exemption.

Insurance may from time to time require further statements of the financial ability of such company; and if at any time, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance, such company appears no longer able to pay damages, the commissioner shall revoke his order May revoke granting exemption, in which case the said company shall immediately insure its liability as required by law, and such owner may file or furnish in lieu of such insur- Insurance ance policy a statement sworn to by the president, vice- taken out. president, treasurer or assistant treasurer of said corporation that such corporation is the owner of such auto bus, commonly called jitney, that it is a corporation

by owner.

of this State and has a paid-up cash capital of not less Statement than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000), and that the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance has made such exemption, which statement shall remain in lieu of such policy of insurance only so long as the paidup cash capital of said corporation shall remain at not less than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000), and the order of the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance shall remain in force.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are Repealer. hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 19, 1925.

Section 8 amended.

Discretionary power in granting license.

Applicants' knowledge and capacity.

May refuse license.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 212.

An Act to amend an act entitled "An act defining motor vehicles and providing for the registration of the same and the licensing of the drivers thereof; fixing rules regulating the use and speed of motor vehicles; fixing the amount of license and registration fees; prescribing and regulating process and service thereof and proceedings for the violation of the provisions of the act and penalties for said violation," approved April eighth, nineteen hundred twenty-one.

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

1. Section eight of said act be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

8. The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall be authorized, and full power and authority are hereby given to him to license at his discretion, and upon payment of the lawful fee, any proper person of the age of seventeen years or over to be a motor vehicle driver, said commissioner or his inspectors having first examined said person, being satisfied of his or her ability as an operator, which examination shall include a test of the knowledge on the part of said person of such portions of the mechanism of motor vehicles as is necessary, in order to insure the safe operation of a vehicle of the kind or kinds indicated by the applicant, and of the laws and ordinary usages of the road, and the said applicant having demonstrated his or her ability to operate a vehicle of the class designated; and the said Commissioner of Motor Vehicles may, in his discretion, refuse to grant a license to drive motor vehicles to any person, who shall, in the estimation of said commissioner, be an improper person to be granted such a license: provided, however, that no physical defect of the applicant shall debar him or her from receiving a license unless it

can be shown by common experience that such defect incapacitates him or her from safely operating a motor vehicle.

Approved March 20, 1925.

CHAPTER 213.

An Act making further appropriations for the support of the agencies of the State government in this act enumerated, for the purpose of meeting deficiencies in appropriations.

Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may Supplemental be necessary, be and they are hereby appropriated out appropriations. of the State fund, for the several purposes herein speci

fied to meet deficiencies in appropriations:

1. COURT OF CHANCERY.

Additional allowance for rent of rooms in Atlantic City, Jersey City and Newark,

2. COURT OF ERRORS AND APPEALS.

Additional allowance for compensation of judges of the Court of Errors and Appeals, at $20.00 per diem,

Chancery quarters.

$7,454 50

$1,880 00

3. DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT.

For all expenses in connection with

the cost of dismantling, manag-
ing and controlling the Morris
canal,
$600,000 00

Judges of
Court of
Errors.

Pertaining to Morris canal.

Refund to
Millville

Water Co.

Refund to
Atlantic City.

Said sum to be made up as follows:
(a) $201,250.00 to be
paid from the money
received from the Le-
high Valley Railroad
road Company on ac-
count of the Morris
canal on or about De-
cember 15th, 1924:
(b) $398,750.00 to be
advanced from the gen-
eral fund to the Morris
canal account; said ad-
vance to be reimbursed
to the general fund,
first by payment to it
of $192,500.00, to be
paid by the Lehigh Val-
ley Railroad Company
on account of the Mor-
ris canal on December
15th, 1925, and second
by all sums received by
the sale of Morris canal
property.

To the Millville Water
Company, for refund of
over-payment of excess
water diversion charge,
to be paid from the fund.
collected pursuant to chap-

ter 252, Laws of 1907, . $1,245 08 To the City of Atlantic City,

for refund of overpay-
ment of excess water di-
version charge, to be paid
from the fund collected
pursuant to chapter 252,
Laws of 1907,

$2.174 08

4. DEPARTMENT OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Additional allowance for compensation for assistants,

$450 00

5. NEW JERSEY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. Additional allowance on contract for school, power house and cottage No. 2, provided said sum or any portion thereof may be awarded to the contractors by the State House Commission,

Payment under this account to be made pursuant to chapter 65, Laws of 1909.

$10,000 00

6. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION.

Necessary repairs to the
Agricultural Administra-

Weights.

Deaf-mute school.

Experiment
Station.