Section amended. Fees in connection with sales. Repealer. 2. Section fifty-five of said act be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 55. The collector or other officer shall receive for his services for preparing and publishing notices of sale twenty-five cents for each parcel of land advertised, and, for selling, twenty-five cents for each parcel sold, and for each certificate of sale fifty cents, besides necessary disbursements for printing, postage, affidavits and acknowledgements. The clerk of the taxing district shall receive for recording the report ten cents for each parcel of land sold. All fees and expenses shall form part of the tax lien and be paid by the purchaser at the tax sale. In all taxing districts where the officer making the sale is compensated by salary for the services mentioned in this section, the said fees shall be paid into the treasury of the taxing district. 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately. Approved May 3, 1906. Bribery. No contribu ises: CHAPTER 208. An Act to define the crime of bribery and to provide for the punishment therefor. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Any person who shall do any act hereinafter prohibited shall be deemed guilty of the crime of bribery and shall be punished therefor as hereinafter provided. 2. No person shall give or agree to give for the purtions or prom- pose of promoting or procuring the election of a candidate for public office, or for the purpose of promoting or procuring the nomination of any person as a candidate for public office, any money or any valuable thing to be used for any of the purposes hereinafter enumerated. ment. (a) To provide or give or to pay, wholly or in part, Entertain the expense of giving or providing any meat, drink, entertainment or provision to or for any person for the purpose of influencing that person or any other person to give or refrain from giving his vote at any election, or on account of any such person or any other person having voted or refrained from voting. (b) To provide for the payment of rent for or for Clubs. the purpose of providing and fitting up any clubroom for social or recreative purposes, or providing for uniforms for any organized club. Proviso; paid advertise (c) To provide for the payment for the insertion in Literature. any newspaper or magazine of any article tending to influence any voter; provided, however, that this prohibition shall not be construed to prohibit the insertion of paid advertisements, which advertisements shall be indicated by the words "This advertisement has been paid for by (inserting the name of the person or persons paying for the same). ments. gift. 3. No person shall accept any money or other valu- Not accept able thing, the payment of which is prohibited by this act. violations. 4. Any person found guilty of bribery as hereinabove Penalty for defined shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall, for the first offense be disfranchised for a period of two years from the date of such conviction, and for any subsequent offense shall be perpetually disfranchised, and in addition thereto the court in which such conviction is obtained, may, in its discretion, in case of a subsequent conviction, impose upon the person so convicted, the punishment now prescribed by law for a misdemeanor. 5. No person called to testify in any proceedings under this act shall be liable to a criminal prosecution, either under this act or otherwise, for any matters or causes in respect to which he shall be examined, or to which his testimony shall relate, except to a prosecution for bribery committed in such testimony; nor shall any person, when called to testify in any trial for a violation. of this act, be privileged to refuse to answer any questions which may be asked him, upon the ground that the same will tend to degrade or incriminate him. Incriminating used against testimony not witness. Construc tion of act. Proviso. 6. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to alter, modify, amend or repeal any statute of this State imposing any penalty for any offenses in connection with the holding of an election; provided, however, that this section shall not be construed to alter or modify the provisions of section five of this act. 7. This act shall take effect immediately. Board of commis sioners of assessment created. Duties. CHAPTER 209. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for a board of commissioners of assessment in cities when no such board or mode of assessment of benefits is provided by the city charter," approved April twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: I. Section one of said act be amended so as to read as follows: 1. When no provision is made by the charter of any city in this State for the appointment or election of a commission or board for the assessment of benefits (or no mode of assessment of benefits, other than the charging against each property or parcel of land the cost of making the improvement in the street or highway on which the same abuts or adjoins, is prescribed), a board of commissioners of assessments is hereby created in such city, and shall consist of three citizens, not members of the governing body, or in the employ or service of such city, to be appointed annually to such board by said governing body. It shall be the duty of the said board of commissioners of assessment, after such notice to the parties in interest as such governing body shall prescribe, to ascertain and make assessments according to law for the benefits resulting to the abutting or assessment. lien. Assessments, how recover adjoining lands (in such assessments specifying the amount thereof and the particular lot or parcel of land against which the same is assessed), from all street improvements and from the laying or relaying of water pipes, and to file a certificate of such assessment with Certificate of the city clerk of said city, who shall thereupon present the same to the governing body of said city at its next meeting for its approval and confirmation; the amount of such assessments shall, after confirmation of the same by said governing body, be and become a lien Assessment a upon the said abutting or adjoining lands in front or in the vicinity of which such improvements are made as said lands are described and designated in said certificate of assessment, to the same extent that taxes and other assessments are liens in such city; and said assessments shall be collected in the manner provided by law for able. the collection of taxes and other assessments, and shall bear interest at the same rate; in addition thereto the city may have an action to recover the amount of any such assessment against the owner or owners of said lands in any court having competent jurisdiction thereof, and a certified copy of such assessment shall, in any such action, be prima facie evidence of the existence of the debt due from said owner or owners to such city; in case any such assessment against any property in such Re-assesscity, whether made by the board of commissioners former action created under this act or by any other board, officer or authority in such city previous to the creation of a board under this act, is hereafter or shall have been. within two years prior to the passage of this act set aside as illegal or unjust by some court of review or by stipulation of counsel or otherwise, said board of commissioners of assessment hereby created, shall be authorized, and it shall be their duty to proceed, as soon as possible thereafter, to re-assess such benefits against any such property according to law. ment when set aside. 2. This act shall take effect immediately, and that Repealer. all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith, to the extent of such inconsistency only, be and the same are hereby repealed; provided, that this act shall not be Proviso. construed to deprive any city of the power to adopt any other method than that herein prescribed, of appointing Commissioners of Assessments or proceeding to collect assessments which is now authorized by law in such city. Approved May 3, 1906. Treasurer authorized CHAPTER 210. An Act to defray the incidental expenses of the Legislature of New Jersey for the session of one thousand nine hundred and six. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: I. It shall be lawful for the Treasurer of the State to pay certain of New Jersey to pay, upon the warrant of the Comptroller, to the several persons hereinafter named, the following amounts, that is to say: sums. Item No. I. To each clergyman for open- Item No. 2. To each officer of the Senate and House of Assembly of the session of Item No. 3. To William H. Conkling, for $10 00 $10 00 $500 00 $500 00 |