The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-29

Street and Water Boafd November 20, 1882.
Is. Ordering paid certain claims, passed
December 8, 1892.
II. Ordering paid certain claims passed by
the Street and Water Board, January ~,
1898.
IS. Ordering paid certain claims of Hugh
Dugan for $79.70, passed by Street and
Water Board January 30, 1898.
19. Ordering paid certain claims passed by
Street and Water Board December II and 10,
1892.
30. Ordering paid certain claims, passed
May II, 1893.
81. Ordering paid payrolls Re-Assessors
for April, $500; laborers on meters, $623.33
Water Registrar, 1914. 98; laying and
repairing pipe, February, So, 1898. %; laying
a AND E e. isSs. pipe March, ss'Ss0.s''
20. Ordering paid salaries of re-Assessors
for May, 1892, 5000; Passed May 20, 1892.
%. Ordering paid payrolls Belleville and
High Service, 81. 69S. so; and
General Superintendent, etc., for April,
1898, 81 1875. Passed May s, 1898.
From the Board of Aldermen:
Resolution assigning to Frank Stevens GER
tain certificates of sale of lands sold for I'M
paid adjusted taxes, passed by said Board on
March I. 1898.
Report received and the recommendation
contained therein adopted, and the resolution
adopted by the following vote on the call for
yeas and nays:
Yeas-President Hitler and Messrs. Be
dell, Detwiller, Fraser and Simpson (6).
Nays-NoDe.
Absent-None.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
The communication of his Honor, the
Mayor, relative to the appointment of him of
William M. Obergfell as a member of the
Board of Education Of Jersey City from the
Second (2d) Aldermanic district received at
the last meeting, was taken from the table on
the motion Of Mr.. Simpson.
Mr.. Fraser moved that the appointment of
William NJ. Obergfell as a member of the
Board of Education of Jersey City from the
Second Aldermanic district for the term of
two years from May1, 1893, to succeed Mr..
Michael P. Moran, whose term expires May
/, 1893, be confirmed by this Board.
The motion was adopted by the following
vote on the call for yeas and nays:
Yeas-President Hitler and. Messrs. Be-
dell, Detwiller, Fraser and Simpson (5).
Nays-None.
Absent-None.
The President then declared William M.
Obergfell as a member of the Board of Edu-
cation of Jersey City from the Second (2d)
Aldermanic district duly confirmed by this
Board.
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS.
BY Mr.. Simpson, and laid on the table on
motion Of. Mr.. Fraser.
Resolved, That inasmuch as the Board Of
Aldermen by law control the City Hall and
by reason thereof should have at their dis
posal whatever monies have been heretofore
appropriated for the purchase of fuel and
lighting and cleaning the building, this Board
do hereby order and direct the City Comp
troller to transfer to the Board of Aldermen
for the purposes aforesaid, commencing June
1, 1893, out of balance of appropriation to the
credit of this Board the following, to-wit:
From printing stationery and supplies,
5000. {
From salaries, 81, 140.
BY President Hitler, and adopted by the
following vote on the call for yeas and nays:
Y~eas-President Hitler and Messrs Be-
dell, Detwiller, Fraser and Simpson (5).
Nays-None.
Absent-None.
Resolved, That the City Treasurer and
City Comptroller be directed under the provis-
ions of chapter SO of the laws of 1893 to set
aside and keep apart out Of the license fees
received and to be received by the city from
July 1, 1899, to July /. 1898, for license to
sell spirituous or malt liquors or to keep res
taurants or hotels, one-half thereof for the
repaving and improving of paved streets and
public places in this city, which monies are
hereby appropriated for the purpose mentioned
in said act with the limitations set forth in
these resolutions, as in the judgment of this
Board there are not sufficient funds otherwise
provided for that purpose; and
Whereas, bills have been presented to the
city and passed and warrants ordered drawn
therefor to various parties for repaving, re-
pairing and improving streets and public
places and furnishing labor and materials
therefor to the amount of about forty-eight
thousand dollars, and other parties claim to
have similar bills for labor and materials
amounting 2to-the sum of about sixteen
thousand dollars, which two classes of bills
are claimed to be equitable liens against said
unexpended license fees, and
Whereas, This Board desires that all proper
claims against the city on said accounts
should be paid if, the same can legally be
done,
Resolved. That in making said appropria-
ton this Board hereby instruct the City
Comptroller and City Treasurer to retain
out of said license fees above set apart and
appropriated the sum of sixty-nine thousand
| dollars above recited, when the legal stains
thereof, including the right to pass the same
out of said license funds above appropriated,
shall have been ascertained and passed upon
| by the law officers of the city,
By Mr.. Bedell:
Whereas, N. P, Wedin served as assistant
clerk in the First District Court for the
months of August, September, October,
| November and December, 1885,, and January
and February, 1898, or seven months in all
without having his salary therefor properly
| fixed at the amount for which he had
previously been paid by resolution Of the
| Board Of Finance;
Resolved, That the salary of said Wedin
as said clerk from August 1, 1892, be fixed
| at seventy dollars per month, payable only
out of the fees collected from district courts.
Resolved, That a warrant be drawn on
the City Treasurer in favor Of N. 7. Wedin
for four hundred and twenty dollars for
salary as assistant clerk in the lFirst} District
Court for the months September, October,
| November and December, 1892, and January
and February, 1898, six months in all, the
same to be paid only out of the fees collected
from district courts.
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