Ni:\V JERSEY. 



death, or for injuries to person or property ; and in 

 cue of death from such injuries, the right enaction 

 shall survive, and the Legislature shall prescribe for 

 whose benefit such action shall be prosecuted. N >r 

 shall any act prescribe any limitation of time within 

 which suits may bo brought against corporation for 

 iiyuries to person or property, or for other causes 

 different from that fixed by the general laws pre- 

 scribing the time for the limitation of actions. 



14. No act of the Legislature shall take effect un- 

 til the 4th day of July next after its passage, unless 

 the Legislature shall, by a vote of two-thirds of all 

 the members elected to each House, otherwise dirc-et. 



15. The Legislature shall not pas-s private, local. 

 or special laws, In any of the following enumerated 

 cues, that U to say : Laying out, opening, altering, 

 and working, roads or highways; vacating any 

 road, town-plot, street, alley, or public grounds; 

 regulating the internal affairs of towns and counties ; 

 appointing local offices, or commissions to regulate 

 municipal affairs ; selecting, drawing, summoning, 

 or impaneling grand or petit jurors ; regulating the 

 rate of interest on money; creating, increasing, or 

 decreasing, the percentage or allowance of public of- 

 ficers during the term for which said officers were 

 elected or appointed ; changing the law of descent ; 

 granting to any corporation, association, or individ- 

 ual, the right to lay down railroad tracks ; provid- 

 ing for changes of venue in civil or criminal ca 



The Legislature shall pass general laws providing 

 for the cases enumerated in this paragraph, and tor 

 all other eases, which, in its judgment, may be pro- 

 vided for by general laws. The Legislature shall 

 pass no special act conferring corporate powers, but 

 they shall pus general laws under which corpora- 

 tions may be organized and corporate powers of 

 every nature obtained, subject, nevertheless, to re- 

 peal or alteration at the will of the Legislature. 



18. The Legislature may establish a court or 

 courts, with original jurisdiction, over all cases of 

 condemnation of land and assessments for improve- 

 im-nN. 



17. Property shall be assessed for taxes under 

 general laws, and by uniform rules, according to its 

 true value in money. No property of any kind, pro- 

 tected by law, except that owned by the United 

 States, the State, counties, townsh >wns. 



or boroughs, shall be exempt by law I'r <>m its full 

 share of all State, eounty, township, and eta 

 and assessments, except burying-grounds and ceme- 

 teries held by stock companies. No law shall be 

 enacted or contract entered into by which the 

 cise of the power of taxation shall be restricted, im- 

 paired, or impeded. The Legislature may provide 

 by law for taking away from any person or per- 

 sons, natural or artificial, now possessing, or entitle 1 

 to the same, any right of exemption from ta 

 which cannot be revoked without compensation, and 

 fir paying to such person or persons a just compen- 

 sation for the right so taken away. 



In section 8, paragraph 1 is so amended ns 

 to declare positively that every member of the- 

 Legislature shall take the oath of office, which 

 i also amended by adding clauses affirming 

 that the member lias not paid or contributed 

 any thing or made any promise in the nature 

 of a bribe nt the election at which he was 

 elected, and that he has not :md will n 

 ceivo any money or valuable thin;,' from any 

 sonrce to control his voto or action as a mem- 

 ber in any case. The pnrasraph is 1'iirtlicr 

 amended by adding a clause, nftor the one em- 

 powering members-elect to administer to each 

 other, declaring that any member refusing to 

 tike the oath shall forfeit his membership, nnd 

 that any member convicted of falsely taking 



the oath, or of having broken it, shall bo .ub- 

 :<> the punishment provided tor willful 

 and corrupt perjury. A new paragraph, num- 

 bered .. ghes the form of an oath lor every 

 officer of the Legislature. 



The article detining the powers and duties 

 of the Executive is BO amended AS to giv. 

 Governor the power to convene the Semite 

 alone instead of both Houses of the Legislature 

 as at present. A two-thirds rote, instead of a 

 majority, is required to pass a bill over the 

 Governor's veto. The Governor is empowered 

 to object to one or more items in an appro- 

 priation bill while approving of the others. An 

 amendment is added, providing that the Gov- 

 ernor shall not be elected by the Legislature to 

 any State or United Slates office during the 

 term for which he is elected Governor. 



A new section is also added, declaring that 

 conviction of felony or otherwise infamous 

 crime, or any official delinquency under the 

 State laws, shall, after final judgment, vacate 

 any office held by the convicted person, and a 

 duly-authenticated record of the conviction 

 and judgment shall bo conclusive evidence of 

 the forfeiture, and shall authorize competent 

 authority to till the vacancy. 



In regard to the judiciary, the present con- 

 stitution provides that there shall bo no more 

 than five judges of the Inferior Court of Com- 

 mon Pleas in each county, one judge only for 

 each county being appointed every year. The 

 amendment provides that there shall be no 

 more than two judges appointed in each county 

 besides the justice of the Supreme Court, who 

 may be ex officio judge of the Common Pleas 

 Conrt ; the clause referring to the appoint- 

 ment of one judge in each county every year is 

 stricken out. 



By an amendment to paragraph 1, section 

 11, the judges of the Inferior Court of Com- 

 mon Pleas are to be nominated by the Gov- 

 ernor for the term of live yeeflb and their 

 salary, and those of the Justioesot'thc Supreme 

 Court and Chancellor, are not to be increased 

 or diminished during their official term. By 

 other amendments to section 2 the keeper and 

 Inspectors of the State-prison are to be nomi- 

 nated by the Governor; the Attorney-! Jeneral 

 is to hold office for three years, and sheriffs and 

 coroners are to be chosen at the election for 

 members of the General As-emhly, and renew 

 their bonds annually. It is also provided that 

 " no law shall extend the term of any public 

 offiecr, or increase or diminish his salary or 

 emolument*, after his election or appoint! n 



The. above constitute the most important 

 of the proposed amendments. As amended, 

 the constitution was to bo submitted to the 

 Legislature of 1 



Notwithstanding the large sums expended 

 by New Jersey within the pn-t lew years in 

 paying the war-debt, in cnlargm- I hi- Capitol, 



in oonstraotlag another lunatic asylum, UM im- 

 proving other institutions, th in a 

 prosperous financial condition. According to 



