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three years. The bill also provides fol
On assistant at a salary of $4,000 a

S0L0 "a
p~erience as practical undertakers and
embalmers. The term is for five years.
and the board shall examine and license
all persons who practice the profession.
The salary Of members is not to ex-
coed SIS a day, to be paid from fees re-
ceived. Practicing without a license
is to be made a misdemeanor punish
able by a fine not exceeding 500.
Governor Stokes was visited Monday
by a delegation Of oystermen from
south Jersey In the interests Of the
oyster industry Of Atlantic county.
Senator Lee and Assemblyman EIyins
were present and also representatives
Of the state bureau of shell fisheries.
The senator and assemblymen at the
conclusion of the conference were in
structed to draw up a bill creating an
oyster district similar to that in Ocean
county. This district would be under
a commission which would have the
settling Of all disputes.
A number Of leading agriculturists
Of the state, including Franklin DYE.
secretary of the state board of agricul-
ture, and Professor Voorhees,, present
ed to Governor Stokes a plan along
the line of the recommendation in his
message for a short course for farmers
in agriculture at the Agricultural col
lege during the winter months. The
plan was approved by the governor,
and a bill making it effective will short
ly be introduced.
Agricultural Instruction.
The plan as reported to the governor
is in part as follows:
Short courses in agriculture should
provide instruction in both general and
specific lines and include o. general
farming, () dRirying, 81 fruit and veg
etable growing. The instruction must
be practical and would require % in
structors, (2) illustrative materials and
apparatus, 81 laboratories and lecture
rooms.
after courses are well established
and students are numerous it is desir-
able that such specific branch of in
struction shall be given by an expert.
1t is possible in the beginning of the
work, however, to combine a number
of branches under one instructor.
1.-THE cost of instructNd is a difficult
matter to estimate if competent in
%structors are to be engaged for periods
Of from three to four months. There
should be at Rast one man capable Of
supervising and directing the whole
work, who should be engaged by the
year, the remainder for the specified
periods included in the courses. A min
imum sun would be about $4,000.
1.-THE lowest estimated cost of the
necessary buildings and equipment, not
including land, would be $17,500, the
annual cost of maintenance $4,000 and
instruction $4,000, making an initial to-
tai expense for establishment and main
tenance the first year of $4,000 and tbs
annual cost thereafter $4,000.
"The State College of Agriculture is
we'll provided with all the necessary
facilities for instruction in the regular
four years. agricultural course, though
does not possess the necessary facili-
ties for short courses of instruction,
except class rooms and a part of the
necessary illustrative material. These,
If they were conveniently located,
could be used and thus avoid the neces-
sity of additions" 1t is recommended
that the college farm be used for the
courses.
Assemblyman Elvins for the speaker
presented an amendment to the act
organizing the state board Of agricul-
ture by authorizing the employment Of
such clerical assistance as may be need
full, not exceeding 5000 per year, and
appropriating $4,000 for the use of the
board.
A bill by MI. Hulse constitutes the
statehouse commission and a like com.
mission from Pennsylvania, a commits
sion to acquire the franchises Of toll
bridges across the Delaware and to
operate free bridges. Mr.. BirkholZ put
in a bill prohibiting mayors from pre-
siding over common councils in any
city. Ameasure by Mr.. Lehlbach extends
the act incorporating the Society For
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
SO that violators may be arrested by
policemen and constables on sight. He
also presented a bill licensing merry
go-round and other amusements in
townships. F. G. Henry introduced a
bill which prohibits the fishing with
pound net, fyke net, drift net or seine
in Raritan bay and surrounding waters
during June, July, August and Septem-
Der.
Owing to the observance of Lincoln's
birthday next Monday there will be no
session of the legislature Monday even
ing.
TO CONFER WITH DELAWARE.
The State is to make another effort to
settle the long-standiug boundary dispute
between it and Delaware. In the Senate
on Tuesday Senator Bradley, of Camden,
offered a joint resolution providing for
the appointment of a commission consist
ing of Governor Stokes, former Governor
Murphy, Attorney General McCarter and
Counselor Chauncey G. Parker, to confer
with a similar commission from Delaware.
A suit now pending in the United States
Supreme Court and instituted many years
ago, has hung fire while desultory efforts
were made by numerous commissions to
reach all agreement upon the questions
involved. Several efforts on that line
have proved futile, however, and it is
now stated that Delaware is prepared to
make a "treaty of peace"
The new Commission is to frame a
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