The Penn's Grove record., 1914-03-27
FIELDER SIGNS
BOROUGH BILL
Measure Fought for Years by
DR.. Ballard and Associates
UP TO OCEAN GROVE VOTERS
Permits Residents to Decide Local
Government for ThemseIves-Twen-
ty-Four Other Acts Also Receive
Signature of States Executive

Especial Trenton Correspondence
Trenton.-The Ocean Grove borough
bill was one of the twenty-five meas
ures signed by Governor Fielder. This
is the bill that permits the voters of
| Ocean Grove to decide for themselves
whether they want a borough govern
ment, and which has been so vigorous
ly opposed for years by the Rev. DR..
Aaron Ballard and the other men at
the head of the Ocean Grove Camp
Meeting Association. Among other
bills signed by Governor Fielder were
two measures introduced by Mr.. Foley,
one of the Essex asemblymen. One
of these relates to the issuing of bonds
for water mains, and the other has to
do with the salaries of commissioner
Of assessments in frst-class cities.
Another bill that received executive
approval was Assemblyman Blooms
bill to protect creditors by requiring
notice to be given of the sale of per-
sonal property in bulk. The Governor
also signed Assemblyman Barradale's
bill authorizing freeholders to sell I'M
claimed personal property of deceased
patients of county insane hospitals.
Two bills introduced by Senator
Read that received Governor Felder's
approval are those which provide for
the establishment of a legislative refer
ence bureau in connection with the
State Library, and authorizes the at
torney-general to appoint a lawyer
to examine and draft bills for the
Legislature. Among the other bills
signed were these:
Senate so, a%bolishing regular terms
for Prerogatiye Court.
Senate Sc; requiring on motorcycles
a rear light which will shine upon the
number on machine.
Senate 60, Mr.. Colgate, appropriat-
ing $500 for publishing 1000 copies of
the report of New Jersey Conference
of Charities and Corrections.
Senate 20, making the G. A. r. De
partment Commander ex-oficio mem
Der of the board of managers of the
Soldiers Homes at Kearny and Vine
land.
Senate 100, appropriating $40 each
for headstone over the graves of vet
Grams.
House %, p%ensioning police officers
employed upon county public roads. |
House 2O4, prohibiting granting of
licenses to gun to those under sixteen
years of age.
Governor Fielder vetoed two Senate
bills. One of them, an amendment to
the practise of a defective title. The
other, intended to exempt travelling
statesmen from jury duty, the Cover
said failed to do this absolutely,
and the bill therefore accomplished
nothing more than what was already
provided for by law.
Governor Fielder will hear propo-
nents and opponents on Senate Bill
No. 80, placing building inspectors in
second class cities under civil service
protection, as well as House 279, TAX
ing assistant prosecutors out of civil
protection. He believes a con
trast in these bills will help elucidate
both. Besides the Morris canal bills
hearing in the House, the highways
committee Of the House will conduct
hearing on House TIC, making it a
mlsdemeanor for the county engineer
to engage in any other work outside
his oflce. The municipal corporations
will hear House 491. com
pelling traction companies to repave
the streets over which they run their
tracks and for eight inches outside
the outer rails, and House 618, appro-
priating $4,000 for a monument at
Passaic to commemorate the path
washington took on his memorable
retreat across New Jersey. The
House judiciary committee also will
give a hearing to House 43, relative
to street improvements, and the House
committee on taxation will hear House
10, exempting personal property from
taxation. The House railroads and
canals committee will hear House sos,
regulating the lease of one railroad
to another. The Senate borough and
townships committee will hear the
measure creating the township of
Magnolia in Camden County.
The new report upon the abandon
ment OF the Morris Canal consists of
little molasses spread over the plain
bread OF the previous recommended
lions. Substantially, the suggestions
are for he's adoption of the former re-
port with a description in addition of
what the State might do with the
property and the money after the
measure had been agreed to. A pretty
picture is painted, but the power to use
the property and cash in this or any
Scores Seek Position.