The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-15
SLASH CHARITIES
But ASK $4,000
FOR FORTS RENT
Appropriation Bill, introduced
This Year, Shows Peculiar
Inconsistencies.
SlO0, 900 TAKEN FROM
WORK ON HIGHWAYS
Entire Amount Used in MOSQUITO
determination Is Cut
Out.
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TRENTON. April l5.-Some of the
more important changes in the annual
appropriation bill introduced yesterday
are shown in the item making the APP
preparation for the National Guard.
The pay of the guard is cut s2T, 200,
thus providing for only a one-brigade
encampment for the summer of 1910,
this bill applying to the new fiscal year
beginning November l. 1909. There are
two increases In the National Guard
appropriation, one of sl2, 900 for a sew
erage disposal plant at the Sea Girt
camp grounds, and one of s3S, $50 for
repairs to the State armories.
One of the big cuts is in the appro-
priation for improving highways under
the State aid road law. This appro-
p~riation is cut 500, 900, the amount set
aside being $500, 900, compared to 5000, 900
last year.
school Taxes.
The appropriation to reduce the State
school tax is 500, 900, the same as last
year. In former years, before the pass
age of the new railroad main-stem tax
ing act, this appropriation was about
$l.0OO, 900 annually. One of the items in
last years bill was $780, 900 for a public
utilities commission provided such a
law We're enacted. The Republican ma
jority having decided that there will be
no legislation of the kind this year
there has been no provision made in
the appropriations for 1t.
Some Increases.
Some of the main increases in the
bill are the following: :
Morris Plains Insane Hospital. $2,l25.
Railway Reformatory, $27, $50.
State Agricultural College, $25, 800.
State Board of Health, SIS .4S0.
soldiers Home, V~ineland, SIS, $50.
Montclair Normal School, ST, 900.
State prison, $3.50.
State Normal School at sTrenton,
Sc. 900.
Civil Service Commission, 5000.
Industrial education, $1,000.
County lunatic asylums, IS, 200.
State Home for Girls, 50, $50.
Bordentown. Industrial School for
Colsred Youths, S $1,000.
One of the interesting items in the
bill is an appropriation of 5 900 for the
rental of an executive mansion for Gov
ernor Fort.
Another new appropriation is one to
provide for the department of the State
purchasing agent provided the bill be-
a law. The measure is a SUBJ
stitute for the one creating d central
board OF control as originally proposed
by the governor.
1t makes the State charities and cor
rections commissioner the State pur-
chasing agent without any increase in
salary n gives him an assistant. This
new appropriation provided 81, 900 for
the salary of the assistant and 81, ESQ
for maintenance.
some Decreases.
The principal decreases in the bill are
as follows:
7 New Jersey State Hospital, Trenton,
3 3,0S6, this big decrease being due in
part to large items last year for re-
pairs.
$40, 900.
ished), SIG, 800.
Inland waterways. one of the gov
%erior's pet plans, $4,000.
Kearny Soldiers Home. &c. 900.
Fish and Game Commission, 1880,
Governors emergency fund, made
$40. 900 last year, is cut to $40. 900, as
formerly.
Printing and binding documents,
81, 1000.
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