The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-04
a payment of $1,000, but nothing has been
collected.
SPECIAL STATE BOARDS.

a payment of $1,000. but nothing has been
collected.
SPECIAL STATE BOARDS.
The multiplication of special bureaus
has led to largely increased expenditures;
Some of these bureaus were experimental
and are of doubtful utility. The Board
of Arbitration was shown TO nave peen
extravagant in it's charges against the
State; The allowances for services ada da
travelling expenses were apparently made
up with the intention OF getting as mmca @
| as possible out of the treasury. Zen
cents per mile was charged to the State
by members who were travelling on free
passes. Numerous meetings OF the Doard
We're held at Trenton for the avoWed ssi
hotel bills and per dem allowances Of
the members and clerk while so engaged
| members were charged to the state
The Legislature has already re-organ-
ized this beard a1d Ne chadaged 5de howe raye
ever. that questions have lately arisen
| under the new acts as to alloWanceS Ior 9r
esnpbas esnsases Sc set SET al rest BY suppiementai
act. Several thousand dollars year
have been saved and better service Sc
The Bureau of Statistics Of Labor and
Industries is becoming more expensive.
The s ork Of Of this fd roG sof to e0
valuable. requires the exercise OF pc
culiar talents Of a. high order; and a
rare aisernipatiag {adgmfHnt+ tod M9reoyer 9re%
| wider field than that afforded by this
State alone, and great organization SdiGl
ns M easra Tas ToGe Is nUm Oe AND
we see no sufficient reason for contlnu-
| ing the bureau in this State We We reg
ommend that it be abolished. rms VIII
| save $1,000 a year.
The State now supports two taxing
| boards of four members each-the state
Board of Assessors and the State Board
| of Taxation, to all of whom the State
pays salaries. besides the salaries OF
clerks and other assistants 5a
The annual expense OIL the TWO podrdS
| is about s35. 000
| duties of both. and is desirable to the
end that valuations of corporate and
| individual property may be, the better
equalized. We recommend the consolid-
alton of these boards into one new
| Board of Assessment and Taxation, to
| consist of four members. to be appointed
| by the Governor and confirmed by the
Senate.
certain expenditures of the State Board
| of Assessors. In their annual report
| they have in each year since 1887 stated
that they adopted a railroad map Of
| the State as part of their report. The
| map was an outline lithographed map
New Jessy b1 tSe sns o the
Board and another clerk in the employ
| of the State. much or all Of the mate
rial being paid for by the State.
In 1887 the State paid s1.5O0 for. the en-
| tire original edition of 5000 copies. The
State also. paid for mounting several
about twenty-five cents each, Many Of
these mounted copies were then again
| sold to the State officers and paid for
by the State at $3.50 each, and many my
mounted copies We're sold to the public
| by the Secretary for his own profit
Annually thereafter until lss4; the the s1ate t
| buying in all 1000 copies. The fact
is that only 5000 copies Of the original nal
Marsha adye n eves 9een fffaryea ss 1892
isgs Rs'.e and 1884 81 ie' four thousand copies Of
| revised and reduced . edition ed Were prddn- IN
| livered by the printer, 1,409 being held
| in New York, because not too paid If for; =
no mere ne ba than ap SSOo eyer o9peS
se5R eeisaonsh 81 tate ss aP These facts
show deliberate fraud by the Secretary 1Ss I
| members of the board and their other
! employees. and careless conduct on the
part OF the printers wo swar wear Hills ar
maps which they had neither furnished
nor seen Their excuse is that the Sec
retary assured them the maps had been been
| received and on this assurance they
drew about 81. 800 per year from the a Stafs
retained ten per gent OF it b ana 1n5ne9 Pal9
the rest est to TO the the is fully 5000
We recommend that the Comptroller be
| against the Secretary the printers who re-
| ceived it and any other persons who may
| be liable.
| from the State annually several hundred
| dollars fees for making returns TO WrltS
| Of certiorari sued out against the Board
| also paid by the railroad companies
| being thus collected twice by the Secre7 o1,fa
| to the State and should be recovered.
| It was also shown. that conyenienceS
r the aa aryaeb for by the of sne ao
The State Dairy Commissioners eXpen-
| ditures should be submitted to the the SaIo stare
and then audited by the Comptroller and
| paid by his warrant as in the case OF
other departments. Furthermore we re
commend that the expenditures OF ms Of
| fee in enforcing the milk, oleomargarlne
| and food and drug acts be Hmlted TO
| S11 900 per year, including his own salary;
| This will effect a considerable saving and
place the expenditures of the office under
| the proper supervision.
BOARD OF RIPARIAN COMMISSION
This board, created in 1869, still contin.
ues. it's expenses (chiefly for salaries OF
members and engineers) amoundlng no d IN
S3 tp gS tSaf hnd be II lS4 Sp Taasbe RS
parian lands have already been disposed
of. The entire principal sum de od1erFed from
| 1894 was $14,123 being but little more than
enough to pay the expenses OF the board,
70 Consume the entire principal of the
grants in administering the board is in
tolerable. We recommend the abolition
of salaries to the members of the board
and the granting of a greatly reduced
appropriation for engineering and other
SUPPORT OF FEEBLE-MINDED
CHILDREN.
Under the act of March Y, 1Sl3 the
State pays sum not exceeding $3.50 per
child. for maintaining and clothing feeble
minded children. BY the gathering in of
great numbers of children. the demands
for this account have enormously in
creased In 1894 there was paid to the fol-
The New jersey Training School for
Predetermined Children. at Vine
lSo Children. :. . -. :. :. ..S46, 900
| The Pennsyivania Training School
| at Elwyn Pa. A children. 1876
| New York Institution for the Blind.
| New York City, 81 pupils. -. 9,223
| Pennsylvania Institution for the
| Blind. IA pupils. ;. -. :: 4,S4S
Spmlsia.oa' nmpIis a0noo. ~ ............ 5es
s7o,s25
Estimate for the year ending oc- -. %,
This is exclusive of the amount paid
| for the support of feeble-minded women.
/ For this purpose there was paid last year
1 SIT. .463 and the estimated amount to be
| paid for the present year IS Slg,64
| This has become SO serious a charge
! upon the treasury as to demand atten-
ton. For children recurring special care al
| and instruction perhaps the allowance
! is not too great. but for others we be-
| lieve it is much too high. Furthermone.
/ If should he ascertained whether the