COMMITTEE ON THE EXECUTIVE, MILITIA AND CIVIL OFFICERS RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
STATE OF NEW JERSEY CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1947
COMMITTEE ON THE EXECUTIVE, MILITIA AND CIVIL OFFICERS
Tuesday, July 1, 1947
(Afternoon session)
(The session began at 2:15 P.M.)
PRESENT: Barton, Barus, Eggers, Farley, Feller, Hansen, Miller, S., Jr., Smith, J. S., Van Alstyne, Walton and Young.
Chairman David Van Alstyne, Jr., presided.
CHAIRMAN DAVID VAN ALSTYNE, JR.: This is a public meeting of the Executive Committee. We have asked Commissioner Sanford Bates of the Department of Institutions and Agencies to come and meet with us to discuss the question of the Parole Board. Commissioner Bates has brought with him his first assistant, I believe, Dr. Bixby, and a member of his Board of Control, Judge Thomas J. Stanton.
Commissioner, I think maybe the best way to start this meeting would be to ask you if you would give us your ideas as to how you feel the sections in the present Constitution that deal with the matter of the Parole Board should be changed. Commissioner Bates.
MR. SANFORD BATES: Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen: The change necessary from the constitutional standpoint would seem to be a fairly simple one in paragraph 10 of Article V on the Executive.
MRS. JANE E. BARUS: Paragraph 10, Article V?
MR. BATES: That’s correct, Mrs. Barus. Reference is made to the granting of pardons and the language used is (reading):
“The Governor or person administering the government, the Chancellor and the six judges of the Court of Errors and Appeals, or a major part of them, of whom the Governor, or person administering the government, shall be one, may remit fines and forfeitures, and grant pardons, after conviction, in all cases except impeachment.”
My suggestion would be that everything in that section be deleted after the word “Governor” and up to the words “shall be one.”
CHAIRMAN: So that it would then read what, Commissioner?
MR. BATES: It would then read: “The Governor may remit fines and forfeitures, and grant pardons, after conviction, in all cases except impeachment.”
Judge Stanton suggests if other changes in the Constitution are not made which would cover that, the other phrase, “or person administering the Government,” should be retained.
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