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counties. If it is $500, if it is $1,500, it is simply expended. I 

 cannot see, if one dollar is illegal it is all illegal, as far as that is 

 concerned. 



Secretary Headlee : This is a question that we had to give a 

 good deal of consideration to, because in connection with a move- 

 ment two years ago for a state-wide publicity campaign this question 

 arose many times. It seemed advisable, after learning the opinion 

 of the Attorney General, to arrange our expenditures under this 

 association as a return for services. You will remember when I 

 call it to your mind that for the last two or three years you have 

 received, when the proceedings are printed, a bunch of proceedings ; 

 that in addition to the expenditure of county money for the attend- 

 ance upon these meetings, for the printing of programs and the 

 distrubution of the same and that sort of thing, that in addition to 

 the benefit which you receive, which I think no man would hesitate 

 for a monemt to acknowledge, you get a certain number of the 

 printed copies of the proceedings, so that you have got something, 

 to show for the money which you have spent. 



Now when we move over into this larger field of larger expendi- 

 tures — it will take $6,000 to run a campaign of publicity for one 

 year in this state, not less than $6,000 — the assessment is going to 

 run pretty high, and I do not know how your county counsel will 

 look upon it ; but if I may judge from past experience I think Dr. 

 Brinkerhofif is right. I think that your county counsel will say that 

 that is money expended outside the county for which you in Hudson 

 County or you in Essex County are getting no particular benefit. 

 And I believe that he would rule against it in a great many cases. 

 This thing would have been on its feet already, gentlemen, if it 

 had not been for the adverse attitude of the Assistant Attorney 

 General ; and what he tells me in our department is what we have 

 to do. So that is where we stand on it. 



Mr. William Porter: May I have just one more word? My 

 question has been answered. Assessment is the wrong word to use 

 for the situation. The amount that is divided between the various 

 commissions for the expenditures of this association is what it 

 means; is that correct? 



President Rider: Yes. 



Mr. Porter: Whereas the other would be an assessment pure 

 and simple, if you had a campaign fund. 



President Rider : There seems to be no objection to distribut- 

 ing these reports, which are a necessary expense of the organization, 



