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decide it or not, I do not think it would. I think we would have to 

 go to our own county counsel. You know Dr. Brown is all right. 

 I like the idea. But he comes from Bergen County, and therefore 

 he has Senator Mackay. We have got him in Jersey City just now. 



Mr. Reid Howell : This recommendation of Mr. Engle, of 

 course, is good, but I can see ourselves frittering away another 

 twelve months getting this question answered. That is no reflec- 

 tion upon the program. It seems to me that the proper procedure 

 would be this. Let us get somewhere. If we are going to make 

 , any effort to have a campaign of publicity let us do something. If 

 it is necessary let us have a new bill in the next legislature that will 

 permit the expenditure of those funds. That is such a simple 

 matter if we go about it. It is only the intent that we honestly 

 ventilate this subject. That was my purpose in bringing to your 

 notice the fact that funds were being used for what appear to be 

 pubHcity purposes, and yet I can see that this distinction as raised on 

 the other side here is very proper. There is a distinction, it is very 

 plain — whether our board of freeholders, who are spending all the 

 money, fully realize what we are spending it for. We cannot 

 spend it except in certain respects where it is provided for. For 

 instance, in Bergen and Essex we spend funds jointly on a bridge, 

 or spend it in Essex and Bergen. We spend ours on one-half of 

 the road and they spend it on the other. But when it comes to a 

 real necessity one county can do the whole work and the other 

 county pay it. That is our experience that I have gone through, 

 and it is perfectly feasible and possible under the present law. 



If there is something lacking in our legislation that prohibits 

 the use of these appropriations that the freeholders are making in 

 the several* counties, let us have a bill through the legislature that 

 will permit the use of those for pubHcity work. It can be done if 

 we have only somewhere in connection with our organization, the 

 executive committee or somebody, a legislative man or somebody 

 that we can appeal to that has the ability to get up one of these bills. 

 I am not calculated for that purpose. A group of our legislators, 

 a representative from one of our counties, any one of you might 

 think of the right man, one who would study the work and write 

 this bill, that would permit the use of the funds appropriated by the 

 board of freeholders in the several counties to be used through- 

 out the state jointly for publicity purposes. 



Mr. Brooks : May I offer an amendment to the resolution, that 

 this matter be referred to the executive committee? We are losing 

 time. 



