N.J. Stat. § 44:4-125
The expenditures, exclusive of administrative expenses, for relief under the provisions of this chapter of the temporary or outdoor poor residing in the respective municipalities of the county shall be limited except as provided in section 44:4-127 of this title, to amounts appropriated therefor by the respective municipalities of the county and included in their budgets for each ensuing calendar or fiscal year; and the respective municipalities shall include in their budgets appropriations adequate in the judgment of their governing bodies for the purpose.
Such appropriations shall be made available to the order of the county welfare board of the county wherein the municipalities are situated for the sole purpose of providing relief to the temporary or outdoor poor of the respective municipalities, and the county welfare board shall expend within the municipality so making the appropriation so much thereof as is necessary to provide for such relief.
N.J.S. § 44:4-125