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NKW HAMl'SHIU:. 



NEW JERSEY, 



Many bills were introduced having for their ob- 

 tht improvement of the highway* 



lea for the 



api-.inrmeht of throe separate State boards of 

 me.iieal examiners. to be selected by the Governor 

 ami Council from lists furm-h.-.l by tin- New llam|- 

 shire Medical Sodet 1 lamp-hire llomcro- 



pathic Medical and the New Hampshire 



Eclectic Society. Candidate* for license are to be 

 examined by these boards. Among those to whom 

 the law does not apply are physicians and surgeons 

 . .vernment service, those called from other 

 Slates for conciliation or to attend regular pa- 

 tient*, and clairvoyant! and persons ; 



healing, mind run-, massage. 

 tan Science, SO call<><l. or any other in 

 .ilmg. if no drug-* an- employed or surgical 

 operations are |n-rf.-r 



The statutes relating to the manner of oondui 

 oaacasea and . ;,, tions were so amended as to 

 throw greater safeguards around the exercise of t he 



An act to provide for the education and main- 

 tenance of dependent children forbi --ping 



of such children U-tween three and fifteen yen 

 age at county alinshou*cs for more than sixty days, 

 unless they are physically or mentally ineapacil 

 for education, or are nkbr -cni.-nce fur crime: 

 county commissioners are to find suitable I. 

 for them or give them into the care of the State 

 Board of Charities to be so provided for at the 

 expense of the counties to which they are charge- 



- made the duty of the Board of Chanties to 

 inspect all State and unty charitable or correc- 

 tional institutions, except the State Prison and tin- 

 asylum. for instance, at Concord, and report to the 

 Governor and Council and Legislature biennially 

 the result of their inspection. 



The law in reference to the capital per mile of 

 railroads organ ix>d under the general law was so 

 amended that the capital stock of a corporation 

 may not be less than $5,000 for each mile if the 

 gauge is to be three feet or less and $10,000 when 

 the gauge is to be more than three feet It shall 

 ided into shares of $100 each. 



It is made the duty of boards of health to inspect 

 the sources from which ice is taken for domestic use 

 in cities and towns, and to forbid the sale of such as 

 may be taken from unclean sources. 



Days of grace were abolished, except where there 

 is an express stipulation for them. 



It was enacted that no policy of life or endow- 

 ment insurance, issued upon the industrial plan, 

 shall become forfeit or void for nonpayment of 

 premium after premiums have been paid thereon 

 for the term of two consecutive years. Every such 

 policy shall have a surrender value after the pay- 

 "f the premiums for two full years. On poli- 

 cies of nrudential or industrial insurance on which 

 the weekly premiums are not more than fifty cents 

 Mb, tiM furcate value shall be payable in cash. 

 \* hon the weekly premium is more than fifty cents 

 per week, a paid-up policy may be i.- 



Itinerant venders wishing U> do business in the 

 State are to deposit $500 with the Secretary of 

 State as a special deposit, and pay $25 as a - 

 license fee, besides a local license tax amounting to 

 2 per cent of the value of the goods to be sold, 

 which may n--t be advertised until afterthe licenses 

 hare lieen paid. The jipoHal deposit is to be re- 

 turned after the expira'i rrcnder of the 



State license, except so much as may be required to 

 satisfy just such claims against it. 



Another act relating to hawkers requires them to 

 takeout li. -rv ,f State. $1 f,,r 



each city and town where the applicant desires to 



sell, and also to pay in each nl \ < r town a tax pro- 

 port i- -ailor dis- 

 abled in the war for the suppression of the rebellion, 

 or b\ ;y conirartcd tin-rein, or 



!-oin the service, shall u exempt 

 troin ; ruse fees. 



The issuing of railroad passes WM made legal. 



Hills to limit the U-e and prevent the sa 



cigarettes were defeated; but tin House voted to 



memorialize Congress to pla. -e them in the same 



category with -pint IP-US liquors so far as im< 

 commerce is concerned. 



The State tax was reduced from $500,000 a year 

 to $425,000 for each of the en-mug two years. 



The special appropriations amount ed' to $74,000 

 less than uua!. R rule adopted l.y tl, 



vious Legislature, a commitee on appropriations 



-ed all bill" reported from other coinn 

 which carried appropriations. so that this committee 

 could keep track of all such and know what amount. 

 of expenditure was to be auth- ii/e,l. Among the 

 il appropriation^ \vrre > I >art mouth 



li of the two years, and 



$2,500 each year to the Colic-' 

 the Mechanic Arts. |,,-ides s::.lo:, f,,r pun-l,.. 

 land: also $20,000 to the State Soldier- 1 lion 

 the two years, $2.500 for repairs at the InK 



I, and $8,000 for improvements at the State 

 camp ground. 



Among other measures pass*" 

 Providing fr the appointment of hoard- of health 

 in the several to\\ n-. 



.iblishing the city of Berlin. 

 : at ing the use of bicycles. 



Rai .go of consent from thirteen to six- 



ears. 



To promote the planting of nut, shade, and 

 mental trees. 



Protecting moose, caribou, and deer, and provid- 

 ing for the disposition of fish and game captured 

 or taken from persons who have illegally ' 

 them. 



Repealing the law providing for a bounty on 



hawk-. 



For the better protect ion of trout. 



Prohibiting the killing of beaver until .Ian. 1. 

 1009. 



Authori/ing the Fish and Game Commissioners- 

 to close ponds and lakes against fishing through 

 the ice. 



All bills for important change- in the liquor laws 

 were defeated, as were many applications for spe- 

 cial charters for electric roads. 



NKW JKKSKY. a Middle Atlani DC of 



the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution Dec, 

 18, 1787. Area, 7,815 square miles. The popula- 

 tion, according to each decennial census, wa- 

 i:l in 17!M: -J11.M!) in 180 



4-,'f, in 1820; 3','o.^>:{ , iKiO : :i73.80G in isjii; 

 480,555 in 185(> in 1860; 006,000 in 



l.i::i.H6 in 1880; and 1,444,'- ': bj the 



State cen-u< of ls.- ( . l.fiT'J.lM'J. Capital. Trent. ,11. 



i.o \i-rn nil-lit. The following were the - 

 officer-: (Jovi-rnor. .lohn \\'. (Jriiri:-. Kepiil-: 

 Secretary of State, Henry C. KeUey. Dem 

 until March, then George Wurt/. IJejiul. 



rain, Hepuldican : Comp- 

 troller, William S. Hancock. Republican ; Attorney- 

 General. -John I'. Stockton. Democrat, until March, 

 then Samuel H. G re v, Republican ; Adjutant ' 

 eral. William S. >tryker. KcpuUican : Superintend- 

 ent of I'ulilic In-truction. Char!'- .1. liaxte- 

 puMir-an. Chief .Justice f >f the Supreme Court. Mer- 

 . Df-mocrat. until March, then William .J. 

 ulican. Associate Ju-tice-. William J. 

 . Republican. until March, then Gilbert Collins, 

 Mean; David A. Depue, Republican ; Jonathan 



