Traveling expenses.

Bills attested.

keeping of the tax duplicates and papers of the said board of taxation.

3. They shall defray the actual traveling expenses of the members of said boards of taxation and the secretaries thereof.

4. The bills for such expenses shall be paid by the said boards of chosen freeholders when attested by the president and secretary of the said boards of taxation.

5. This act shall be deemed a public act, and shall take effect immediately.

Approved April 11, 1907.

Service upon corporations.

CHAPTER 42.

A Supplement to an act entitled "An act respecting the
Court of Chancery (Revision of 1902)," approved
April third, one thousand nine hundred and two.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. In any suit or proceeding heretofore or hereafter begun in the Court of Chancery against a corporation of this State, process of subpoena or other writ, notice, orders and papers of any nature whatsoever in such suit or proceedings served upon the president, vice president, a director or the designated agent of the corporation or other officer thereof, shall be good and effective service upon the corporation.

2. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved April 11, 1907.

CHAPTER 43.

Supplement to an act entitled "An act to provide for short courses in practical and scientific agriculture in the State Agricultural College," approved March twenty-fifth, one thousand nine hundred and five.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

for short

courses in

agriculture.

1. There shall be appropriated out of the general Appropriations revenues of the State the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be expended for the further equipment of the short courses in practical and scientific agriculture in the State Agricultural College, as provided for in section three of the act to which this is a supplement, and an additional annual appropriation of ten thousand dollars for salaries, supplies and all other expenses for the maintenance of the short courses in agriculture; provided, that Proviso. such sum or sums shall first be appropriated in the annual appropriation bill.

2. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved April 12, 1907.

CHAPTER 44.

An Act amending an act entitled "An act relating to the Court of Common Pleas (Revision of 1900)," approved March twenty-third, one thousand nine hundred.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

I. Section seven of said act be and the same is hereby Section amended so as to read as follows:

amended.

When judge may preside in another county.

Separate sittings.

Section amended.

Request, how made.

Compensation.

7. The judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for any county may, at the request of the judge of said court in and for any other county, preside during the absence or sickness or other inability of the judge making such request, or to assist such judge in disposing of the accumulated business of said court, in the courts or any of them for which the judge makng such request was specially appointed.

When such judge shall be so requested to sit for the purpose of assisting the judge making such request in disposing of the accumulated business of said courts, both of said judges may sit separately, at one and the same time, for the purposes of trying issues in said courts and of hearing and determining such other matters as said Court of Common Pleas, or any judge thereof, may be empowered by law to hear, try and determine.

2. Section eight of said act be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

8. The request mentioned in the preceding section shall be in writing, and the judge to whom such request shall have been made, before presiding in the courts of any county other than that for which he was specially appointed, shall file such request in the office of the clerk of the county in which he shall have been so requested to preside.

When such judge shall be so requested to sit for the purpose of assisting the judge making such request in disposing of the accumulated business of said courts, the judge so requested shall while so sitting, in addition to his regular salary, be entitled to the sum of twenty dollars per day, which shall be paid by the county in which he shall be so requested to sit, upon the certificate of the judge making such request.

3. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved April 12, 1907.

CHAPTER 45.

An Act concerning the government of certain cities in this State and constituting a municipal Board of Fire and Police Commissioners therein and defining the powers and duties of such board, and vesting in such board certain powers of management and appointment now vested in other departments or offices in such cities and providing for the maintenance of such board.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

Board of fire and police appointed by

commissioners

mayor.

I. In all cities in this State, now or hereafter having within their territorial limits a population of not less than one hundred thousand nor more than two hundred thousand inhabitants, according to the United States or State census, there shall be established a Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, which shall be invested with the powers and duties hereinafter set forth. In all cities. now having such population the mayor thereof shall appoint, within one month after this act shall take effect (and in all cities which may hereafter have such population, according to the census of the United States or the State of New Jersey, the mayor thereof shall appoint, within one month after the official promulgation of the census showing that such city has the population aforesaid), four suitable persons, residents of such city, to be Number. known as the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party; two of whom shall be appointed to Terms. serve until the first day of January next following such appointment, and two of whom shall be appointed to serve until the first day of January secondly following such appointment. On the first day of January next following such appointment, and on each succeeding first

Salary.

Vacancies.

Official title.

Oath.

Bond.

Powers and duties.

day of January thereafter, the said mayor shall appoint
two suitable persons, residents of such city, for the term
of two years, to take the place of those members whose
term shall then expire; not more than two of said board
shall at any time be members of the same political party.
The members of said board shall receive an annual
salary of five hundred dollars, to be paid monthly in
the same manner as provided by law for other city
officers. Any vacancy in such Board of Fire and Police
Commissioners shall be forthwith reported by the clerk
thereof to said mayor, who shall, within thirty days
thereafter, appoint a person to fill such vacancy for the
unexpired term only. Each of the members of said.
board shall devote such time and attention to the faithful
performance of the duties of his office as the affairs
under the government, control and management of such
board may require. The members of such board so
appointed as aforesaid shall constitute and be called
"The Board of Fire and Police Commissioners of the
city of
" (name of the city in and for
which they are appointed). Each member of such
board shall within ten days after his appointment qualify
by taking and subscribing, before some person authorized
to administer oaths, an oath or affirmation to faithfully
discharge the duties of his office to the best of his skill
and understanding, and also give bond to such city in
the sum of five thousand dollars, to be approved as to
form thereof by the city counsel of such city and as to
the sufficiency thereof by the mayor of such city, for the
faithful discharge of his official duties, which bond shall
be filed in the office of the clerk of such city.

2. The said Board of Fire and Police Commissioners shall be in the place of and be substituted for, and shall be invested with all the powers and duties now vested in or exercised by any officer or officers, board of aldermen, common council, police board, commissioners of fire department or other governing body, by whatever name called, in any such city in this State, concerning and appertaining to the appointment, powers, government and other matters relating to the fire department and the police department of such cities, and they are also