The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-07-10

At the regular monthly meeting of the
Council of the city of Lambertville, held
July 1st, 1878, the Mayor, Thee. f. Skill
man, returned the ordinance repeating the
ordinance to provide for the readjustment OF
the grades of certain streets, and their inn
provement, passed September 9th, 1915, and
the supplement to the ordinance to provide
for the REIMBURSEMENT of the grades of GER
tain streets and their Improvement passed
April 10Th, 1877" without his approval.
The reasons given are concise and appro-
pirate and merit the careful attention of every
citizen and demand an expression of APP
prevail for the stand the Mayor has taken in
regard to hasty and crude legislation by which
greater burdens of taxation are imposed upon
the citizen instead of reduction.
From the report of the meeting of tho
Council July list, we learn that the veto was
received and ordered placed on file, t on mo-
ton the ordinance was made law notwith-
standing the Mayors objections"
Any one reading the veto message and
observing the reception and the haste by
which the ordinance of repeal was made a
law, IDubL dTTlR6 db bDt COUCluSlOH; Iudb Viz
legal majority" Of the present city council,
apparently have assumed to themselves, to be
wise beyond precedent and that all former
labors and experience in regard to grades and
drainage for the streets of this city have been
for naught; the conservative and restraining
power that has been vested in our worthy
Mayor to protect the minority in their vested
rights and to maintain justice and equality for
all has been overridden and turned to
mockery.
A commission consisting of our best citizens,
viz DR.. Samuel Lilly, Thomas B. Fider and
Col. Asa H. Heath, was duly appointed by
previous council to fix upon and establish
grades for the city of Lambertville and to
work understandingly and entirely without
pecunary or political bias. They procured the
services of an Engineer from the city of Tren-
ton, who had experience and practical skill in
this peculiar branch of his profession, and he
made report SO complete and satisfactory
that the committee adopted it, presented it to
the Council and by them it was incorporated
with the laws and ordinances of the city, and
for the past year and half it has been
accepted and conformed to by citizens build
ing and improving their property, and now
to repeal this ordinance and have nothing
permanent to work by, but to feel that the
town is dependent upon the whim, caprice,
carelessness and perhaps inability of the Sur
veyors for the city to follow any fixed method,
destroys confidence and depreciates all kinds
of property.
Other acts of imbecility of the majority of
this present Council are the repeal of the or
dinances relating to the sale of liquors, where
by revenue is turned from the city treasury:
also the repeal of the ordinance in regard to
the vending and firing of crackers, &C., within
the city limits.
The repeal of this ordinance jeopardized
property in the city to the extent of $25, 900
and increased the risk of insurance rates of our
citizens at least $500. Old age and sickness was
most shamefully and nhumanly tortured by
the unusually loud explosives in the hands of
those who risked their eyes and limbs in a
very senseless and short lived enjoyment
The ordinance in regard to explosives was
prepared and passed nearly year ago and to
be repealed before the good effects could be
made manifest, shows trucking or weakness
that must be felt throughout the business
community, and destroys all confidence in the
4 ability of our city rulers to maintain and sus,
tain the true interests of our people,