State v. Steen

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Van Syckel, J.

The borough of Eatontown was duly incorporated in accordance with the provisions of an act entitled “An act for the formation of borough governments,” approved April 5th, 1878. Pamph. L., p. 403.

In 1881, the legislature passed an act supplementary to the act of 1878, providing “that the legal voters of any borough incorporated under the act to which this is a supplement, when the number of legal voters within the boundaries of said corporation does not exceed one. hundred and fifty, may, at *543any election hereafter being had, decide, by a…