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should deem proper, such license being signed 

 by the Governor and being revocable by the 

 court, or by the Governor when the court is not 

 in session. 



It was made unlawful for any corporation to 

 retain or keep back, without the voluntary con- 

 sent of its workmen, any part of the wages due 

 them under pretense of assisting or relieving 

 them when sick or disabled ; and corporations 

 were forbidden to require their workmen to enter 

 into any contract by which their wages may be 

 retained as aforesaid. 



Provision was made at this session for a State 

 board of taxation, consisting of three members 

 to be appointed by the Governor with the consent 

 of the Senate, and holding office fcr five years. 

 The duty of securing the equalization, revision, 

 and enforcement of taxation in the State is in- 

 trusted to the board, which is given authority to 

 compel the attendance of witnesses and adminis- 

 ter oaths. 



Any tax payer feeling aggrieved by the assess- 

 ment 'of taxes, or by the action of any board of 

 tax review or commissioners of appeal, and any 

 taxing district or county feeling aggrieved by 

 the action of any board or boards of equaliza- 

 tion, may file a pe'tition with this board and have 

 his complaint heard, such board having author- 

 ity to revise and correct the taxes. Other acts of 

 the session were as follow : 



Kepealing the act of 1890 providing for the forma- 

 tion and government of boroughs. 



Designating the Eutgers Scientific School as the 

 beneficiary of the funds granted by Congress in aid of 

 colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts in the 

 several States. 



Establishing a department of banking and insurance 

 under the control of a commissioner to be appointed 

 by the Governor. The powers of the Secretary of 

 State as Insurance Commissioner are vested in this 

 department. 



To provide for the formation and government of 

 villages. 



Providing for a commission to revise and consoli- 

 date the general statutes of the State relating to vil- 

 lages, towns, and townships. 



"Giving to husbands the right to take the personal 

 estate ot their wives without administration when 

 the estate does not exceed $200. 



Providing that honorably discharged Union sol- 

 diers and sailors holding salaried appointive offices in 

 any city or county shall not be removed for political 

 reasons, but only for good c_ause shown after a hearing. 



Providing for State policemen, and defining their 

 powers and duties. 



Providing for the establishment of libraries of pro- 

 fessional books in the several counties, for the use of 

 teachers in the public schools. 



To abolish the office of chosen freeholders in certain 

 towns, boroughs, and incorporated villages. 



Providing a new system of police courts and police 

 justices in cities of the first class. 



Kevoking the charters of all corporations that have 

 heretofore failed to pay State taxes imposed upon 

 them by law. 



Authorizing courts of common pleas to license social 

 clubs to sell liquor. 



To create county boards of license commissioners. 



Providing for municipal boards of street and water 

 commissioners in cities of the first class. 



Providing for the establishment of fish and shell- 

 fish cultural and biological stations in the State. 



To provide for the appointment of commissioners 

 for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the 

 United States. 



Giving to laborers employed on public works in any 



city, and to persons furnishing materials for the same, 

 a hen on the public moneys of the city due or to be 

 due under the contract of said city with any person 

 or persons by which such public works are being con- 

 structed. 



Providing for the permanent improvment of public 

 roads, the expense to be borne in part by the State 

 and in part by the counties. 



Appropriating $5,000 for stocking the waters of the 

 State with food fishes. 



Appropriating $5,000 to establish a manual train- 

 ing school, and $7,000 to erect a chapel for religious 

 purposes at the State Eeform School tor Juvenile Of- 

 fenders. 



Accepting and assenting to the act of Congress re- 

 funding to the States the proceeds derived from the 

 direct-tax levy authorized in 1861. 



Making every Saturday from 12 o'clock noon until 

 12 o'clock midnight a legal holiday. 



Education. The school census of 1891 shows 

 430,340 children in the State between the ages 

 of five and eighteen years, an increase of 19,828 

 over 1890. There were enrolled in the public 

 schools during the year 237,500 children, an in- 

 crease of 3,428 ; the number attending private 

 schools was 54,865, an increase of 7,586, and the 

 number not attending any school was 137.975. 

 The average daily attendance was 146,713. The 

 number of male teachers employed was 760, with 

 an average salary of $76.38 per month ; the num- 

 ber of female teachers was 3,857, with an aver- 

 age salary of $44.40 per month. The total value 

 of school property was $9,098,576. During the 

 school year a total of $3,985,612.81 was expended 

 in the State for public-school purposes, the fol- 

 lowing being the principal items of expenditure. 

 For teachers' salaries, $2,443,061.50; for fuel, 

 $98,064.29 ; for building and repairing school- 

 houses, $680,831.97; for janitors' salaries, books, 

 stationery, taking census, etc., $408,666.91. At 

 the State Normal School the attendance in 1891 

 was 326 pupils, and at the Model School con- 

 nected therewith 541. The revenue for the sup- 

 port of these institutions, in addition to the 

 $20,000 annually appropriated by the State, is 

 derived from the tuition fees of the Model School, 

 amounting to $15,729.63, and from other sources 

 $3,421.26. This, with the balance of $7,271.07 

 on hand at the date of the last school treasurer's 

 report, made the total receipts $46,421.96. The 

 disbursements amounted to $38,781.60. 



Charities. At the Morristown Insane Asy- 

 lum there were under treatment on Oct. 31 

 898 patients, of whom 455 were males and 443 

 females. During the year preceding 219 patients 

 were admitted and 207 discharged. The daily 

 average was 899. All except 103 of the 898 pa- 

 tients remaining on Oct. 31 were supported at 

 public expense. The receipts of the institu- 

 tion, including balance on hand at the begin- 

 ning of the year, were $227,973.26 ; the expendi- 

 tures were $221,528.64, leaving a balance on 

 Oct. 31 of $6,444.62. At the Trenton Insane 

 Asylum the daily average of patients for the year 

 ending Oct. 31 was 802. There were admitted 

 during the year 202 new patients, 169 were dis- 

 charged, and there remained 820 patients in the 

 institution at the close of the year, of whom 412 

 were males and 408 females. All except 95 of 

 ~these are supported at public expense. The re- 

 ceipts, including balance on hand at the be- 

 ginning of the fiscal year, amounted to $221,- 

 347.73, the disbursements amounted to $180,- 



