Preamble. Proceedings for adjusting past due taxes. Proviso. Proceedings in case any person or persons or corporation is agrieved. CHAPTER CLXXXI. An act to authorize incorporated cities in the state of WHEREAS, certain taxes heretofore levied within cities in this state have been illegally assessed or made. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That it shall be lawful for the board of aldermen or common council of said cities, respectively, or any committee of said board of aldermen or common council, of not less than three in number, for that purpose by resolution appointed to examine, revise, alter, adjust and compromise all or any such past due taxes, in said cities respectively, the justness and legality of which may be disputed by any person or persons or corporation; provided, however, that in all cities where there exists a board of finance and taxation, or commissioners of the sinking fund, that such board or commissioners, as the case may be, shall exercise said powers in lieu of said board of aldermen or common council, and in all cases the final action of such committee, board of finance and taxation, or commissioners, upon any case arising under this act, shall, before the same shall become valid, be approved by the board of aldermen or common council of said cities, respectively. 2. And be it enacted, That any person or persons or corporation, separately or collectively, aggrieved by any such past due taxes in any said city, may present to said board of aldermen or common council, or board of finance and taxation, or commissioners of the sinking fund of said city in which such disputed past due tax exists, a petition, therein stating his or their objections to the same, and praying relief, and upon so presenting such petition, the past due tax so objected to shall be considered to be disputed, so as to give any such board of aldermen or common council, or board of finance and taxation, or commisioners of the sinking fund, or any committee therein duly appointed by resolution of said board of aldermen or common council, or board of finance and taxation, or commissioners of the sinking fund, jurisdiction to revise, alter, adjust and compromise the said past due tax as shall be equitable and just, and that every such past due tax which shall be so revised, altered, adjusted and compromised, shall be final and conclusive between every such person or persons or corporation, so objecting, and the city in which such past due tax shall be revised, altered, adjusted and compromised. shall be signed 3. And be it enacted, That the proceedings of every of Proceedings the said board of aldermen or common council, or board by presiding of finance and taxation, or commissioners of the sinking officer. fund, or the duly appointed committee thereof, shall be signed by the presiding officer of such board of aldermen or common council, or board of finance and taxation, or commissioners of the sinking fund, if had before them, or if before a committee thereof, as herein authorized, then by the said committee, or a majority of them, and filed in the office of the officer of the said city in which such proceedings shall be had, with whom such tax was filed before such revision, and when such proceedings shall be so filed, the said past due tax as revised, altered, adjusted and compromised, shall be and remain a lien upon the property on account of which said tax had been originally levied and assessed, and shall be collected in the manner provided for the collection of taxes in said cities respectively; provided, however, that any person or Proviso. persons or corporation desiring to have the benefit of this act, shall file his or their petition or petitions therefor within twelve months from the date of the passage of this act; provided, however, that nothing in this act shall Proviso. be held to alter, or affect the rights or remedies, at law or in equity, of any person so petitioning, or of such city as they existed at the time of filing said petition, unless settlement shall be actually agreed to and effected; provided, however, that this act shall not apply to cities con- Proviso. taining less than thirty thousand or more than one hundred thousand inhabitants; and provided further, that the Proviso. provisions of this act shall not apply to any tax assessed for the year one thousand eight nundred and seventyeight. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 14, 1879. Section to be amended recited CHAPTER CLXXXII. Supplement to 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, and the various amendments thereto. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the ninth section of the supplement of the act to which this is a supplement, which was approved March fifteenth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, which reads as follows: "4. And be it enacted, That the national guard shall be officered as follows, and not otherwise: the governor shall be commander-in-chief; his staff shall be as follows: six aides-de-camp, with the rank of colonel, whose term of service shall expire with that of the governor; one adju tant general, with the rank of brigadier general; one quartermaster general, with the rank of brigadier general; one surgeon general, with the rank of brigadier general; one inspector general, with the rank of brigadier general; one judge advocate general, with the rank of colonel of cavalry; one assistant adjutant general, with the rank of colonel of cavalry; the quartermaster general shall be acting commissary general, acting paymaster general and acting chief of ordnance; there shall be a major general of division; his staff shall be as follows: three aides-decamp, each with the rank of major: one inspector, with the rank of colonel; one assistant adjutant general with the rank of colonel; one surgeon, with the rank of colonel; one paymaster, with the rank of lieutenant colonel; one quartermaster with the rank of lieutenant. colonel; one judge advocate with the rank of lieutenant colonel; there shall be one brigadier general to each brigade; his staff shall be as follows: one assistant adjutant general, with the rank of lieutenant colonel; one inspector, with the rank of lieutenant colonel; one surgeon, with the rank of lieutenant colonel; one quartermaster, with the rank of major; one paymaster, with the rank of major; one judge advocate, with the rank of major two aides-de-camp, with the rank of captain; to each regiment there shall be one colonel, one lieutenant colonel and one major; to each battalion there shall be one major; the regiment or battalion staff shall consist of one adjutant, with the rank of first lieutenant; one quartermaster, with the rank of first lieutenant; one paymaster, with the rank of first lieutenant; one surgeon, with the rank of major; one assistant surgeon with the rank of first lieutenant; one chaplain, with the rank of captain; one judge advocate, with the rank of captain; one sergeant major, one quartermaster sergeant, one commissary sergeant, one hospital steward, one principal musician, one color sergeant and two general guides, each with the rank of sergeant; to each infantry company there shall be one captain, one first lieutenant, one second lieutenant and not less than fifty or more than eighty enlisted men, from which number of enlisted men there may be selected not more than one first sergeant, four sergeants, five corporals and two musicians; to each artillery company there shall be one captain, two first lieutenants, two second lieutenants and not less than fifty or more than one hundred and fifty enlisted men, from which number of enlisted men there may be selected not more than one first sergeant, five sergeants, eight corporals and two musicians," be amended so as to read as follows: 4. And be it enacted, That the national guard shall be section as officered as follows, and not otherwise: the governor shall amended. be commander-in-chief; his staff shall be as follows: one adjutant general, with the rank of brigadier general; one Guard, how of quartermaster general, with the rank of brigadier general; ficered. The National the quartermaster general shall be commissary general, paymaster general and chief of ordnance; one surgeon general, with the rank of brigadier general; one general inspec tor, with the rank of brigadier general, who shall also be inspector of rifle practice; one judge advocate general, with the rank of colonel of cavalry; one assistant adjutant general, with the rank of colonel of cavalry; four aides-de-camp, with the rank of colonel, whose term of service shall expire with that of the governor; there shall be a major general of division; his staff shall be as follows: one assistant adjutant general, with the rank of colonel; one inspector, with the rank of colonel; one surgeon, with the rank of colonel; one paymaster, with the rank of lieutenant colonel; one quartermaster, with the rank of lieutenant colonel; one judge advocate, with the rank of lieutenant colonel; three aides-de-camp, each with the rank of major; there shall be one brigadier general to each brigade; his staff shall be as follows: one assistant adjutant general, with the rank of lieutenant colonel; one inspector, with the rank of lieutenant colonel; one surgeon, with the rank of lieutenant colonel; one quartermaster, with the rank of major; one paymaster, with the rank of major; one judge advocate, with the rank of major; two aides-de-camp, with the rank of captain; to each regiment there shall be one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, and one major; to each battalion there shall be one major; the regiment or battalion staff shall consist of one adjutant, with the rank of first lieutenant; one quartermaster, with the rank of first lieutenant; one paymaster, with the rank of first lieutenant; one surgeon, with the rank of major; one assistant surgeon, with the rank of first lieutenant; one chaplain, with the rank of captain; one judge advocate, with the rank of captain; one inspector of rifle practice, with the rank of captain; one sergeant major, one quartermaster sergeant, one commissary sergeant, one hospital steward, one principal musician, one color sergeant and two general guides, each with the rank of sergeant; to each infantry company there shall be one captain, one first lieutenant, one second lieutenant, and not less than fifty or more than eighty enlisted men, from which number of enlisted men there may be |