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publicly referred to, although the court dwelt quite at 
length upon the subject. In naming the commissioners in 
open court, the judge said: 
“In the long service that I have had here I might say 
_ that all of the communications put together would not oc- 
cupy one-third of this bundle. It illustrates the anxiety 
that the public have that, in the composition of this commis- 
sion, commissioners shall be so selected that the park project 
shall be considered as one that is not to be subject to fluc- 
tuations arising from local feeling or local jealousies.” 
APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSIONERS. 
Reference was then made to “more interviews on the part 
of the people of this county than I have had, I may say, 
during the whole of my service.” 
“The commissioners under the original act I appointed 
on my own judgment. The commissioners’ powers were 
merely tentative. The commissioners have discharged their 
duties in a manner that entitles them to the approval and 
commendation not only of this court, but of the 
community.” 
“There is everything in the composition and conduct of 
these commissioners that makes it desirable for me to reap- 
point them, and it would be my personal pleasure to com- 
mend the course of these commissioners by a reappointment. 
* * * But under the new act a very different condition 
of affairs confronts me. This new act confers upon these 
commissioners powers that I may say are extraordinary. 
The amount is large, the powers of these commissioners are 
very great, and, in the selection of the persons who are to 
compose the commission, there are considerations to which 
I must yield in the performance of a publicduty. * * #* 
The principle on which our government is founded is that 
taxation and representation shall go hand in hand. That 
principle ought to govern in the execution of a public duty 
which involves the creation of a debt to be paid by the taxa- 
ble inhabitants of the county. 
“The city of Newark pays of the county taxes about 75 
