Senator  Ketcham — Then  the  Joint  Committee  on  Print-
ing, as  1  understand  you,  as  the  result  of  this  inquiry,  can,
when  they  meet  this  summer,  cut  this  all  off?

Mr.  Corbin — I  don't  know  why  not.  But  the  law  does
contemplate  that  portions  of  it  shall  be  printed ;  for  instance,
the  Treasurer's  report  undoubtedly  should  be  printed,  and
many  others ;  but  it  is  the  winnowing  that  I  had  reference
to,  these  tables,  &c.  This  tabular  work  is  a  thing  that  the
Committee,  in  the  exercise  of  its  judgment,  should  have
dealt  with ;  there  is  no  end  to  them  ;  and  I  want  to  call
the  Committee's  attention  to  another  thing ;  if  you  will  read
those  five  volumes  through  some  afternoon,  you  will  find
hundreds  of  pages,  if  not  thousands  of  pages  of  the  statutes
of  New  Jersey  reprinted  year  after  year ;  the  Dairy  Com-


INCREASE   OF   STATE   EXPENDITURES.  975

missioner  prints  all  the  laws  relating  to  him,  and  the  Statis-
tics   Commissioner   prints   all    the    laws   relating   to    him.
f;j'  Now,  there  is  no  sort  of  warrant  of  law  for  printing  statutes

that  way  at  all.  It  would  be  perfectly  proper,  for  conveni-
ence, to  have  a  list  of  the  acts  on  the  back  page  of  their
books,  but  to  print  all   those  laws  over  and  over  again  is

[     ^^         an  abuse,  and   the  mere  elimination  of  those  would  save  a

good  deal  expense.     There  are  in  those  books  newspaper

2  clippings  of  the  doings  of  all  sorts  of  people  you   never

heard   of,  and  rubbish  of  every  possible  style  dealt   up   in

I  every  possible  method,  and  the   State   of  New   Jersey   is

printing  it.
Adjourned  to  meet  at  the  call  of  the  Chairman.
