The Penn's Grove record., 1910-02-18
The LEGISLATURE At WORK

new bills of Importance were introduced.
On Monday night Mr.. dwell. OF
Hudson, father of the Sunday baseball
bill, introduced in the House three
measures at the request of the New
Jersey Hotel Mems Association. One
of these permits the sale of liquor with
meals after IL O'Clock noon, in bona hde
hotels having ten rooms or more for the
lodging of patrons.
Another repeats the Hillery law OF
1909 providing for the appointment OF
boards of protectors for the inebriates
in the various municipalities of the
State.
A bill requiring residents OF New
Jersey, as we'll as non-residents of the
State, to take out marriage licenses,
was introduced by Mr.. Nissan, OF
Essex. The same bill makes false
statements to clergymen, relative to
marriages, perjury, as are mis-state-
ments to County Clerks in applications
for licenses.
A bill to incorporate the borough of
Ocean Grove was introduced by Mr..
Baker, Democrat, of Hudson. after the
three Republican members from Mon
mouth refused to offer such a measure.
The bill will be vigorously opposed, as
it was last year, Ivy the Ocean Grove
Camp-meeting Association, which as
serts that a borough charter would
have a tendency to remove the religious
restrictions which nov govern the re-
sort.
Another measure introduced was a
bill granting the consent Of the State OF
New Jersey to the purchase by the
United States of land in Gloucester
City for the erection of an immigrant
station.
One of the restrictions in the bill is
that the State of New Jersey shall retain
concurrent jurisdiction with the United
States over the land, $50 far as that all
civil process in all cases and such GRIM
inal or other process as may issue under
the laws or authority of the State OF
New Jersey against any person or per-
SONS charged with crimes OF misde
meanors committed within said State,
may be executed therein in the same
way and manner as if said consent had
not been given or jurisdiction coded
except so far as such process may effect
the real or personal property of the
United States"
The bill also relieved the site of all
taxes.
The Senate, in executive session, con-
irmed the appointment of Judge Fred
erick Gnichtel, as county judge OF Mer-
Ger county, for a full term of five years.
Member of State Board of Assessors,
George E. Halsey, Essex county; Com
missioner of Department of Labor,
Lewis T. Bryant, Atlantic county;
Member of Fish and Game Commission,
Percival Christie, Hunterdon county;
Member of Board of Managers of Home
for Feeble-Minded Women, Harry H.
Pond, Cumberland county; Judge of
Second District Court of Newark, Thos.
j. Lintott; Member of Palisades Inter-
state Park Commission, D. McNeeley
Stauffer, Yonkers, N. Y.
Governor Fort sent to the Legislator
three special messages. One trans
mits the report of the New Jersey
Interstate Bridge Commission, which
is acting in conjunction with the New
York Interstate Bridge Commission.
The Governor says it is conceded by all
engineers that a bridge between New
York and New Jersey is possible, that
its cost probably will notexceed So, 00O,-
900, and says that New Jersey should
either as a State or through a district of
the State, join in this enterprise.
In his second message the Governor
trans mits without comment two recon-
mendations, one received from the De-
partment of State and tie other from
George B. Mcclellan, Mayor of New
York at the time the communication
was written. In both it is urged that
New Jersey modify it's present law pro.
hibiting the taking of water out of the
State.
The third message transmits the report
of the New Jersey State tuberculosis
Commission, in whichan appeal is made
for an additional appropriation of
$25,0 600 for the erection of additional
buildings. The Governor urges favor
able consideration of this request.
The Senate passed five bills. They
were as follows:
Fixes salary of county clerk Of Cape
May at $4,000.
Provides for readjustments by county
boards of taxation.
Amends landlord and tenant act.
Amends act regulating appeals from
district courts.
Authorizes payment of money on &C
count of inland waters work.
The Assembly passed three bills:
Amending the borough act by giving
borough councils power by ordinance
to regulate, control and prescribe the
method and manner of building and
altering buildings, validates proceedings
by which bonds were ordered issued in
school districts; provides that a deed
by a corporal ion shall be valid and
effective although the corporation seal
is not attached.