The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-07
TIE CHILDRHN'S HOMES.
Mr.. Hutchinson's Assembly Bill
Other Measures In
trodueed Yesterday.
Special to the Jersep city Nsars.

TRENTON, March 7, 1s96.-Assem-
blyman Hutchinson yesterday intro
duced a bill which viii be advo-
Gated by managers of children's homes
throughout the State. It is an amend
ment to the act providing for the adop-
tion of children and was prepared by ex-
Judge Lanning of Trenton. The law, If
enacted, will prevent parents who have
secured the admission of their children
into institutions demanding that they
again become their custodians, after the
children have been well provided for An
adoption under the provisions of the bill
would give the foster parents legal con
troll of the child until it reached its
majority.
The bill provides that any husband and
wife can petition the Circuit Court or
the Orphans Court of the county in
which they reside or in the county where
child resides for permission to adopt
the child and for a change of its name
If the child is fourteen or more Years
Old its written consent to the adoption,
and also the written consent of the pa
rents, must be presented with the petit
known, or hopelessly incorporate or in
sane. or have abandoned the child, then
unless the parents have granted the GUS
tody and control of the child for the full
term of its minority to any orphanage or
children's home or society regularly in
corporated under the laws of this State
or unless the institution shall have other
wise legally acquired the custody and
control of the child for the full term of
its minority, the written consent of the
adoption must be obtained from the legal
guardian of the child. If there be no
legal guardian the consent of some dis
court to be next friend of the child must
be presented, and if the parents shall
have granted the custody and control of
to the Institution, or If the Institution
shan have otherwise legally acquired the
child. then the consent to the adoption
must be obtained in writing from the Off
GERS of the institution.
Senator Stokes introduced bill repeal
ing SECTION | OF a supplement- to the act
regulating the fisheries in the Delaware
River, approved April 4 1873. The sup
plement repealed extended the act of
1903 to the bays and creeks of Cunnber-
No one seems to have been aware that
such a law existed, and the fishermen
until last summer. when the newly-ap-
pointed fish warden informed a reputable
fisherman that he had violated the law
Stokes made strenuous efforts to have
the fine remitted, but the Fish Commits
sion refused to do so.
Citizens of Morristown, through Sena-
tor Vreeland, asked for the passage of a
law forbidding the use of screens on win
dowS or doors of saloons. which would
hinder the full view of the interior.
Mr.. Herbert introduced a bill providing
for an Alderman-at-Large in New Bruins
wick, so as to obviste all chance of
another deadlock such as hung up the
municipal proceedings of that city for
such long time.
Other bills introduced were::-
Senate-No. 245. Mr.. Vreeland-Change
the name Normal School" to Normal
College
Honse-No. 274, Mr.. Fleming, by request
Making the emptying of contents of
cesspools or sewers into the sea unlaw-
full Penalty, 500.
No 276. Mr.. Hopkins-Provides that all
school teachers shall be paid at the end
of every month of school year.
No. 277, Mr.. Hopkins-Authorize school
trustees, in order to pay teachers salar-
les, to borrow fifty per cent. of appro-
priatig for each year, interest not to Sx-
ceed i. per cent
No. g7s, Mr. Hogan.-M7aking it unlaw
street Improvement in first class cities
to sub-let or assign such contracts
No. $50, Mr.. Benedict-Making the SELL
ing of oleomargarine as butter unlawful
No. 2S1, Mr.. Provides for
the creation of Board of Embalming,
whose duty it shall be to advance the
system of embalming the dead as
protection to health To consist Of Ave
members to be appointed by the Cover