Laws, Ordinances and Circulars.

Since the publication of the last annual report of this Board three new circulars have been issued, as follows: Circular 94, on Communicable Diseases of Animals"; Circular 95, on the "Prevention of Small-pox," and Circular 96, containing the Public Health Laws of New Jersey.

LAWS.

Following is a list of titles of the bills introduced during the Legislative session of 1899, the chapter number being added in cases where the bill became a law.

ASSEMBLY BILLS RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH INTRODUCED IN 1899.

No. 29. Authorizes Vailsburg, Irvington, South and West Orange, Milburn and the western section of Newark to jointly construct and maintain outlet or trunk sewers.

No. 31. Amends the act authorizing cities to construct sewers and drains.

No. 44. Provides for the removal of snow and ice from sidewalks of certain incorporated municipalities of this State.

No. 57. Attempts to prevent the occurrence of premature burial. No. 89. Authorizes South Orange to purchase lands and erect waterworks thereon.

No. 90. Amends the act relative to the creation of local boards of health.

No. 101. Incorporates the borough of New Providence.

No. 106. Sets off a part of Woodbridge and Raritan townships, Middlesex county, into Clark township, Union county.

No. 107. Creates the township of Voorhees, in Camden county, from a portion of Waterford township.

No. 113. Provides that in cities having a local board of health the governing body thereof may provide for a meat inspector, who shall be appointed by the mayor for a term not exceeding five years, salary not over $1,000 per year.

No. 114. Authorizes boards of health and their inspectors and the factory inspector and his deputies to enforce the act fixing ten hours per day and sixty hours per week as a day's or week's work.

No. 154. Annexes the town of Stockton to the city of Camden after the expiration of twenty days from the approval of this act.

No. 170. Prohibits the adulteration of molasses or the using of any ingredients to cheapen or lower its quality, unless the package is marked "mixed" or "compound." Penalty, $100, or sixty days in jail.

No. 176. Requires that all oleomargarine or unnatural butter shall be of a bright pink color. The coloring to be from a fruit or vegetable not injurous. Under penalty of $100.

No. 186. Prevents deception in the sale of oleomargarine or any imitation of dairy products.

No. 188. To annex the towns of Harrison, Kearney and the borough of East Newark, county of Hudson, to the county of Essex.

SENATE BILLS RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH INTRODUCED IN 1899.

No. 9. Incorporating the township of Summit, Union county, as a city.

No. 15. Establishes the township of Long Beach, Ocean county, and fixes the boundaries thereof.

No. 17. Incorporates the borough of Florham Park, in Chatham township, Morris county.

No. 18. Incorporating the borough of Palisades Park, in the county of Bergen, and defining the boundaries.

No. 19. Authorizing local boards of health in towns, boroughs and villages to license persons engaged in the business of plumbing.

No. 43. Making it unlawful for any person to expose for sale any goods or wares used as food, drink or medicine, or other valuable thing, and represent the same as the product of any manufacturer known by him not to be the manufacturer, under penalty of $100 fine, to be paid to the person or corporation bringing the suit.

No. 49. Makes it unlawful to place any sewage, domestic or factory refuse or polluting matter of any kind whatever in the waters of any river, brook, &c., or tributary thereof, above the point from which any municipality obtains its water supply; also to place such pollut ing matter on the banks of any stream so described. A fine of $100 is imposed for every violation, but cities having an outlet in any stream at present are exempted. The State Board of Health is to have general supervision, while local boards will prefer charges in the courts.

No. 56. Authorizes common council to provide in the general tax levy for the expense of re-laying sewers or drains.

No. 60. Authorizes the diking and reclamation of the Hackensack meadows and assesses the cost on property benefited.

No. 61. Authorizing towns, boroughs, &c., controlling water-works to supply water to adjoining municipalities.

No. 62. Amending the sewerage act of 1890 by prohibiting discharge into fresh water so as to contaminate any water-supply.

No. 63. Authorizes one municipality to contract with an adjoining one for a water-supply for a term not exceeding fifteen years.

No. 81. Relative to sewer assessments in townships and villages. No. 82. Providing for the removal of snow and ice, etc., from sidewalks in towns, villages, etc.

No. 84. Annexes to the borough of North Spring Lake a part of the township of Wall, in Monmouth county.

No. 91. Incorporates the township of Summit, Union county, as a borough.

No. 92. Incorporates the borough of Mt. Ephraim, Camden county, out of the township of Centre.

No. 95. Re-creates the borough of Cape May Point, Cape May county.

No. 176. An act to set off territory from Madison borough, Morris county, and annex it to Chatham township, same county.

No. 121. Changes name of Long Branch police, sanitary and improvement commission to the Long Branch commission.

No. 125. Amends the act incorporating and regulating rural cemetery associations. Makes imperative instead of optional a provision of the act of 1895.

No. 129. Incorporates and fixes the boundaries of Bernardsville, Somerset county.

No. 152. An act to prevent the pollution of the waters of this state by the establishment of a State sewerage commission.

No. 213. Providing a charter for East Orange so as to permit it to incorporate as a city.

CHAPTER 41.

An Act to secure the purity of the public supplies of potable waters in this state.

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

1. No sewage, drainage, domestic or factory refuse, excremental or other polluting matter of any kind whatsoever, which, either by itself

or in connection with other matter, will corrupt or impair, or tend to corrupt or impair, the quality of the water of any river, brook, stream or any tributary or branch thereof, or of any lake, pond, well, spring or other reservoir from which is taken, or may be taken, any public supply of water for domestic use in any city, town, borough, township or other municipality of this state, or which will render, or tend to render, such water injurious to health, shall be placed in, or discharged into, the waters, or placed or deposited upon the ice, of any such river, brook, stream or any tributary or branch thereof, or of any lake, pond, well, spring or other reservoir above the point from which any city, town, borough, township, or other municipality shall or may obtain its supply of water for domestic use, nor shall any such sewage, drainage, domestic or factory refuse, excremental or other polluting matter be placed or suffered to remain upon the banks of any such river, brook, stream or of any tributary or branch thereof, or of any lake, pond, well, spring or other reservoir above the point from which any city, town, borough, township or other municipality shall or may obtain its supply of water for domestic use as aforesaid; and any person or persons, or private or public corporation, which shall offend against any of the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each offense; and each week's continuance, after notice by the state or local board of health to abate or remove the same, shall constitute a separate offense; provided, however, that this section shall not be held to apply to any city, town, borough, township or other municipality of this state which, at the date of the passage of this act, has a public sewer or system of sewers, drain or system of drains, legally constructed under municipal or township authority, discharging its drainage or sewage into any such river, brook, stream, lake, pond, well, spring or other reservoir; and provided further, that nothing in this section contained shall be construed to repeal, modify or otherwise affect any law or statute now conferring upon any local board of health the power or authority to institute any proceedings in any court of this state for the recovery of any penalty for, or obtaining any injunction against, the pollution of any of the waters of this state.

2. Any penalty incurred under any of the provisions of the first section of this act may be recovered, with costs, in a summary proceeding, either in the name of the board of health of the state of New Jersey, or in the name of the local board of health of the township, city, borough, town or other local municipal government within whose jurisdiction the penalty may have been incurred; it shall be the duty of any health inspector, or member of any local board of health, who

shall know or be informed of any violation of any of the provisions of the first section of this act whereby any penalty may have been incurred, to make, and any other person having such knowledge may make, under oath or affirmation, a complaint against the person or persons or private or public corporation incurring such penalty, setting forth the facts of such violation, which complaint shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the district court, or with any justice of the peace of the county within which the offense may have been committed, or with any police justice or recorder of the township, city or other municipality within which any local board bringing suit shall have jurisdiction; and the district court, justice of the peace, police justice or recorder with whom any complaint shall be filed as aforesaid, setting forth facts sufficient to show that the penalty prescribed by the first section of this act has been incurred, is hereby authorized and required to issue process either in the nature of a summons or warrant, which process, when in the nature of a warrant, shall be returnable forthwith, and when in the nature of a summons shall be returnable in not less than five nor more than fifteen days; on the return of such process, or at any time to which the trial shall have been adjourned, the said court, justice of the peace, police justice or recorder shall proceed to hear the testimony of witnesses and the proofs in the case, and to determine and give judgment in the matter without the filing of any pleadings, and, if judgment shall be given in favor of the plaintiff, execution shall forthwith issue against the goods and chattels of the defendant for the amount of the penalty, with costs; and all judgments so rendered shall have the same force and effect as other judgments in civil actions before civil courts and officers, and may be docketed in like manner in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas; the officers to serve and execute any process or execution issued as aforesaid shall be the constables of the counties, which service and execution, in the case of any execution issued out of the district court, shall be made in the same manner and under the same liabilities as other executions issued out of said court are served and executed; the officers to serve and execute any process or execution issued by a justice of the peace, police justice or recorder shall be the constables of the county, which service and execution shall be made in the same manner and under the same liabilities as prescribed in cases of the service and execution of processes and executions by the act entitled "An act constituting courts. for the trial of small causes," and the supplements thereto; all moneys. recovered in any such proceeding shall be paid to the plaintiff therein and applied by such plaintiff to any purpose for which it may be legally authorized to expend money.