The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-04-14


building sewers and drains in cities.
H. No. 482, amends district court act
relative TO fees.
H. No. 47S, makes it misdemeanor
to obtain credit upon false statement in
writing Of financial condition of purchas-
er.
II. No. $50. revision concerning the
manner Of committing insane persons to
institutions of the state.
III. No. 65, with senate amendments,
provides for appointment of interpreters
in courts of second-class counties.
H. No. sos. authorizes boards of f.
nance. fire and police, of four persons
each. for city of Paterson.
H. No. 4s0, reconsidered, validates wa
ter bonds issued by borough.
S. Nos 100 and POI. committee substi-
tute. Amendment to water works act.
III. No. 526, amends act relative to time
in which licenses may be applied for at
seaside resorts.
FL. No. 70, committee substitute. En-
ables towns to- purchase electric light
plants.
Senator Minturn presented resolu-
tion, which was adopted, requesting the
State Architect TO present plans for the
enlargement of the Senate chamber and
bettering its sanitary arrangement, to re-
port at the special session of the Legis-
lature in September.
Senator Nlinturn offered a resolution
that H. No. 1856 be recalled from the
House for the purpose of striking the
word theatre out of the act was lost.
The bills lost we're
H. No. 40, provides for refunding of
park bonds in Jersey City. Motion to
reconsider was laid on the table.
H. No. 296, amends board of health
act. Concerns Jersey City.
H. No. 463, makes August 25 open
season for flicker and gray squirrel.
H. No. 492, empowers building of
State roads across the State.
s. No. 136, the amended Bishops bill,
was taken up for concurrence of the
Senate in the House amendment. The
first was that raising the age Of minor
within meaning of the act from 1S to 81.
This was concurTed in by vote of 1870.
The next amendment was substitution of
the word ''shall'' for may" in reference
to taking down screens in prohibited
days. election days and Sunday. The
vote on concurrence was IL ayes and &
nays. Upon the amendment that screens
'rnayn be ordered down at all other times
the vote on concurrence was II ayes and
nays. This ended the concurrence in
the House amendments to the bill.
The bills passed in House were:-
s. No. 1872, gives excise boards power
to subpoena witnesses when complaints
are lodged against violators of excise
laws
S. No. 1914, the Hutchinson pure milk
bill.
H. No. 463, makes open season for kill
ing flickers.
House committee substitute for S. No.
1870 and S. No. 291, repeals the act of
May IL, 1905, for the construction and
maintenance of water works.
S. No 10S, the sliding scale maximum
tax rate bill.
S. No. 8. requires that jurors shall be
selected under the supervision of the
court
Fl. No. 253, pensions city employees,
veterans of the city war, who have serv-
ed the city continuously for 40 years.
H. No. 523, provides for inspectors of
steamboats, for boats plying on Lake
Hopatcong.
S. No. sSs, concerns cemetery associa-
tions.
s. No. s42, the supplemented appro-
priations bill.
s, No 34s, the regular appropriation
bill.
S. No. 326, provides that title compan-
les may guarantee mortgage
S. No. So, creates the state forest park
reservation commission.
s. No. Al, creates board of equaliza-
ton of taxes in each county, to be ap-
pointed by the Governor.
S. No. Ia, the Toms River dam bill.
S. J. r. No. 10, creates a commission
to investigate the Feasibility of municip-
al ownership and to report to the next
Legislature.
This bill was lost
s. No. 305, provides that there shall
be one liquor saloon for every 200 inhab-
Ritants, evoked heated debate on third
reading and was lost-1 to 49--NIr.
Crowther alone voting in the affirmative.
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