Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-11-28

jointmeetius rose and the Speaker RESUME
ed the chair.
Bills yassed--A bill TO prevent frauds
on the incorporated banks OF this state; .
bill to defray sundry incidental charges I
supplement to the act authorisIng re-
pairs to be done TO the State House a
bill making an appropriation for The al
ITERATION TO be made in the siaie-pIison
wall the bill from Council to reduce The
capital stock of The bank of New. Bruins
wick the bill directing the mode Of pro-
ceeding to collect $4,000 due on the note
OF G. Ogden.
The bill TO repeal the act for the sale
Of The government house and lot in the
city Of Trenton, and the bill TO repeal
part Of the act for the distribution oil the
revised laws, were neeatived.
The resolution offered yesterday by
Mr.. Mott was agreed to.
A message from Council informed that
they had receded from their amendment
80 the bill exempiing aliens aud mariners
from doing militia duty, and have disa-
greed to said bill.
Mr.. White from the committee TO whom
was referred the report OF the commits
sioners appointed by the last Legislature
to examine into the conduct of the com
missiouers aud manager of the New.Jer
sey Navigation Lottery, REpoRTED,
That the commissioners appointed to examine,
&c have with great care and diligence attended to
the business committed to them. and with much
minuteness investigated the of the lottery
managers, and from their report, and the docu-
ments accompanying that report, it appears
/. That the lottery managers appointed under
the act Of February IS, 1879, made sale of the
right to make and draw lottery under that act,
and the act to which it a supplement-. to one
Mills II. Hughes. of the city of Philadelphia, with
authority 70 draw two classes, under the superin-
tendenee of the said managers, and under the ex-
press conditionthat the lottery should be drawn
Camden, in New-Jersey, and that Josiah Harrison
should be the acting manager or agent for the said
Hughes.
9 That the first class of that lottery was drawn
and completed the nth day of March, 1920
8 That that class was drawn and conducted with
perfect fairness and honesty, aud all the money
which the acting manager received was duly paid
out to the prize tickets, Except sum retained by
him for his services but that owing to the number
of tickets unsod at the time the drawing ended
and the failure of some of the purchasers Of tickets
there was q deficiency Of funds paw the whole
amount of prizes
A. That second class, or a scheme for second
class, adopted, and some tickets in il sold but
owing to the resolution of the Legislature at their
last sitting, the scheme was abandoned and the
money received for tickets sold by the acting man
returned to the holders of tickets, as far as
any demand has been made on the acting manager
That the manager received for the right sold
to MIR. Hughes, the sum Of two thousand five hun
dred dollars, for the use mentioned in the law a,I-
th6TiziHg the lottery, and two thousand dollars in
tickets as compensation for their service in attend
ing in person to the drawing the lottery. That two
Thousand five hundred dollars for the second class.
by the purchaser put into the hands of the act
ing manager, Mr. Harrison, for the managers
named in the law, which sum, afterwards, when
the drawing of the second class was abandoned,
was by order of the purchaser. and with the con-
sent Of the managers, appropriated to the pay ment
of prizes IN the first class
6. That no part oil the money received by the
appointed BY law, has been expended or
appropriated to the uses intended; but that the
same remains in their hands for that purpose
z That the accounts OF the said managers have
not been settled, nor hath the time limited by the
act under which they were appointed yet expired,
or doth it appear that they have been called on tor
any Of the money by them received.
8. 1t appears the managers have given bond I'M
der the act, and when called on, If they do not
settle their accounts, their bond will be forfeited
and according to the act, the court OF common
pleas of the county of Cumberland must order a
1t appearing to your committee that for any
Or neglect of duty of the managers
named in the act, the proceedings are directed by
the law, and the managers hound by their hond
given in pursuance of that law, they deem it mex
pedent for the Legislature TO take further steps ON
the subject at this tme--other than to have the
report of the commissioners with the documents
accompanying the same, filed for the use OF all
parties interested.
Which report was read and agreed to
by the House.
Mr. Disborough presented a bill for the
gradual diminutioii Of banking capital, and
to change the mode Of taxation. Head
and postponed to the next session of the
Legislature. Adjourned.
2 O'Clock, the House met - MIR. Stout
offered resolution that the Secretary OF
State have the care Of the State. Honse
yard. Agreed to.
The bill directing the mode Of proceed
ing against |. G.. Ogden was passed and
sent to Council.
A message from Council informed that
they bad passed the following bills from
the House of Assembly: the incidental
bill; the bill making all appropriation for
altering the State Prison wall; the SUP.
plement to the act authorizing repairs to
be made TO the State House; and The bill
to detray the expenses Of government. AL
SO thai Council have passed resolution
directing the public laws to be published |
IL both the Trenton papers, (concnrred in |
by the House.) The message further in |
formed that Council had passed the bill |
from this House. for the appointment Of /
District At.oruies, with amendments-
which amendments were disagreed 10 :,v
the House, and the bill postponed to the
nestsession Of the Legislature.
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