May 1886: One of the common ways for an applicant for a tavern license to get enough landowners to sign on to it was “to make freeholders for the purpose,” the Law Journal editors noted. This was done either by conveying deeds on several lots in return for mortgages or by conveying a small piece of land to many people, as in Atlantic City, “where five acres of salt meadow were conveyed to 1,140 persons as tenants in common for the purpose of qualifying them to be signers.”
100 Years Ago
May 1911: The recent Legislature passed a bill that abolished voting machines and substituted instead the secret “Australian ballot,” which had come into wide use in the U.S. in the late 19th century. The Law Journal editors, longtime advocates for the change, remarked, “Of course, the use of such a ballot draws a distinct line between those who have a sufficient education to read and those who have not, but this line is of their own choosing, and is not an arbitrary exercise of any despotic power.”
75 Years Ago
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