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66. To William Kinney & Co., bill knives per A. G. Cattell, seventy dollars.

67. To A. G. Cattell, for stationery, &c., furnished for the use of Assembly, eighty-seven dollars and eighty-seven cents. 68. To Enoch W. Green, for repairing desks and putting on locks in senate chamber, two dollars and sixty-two cents.

69. To Jones & Corlies, for candles, crape, and sundries for Assembly, forty-eight dollars and forty-six cents.

70. To Daniel Fenton, for pen-holders, stamps, sand-boxes, &c., for Assembly, six dollars and seventy-five cents.

71. To Sherman & Harron, for printing pamphlets and bills for Assembly and Senate, sixteen hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty-seven cents.

72. To Jane Ann Hartshorne, widow of James M. Hartshorne, deceased, one of the members elected to this legislature, one hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents.

73. To Mrs. Lowrey, widow of John Lowrey, deceased, one of the members elected to this legislature, one hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents.

74. To each of the members of the Senate and General Assembly, and the secretary of the senate and clerk of the House of Assembly, any sum not exceeding three dollars, for postage and newspapers during the session of this legislature.

75. To A. G. Cattell, for cash paid (as per receipt) for three hundred copies of Miss D. L. Dix's memorial to the legislature, agreeably to resolution, eighteen dollars.

76. To Franklin S. Mills, for balance on printing for the last session of the legislature, seven dollars.

77. To David Clark, for stationery for the use of Senate, per R. Shay, forty-seven dollars and thirty-seven cents.

78. To Franklin S. Mills, for balance on printing the proceedings of the convention to revise the constitution, forty-three dollars and twenty-seven cents.

79. To Joseph C. Potts, for services rendered relative to the late treasurer's accounts, agreeably to joint resolution of Couneil and Assembly, fifty dollars.

80. To Joseph W. Scott, for services rendered relative to the late treasurer's accounts, agreeably to joint resolution of Council and Assembly, fifty dollars.

81. To William Pearson, for locks and bolts for desks, &c., one dollar.

82. To C. Brearley, for locks, &c., for state house, one dollar and seventy-five cents.

83. To Franklin S. Mills, for twelve copies of the new con

stitution of New Jersey, for the Senate, one dollar and eighty

cents.

84. To Franklin S. Mills, for advertising Governor Haines' proclamation relative to the murder of G. A. Martins and proclamation relative to thanksgiving day, nine dollars.

85. To Francis A. Brognard, for services rendered as private secretary to the governor, during the present session of the legislature, seventy-five dollars.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved, April 5, 1845.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

To prescribe a uniform mode of printing the enacting clause of the several laws of the present session.

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows:

The secretary of state be, and he is hereby directed, in Form of enactpreparing copies of the laws of the present session of the legis- ing clause. lature, for the printers thereof, to make the enacting clause of

each precede the sections, in manner following:

"BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of

the State of New Jersey, as follows:

SEC. 1. &c."

Approved, March, 27, 1845

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows:

The treasurer of the state be, and he hereby is authorized Treasurer auto borrow from time to time, for the use of the state, such thorized to borsum or sums of money as may be necessary to meet the ex- row money. penses authorized by law, not exceeding thirty thousand dollars, at a rate of interest not to exceed six per centum per an

num.

Approved, April 3, 1845.

Relative to the apportionment of the annual appropriation for the support of common schools.

WHEREAS there has been a number of changes in the lines of Preamble. several counties of this state within the past two years,

portionment.

which will materially affect the apportionment of the sum of thirty thousand dollars, to be made by "the trustees for the support of free schools," for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, as directed by law-therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows:

The trustees for the support of free schools are hereby auMode of mak- thorized and required, in the apportionment of the annual aping annual appropriation of the sum of thirty thousand dollars, for the support of public schools, as directed in an "Act to establish common schools," passed March first, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, to apportion the same, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, in the ratio of the taxes paid. for the support of the government of this state by the several counties, respectively, in the year eighteen hundred and fortytwo, excepting the counties of Gloucester and Camden. Approved, April 4, 1845.

To provide for the distribution of the journal of the convention that framed the constitution.

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows:

The copies of the journal of the convention that framed the constitution, now deposited with the secretary of state, be disjournals of con- posed of as follows:

Distribution of

vention.

The governor of this state be, and he is hereby authorized and requested to transmit to the executive of each state and territory of the United States, for the use of the executives and legislatures of the respective states and territories, three copies.

There be distributed to the governor and chancellor, the judg es of the supreme court and the court of errors, the secretary of state, the treasurer of the state, the attorney general, the clerk of the supreme court, and the clerk of the court of chancery, each, one copy; to the clerk and surrogate of each county, one copy; to each college and theological seminary of this state, three copies; to the members of the present legislature, and the secretary and clerk, and the engrossing clerks of the two houses, each, three copies for distribution; and that the remaining copies be deposited in the state library.

Approved, April 4, 1845.

Relative to removal of the obstructions to the navigation of
the river Passaic.

WHEREAS the bar at the junction of the rivers Passaic and Preamble.
Hackensack, in Newark bay, New Jersey, has obstructed
and seriously affected the navigation and commerce upon
said river Passaic; and whereas it is represented that, in
the opinion of the engineers and surveyors of the general
government, who have examined and made a survey and
map of the Newark bay, and rivers emptying therein, the
said obstruction can be removed with great facility, and by
a reasonable expenditure-therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and General Assembly of the
State of New Jersey, as follows:

In the opinion of this legislature, the removal of the said Removal of ob obstruction, and the protection of the navigation, by the structions reerection of a suitable pier, or other proper means, are objects commended. peculiarly deserving and claiming the attention of congress; and that it be recommended to congress to make the necessary appropriation for the purpose aforesaid.

The governor of this state be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolution to each of the senators and representatives in congress from New Jersey. Approved, April 4, 1845.

To provide for printing three thousand copies of the laws regulating elections.

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, as follows:

Three thousand copies of the election laws of this state 3000 copies of (carefully digested by the secretary of state), with marginal election laws to notes, be printed in pamphlet form for general circulation in be printed. every township in the state; and that John T. Robinson be appointed to print the same, he being required to have them. completed and deposited with the state treasurer in time for distribution with the journals of this legislature; provided the expense thereof shall not exceed the sun of one hundred and fifty dollars; and upon the receipt thereof by the treasurer, he is hereby authorized to pay for the same.

Approved, April 4, 1845.

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