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unconstitutional and added : " Assuming the 

 mode of appointment to be constitutional, it is 

 nevertheless very objectionable. It is violative 

 of the principle of home rule that should prevail 

 in the choice of such officials." 



The Guttenberg justice-of -the- peace bill re- 

 pealer was passed over a veto. The original law 

 left it discretionary with the officer making the 

 arrest to take a defendant before the justice who 

 issued the warrant, or before any other justice 

 in the county. A supplement, enacted in 1892, 

 provided that the person arrested may be taken 

 before a justice of the peace, if he so requests, in 

 the municipality where the arrest was made. 

 The new law repeals this amendment and leaves 

 the original law in force. 



Of the congressional redistricting bill the 

 Governor said : 



It changes the present congressional districts in 

 order to secure a presumed or actual partisan advan- 

 tage in future elections for members of Congress ; the 

 bill is in violation of the spirit and the letter of the 

 Federal Constitution, and the laws passed pursuant 

 thereto, providing that representations shall be ap- 

 portioned among the several States, according to their 

 respective numbers. The plain intent of the consti- 

 tutional provision is that representatives shall be ap- 

 portioned once in ten years, the districts arranged 

 upon such apportionment to remain unchanged 

 until another apportionment is provided for by Con- 

 gress. 



But the bill was passed again, as was also the 

 bill legislating out of office the Board of Assess- 

 ment in Newark, and also the Newark and the 

 Jersey City Board-of- Works bills. These two 

 bills remove the members of the existing boards 

 of street and water commissioners, and empower 

 the mayors of the respective cities to appoint 

 new boards to continue in office during the term 

 of the mayor appointing them, after which 

 period they are to be elected. 



The Hoboken police bill became a law, al- 

 though the Governor vetoed it as special legisla- 

 tion, and therefore unconstitutional. It provides 

 that members of the police board are to be 

 named by a committee of both political parties. 



A bill that passed over a veto takes from the 

 governing boards of second-glass cities the power 

 to appoint the boards of excise, and vests the 

 appointive power in the mayors. It makes the 

 new boards to consist of 3, only 2 of whom 

 shall be of the same political party. It and the 

 first-class city board of excise bill, which also 

 became a law, were vetoed because they allow 

 the mayor to use his discretion whether the 

 boards be made partisan or not. 



To the Legislature, when it met in October, 

 the Governor sent several vetoes, upon none of 

 which was any action taken. One of these was 

 the bill abolishing the Court of Common Pleas. 

 Over and Terminer, and General Jail Delivery, 

 Quarter Sessions of the Peace and Orphans' 

 Court, and substituting therefor county courts 

 to be held by a single judge, elected' by the 

 people or in connection with a justice of the 

 Supreme Court. 



The act of 1892 creating an electrical subway 

 commission was repealed in March, 1894. 



Constitutional Amendments. Under a 

 joint resolution of the Legislature of 1894 a 

 commission of 20 was appointed to propose 

 certain amendments to the State, Constitution, 



and the report of this commission was submitted 

 in September. Its proposed amendments relate 

 entirely to changes in the present judicial sys- 

 tem of the State. It is also urged by its friends 

 that a system styled the "initiative and refer- 

 endum," which relates to the mode and manner 

 of originating and passing laws, be adopted. To 

 accomplish this a constitutional amendment and 

 legislation thereunder is proposed. 



Trust Companies. The condition of the New 

 Jersey trust companies at the close of busim 

 Dec. 31, 1894, was as follows: Resources bone 

 and mortgages, $3,730,585.43 ; stocks and bonds 

 $2,715,744.19; loans secured by collaterals, 

 137,837.44 ; loans on personal security, includii 

 bills purchased, $1,876,642.46 ; loans to citn 

 and towns, $71,500; overdrafts, $1,723.02; di 

 from banks, $427,415.42 ; real estate, $745,J 

 cash on deposit in banks and trust companie 

 $1.355,120.99; cash on hand, $481,057.82; 

 items, $63,700.07; title plant, $188,456.17; othe 

 assets, $145,469.33; total, $15,941,195.34. L 

 bilities capital stock, $1,863,375 ; surplus fun 

 $369,853.86 ; undivided profits (net), $568,052.11 ; 

 demand deposits, $6,958,653.23; time deposit 

 $5,225,741.21; due to banks, $71,090.36; bone 

 outstanding, $773,600; other liabilities, $110,- 

 829.57 ; total, $15,941,195.34. 



Education. The amount of State school ti 

 for 1893, levied in 1892, and expended in 1! 

 was $2,026,110. This tax is levied at the rate 

 $5 for each child of lawful school age, and tl 

 school census returned 423,872 such childrei 

 The State appropriation to public schools 

 $100,000. For the normal school $52,213.93 

 expended ; for industrial education, $30,543.' 

 for free school libraries, $3,630 ; for teachers' it 

 stitutes, $2,096.37: for the school census, 

 127.68. The School for Deaf Mutes received dui 

 ing the year $35,264 for maintenance and tui- 

 tion, $4,501.40 for repairs, and $1.200 for a new 

 building; a total of $40,965.40. For the blind 

 and feeble-minded the State paid to the two in- 

 stitutions at Vineland and to other States $87,- 

 705.41, an increase of $5,921.58 over the expendi- 

 ture of last year. Three hundred and fifty-eight 

 pupils were cared for, 29 more than last year. 



The Agricultural Experiment Station account 

 shows expenditures for the year, $11,980. The 

 credits are the balance of the appropriation of 

 1893, $2,541.51, and the annual appropriation of 

 $11,000. A balance of $2,097.28 remains. To 

 the Board of Agriculture $10,250.38 was paid. 



Hospitals. The amount disbursed this year 

 for this account was $129,291.45, as follows : T< 

 State hospital at Trenton, $57,142.43; to State 

 hospital at Morris Plains, $70,217.43 ; to board 

 of managers. $1.743.05; expense of medical ex- 

 amination and transfer of insane convicts, $1SS- 

 .54. The number of county patients in the State 

 hospital at Trenton, by the last quarterly report. 

 was 859; at Morris Plains. 914: insane convicts 

 at Trenton, 20; at Morris Plains, 48. The num- 

 ber of patients in the county asylums was l.KM. 

 and to these asylums $111,957.74 was paid dur- 

 ing the year. 



Home for Disabled Soldiers. At the be- 

 ginning of the fiscal year the undrawn balance 

 for the support of the home was $57.374.31 : th< 1 

 annual appropriation of $36,000 made the total 

 credit $93,374.31. Of this $29,895.57 was ex- 



