NEW JERSEY. 



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the name of the election district, the date of the 

 election, and a fac simile signature of the county 

 or municipal clerk. The clerks shall also provide 

 a sufficient number of official envelopes made of 

 white paper and stamped on the back in the same 

 manner as the ballots. They shall transmit the 

 ballots and envelopes so prepared to the election 

 officers for use upon election day, but on request 

 of any voter, ten days before election, they may 

 deliver to him as many of the official ballots as 

 he wishes, provided he shall pay the cost of pre- 

 paring and printing them, but no official enve- 

 lope shall be so furnished. Such ballots may be 

 distributed before election day, and may be used 

 in voting ; but if any ballot or envelope shall be 

 found to contain any mark or device to distin- 

 guish it from others, the ballot shall be void. 



Any voter may erase any name from his bal- 

 lot, and write or paste any name thereon, but he 

 must write with black ink or black pencil, other- 

 wise the entire ballot shall be void, and pasters 

 must be printed in black ink on white paper. 



Questions submitted to the people shall be 

 printed at the end of each ballot beneath the 

 list of candidates, and if any such questions be 

 marked off or defaced upon the ballot, it shall be 

 counted as a negative vote ; otherwise, as an af- 

 firmative vote. Polling places shall be provided 

 with booths or compartments having a swinging 

 door so arranged that some part of the person of 

 a voter inside shall be seen from the outside. 

 Said booths shall each contain a counter or shelf, 

 and shall be provided with a sufficient number 

 of ballots and envelopes and with lead pencils. 

 There shall be at each polling place not less than 

 one booth for every seventy-five voters at the 

 last election, and in no case less than five booths. 

 They shall be erected within a railed inclosure, in 

 which the ballot-box shall also be placed, and 

 shall be in full view of the election officers. Ev- 

 ery voter, on entering" within the railing, shall 

 receive from an election officer at least one of 

 each of the official ballots, and one envelope. 

 With these he shall enter a booth, closing the 

 door, shall then prepare his ballot and place it 

 in the envelope so that it shall be entirely con- 

 cealed, and shall then retire from the booth and 

 forthwith deposit the envelope containing his 

 ballot in the ballot-box. Only one voter shall 

 be allowed within a booth at' one time, but no 

 limit is placed to the number of voters that may 

 be allowed within the railed inclosure. Elec- 

 tioneering within 100 hundred feet of any poll- 

 ing place is forbidden. It is expressly provided 

 that town meetings shall not be subject to this 

 law. 



Another act provides that if any railroad or 

 canal corporation shall surrender to the State 

 any right it may have of exemption from taxa- 

 tion, the State shall therefor surrender its right 

 or claim to take or purchase the property of such 

 corporation, providing, that every such corpora- 

 tion must pay to the State any awards made or 

 hereafter to be made in favor of the State against 

 it. 



The amendments to the State Constitution pro- 

 posed by the Legislature of 1889 were agreed to 

 at this session, and provision Avas made for their 

 submission to the people at a special election to 

 be held on Sept. 30. 



Other acts of the session were as follow : 



Increasing the annual salary of the Governor to 

 $10,000. 



Forbidding pawnbrokers to sell at the house or 

 place designated in their license anything but goods 

 pledged or pawned to them in the course of their bus- 

 iness. 



Making desertion for two years a ground of divorce. 



Providing that the court of chancery may, on peti- 

 tion, authorize a married woman to convey her real es- 

 tate without her husband joining in the deed in case 

 he is unable to do so by reason of lunacy or other men- 

 tal incapacity. 



Authorizing the consolidation of religious societies 

 of the same denomination. 



Providing that any corporation organized for benev- 

 olent or charitable purposes may hold real and per- 

 sonal estate^ not exceeding $500,000 in value. Provid- 

 ing for the incorporation of societies for the aid of 

 children and the prevention' of cruelty to children. 



Appropriating $40,000 for a new building on the 

 State Normal School grounds. 



Providing additional free scholarships at the State 

 Agricultural College. 



^Directing that all license fees for sale of liquors re- 

 ceived by the county clerks shall be paid over to the 

 municipalities within which the respective licenses 

 are to be exercised, for the use of such municipalities. 



To authorize the establishment of free public libra- 

 ries in the towns, townships, or other municipalities of 

 the ^tate. 



Providing that every citizen entitled to vote at a 

 general election for members of the Legislature shall 

 be entitled to vote at any election of municipal officers 

 held in the municipality where he resides. 



To authorize the construction of an additional wing, 

 and certain other alterations, at the State Prison, and 

 appropriating $100,000 therefor. 



Appropriating $25,000 to erect an addition to the 

 building of the State Industrial School for Girls. 



Creating a State board of medical examiners. 



To punish any person who shall sell, pledge, pawn, 

 or secrete any property that he has borrowed, hired, 

 leased, or purchased under an agreement in writing, 

 where the title of such property is not to pass until 

 the agreement is fulfilled. 



Appropriating $12,000 for a new building at the 

 Home for Feeble-minded Women, at Vinelapd. 



To establish in the State House a museum for the 

 reception of collections of the natural products and 

 mineral staples of the State and of specimens showing 

 the geology and natural history of the State. 



Making it unlawful for any person to sell, or offer 

 for sale, baled hay or straw with more than 10 per 

 cent, of the weight thereof in wood. 



Authorizing cities to renew maturing bonds. 



Authorizing the Chief Justice and each Associate 

 Justice of the Supreme Court, the Chancellor, and 

 each Vice-Chancellor, to solemnize marriages. 



Making persons who carry away with intent to 

 steal, or who unlawfully appropriate, domestic fowl, 

 liable to a fine of not over $100, or to imprisonment 

 at hard labor not over three years. 



Providing that all perspns'or corporations engaged 

 in the business of finishing silk, or other goods of 

 which silk is the component part, shall be entitled to 

 a lien upon the goods and property of others which 

 may come into their possession for the purpose of be- 

 ing' finished and prepared for sale for any work and 

 labor performed or materials furnished in such finish- 

 ing and preparation. 



Establishing at the State Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, at New Brunswick, a central weather station, 

 to be in charge of the officials of the experiment station. 



Authorizing the appointment of a committee of six 

 persons to take into consideration the taxation of 

 property, and to report to the nex^Legislature a bill 

 em bodying the results of their inquiries. 



Authorizing the school authorities in the various 

 municipalities and school districts to purchase with 

 school funds United States flags, and to display them 

 upon the public-school buildings. 



