Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-04-07

prevent moving of car until door or
gate on 1t has been closed and fas-
tened.
Joint Resolution No. L, by MI.
Winne.-Continues the commission on
the care of mental detectives until next
year.
Joint Resolution No. 2. by Mr.. O.. Fl.
jurisdiction OF
legislative committee TO investigate
workings of civil service.
Joint Resolution No. 3. by Mr.. Shep
pard.-Provides for appointment of
commission to revise and codify fish
and game laws.
Joint Resolution No. 3. by Mr.
Schoen.-Calls for commission of five
to investigate the problem OF conserv
ing the fish supply of the state. The
board will take up especially the oper
alton of pound nets.
Joint Resolution No. o. by Mr.. Pier
son.-Provides for continuation of the
commission for the survey of munici
pal finances. Investigation will be
made of school district and county
finance methods.
Road Bond Issue.
Before the Egan road bill, providing
for an issue of 100000 in bonds for
a state highway system, becomes efec-
tive 1t will be necessary for the voters
to approve of the plan at the general
election Nov. T. 1t is proposed to lay
out thirteen routes. The measure pro-
vides for a highway commission to
consist of the governor, president OF
the senate, speaker of the house, state
road commissioner and the chairmen
Of the senate and house highway COM
mittees of the last legislature. This
commission will carry out the provi-
sions of the laws If the people approve
Of the scheme. The act provides that
the Estate highway bonds" are to be
signed in the name of the state by the
governor, and "they shall be either
registered or coupon bonds and shall
bear interest at the rate of 4 per cent
a year, payable ~semiannually, and shall
be issued in denominations of not more
than $1,000 nor less than $780,"
Under the plan that has been devised
It is the intention to take $4,000 from
the registration fees paid each year
into the department Of lotor vehicles
to cover all expenditures for interest.
etc. No direct tax is to be placed on
the people at large.
About $50 miles of roads are to be
covered with hard paving material
stone, brick and others being among
those specified as acceptable. The cost
is to be about $4,000 per mile. Hud-
son and Cape May counties are the
only ones not to benefit by the law.
The proposed routes named in the
bill are:
Route No. 1. From Elizabeth to
Trenton, by way of Railway, Metuch-
en-, New Brunswick and Hightstown.
Route No. From Trenton to Cam
den, by way of Bordentown, Fields
boro, Roebling and Burlington.
Route No. 3.-From Camden to Alb
secon, by way of Berlin and Harmon
ton.
Route No. 4.-From a point on route
No. / in or near Railway to Ahsecon.
by way of Perth Amboy, Keyport.
Middletown, Red Bank, Long Branch.
Asbury Park. Point Pleasant, Lake
wood, Toms River, Tuckerton and New
Gretna.
Route No. 5.-From Newark to the
bridge crossing the Delaware river.
about two miles above Delaware, by
way of Morristown. Dover, NetcOng.
Budd's Lake, Hackettstown, Buttsville
and Delaware.
Route No. 6.-From Camden to
Bridgeton by way of Woodbury. and
Mullica Hill.
Route No. From Hightstown to
Asbury Park by way of Freehold, Jer
SEVILLE and Hamilton.
Route No. S.-From Montc1air to state
line at Unionville by way of Singac.
Wayne, Pompton Plains. Butler, New
Foundland, Stockholm, Franklin Fur.
mace and Sussex.
Route No. 9.-From Elizabeth to Phil
lipsburg by way of Westfield, Plain
field, Bound Brook, Somerville, White
House, Clinton, West Portal and
Bloomsbury.
Route No. 10.-From Paterson to Fort
Lee by way of Dundee Lake to Hack
ensack.
Route No. LII rom Newark to Pat
erson by way of Belleville, Bloomfield.
Nutley and Passaic.
Route No. 12.-From Paterson to
Phlllipsburg by way of Little Falls.
Pine Brook, Parsippany, Denville.
thence over Route No. 8 to Budd Lake.
thence to Washington and Broadway.
Route No. 13.-From New Brunswick
to Trenton by way of Kingston, Prince
ton and Lawrenceville.
Efforts to amend the bill when it was
on third reading in the senate were
voted down after Senator Egan oppos-
ed any changes.
One of the bills which was wanted
by the farmers, however, met with the