When brook

private enterprise, shall come within the provisions of this act, and no fish shall be taken from any such lake or pond for three years from the time such lake or pond shall have been stocked, under the penalty as in the first section of this act provided.

4. And be it enacted, That hereafter it shall not be lawful trout not to for any person or persons to take or catch any brook trout be caught. in any of the streams of this state, before the first day of April or after the fifteenth day of August of each year.

When black

bass and perch not

to be caught

take fish

stocked by

5. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to take or catch from any of the lakes or ponds of this state, any black bass or perch, between the first day of March and the first day of June in each year, and whoever shall be convicted of violating the provisions of this section, or of the preceding section, shall be punished as in the first section of this act provided.

Unlawful to 6. And be it enacted, That hereafter it shall not be lawful from waters for any person or persons, in any manner to catch, take or individuals. Carry away any trout or other fish from any stream, pond or reservoir, belonging to any person, persons or corporation, except the owner thereof, which stream, pond or reservoir may have been stocked with fish by hatching the eggs or spawn or otherwise and any person so offending shall, upon conviction, be punished as in the first section of this act provided, and in addition thereto the person or persons so offending, shall be liable to the owner or owners of such stream, pond or reservoir for the full value of all fish so taken or carried away, to be recovered in an action of debt before any court having jurisdiction thereof.

Penalty.

No deleterious sub

stances to

be placed in streams

pose of catching fish.

7. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to place in any of the ponds, lakes, rivers or streams of this state, or in any of the waters belonging for the pur- to this state, any lime, gas-tar, coculus indicus, (otherwise known as fish berries,) or any other deleterious substance, or take or catch fish with any deleterious substance or medicated bait, nor shall any person or persons make use of giant or electric powder, or any explosive substance whatever for the purpose of taking fish; and any person or persons offending against the provisions of this section of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for a period not less than six months or more than two years, or by a fine not less than two hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or

Penalty.

by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court before which such conviction shall be had.

penalty

paid.

8. And be it enacted, That of all penalties recovered under To whom this act, one half shall go to the informer, and the other half shall be shall be paid to the clerk of the county in which the conviction shall be had, to be paid by him upon demand to the commissioner of fisheries in charge of the district in which such county may be located, which commissioner shall account for the same to the comptroller of the state.

be caught

in certain

9. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful at any and at Fish may all times, for any person or persons to legitimately take or with hook catch with hook and line, or with hook line and rod, any waters. pike, or pickerel, or bass, in or from the bodies of water known as lake Hopatcong and Stanhope reservoir, situated in the counties of Sussex and Morris in this state, and the bodies of water, known as Cranberry reservoir, Swartswood pond, Decker's pond and Culver's lake, situated in the county of Sussex in this state, and none of the penalties contained in this act shall apply to such legitimate fishing, as is provided for in this section.

10. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 21, 1874

CHAPTER CCCLV.

A supplement to the act entitled "An act to make free the Public Schools of the State," and supplemental to the act entitled An act to establish a system of Public Instruction, approved March twenty-first, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

be appor

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the school State of New Jersey, That all apportionments of school money to moneys to districts shall be made upon the basis of the last tioned published school census, in proportion to the number of tricts in scholars in each district.

among dis

rates of number of scholars.

money to

Additional 2. And be it enacted, That the money needed in any school be raised by district, in addition to that received from other sources, to district tax. maintain free schools the required time, shall be raised by

When school cen

sus taken.

When re

ports shall

be made.

Election of school trustees.

Repealer.

district tax, in the manner provided therefor; which tax shall be in lieu of the township school tax required in section one of the act to which this is a supplement.

3. And be it enacted, That the required school census shall be taken between the first and the twentieth day of July.

4. And be it enacted, That the annual reports required of city superintendents, district clerks and township collectors, shall be made on or before the first day of August, and that the reports of the county superintendents shall be made on or before the first day of September of each and every year. 5. And be it enacted, That the time for the election of school trustees shall be the first Monday in August.

6. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, and that this act shall be deemed a public act and take effect immediately. Approved March 21, 1874.

State tax

a half miles

CHAPTER CCCLVI.

An Act to provide Ways and Means to defray the State Ex

penditures.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the of one and State of New Jersey, That there shall be assessed, levied and to be levied, collected, on the inhabitants of this state, and upon the taxable, real and personal property, as exhibited by the abstracts of ratables from the several counties, made out by the several boards of assessors for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and filed in office of the comptroller of the treasury, a state tax of one and one-half mills on each dollar of the valuations contained in said abstracts, and the proceeds of said tax is hereby appropriated, and shall Amount ap- be applied as follows, to wit: there shall be paid to the to sinking commissioners of the sinking fund one hundred thousand fund. dollars, to pay that portion of the principal falling due on

propriated

the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred an seventy-five, of a loan authorized by an act entitled "An ac authorizing a loan for the purposes of war, and so forth," approved May tenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixtyone, and the several supplements thereto; and there shall also be paid to the said commissioners the necessary amount to pay such portion of the interest due upon the said loan. on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, as the income of the sinking fund for the then current year shall not suffice to pay; and the Balance to residue of said tax shall be paid into the state fund, and be approshall be appropriated for and applied to the purpose of de- state fund. fraying the necessary expenses of the state; which tax and the sums required to be raised for county, city, township and other public purposes, shall be levied, assessed and col- assessed lected on the persons and property, and in the manner directed by an act entitled "An act concerning taxes," approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, and the several supplements thereto, and the laws of the state, which shall be in force at the time the said taxes shall be assessed, regulating the assessment and collection of taxes, except as in and by this act otherwise ordered and directed.

prieted to

How to be

and collect

ed.

ler to ap

among

2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Comptrolcomptroller aforesaid to apportion the said tax, and at the portion tax rate aforesaid, among the several counties, in proportion to counties. the amount of taxable real and personal estate in said counties respectively, as shown by the abstracts respectively as aforesaid; and it shall be his duty to transmit, within thirty days after the approval or passage of this act, to the county collector of each county, a statement of the amount of said tax apportioned to said county, and said county collector shall lay said statement before the assessors of the townships or wards within his county, at their next meeting to apportion the township taxes, and the said assessors shall thereupon proceed to assess said tax according to law.

3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the comp-Comptrol troller to furnish to the collector of the several counties nish form for reports printed forms, on which the boards of assessors shall make of ratables their returns of the amount of ratables of their respective in the ses counties; upon which forms there shall be printed the oath

al counties.

required to be taken by the assessors, as provided by section twelve of an act entitled "A further supplement to an act entitled 'An act concerning taxes,' approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six," which supplement was approved April eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six; and no abstract of the amount of rataAssessors bles from any county shall be deemed to have been made according to law, unless said oath shall have been taken and subscribed by each member of the board of assessors; and no assessor shall be entitled to receive compensation for his services until he shall have taken and subscribed the said oath as herein provided.

to swear to

reports.

Acts to ap

act.

4. And be it enacted, That the provisions of the act entitled ply to this "A further supplement to the act entitled 'An act concerning taxes,' approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six," which said further supplement was approved April first, one thousand eight hundred and sixtynine, shall be and the same are hereby held to apply and be in force so far as they do not conflict with the provisions of this act.

Repealer.

5. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act be and the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 21, 1874.

New Jersey State Republican to publish laws, &c.

CHAPTER CCCLVII.

Supplement to the act relative to the publication of the public laws.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That the New Jersey State Republican, a newspaper published in the city of Plainfield, in the county of Union, is hereby authorized to publish all laws and notices now authorized to be published by any newspaper published in said county under any law of this state.

2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved March 21, 1874.