596 



NEW JERSEY. 



Empowering assignees to sell land of their insolvent 

 assignor at private sale, on obtaining leave of the 



court. 



To enable the boards of commissions and improve- 

 ment commissions in towns and villages, or within 

 townships, to employ police. 



Permitting registered physicians to practice m any 

 part of the State. 



Providing for the election of an assessor, collector, 

 and commissioners of appeals at each annual borough 

 election. 



Proving for the support of certain indigent and 

 feeble-minded women in suitable homes selected by 

 the Governor. 



Authorizing the issue of bonds for building public 

 bridges in counties. 



Enabling counties to acquire and improve lands for 

 public parks, 



To provide for vacating dedicated streets, roads, 

 and alleys. 



Regulating the procedure in selling lauds for unpaid 

 taxes or assessments. 



Providing for the extension of borough boundaries. 



Punishing the sale or circulation of obscene papers, 

 books, or periodicals, or those having indecent pict- 

 ures therein, or three or more pictures purporting to 

 illustrate criminal acts. 



Declaring bicycles and tricycles to be carriages, and 

 regulating their use on public ways. 



To provide for the preservation and protection of 

 State boundary marks and monuments. 



To prevent the shooting, trapping, or hunting of 

 Englisn hare for three years. 



Authorizing any city, town, or borough to establish 

 and maintain a fire department. 



To provide for the temporary custody of dangerous 

 lunatics. 



Giving dyers a lien upon goods dyed by them. 



Proivding for armories in cities oi the first and sec- 

 ond class. 



Providing for the retirement and pensioning of 

 firemen. 



To establish standard packages for cranberries. 



Making valid instruments in which a scroll or ink 

 or other device is used instead of a seal. 



Providing for the appointment by the Legislature 

 of commissioners of juries for each county. 



Providing for descriptive indexes of land-records in 

 counties having over 200,000 inhabitants. 



Regulating the'consolidation of any city with another 

 city, or with a borough, town, or township, or any 

 portion thereof. 



To prevent persons from unlawfully wearing the 

 insignia of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of 

 the United States. 



To provide for the support of the New J ersey School 

 for Deaf Mutes. 



To prevent adulteration of vinegar and deception in 

 its sale, and providing for the appointment of inspect- 

 ors of vinegar. 



Authorizing any municipal corporation to contract 

 for a supply of water, or for a further or other supply 

 of water therefor. 



Dividing the counties of the State into sections, 

 known as game-sections, and fixing the time for shoot- 

 ing certain game birds and animals therein. 



Appropriating $2,000 for stocking the waters of the 

 State with tbod-fiV 



Authorizing the board of chosen freeholders of any 

 county, upon the approval of the electors thereof, to 

 lay out, construct, and maintain a public road therein. 



Ruiiuiring savings-banks to report and publish lists 

 of unclaimed <k-jxj-.it;-. 



Authorizing cities to construct public docks and 

 piers, and to purchase necessary land under and near 

 thereto. 



Providing for the incorporation of library asso- 

 ciations. 



To provide for the construction of a State labora- 

 tory for the Agricultural Experiment Station. 



To encourage the formation of associations for the 

 improvement of public grounds in any city, town, 

 township, in borough in the State. 



Providing for the formation and government of 

 towns. 



Enabling cities to pay past due improvement cer- 

 tificates out of their general funds. 



Authorizing the appointment of a commission to 

 locate and mark out the boundary between the State 

 and New York, in Hudson River, New York Bay. 

 Kill von Kull, and Arthur Kill or Staten Island 

 Sounds. 



Consolidating with the city of Trenton the borough 

 of Chambersburg and the township of Millham. 



Finances. Of the bonded State debt, the sum 

 of $100,000 becomes due and payable by law 

 on January 1 of each year, but the reduction 

 of the debt for the fiscal year ending October 

 31 was but $98,000, as $2,000 of bonds becom- 

 ing due were not presented for redemption. 

 The total bonded debt on the latter date was 

 $1,298,300. The total receipts of the sinking- 

 fund for the last fiscal year were $206,960.31, 

 and the payment* $179,635.57. The fund itself 

 on October 31 amounted to $645,385.98. The 

 revenue and expenses of the State for general 

 purposes for the fiscal year were as follow : 



RECEIPTS. 



State tax on railroad corporations $980.263 86 



Tax on miscellaneous corporations 209,874 03 



State Prison receipts 57.'-'-4 4S 



From other sources 106,596 35 



Total revenue $1.353.518 77 



Balance on hand Oct. 31, 1SS7 208,429 43 



$1,561,948 20 



EXPENDITURES. 



On account of public debt $90.000 00 



Charitable and reformatory institutions 421.493 91 



Courts, State Prison, etc 834,21 6 27 



State Government, including Legislature 2N5.JO1 ~-l 



Military 114,963 41 



Printing laws, etc., in newspapers 79,779 55 



Printing and binding reports, etc 80.994 57 



Blind, Deaf-Mute School, feeble-minded 53,036 36 



Scientific, sanitary, etc 76.028 80 



Miscellaneous 55.538 18 



Total disbursements $1,542,007 72 



Balance on Oct. 81, 1S8S $19,940 48 



During the year, in order to meet urgent 

 demands, the Treasurer was obliged to obtain a 

 temporary loan of $150,000, so that the actual 

 cash in the treasury on October 31 was $169,- 

 940.48. It will be seen from the above state- 

 ment that the expenses of the year exceeded 

 the actual income, exclusive of the balance on 

 hand at the beginning, by nearly $200,000, and 

 in consequence the balance of $208,429.43 ex- 

 isting on Oct. 81, 1887, was nearly wiped out. 

 In addition, there remained unpaid on Oct. 31, 

 1888, of appropriations already made, which 

 are a charge on the general receipts, $352,- 

 775.16. Before the end of December the de- 

 mands upon the treasury were such that a sec- 

 ond temporary loan, of $100,000, was neces- 

 sary. The estimated receipts for 1889 are 

 $1,478,161, and the estimated expenses for or- 

 dinary purposes $1,250,000, leaving a balance 

 of $228,161, to apply to the temporary indebt- 

 edness of $250,000. This estimate omits ex- 

 traordinary expenses, which may be incurred 



