The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-02

row in the name of the city from time to
time as required, and to issue temporary
loan bonds therefore to be signed by
the Mayor, &C., in anticipation of taxes
to be levied during the current year, and
that the amount of said bonds shall be in
cluded in and paid out of tax levy next
hereafter to be made"
THE ITEM STRICKEN OUT.
The Board of Education assumed that
the Board of Finance meant what it said,
and after the resolution had been vetoed
by His Fraudulency and passed over the
veto, men were employed to do the work
on the school buildings. They are still
busy. They may not have found out yet
that they are working entirely on specu-
lation, and that 10 means OF meeting
their bills has been provided.
When the Board of Finance got down
to the preparation of its fearfully and
wonderfully made tax levy it found a
series of pressing claims left over from
this year that had to be provided for.
They were the results Of a series of pur-
posely designed shortages in last sum-
mer's budget. The street cleaning de-
street lighting and election deficiencies
We're among them. They were all got to-
gether and embraced in that item of
SS9, 1854, which figures in the tax levy as
for the payment of bonds"
The original amount of that item was
S104, 900.
The $4,000 of school repair bonds made
up this difference between the $4,000 APP
propriated and the $104 900 asked.
The Board struck it out, SO that no pro-
vision is made in the coming tax levy to
meet the bonds. The financiers thought
in striking it off that they were merely
taking it from their summer tax levy to
carry it in next summers budget. That
was in pursuance of the policy they had
been pursuing all through.
HooDWINKING THE LABORERS.
But they did more.
They made it impossible to put the
schools in repair this summer unless the
workmen engaged upon them are willing
to continue work and run the chance OF
never being paid for it.
The act under which the $4,000 apprO-
priation was ordered made by the Board
of Finance in June provides only for the
issuance of temporary loan bonds to be
paid out of the next ensuing tax levy.
The resolution of the Board in June
directed the issuance of loan bonds in
anticipation Of taxes to be levied during
the current year." and that the bonds
should be .'included in and paid out of
the tax levy next hereafter to be made"
The ''taxes to be levied during the cur
rent year are those provided by the new
budget" and ''the tax levy next here
after THAT is, after June 10l to be made"
Wednesday morning.
These bonds are not included in the
budget, and under the resolutions they
cannot be included In any succeeding
budget. The failure Of the Financiers to
embrace them IN Its levy of this week
destroys the appropriation altogether,
and those who are doing work on the
schools are working without official
authority and can make no legal claim
for payment for their services against the
city authorities.
TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN.
The Board of Finance, in order to pave
the way for the making of the repairs,
will have to do over again all they have
done. The Board of Education will have
to make another requisitfon; the Finan-
ciers will have to grant it again; the
Mayor will probably have to veto it, and
the financiers will probably have to pass
it over the veto.
This must all take time. The summer
will have flown before all the red tape can
be worked again and the season for the
repairing OF the schools will have passed.
The contractors who are at work may
continue at work in the hope that the ap-
preparation will be re-made; but then they
are running the chance of it not being
done, or if it be done of the supervision
being taken from the Board of Education
and given to the Board of Works, which
was very anxious to capture the $15, 900
when its expenditure was authorized.