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Please bring copy of park bill with you. I will ask you to 
notify Mr. Peck of the appointment. 
“T am now going to Trenton every day to Supreme Court, 
being home only in the evenings. Hope the time for the 
meeting will be satisfactory. 
“Very truly yours, 
“Davip A. DEPUE. 
“Fred. W. Kelsey, Esq.” 
JOINT COMMITTEE ACTS. 
Before this letter was written, a meeting of the joint com- 
mittee on parks was held at the Newark Board of Trade 
rooms on the afternoon of June 6. At this meeting resolu- 
tions were adopted, “expressing the sense of the meeting 
that a letter be sent Judge Depue requesting at as early a 
date as agreeable the appointment of the commission, as 
provided by recent act of the Legislature ;’ Also, that 
“The chairman of the Newark and Orange committees 
be requested to present in person to Judge Depue a certi- 
fied copy of the act, together with the letter signed by the 
full membership of each committee.” 
In accordance with these resolutions, the letter was then 
prepared and was as follows: 
“Newark, June 6, 1894. 
“Hon. David A. Depue, Justice of the Supreme Court. 
“Dear Sir—We, the undersigned members of the commit- 
tees on public parks of the boards of trade of Newark and 
Orange, who have been active in preparing the bill for the 
appointment of boards of county commissioners, a certified 
copy of which accompanies this letter, beg to request that 
you may, at as early a date as agreeable, appoint the com- 
mission as provided in said act. We have further resolved 
that this letter and copy of this act be presented to your 
honor by the chairmen of our respective committees. 
“Cyrus Pecr, chairman Newark committee. 
“Prep, W. Kewsey, chairman Orange committee. 
“S, J. Meeker, Edward Schickhaus, J. H. Baldwin, 
