West-Jersey pioneer., 1878-01-24
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
TRENTON, Jan. 23d, 49,

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cut9rs of pleas of the State.
Mr.. Moore, defining the boundaries of the
township of Kingston, between the counties
of Middlesex and Somerset.
Mr.. Sewell, supplement- to the act in.
cooperating the Board of Education of the
city of Camden.
Mr.. Sewell, supplement to the District
Court law, approved March 8, 1877, il
amends section 6, which makes the uris
diction at 800, by enlarging it to 5000, ex-
elusive of costs, even though the cause oi
action arose outside of such city. Attach
ment may also issue for absent as well as
absconding debtors.
Mr.. Garfield, to facilitate judicial pro-
ceedings.
MIR. Hobart, reducing the pay of the lay
judges of the inferior courts in and for the
county of Passaic, to 81 per day for each
full days actual attendance upon the SEES
sions of said court, and the salary in no case
shall exceed 5000 year.
Nj. Hobart, providing that only two lay
judges Of the inferior court in and for the
county of Passaic, shall be appointed April
1, and no further appointment shall be made
until .he number is reduced to one, which
shall be the number thereafter
Mr.. Garfield, a supplement to the act to
regulate fees. 1t provides that in the coun-
ties whose population, as ascertained by the
last census is over 40 600 and less than
$4,000, the salary of the prosecutor of pleas
shall be 1900.
Under the call for petitions etc, in the
Assembly, l. T. Nichols presented a petit
ton numerously signed in favor of the new
township of Lebanon in Cumberland Coun-
| ty, also remonstrance against the same
numerously signed
The following resolution offered by Mr..
Fielder was unanimously adopted
Res0lOed, That as the manufacture in the
State Prison, of articles requiring skill in
| their production, is an attack upon honest
| labor with which it is brought into compe-
tition, the Board Of State Prison Inspectors S
be requested to furnish the House within
| fifteen days, a list of articles manufactured.
the number of convicts employed, and the
amount of compensation, besides any other
information not embraced in the annual re
port of the institution, so lis to determine
what effect such convict labor has upon the
industrial interest of the State
Among the most important bills offered
thus far this week, were the following:-
Mr.. Duryee, an act forming a new Board
of Assessors of Taxes.
Mr.. j. Stevens, an act re-apportioning
the Assembly districts of Hudson county.
Mr.. Bennett, supplement to act to estab-
lish system of public instruction.
Mr.. Matthews, act to provide for the col
lection of statistics relating to the interests
of labor and capital.
Mr.. Stevens, an act to authorize the APP
pointment of Morgue keepers by Boards of
Health.
Mr.. Cooper, supplement to the act to es-
tablish system of public instruction, pro
vides that it shall be the duty of the trustees
of the school funds of this State, on or
before the first Monday of April in every
year, to appropriate out of the annual in
come of the fund for the support of public
schools, 10000 instead of $4,000.
Mr.. A. D. Nichols, an act to prevent the
deposit of mud, earth, soil, ashes, or refuse,
on the New Jersey shore of the Delaware
river, and protect the docks aud the ship
ping interests therein.
Mr.. Matthews, an act to amend an act in
relation to cities incorporated within the
limits of townships, but not set off there
from, approved March 1st. 1877.
Mr.. Holzworth, act authorizing the re-
ceipt in installments of certain taxes in
cities.
Mr.. Duryee, an act establishing and reg
ulating the costs in civil actions. Also.
supplement to the act to regulate Courts of
Law, approved March 81, 1874, providing
for service of summons and subpenas.
Mr.. Fielder, supplement- to the District
Court act, providing for the consolidation of
the District Courts in Newark; increasing
jurisdiction in civil cases to 5000.
Mr.. Cooper, an act to add to the princi-
pal of the State School Fund, the amount
which the State Fund has become in arrear
on the annual appropriation of $780, to
be made from the revenue of the State to
the income of the School Fund.
Mr.. Matthews, an act regulating the fish
ing with gilling or draft nets in the waters
of the Delaware river below Trenton, max
ing it lawful for all persons to fish with
such nets.
Mr.. W. T. Stevens, supplement to the
charter of Cape May City, legalizing the
use of the Virginia drinkometer in said city.
In the House on Tuesday, the bill for the
creation of the new township of Lebanon,
passed second reading, and was ordered
engrossed.
There was long and lively debate over
the appointment of special committee to
investigate the acts of certain State officers.
and finally by strict party vote, the resolu-
tions looking to that end, offered by Mr.
Committee on Ways and Means, where
they will in all probability die an unnatural
death.
In looking over the Assembly, we find this
year, quite number of young men, and
among them several of excellent abilities.
OF last years House, only twenty members
have been returned, so that there are forty
new men this session.
The Kelsay Investigating Committee,
consisting of Messrs. Moore, Empson, Kirk,
Harris, Blodgett, Matthews, Cooper, and I.
T. Nichols, met in the Office of the Secre-
tary, on Monday. Senator Moore, of Somer-
set County, was chosen chairman. E. J.
Sacket was selected as reporter. resolu-
tion was carried, that the investigation be
conducted with open doors, and that Messrs.
Patterson and Beecher, who had made
charges against the Secretary, be summoned
to appear before the committee. motion
was carried that the committee sit every
day until next Saturday, at noon. Hon.