Bakman v. Hackensack Improvement Commission

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fort, J.

The “Hackensack Improvement Commission” was created under “An act to incorporate the Hackensack improvement commission,” approved April 1st, 1868. Pamph. L., p. 564.

They are by this act given certain powers previously existing by statute in the inhabitants of the village of Hackensack (Pamph. L. 1868, p. 565, § 5), and by section 13 of the act of 1868 it was provided that “this act shall take effect immediately and shall be in force in that part of the county of Bergen now known as the village of Hackensack and included within the following…