New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 40 § 141-1(3)

3. That the said water commissioners are hereby invested with all the powers necessary to enable them to construct, keep up and maintain such reservoirs, aqueducts and apparatus for elevating water, as they may deem necessary, from time to time, with such erections, works, establishments and fixtures, as may be in their opinion required to effectuate the objects of this act, and to take and use such parts of the waters of any stream necessary for the purposes contemplated by this act, and to lay all pipes under the streets or through private property that may be needed to conduct said water to the reservoirs, and from the reservoirs to such parts of the town and vicinity as the governing board of said town may, from time to time, deem expedient, and for these purposes said water commissioners may make all such contracts, and employ all such engineers, workmen and laborers as they may deem necessary, subject, however, to the restrictions hereinafter provided.