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REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 
dollars per annum, which compensation shall be paid by the state treasurer 
in ecjual monthly installments upon the warrant of the comptroller. 
3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately. 
Approved March 20, 1895. 
It will be seen that the act made it the duty of the Commission 
having charge of the restoration of the State House to have pre¬ 
pared suitable rooms for said Museum. Before any action was 
taken the Commission was abolished, and in 1896 the following 
amendment was enacted, making it the duty of the Museum 
Commission to prepare plans for such alterations as were neces¬ 
sary to provide suitable rooms for the Museum in the State 
House, provided that said plans should be approved by the State 
House Commission and the work done under its supervision: 
amendment to act oe 1895. 
Chapter 195 of the Lazos of 1896. 
An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to establish and maintain a state 
museum,” approved March twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and 
ninety-five. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of 
New Jersey: 
1. Section one of an act entitled “An act to establish and maintain a 
state museum,” approved March twentieth, one thousand eight hundred and 
ninety-five, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 
Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of 
Note Jersey: 
1. The commission provided for in the second section of the act to which 
this is an amendment, shall have power and it shall be its duty to cause to 
be prepared plans to provide suitable rooms in the state house at Trenton 
for a museum for the preservation and display of the agricultural, geological 
and educational and other exhibits of the state deparfments at Chicago 
exposition, and for such other exhibits as may from time to time be placed 
therein by said commission, and the expenses incurred in the preparation of 
said rooms and for the care of said exhibits shall be paid by the state 
treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller; provided, that the plans for the 
alterations necessary to provide said rooms shall be approved by the governor, 
comptroller and treasurer, or a majority of them, and the work done under 
their direction, and no work shall be commenced or contract entered into 
until a specific appropriation is provided for the purposes set forth in the act 
to which this is a supplement. 
2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
Approved April 21, 1896. 
