The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-29
BOARD OF fRgEHoLDERs.


extend at any time upon aud over
sand lands any public street or highway,
new open OF which may hereafter be
| opened or laid out. without any compen-
described In said license upon which such
! extension may be made.
Whereas, The application of the Amer
lean Lumber Co., for a license to build a
dock, wharf or pier In front Of its lands
on the tide waters OF the Hackensack
| river. on the easterly side thereof, having
been presented and read. and referred to
a committees appointed to report on the
merits OF the same. aud the commitfse
having considered the same, and reportssi
favorably on the application, therefofe be
it resolved that the Board of Chosen Frees
holders. Of the County OF HUDSON, grRne
the license applied for, and that the Dis
| rector-at-Large and h Clerk of this
Board be and are hereby authorized and
directed to sign such license.
Respectfully submitted this thirtieth
day OF June, A. d.. 1901.
NJ H~ENNEssEY,
NJ. j. CoYLE.
II. Ii. KIMMERLY.
To all to whom these presents shall
come or may concern. we, the Board Of
Chosen Freeholders OF the county of
Hudson. send greeting:
Whereas. h American Lumber Com
pany, a corporation OF the State or New
Jersey, is the owner Of lands situate on
{ he tide waters of the Hackensack river.
In the city of Jersey City. Ia the county
is DESTROYS of building a dock, wharf or
pier in front of said lands 10 said Hacker
: ack river, to extend beyond the limits Of
ordinary low water mark; and,
Whereas. said American Lumber Com
panv did make an application in writing.
to us the said Board Of Chosen Freehold
ers, OF the county OF Hudson. at a regular
meeting of said Board, held on the
| eighteenth day of June, eighteen hun
bred and n~inety-one. q legal quorum for
the transaction of business being then
aud there present, for a license to build a
dock or wharf IN front of its lands as
aforesaid. the location and dimensions Of
| which said dock or wharf should be as
hereinafter described; and
Whereas, IL appears TO the satisfaction
Of us, said Board OF Chosen ~Freeholders
of the county of Hudson. 0y proof duly
made and filed with the Clerk of this
Board, that due notice OF such application
has been ~iven. by putting up the same
in five Of the most public places in the
neighborhood of said lands, two weeks
before tpe making OF said application,
and by pubiishin2Athe same before said
application for foartesn consecutive DAYS,
exclusive of Sundays, in the Jersey City
News, a public newspaper published in
the county of Hudson, which said notice
specified the time n place Of such APP
DllcHelDUs auQ tu0 1OtAJiDn huu ulLuGn-
sions of the dock or wharf intended TO be
built; IA
Whereas, Said application was duly re
ferred to a committee composed of three
members of our said Board, appointed
for that purpose, TO wit. Messrs. Michael
j. Coyie, Michael Hennessy and Frank
IL. Kimmerly; and
Whereas. Said committee did examine int
the subject matter of said application ana
the premises. n also as TO the location
and dimensions OF said proposed dock or
wharf. and did report to shis Board, at a
meeting held on the thirtieth day of June,
eighteen hundred and ninety-one, a legal
quorum being then and there present, for
the transaction OF business, that the i'm
provement 30 applied for did not appear
to them TO be Injurious to public naviga-
ton, and would not conflict with the pub.
lie right OF navigation, in the waters OF
the Hackensack River, and recommended
that a license hould be granted to said
American Lumber Company. which said
report was duly accepted and approved at
the same meeting, and
Whereas, no objections have been made
to said application, and the improvement
as aforesaid, does not appear to US to be
injurious to public navigation, and will
not Conflict with the right of public navi-
CATION In the Hackensack River.
Now, therefore, we, the said the Board
of Chosen Freeholders of the County of
Hudson. in the State of New Jersey, by
virtue of the power and authority in US
vested by law and particularly by the pro-
visions OF AN act Of the Legislature Of the
State Of New Jersey, entitled "An act to
authorize the owners OF lands upon tide
waters TO build wharves in front of the
same" approved March is. 1851.
and the several amendments and
and by these presents do grant
unto said American Lumber Com
pany, Its successors and assigns, a license,
irrevocable, TO bullo a dock or wharf III
the Hackensack river, Ia front of its
lands, situate on the tide waters OF said
Hackensack river, in the city of Jersey
City, in the county Of Hnnson and State
Of New Jersey, to extend beyond the
limits Of ordinary low water, the location
and dimensions of which said dock shall
be as follOws:-
Beginning at a point in the high water
line of the easterlv shore of the Hacken-
sack river where the same intersects the
division line between lands of Dodge g.
Co. and of said American Lumber Com
| pany; thence running la Il westerly direc-
ton along the southerly line of the grant
made by the Riparian Commissioners OF
the State of New Jersey to said Dodge &
| Co. seventy-tve f75) feet, more or less, to
the exterior line for solid filing as liked
by said Riparian Commissioners: thence
along said exterior line for solid filling in
a southerly direction four hundred 400
feet more or less to a poirt from which a
line drawn at right angles, or nearly so,
TO said exterior line for solid filling. IL
extendended. would strike a point on
said nigh wnter line where the same in
tersects the division liue between lands
of the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern Railroad Company and said Ameri-
can Lumber Company; thence in an east
erIy direction along said line. Ii extended
one hundred 400 feet, more or less, 10 a
point in the high water line of the Hacken-
sack river, where the same would inter-
sect the division line between lands OF the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail
road Company and said American Lumber
Company: thence along said high water
line ia u northerly directionifour hundred
400 feet, more or less. to the place of be-
ginning.
This license, however, is granted up on
condition that the right to extend any
public street or highway now or here
after opened upon u over the lands
embraced therein is not by the license to
be hindered or impaired. but, on the con-
trary. the same is hereby expressly re-
served, it being the intention hereofteI
reserve to the public for the public use
the right to extend at any time upon and
over aid lands any public street or high
way now open or which may hereafter
be opened or laid out without any coma
pensation having TO be paid for the pretnt
fGas dazcrihaH IN aaid licqnSl II non which