The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-05

city OF BayOnnc TO point III the hlli
Won Kull in the southerly boundary Of
the county at or near the line of Avenue
B in the said cityof BayonDe if extended.
EXPENSES OF THE SURVEY.
II propose that these surveys be made
under my direction by assistant surveyors
chosen from the surveyors in the county,
best qualified by long practice in the par
are required, and that these
surveyors be paid by the day
for each day actually employed only.
said employment to include the furnish
ing of all necessary instruments. all as
sistants not exceeding in any case four
for each in the field, all the notebooks,
drawing paper and material for plotting
notes of said surveys. The compensation
to be paid for such employment to be at
the same rate per diem which has been
fixed upon and agreed to by surveyors to
this county for many years for work done
for private individuals, viz For sur
veyor, per day, $40 for surveyor and one
assistant, per day, SIS; for one surveyor
and two assistants, per day, SIS; for sur
veyor and three assistants, per day, $2l;
for surveyor and four assistants, per day,
S24; for craftsman assistant, per day,
81. so.
tThis method seems to me to promise
the best results in accurate surveys, with
the least cost to the county. l therefore
request that you authorize the employ
ment from time to time, under my di-
rection, as may be needed, of such sur
veyors and fix the compensation per
diem.
1T will be necessary that copies of the
portions of records in the Registers Of
flee of the county and the tax offices of
the several municipalities be made in
order to determine true ownership, last
price paid and mete and bounds of lands
to be taken along The line. l request au-
thority to employ, or, behalf of the coun-
ty, as may be neeued, two clerks at q
compensation of So. 80 per diem for each
day actually employed to perform this
work.
CLERKS WANTED.
81 also desire the immediate services of
a CHIEF clerk in the Engineers Office and
person for Office work and attendance.
and for these positions nominate for chief
clerk John H. Cable, salary suggested for
this position 81 500 per year. and second,
for office work and attendance, N. ".
Wilson, salary suggested S45 per month
For surveyors would nominate Emmett
Smith, N. D. Wortendyke. Frank H.
Earle, James Moylan, Charles B. Brush,
Thomas HI. Mccain and Lawrence Tivy."
The Board accepted the report, and by
resolution made the appointments and
provided for the necessary paraphernalia
required by Mr.. Harrison.
TYPICAL EXTRAvAGANCE.
AS much as two months ago The j Err
SEY CITY NEWS published the fact that
the funds in the incidental account had
been exhausted and that this fund would
have to be replenished in the old fashion
of robbing Peter TO pay Paul" This in
cidental account, as has been repeatedly
said, is an avenue for more evtravagance
than any other account of the Freeholders.
OstensiDly it is to meet simple incidentals
that are bound to occur, but in reality it
is the fund used to pay unnecessary help
whose names do not figure on the pay
rolls, and TO pay for other extravagances.
70 cloak the real object of this Incl
dental account the small appropriation of
$l6,500 was made. A casual observer
would consider that q fair appropriation,
but when that amount is exhausted it
has got to be Kept up to meet the secret"
expenses of the Board, and this is done
by transferring moneys from other ac-
counts to the incidental account.
Yesterday this was done in this manner
A resolution signed by Messrs. German,
Noonan was presented and adopted. 1t
was as follows:-
Resolved that all the unexpended balances
of the following named items OF appropriation
of the Board be and are hereby transferred,
namely
First item, courts;
Second item, jail court house, &C.;
Third item, lunatc asylum;
Fifth item, aims house and annex;
Sixth item, smallpox hospital
Seventh item, incidentals to county institu-
tions;
Eleventh item, fees to coroners;
Twelfth item, expenses of election;
Thirteenth item, advertising and printing:
Sixteenth item. Park Commission expenses;
Twenty-third item, temporary loans;
Twenty-fourth item, County Road bonds;
Twenty ninth item, permanent improvements; /;
TO THE NINETEENTH ITEM, KNOWN AS
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES, and that hereafter
all bills and claims against the county be paid
out of and charged against said appropriation
for incidental expenses.
This delightful scheme places in the
hands of the Freeholders about S110, 900 to
expend as they please, whereas, if it had
been permitted to remain for the pur-
poses it was appropriated for, the Free
holders would be without dollar to pay
heelers. In consequence, the objects for
which the money was appropriated will
be sadly neglected, or else the Board
knowingly made the appropriations too
great for its necessities.
MORE OF IT.
These little, but significant resolutions,
were also adopted
"Resolved, That the sum of S12, 2,35116 be
transferred from the nineteenth item of appro-
priations, known as incidental expenses to the
fourth item of appropriation, known as Peni-
tentiary.
Resolved. That the sum Of S1,7l6.73 be trans
ferred from the nineteenth item of appropria-
tion, known as incidental expenses, to the thir-
teenth item of appropriation, known as station
cry and printing"
resolution to raise $1,000 on tempo
rary loan bond to bear three per cent. in
terest to pay for the repairs to the county
road between this city and Harrison was
introduced by Freeholder German and
adopted. This was but one more evil
dence that the Freeholders have mis-
managed the county funds.
The Board adjourned to meet next
Thursday.