Mercer,

Middlesex,

Monmouth,

Morris,

Ocean,
Passaic,

ALFRED N. BARBER,
WILLIAM F. BURK,
HENRY D. THOMPSON.
WILLIAM R. DRAKE,
FRANK CROWTHER,
EDWARD E. HAINES.
T. NELSON LILLAGORE,
ISAAC B. DAVISON,
FRANK J. MANSON.
RICHARD J. CHAPLIN,
HENRY W. BUXTON.
SAMUEL S TAYLOR.
. ABRAM KLENERT,
FRANK A. PAWELSKI,
WILLIAM A. MERZ,
HENRY J. EARLE,
JOHN D. VAN BLARCOM.
.SAMUEL A. RIDGWAY.
WILLIAM W. SMALLEY.
LEVI H. MORRIS..
RANDOLPH PERKINS,
PETER TILLMAN,
JOHN R. MOXON.
JOSEPH H. FIRTH.

Salem, Somerset, Sussex, Union,

Warren,

ACTS

PASSED BY THE

One Hundred and Thirty-first

Legislature.

CHAPTER 1.

A Supplement to an act entitled “An act relating to

courts having criminal jursdiction, and regulating proceedings in criminal cases (Revision of 1898),” approved June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

sheriff may

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

1. In inflicting the punishment of death by hanging, Underan Under-sheriff, duly appointed and qualified, shall infict death have the same power and authority as the Sheriff by penalty. whom he was appointed; but before such punishment shall be so inflicted by an Under-sheriff, an order of the Court of Oyer and Terminer to that effect shall be first obtained.

2. This act shall take effect immediately. BLOOMFIELD H. MINCH,

President of the Senate. EDGAR E. LETHBRIDGE,

Speaker of the House of Assembly. Approved January 22, 1907.

E. C. STOKES

Governor.