The Penn's Grove record., 1916-09-01
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The Governor to be elected in New
Jersey in November will have a large
amount of official patronage to bestow.
y Only one of the principal officers whose
terms run ont during the next three
y. Z years, the State Comptroller, will be
elected by the Legislature. All other
appointments are by the Governor, with
confirmation by the Senate.
OF the State judiciary there will be
nine appointments during the three years.
The Chancellor's term expires in 1919.
He is a Democrat in politics. Three
members of the Supreme Court are to be
appointed to succeed Swayze and Gar
rison in 1917 and Kalisch in 1918. Of the
Circuit Court judges the term of Adams
expires next year and that of DUNCAN in
ys 1918. Three lay judges of the Court of
a. Appeals will be appointed to succeed
White, in 191S and Terhune and Heppen-
MOS heimer in 1919.
10 OF the county law judges to be appoint
ed in the three years there are fourteen.
aud seven Of these appointments will be
= made next year. There will be twelve
-g,g Prpsecutorship appointments, one-half of
: which viii be made in 1917. These in
elude Essex, and Cape May. In Essex
there will probably be an ad interim APP
poiptmeHt by the present Governor until
the next Legislature is in session, while
in, Cape May the Senate this year failed
TO confirm Governor Fielder's appoint
ment. and the old Prosecutor holds over.
The court clerkships are always COW
eted positions. The term of the Supreme
Court clerk expires in 1918, and that Of
the Chancery clerk in 1919. In the latter
year a new Attorney General will be
appointed. Next year State Road Com
missioner Stevens term will expire, as
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and in 1918 there will be a change in
the office of State Charities Commissioner
Other principal offices to be filled dur
ing the new term are those of the State
House Custodian, the Commissioner of
Reports, the Shell Fish Commissioner, Di-
rector of Health, the State Librarian and
State Forester.
The most numerous changes will occur
in the administrative department boards
and commissions. In the newly organ
lied Department of Conservation and
Development, which includes a number
of abolished commissions, six of the
commissioners. including the president.
will retire within the next three years.
"a In the Board of Commerce and Naviga-
ton there win be six appointments. In
the State Department of Health the re
20 irements will be six. In the Civil Ser
vice Commission there will be three APP
~pointments, with three in the State Board
of Education. There will be two appoint
: ments of members of the State Public
Utilities Commission, Commissioner
- @Treacy retiring in 1917 and Donges in
1913. -Four members of the State Tax
Board will be appointed to succeed Jess
and Gentieu next year and Russell and
70 Barber in 1918.
: -o~-eQ + district court judges in cities there
.cc will be twelve appointments by the new
Governor, two in jersey City and Ber-
gen county, and one each in Camden.
10 Elizabeth, Montclair, Newark, Hoboken,
,5 Asbury Park, Paterson, Plainfield and
Long Branch. The Governor will APP
nc point police, judges in South Orange next
year and in Orange in 1919. He will ap-
as Point three members of the Passaic Val
81, ley Sewerage Commission to replace the
y7a Messrs. Van MORT, of Paterson; Sin
mott, Of Newark, and Blauvelt, of Pat
.o4- erson.
mon There are twenty-one county boards of
taxation in New Jersey and the terms
g are three years, so that during his term
the Governor will appoint sixty-three
. s. commissioners, unless the Legislature
Be- shall abolisk the boards. The Governor
al will also have the appointment. of twenty
Il. one county election, boards.
q, Most of the minor commissions and
1paboqrds, of the State are unsalaried, but
the positions are valued, There will be
many of these appointments during the
three Years. Trustees will be appointed
!. sftor the various State institutions and for
bIPaIsades Park, the, Washington Asso-
z uelatiqn at MorristoWn,~ the State Blind,
20 MEDICAL, dentistry, veterinary, o~ptometry
ggcsi Interests, etc.