The Penn's Grove record., 1905-04-14
APPROPRIATIONS OF 81, ASS, 900

The appropriation bills passed by the
Legislature aggregate $5,485, 900, be-
ing an increase Of $147, 900 over the ap-
preparations of a year ago. The salary
of Assistant State Controller Doughten
is increased from $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
There is an allowance of $4,000 extra
by reason of the bill passed this winter
to increase the salaries of the Justices
of the Supreme Court and the Chan
cellor. The salary of the Secretary of
the State Sewerage Commission is in
creased from $3.50 to $1,000 per year.
An additional $500 is allowed the De-
partment of Public Instruction for in
crease in salaries of the clerical force.
Other increases are as follows: State
Board of Agriculture, $4,000; State Hos
pital, Morris Plains, $4,000; State Home
for Boys, $1,000; State Home for Girls,
$500, to pay for an assistant engineer;
Soldiers Home at Vineland, $3.50;
State Board of Children's Guardians,
1900; Railway Reformatory, $4,000;
Village for Epileptics, $23, 1000; Tene-
ment House Commission, $4350.
The State Road Commissioner gets
$4,000 for the payment of supervisors,
which payment was heretofore made
from the county treasures; the Agricul-
ture Experiment Station, $4,000 for the
handling of the mosquito problem. The
new Forest Reservation Commission
will receive $13, 500, the Jamestown Ex-
position $25, 900, and for revising the
statutes, $4,000. The cost of toilet
articles for the Legislature is $500 addi-
tional.
For a silver service for the battleship
New Jersey $4,000 is appropriated; the
expenses of settling the boundary dis
pute between New Jersey and Delaware
will cost SIS 900; to build jetties to pro-
tect the beach at Sea Girt $4,000 is ap-
p%ropriated; the taking of the State CEN
sus will cost $4,000; the State House
Commission is given $4,000 extra for
furnishing and equipment; the New
Jersey demonstration at the Roosevelt
Inauguration cost $40, 900; the inciden-
tai bill Of the Legislature amounts to
$4,000. Additional allowances are
SIS, 900 for the Soldiers Home at Kear-
ney and $4,000 for the State Normal
School.
To build a new wing at the State
Prison in Trenton IN appropriation of
$3.50, 900 is made. The State Hospital,
also in Trenton, will receive $500, 900
for a new building and a system of fire
escapes. New buildings are to be er-
ected at the State Home for Girls at a
cost of 500, 900, the demand for extra
accommodations being caused by the
act increasing the age limit of inmates
from 16 to 10 years. Another appro-
priation is $11, 500 for electrical work.
The State Board of Taxation consist
ing of four members with salaries of
$1,000 each annually and a secretary
has been abolished and a new board
made called the State Tax Equalization
Board with five members and a clerk.
The president of the new board will get
$4,000 a year, the other four $500
each. the clerk S25Oo
The fish and game commission gets
SAC, 900.
BRAND NEW ITEMS.
The regular appropriation bill in
cludes the following new items, none
of which were figured in the bill of last
year,
For the equipment and maintenance
of the sanitarium for tuberculosis dis
eases, $4,000.
For the board of commissioners ap-
pointed to represent the State of New
Jersey at the jamestown inter-centen-
NAL exposition to.be held on and near
the waters of Hampton Roads, in the
state of Virginia, during the year 1907,
$25, 900.
To the revision commissioners ap-
pointed under chapter 227, laws Of 1904,
for expenses and for compensation of
assistants, $12, 700.
For the purpose of carrying out the
provisions of a bill pending, entitled
can act for the better regulation and
control of the taking, planting and cul-
tivating of oysters and CLAIMS on lands
lying under the tidal waters of the
county of Atlantic, in the State of New
jersey" SIS, 900; provided said bill be-
comes a law.
For additional salary for the chancel-
lor, chief justice and associate justices
of the supreme court, ST. $1,000; provided
the bill pending, entitled GA supple
ment to an act entitled AN act relative
to the court of errors and appeals ire
vision of 1900, approved March 20,
$780," becomes a law.
For salary of charities commissioner,
$1,000.
For salary of assistant (a~rchitect),
$4,000.
For clerical hire, $500.
For travelling expenses of commits
sioner and assistant, 5000.
For blanks, stationery, postage, etc.,
$500.
For the purchase of forest lands and
expenses Herewith by the state board
of forest park reservation commission
ers, pursuant to chapter forty-seven,
laws of 1906, $4,000.
For the use of the state board of for
est park reservation commissioners,
pursuant to said chapter, including
maintenance of state forest funds, 3d.
500.