Long Branch Police, Sanitary & Improvement Commission v. Dobbins

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nixon, J.

By an act of the legislature (Pamph. L. 1867, p. 976) “ The Long Branch Police, Sanitary and Improvement Commission” was created, and to the commissioners certain municipal powers were given, and these powers were enlarged by several subsequent-acts of the legislature, between *6601867 and 1875. In 1892 this commission contracted for the paving with asphalt of certain streets and avenues in Long Branch. In the case of Tappan v. Long Branch Commission, 30 Vroom 371, it was held that the commissioners had power to contract for the paving of the…