We believe that there are many boroughs in this State which have no
sufficient excuse for existence, which were prompted by some local
desire for extravagant improvement, or were a part of a scheme of
speculation to encourage the sale of real estate, or were the outgrowth
of sectional or local jealousy which found too easy a vent in the
facility which the borough law afforded for the creation of a new
municipality. We have not thought it advisable, however, to question in
any way the existence of any of these boroughs or, in rehabilitating
them, to make any distinction between those that ought to exist and
those that ought not. It will be sufficient for the present, we trust,
to guard against the increase of such boroughs.
