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men, however, and the Governor had declined 

 to receive any laws coining from this Senate. 

 On the receipt of the decision of the Supreme 

 Court he issued commissions to the new Treas- 

 urer and the new Comptroller, by agreement 

 dating them April 2, and notified the heads of 

 the committees on passed bills that he would at 

 once file with the Secretary of State the bills in 

 his possession that had been passed. 



Sixteen bills that had become laws through 

 the failure of the Governor to act upon them 

 were filed April 22, and 14 of these repealed laws 

 enacted by the last Legislature. Among them 

 were the following : 



To abrogate, revoke, and amend all licenses here- 

 tofore grunted to race courses for racing, running, 

 trotting, or pacing of horses. 



To repeal the act of last year providing that book- 

 making, etc., upon inclosed grounds shall not consti- 

 tute tlie maintaining of a disorderly house. 



To repeal the act of last year making bookmaking 

 a misdemeanor, only punishable by a line of $25. 



To repeal the act of last year giving boards of free- 

 holders in second-class counties power to fill vacan- 

 cies. 



To repeal the amendment to the police-justice bill 

 passed last year. 



To repeal the police-justice bill above and all its 

 amendments. 



To repeal the act creating county boards of license 

 commissioners. 



To repeal the act giving the Governor power to 

 approve and pay bills for which there is no specific 

 appropriations. * 



Among the laws approved were these : 



To terminate the commissions of all notaries public 

 on July 4, 1900, and provide for their appointment 

 thereafter for terms of five years, and making women 

 eligible for the office. 



To create the chairman of township committees, 

 assessor and treasurer of townships, and 2 resident 

 freeholders of the township, chosen by the township 

 committee, as " commissioners of the sinking fund 

 of the township of ." 



To repeal the act providing that the school fund 

 shall not have the use of 'the proceeds of the riparian 

 lands. 



To provide that the superintendent of the State- 

 house shall have the national flag floating from the 

 State Capitol on all legal holidays and during the 

 sessions of the Legislature. 



To provide that" all schoolhouses in the State shall 

 have flags and flagstatfs, to be purchased out of mon- 

 eys raised for school purposes. 



*To prohibit the Riparian Commissioners from 

 granting exclusive rights to plant or take oysters from 

 any part of Delaware Bay. 



To authorize cities to issue bonds to include all the 

 temporary outstanding notes, script and other indebt- 

 edness other than bonds outstanding and unpaid by 

 such cities. 



To repeal a section of the public-instruction act of 

 1894, and allow the entire income from the riparian 

 leases to revert to the school fund. 



To make the State Board of Assessors nonpartisan. 



To legislate out of office the present Boards of 

 Health in Jersey City and Newark, and provide that 

 the mayors thereof shall appoint boards to consist of 

 8 persons, 4 from each party, to serve for two years. 



To exempt from the operation of the inheritance 

 tax all bequests in favor of churches, hospitals, orphan 

 asylums, public libraries. Bible and tract societies, and 

 all religious, benevolent, educational, and charitable 

 institutions. 



To make it unlawful for any corporation to have 

 employees siyn any agreement renouncing existing 

 or future membership in any organization, society, or 

 brotherhood. 



To provide for free text-books in all public schools 



To provide that when all the people on u street in 

 cities petition for any improvement, it may be done 

 by the supervisor of streets and paid for by the issue 

 of certificates. 



To authorize cities to appropriate 1-C of 1 mill of 

 the assessed valuation of such cities for hospital pur- 

 poses. 



To authorize the Governor to appoint two veterans 

 as a commission to assist in laying out and working 

 the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park. 



To affix a line of from $20 to $50 for keeping a 

 drawbridge open longer than twenty minutes. 



To flx a quorum of savings-bank managers at not 

 fewer than a majority of the whole board. 



To provide that any person twice convicted of sell- 

 ing liquor on Sunday shall be fined $200 or impris- 

 oned two years. 



To authorize the State Geologist to have the assist- 

 ance of a competent botanist, and ascertain the exact 

 character and location of the wild lands of the State, 

 and what part or parts of such land would be suitable 

 for a State forest reserve, for a water and timber sup- 

 ply. 



To prohibit the appointment of any nurse, attend- 

 ant, or other employee in any township, county, or 

 other municipal, charitable, or penal institution with- 

 out having served therein at least three months prior 

 to such appointment. 



To suppress lotteries and gambling by prohibiting 

 the transmission of any letters or information pertain- 

 ing thereto, or the receiving of them, under penalty 

 of two to five years' imprisonment. 



To make it unlawful to dredge for darns in Dela- 

 ware Bay, South Dennis creek to Brandywine Creek 

 Lighthouse, under penalty of $200 or two years' im- 

 prisonment, boat and tackle to be confiscated. 



To provide for the appointment of park commis- 

 sioners in first-class counties. 



To enable governing bodies of towns, villages, or 

 townships to purchase lands for enlarging existing 

 parks to the amount of $3,500. 



To provide that it shall not be lawful for any 

 teacher or trustee to introduce into, or have per- 

 formed in any school receiving its proportion of the 

 public-school'money, any religious service, ceremony, 

 or forms whatever, excepting reading of the Bible 

 and repeating the Lord's Prayer. 



To enable the surety upon 'the bond of any trustee, 

 committee, assignee, guardian, etc., to require his 

 principal to account and give a new bond and permit 

 the making of an order discharging sucli surety from 

 liability for the future acts of such principal, and 

 regulating the procedure thereupon. 



The naval militia bill for the formation of a naval 

 reserve. 



Many bills were vetoed by the Governor, on 

 the ground that they were merely partisan meas- 

 ures; but most of these were passed over the 

 veto. Among other bills thus passed was the 

 second-class county freeholder bill, which pro- 

 vides that, beginning with the year 1895, the 

 boards of freeholders within certain counties 

 shall be elected by wards, boroughs, and town- 

 ships, instead of by assembly districts as at pres- 

 ent. It also legislates out of office the present 

 board of freeholders and all their officials and 

 appointees, on and after the second Wednesday 

 in May, 1894. To replace the freeholders thus 

 removed, the board of aldermen or common 

 council in cities, the borough council in boroughs, 

 and the township committees in townships are 

 authorized and empowered to choose from their 

 respective wards, boroughs, and townships, free- 

 holders to serve until the second Wednesday u: 

 May, 1895. 



The veto message declared that this bill was 



