The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-22
THE NEWS OF BAY0NNE.
CITT OFFICIALS RE-ELECTED AT
THE COUNCIL MEETING.

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Coucilman Kelly, of the Fourth Ward,
Talks About a Big Six Combine
Figures for Taxpayers-A Canal Boat
Captain Seriously Injured.
The Bayonne Board of Councilman
transacted a surprisingly large guam
tity of important business within a
short time at its session last evening.
1T got right down to work when Presi
dent Goddard's gavel fell, soon after
eight o'clock, and before two hours
elapsed all the city officials, save two,
had been reelected, the standing COM
mittees for the ensuing year had beer
appointed, inspectors had been chosen
on the several new contracts, the an
nual tax levy and salary ordinances
had been introduced, and various pc
titions, communications and reports
of officers had received attention.
City Clerk Hamilton was absent
having been detained at home by
the serious illness of one Of his chill
dren, and his place vas filed by CITY
Engineer and Surveyor smith: "A
hundred or more citizens hlled the
lobby.
A notice of c~ertiorari proceedings in
the matter of the Ingham avenue SER
vice was referred to City Attorney
Fuller. A remonstrance from prop
erty against the
through Lord avenue OF q sixteen
inch iron sewer was sent to Il Com
mittee on Water, Streets and Drain
age. with petitions to erect street
lamps in East Twenty-fifth street and
to have gas mains laid in Twenty
second street.
Eight applications for liquor licenses
were presented, an invitation from
James N. Van Buskirk Post, No. 100,
G. A. R.. to participate in the obser-
n of Memorial Day was accepted,
and a communication from Mrs
Margaret Ryan, who said she wanted
nothing to do with the opening OF
West Nineteenth street, as she desired
no improvements and no expense to
her property, was filed.
A VETO ON THE PLANK WALK CON-
TRACT.
Mayor Newman sent in a veto OF the
Boards action in awarding John L.
MCINTYRE the contract to build the
proposed plank walk from the Port
Johnston coal docks to the Oil re-
fineries at Constable Hook. He en-
closed a report from City Attorney
Fuller stating that the Board could
not legally expend any of the city's
tax levy funds for such a purpose.
He stated that he favored the walk,
and would cheerfully subscribe should
the project of its erection be properly
taken in hand. He also believed there
would be no difficulty in getting the
walk built.
Street Commissioner Sanford re-
ported that the city's dock or. the
Newark Bay shore, at the foot Of West
Twenty-ffth street required repairing,
q portion having been washed away
by the spring tides. The matter was
referred, as was an application from
Hope Hook and Ladder Company, No.
2, for a new apparatus, the one the
company has had for over a dozen years
being useless.
Resolutions were passed as follows
By Councilman Scofield-Appropri-
ating $4,000 for the support of the
poor; $4,000 for street repairs and the
care of the citY's horses, and 81 200 for
the Board of Health, the several
amounts to be taken from the liquor
license fees of. the present year.
BY Councilman Meigs-Granting the
police their usual summer vacation.
By Councilman Sanford-Appropriat-
ing $175 to James N. Van Buskirk
Post, No. 100, Ct. A. r., 70 T the obser-
vance of Memorial Day. City Treas
urer Lords annual report was received
and filed and the annual tax levy and
salary ordinance were introduced, the
schedules being as follows
Tax levy-Public schools, $25, 900;
police, $40, 900; Fire Department,
$4,000; salaries of city officers, 81, 800:
lighting streets and public buildings,
$40, 500; books and stationery, print
ing and advertising, 81, 1000; making
removal of garbage, 81, 500; legal and
contingent expenses, So, 900; repairing
and watering macadamized roads,
So, 500; registry and elections, $500;
insurance, $3.50; Commissioners of APP
peals, 1926; Supervisors of Taxes, $125
interest on City of Bayonne bonds,
$13, 8O5; on road construction bonds,
ST., 800; on sinking fund bonds, So, 500;
on sinking fund refunded assessment
bonds, $3.50; on Avenue D road con-
struction bonds, 5000; on improve
ment fund bonds, SIS, 900; on refunded
assessment bonds, $9,850. Aggregate,
$133, 1876.
Salaries-Clty Clerk, 81, 800; City
Assessor, $1,000; City Collector Of
Revenue, 81, 500; Street Commissioner,
$1,000; City Treasurer, so, 1000; Re-
corder of Police Court, $1,000; City
Attorney, $1,000; Water Purveyor,
81, 200; Assistant Water Purveyors,
5000 and $500; Overseer of the Poor,
$500; Chief of Police, $1,50O;
Police Sergeant, 81, $50; Police
Roundsman, $3.50; Patrolinen, 5000
each; Janitor of the City Hall, $500;
Driver of the City's Horses, $500.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
The Board then went into election
for city officers, the affair being cut
and dried by a combination of the six
city fathers, from the First. Second
and Third wards. Councilman Kelly,
of the Fourth, relieved the monotony
of the balloting with frequent anus
ing ~salliesj levelled at his fellow un-
fortunates, and mock pleading to the
big six combination.
Councilman Meigs began the minuet
by nominating Charles l.. Lord, for
City Treasurer. Mr.. Lord was reel
lected bya vote of eight to two blanks.
Similar ballots reelected Michael
O'Connor as Water Purveyor, Henry
J, Stilson as City Assessor, David B.
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