Clipping:The incorporation of the Champion Club of Jersey City is vetoed
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| Date | Saturday, March 13, 1869 |
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| Text | [a letter from the governor explaining his veto of the incorporation of the Champion BBC:] GENTLEMEN–I feel constrained to return to the House of General Assembly, Assembly bill No. 106, entitled “An act to incorporate the Champion Base Ball Club, of Jersey City, Hudson County,” without my approval. The fourth section of the bill authorizes the Club to give “exhibitions of feats of strength, and all games requiring skill and science.” I respectfully submit, that with the existing diversity of opinions as to what constitutes “skillful and scientific” games the section of the bill may indirectly sanction and legalize that which the long established laws of the State have made illegal. The ninth section of the bill gives authority to the “Club to appoint, from time to time, one or more fit persons “ who, upon certain prescribed and easily performed conditions, are invested with constabulary powers which may be exercised upon the grounds of the Club and in the immediate vicinity thereof. I cannot sanction, by any act of mine, the delegation of so important a power as that of the arrest of citizens to persons who may be appointed without sufficient care or at the caprices of a private corporation of the State. The evils growing out of the unduly guarded exercise of such a power–always to be most carefully exercised–are too manifest to need further reference at my hands. Were it proper to confer upon a corporation of the State such discretionary power, it will hardly be urged that the minor corporations should be given that which the greater could scarcely obtain–or if obtained, then guarded as to the number of appointees, their fitness for the service required, and their more direct responsibility to the municipal or other authority, for acts performed. If your honorable bodies, upon reflection, deem the incorporation of base ball clubs and similar societies (beneficial no doubt when properly conducted) or sufficient importance to engage your deliberation and thought, I hope you may concur with me in the propriety of confining such organizations to the exercise of the simplest powers consistent with corporate existence. Respectfully submitted, THEO. F. RANDOLPH, Governor |
| Source | National Chronicle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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