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street, from Summit avenue, to connect witt
sewer to be built in Central avenue.
A. Ordering paid certain claims. (Septcm.
Der IS. 1887
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.
From the Committee on Finance:
JERSEY Cry, Sept. 25. 1898.
Honorable Board of Finance:
Gentlemen Your Committee on Finance,
to whom was referred the petition of Anna
Reuthlinger. to have apportioned certain
taxes and an assessment against lot IA,
Block 934, Zabriskie street. ETC., would re.
specially report. recommending that this
prayer of the petitioner be not granted, this
Board having no power to apportion taxes
or assessments, your Committee having been
SO advised by the Corporation Counsel.
Respectfully submitted,
ALyA A. BEDELL,
r. SIMPSON.
Committee on Finance.
The report was received, and the recon-
mendation therein contained adopted by the
votes of all the members of the Board, FIVE
in number, the yeas and nays having been
ordered and taken.
From the Committee on Concurrent Reso.
lutions:
II The report was received, and the recon-
mendation therein contained adopted by the
following vote on the call for the yeas and
nays:
Yeas-Al the members of the Board, Ave
in number.
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS.
The following resolutions were presented,
received and disposed of as follows:
BY President Hitler, and adopted by the
votes of all the members of the Board, the
yeas and nays having been ordered and
taken:.
Yeas-All the members of the Board, FIVE
in number.
Resolved. That the Honorable Board Of
Fire Commissioners be and are hereby re-
quested to furnish this Board with a list of
claims incurred by said Board of Fire Com
missioners. and which remains unpaid prior
to the beginning of the fiscal year 1892 and
1893.
By Mr.. Bedell, and adopted by the votes
OF all the member of the Board, the yeas
and nays having been ordered and taken:
Yeas-An the members Of the Board, five
in number.
Resolved, That the Committee on Finance
De authorized to borrow, in the name of the
city, the sum of $500, 900 on temporary loan
bonds, payable in accordance with the pro-
visions of a n Act of the Legislature. en-
titled: A Act to authorize cities to issue
temporary bonds in certain cases" approved
February y, 1892, the proceeds from said
loans to be used for the payment of seven
per cent. assessment bonds of the city
falling due on the first day of October next;
and be it further
Resolved, That the proceeds from the
cola of n 49, -. -
issued under the Act of March Is, 1893, by
resolution of this Beard. August II, 1898.
Shall be applied to the payment of the
loans hereby authorized to be made.
Resolved, That a warrant be ordered
drawn IN the City Treasurer in favor Of the
Sinking Fund Commission for the sum of
sixty thousand dollars IN account Of the 25
per cent. of liquor license fees collected on
and after July 1. 1893. and now due said
fund.
Resolved, That Frederick C. Wolbert be
and is hereby appointed as the agent of the
city to take charge of, to let and collect
rentals OF property acquired by the city, or
which may hereafter be so acquired, under
the provisions of the Martin Act, for the
territory situate in old Jersey City, and
lying south of Sixth street, provided, how
ever, that no lease for a longer period than
one year shall be granted for such property
without the consent of the Board of Finance:
and
Resolved, That the Corporation Counsel
be directed to forward to said agents from
time to time a list of the property so &C.
CURED by the city within the territory afore-
said.
Resolved. That Cornelius ]. Cronan be
and &c herehty oarnntrfna n a &LA c-1.< e A.
city to take charge of, to let aud collect
rentals of property acquired BY the city. or
which may hereafter be so acquired, under
the provisions Of the Martin Act. for the
territory situate in old Jersey City, and
lying north of Sixth street, provided, how
ever, that no lease for a longer period than
one year shall be granted for such property
without the consent Of the Board of Finance;
and
Resolved. That the Corporation Counsel
be directed to forward to said agent from
time to time a list of property so acquired BY
the city within the territory aforesaid.
by Mr.. Detwiller, on behalf of the Com
mittee on Concurrent Resolutions. and
adopted by the following vote, the yeas and
nays having been ordered and taken:
Yeas-All the members of the Board, FIVE
in number,
Resolved, That the resolution of this
Board passed September is, 1893, con:
curing in the resolution of the Board of
Street and Water Commissioners, and dated
June 8, 1891, providing for the construction
OF a main sewer upon petition of Chauncey
Holt ct ais, upon the line of Oxford avenue.
from West Side avenue to the Hackensack
River, be and the same is hereby rescinded,
as this Board has been advised BY the Coz.
Poration Counsel that the original resolution
of the Board of Street and Water Commits
sioners is not in accordance with the pro-
cedure approved by the New Jersey Su
preme Court in the Woodlawn sewer case;
and be it further
Resolved, That the said resolution of June
=, 1881. be returned to the Board of Street
and Water Commissioners for correction.
Whereas, Edlow w. Harrison, Theoph-
illus Butts and Michael T. Connolly, the
commissioners appointed by His Honor
William J.. Magic, Justice Of the Supreme
Court, on the application of the Mayor and
Common Council of the City of Hoboken,
upon notice to this city under the provisions
of chapter "a of the laws of 1890, to devise
and carry out a plan to remedy the nuisance
caused by the drainage and sewerage from
the Ravine road sewer being discharged upon
the meadow section of the City of Hoboken,
have a a report to this Board dated
March 81, 1893, submitting their plans and
estimates for said work. and requesting from