The Penn's Grove record., 1915-07-02
STATE BOARDS REoRcANI2Ep.
Sweeping Changes Made to Confirm
With New Laws.

0WCCRbnH SldIiHCS "aA@ ~ NOnF1Tn
With New Laws.
Many important State boards will
be consolidated and there will be
other far-reaching changes made by
laws the Legislature passed at the last
session which go into effect now.
The Economy and Efficiency" acts
have become operative. By the
changes made a number of State
commissions are abolished and their
duties are Consolidated. These in
clude the State Tax Board, the State
Board Of Assessors, the State Board of
Health, the two labor commissions.
the State Water Board, the Riparian
Commission and other boards. Most
of the present officials will be re.
tanned.
Governor Fielder has been engaged
in arranging for the organization of
the consolidated boards and depart.
ments.
J. Spencer Smith, of Bergen Couu-
ty, will be elected as president of the
new Department of Commerce and
Navigation which takes in the Ri
parian Board, the New Jersey Har-
Dor Commission and kindred DEPART
ments. B. F. Cresson will be an
pointed chief engineer. John C.
Payne, for many years engineer and
secretary of the Riparian Commission,
will be made assistant engineer.
The records of the Riparian Com
mission will be handed over by Mr..
Payne to the new department. The
Riparian offices in the Commercial
Trust Building will be retained for
the present and the main Offices will
be in Trenton.
Tax Board Changes.
The State Board of Equalization of
Taxes passes out of existence, as does
the State Board of Assessors. These
two boards are consolidated into the
State Board of Assessments.
Leslie T. Russell, of Elizabeth. will
be the president of this board. Frank
B. Jess, who used to be president
of the old State Board of Equaliza-
ton of Taxes, will be a member OF
the new board. So will George t.
Bouton, of Jersey City.
State Assessors George L. Record
and Charles E. Hendrickson, jr., of
Jersey City, go out of Office. Isaac
Barber, of Phillipsburg, and G. F.
Gentieu, of Salem, now State asses
sors, goes into the new board.
1t is probable that Irving Mcguire,
secretary of the State Board of AS
SCISSORS, will be retained in some ca
pacity by the new board.
One of the new acts which becomes
effective is chapter 246, concerning
the welfare of children. 1t combines
the various laws on this subject into
n general statute.
There are three election acts on
this list, one being chapter 319,
amending the election laws so as to
provide for the direct nomination of
candidates for United States Senator
at the primary election in Septem
Der. This new law will have it's
first test next year, when the can
didates for the United States Sen
ate to succeed Senator MARITIME will
be nominated at the primaries.
Another of the election acts is
chapter %, providing that where the
provisions of a statute are adopted
by the voters of a municipality, the
result of the election shall be pub.
lished by the secretary of state in the
pamphlet laws.
Chapter 1872 requires the secretary
of state to furnish to each board of
registry and election three blanks for
registration certificates, one for each
registration day, and providing that at
the close of each day thee election
board shall forthwith file in the Office
of the municipal clerk a duplicate of
the certificate of registration.
Another important law authorizes
the State Department of Labor to
establish and maintain free labor bu-
reaus, the purpose being to bring to-
gether employers seeking employees
and working people seeking employ
ment.
Other new laws in effect are:
Chapter 295, provides the following
schedule Of pay for members of the
National Guard when actually on
duty for the State at instruction
camps, maneuvers, etc.: Privates. en-
listed cooks and c%orporals, $3.50 a
day; s~ergeants below first s~ergeants,
$1.75 a day; company musicians, first
~sergeants and battalion non-commis-
stoned officers, 50 a day; regimental
band musicians, 81 a day; to all COM
missioned officers the same rate as
allowed for corresponding grades in
the regular army, and to all commits
stoned officers and enlisted men re-
quired to be mounted, SO per day for
each horse actually used.
Chapter 334, limiting the penalty
imposed for delinquent taxes to eight
per cent.
Chapter 348, providing that in the
payment of the salaries Of teachers
and other school employees, a payroll
certified by the president and district
clerk or secretary of the school board
may be delivered to the custodian of
school money. accompanied by a war
rant for the full amount of the pay
roll.
Chapter 800, providing that the
State prison keeper shall appoint all
deputies, officers physicians, clerks,
guards, teachers, moral instructors,
etc., by and with the consent of the
Board of Prison Inspectors.
Compensation Held Excessive.
Compensation awarded in the Hud-
son County Court of Common Pleas