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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

NUMBER I.

Joint Resolution relative to the planting of forest trees.

1. BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the governor be and he is hereby authorized to issue a proclamation annually, setting apart a day in April for the planting of forest trees and recommending that the day be devoted by the people to that purpose.

2. And be it resolved, That this resolution take effect immediately.

Approved February 21, 1884.

NUMBER II.

Joint Resolution authorizing the quartermaster-general to deliver to Frank A. Souders a certain confederate flag captured by him.

WHEREAS, Frank A. Souders, late corporal of company F, fourth regiment New Jersey volunteers, while engaged with the confederate forces at Crampton Pass, Maryland, September fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, captured a confederate flag in a

gallant charge by the regiment, and for which he received special mention, and the regiment was presented with a set of colors for gallant conduct on that occasion, and said flag is now in the care of the quartermaster-general, and the said Frank A. Souders is a member of William B. Hatch Post, number thirty-seven, grand army of the republic, Camden, New Jersey, and desires said flag to place it in the relic case of post thirtyseven, grand army of the republic; therefore,

1. BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the quartermaster-general is hereby authorized to deliver the said confederate flag to Frank A. Souders to be held in trust, to be returned to the quartermaster-general whenever that officer shall demand it, in the relic case of William B. Hatch Post, number thirty-seven, grand army of the republic, Camden, New Jersey.

2. And be it resolved, That this resolution shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 27, 1884.

NUMBER III.

Joint Resolution requesting the repeal of a part of the United States revenue laws relating to alcohol.

1. WHEREAS, The business of the citizens of the state of New Jersey engaged in agricultural pursuits has been injured by the operation of the United States revenue law permitting the manufacture of vinegar from alcohol, which has paid no internal revenue tax; and whereas, the operation of said internal revenue law gives opportunity to evade the tax on alcohol made and sold as such; therefore,

2. Resolved (the senate concurring), That our senators and representatives in congress be and hereby are requested to use all honorable means in their power to

procure the repeal of so much of the amendment to the United States laws contained in section five, chapter one hundred and twenty-five of general laws passed by the forty-fifth congress at the third session in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, as authorizes the manufacture of vinegar from alcohol that has paid no internal revenue tax.

3. And be it further resolved, That the governor of this state be requested to forward copies of the foregoing preamble and resolution to our said senators and representatives.

Approved April 8, 1884.

NUMBER IV.

Joint Resolution relative to the salary of the commissioner of railroad taxation.

WHEREAS, The legislature of this state at its last session passed an act fixing the salary of the commissioner of railroad taxation at eighteen hundred dollars.

AND WHEREAS, By an error in the engrossing of said act, the same was inoperative and ineffective; therefore,

1. BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the sum of eight hundred dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated, and the comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to draw a warrant upon the treasurer of this state in favor of said commissioner of railroad taxation to pay said sum out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated.

2. And be it resolved, That this resolution shall take effect immediately.

Approved April 14, 1884.

NUMBER V.

Joint Resolution to enable the state of New Jersey to take part in the ceremonies attending the unveiling, at Freehold, N. J., of the monument to commemorate the battle of Monmouth.

WHEREAS, The legislature of the state of New Jersey, on the fourteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, did pass an act donating to the commission created by said act the sum of ten thousand dollars toward the erection of a monument in the township of Freehold, in the county of Monmouth, at the place where the battle of Monmouth commenced, on the morning of the twenty-eighth day of June, anno domini, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, upon condition that the Monmouth battle monument association, a corporation under the laws of the state, should convey their right in a certain tract of land called "Monument Park," acquired by said association, to the state of New Jersey, together with the payment to the commission provided for in said act, of the sum of at least eight thousand dollars, to be used with the sum appropriated by the state for the erection of the said monument;

AND WHEREAS, These conditions on the part of the said Monmouth battle monument association have been fully complied with;

AND WHEREAS, The congress of the United States, on the sixth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, did pass an act donating to said commission the sum of twenty thousand dollars for the same

purpose; AND WHEREAS, The said commission have entered into certain contracts for the erection of said monument at a cost not exceeding forty thousand dollars, and it is reasonably expected that said structure will be fully

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