Excerpt from Third Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners: For the State of New Jersey for the Year 1909The supplement to the act creating the Board contains some provisions which were not in the original act and which have placed additional duties and responsibilities upon the Board.This supplement provides that no railroad company shall aban don any railroad station, or cease to maintain the usual facilities of such station, without giving thirty days' notice to the Board of Railroad Commissioners, and the Board may, after a hearing, prevent the proposed abandonment of the station. The Board is also given power, upon complaint lodged with it, by the board of chosen freeholders of any county, the governing body of any municipality, or by twenty or more freeholders and taxpayers of any township or municipality that the crossing of a railroad and highway at grade is particularly dangerous, to order, after a hearing, such crossing protected. It is further provided that no municipality shall construct or cause to be constructed any new street or highway across the tracks of any railroad company at grade, nor shall any railroad company lay tracks across any street or highway so as to make a new crossing at grade, without obtaining therefor permission from the Board.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.