The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-30

1t be proper for your committee 10 unuei,
take to do so, but this form of an outline
contract has been adopted as the pest
method, in the opinion of your commit
tee, of placing before the citizens the SUP
ject matter under consideration.
The proper contract to be entered into
by the city authorities must necessarily
be prepared and revised by those IA
charge of the city departments, VINO VIII
have before them the necessary deIalIs
for such a contract and the assistance OF
the engineers as experts III such maV
tiers.
In said contract it will be necessary to
protect the interests of the city by the
specification in the contract of the guam
tity, size and quality of the material TO De
used in the construction, extension, nc,
newal, aud repair of the water plant, anu
which must necessarily be supplled ny
the experts in charge OF that department.
Your committee have adopted in the
above outline of the contract now SUP.
mitted the theory of a separate source Oh
supply for this city. If the joint source
of supply as above mentioned should be
considered more favorable, the CONTRACT
would be necessarily changed in that par
ticular.
1t is the understanding of your commit
tee that the power of the city to make a
contract is at present limited by law to a
term of twenty-five years, and as the CON
tract above outlined has been made TO
cover the full period allowed by law, no
provision has been made for a renewal
thereof as it might vitiate the entire con-
tract as being ultra Uircs. ,
AS TO RENEWALS.
Your committee suggest, however, that
a separate agreement should be entered
into between the city and the water COM
pany (made in consideration of the above
contract) by which the contracting party
should agree at the termination OF the
term of the above contract to renew the
same at the election of the city, and sug-
gests that it might be advisable for the
city to obtain legislation in order that a
contract might be entered into which
would protect the city in case it desired q
renewal of the contract.
Your committee wish to report that 1t
is their opinion that the right to purchase
at n time the entire plant of the con-
tracing party or in case of a joint supply
a proportionate part thereof, should re-
main open to the city, and it is their
opinion that the right to purchase for q
limited time would result in the city's not
taking advantage of 1t within the time
provided by the contract, and wtuld thus
result in the city's making a contract VIZ
tually without any right to purchase
whatsoever, and it would thereby lose oil
chance under any circumstances OF ever
owning its water supply.
In conclusion, your committee desire to
say most e~mphatically that the contract
contemplated should be made only with q
party of sufficient responsibility, and that
they do not regard the Montclair Water
Company, as now constituted, a proper
party with which to make such a con-
tract, nor of sufficient responsibility.
1t would be impossible for your COM
mittee to give the subject matter submit
ted to them other than a general atten-
ton and study, as the matter involved is
too great in detail to be mastered unless
given close study and entire attention
during a period much longer than can be
taken by your committee, and then only
with the assistance of experts familiar
with the details and the principles in
volved. .
Respectfully submitted,
LOUIS V. BooRAEM, Chairman,
l.. J. GORDON,
JOSEPH A. DEAR,
J. u. CARsCALLEN.
NEW YORK, July %, 1889.