NEW JERSEY. DIGEST OF IMMIGRATION AND ALIEN LAWS. Act of 1852 (an act to prevent the importation of paupers into certain specified counties).-The act of 1852 provides that any person who shall bring into certain specified counties any person likely to become a public charge may be required by a justice of the peace to remove such person from the county or to give a sufficient bond to indemnify the county against any charge or expense that may be incurred by the maintenance or removal of such a person. Failure to comply with the order will subject the importer to a penalty of $100. Act of 1907 (an act to regulate the importation of dependent children, and providing a penalty for a violation thereof).-The act of 1907 makes it unlawful to bring into New Jersey any dependent child for the purpose of placing it upon charity, without first obtaining the written consent of the commissioner of charities. Any person or association bringing a dependent child into the State shall be required to give an indemnity bond in the penal sum of $1,000 that the child is not incorrigible or of unsound mind or body; that if such child becomes a public charge before reaching the age of 21 it will be removed from the State; that if such a child shall be convicted of any offense and imprisoned within three years after arrival in the State it shall be removed from the State and the State indemnified for any expense incurred; and that any such child shall be properly placed and cared for. The commissioner of charities shall supervise all matters enjoined by this act. Any person or association violating the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of $100. But the act does not apply to a relative who brings a child from any other State for the purpose of providing a home for it. Act of 1907 (an act providing for the establishment of evening schools for foreign-born residents of New Jersey).-The board of education of any school district may establish evening schools for the instruction of foreign-born residents over 14 years of age in the English language and in the form of government and the laws of this State and the United States. Funds may be raised for such purpose by appropriation, subscription, or special tax. Reports of progress of schools shall be made annually by instructors to the state superintendent of public instruction. 749 IMMIGRATION AND ALIEN LAWS. ACT OF 1852. [New Jersey Laws, 1852, ch. 129, p. 277.] AN ACT To prevent the importation of paupers and vagrants into the counties of Burlington, Passaic, Camden, Gloucester, and Mercer. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the senate and general assembly of the State of New Jersey, That if any person shall bring or import into any one of the counties of Burlington, Passaic, Camden, Gloucester, or Mercer, any person or persons not having gained a legal settlement in said county, and who is or are likely to become chargeable to the said county, such bringer or importer, on complaint of a chosen freeholder or overseer of the poor of any one of the townships of said county, to any two justices of the peace thereof, shall, by warrant, under their hands and seals, directed to any constable of the said county, be brought before them forthwith; and if, on due proof, it shall appear to the satisfaction of the said justices that the said complaint is true, the said justices shall order and direct such importer or bringer to remove the person or persons so brought in or imported from the said county, or to give bond, with approved security, to the board of chosen freeholders of the said county, in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, to indemnify the said county against the charges and expenses which the said county may incur by the maintenance or removal of the person or persons brought in or imported as aforesaid. SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That on failure to comply with the said order or direction of the said justices, or to give bond as aforesaid, the said bringer or importer shall forfeit and pay for each person brought or imported as aforesaid the sum of one hundred dollars to be sued for and recovered, for the use of the said county in an action of debt, with cost of suit, by the board of chosen freeholders aforesaid before any justice of the peace of the said county. SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immemediately. Approved, March 23, 1852. ACTS OF 1907. I. [New Jersey State Laws, ch. 153, p. 390.] AN ACT To regulate the importation of dependent children, and providing a penalty for violation thereof. Be it enacted by the senate and general assembly of the State of New Jersey: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation, association, or institution to bring or send or cause to be brought or sent into the State of New Jersey any dependent child for the purpose of placing such child in any home in New Jersey or procuring the placing of such child in any home in New Jersey by indenture, adop tion, or otherwise, or to abandon such child after being brought or sent into the State of New Jersey, without first obtaining the written consent of the commissioner of charities and conforming to this act and such rules and regulations of such commissioner of charities consistent herewith as such commissioner of charities may from time to time prescribe. Authority is hereby given to such commissioner of charities to make such rules and regulations as he shall deem best to carry out the provisions of this act. SEC. 2. Such person, corporation, association, or institution before bringing or sending, or causing to be brought or sent, any such child into this State shall first give an indemnity bond in favor of the State of New Jersey in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, to be approved by said commissioner of charities, conditioned as follows: That they will not send or bring, or cause to be sent or brought, into this State any child that is incorrigible or one that is of unsound mind or body; that they will at once, upon the placement of any child, report to the commissioner of charities its name and age, and the name and the residence of the person with whom it is placed; that if any such child shall, before it reaches the age of twenty-one years, become a public charge they will, within thirty days after written notice shall have been given them of such fact by the commissioner of charities, remove such child from the State; and if any such dependent child shall be convicted of crime or misdemeanor and imprisoned within three years from the time of its arrival within the State such person, corporation, association, or institution will remove from the State such child immediately upon its being released from such imprisonment, and upon failure, after thirty days' notice and demand to remove as aforesaid any such child who shall become a public charge as aforesaid, or who shall have been convicted as before mentioned, in either event such person, corporation, association, or institution shall, at once and thereby, forfeit such sum as the State, or any county or municipality thereof shall have expended in the care, maintenance, or prosecution of such child; that they will place, or cause to be placed, each of such dependent children under written contract, which will secure to such child a proper home and will make the person so receiving such child responsible for its proper care, education, and training; that they will properly supervise the care and training of each of such children and that each of such children shall be visited at least once a year by a responsible agent of the person, corporation, association, or institution so placing, or causing to be placed, such child as herein provided; that they will make to the said commissioner of charities such reports of their work as said commissioner of charities from time to time may require. SEC. 3. The commissioner of charities shall have general supervision and management of all matters contained in this act, and may make such other and further rules and regulations not inconsistent herewith as he may deem necessary for the proper placing out, indenture, adoption, removal, and supervision of such children, and for the rejection of incorrigible or unsound children, and for the removal of children convicted of crimes or misdemeanors, or who may become public charges. SEC. 4. Any person, corporation, association, or institution, or any officer or agent thereof herein described, who shall violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. SEC. 5. The provisions of this act shall not apply to a relative going to any other State and bringing a child into this State for the purpose of giving it a home in his or any other family. SEC. 6. The penalty provided in the bond referred to in the second section of this act shall be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the name of the State of New Jersey; such bonds shall remain in force, and actions may be brought thereon, during any time within which there may be, within this State, any child under the age of twenty-one years who shall have been brought into this State by the principal obligor of said bond. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect immediately. II. [New Jersey State Laws, 1907, ch. 36, p. 69.] AN ACT Providing for the establishment of evening schools for foreign-born residents in the State of New Jersey. Be it enacted by the senate and general assembly of the State of New Jersey: SECTION 1. The board of education of any school district may establish and maintain a public evening school or evening schools for the instruction of foreign-born residents of said district over fourteen years of age in the English language and in the form of government and the laws of this State and of the United States. Every teacher employed in such a school shall hold a special teacher's certificate, valid as a license to teach in such schools. The state board of education shall prescribe rules for the proper control and management of such schools, for the inspection thereof, for the granting of certificates to teach therein, and for carrying into effect the purposes of this act. The course of study in each of such schools and any changes therein shall be submitted to and shall be approved by the state board of education. SEC. 2. Whenever in any school district there shall have been raised by special appropriation or special tax, or by subscription, or both, such sum as, in the judgment of the state board of education, shall be sufficient for the maintenance in such district of an evening school or schools as aforesaid, there shall be paid for such purpose to the custodian of the school moneys of said district, on the order of the state superintendent of public instruction, an amount equal to that raised therein as aforesaid, which amount shall be paid by the state treasurer on the warrant of the state comptroller: Provided, Said order shall not be issued until the course of study in such school or schools or any changes therein shall have been approved by the state board of education. The moneys appropriated by the State as aforesaid to any school district shall not exceed in any year the sum of five thousand dollars. The custodian of the school moneys of the school district shall be the legal custodian of any and all funds appropriated, raised, or subscribed for the maintenance of such even |