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Please bring copy of park bill with you. I will ask yon to 

 notify Mr. Peck of the appointment. 



"I 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. 



"Yery truly yours, 



"David A. Depue. 



"Fred. W. Kelsey, Esq.^^ 



JOmT 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 Peck^ chairman Newark committee. 



"Fred. W. Kelsey^ chairman Orange committee. 



"S. J. Meeker, Edward Schickhaus, J. H. Baldwin, 



