The Penn's Grove record., 1920-05-28
New Tenant
Law Explained
Tenants Who Pay Protected.
Railway Valuation Tangle.
Normal School Reunion

Trenton.-There appears to be some
confusion in the minds of the general
public regarding the terms of the Han
sen housing law, the only housing
measure to pass this years legislature.
The PROVISIONS are these:
No month to month tenant or one
who has no agreed term for letting.
who has complied with the REM terms,
can be dis-possessed under less tina
three months notice. This clause is
designed to allow tenants who have
been served with dispossess notices
sufficient time to find new quarters al
equate to their needs.
No tenant who has paid the agreed
rent can be dispossessed between DC
tober l and April 1. This is to prevent
tenants from being set out in the street
during the winter months.
In any case where the leasing agree
ment is in writing and he tenant holds
over after the termination of the least,
with the consent of the landlord, it
shall be unlawful for the latter to dis
possess the tenant under less than
three months notice. If the tenant
holds over after October l, with the
consent of the landlord, he cannot be
disposessed before the list of the next
April.
The exceptions made to protect land
lords from diSorderly or destructive
tenants provide for summary removal
under the terms of the act If the
charges of disOrderly conduct are
proven.
Linden Association Suit.
As counsel for COMMISSIONS Frank
II. Smith of the banking and insurance
department, Attorney General Thomas
f. McCran has brought suit in the
court of chancery for an injunction re-
straining trustees of the Linden Build
ing and Loan Association from CON
tfnuing to function and also for the APP
pointment of a receiver for that inSti-
tuition.
1t is alleged in the bill Of COM
plant that the affairs of the associa-
ton have been mismanaged and that
its operations are hazardous to the
public and to those having funds in its
custody, particularly to those whose
shares already have matured and who
have failed to receive the moneys that
are due them. As long ago as March
;, 1918, it is claimed that the depart
ment of banking and insurance advised
the directors to liquidate the affairs of
the association, which request was not
carried out.
The association was chartered in
1907. For the last two years it is al
legged that its affairs have been neg
lected and improperly managed and
that the association practically ceased
to do business for that period, having
failed to issue new shares and to make
an annual report, as required by the
statute. On November Z of last yearit
is alleged that the corporation adopted
resolutions authorizing dissolution and
liquidation and providing for the ap-
pointment of James MacNIaster, Schuy-
Ter NJ. Cady and Jacob A. Bauer as
trustees. No proof of this action was
furnished the banking department, it
is alleged, and further, it is asserted
that the trustees were not bonded, as
required by law.
Appropriation insufficient.
Proposed new buildings at the Nor
ris Plains Hospital for the Insane an
not be built under bids just received by
State Architect Francis II. Bent be-
cause the estimates for the work are
about 81, 900, 900 in excess of the $780,
600 state appropriation available for
the work.
Two buildings had been planned for
the $500 600 available. but the bid for
one of these was S709,379, or more
than 100000 more than the money in
hand for two buildings.
Heavy Trucks Destroy Roads.
The State Gazette emphasizes the
enormous cost to the taxpayers result
ing from the use of big freight auto
trucks on New Jersey highways. Sew
eral weeks ago it was pointed out that
an immediate remedy should be found
for the wholesale destruction of the
roads.
Railway Valuation Held Up.
If Governor Edwards threatened to
veto the item of S1O0.O0O in the appro-
priation bill to pay for the valuation of
street railway property in this state
he evidently r~econsidered his intention,
as that item, sd -. commission for OBJ
tanning valuation of street railway and
traction companies" was untouched by
the executive blue pencil. Possibly he
thinks that his refusal to serve on a
commission on which he will be out
voted by two Republicans is a sufi-
Client protest against the action of the
majority in repudiating their platform
pledge of IAN independent appraise-
ment of street railway properties In
der the direction Of the governor. there
by securing a true valuation on which
a rate, fair to all concerned, may he
fixed"
After the appropriation bill shall
have been finally passed upon by the
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