Bridgeton pioneer., 1916-08-31
Important Offices to be
Filled.
nine JUDGES
Large Number of State Officials
to be Named by the Next
Governor.


Jersey in November will nave a large
amount of official patronage to be-
stow. Only one of the principal Off
GERS whose terms run out during the
next three years, the state comptrol-
Ter, 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 poll
tics. Three members of the supreme
court are to be appointed to succeed
Swayze and Garrison in 1917 and Kali
isch in 1918. OF the circuit court
judges the term of Adams expires
next year and that of DUNCAN in 1918.
Three lay judges of the court of ap-
! peals will be appointed to succeed
White in 1918 and Terhule and Hep
penheimer in 1919.
Of the county law judges to be ap-
pointed in the three years there are
fourteen, and seven of these appoint
ments will be made next year. There
! will be twelve prosecutorship appoint
ments, one-half of which will be made
in 1917. These include Essex and
Cape May. In Essex there will prob
ably be an ad interim appointment 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
coveted 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 at
torney general will be appointed.
Next year State Road Commissioner
Stevens term will expire, as we'll as
that of the state prison keeper, and
in 1918 there will be a change in the
, Office of state charities commissioner.
Other principal offices to be filled
! during the new term are those of the
state house custodian, the commits
sioner of reports, the shell fish COM
missioner, director of health, the
state librarian and state forester.
The most numerous changes will
occur IN the administrative depart
ment boards and commissions, in the
newly organized department of con-
servation and development, which in
cludes number of abolished COM
missions, six of the commissioners,
including the president, will retire
within the next three years. In the
board of commerce and navigation
there will be six appointments. In
the state department of health the re-
tirements will be six. In the civil
appointments, with three in the state
board of education. There will be
two appointments of members of the
state public utilities commission
Commissioner Treacy retiring in 1917
and Donges in 1919. Four members
of the state tax board will be appoint
ed to succeed Jess and Gentieu next
year and Russell and Barber in 1918.
Of district court judges in cities
there will be twelve appointments by
the new governor, two in Jersey City
and Bergen County, and one each in
Camden, Elizabeth, Montclair, New
ark, Hoboken, Asbury Park, Paterson,
Plainfield and Long Branch. The
governor will appoint police justices
in South Orange next year and in
Orange in 1919. He will appoint three
members of the Passaic valley sewer
age commission to replace the Messrs. |
Van MORT, of Paterson; Sinnott, OF !
Newark, and Blauvedt, of Paterson.
There are twenty-one country |
boards of taxation in New Jersey and |!
the terms are three years, so that |
during his term the governor will ap-
point sixty-three commissioners, un-
less the legislature shall abolish the
boards The governor will also have