Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1873. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Senate bill No. 174, entitled An act to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Erie Transportation Company," approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, by changing the name and title thereof. Also, Senate bill No. 176, entitled An act to incorporate the Dutch Lane and Marlboro Turnpike Company. Also. Senate bill No. 179, entitled A supplement to an act entitled "An act to alter and amend the charter of the borough of Bordentown, in the county of Burlington." Also, Senate bill No. 183, entitled An act to incorporate the Ridgefield Land and Building Company. Also, . An act to prevent Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Swine, from run. ning at large in, the township of Upper Penn's Neck, in the county of Salem. Also, Senate bill No. 186, entitled An act to incorporate the Randolph Iron Company. Also, Senate bill No. 130, entitled An act to authorize the township committee of the township of Acquackanonck, in the county of Passaic, to open, work and repair the public roads of said township. Also, Senate bill No. 197, entitled A supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Mount Hope Mineral Railroad Company," approved March sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Without amendment. The said bills having passed both Houses, the Secretary endorsed them, certifying that they originated in the Senate, and delivered them to the Committee on Passed Bills, to he presented by said committee to the Governor for his approval. A message was received from the House of Assembly by the hands of their Clerk, announcing that the House of Assembly had passed Senate Joint Resolution No. 4, entitled Joint Resolution authorizing the State Treasurer to substitute Registered for Coupon Bonds of the State of New Jersey, and also to substitute perfect Register...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...features so far as the construction, location and surroundings of each building would allow of the necessary alterations. The early attempts to enfor the provisions of this act met, as was expected, with a good deal of opposition on the part, of landlords and agents, and it was not until these were made through the courts to feel that the Board was in earnest, that they _began to yield gracefully to the requirements of the law. After considerable experience in dealing with some of the worst class of buildings, it was decided to exercise a greater degree of stringency, and to extend the work to all houses that came within the legal meaning of a tenement house, however slight the violation. As an instance of the rate at which this work was prosecuted, I might state that during the year 1869, there were in New York 39,270 bed-room windows and 1,922hall ventilators inserted, and a corresponding number of other violations corrected., The result of this was to improve very materially the condition of New York tenements, and yet as the public became more interested and better educated in sanitary matters, further improvements were loudly demanded; and in response to a great public uprising in behalf of the tenement population, additional legislation in the form of amendments to the law was obtained in 187 9. ' The main provisions of these amendments were: Regulation of distance between front and rear houses, forbidding the placing of any tenement nearer than ten feet from the rear line of the lot, limiting the portion of ground to be covered by any such building to sixtyfive per cent. of the area of the lot, and requiring 'that each sleeping room shall have at least one window of not less than twelve square feet area, admitting light...