The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-02-21

ton of arreages of unpaid taxes; House
IA, exempts mutual fire insurance compa.
nies from the general insurance acts
House 2O2, appropriates 5000 for burial
plot for Home for Disabled Soldiers.
Among the bills introduced we're:
No. 235, Prohibits horse racing for any
prize, &C.. between November LIST and
April LIST of each year. Penalty from ST.
600 to $l0,0 900 fine and from six months to
years imprisonment for each violation
The Governor is authorized to call upon
the Chief of State Police to arrest all per-
sons so engaged.
No. 239 Provides for the appointing
by the County Board of Registration OF
election officers in newly created polling
precincts.
No. 24O. Mr.. Matlack. Terms persons
found carrying concealed weapons as dis
orderly, and punishable as such.
No. PAL Amends the Clam and Oyster
act.
No. 242. Amends the act relative to
county roads.
No. 253 Makes it unlawful to fish in
any stream with stationary net or fyke.
No. 254. Provides that when ten per
centum of the voters petition the Gov
erner for that purpose he may order an
election to change the location of the
county seat.
No. 257. Makes all communication be-
tween clergymen and any one he ID called
to converse with professionally, attorney
and client. physician andtpatient. conf
Dental communication and not to be dis
closed in any court.
No. 25S. Provides that all licenses to
sell malt liquors in boroughs shall be
granted by the Mayor and Common
Council of such borough.
At Tuesdays session of the Senate, the
following were among the bill introduced:
No. l49. Enables the Governor to fill
vacancies in Office of County Collector.
No. $50. Repeats amendment to Public
instruction act approved February 18th,
1892. Does away with Superintendent of
School Census.
No. 154. Substitute for Senate 25,
which provides for the publishing and
selling of newspapers on Sunday; also to
sell milk, ride. drive and walk for re-
creation on Sunday. Provides that the
governing bodies of municipalities may
adopt ordinances regulating or prohibit
ing the same.
No. los. Mr.. Perkins Provides that
after August LIST, 1898, the school commit
tees of all cities, towns and school dis
tricts shall furnish free text books and
other school supplies to the pupils of the
public schools.
The bills of interest to this section, that
were passed, were:
Senate 6, relates to right of defendant
when charged with usurpation of Office I;
Senate Is, amends act for relief of credit
ors against absconding debtors Senate
So, prescribes method of corporations to
increase their capital stock House, rs,
authorizes county Boards of Freeholders
to appropriate 5000 for maintaining hos
pitfalls where there are no county hos
pitfalls; House Is, makes it illegal to take
plea of guilty to indictment of murder, the
prisoner must be tried before a jury I;
House ~, provides for the admission of
press representatives at executions; House
POP, appropriates So, 900 to purchase
burial plot for the Soldiers Home at
Kesrny.
In the House an adverse report was rem
dered on House bill 10, which makes the
sale of liquor on Sunday misdemeanor
and not the crime of keeping disorder
ly house. The report was not sustained.
Among the bills introduced were:
No. ga Provides that the Court of
Oyer and Terminer or President Judge of
the Common Pleas shall appoint, upon Pc
tition made, nine persons to be known as
''the Board of Trustees of the Industrial
Farm" of the county Of. They
shall have power to purchase land and
erect buildings wherein and wherein boys
could be kept instead of sending them to
prison.
No. 282. Fixes the fees of Coroner's
jurors at $1.00 each. for each case before
them.
No. 2S9. Authorizes the Board of In
spectors of the New Jersey State Prison to
enlarge the State Prison.
The House was in Fsession on Wednes-
day and passed these bills:
House 189, amends and corrects the char
ter of the city of Burlington; House 12O,
confirms title to certain land in Burling-
ton county; House 209, repeats an act re-
lative to CLAIMS and oysters; House $50,
authorizes the issuing of alias and pluries
warrants in all cases where no statutory
authority now exists for the nuisance of
the same.
Bills introduced were:
No. 292. Exempts active fremen from
jury duty.
No. 29S. Mr.. Matlack Establishes
State Board of Undertakers and local
boards under them, the former to consist
of nine persons to be appointed by the
Governor. All undertaksrs are required
to register their names with such board
and shall receive license.
No. 295. Provides that the officers and
trustees of every fremen's relief associa-
ton shall be hereafter chosen from the
active or exempt fremen who are mem
bers of such association and entitled to
benefits therein and not otherwise.
No. 297. PROVIDES for the conversion
of the State Arsenal building into hos
pital and workshops for the State Prison
and appropriates sufficient money for the
erection of new building.