The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-13
FINES
COLLECTED
BY STATE
Attorney General Reports
Hundreds of Cases
Prosecuted.
Especial 70 the Evening start

TRENTON Jan. bah the cases in
which the State has appeared either as de-
PENDANT or complainant are outlined in the
annual report OF Attorney General Robert
Fl. McCarter in HIS annual report just sub
nlitted to Governor Stokes.
The questions involved nave been more
important than ever arose before in the
history Of the State, and prominent among
them are the Iitigations involving the con-
stitutionallty OF the railroad tax acts.
In the past year the Attoruey-General
has rendered 252 opinions for departments
and officials of the State.
During the year the Attorney-General'e
department has collected an aggregate OF
S179.9s1.99. These collections were made up
as follows: Miscellaneous corporations,
SlSAo64.29; pure. food penalties, s7,706.2 Is;
cleomargarine penalties, s1,1ss. 4S; board of
penalties, $1.4o9.60 tenement house penal
ties 1,519.17; forestry board penalties, $50;
rentals, riparian lease, Point Breeze Ferry
and Improvement Company, so, $40, and a
number of smaller amounts.
The report says that during the past Ave
years there has been collected in taxes from
dsiinquent miscellaneous corporations $T95,
The Encouragement brought 215 cases
during the year for the State Board of
oleomarearine law and for failure to file
certificates of birth. with the following re-
suits: 18 penalties collected, z cases lost
IN the trial court or on appeal, "a appeals
by defendants, 4S penalties Imposed but not
collected, 8 cases withdrawn, i appeal by
plaintiff, and % cases pending, In addition
rs penalties We're collected during the year
on suits brought during the preceding year,
and "a penalties were paid under the law
passed In 1906, requiring notice to be sent
TO persons, charged for the frs time with
selling or having in possession milk below
the statutory standard. and permitting the
violator to pay the penalty, without suit,
within fifteen days after notice.
For the department of labor, twenty
seven cases were brought during the year,
resulting in twenty penalties being coll
lected. Three judgments nave not been
collected; three appeals have been taken
to the Supreme Court, and one case with
drawn. In addition seven penalties were
collected on suits instituted during the
previous year.
-Four cases were brought for the Forestry
Commission. resulting IN judgments
against each defendant. Sixty cases were
brought for the Board OF Tenement House
Supervision to recover penalties, In which
thirty-eight cases were won and the penal
Ties collected; one case was lost, seven are
pending, seven were won and the penalties
are not yet collected and seven were with
drawn. One suit was brought for the
Board OF Pharmacy. which is still pend
ing. Many cases have also been tried for
the Fish and Game Commission on appeal,
mission directly from the Attorney-Gen-
Proceedings against s1S corporations have
been begun in the Court Of Chancery for
injunctlons to restrain them from the exer-
else Of their franchise or the transaction
of business. The total sum collected from
DELINQUENT corporations during the year
was $164.054.2 %.