Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-02-01

dron, State Superintendent of Weights
land Measures, In his Crusade against
1.-THE sale OF short-weight buffers. which
will begin tomorrow. Ever since SUI
perintendent Waldron announced sew
/ teral weeks ago that on and after Feb.
! /, all print and roll buffers offered
| for sale in this state must have the
met weight marked plainly on the la
i BEL he has been in receipt of COM
munications from over one hundred
women's clubs throughout New Jer-
sey. The women have assured him
that they will report every violation
of the law that comes to their notice.
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The State Bar Association is plan
ming TO Introduce bill in the Legis-
lature to simplify judicial procedure.
The bill will provide for the transfer
OF suits from Courts of Law to the
Court of Chancery, and vice versa; !;
will permit Courts of Law and the
Court of Chancery to decide incidental
questions arising in suits in the other
respective courts; will simplify Court
rules and practice, and will give to
contracts between husband and wife
the same effect at law as they have
! in equity.
The State Forest Commission has
received notice from the United States
Department of Agriculture that it will
allot to New Jersey $4,000 during the
current year to help control forest
fires. The money will come from. an
appropriation of 100000 made by
Congress.
Farmers of the State are back of
Assemblyman Radcliffe's bin to prohi-
bit the liberation of fox within the
State. The measure was passed by
the House this week, and carries a
penalty of $100. The bill is aimed
at sporting clubs. Another bill pass
ed by the House was the McAllister
measure prohibiting the shooting into
squirrels nests under a penalty of
$4,000 fine.
A series of nearly twenty bills were
introduced in the two Houses this
week giving various regulations for
public schools in general; they are the
same bills introduced last session by
Senator Frelinghuysen and which fail
ed to pass. The bills embody largely
the recommendations of the Freling-
huysen Investigating Committee of
last year.
The bill to regulate the practice of
pharmacy introduced in the Senate by
Mr.. Colgate of Essex, is stirring up
lot of antagonism among some of
the druggists of the state, and it is
said the measure will be strongly op-
posed. The bill provides stringent
regulations for the compounding of
drugs and medicines, provides for the
prevention of adulteration of drugs,
their misbranding, etc., but goes fur
ther and creates new State Board of
Pharmacy and raises the standard of
the present examinations required for
pharmacists.
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The right of Mayor to vote in a
Board of Education when that Board
stands tie does not make the Mayor
a member of the Board, according to a
decision just rendered in a Hoboken
case by j. Brognard Belts, Assistant
State School Commissioner Hobo
ken's new Mayor, Martin Cooke, claim
ed that the new act of 1911 for the
appointment of Boards of Education
applied to his city, and therefore he
named new Board. The four hold
over members of the old Board claim
ed that the new law was unconstitu-
tional, and that, therefore, the old
Board should be continued. Their
ground for claiming its unconstitu-
tionality was that it excepted from its
provisions Boards of less than nine
members. The Hoboken old Board
was composed of eight members, but
the new Mayor claimed that his right
to vote in case of tie made him a
member of the Board, and that, there
fore, the Board was composed of nine
members. Mr.. Belts ruled that this
power of voting does not make the
Mayor member of the Board within
the meaning of the law of 1911.
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The State Utility Commission has
just announced finding that the ex-
action of minimum charge of $1.0O
per month per plant or Installation"
by electric light companies is just and
reasonable. The Board says that
SUCH minimum charge by the month
is really more equitable than if the
charge were made by the year The
Board holds that charge of $1.00
per meter is excessive where more
than one meter is installed, but that
a charge of so cents per meter per
month is not excessive for each addi-
tional meter installed on the same
premises for the same customers, ap-
piled through the same service
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| State Road Commissioner Edwin A,
Stevens, claims that the new system
of improved highways proposed in the
series of bills introduced in the Sem
ate by Senator Gaunt, of Gloucester
County, would mean the expenditure
of about 100000 a year for mainten-
ance. Referring to Senate II, provid-
ing for an issue of $10,000,000 at 8 1-2
per cent bonds for road purposes, Col
Stevens said he supposed the purpose