The Penn's Grove record., 1909-04-30
PISSED
1T TRENTON.
This Years Work Of the State
Legislature
SOME IMPORTANT MEASURES.

Two Hundred and Seventy-two Acts,
Fifty More Than Last Year, APP
proved by Both Houses and Signed
by Governor Fort Within Five Days
After Adjournment-Great Variety OF
Subjects Considered by the Law
makers.
Trenton.-Two hundred and seventy
two laws were the final result OF
| the work of the legislature which ad-
| iourned at $50 o'clock on the morn
ing of April 16. This is just fifty more
laws than were passed by the legisla-
ture of 1908. Governor Fort holds
that under the constitution he must
+! consider all bills within five days aft
er the adjournment of the legislature,
which technically was April 10 this
year. and it was late last Wednesday
night when he affixed his signature to
/ the annual appropriation bill, the last
one he signed. Among the 272 laws
of this year are these:
Amends the district court act by ex-
tending the jurisdiction of justices OF
| the peace in civil cases started before
a judicial district was formed.
Amends the district court act by per-
hitting attachment to issue out OF the
| same against nonresident debtors not
| above $500.
Amends h reformatory act by pro-
viding that the commission, with the
governor, may name superintendent
| and all assistant for a term of five
years.
Village Act Amended.
Amends the village act of 1908 by
| providing thai the trustees 1ncorpO-
rated under the act shall nave the
power by ordinance to repair any
| street, avenue or section in such vii
lage and TO assess the cost thereof
upon the lands fronting upon such
| street, avenue or section.
Amends the road act of 1908 so that
the Monmouth county freeholders can
| construct a portion of the proposed
Ocean boulevard through Ocean coun-
ty.
| Makes the fiscal year in counties
other than first class begin Jan. l.
Authorizes savings banks to make
loans without appraisement.
Amends the oleomargarine act of
1906 by giving the state board of
health as now constituted all the pow
ers formerly vested in the state dairy
| commission.
A,+I1,;zn1 IOorI1 ~ uootA1Iorc 10
borrow in anticipation of the collec-
| ton of taxes any amount not exceed
ing 80 per cent of the appropriations
for the current year.
Ocean Boulevard Act.
The Ocean boulevard act, provid-
ing that counties and municipalities
| through which the proposed boulevard
is to pass may improve the same with
out cost to the state highway commits
sion, which consists of the governor,
president of the senate, speaker of the
house and the state road commissioner.
Requires physicians to report all
cases of communicable diseases in cat
tie to the state board of health.
Authorizes guardians of lunatics to
mortgage property of their wards for
necessary expenses.
Provides for additional bonds for
private bankers doing business with
foreign countries.
Authorizes the payment of the
wages of u deceased employee within
thirty days after death without adj
ministration to the wife, children, ia
Their or mother, sister or brother in
the order named, or, in the absence of
either, to the undertaken or other cred
itors.
Authorizes the chancellor to invest
the deposits in his court in interest
bearing securities and provides a rea-
sonable compensation for supervising
such investments.
Railroad Tax For Schools.
Authorizes paid to the state school
fund 1902, 1851 of the railroad tax of
1906.
Appropriates from public school
share of main stem tax $242, 900, here
tofore paid out of state fund, as fol-
lows: State Normal school, Trenton,
100000; State Normal school, Mont
clair, $4,000; Rutgers college, $4,000;
School For Deaf Mutes, $45, 200; coun-
ty superintendent, $4,000; superin-
tendent of public instruction, $25 1000;
Colored Industrial school, $4,000; for
eign evening schools, $4,000.
Authorizing the governing bodies of
towns by ordinance to compel property
owners to construct house connections
with sewers which may exist / n the
streets upon which their property is
located.
Authorizes boroughs to sell public
utility plants when such plants are
operated at a loss, provided such sale
is authorized by the legal voters of
such municipality.
Makes valid any deed given by a mu-
nicipality where the records were de-
stroyed by fire on a sale for taxes
after twenty years.
Help For G. A. r. E~ncampment.
Increases the state allowance for in
dustrial education to $4,000; appro-
PIRATES $4,000 to aid in ~defraying the
expenses of G.. A. r. national encamp-
ment at Atlantic City in 1910.
Provides that in municipalities where
the governing body and not the voters
fix the limit of expenditure for the
several departments for such munich
palities unexpended balances may be
carried over or transferred.
Permits the board of %freeholders of
counties having no houses of detention
to provide for the care of juveniles I'M
der the school of detention act in pri-
yate houses.
Employers Liability Act.
Senator Ackerman's employers liza
bility act, which fixes the liability OF
employers for injuries received by
their employees while in their employ.