An Act to incorporate the Borough of Franklin, in the County of Sussex
Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
I. The inhabitants of that portion of the township of Hardyston, in the County of Sussex and the State of New Jersey, hereinafter set forth are hereby constituted and declared to be a body corporate in fact and in law by the name of "The Borough of Franklin", and shall be governed by the general law of this state relating to Boroughs.
II. The boundaries of said Borough shall be as follows: Beginning at the sixth corner of the survey of Sparta township, as recorded in Book B of Divisions, in Sussex County Clerk's Office, page 429, etc., being a hole drilled in a large limestone rock located on the east bank of the main public road leading from the village of Ogdensburg to Franklin Furnace, said rock being distant twelve feet at right angels from the center of said public road, and said point in the center of said public road being eight hundred and sixty-eight feet northerly along said road from a point in the center of said road located in the center of culvert over which the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad passes, in the said village of Ogdensburg, thence (1) south fifty-five degrees and fifty minutes east five hundred feet along the sixth line of said Sparta Township survey to the right of way line of the Middletown branch of the said New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad; thence (2) along said line of right of way of said railroad northerly the several courses and distances thereof five thousand two hundred and twenty-one feet, measured along said right of way line from the point where the Sparta Township line intersects said right of way line to a point opposite station 291+335 on said Middletown branch of said railroad as measured from mile post 55 J.C' thence (3) nine degrees and thirty minutes east three thousand seven hundred and five feet to an iron bold driven in a rock located on the north side of the middle one of three large rocky knolls, thence (4)..........three hundred and fifty feet to a point in the middle of the road leading from Hardystonville across the mountain to Stockholm, said point being opposite a large maple tree standing on the south side of said road and four hundred feet southeasterly along said road from the center of the arch of the stone bridge in the public road at Hardystonville; thence (5) north forty-one degrees and thirty minutes west four hundred feet along the center of said road to a point in the center of the Franklin Furnace and Hamburg public road, said pint being the center of the arch of said stone bridge; thence (6) westerly down and along the center of the stream flowing under said stone bridge the several courses and distances thereof about two thousand five hundred feet to a point where said stream empties into the Wallkill; thence (7) up said Wallkill along the center thereof the several courses and distances of the same about one thousand four hundred feet to a point therein distant three hundred and twenty seven feet northerly along said Wallkill from the center of a highway bridge located over said Wallkill and between the tracks of the Lehigh and Hudson River Railway and the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad; thence (8) south sixty-two degrees and forty-eight minutes west six thousand eight hundred and eight feet to a cross cut in the north abutment of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad concrete bridge, said bridge being located eight hundred and seventy eight feet northwesterly from the point where said last mentioned railroad crosses the Lehigh and Hudson River Railway in the village of Franklin furnace; thence (9) south forty-four degrees and forty-three minutes west four thousand four hundred and seventy feet to a large elm tree, said tree located one hundred and sixty four feet northerly at right angles from a point in the center of the public road leading from Franklin Furnace across the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad and the Lehigh and Hudson River Railway to Monroe Corner, and said point in the center of said public road is distant westerly four hundred feet along the center of said road from where the same is intersected by another public road leading from said point of intersection to Franklin Furnace by way of the Catholic Rectory; thence (10) south nine degrees and three minutes west six thousand and fifty six feet to a point in the middle of the public road known as the Wild-cat road, said point being in the fifth line of said Sparta Township survey; thence (11) south forty one degrees and twenty minutes east five thousand nine hundred and ninety two feet along the fifth line of said Sparta Township survey to the place of beginning.
III. This act shall take effect immediately: provided, it shall not operate to affect the incorporation of the territory above described as a borough of this State until it shall have been accepted by a vote of the majority of the qualified voters of the said described territory voting thereon, at a special election to be held within said territory within forty days from the approval of this act, within the hours of six A.M. and seven P.M. on the day appointed and at a place within said territory to be fixed by the clerk of the said township of Hardyston. The clerk of said township shall cause public notice of the time and place of holding said election, to be given by advertisements signed by himself and set up in at least ten public places within said described territory and published in one or more newspapers printed or circulating therein at least ten days prior to such election; and said clerk shall provide for each elector voting at such election ballots to be printed or written, or partly printed and partly written, on which shall be printed the word "for" and the word "against" above and immediately preceding the title of this act; and if the word "for 'be marked off or defaced upon the ballot it shall be counted as a vote against the acceptance of said act; if the word "against" is marked off or defaced upon the ballot it shall be counted as a vote in favor of the acceptance thereof; and in case neither the word "for" nor the word "against" be marked off or defaced upon the ballot it shall not be counted either as a vote for or against such acceptance. Such election shall be held at the time and place so appointed, and be conducted by the officers of the second election district of said township of Hardyston, except that no special form of ballot or envelope need be used. The officers holding such election shall make return to the township committee of said township of Hardyston of the result thereof by a statement., in writing, under their hands, and the same shall be entered at length on the minutes of said township committee; and thereupon and upon such adoption, but not otherwise, this act shall in all respects be operative.
IV The register of voters of the voters within said described territory used at the general election next preceding the holding of such special election shall be used for the purpose of conducting such special election. It shall not be necessary for the board of registry and elections in said described territory to make a new registry of voters for such special election, but only to revise and correct the register made for the last general election, and for that purpose the said board shall meet at such place within said described territory as shall be designated by the clerk of said township of Hardyston one week next preceding said election. Notice of the place so designated shall be given by the clerk by posting in at least five of the most public places in said described territory. Said meetings of the board of registry and elections shall begin at one o'clock in the afternoon and continue until nine o'clock in the evening of that day for the purpose of revising and correcting the register and adding thereto the names of all persons entitled to vote within said described territory ant said special election, who shall appear in person before them and establish to the satisfaction of the majority of the board that they are entitled to vote at said election, or who shall be sworn by a written affidavit of a voter residing in said territory to be entitled so to vote; a separate affidavit shall be required for each person so registered, which shall contain the address of the affiant and shall be signed by him; and on the following day one copy thereof shall be delivered to the chairman of the county board of elections of Sussex County to be filed by said board, and one copy shall be retained for use by the said board of election at such special election
V Immediately after the statement of the result of such election shall be made to the township committee of said township of Hardyston a copy there, certified by its clerk, shall be forthwith filed in the office of the County clerk of said county of Sussex.
Approved March 18, 1913