ASSEMBLY STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE

 

STATEMENT TO

 

ASSEMBLY, No. 4825

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

 

DATED:  DECEMBER 12, 2022

 

      The Assembly State and Local Government Committee reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 4825.

      This bill provides a supplemental appropriation of $150,000 in Grants-in-Aid funding to the Department of State for the Old School Baptist Church and Meeting House located in the Borough of Hopewell, Mercer County. 

      The Old School Baptist Church and Meeting House was originally built in the late 1740s on land donated by John Hart.  Mr. Hart, one of five delegates from New Jersey to the Second Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is buried in a cemetery that is part of the church property.