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cept roads that have beer improved
without state or county aid.

scented to the house a bill abolishing
the use of pound nets in the Atlantic
ocean, and Mr.. Duff of Hudson intro
duced a bill making $50 the maximum
annual rental for telephones. Assem-
blyman Besson of Hudson has put in
a bill adding circuit court judges to the
list of state officials who. are entitled
to railroad passes.
OF the bills that have so far made
their appearance in the legislature a
number are fish and game bills. One
incorporates the borough of Red Bank
and another establishes a register of
deeds and mortgages in Union county.
One of the game bills makes it law
full to kill any robin or catbird caught
destroying fruit. This proposition was
pretty fully discussed at the meeting
of the state board of agriculture held
here recently. A resolution was offer
ed asking the legislature to pass this
bill, but it was amended so that only
farmers affected are to be given the
privilege of shooting the robins hurting
their crops on application to the game
warden in his district. Another fish
bill makes the close season for shad,
herring, striped bass and perch with
nets in the Delaware river and bay
from June Is to Aug. 10. The other
fish bill introduced regulates sturgeon
fishing in the Delaware river. There
is every outlook that there will be
plenty of legislation bearing ON fish
ing and hunting at the present session,
and it is to be hoped that if the fish
and game commission has any suck
thing as a revision of the fish and
game laws in view it will make ii
complete so that the laws will need no
further amending for years. There
has been a cry every year that thSre
are so many changes in the fish and
game laws each year that it is difficult
to keep up with the new conditions.
Some of the House Bills.
Among the house bills introduced this
week are the following:
By Mr.. acknowledgements tax act Of
1908 by providing that no mortgage
shall be taxed where the mortgage
has agreed not to claim a deduction
from the assessed valuation of his
property because of such mortgage.
By Mr.. Van Observation-Disclosures the
raising of money for the erection of
school buildings.
By Mr.. Elvins-Authorizes towns to
purchase and maintain electric light
plants.
By Mr.. Contemporaries So, to
the borough of Wellington, Bergen
county, for the repair of streets ruined
by flood.
Among the new senate bills are:
By Mr.. McKee-Authorizing munich
palities or school districts to raise mon
eys for the purchase of lands and the
erection of schoolhouses, the bonds al
any one time not to exceed a sum equal
to 3 per cent Of the taxable valuation
in such municipalities or districts, any
charter limitation to the contrary not
w~ithstanding.
: BY Mr.. Price-Authorizes boards of
freeholders to borrow money in antici-
patton of taxes to meet any deficit arts
ing by reason of an or illegal
ap~pOrtionment of state and county
taxes; the money must be provided for
In the next tax levy. Another bill by
Mr.. Price provides for the incorporation
of the borough of Stanhope, Sussex
county.
A petition has been sent to the legis.
lature by residents of Woodland town
ship. Burlington county, asking for an
amendment to the act providing for
tha doctruotion of fovoc |
The proposition of Assemblyman
Dalrymple of Passaic to have the rules
changed SO that all amendments pre-
scented to existing laws are to be SO
printed that the proposed changes in
the law will stand out boldly in italics
seems to meet with general favor.
This idea Is based on existing condi-
the lawmaking bodies of other states.
where it is especially provided that the
new" matter in all amendments to ex-
listing laws must be printed in type
different from that used in the body of
the bill. In this way the chances for
mistakes and misunderstanding will
be materially lessened. Mr.. Dalrym-
PIC > DuCdSulc was 6uOUllltCu III LuC liz
ture of al amendment to the rules.
Paterson Wants a New Charter.
The plant from Paterson for a new
charter is already receiving some little
attention from the cities that are likely
to be affected, even though no bill has
been introduced. Paterson is now a
second class city, and Camden and
Trenton would be affected If there is
any new legislation for second class
cities. Camden has come out fiat foot
ed and rebelled, saying it does not care
whether Paterson ever gets a new
charter, but it will not stand for any
change in its present city government.
Trenton has little need for innovations
or Improvements and will probably OBJ
ject. 1t is proposed, however, to
stretch the frs, class cities limitation
SO as to include Paterson, and then
give her a charter that would affect
her alone, the other first class cities to
be in a classification by themselves, al
though all will be classed as first class
cities.
The legislature is shortly to be asked
to pass a bill that is to be a duplicate
of the bill to be passed simultaneously
by the Pennsylvania legislature look
ing to the protection and propagation of
fish in the Delaware river. The bill is
designed to protect the fisherman as
well as the fish. A nominal license fee
is to be placed on nets, and this money
is to be used to defray the stocking of
fbo riuor with uolroh1o Ash with %ho
exception of carp nets, no license fee
will be more than SIS, and the majority
of them will be only ST. and So. If it
can be arranged the wardens of either
state will be given power to proceed
against the offenders of the fish laws
who may fee from one Of these states
to the sther.
CLUBBING RATES.