The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-20
ACCOUNT OVERDRAWM
Therefore Mayor Wanser
Will Sign No More War
rants for Street
Repairs.
WAIT FOR LICENSE MONEY.
The Street and Water Board Once
More the Recipient of a
Joyous Ticker From
His Honor.

The following letter explains itself. 1t
was served on George Bouton. Clerk Of
Street and Water Commissioners today
To the Honorable the Board of Street and
Water Connliss ioners:-
GENTLEMEN
Permit me to cali the attention of your
Board to the condition of the account in
the matter OF the special account for the
repair and improvement of paved streets
and public places.
The Board of Finance and Taxation at
meeting held September 9, A. d. 1891.
resolved as follows:-
''That the Comptroller be and he is
hereby directed to set apart one-half OF
all license fees received for licenses to sell
spirituous or malt liquors from July l.
1891, to July 1, 1892, or any part of said
account of the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners for the repair
and improvement of paved streets in ac-
cordance with the provisions with the
new Charter of 1889 and chapter 1874 of the
laws of 1891. said one-half of such license
fees being hereby appropriated to this
Board for the purposes aforesaid"
The provisions of section 6, chapter 134,
laws of 1881, read as follows:-
"Ahd be 1t enacted, That 1t shall be
lawful for the Board having charge and
control of the finances in any city of the
first class TO appropriate and set apart
annually with the consent of the Mayor,
tor the period Of six years from the date
hereof or from the time this act
becomes applicable, out of the
license fees received In such city for
licenses to sell spirituous or malt liquors,
ope-half thereof for the paving, repairing
and improving Of paved streets and public
places in such city. and said moneys
when SO appropriated shall be
disbursed, applied and ex-
pended for such purposes exclusively by
said Board of Street and Water Commits
sioners and by no other board or author
ity, nor for any enterprise whatever.
THE MAYOR QUOTES FIGURES.
From the records in the Comptroller's
Office and from The annual report of the
City Comptroller for the year ending De.
cember 1. 1891, the following Data is OBJ
tainable TO this special ACCOUNT
Cash on hand July /, 1891. ..... S13, 1928 90
Cash received from July /. 1891,
to April 30, 1892. ...;........ 11S,095 81
Total. S131, ,918 Sc
Amount expended from Juty1, ~
1891. to April 80, 1892. ....... $131, ,53S IS
Warrants drawn and not
charged or signed by Comp
troller because of no money
to pay same. e............,.... s47a5s 1s
Thus the net amount of war
rants and awaiting payment
is............... .......... 46,97s 90
"In the Comptroller's report on page 20
will be found a statement of this special
account at the end of the fiscal year, No
vember 30. 1891. In such statement it ap-
pears that there was a balance on hand
November 30, 1891 belonging to this spec
Il ,,;u
sequently be seen that since November
80, 1891, this balance has been exhausted
and the amount of $47.25S.18 has
been placed in warrants with no
funds to pay same. 1t appears
from the foregoing that your Board has
expended in cash available. and in
amounts represented by unpaid warrants,
$17S, ,796. 76. since July l, 1891.
WORK ON THE STREETS MUST STOP.
Whatever may be the construction on
the resolution of the Board OF Finance
or the section of the statute of 1891 above
there is no available money to
meet any current payments on
this special street work, and as there will
be none available until after July /, 1902,
when license money becomes payable,
and because the advertising for
will not sign either any resolution or
warrant incident to the special street
work until after July l. 1892, and not
then unless your Board and the B GARD of
Finance and Taxation au d have agreed
upon some plan as to the present deficit.
This plan must be adopted before I ap-
prove any resolution dealing with the
license fund accruing after July l. 1899.
as the resolution of The Board
of Finance and Taxation appropriating
and setting apart this license money can
become operative only with the consent
of the Mayor. You will doubtless see the
necessity under the existing conditions TO
Immediately stop all work on the street,
ard public places for which improvement
this special fund was appropriated and
set apart. Very truly,
p. f. WANsER,
Mayor