The Jersey City news., 1901-07-06

i this accommodation.
/ Section Is Of the act, found on page
| 3,711 OF the compilation Of 1885, prohibits
| the transportation of freight. excepting
| milk, on any public highway, railroad or
| canal on Sunday; another exception is
] made in favor Of the United States mail
/ by railroads, on the public highways or
on ferryboats plying between this and
other States.
| In the thirty-frst section of the act
every justice Of the peace in this State
| is authorized and required, upon his per-
/ sonal knowledge or other due information,
| of any canal boat, or railroad car, trans
PORTING freight through any part of this
State, as aforesaid, to stop and detain tie
| same, or order the same to be stopped o.
detailed, at the cost or expense of the
proprietors of such canal boat or railroad
i car. until the following day, and then to
| be dealt with as hereinbefore directed.
This authority also applies in cases where
| sheep or swine are being driven through
| the State to market ON the Sabbath day.
!. The rigid enforcement of this section
of the act would place the Pennsylvania
| Railroad Company, as well as the other
companies whose lines traverse the State,
at the mercy of any justice of the peace,
who could, under the law as II at present
/ exists, hold up any freight train, at the
! cost and expense of the company own
ing and operating such train, and keep
| 1t at standstill until the next day.
Exemption from prosecution under the
act Is provided in section 80, which says
THAT every inhabitant of this State who
religiously observes the seventh day of
the week as the Sabbath shall be exempt
from answering any process, in law or
equity, either as defendant, witness or
J Juror, except in criminal cases; likewise
from executing on the said day the duties
of any post or office to which he may be
appointed or commissioned, except when
the interest of the State may absolutely
require 1t, and shall also be exempt from
working on the highways and doing any
militia duty on that day, except when in
actual service.
'That If any person charged with hav-
| ing labored or worked on the first day of
the week, commonly called Sunday, shall
be brought before justice of the peace
to answer the information and charge
thereof, and shall then and there prove
to the satisfaction of the said justice,
that he or she uniformly keeps the sew
enth day of the week as the Sabbath, and
habitually abstains from following his or
her usual occupation or business and from
all recreation, and devotes the day to
the exercise of religious worship, then
such defendant shall be discharged; pro-
vided always. that the work or labor for
which such person is informed against
was done and performed in his or her
premises or plantation and that such
work has not disturbed other persons in
the observance of the first day of the
week as the Sabbath; and provided also,
| that nothing in this section shall be con-
strued to allow such person to openly
expose to sale any goods, wares, mer-
| chandise or other article or thing what
soever in the line of his or her business
| or occupation"
The fish and game laws bear hard on
| the Sunday question, and in several places
| impose penalties for fishing or hunting
on that day. Section rs, page 1867, makes
it unlawful to fish with seine or net
in the Delaware River between midnight
Saturday and midnight Sunday, but pro-
vision is made for beginning the fishing
at 12 o'clock Sunday night. A penalty
OF $3.50 is fixed for violation of this act.
Section 80. page 1869, fixes the penalty for
that kind of fishing on Sunday. with
| in the concurrent jurisdiction Of this
State and the State of Pennsylvania the
| fine in ..lat case to be 500. In section 157,
page 1859, the use of any gilling net.
drift net, eel pot or other kind of net, il.
| the Delaware River, between sunset Sat
| urday and midnight Sunday, is made pun
ishable by fine of 500.
Sanfi0n 115 na0a 522 ordaiue that
shall be unla Yful to hunt with gun, or
weapon, or to carry gun in the fields
| or in the woods on the Sabbath day
Commonly called Sunday, under PEN
atty of $40 each and every offense.
] Proceedings taken under the fish and
game act according to Section 145. page
| 1857, are no bar to prosecution, and pro-
cess served under the act on that day
| is as valid and binding as If served on
any other day of the week.
| A more liberal spirit is displayed in the
amendatory act passed by the Legislature
| of 1898, which says, "That from and after
| the passage of this act it shall not be un-
lawful for any person or corporation, on
! the Christian Sabbath, or first day of
! the week, commonly called Sunday, to
print, publish and sell newspapers. to
| sell and deliver milk, or to walk or ride
| or drive for recreation and to hire horses
and carriages or other conveniences for
riding or driving; provided, however, that
| the board of aldermen, common council,
| township committee or other governing
| body of the municipalities, or incorporat-
ed camp meeting association of this State
shall have the power to adopt such or
dinances or rules as they may deem nee
essary and proper to regulate or prohibit
the acts hereby made lawful and may
prescribe fines and penalties for the viola
tion Of the same, which shall be enforced
and collected in the same manner as is
| now provided by law for the violation of
other ordinances and rules of such muni-
cipalities or associations"
Attached to that is another section
which repeals all acts or parts of acts
| inconsistent with the provisions of this
| later act
RECEIVERS SALE.