Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-02
ELEVEN NEW BILLS
BEFORE SENATE IN
ACTIVE SESSION
Three BeIIeviIIe Measures Re-
ported and $4,000 Tubercu-
losis Appropriation Is Passed.

IFrom a Staff correspondent
TRENTON. March 2.-Eleven new
bills are before the Senate today.
Three of the Belleville bills referred to
Senator Hands committee on Dor
oughs and townships have been re-
ported and a bill appropriating $4,000
to the State Health Board to carry on
the white plague fight has been passed.
MI. Frelinghuysen predicted that
the Belleville bills would be report
ed. 1t Is presumed that the scan
dial which has been exposed by
the STAR and the possible in
fluence of it in the gubernatorial cleo
ton approaching nave had something
to do with the unprecedented reporting
of a Belleville bill by Senator Hand.
The Cape May man went the whole
distance, once he had started, He re-
ported Assemblyman Miller's bill to in
corporate Belleville as a town; the
original Osborne annexation bill, and
today's new Osborne bill.
Francis Hendricks, the mar who has
successfully lobbied against Belleville
progress for over twenty years. was
temporarily absent when the bills were
reported. Senator osborne merely
smiled as he heard Secretary Tyler read
the numbers of his own bills n that
of Assemblyman Miller and never even
turned his head to glance at Mr.. Hand.
The new bills introduced, with the
addition of a concurrent resolution, fol-
low:
Concurrent resolution, by Mr.. Acker-
man, petitions the New Jersey mem
bers in Congress to use their influence
to extend the provisions of the ocean
mail act of 1891 so that the Postmaster
General may make contracts for trans
p~ortation of mails to South American,
Australian and Oriental ports.
BY Mr.. Mills-Authorizes county
clerks to retain for their own use . per
cent. of the ) per cent. fee which the
act heretofore allowed counties to re-
tain on every excise license granted
when the fee system for the county
officers was III vogue. Gives county
clerk % cents on each 100 of the excise
fees eXacted.
To Annex BeiIe.ilIe.
BY Mr.. Osborne-An act to annex to
~
the city of Newark the township oil
Belleville. provided the majority of the
voters of said township are in favor OF
the annexation thereof.
BY Mr.. Leavitt-Gives to harbor
boards jurisdiction and control over
any streets and the highways for q
distance back 900 feet from the water
front, provided said harbor board may
have acquired ownership of the real
estate abutting on either side of said
street or highway. Gives sale harbor
board right to rent or lease in con-
nection with docks, bulkheads and
warehouses the other parts of streets,
highways or other public places ac-
ouired in conformity with this act.
By Mr.. Observation-Disclosures govern
ment bodies of any municipality to
select one or more mot exceeding five)
delegates to represent said municipality
atsany industrial. commercial or civic
assemblage or convention which is not.
political in character. and provides for
expense for said delegates.
BY Mr.. Leavitt-Makes it lawful for
the government body of any municipal
ity to include in its tax levy the sum-
not exceeding $4,000, which may be ex-
DeIlOeQ loT duNtilbSiiS IL
and commercial service of said munich
patty.
Bv MI. WSkelee-Amends the act re-
specting the practise in the Court of
Chancerv. revision of 1902. by limiting
the fees allowed in council in uncon-
tested foreclosures to ) per cent. OF the
amount designated for principal and
interest and voices with the chan
cellor the right to designate fees.
Bv Mr.. Wakelee-An act authorizing
the Secretary of State to enter into
IL contract to be approved by the Chan
cellor or the Chief Justice, with some
competent party skilled in the making
of law-books. to edit, compile and print
a complete compilation of all the pub
lie acts of the Legislature, session of
1910, which are general and permanent
in their nature, and which may be en-
forced at the end of the session of 1910,
together with abstracts of the decisions
of the courts of this State, eXpounding
or constructing the same. iSald work
is being known as The Compiled Stat
utes of New Jersey" and shall contain
a list alphabetically arranged of the
legislative acts passed since 1875, and
not published in said work on account
Of not being general and permanent;
shall state on its title-page that the
laws of this state therein contained are
unfinished with the authority of the
T legislature. The cost of the work is
I,nitad TO s25. 900 for the furnishing OF