Account No. 20 -1920Requested. Recommended $1,000.00 $1,000.00 100,000.00 100,000.00 COMMISSION ON THE ELIMINATION OF TOLL BRIDGES. Property, -1918 1919 Appropriation. Expenditures. Appropriation. $1,500.00 $1,000.00 $1,000.00 100,000.00 100,000.00 100,000.00 $101,000.00 $101,000.00 $101,500.00 Account No. 21 -1918 1919 Appropriation. Expenditures. Appropriation. $10,000,00 $9,172.19 $100,000.00 COMMISSION ON PORT DEVELOPMENT. 1920 Requested. Recommended the development of the Port of New York, pursuant $100,000.00 $100,000.00 Account No. 55 1918 1919 Appropriation. Expenditures. Appropriation. $1,250.00 $1,250.00 $10,000,00 NEW JERSEY INTERSTATE BRIDGE AND 1920 Requested. Recommendod Similar Commissions for New York and Pennsylvania, $10,000.00 $10,000.00 Amount Required 3 Premiumns and Accrued Interest For l’ayment of Premiums and Accrued Interest on Bonds Purchased by the Trustees, Amount Required School Fund Expenses For Necessary Legal and Other Expenses Incurred in Investment and Protection of School Fund and Collection of Income, 3,500.00 3,500.00 3,000.00 3,000.00 $253,000.00 $253,000.00 $253,000.00 $253,000.00 Mr. Case moved that the reading of the Governor's message be suspended and spread in full upon the Minutes, which was agreed to by the following vote : Messrs. Ackerson, Allen, Bright Brown, Case, Conrad, , Edwards, Fithian, Haines, Hammond, Mackay, Martens, Pilgrini, Runyon, Smith, Sturges, Wells, Whitney 18. A message was received from the Governor, by the hands of Mr. Croasdale, his Secretary, endorsed “Nominations.' Mr. Case offered the following resolution, which was read and adopted : Resolved, That the rules of the last session of the Senate, as printed in the Legislative Manual for 1918, pages 614 to 624, inclusive, be and the same are adopted hereby for the government of the present session. Mr. Case offered the following resolution, which was read and adopted : Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of New Jersey (the House of Assembly concurring), That the State Printer be directed to furnish to the State Library, as soon as printed, for the use of the Legislative Department of said State Library, and for exchange by said State Library with the State Libraries and Legislative Reference Libraries of other States, forty copies each of all bills and joint and concurrent resolutions introduced in the Senate and House of Assembly, as well as printed committee substitutes; also forty copies of each weekly installment of the Journal of the Senate and Minutes of the House of Assembly, and forty copies each of the gummed slips containing synopses of Senate and Assembly bilis introduced; also one copy of each official copy reprint of all bilis and joint and concurrent resolutions. Mr. Case offered the following resolution, which was read and adopted : WHEREAS, The Legislature of 1917 provided, in Chapter 277, Pamphlet Laws of 1917, in item 91, as follows: “Tor indexing the Journal of the Senate and Minutes of the Executive Sessions, and the Minutes of the House of Assembly, and other incidental and contingent expenses of the Legislature, twelve thousand five hundred dollars ($12,500.00)"?; and WHEREAS, Chapter 158, Pamphlet Laws of 1914, requires that a requisition officer be appointed, and the acts regulating receipts and disbursements require the designation of approving officers for the payment of the necessary expenses of all divisions of the government. Resolved (the House of Assembly concurring), That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Assembly be designated as requisition officers for the Legislature; and be it further Resolved, That all statenents of expenses of the Legislature be referred to the Committee on Incidental Expenses of the Senate and House of Assembly, respectively, and when approved by said conimittee, said approval shall be indicated by the signature of the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Incidental Expenses, for expenses of the Senate, and by the Chairman of the House Committee on Incidental Expenses, for expenses of the House of Issembly, together with the signature of the Secretary of the Senate, or the Clerk of the House of Assembly, respectively, and said bills, when approved, shall be forwarded to the Comptroller of the Treasury for payment. VIr. Case offered the following resolution, which was read and adopted : Resoli'cd, That when the Senate adjourn it be to meet on Friday morning at ii o'clock, and that when it then adjourn it be to meet on Monday erening at 8 o'clock. On motion of Mr. Case, the Senate proceeded to the consideration of Executive business, on the conclusion of which, and, , Under the direction of the President, the Secretary called the Senate, when the following Senators appeared and answered the call: Messrs. Ickerson, Allen, Bright, Brown, Case, Conrad, Ed wards, Fithian, Haines, Hammond, Mackay, Martens, Pilgrim, Runyon, Smith, Sturges, Wells, Whitney--18. Mr. Case moved that the Secretary be instructed to convey the sympathy of the Senators to Hon. Henry T. Kays, of Sussex county, in his illness, and pray for his speedy recovery. Mr. Case moved that the Senate take a recess until 3 P. M. Which was agreed to. Cpon the conclusion of which and under the direction of the President, the Secretary called the Senate, when the following Senators appeared and answered the call: |