! amount to at least fifteen thousand dollars, to be used, 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 14. An Act regarding soldiers, sailors and marines honor- BE IT Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: of veterans 1. No person now holding a position or office under Permanency the government of this State, or the government of any in office. county, city, town, township or other municipality of this State, or who may hereafter be appointed to any such position, whose term of office is not now fixed by law, and receiving a salary from such State, county, city, town, township or other municipality, who is a soldier, sailor or marine, who has served in any war of the United States and has been honorably discharged from the United States service, shall be removed from such position or office except for good cause shown after a fair and impartial hearing, but such soldier, sailor or marine, who has served in any war of the United States and who has been honorably discharged from the United States service, shall hold his position. or office during good behavior, and shall not be removed for political reasons. 2. Before any soldier, sailor or marine, who has served in any war of the United States and who has been honorably discharged from the United States service, shall be dismissed from any position or office held by him in any department of the government of this State, or of any department of the government of any Before remust be pre moval charges ferred. Unlawful to abolish position to effect removal. Repealer. county, city, town, township or other municipality of this State, charges shall be preferred against him, a copy of which must be served upon him, and a time set for the hearing of the same, at which such soldier, sailor or marine, who has served in any war of the United States and who has been honorably discharged from the United States service, so accused, shall have the right to be represented by counsel, if he so elect, and to produce witnesses and testimony in his own behalf. 3. It shall not be lawful for any board of commissioners, mayor, alderman, common council, or other governing body in any municipality in this State, or any county in this State or of any department of the State government, to abolish any position or office held by any soldier, sailor or marine, who has served in any war of the United States and who has been honorably discharged from the United States service, or to change the title of any such office or position, or to reduce the emoluments thereof for the purpose of terminating the service of any such employe. 4. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, and that this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 27, 1907. Conditions for pawning mechanic's tools. CHAPTER 15. Supplement to an act entitled "An act to regulate and license pawnbrokers," approved April twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. No pawnbroker, his agent, or attorney, shall receive by way of pledge or pawn from any person or persons any mechanic's tools used in the erection, addi 1 tion or alteration of any building or structure, unless 2. Every affidavit taken in pursuance of the provi- Affidavit 3. Any pawnbroker who shall violate any of the visions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. pro Violation a misde meanor. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the Repealer. provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 16. An Act to permit the retirement, on pension, from public Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: Widows of veterans sub 1. Whenever the widow of any honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine who has served in the War of ject to retire ment and pension. Rate of pension. Proviso. Provision for pension. the Rebellion has or shall have been for twenty-five years continuously in public office or position in this State, county, city, township or municipal service, it shall be lawful, with her assent, for the body, board or officer having power to appoint her successor in case of vacancy to order her retirement from such service, and upon her application to the body, board or officer having power to appoint her successor in case of vacancy, such body, board or officer shall order her retirement from such service. 2. In case of such retirement the person so retired shall be entitled, for and during her natural life, to receive by way of pension one-half the compensation then being received by her for such service, the same to be paid in the same way and the same installments in which such compensation has heretofore been payable; provided, that in case of the voluntary retirement with pension from office or position under any other law of this State the person retiring shall waive either her pension under such law or her pension under this act. 3. Provision for all pensions arising under this act shall be made in the appropriation or tax levy for the department of the public service from which such person shall be so retired. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 17. An Act to amend an act entitled "Supplement to an act entitled 'An act regulating the age, employment, safety, health and work hours of persons, employes and operatives in factories, workshops, mills and all places where the manufacture of goods of any kind is carried on, and to establish a department for the enforcement thereof,' approved March twenty-fourth, one thousand nine hundred and four," approved April fifth, one thousand nine hundred and five. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. Section eight of the act to which this is an amend- Section ment is hereby amended to read as follows: amended. Semi-annual bakeries. 8. The Commissioner of Labor shall be required to inspection of enforce compliance with all the provisions of this act, and for that purpose it shall be his duty to have all bakeries visited and inspected at least once in six months; and whenever a complaint in writing, signed by any employe in any such bakery or by any officer or representative of any labor union in the county wherein the same is located, shall be received by the said commissioner, stating that any provision of this act is being violated in any bakery, it shall be the duty of the said commissioner forthwith to have the said bakery concerning which complaint is made visited and inspected. The visits or inspection shall be made in the presence of When inthose then working or employed in said bakery, and during the usual hours of employment therein. All As to cleanbakeries shall be kept at all times in a clean and sanitary condition. If on inspection the Commissioner of Labor find any bakery to be so unclean, ill drained or ill spected. liness. |