The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-09
THE LEGISLATURE.

of the owner of such lands, and to pa,
for same from county funds.
No. 46, Mr.. Reed. Enables towns AM
villages, under act of May 18th, 1890, t
condemn land through which it is neces
sary to run sewers.
No. AZ. Mr.. Herbert. Gives per dien
of $40 to Presiding Judge of Court Q
Common Pleas, in addition to stated sal
airy, in all cases sent down from Circui
Court for trial.
No. 48, Mr. Ketcham. Fixes salary O
members of State Board of Taxation a
81, 500, which includes all their expenses
No. 81, Mr.. W. M. johnson. An act es
tablishing a Board of Railroad Commits
sioners and defining their powers and du
ties. Providing for the appointment b
the Governor, with the consent of tn,
Senate, of three commissioners, not NOR,
than two of whom shall be members o
the same political party. The term shall
be one year for one of them, three year
for another and five years for the third
Their successors shall be appointed fol
ive-year terms. The salary of the com
missioners shall be s., 500 year, anC
they may have a clerk at 81, 800 year
They shall travel free upon the railroads
They are to have an Office at the State
House, and may employ such assistance
as they may require. The Board shall
have power to compel the attendance o.
witnesses and to call for books and pa
pers. All the expenses of the Commits
sion shall be borne by the railroads and
street railways within the state, to be ap
portioned among them by the State Board
of Assessors in proportion to gross earn
ings each year. The Commission is to re-
port annually to the Legislature, 'includ
ing such statements, facts and explana-
tons as will disclose the actual workings
of the system of railroad transportation,
in its bearings upon the business and
prosperity of the state, and such sugges-
tons as to its general railroad policy OF
any part thereof, and the conditions, af-
fairs or conduct of any railroad corpora
ton, as may seem to it appropriate ;; and
there shall be annexed thereto copies Of
such notifications, requirements, requests,
recommendations and orders made by the
Board during the preceding year, as the
Board may seem important. The bill
vests the Board with full power to notify
railroads of their violations of state laws,
and if persisted in, to proceed through
the Attorney General to supply the proper
remedy. 1t may notify a railroad when
changes in its fares, its grades, its sta
tons, etc., are advisable. 1t shall inves-
tigate accidents. The Board must be con-
suited in opening up highways over rail
roads or in running one railroad across
another at grade, and the Board may i'm
pose restrictions and limitations. The
bill contains thirty -three sections in all,
setting forth the power of the Board in
detail.
No. 90, Mr. Wildman. Creates the
township committee of every township
into local Board of Health, with power
to appoint chief sanitary inspector in
each township.
No. 81, Mr.. Wildman. Requires Boards
of Freeholders to open and construct pub
lie roads without an election therefor.
No. 90, Mr.. King. Authorizes second
class cities to borrow not exceeding $780,
600 and secure the same by bonds or in
the tax levy provide for its payment.
No. SO, Mr.. Gledhill (by request). Pro
vides that resolutions adopted at any an
nual town meeting shall be binding upon
such township.
No. "a, Mr.. G1edhill (by request). Re-
quires township committees to open all
roads laid out by surveyors of the high
ways.
No. o6, Mr.. Roll Abolishes the dis
tinction between attorneys and counsel
ors-at-law now existing in the state, and
provides that both examinations may be
taken together.
In the Senate, on Tuesday, six bills
were introduced, but they were not of in
terest to this section.
Among the bills passed was Senate 6,
providing for blue envelopes at elections,
coming up on third reading, Senator Reed
explained that the white envelope used at
present frequently was overlooked by the
voter, owing to similarity in color with
the ballots, which often made quite lit
tie bunch Election officers had COM
planned to him of the difficulty. He add
ed loosely that there was no politics in
the bill
The Senate adjourned to last evening,
In the House, on Tuesday, Mr. Wildes
submitted petition, asking for the pass
age of House al, providing for general
reduction of salaries of state officers Mr..
Wildes also introduced a resolution
which was adopted, requiring notice of
committee meetings to be announced by
the clerk at each session, before the mo-
ton to adjourn is put.
The bills introduced were
NV. lOOy MI. 0CudlCSl. EIOVlQGS IndI
any person indicted for crime shall be en-
titled 10 notice of the trial of such in
dictment specifying the time at least three
days before the trial
No. 100, Mr.. Jackson. Fixes penalty
of $500 fine for soliciting candidates for
Office to purchase tickets for balls or pic
MICS.
No. no, Mr.. King. Requires the publ
cation of official notices in any newspa-
per published for fifteen years consecu-
lively.
No. ia, Mr.. Scovel. Making it unlaw-
full to take deer until January Ist, 1900,
and thereafter only between November
Ist and 18th, inclusive.
No. us, Mr.. Scove1. Prohibits the use
and possession of ferrets.
No. nc Mr.. Scovel. Makes it unlaw-
full to permit hounds to chase rabbits or
hares except during the open season.
No. III, Mr.. Scovel. Prohibits the use
Of any kind of net for taking fish in the
inland waters of the state except between
September Ist and May 18th.
No. IIS, Mr.. Scovel Prohibits hunt
ng with gun except during the month
Of November.
No. 100, Mr.. Fighter. Prohibits the
of ballots at the voting places
and requires that they shall be designated
BY an emblem as well as the party name.
Members of the Board of Elections may