The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-09-11
F~reehOlders Meeting.

Ihe Board of Chosen Freeholdefs for TIL.
county held their regular meeting i'll tho
court house at Salem on Wednesday. Tho
Board was called to order at half past tel
O'Clock and the usual routine of bushes,
connected with bills gone through. A
bill of Justice Goforth for costs in the OK
animation into the sudden death of Louella
r. Filler was presented and ordered paid.
Freebooter Humphreys, chairman of the
committee on the bridge now being built
in South Woedstown, over the pond, re-
ported the change that it had been neces-
sary to make III the s~ubstricture and the
following agreement, which was entered
into between the committee and the con
tractor, was accepted by the Board.
Memorandum of agreement made this
Brown, representing the firm of Brown
& Lucius, of Paterson, Passaie Co., M.
and the committee of the Board of Chosen
Freeholders Of Salem Co., n. J..
Witnesseth. that said Brown agrees Il
put into the substructure of tile Main St
bridge at Woodstown about 10 piles, tel
inches at the butt, to be driven solid, cut
off square on top, capped with II inch by
12 inch timber, well secured to each pile
by a , by IS inch drift bolt, said caps to bt
covered with 10 inch timber sawed on two
sides, laid close and spiked to caps with
inch by Is incl drift bolts. This founda-
ton to take the place of the 20 inch crib
work as agreed on in contract for sale
bridge. All other stipulations of the
original contract to remain intact except
that the masonry of both abutments shall
be 10 #. 2 inches high. For this alteration
said committee agree to pay to said Brown
in full consideration the sun of six hun
bred dollars. ($600. 00)
Chas. o. Brown, c.. B. Humphreys,
C. Edwin Bassett, Chas. r. Burt.
Witness to signatures. II. B. Riehman.
An application from a religious colored
society for the use of the court house fol
the purpose of holding meetings therein
for a week was referred to building com.
mittee.
On motion the resolution that the com
n.ittee on PENIS Neck bridge should dc
no further work on that structure unless
ordered by the board, passed at a former
meeting, was reconsidered, leaving the
committee free to act as before the resolu-
ton.
On motion the resolution passed at last
meeting that the board of prisoners be re-
duced from so to 40 cts. was r~econsidered
The Board adjourned for dinner and re-
convened at / O'Clock. TheCounty Collee-
tor stated that the funds at the disposal OF
the Board were running short and on mo-
ton, he was authorized to borrow So, 00t
forsixty days.
The next question taken up was that OF
the bridges over the canal in Penn's Neck,
which were viewed by the Board at
special meeting held last month, when
action was deferred until the regular meet
ing. The bridges are only of mile apart
and one of them is badly in need of repairs,
The question discussed was that of making
one bridge accommodate all the travel
Those in favor of one bridge were represent.
ed by G. II. Sinnickson, ESD, and the
citizens in favor oil maintaining the bridges
as they now are presented a petition to
that effect, numeroasly signed. After some
discussion between Mr.. Sinnickson ano
Henry Wright, of PENIS Neck, the follow.
ing resolution, passed by a vote OF seven Il
five, was adopted.
Resolved. that in view of the fact that
the present two bridges across Salem creel
canal are so near each other, it isthe opinion
of this Board that only one bridge across
said canal is necessary.
On motion, it was ordered that a com
mittee be appointed to act in conjunction
with the Solicitor Of the Board to make thu
necessary application for the vaeating o
the bridge in question, which will be TIN
upper one. Freeholders Humphreys
Broadway and Burt were named as the com
mittee.
The bids for the iron bridge ordered owe
Alloway creek at Hancocks Bridge, whicl
will be 1874 feet long. We're then opened
Forty applications were made for specifi
cations but only five bids We're presented
as follows:
1. Penn Bridge Co., Beaver Falls, Pa
Completed bridge, inclined cord, $1,000
Straight cord 80, $50.
2. Aver Machine Works, Salem, 70
Phoenix Bridge Co, Plienixville, Pa. Com
pleted, bridge, s11, PA.
3. King Iron Bridge and Mfg Co
Cleveland, Ohio, Completed bridge, sS.s77
90.
4. Riverside Bridge and Iron Co, Pater
son, n. j.. Completed bridge, $4,000.
). Canton Bridge Co. Canton, Ohio
Super-structure only, 50, $50.
On motion it was ordered that the kine
Iron Bridge Co, build the bridge. Afte
the motion had passed the representative
of this Company stated that he had neglect
ed to include the planking in his bid. ant
that the cost wonld be s240. ad
ditional, making the total cost of the bridg
SS,5lI.92