Improvements CHAPTER 38. A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act relative to the State House and adjacent public grounds," passed May twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. The Governor, Treasurer and Comptroller of this to State House. State, constituting the State House Commission, are hereby authorized to make such alterations and additions to the present capitol, and the furnishing thereof when completed, as they may deem necessary to furnish proper accommodation for the use of the State Depart Appropriation. Proviso. ments. 2. The sum of seventy thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for said purpose, the same to be paid by the State Treasurer upon the warrant of the State Comptroller; provided, said sum is included in the annual or supplemental appropriation acts. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 39. An Act authorizing the exchange of certain lands belonging to the State of New Jersey, now used for purposes of the State Hospital for the Insane at Trenton, for lands of the Trenton Country Club, upon terms and conditions and making appropriation for consideration in addition to such exchange and authorizing conveyance of the State's lands to be made. WHEREAS, The board of managers of the New Jersey Preamble. State Hospital at Trenton is possessed of certain lands located on the southerly side of the road leading from Trenton to Trenton Junction, in the county of Mercer, adjacent to lands of the Trenton Country Club, containing about fourteen and one thousand nine hundred and twelve ten thousandths acres, and which said lands are no longer needed for the uses of said hospital, by reason of the acquisition of other lands; and WHEREAS, The Trenton Country Club, a corporation Preamble. of New Jersey, is the owner of certain lands on the northerly side of the aforesaid road, leading from Trenton to Trenton Junction, containing about fifteen and six-tenths acres, and which said lands are nearly surrounded by the lands of the State Hospital and would be particularly useful and advantageous to the uses of said hospital; and WHEREAS, The board of managers of said hospital Preamble. and the said the Trenton Country Club, mutually desire to make an exchange of said lands; and WHEREAS, It is believed that it is to the interest of the Preamble. State that an exchange of said lands should made; therefore Exchange of property at Trenton asylum. Proviso. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. It shall be lawful for the Governor, Treasurer and Comptroller, constituting the State House Commission, to bargain, sell, exchange and convey, by a good and sufficient deed, in the name of the State of New Jersey, all those certain lands and premises now in the possession of the board of managers of the New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton, said lands lying upon the southwesterly side of the "Asylum" road leading from Trenton to Trenton Junction, the same being bounded on the northeasterly side by said road, on the southeasterly side by other lands of said hospital, on the southwest by the towpath of the feeder of the Delaware and Raritan canal and on the northwest by lands of the Trenton Country Club, said lands comprising in all about fourteen and one thousand nine hundred and twelve ten thousandths acres, and to take in payment thereof, or in exchange therefor, certain other lands and premises adjoining the lands and premises in the possession of said board of managers of the New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton, being the property of the Trenton Country Club, and lying on the northeasterly side of aforesaid road and bounded on the west by said road and on the north, east and southerly sides by other lands of the State of New Jersey in the possession of said board of managers of the New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton, said tract containing about fifteen and six-tenths acres, and in addition to said exchange, to pay a cash consideration therefor, of such amount as may be determined by the said board of managers of the New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton; provided, however, that before said sale or exchange shall be made there shall be received by said State House Commission a copy of a resolution duly adopted by the board of managers of said State Hospital at Trenton to the effect that the said board considers said lands no longer necessary for the use of said hospital and that the lands intended to be exchanged therefor, in the event said exchange shall be made, can be used to an advantage to the interest of said hospital, and further stating the amount of the cash consideration which, in their judgment, should be paid. 2. There is hereby appropriated the sum of two thou- Appropriation. sand dollars, which said sum shall be applicable to the payment of the difference in price of exchange of said lands to be determined as above, and also for the payment of the cost of searches in connection with the exchange of said lands; provided, that said sum shall be Proviso. appropriated in the annual or supplemental appropria tion bill. The board of managers of said hospital shall certify the amount to be paid to the Trenton Country Club as additional consideration and the cost of searches, to the Comptroller who shall issue his warrant to the State Treasurer therefor, upon which payment shall be made. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 8, 1912. CHAPTER 40. A Supplement to an act entitled "An act to provide for the planting and care of shade trees on the highways and the charge and control of the city parks in certain cities of this State," approved April eleventh, one thousand nine hundred and ten. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. The commission appointed under the act to which this is a supplement shall have full power and authority, and is hereby empowered to pass, enact, alter and repeal ordinances for the protection, regulation and control of all city parks within the boundary of the city in which said commission shall be appointed, and the trees, flowers, shrubs and statuary therein; and also for the protection, regulation and control of all shade Care of shade trees. parks and Jurisdiction to enforce ordinances. Repealer. trees planted or growing upon the public highways of any such city, and to prescribe fines and penalties for the violation thereof and to fix the amount of the same; the method now in use for the passing, enacting, altering, amending and publishing of ordinances in said city shall be the method used to pass, enact, alter, amend, repeal and publish the ordinances herein mentioned. 2. The courts which now or hereafter shall have jurisdiction over actions for the violation of ordinances of the city in which said commission has been or shall be appointed shall have jurisdiction in actions for the violation of such ordinances as the said commission shall enact, and said ordinances shall be enforced by like proceedings and process and the practice for the enforcement of such ordinances shall be the same as that provided by law for the enforcement of the ordinances of the city in which such commission exists. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be and the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 8, 1912. Penalty for liberating foxes. CHAPTER 41. An Act prohibiting the liberation of any fox within this BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to liberate any fox within this State, under a penalty of one hundred dollars for each offense, to be recovered in accordance with the provisions of the act entitled "An act to provide a uniform procedure for the enforcement of all laws relating to fish, game and birds, and for the recovery of penalties for violations thereof," approved March |