indebtedness of any fire district which before its incorporation existed within its limits, which proportionate amount of property, assets or indebtedness shall be ascertained in the manner hereinafter provided.

mittee.

2. Whenever such fire district shall have been cre- Joint comated from another fire district as aforesaid, after the first election of fire commissioners therein, a committee of three shall be appointed from and by the members of the board of fire commissioners of each of said districts, and the said committees shall meet on the first Monday succeeding the first election of fire commissioners in the said district so created from another district, and at a time and place to be designated by the governing body of the township in which such district is situate; and said committees, or a majority of the members thereof, shall then and there, or as soon thereafter as may be possible, proceed to appraise, state an account of, allot and divide between the old Allotment. and new fire districts aforesaid all the moneys on hand, property, assets and liens of every kind, and all the indebtedness of said district in proportion to the taxable property and ratables within the respective limits of such districts as the same shall remain; provided, Proviso. that any real estate belonging to the old fire district acquired and held for public use shall be and remain the property of the fire district within whose limits it may lie after separation as aforesaid, and any indebtedness then existing, incurred for or on account of the said property, shall be and remain the indebtedness of the fire district which retains said property, and neither said property nor said indebtedness shall be included or taken into account in making the apportionment and division herein provided for; such apportionment shall be based upon the last abstract of ratables made for the purpose of levying taxes in each of said fire districts; in effecting such division a decision of the majority of those present of the committee of said newly created fire district, concurred in by a majority of those present and of the committee of the fire district, the assets and debts which are being divided shall be final and conclusive; if any of the members of said committees shall neglect or refuse to attend

How appormade.

tionment

Clerk.

Powers of committee.

When court may appoint commissioners

to make apportionment.

such meeting, those assembled may act, and a majority
of the whole number of such joint committee may ad-
journ the meeting from time to time not exceeding
one week; the committees shall appoint a clerk from
their own number, who shall keep a record of their
proceedings and certify to each fire district affected
the apportionment of assets and debts so made; such
joint committee shall have power to issue subpoenas
and compel the attendance of any of the officers of the
fire districts affected, and to compel the production of
all books and papers relating to the subject matter
under consideration, and to administer oaths or affirm-
ations to any person appearing before said committee
to testify, and shall have the same power to enforce its
process of subpoena and to compel any person to attend
and testify as is given to committees appointed by the
common council of any city under the provisions of an
act entitled "An act concerning evidence (Revision,
approved March twenty-seventh, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four)"; in case the joint com-
mittee herein provided for should be unable to agree
upon a division of the assets or debts of said fire dis-
tricts, or in case either of said fire districts desire to
have such allotment and division made by commis-
sioners, appointed by the court of common pleas, then
it shall be lawful for the commissioners of either said
fire districts to apply to the court of common pleas of
the county in which such districts are situate for the
appointment of three disinterested persons as commis-
sioners, who shall make the above appraisement and
apportionment in the manner herein provided, and
their determination in writing, signed by any two of
them, shall be binding and conclusive upon each of
said districts; for which service such commissioners
shall receive such compensation as said court may
think proper, to be paid for by said fire districts
equally.

3. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved April 29, 1905.

CHAPTER 224.

A Supplement to an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of the state government and for several public purposes for the fiscal year ending October thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and five," approved April fifth, one thousand nine hundred and four.

BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

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1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may Supplemenbe necessary, be and they are hereby appropriated out priations. of the state fund for the several purposes herein specified, and for supplying deficiencies in former appropriations for the fiscal year ending October thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and five:

I.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

department.

For additional allowance for compensation for as- Executive sistants in the executive department, one hundred and thirty-five dollars.

2.

OFFICE OF THE TREASURER.

For additional allowance for postage, expressage Treasurer. and other incidental expenses for the office of the treas

urer, four hundred dollars.

Morristown asylum.

3.

STATE HOSPITAL AT MORRIS PLAINS.

For additional allowance for support of indigent patients, at the rate of three dollars per week, and cost of clothing, for the year one thousand nine hundred and four, six hundred twenty-five dollars and sixteen cents;

For record room, five thousand dollars;

For heating and furnishing nurses' home, three thousand five hundred dollars.

Silver service for battleship

4.

For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of "An act appropriating the sum of ten thousand dollars New Jersey. for, and authorizing the appointment of a commission. to purchase a silver service for the United States battleship 'New Jersey,' and to present the same to that ship when it is placed in commission," approved April third, one thousand nine hundred and two, ten thousand dollars.

Assessors.

5.

STATE BOARD OF ASSESSORS.

For additional allowance for postage, expressage and other incidental expenses for the state board of assessors, one hundred and fifty dollars.

Board of health.

6.

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

For additional allowance for the state board of health, pursuant to the provisions of chapter sixty

eight, laws of one thousand eight hundred and eightyseven, one hundred and twenty-five dollars;

For additional allowance for compensation of assistants in the office of the state board of health, pursuant to said chapter, one hundred and seventy-five dollars;

For additional allowance for expenses to be incurred pursuant to chapter two hundred and twenty-five, laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, one thousand dollars;

For additional allowance for maintenance of the bacteriological laboratory, six hundred and fifty dollars;

For additional allowance for postage required in sending to the physicians of this state the annual report of the state board of health and of the bureau of vital statistics, fifty dollars;

For the purchase of an addressing machine, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.

7.

COURT EXPENSES.

For compensation of judges of the court of com- Courts. mon pleas, pursuant to section forty-nine, chapter one hundred and forty-nine of the laws of one thousand nine hundred, one thousand dollars.

8.

STATE HOSPITALS.

For additional allowance for traveling expenses of Traveling

managers, three hundred dollars.

expenses.