PER CURIAM.
We affirm essentially for the reasons stated in the Appellate Division opinion, reported at 166 N.J. Super. 254 (1978). Only under limited circumstances, not here pertinent, may a municipal expenditure be made prior to an appropriation. See, e.g., Home Owners Construction Co. v. Borough of Glen Rock, 34 N.J. 305 , 315-316 (1961); Essex Cty. Bd. of Taxation v. City of Newark, 73 N.J. 69, 74 (1977).
For affirmance — Chief Justice HUGHES and Justices MOUNTAIN, SULLIVAN, PASHMAN, CLIFFORD, SCHREIBER and HANDLER — 7.
For reversal — None.