The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1873-04-09
NEW JERSEY NINETY.
SEVENTH SESSION.
TRENTON. April Q. 1879

SEFENIh SZoolON.
TRENTON, April 9, 1873.
SENATE.-Passed-An act to regulate fish
ing with nets to regulate proceedings in cases
of forfeited recognzances; to incorporate At
mospheric Railway Company for the protec-
ton of game and fruit in Huntcrdon county ;
further supplement to act to regulate fisheries
in the river Delaware; supplement- to act to
authorize discharge of executors adminstra-
tors, and guardians in certain cases further
supplement to act to create road districts in
Lebanon and Bethlehem, Hunterdon.
IousE.-Passed-I'h bill to require Rail-
road Companies to pay municipal tax in adj
dition to State tax (amended so as to exempt
main stem and principal passenger and freight
depots, including ten acres at terminal points,
and taxing rolling stock and other property
was passed, 30 to the bill TO exempt $500
of personal property from taxation to each
member of the National Guard, which had
been lost, was rcconsidered and passed, SO to
II supplement to notaries public 33 to 0 /;
supplement to act to punish the passing of
counterfeit money supplement to act incor-
porating Trustees of Religious Societies, 80 to
o; relative to County Lunatic Asylums, 80 to
o; to regulate the business of fire, accident
and marine insurance, 81 to 0 i; making app r.
priation to Soldiers Monument at Beverly
(after reconsideration, 35 to 5.
Incidental Bili-The bin was taken up on
its final passage. Mr.. A. J. Smith produced
figures to show that this bill was smaller by
thousands of dollars than any previous bill.
The bill was passed, SO to 8.
The Stanhope Committee made their report
to the House, declaring that they were salts
fled there was irregularity, if not fraud, in the
passage of the bill, but they were unable to
find out by whom, or in what manner, the
fraud was committed.
Postponed-A bill to incorporate Hunterdon
Railway Company was indefinitely postponed.
Lost--To enable railroad companies to run
one passenger train each way on Sunday, 81
to IL.
April 3, 1873
SENATE.--Passed-Su to bill to
prevent fraudulent practices in relation to
counterfeit money act respecting conveyances
made and to be made by wills supplement to
act providing when the death of persons alb
senting themselves shall be presumed to de-
fine the boundaries of School District No 3d.
1Iunterdon county; supplement to authorize
Tewksbury, Hunterlon county, to vote by
ballot; an act in relation to the sanitary con-
dition of public schools; supplement- to the
General Railroad Law, granting ferry privi-
L., A.
al law.
The Senate took up the act to provide ways
and means to meet the expenses of the State,
providing for a tax of one and half mills on
the dollar. 1t was amended so as to correct
clerical error, and passed.
HousE.-Reports---M Schultze reported a
supplement to General Railroad Law, author
izing companies organized under this act to
maintain Acknowledgment passed, 81 to O.
Passed-To allow Sunday trains ON rail
roads, lost last night, reconsidered and passed,
43 to 8; requiring County School Supeginteud-
ents to report the sanitary condition of the
school houses in their respective counties the
supplement to the act respecting conveyauces
made by will was passed, 80 tot the amended
bill in regard to tax ON railroads was passed !;
relative to doeketing judgments in Circuit and
Supreme Court, 33 to 0; to prohibit killing of
rabbits by ferrets under a penalty of $15, or
go days Imprisonment bill to raise taxes for
support of State, increasing the rate to one
and a half mills ON the dollar, 40 to a relative
to Reform School for Boys at Newark to al
low sherifis' fees on reeognizances forfeited,
33 to 8 prescribing what shall be considered
presumption of death, SO to o. to extirpate
cattle pleuro-pneumonia, 81 to 10 New Jer-
sey Atmospheric Railway, 40 too; relative to
absconding and absent debtors (attachment),
35 to o supplement authorizing railroad COM
panies to change location of their route, AZ to
O; supplement to act concerning roads, 81
too.
Constitutional Convention. THE bill topro-
vide for a Constitution for the government of
tie State was taken up and after considerable
discussion us to points of order, was lost, 81
to 25.
April 4, 1878.
SENATE.--Mr. Moore, from the Stanhope
Committee to inquire into the passage of the
Stanhope Charter, reported that they had ex-
ainined witnesses, and are compelled to con-
clude that the charges specified in the pre-
amble to the resolution are true and that the
so-called merger clause, in tho eighth section
Of the act, was fraudulently inserted in the act
without the knowledge of the members of the
Senate. The committee show from the evil
dence how the fraud was pelpetrated. but were
unable, through the cQneealment on -fnrgetfnl-
ness Of the person who printed the bill, to Fix
upon the person who perpetrated it,
Passed--The bill for the removal Of the
Capitol was taken up Mr.. Hewitt opposed
the bill, and Mr.. Stone favored it. Ayes
Messrs. Banglart, Cornish, Jarrard, Lydeck,
er, McPherson, Stone, Taylor, Williams,
Woods. Nays-Messrs Cutler, Edsa !, Has