The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-17
COUNTY Legislation,
Boulevard, Parks and
Crushed Stone-Doings
of the FreeholderS.

Freeholder Kimmerly remarked las
night at the meeting of the Board of
Freeholders that lit feels natural and
home like to be here again" The occa'
ton was the first meeting the Freeholder
had attended since his serious illness.
Clerk Boyd read q communication from
the Board of Health, which contained a
repor setting forth the amounts that
have been expended for the erection of
the new hospital for contagious diseases.
The report showed that $40, $50 had been
paid aud that each payment lac been
made on the certificate uf the architece
that the money was p properly due.
I-NTER-CoUNTY TRANSIT.
Application was made by the JERSEY
City & Hoboken Electric Railway Com
pany TO lay tracks In this County. The
cation Co the Board was signed as fol-
lows: James A. Morrison, Vice Presi-
dent; Charles H. Russell, Secretary and
Director; Thomas b. Jordan. Direc-
tor; Otto H. Johnson, Director;
Frank Irving. John S. Strong aud Will
lam M. Ince. Directors. Tine Company
proposes to run its tracks through Ber-
and it will enter Hudson at the
junction of the Hackensack Rive and the
Paterson Plank Road. After passing
through North Bergen and West Hoboken
the road will 60 down theP Paterson Plank
road to Summit avenue and thence to
Congress street and along the Paterson
Plank road to First street, Hoboken,
where the jurisdiction over streets by the
County ends. The matter was referred to
the Committee on North Bridges and
County Roads.
Architect Kreitter notified the Board
that work on the new asylum would be
resumed within a few days.
LEGISLATION SECURED.
Judge McGrath On behalf of the Legis-
lative Committee made a report which
showed that every bill the Freehol6ers
were interested III became a law. These
bills were:-
First, to increase the Boulevard appro-
priation-
Second, to build a branch road in Wee
hawkep, to form a loop OF the Boulevard.
Third. The right to sell old material and
stone. This bill, the Judge said, was Bit
terly opposed bv the company which is op-
Grating a quarry at Snake Hill. Senator
DAILY and the Assemblymen from Hudson
were appealed to but they turned a deaf
ear to the Judge and he said last nigh hit
that If il had not been for outside infu-
ence the bill would not have become a
aw.
Fourth. The act known as the Park Re-
peaIer. 1t provides. Judge McGrath said,
that the Collector shall pay back in pro-
portionate amounts to the different mu-
inequalities the money that had been paid
to him on account of public parks.
BOULEVARD APPEALS.
Judge McGrath said further that he
had been served with a notice by Jacob
Ringle that the award Of the Commits
sioners of Condemnation of Section 3 of
the Boulevard to him would be appealed
from to The court, and also that tomoI-
row Judge Lippincott would receive APP
plicatious to fix the compensation OF the
Commissioners of condemnation.
Freeholder Nelson asked Judge Nc
Grarh If the dissatisfied properly owners
could apply to the court collectively or
individually, and If one case could
be made a test case that would
govern all. The Judge replied that such
action could not take place; that each
separate piece of property. whose owner
believes it to have been unjustly dealt
with. must appear on its OWE merits in
the court; that a decision in one contest
ed award would not be regarded as q pre-
cedent. The awards were made by Com
missioners appointed by the Court, and
each appeal will have to be tried before a
ST. uck jury.
EXPERTS FEES.
Freeholder Nelson said he had received
q uumber of letters asking him why the
Board did not pay the tees of the experts.
He said that these fees were in many
cases exorbitant. as much as fifteen dol
lars a day having beer charged. He
asked what the Board intended to do in
these cases. Director Bruggemann in
formed him that all these bills had to be
certified to as correct, by the Chief
Engineer, before they could be paid, and
that no exorbitant fees would be allowed.
Clerk Boyd volunteered the informa-
ton that Chief Engineer Harrison had
returned a number Of these claims be-
cause the charges were excessive.
At a meeting held two weeks ago Di-
rector Bruggemann vetoed a claim of A.
w. Clayton for 1869 for desks furnished
to the Registers office. Last night, by a
unanimous vote, the veto was sustained.
The Board authorized the purchase of a
WACO for the Almshouse, the cost not to
exceed $500.
1t was decided without argument to
advertise for proposals to supply the
County with crude oil and the Board ad-
iourned to meet next Thursday at half
past four O'Clock. AT two O'Clock on the
same day the Committee on New County
Roads will hold an Important meeting.