assessors or other taxing officers, and of all boards of tax review, by reducing such assessment; such review and reduction may be made of any assessment hereafter to be made, or any assessment which shall have been made within one year before the filing of the complaint for the review and reduction of the same; and all assessments so reviewed shall bear interest from the time fixed by the law under which said assessments were originally made and levied until paid, upon the amounts so fixed and determined by said board. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 28, 1895. CHAPTER CCCLXXXI. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act concerning cities of the first class in this state, and constituting municipal boards of street and water commissioners therein, and defining the powers and duties of such municipal boards, and relating to the municipal affairs and departments of such cities under the control and management of such boards, and providing for the maintenance of the same,' approved March twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one," which said amendatory act was approved March twenty-fourth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, and to validate and confirm assessments made for improvements made under said last-mentioned act. amended. I. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assem- Section to be bly of the State of New Jersey, That section one of the act of which this is amendatory be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section as amended. heretofore made firmed. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That section three of the act to which this is amendatory be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 3. And be it enacted, That the board of street and water commissioners herein authorized shall have full power, in their discretion, to repave and improve, according to specifications adopted by said board for material for any such repaving, and for the work in each case, any street, avenue, lane, alley, highway or public place already paved in any such city, or any part thereof, the expense to be assessed in the same manner as now provided by law, on the property benefited in proportion to the benefit received." Assessments 2. And be it enacted, That any and all assessment or ratified and con-assessments heretofore made under the provisions of the act to which this is amendatory, being chapter one hundred and thirty-five of the laws of New Jersey for the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, be and the same hereby are ratified and confirmed, notwithstanding the fact that such assessment or assessments are for more than one-third of the cost of such improvement or improvements, and that the said board proceeded and did such repaving and improvement without the petition of the owners or other legal representatives owning or representing a majority of the lineal feet frontage of any such street, avenue, lane, alley, highway or public place or part thereof within the same so repaved and improved, and that such board has proceeded to do such repaving or improving by a less vote than the unanimous votes of the commissioners of such board; provided, that at least four-fifths of the commissioners of such board voted for the passage of the ordinance under which such improvement was made. Repealer. 3. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 28, 1895. CHAPTER CCCLXXXII. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act for the organization of the national guard of the state of New Jersey," approved March ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. uniform or in sons not entitled hibited. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General As- The wearing of sembly of the State of New Jersey, That the uniform signia by peror insignia of rank prescribed for the officers of the thereto pronational guard of New Jersey, shall be worn only by persons entitled thereto by commission under the laws of this state or of the United States or of another state of the United States; provided, any honorably-dis- Proviso. charged officer may wear upon public occasions the uniform and insignia of rank to which his commission entitled him while in service; any person violating this Penalty. section shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars on complaint of any officer of the national guard. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 28, 1895. CHAPTER CCCLXXXIII. An Act respecting expenditures in cities of the firstclass of this state. may be expendtion of appro 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assem. Certain sums bly of the State of New Jersey, That in all cities of ed in anticipa the first-class in this state where appropriations for priations. municipal purposes are by law made during the fiscal year for which such appropriations are made it shall be lawful for the boards, bodies and officers thereof during the portion of the year intervening between the beginning of the fiscal year and the making of the tax levy to expend in anticipation of appropriations sums of money proportioned for such period to the sums appropriated for like purposes and expended by such boards, bodies and officers during the year immediately preceding. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 28, 1895. Judicial pro ceedings of city may be reviewed. CHAPTER CCCLXXXIV. An Act concerning proceedings to review judgments or other judical proceedings of any city judge, police court or other inferior court had for or on account of alleged violation of city ordinances or ordinances of city boards of health. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General AsJudge or city sembly of the State of New Jersey, That in order to establish uniformity in the premises in all the cities of this state, all judgments or other judicial proceedings of any city judge, police court or other inferior court, had for or on account of alleged violation of city ordinances or ordinances of city boards of health, and whether had with or without a trial by jury, shall be reviewable by writ of certiorari, in accordance with the rules and practice of the supreme court and not otherwise. Repealer. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts, general or special, inconsistent herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 28, 1895. CHAPTER CCCLXXXV. An Act authorizing the governing bodies of towns, town- Whereas, Towns, townships, boroughs and villages in Preamble. may provide for cross 1. BE IT ENACTED, by the Senate and General As- Governing body sembly of the State of New Jersey, That the gov-protection at erning body of said towns, townships, boroughs and ing. villages, by whatever name said body shall be known, shall have and they are hereby given power to pass, alter or repeal ordinances requiring railroad companies whose lines pass through said municipalities to protect any and all railroad grade crossings or places where the tracks of said company or companies cross a public street or highway at grade, which street is in daily use by vehicles, by the erection and maintenance of arms or gates or the placing and maintaining of a flagman or flagmen at such crossings, or of both, for such times or hours as the said governing body shall deem reasonable. notify railroad 2. And be it enacted, That upon the passage of any Clerk shall such ordinance, it shall be the duty of the clerk of said companies. municipality to notify each and every railroad company whose lines pass through said municipality, and is affected by such ordinance, of the passage thereof, by mailing a copy of the same, certified under his hand, to the main office of the said company; and it shall be the |