Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-05-07
THE YEARS WORK DONE
BY OUR STATE LAWMAKERS
Two Hundred and Seventy-Two Acts, Fifty More Than
Last Year, Approved by Both Houses and Signed by
Governor Fort in Five Days After Adjournment
TWO LETTERS FROM OUR STATE CAPITAL

the work of the legislature which ad-
journed 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 Is 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 PIP 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 the ~reformatory act by pro-
viding that the commission. with the
governor, may name superintendent
and an assistant for a term of five
years.
Village Act Amended.
Amends the village act of 1908 by
providing that the trustees incorpo-
rated under the act shall have 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 ol~eomargarine act of
1905 by giving the state board of
health as now constituted all the pow
ers formerly vested in the state dairy
commission.
Authorizes boards Of f~reeholders to
borrow in anticipation of the collec-
ton of taxes any amount not exceed
ing 90 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
wage of a deceased employee within
thirty days after death without ad-
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 $3O2, 1851 OF the railroad tax OF
1906.
Appropriates from public school
share of main stem tax $242,00 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, $4,000; coun-
ty superintendsnts, $4,000; superin-
tendent of public instruction, $4,000;
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 in the
streets upon which their property is
located.
i. Authorizes DorougnS TO sell puDlic
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 nre on a sale for taxes
after twenty years.
Help For @. A. r. EncamPment.
Increases the state allowance for In.
Sustrial education to $4,000; appro-
PIRATES $4,000 to aid in defraying the
of G.. A. +. national encarnp-
ment at Atlantic City in 1910.
Provides that in municipalities wher
the governing body and not the voter
hx the limit of expenditure for the
several departments for such munich