The Cities of Jersey City, Hudson City, Hoboken, Bergen, the Town of Union, and the Townships of North and Weehawken, and part of the STATE OF NEW JERSEY. AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND MAKE INTO ONE CITY, TO BE CALLED JERSEY CITY, THE CITIES OF NEW JERSEY, HUDSON CITY, HOBOKEN, BERGEN, THE TOWN OF UNION AND THE TOWNSHIPS OF NORTH BERGEN, WEST HOBOKEN, GREENVILLE, BAYONNE, AND WEEHAWKEN, AND PART OF THE TOWNSHIP OF KEARNEY. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the City of Jersey City shall hereafter consist of all the territory included within the boundaries described in a schedule hereafter contained marked A. 2. And be it enacted, That all citizens of the State who now are or hereafter may be inhabitants within said limits shall be and are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of The Mayor and Common Council of Jersey City, with all the powers incident to a municipal corporation, and necessary for the purpose of carrying out the objects of this act. 3. And be it enacted, That the said city shall be divided into wards, the wards as divided in the cities hereby consolidated to remain as before the passage of this act. And the towns and each of the townships named in the title of this act be and is hereby declared to be a ward. OF THE OFFICERS OF THE CITY, THEIR SELECTION, DUTIES, AND TERM OF OFFICE. 4. And be it enacted, That the city officers shall consist of a Mayor, a Treasurer, a Comptroller, a Clerk of the City, three Overseers of the Poor, a Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, a School Superintendent, a Street Commissioner, two or more City Surveyors, one Assessor for each ward, a Collector of Revenue, and a Recorder. The Mayor, Recorder, School Superintendent, Assessors, and Collector of Revenue shall be elected at the next charter election after the passage of this act, the Mayor and School Superintendent for the term of two years; the Recorder for the term of five years; the Assessor for the term of three years; and the City Clerk, Treasurer and Comptroller, Overseers of the Poor, Street Commissioner, Collector of Revenue, City Surveyors, so many Surveyors of Highways and Pound Masters as the Common Council shall determine from time to time by ordinance, and such other officers as are hereinafter provided for shall be appointed by the Common Council, a majority of whom shall be necessary to a choice; the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department shall be elected every two years by the members of said department, subject to the approval of the Common Council. That the ward officers shall be for each ward, three Judges of Election, two Alderman, and one Constable, unless the Common Council shall determine by resolution passed two months before the election that more than one constable for each or any ward shall be elected, and in case of the passage of such resolution, as many constables as shall be so determined upon shall be elected accordingly for any such or each ward according to such resolution,. one Chosen Freeholder, a Clerk who shall be the Clerk of Election, and shall perform all the other duties required by law of the clerks of the townships in this State, as far as the same are not otherwise provided for by this charter; and so many Surveyors of Highways and Pound Masters, to be selected from such parts of the city as the said Common Council shall determine from time to time by resolution; and one Commissioner of Appeal from each ward of said city shall be appointed by said Common Council. And each ward, for general purposes not provided for by this act, shall be considered a township; and each of the Assessors shall, in the meeting of the County Assessors, have the same voice as the Assessor of any township in the county. 5. And be it enacted, That the city election shall be held on the second Tuesday in April in each year, at such place in each ward as the Common Council shall designate. The election shall be held and conducted by the Judges of Election and Clerk of Election, at the same hour, in the same manner, and under the same regulations in all things as prescribed by law for the State elections for members of the Legislature, except that the return of the election shall be made to the City Clerk within seventy-two hours after the closing of the polls, which return shall be a full, true, and correct copy of the original statement of the result of such election made by said judges, and shall be signed by them with their own hands and attested by the Clerk; and the City Clerk shall, when he receives said return, immediately file the same in his office as an official paper. 6. And be it enacted, That every person who would, by the existing laws of the State, be entitled to vote at an election for members of the Legislature if held on that day, shall be entitled to vote at the charter election, and every person voting shall vote in the Ward where he shall actually reside, and in no other. 7. And be it enacted, That the person or persons receiving the greatest number of votes of those given in the city for any city office, and of the votes given in each ward, respectively, for an office in that ward, shall be elected to that office. 8. And be it enacted, That the judges of election in each ward in every such election shall appoint one of their number to attend the meeting of the Board of City Canvassers, hereinafter provided for, as a member thereof, and shall deliver to the judge who shall be so appointed the original statement of the result of such election in such ward, which shall |