General power of 4, 18, 36 
 
 To approve Ordinances 29 
 
 May veto Ordinances 29 
 
 To appoint certain officers — Sec. 1, page 30. 
 
 His signature necessary on city contracts — Sec. 1, page 30. 
 
 MEASURES AND WEIGHTS 14 
 
 MONEYS — for City purposes how raised 17, 26 
 
 Borrowed in anticipation of taxes 27 
 
 Purchase, when to be refunded 45 
 
 Surplus, when to be paid to owner of property 55 
 
 When Common Council may borrow 27 
 
 Derived from Licenses to be for use of the City •. . . 30, 31 
 
 MONEY ELECTIONS — for raising extra amount 26 
 
 NEWSPAPERS — to publish Ordinances, etc 13, 26, 29 
 
 NOTICE — to be given of meeting of Commissioners of Appeal. . 35 
 
 To be given of intention to take land for public purposes 39, 50 
 
 To be given of intended adoption of Ordinances, etc. . . .29, 54 
 
 How to be given and what to contain of meeting of Com- 
 
 missioners appointed to assess damages, etc 41 
 
 Personal notice to pay assessment 43, 44, 52, 55 
 
 What required of Ordinance to pave streets or sidewalks. . . 54 
 
 NUISANCES — in streets 14 
 
 How abated — Sec. 2, page 31. 
 
 OATHS, OFFICIAL — who to take, and before whom 8 
 
 When to be taken — Sec. 2, page 29. 
 
 OBSTRUCTIONS OF STREETS, ETC — how to be regulated 14 
 
 OFFENSES — against City Ordinances, how to be punished. ... 18 
 
 OFFICE — Who may hold 6 
 
 OFFICERS, CITY — how compensated 32 
 
 How appointed — Sec. 1, page 30. 
 
 ORDINANCES — lawful for the Common Council to enact. ..... 14 
 
 When of legal effect 7 
 
 Enacting clause of 16 
 
 Violation of, before whom to be tried — Sec. 7, page 32. 
 
 When to become a law if not approved by the Mayor 29 
 
 To be attested by City Clerk, and published before taking 
 
 effect 29 
 
 How and when to be enforced for paving sidewalks 54 
 
 Fine for violation of ^ 18, 21 
 
INDEX TO CHARTER 
 
 191 
 Section. 
 
 Notice of intended adoption of — Sec. 5, page 29 and. . .29, 54 
 
 Reward for conviction of violating — Sec. 2, page 31. 
 Imprisonment — for violation of Secs. 1, 9, pages 29, 30 and 18 
 'OVERSEER OF POOR 5, 15 
 
 PAVING STREETS, ETC. — expense of, how to be assessed. .14, 60 
 
 Cross-walks 14 
 
 Street intersections 61 
 
 By owners to be under superintendence of Common Council 54 
 
 When City may pave 55 
 
 Ordinance for, how to be enforced 55, 56 
 
 PENALTIES — for violating City Ordinances 18, 21 
 
 Extreme, for violation of Ordinances — Sec. 3, page 31. 
 
 PEACE PRESERVING 14 
 
 PIPES, WATER, GAS, ETC 14 
 
 PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP — abolished — page 35, sec. 2. 
 
 PLEADING — general issue 38 
 
 POLICE — by whom to be appointed, etc 5, 14 
 
 To execute process for violation of City ordinances. . . .18, 22 
 
 When to execute warrant for non-payment of taxes 34 
 
 To execute process of the Mayor or City Judge 18, 22 
 
 When may arrest and where confine without warrant 36 
 
 POLLS — time of opening, etc 3 
 
 POOR — care of the 14 
 
 POOR FUND — how provided 17 
 
 PRESIDENT — of Council, when to act as Mayor 9 
 
 PROCESS — for violation of ordinances 21 
 
 PUBLIC ACTS — Charter and Amendments thereto, to be 66 
 
 PUBLIC POUNDS .' 14 
 
 PUNISHMENT — for violation of City Ordinances 18 
 
 POWER — general, of officers 15 
 
 RAILROADS — obstruction by 14 
 
 When to be assessed for street alterations, etc 62 
 
 REAL ESTATE — to be assessed 14, 17, 26, 35 
 
 RECOGNIZANCE 22 
 
 REDEMPTION — from assessment sales, who may redeem, etc. 4 5 
 
192 INDEX TO CHARTER 
 
 Section. 
 
 REMONSTRANCE — what to be evidence of 39 
 
 Against paving or improving streets. , 64, 65 
 
 Against opening, altering, etc., streets 39 
 
 RESOLUTION — suiRcient, after Ordinance is adopte’d 63 
 
 RIOTS, ETC 14 
 
 RIDING FAST 14 
 
 ROADS 14 
 
 REWARDS — for conviction — Sec. 2, page 31. 
 
 SALES ASSESSMENT — redemption from, how made 45, 55 
 
 SALE — declaration of what to contain, who to execute it. . .46, 55 
 
 When execution of to be postponed 4 6 
 
 Property, when and how to be sold for non-payment of 
 assessments 43, 44, 45, 46, 52 
 
 SALOONS — licensing of 14 
 
 SEAL OF CITY: 
 
 To be affixed to warrants to levy by distress, etc 43 
 
 To be affixed to Declaration of Sale 44, 46, 55 
 
 SEAL OF CITY JUDGE — necessary on process — Sec. 7, page 32. 
 
 SEWERS, ETC 14 
 
 What to pay for 60 
 
 SHOWS, ETC. — to be licensed 31 
 
 SIDEWALKS^Ordinances respecting, how to be enforced 54 
 
 How regulated 14 
 
 When to be paved, payment therefor, how enforced. . . .55, 56 
 
 SNOW, ETC. — on sidewalks 14 
 
 SPECIAL MEETINGS — of Common Council, how called 7 
 
 STREETS — how to be regulated 14 
 
 Improvements in, how to be paid for 14 
 
 Opening, how opposed ‘ 41 
 
 Obstructions, how prevented 14 
 
 When considered public 49, 53 
 
 Proceedings for laying out, opening, etc 39 to 56 
 
 When paving may be contracted for by property owners. . . 64 
 
 When Common Council may make such contract 64 
 
 When improvements of, to be in accordance with request of 
 owners fronting thereon 65 
 
 Intersection of, at whose expense to be graded and paved 61 
 
 Proceedings for opening 39 to 56 
 
INDEX TO CHARTER 
 
 193 
 Section. 
 
 STREET COMMISSIONER — to be appointed 5, 6 
 
 To take oath of office 8 
 
 Duties of, by whom to be prescribed 12 
 
 Summons, may be issued 21 
 
 SURVEY for Roads, etc 14 
 
 TAVERNS, ETC — to be licensed, (see Licenses) 14 
 
 TAXES — amount of, how and when assessed and collected, 
 
 14, 17, 26 
 
 Appeal from taxation 35 
 
 What real estate may be taxed 34 
 
 TENANT — when may pave street or sidewalk 57 
 
 TENDER — when to be made 41 
 
 TOWNSHIP OF PLAINFIELD — abolished — page 35, sec. 2. 
 TRADES 14 
 
 TREASURER, CITY — when to be chosen and duty of 2, 13 
 
 To take oath of office 8 
 
 What bond to execute and how approved 11 
 
 What actions to be brought in name of 37 
 
 By whom duties of to be prescribed 12 
 
 To make annual report and have printed 13 
 
 TREES — to be protected 14 
 
 TRIAL BY JURY — when to have 18, 21 
 
 VACANCY in elective office — how filled 10 
 
 In office of Mayor 9 
 
 VAGRANTS 14 
 
 VETO, MAYOR’S 29 
 
 VIOLATION of City Ordinances — how punished 18, 21 
 
 VOTERS — who qualified to be 6 
 
 VICE — suppression of 14 
 
 WARRANT — when and by whom to be issued 21 
 
 What to show 21 
 
 For collection of taxes 34 
 
 When police may arrest without 36 
 
 When may issue for non-payment of assessment 43 
 
 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 14 
 
 WITNESSES 38 
 
 WORK-HOUSE 14 
 
Index to Ordinances 
 
 Section. Page. 
 
 ACCIDENTS — An ordinance for erection of barriers to 
 
 prevent 106 
 
 ALARMS OF FIRE — False alarm, penalty for 5 60 
 
 Breaking or injuring alarm box 14 62 
 
 Create or continue false 23 93 
 
 ANIMALS — Not to be tethered in public places 16 62 
 
 Feeding on streets prohibited 17 63 
 
 Police to take charge of, running loose ^18 63 
 
 Horses not to be left untied 24 63 
 
 Not to be tied to trees 4 65 
 
 Dogs to be licensed and tagged 1 173 
 
 APPOINTABLE OFFICERS — An Ordinance to regu- 
 late the appointments of, &c 46 
 
 Mayor to nominate, when and how 1, 2 4 6 
 
 Common Council to confirm 1 46 
 
 Term of office 1 46 
 
 How removed for misconduct 3 47 
 
 ASHES — Not to be thrown or deposited in the street. . 7 107 
 
 ASSESSMENTS — An Ordinance concerning, and col- 
 lection of taxes 178 
 
 ASSESSORS OF TAXES— Duties of 178 
 
 AUCTIONEERS — An Ordinance to provide for licens- 
 ing 164 
 
 AUTOMOBILES — To be licensed to transport passen- 
 gers or merchandise for hire 1 74 
 
 License fee 6 75 
 
 BALL PLAYING — Not allowed in the streets 19 63 
 
 BARRIERS — An Ordinance concerning, to prevent 
 
 accidents 106- 
 
 BAR-ROOMS — See saloons, 
 
 BICYCLES, TRICYCLES, &c. — An Ordinance relating 
 
 to 167 
 
 To have a lamp and bell 1, 2 167 
 
 Must not ride on sidewalks 3 168 
 
 Penalty for violation 4 168 
 
INDEX TO ORDINANCES 195 
 
 Section. Page. 
 
 BOARD OF HEALTH — An Ordinance to establish. . . 83 
 
 To consist of five members 1 83 
 
 Mayor to appoint 1 83 
 
 Powers of the Board 2 83 
 
 BOARD OF POLICE — An Ordinance concerning, and 
 
 Police Force 47 
 
 BONDS, MUNICIPAL — An Ordinance to authorize 
 , the issuing of, &c 181 
 
 BONFIRES — When prohibited 4, 20 60, 63 
 
 Leaves may be burned in forenoon 20 63 
 
 BOUNDARIES OF ELECTION DISTRICTS — An Ordi- 
 nance fixing the 39 
 
 BUILDERS — To erect barriers and place light at ex- 
 cavations, &c 2 106 
 
 May occupy one-half of sidewalk and one-third of 
 
 street 11 61 
 
 CARTMEN — An Ordinance to regulate and license. . . 74 
 
 CENTRAL RAILROAD OF NEW JERSEY — An Or- 
 dinance authorizing sidings and turnouts, &c. . . 169 
 
 CESS-POOLS- — An Ordinance to preserve the purity 
 
 of well water 55 
 
 CIRCULARS AND PAMPHLETS — Distributing pro- 
 hibited 3 60 
 
 CIRCUS — To be licensed 179 
 
 CISTERNS, IN STREETS — An Ordinance relating to 119 
 
 CITY AUDITOR — City Clerk to act as 1 58 
 
 CITY CLERK — An Ordinance relating to the duties of 58 
 
 To keep on file in his office all documents, &c. . 1 58 
 
 Present all contracts to the Mayor for signing. . 1 58 
 
 To receive, examine and submit claims to the 
 
 Council 1 58 
 
 To notify person appointed to office 2 58 
 
 To enter all resolutions in a book 3 58 
 
 To engross ordinances ordered on third reading. 4 58 
 
 . To advertisejntended adoption of ordinances. .. . 5 58 
 
 To keep list of liquor licenses granted 18 102 
 
 To issue dog licenses 2 174 
 
 CITY COUNCIL— See Common Council. 
 
196 
 
 INDEX TO ORDINANCES 
 
 CITY JUDGE — Jurisdiction in poor cases 
 
 May order release of certain animals 
 
 May commit to jail persons refusing to pay fines 
 
 Violations of liquor ordinance to be before 
 
 May suspend or revoke licenses to backmen, &c. . 
 
 CITY MONEYS — An Ordinance regulating the receipt 
 and disbursement of 
 
 CITY OFFICERS — Not to be hindered or resisted. ... 12, 
 Fire Department, members not to be hindered. . . . 
 Street Commissioner not to be hindered, &c. . . . 7 
 
 CITY PHYSICIAN — An Ordinance relating to 
 
 CITY SURVEYOR — Who shall be 
 
 CITY TREASURER — An Ordinance relating to 
 
 Bond of 
 
 To receive and deposit city moneys 
 
 Duties of 
 
 CLERK OF ELECTIONS — When to be elected 
 
 One from each polling district 
 
 COLLECTION OF TAXES — An Ordinance concering. . 
 
 COMMISSIONER OF STREETS — An Ordinance re- 
 lating to 
 
 COMMON COUNCIL — May confirm Mayor’s appoint- 
 ments 
 
 When not confirmed. Mayor to re-appoint 
 
 May remove appointable officers for cause 
 
 To have the ultimate control of police force. . . . 
 
 To act finally on charges against policemen 
 
 May retire policemen on pension 1 
 
 Instruct corporation counsel to prosecute suits. . 
 Authorize corporation counsel to appeal cases. . 
 
 To raise by tax money for support of city poor. . 
 
 To provide for maintenance of fire department. . 
 
 To try and punish firemen 
 
 To grant all liquor licenses 
 
 May revoke licenses 
 
 May order sidewalks laid or repaired when owner 
 
 neglects 
 
 May grant licenses to auctioneers 
 
 May grant licenses to junk shop keepers 
 
 To establish a pound for dogs each year 
 
 May designate who shall supply provisions for 
 city poor 
 
 3tion. Page. 
 
 11 
 
 72 
 
 18 
 
 63 
 
 29 
 
 64 
 
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 101 
 
 9 
 
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 165 
 
 13 
 
 62 
 
 22 
 
 93 
 
 , 9 
 
 85, 108 
 
 
 58 
 
 1 
 
 85 
 
 
 165 
 
 1 
 
 165 
 
 2 
 
 165 
 
 3-8 
 
 165 
 
 6 
 
 39 
 
 6 
 
 39 
 
 
 178 
 
 
 84 
 
 '1 
 
 46 
 
 2 
 
 47 
 
 3 
 
 47 
 
 2 
 
 47 
 
 8 
 
 50 
 
 , 2 
 
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 53 
 
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 54 
 
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 66 
 
 25 
 
 94 
 
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 92 
 
 16 
 
 101 
 
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 101 
 
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 115 
 
 1 
 
 
 1 
 
 170 
 
 9 
 
 175 
 
 6 
 
 69 
 
 I 
 
INDEX TO ORDINANCES 197 
 
 Section. Page. 
 
 CONTRACTORS — To erect barriers and place light at 
 
 excavations, &c 2 106 
 
 COUNCILMEN — When to be elected 6 39 
 
 Number of, and how elected 6 39 
 
 COUNSEL TO THE CORPORATION — An Ordinance 
 
 providing for 52 
 
 Duties, an Ordinance to prescribe the duties of. . 52 
 
 To prosecute violations of an Ordinance relating 
 
 to barriers, &c 7 106 
 
 To prosecute violations of liquor ordinance 14 101 
 
 DEADLY WEAPONS — Carrying of, forbidden 162 
 
 DISBURSEMENT OP CITY MONEYS — An Ordinance 
 
 regulating, &c 165 
 
 DISORDERLY HOUSES — What constitutes, penalty. . 6 61 
 
 DISTRIBUTING CIRCULARS, &c., prohibited 3 60 
 
 DOGS — An Ordinance concerning 173 
 
 To be licensed 1 173 
 
 City Clerk to issue 2 173 
 
 Fees for licenses 2, 4 173 
 
 To wear collar with license number on 5 173 
 
 DRIVING OR RIDING — Fast in streets forbidden 10 61 
 
 Sleighs to have bells 25 64 
 
 An Ordinance to regulate speed of vehicles, &c. . 1 168 
 
 DRUNKENNESS— Penalty for 8 61 
 
 ELECTION DISTRICTS — Number of 39 
 
 Boundaries of 39 
 
 EXCAVATIONS — To be guarded 106 
 
 EXHIBITION AND SHOWS — An Ordinance to license, 
 
 &c 179 
 
 EXPRESSMEN — An Ordinance to regulate and license 74 
 
 FARMERS — May sell own products without license. . 3 75 
 
 FALSE ALARMS OF FIRE — Prohibited 5 60 
 
 Breaking or injuring alarm box 14 62 
 
 Create or continue false ' 23 93 
 
 FEES — For licenses of 
 
 Hotels, special 1 105 
 
 Inns and Taverns 17 102 
 
 Saloons 17 102 
 
 To sell spirituous and fermented liquors 17 102 
 
198 
 
 INDEX TO ORDINANCES 
 
 Section. 
 
 In quantities of 1 quart to 5 gallons 17 
 
 Auctioneers . . . 4 
 
 Dogs 2 
 
 Hackmen, cartmen, peddlers, hawkers, &c 6 
 
 Motor vehicles 6 
 
 Pawnbrokers 2 
 
 Plainfield Street Railway, cars and mileage. . . 9 
 
 Shows and exhibitions 3 
 
 FENCES — Injuring, &c., punishable 21 
 
 FIGHTING AND QUARRELING — Forbidden 2 
 
 FIRES — Bonfires, when prohibited 4, 20 
 
 Leaves to be burned in the forenoon 20 
 
 To guard against, in use of illuminating gas, &c. 
 
 FIRE ARMS AND DEADLY WEAPONS — Carrying of 
 
 forbidden 
 
 An Ordinance regulating the discharge of, &c. . . 
 
 FIRE CRACKERS — Prohibited except on July 4th. . . 4 
 
 An Ordinance regulating the discharge of 
 
 FIRE DEPARTMENT — An Ordinance to establish 
 
 and control a 
 
 Who shall compose it 1 
 
 Duties of chief engineer 3 
 
 Board of Engineers, how composed 4 
 
 How appointed 5 
 
 Chief engineer responsible for property of 6 
 
 Members, how appointed and qualifications.... 7 
 
 Compensation and classes of members of 8 
 
 Captains, how appointed and their duties 10 
 
 Call men, duties of 11 
 
 Members of, only allowed on apparatus 12 
 
 Causes for suspension or dismissal 13 
 
 Penalties for violation of rules, &c 14 
 
 Fines for absence, &c 15 
 
 Complaints for misconduct or neglect 16, 17 
 
 Liquor forbidden on premises 18 
 
 Intoxication forbiddeii 18 
 
 Who may enter fire houses 19 
 
 Mutilation of property, penalty for 20, 21 
 
 Fireman not to be hindered or molested 22 
 
 Apparatus not to be taken out of city, except. ... 24 
 
 Council to provide for maintenance of 25 
 
 Assignment of fire companies 27 
 
 Page. 
 
 102 
 
 164 
 
 174 
 
 75 
 
 75 
 
 87 
 
 145 
 
 180 
 
 63 
 
 60 
 
 60, 63 
 63 
 177 
 
 162 
 
 163 
 
 60 
 
 163 
 
 88 
 
 88 
 
 89 
 
 89 
 
 89 
 
 89 
 
 90 
 
 90 
 
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 91 
 
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 92 
 
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 92-3 
 
 93 
 93 
 93 
 93 
 93 
 
 93 
 
 94 
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INDEX TO ORDINANCES 199 
 
 Section. Page. 
 
 FIREWORKS — An Ordinance regulating the dis- 
 charge of 163 
 
 FOOTWAYS — To be kept in repair Ill 
 
 GAMBLING — Not permitted 6 61 
 
 GAMES OF CHANCE— Not permitted 6 61 
 
 Not allowed in hotels or saloons 13 100 
 
 GARDENERS — May sell own produce without license. 3 75 
 
 GAS AND WATER PIPES — An Ordinance concerning 130 
 
 An Ordinance to guard against fire from gas, &c, 177 
 
 GRAVES — An Ordinance to regulate the digging of. . 55 
 
 GUTTERS — To be kept free from snow, ice, &c 108 
 
 Removal of snow and ice from 110 
 
 HACK DRIVERS — To be licensed by the Mayor 1 74 
 
 May be revoked by Mayor or City Judge 9 78 
 
 Application for license to be in writing 2 74 
 
 Penalty for not having license 4 75 
 
 Licenses expire March 1st of each year 5 75. 
 
 Fees 6 75 
 
 Lamps on vehicles with license number 8 77 
 
 Badges to be worn when on duty 8 77 
 
 Rates of fare posted in vehicle 8 77 
 
 Rates of fare to be charged 10 79 
 
 First applicant to be conveyed, penalty 11 80 
 
 Not to solicit beyond curb line or in offensive 
 
 manner 12 80 
 
 Police Board to regulate traffic 13 81 
 
 HAWKERS — An Ordinance to regulate and license. . 74 
 
 HEALTH BOARD — An Ordinance to establish 83 
 
 HORSES — Not to be left untied 24 63 
 
 Not to be tied to trees 4 65 
 
 When attached to sleigh, to have bells 25 64 
 
 HOTELS — May be licensed to sell liquors 5 97 
 
 Special license to serve liquors at meals only. ... 1 105 
 
 Not to have bar with a special license 2 105 
 
 Hours of selling restricted 1 105 
 
 See also Saloons and Inns and Taverns. 
 
 HOUSES AND STORES — To be numbered 2, 3 133 
 
 ICE PONDS — An Ordinance to protect. . 56 
 
 INDUSTRIAL HOME — An Ordinance concerning. ... 73 
 
200 
 
 INDEX TO ORDINANCES 
 
 Section. Page. 
 
 ILLUMINATING FLUIDS — An Ordinance to regulate 
 
 handling of 87 
 
 An Ordinance to guard against fire from gas, &c. 177 
 
 IMMORALITY AND VICE — An Ordinance for the sup- 
 pression of 1 66 
 
 INFORMERS — On violation of sections 6 and 9, of 
 Ordinance relating to morals, peace and good 
 
 order, to have one-half of fines 1, 2 65 
 
 On violations of liquor ordinance also 14 101 
 
 INNS AND TAVERNS — An Ordinance to license, &c. 95 
 
 Application for, to whom made 1 95 
 
 What to contain 1 95 
 
 Signers necessary, qualifications 1 95 
 
 Bond, to be given, conditions of 2 95 
 
 State law to be kept 3 96 
 
 May be licensed to sell spirituous and fermented 
 
 liquors 4 96 
 
 Application for, made to Council 4 96 
 
 What to set forth 4, 5 96, 97 
 
 Notice of to be published 4 96 
 
 If drunk on premises to be fined 8 99 
 
 Drunkenness or disorder on premises forbidden. . 9 99 
 
 Sign to be fixed on front of place 10 99 
 
 License framed and exposed to view 10 99 
 
 Place of business, cannot be changed 12 100 
 
 License not to be assigned 12 100 
 
 Hours of selling regulated 13 100 
 
 Sunday selling prohibited 13 100 
 
 Minors, selling to and gaming prohibited 13 100 
 
 Violations, how prosecuted, penalty 14, 15 101 
 
 Licenses, how granted and made out 16 101 
 
 Fees for license 17 102 
 
 Renewal of license 25 103 
 
 Restrictions and penalties for bar-rooms 19-23 103 
 
 INSPECTORS OF ELECTION — When to be elected. . 6 3 9 
 
 Two for each polling district 6 39 
 
 INTOXICATION — On the streets or public places, 
 
 penalty 8 61 
 
 INTOXICATING LIQUORS — Selling to minors, penalty 9 61 
 
 Licenses to sell 95 
 
 See Inns and Taverns, Saloons, Hotels. 
 
 JUDGE OF ELECTIONS — When to be elected 6 39 
 
 One from each ward 6 39 
 
INDEX TO ORDINANCES 
 
 201 
 
 Section. Page. 
 
 JUNK SHOPS — An Ordinance to regulate and license 170 
 
 JUSTICE OP THE PEACE — When to be elected 6 39 
 
 One from each ward 6 39 
 
 KEROSENE OIL — An Ordinance concerning storage of 86 
 
 Drawing within 15 feet of artificial light, for- 
 bidden 1 87. 
 
 KITES — Flying of, in street forbidden 23 63 
 
 LEAVES — May be burned in gutters during forenoon . 20 63 
 
 LICENSES — For the sale of intoxicating liquors 95 
 
 Inns and taverns 1 95 
 
 Spirituous and fermented liquors 4, 5 96, 97 
 
 Saloons 5 97 
 
 Quantities of 1 quart to 5 gallons 7 98 
 
 Dealers or wholesalers in liquors 7 98 
 
 Sales of liquor, without a, prohibited 11 100 
 
 Hotels, special 1 105 
 
 Transfer fee 26 104 
 
 Auctioneers 164 
 
 Cartmen 74 
 
 Drivers 74 
 
 Dogs 173 
 
 Expressmen 74 
 
 Hackmen 74 
 
 Hawkers 74 
 
 Peddlers 74 
 
 Junk Shop Keepers 170 
 
 Shows and Exhibitions 179 
 
 LIGHTS ON STREETS — Interference with forbidden. 15 62 
 
 Injuring poles, penalty 4 65 
 
 LIQUORS — Selling to minors prohibited 9 61 
 
 To intoxicated or weak minded 13 100 
 
 Sunday selling prohibited 13 100 
 
 See Inns and Taverns, Saloons, Hotels, Licenses. 
 
 LOITERING — On streets, corners, &c., prohibited. . 22 63 
 
 MAYOR — To nominate appointable officers 1 46 
 
 When to send in nominations to Council 1 4 6 
 
 If no]t confirmed to make further nominations. . 2 47 
 
 To be one of Board of Police 1 47 
 
 May call special police in case of emergency. ... 5, 6 49, 50 
 
 May give his consent for a compromise in cer- 
 tain cases 11 54 
 
202 
 
 INDEX TO ORDINANCES 
 
 Section. 
 
 May allow informers one-half in certain cases. . . 1, 2 
 
 To grant licenses to peddlers, cartmen, hack- 
 
 men, &c 1 
 
 To appoint a Board of Health 1 
 
 Grant licenses to pawnbrokers 1 
 
 To nominate firemen 7 
 
 To sign all liquor licenses 16 
 
 May issue order prohibiting dogs at large 8 
 
 Grant licenses to shows and exhibitions 1 
 
 May fij^ fees therefore and revoke licenses 4 
 
 His signature necessary to all contracts 1 
 
 MILKMEN — Permitted to sell milk 3 
 
 MORALS, Peace and Order — An Ordinance relating to 
 MOTOR VEHICLES — To be licensed to carry passeng- 
 
 ers or merchandise for hire 1 
 
 License fee 6 
 
 MUHLENBERG HOSPITAL — Indigent patients may 
 be sent to 
 
 MUNICIPAL BONDS — An Ordinance authorizing is- 
 suing of, &c 
 
 NEW YORK & NEW JERSEY TELEPHONE CO 
 
 An Ordinance relating to posts and poles of 
 
 An Ordinance relating to conduits, wires, man- 
 holes, &c 
 
 NOISES OR DISORDER — Disturbing neighborhood. 
 
 forbidden 2 
 
 In saloons 9 
 
 In any house 6 
 
 NUISANCES IN STREETS — Removed by street com- 
 missioner 2 
 
 OBSTRUCTING STREETS — Prohibited 11 
 
 Not to be placed in any 1 
 
 Street Commissioner to remove nuisances 2 
 
 Ashes, stones, earth, &c., not to be deposited in. . 7 
 
 OFFICERS APPOINTABLE — An Ordinance to regu- 
 late, &c 
 
 OIL — An Ordinance concerning storage of 
 
 Drawing within 15 feet of artificial light, for- 
 . bidden 1 
 
 OMNIBUS — To be licensed 
 
 Page. 
 
 65 
 
 74 
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 90 
 
 101 
 
 175 
 
 179 
 
 180 
 
 58 
 
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 59 
 
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 75 
 
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 181 
 
 120 
 
 120 
 
 127 
 
 60 
 
 99 
 
 61 
 
 84 
 
 61 
 
 130 
 
 84 
 
 107 
 
 46 
 
 86 
 
 87 
 
 74 
 
INDEX TO ORDINANCES 203 
 
 Section, Page. 
 
 OVERSEER OF POOR — To be nominated by the 
 
 Mayor, &c 2 66 
 
 Compensation paid from poor fund 2 66 
 
 Legal settlement necessary to grant relief 3 67 
 
 Duties and powers 4, 5, 6 67-69 
 
 To submit books to Council quarterly 7 69 
 
 All claims against Poor Fund to be sworn to. . . . 8 70 
 
 To furnish shelter on certificate of City Judge 
 
 or Mayor 9 71 
 
 May be removed for cause 13 73 
 
 To assign those in Industrial Home, to work. . . 2 73 
 
 To enforce rules of the Home 3 74 
 
 PAWNBROKERS — An Ordinance to regulate and li- 
 cense 87 
 
 PEACE AND GOOD ORDER — An Ordinance relating 
 
 to 59 
 
 PEDDLERS — To be licensed 74 
 
 PENSIONS — For retired members of police force. ... 51 
 
 An Ordinance to adopt an Act Providing for, &c. 52 
 
 PETROLEUM — An Ordinance concerning storage of. . 86 
 
 PIPES — For water and gas 130 
 
 To guard against fire from gas, &c 177 
 
 PLAINFIELD ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. 
 
 An Ordinance concerning streets through which 
 
 its poles may be erected, &c 123 
 
 PLAINFIELD GAS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT CO. 
 
 An Ordinance regarding its poles, conduits, wires, 
 
 &c 125 
 
 PLAINFIELD STREET RAILWAY CO. 
 
 An Ordinance locating tracks, etc 134' 
 
 To extend location of tracks of 140 
 
 Further extension, construction and compensa- 
 tion to be paid 141 
 
 Richmond and East Second streets extensions and 
 
 motor power of 147 
 
 Southeasterly extension of tracks and motor 
 
 power of, &c 156 
 
 An Ordinance concerning Street Railway Com- 
 panies, their cars, motors, roadbed, tracks, 
 wires, &c 183 
 
204 
 
 INDEX TO ORDINANCES 
 
 Section. Page. 
 
 POLICE, BOARD OF — An Ordinance concerning. ... 47 
 
 Who shall constitute 1 47 
 
 Authority of 2 47 
 
 To hear and determine complaints against police- 
 men 2 47 
 
 POLICE FORCE — An Ordinance to create and define 
 
 duties of a 47 
 
 Officers of, and qualifications 3 48 
 
 Duties, classes and compensation 3 48 
 
 Under general supervision of Board of Police. ... 4 49 
 
 Regular officers to devote entire time and wear 
 
 badges 5 49 
 
 Specials, when to do duty 5, 6 49, 50 
 
 Common Council to hear charges, when 8 50 
 
 Tenure of office 1 51 
 
 When member of may be pensioned 1, 2 51 
 
 POLICEMEN — Tenure of office 51 
 
 May be pensioned 1, 2 51 
 
 Not to be resisted or hindered 12, 13 62 
 
 Police force, an Ordinance concerning, &c 47 
 
 POOR — An Ordinance to provide for the relief of the 66 
 
 Tax to be ordered each year by Council for care of 1 66 
 
 Overseer to be nominated by the Mayor 2 66 
 
 Who entitled to relief 3 67 
 
 To apply to City Judge or Mayor for relief 4 67 
 
 May be placed in charitable institutions 10 72 
 
 Indigent poor may be sent to hospital 1 173 
 
 PONDS — An Ordinance to protect ice 56 
 
 POLES — Of telephone, gas and electric companies. ... 120 
 
 Poles 123 
 
 Poles 125 
 
 POUNDS — An Ordinance to establish public 82 
 
 Animals running at large, taken to 3 82 
 
 Not to be rescued or taken from 6 82 
 
 Shall not be broken open 7 83 
 
 Dogs, Council to establish a pound for 9 175 
 
 POUNDKEEPERS — Shall be two l' 82 
 
 To provide pounds and keep register 2 82 
 
 Must surrender animals when fees paid 4 82 
 
 May sell animals not redeemed 5 82 
 
 Mayor to appoint, for dogs 9 175 
 
 Duties of 9-12 175,176 
 
INDEX TO ORDINANCES 205 
 
 Section. Page. 
 
 PRIVATE STREETS — An Ordinance to prescribe con- 
 dition to be complied with before dedication or ac- 
 ceptance by the city 56 
 
 PROFANITY — Prohibited, penalty 2 60 
 
 PROSECUTION — Of actions, shall be by corporation 
 
 counsel 5 53 
 
 For violations of liquor ordinance 14 101 
 
 To come before the City Judge 14 101 
 
 Violations of ordinance concerning barriers 5 106 
 
 RAILROADS — An Ordinance authorizing sidings and 
 
 turnouts, &c 169 
 
 RESISTING ANY CITY OFFICER — Punishable 12, 13 62 
 
 RIDING OR DRIVING — Fast prohibited 10 61 
 
 Speed of vehicles 1 168 
 
 RIOTS — How to be suppressed 6 50 
 
 ROADS — See streets. 
 
 ROADS, PRIVATE— An Ordinance concerning dedi- 
 cation of, and acceptance by the city 56 
 
 SALOONS — To be licensed to sell liquors 5 97 
 
 Application to be made in writing 5 97 
 
 What to set forth and contain 5 97 
 
 Bond to be given, conditions of same 6 98 
 
 If drunk on premises to be fined, or license re- 
 voked 8 99 
 
 Disorder or drunkenness on premises forbidden. . 9 9 9 
 
 Sign must be fixed on front of saloon 10 99 
 
 License to be framed and exposed to view 10 99 
 
 Cannot change place of business 12 100 
 
 License cannot be assigned 12 100 
 
 Hours of selling restricted 13 100 
 
 Sunday selling or to minors forbidden 13 100 
 
 Gaming not allowed 13 100 
 
 Violations, how prosecuted, penalty 14, 15 101 
 
 Licenses, how granted and made out 16 101 
 
 Fees for licenses 17 102 
 
 Bar-room closed from 11 p. m. and 6 a. m 19 103 
 
 Shows, music, dancing, &c., forbidden in bar- 
 room 20 103 
 
 Bar to be exposed to public view when closed. .21, 22 103 
 
 Penalty for violations 23 103 
 
 Renewal of license 25 103 
 
 Transfer of license and fee 26 104 
 
 License district defined 27 104 
 
206 
 
 INDEX TO ORDINANCES 
 
 Section. Page. 
 
 SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS — An Ordinance to li- 
 cense, &c 179 
 
 Owners of premises not to allow, until license ob- 
 tained 2 179 
 
 Fees for licenses 3 180 
 
 Mayor, to grant, fix fee, withhold or revoke. ... 4 180 
 
 SIDEWALKS — An Ordinance relating to encroach- 
 ment on 107 
 
 Permission necessary to take up certain 5 107 
 
 Deposits of earth, stone, &c., on, forbidden 7 107 
 
 Snow and ice on 108 
 
 Removal of snow and ice from 110 
 
 On failure to remove, costs to be taxed 2 110 
 
 Footways, an Ordinance concerning Ill 
 
 To be kept in repair, &c 1, 2 111 
 
 Construction, maintenance and repair of certain. 112 
 
 Curbs and, construction and repair of certain. . . 115 
 
 Barriers to prevent accidents 106 
 
 SIGNS — Restrictions on placing 6 107 
 
 Not to be nailed on trees or poles, &c 4 65 
 
 STAGES — To be licensed 74 
 
 STONES — Throwing prohibited 3 60 
 
 STREETS — Not to be obstructed, penalty for 
 
 Obstructions not to be placed in any 
 
 Depositing ashes, earth, stone, &c., forbidden. . . 
 Nuisances, removed by Street Commissioner. . . . 
 
 Excavations to be guarded 
 
 Vaults and cisterns in the 
 
 Posts and poles placing along 
 
 Conduits, cables, wires and manholes in 
 
 Encroachments, encumbrances, and nuisances in. 
 
 Pipes, regulating the laying of 
 
 Use and repair of 
 
 Numbers, an Ordinance to establish 
 
 Owners to place number on houses and stores. . 
 Bonds, issuing of for permanent improvement, &c. 
 
 11 61 
 
 1 130 
 
 7 107 
 
 2 84 
 106 
 119 
 
 120-125 
 
 125-127 
 
 130 
 
 130 
 
 132 
 
 132 
 
 2, 3 132 
 
 181 
 
 STREETS, PRIVATE — An Ordinance concerning dedi- 
 cation of and acceptance by the city 
 
 Plans to be submitted to Street Commissioner. . 1 
 
 Acceptance to be by ordinance 1 
 
 Not to be altered, widened or changed 2 
 
 Signs at intersection with public streets 3 
 
 May permit sewers to be connected with city’s. . . 4 
 
 56 
 
 56 
 
 56 
 
 57 
 57 
 57 
 
INDEX TO ORDINANCES 
 
 207 
 
 Section. Page. 
 
 STREET COMMISSIONER — An Ordinance relating to 84 
 
 Who qualified to be 1 85 
 
 To give bond 1 84 
 
 , Overseer of streets, roads and public grounds. .. . 2 84 
 
 Keep streets in repair, remove nuisances, &c. . . 2, 3 84 
 
 To do work ordered by the committee on streets. . 4 84 
 
 To attend to execution of ordinances, &c., regard- 
 ing streets 5 84 
 
 To present account monthly to the Council 6 85 
 
 Must not be hindered in discharge of his duty. . 7 85 
 
 Report violations of ordinances relating to streets, 
 
 &c 9 85 
 
 To examine, tracks and equipment of street rail- 
 ways 2 183 
 
 May grant permission to removal certain side- 
 walks 5 107 
 
 To notify persons who obstruct streets 11 61 
 
 Enforce ordinance regarding encroachments on 
 
 streets and sidewalks 9 108 
 
 STREET RAILWAYS — Ordinance concerning, &c. . . . 134-156 
 
 An Ordinance concerning cars, motors, roadbed, 
 
 tracks, &c 183 
 
 SUNDAY — Selling not allowed 3 65 
 
 Liquors not to be sold on 13 100 
 
 Sale , of cider forbidden on 1 66 
 
 SURVEYOR, CITY — Who to be 1 85 
 
 SWIMMING — When insufficiently clothed, forbidden. 7 61 
 
 TAVERNS — An Ordinance to license, &c 95 
 
 See Inns and Taverns, and Saloons. 
 
 TAXES — An Ordinance concerning Assessment and 
 
 Collection of 178 
 
 TAX ASSESSOR — Duties of 178 
 
 TAX COLLECTOR — Duties of 178 
 
 TELEPHONE and Electric Light Poles 120-125 
 
 TENURE OF OFFICE — Of appointable officers 46 
 
 Of Policemen 51 
 
 THEATRICAL — Performances, when to be licensed. . 179 
 
 TRAFFIC — Board of Police to regulate 13 81 
 
208 INDEX TO ORDINANCES 
 
 TREES — Not to be injured or destroyed 4 65 
 
 Animals not to be tied to 4 65 
 
 Signs not to be nailed on 4 65 
 
 Trimmed to the height of 10 feet from ground. . 8 108 
 
 TROLLEY COMPANIES — Ordinances concerning. . . . 134-156 
 
 An ordinance concerning cars, motors, tracks, &c., 
 
 of 183 
 
 THROWING STONES — Forbidden 3 60 
 
 TRUCKMAN — To be licensed 74 
 
 UNDERGROUND CONDUITS— Ordinances concerning 125-127 
 
 UNTIED HORSES — Not allowed to stand in streets. . 24 63 
 
 VAULTS AND CISTERNS in Streets — An Ordinance 
 
 relating to 119 
 
 VEHICLES — An Ordinance to regulate speed of . . . . 168 
 
 Past driving or riding 10 61 
 
 VETERINARY SURGEON — Office of to Fire Depart- 
 ment, abolished 95 
 
 VICE AND IMMORALITY — An Ordinance to suppress 66- 
 
 WARDS — An Ordinance dividing city into 38 
 
 Boundaries of each defined 38 
 
 Officers elected from each ward 6 39^ 
 
 WATER AND GAS PIPES — An Ordinance concerning 
 
 in streets 130 
 
 WELL WATER — An Ordinance to preserve the purity 
 
 of 55^ 
 
 WIRES AND POLES — Of telephone and electric light 
 
 companies 120-12T 
 
 WEAPONS AND FIREARMS— Carrying forbidden. . . 162: 
 
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