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 8, 1947
(Morning session)
(Executive session)
(Minutes)1 The Secretary’s minutes are reproduced because they clarify the transcript made from the Soundscriber records which were not always clear, thus rendering the transcript imperfect. The transcript precedes these minutes.
A meeting of the Committee was held at 11:00 A.M. on Tuesday, July 8, 1947, in room 109, Rutgers University Gymnasium.
Members present were: Chairman Van Alstyne, presiding, Barton, Barus, Eggers, Farley, Feller, Hansen, Miller, S., Jr., Smith, J. S. Walton and Young.
The minutes of the previous meeting were approved.
The Chairman distributed copies of Governor Edge’s brief on the powers of the Governor.
The Chairman read a letter from Secretary of Agriculture Allen expressing his satisfaction at the retention of the present system of the Agriculture Department.
Mrs. Edwin Bebout appeared for the League of Women Voters. She read a proposal supported by the League on the civil service, taken from the “Model State Constitution.” Under this plan counties and municipalities would have the right to set up their own merit systems or to go under the state system. The state civil service should be improved, probably made into one of the principal departments with an advisory board of citizens, but with the administrative functions left in the hands of a commissioner.
The Committee then discussed parole and pardon.
Smith moved that paragraph 9 of Article V [of the 1844 Constitution] be eliminated, and that paragraph 10 be adopted as shortened at the last committee meeting, but also to include reprieves. Motion seconded.
Farley moved an amendment to omit the time limitation on reprieves. Amendment seconded and accepted.
There was a discussion of the burden on the Governor of considering the many cases that come before him. Mr. William Miller stated that if the applications for full pardon were separated from
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