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snail go 70 meeb the expenses OF the COM
mission.
Another bill in the interest of the agri.
cultural sections Is that introduced by Sen.
ator Reed fixing the legal rate Of interest
at per cent instead Of 6, as now.
Some other new measures Of interest fol.
tow: Making the salary Of prosecutors in
fourth class counties $500 year; prohibit.
ing municipal bodies from electing one OF
their own members to any salaried office;
allowing property owners to pay in five
yearly installments the assessment against
them for new public roads; providing that
the word Palisades shall include moi
only the perpendicular wall of rock, but
the slope Of rock and adjacent debris, fol
the purpose of suits, etc. providing that
all trusts or pools in restraint Of trade,
manufacture or sale shall be conspiracies
punishable by fine of from 81 900 to &c..
900 or imprisonment from two to five
years; providing that the state board OF
education, for the sake of uniformity, shall
purchase all textbooks at the lowest cost
and that local boards shall buy from the
state board at the same figures; providing
that supreme court justices shall designate
the New Jersey Court Register published
at Trenton as an official newspaper in
which shall be published certain legal no
tices, in addition to their publication in
the newspapers of the locality affected; di.
viding every township in the state into as
many school districts as there are school.
houses therein, etc; prohibiting trespass.
ing on railroad tracks under penalty of S5C
fine or ten days imprisonment modelled
after the English law; removing the coun-
ty seat of Atlantic county to pleasantyille;
fixing penalty of $1,000 or five or three
years imprisonment for erecting or build
ing dams or pounds for taking fish in the
ocean or bays of this state; fixing rabbit,
quail, woodcock and pheasant hunting
from Oct. Is to Dec. 10.
Various Matters.
The senate bill enabling the supreme
court justice to sit in murder trials with
out the judge of quarter sessions passed
the house with an amendment permitting
the latter judge also to sit alone in such
cases, but when the measure came back to
the senate Senator DAILY denounced the
amendment as illegal and as tending to
lower the dignity of the higher court 1t
was thereupon sent back to the house,
where the amendment will probably be
stricken out.
The special commission on the Soldiers
home reported to the legislature favorinq
the establishment, as in various other
states. of home for veterans and their
wives, widowed mothers and widows OF
veterans. They report urgent need for such
an institution, the present Soldiers home
being too crowded to admit of many
worthy veterans, and there being no pro
vision at all for their wives or widows,
many of whom are in distress. A bill has
been introduced naming George B. Fielder.
e. G. Stahl, Abram Lower, Amos R.
Dease and John T. Garwood as managers.
with authority to purchase site and build
the proposed home. 1t is doubtful if the
bill will go through this winter owing to
the expense involved.
Mr.. Lloyd has reintroduced his defeated
marriage license bill of last winter. Sen.
Ator Voorhees, has in a report and bill on
negotiable instruments from the commits
sion on uniform legislation.
The wheelmen's free baggage bill will
be amended before being reported.
Mr.. Scoyel wants SIS medal for every
veteran of the late war who served three
years. He has bill to that effect
Mr.. Ebie has a novelty in the shape of
bill calling for the appointment of an
inspector of swing scaffolds in first class
cities; salary, $1,000 year.
Mr.. Atherton's new bill provides for free
railroad passes for the state board of edu-
cation.
Fitzgerald's Legislative Manual made
It's appearance on the members desks this
week.
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