The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-06-19

The dog registering law seems more or
less failure here.

The dog registering law seems more or
less failure here.
r. Austin, our bank cashier, is now
both justice of the peace and a notary pub
lie.
Vice Chancellor Bird recently heard the
testimony in the divorce suit of Charles
c. Cramer, of New Gretna, vs.. Louise
Cramer, his wife, of Tuckerton.
Judge Clifford Stanley Sims, of Mount
Holly, Secretary of the Society of the Gin
cinnati, was in town on Thursday and in
company with DR.. Price and Rev. Mr..
Bradley, went to the Courtney farm to
locate the site for the monument to be I'M
yelled on the 3rd of July next, to COM
memorate the encounter of Count Pull
aski's forces and the British during the
Revolution by which means Tuckerton
was saved from an incursion on the part
of the British.
The bill recently introduced into Con-
gress to abolish custom houses at Tucker
ton, Trenton and Somers Point will be re-
ported adversely by the committee on ex-
penditures In the Treasury department,
to which it was referred 1t is said that
the proposed abolition was originated in
the Treasury department on the ground
that the custom houses at these places
cost great deal more than the receipts
warranted. For instance, it was reported
that during the last fiscal year not cent
had been taken in at the Trenton custom
house while the expenses were $l85 &C..
The Somers Point or Great Egg Harbor
Office took in $51, while its expenses were
$Sl622 At Tuckerton, or Little Egg
Harbor, the receipts were $3.50, and the
expenses $2S2S0 The argument for the
abolition of the offices rested upon these
figures, but the committee found that
there we're other details to be taken into
consideration.
Congressman Gardner submitted the
strongest plea for the continuation of
these Offices He said that The ports of
Great and Little Egg Harbor are not only
important, but necessary. The tonnage
registered at these is considerable, and
the nearest custom house to either would
be sixty miles distant, The expense, de-
lay and inconvenience to managing own
ers, masters and sureties going that dis
lance at each renewal and change of pa
pers is manifest.
"They have each about thirty miles of
sea coast, with the three best inlets in
New Jersey, navigable by such vessels as
trade to the West Indies and South
America They embrace coast on which
wrecks laden with foreign and dutiable
goods are not infrequent If customs
system is to be maintained the coast must
be guarded This is now effectually done
by the custom officers at these ports. In
case of their discontinuance that func-
ton must be performed by special agents,
whose salary and expenses would far ex-
coed the cost of the present establish
ments.
GAS matter of bookkeeping, the ports
of the Second New Jersey district may
not pay. But it Is not to the interest of
the government, nor is it economy, to
hide deficit by disseminating them and
having the work which they do perform
ed by special agents at greatly increased
expense, made chargeable to port that
is profitable. TO discontinue these ports
is to impose inconvenience and expense
upon the people of the districts they en-
brace and to add to the cost of admins
tration. This view has maintained them
almost century"