New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 54 § 6-1(16)

1. That one hundred or more persons being residents and freeholders of any city in this state may make the application to the circuit court referred to in the first section of the act to which this is a supplement, and in case of application so made the notice provided by said section to be given, may be signed by the clerk of the city or by the persons intending to make the application, and notice so given shall be of the same force and effect as the notice provided in said section, whereupon said court may in its discretion proceed thereon and appoint commissioners of adjustment in the same manner as if said notice had been given and the application made in the manner prescribed in said section; provided, that no person shall be eligible as a signer to such application who is in arrears for taxes or assessments in such city and the certificate of the officer charged with the collection of such taxes and assessments shall be plenary evidence of the [eligibility] of such applicants in the respect aforesaid.