The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-21
BOARD OF STREET OF WATER COM
MIssIoNERS.
OFFICIAL. PROCEEDINGS.

Commissioners, are hereby fixed as the time
and place when and where the BOARD Of
Street and Water Commissioners will meet
to hear parties interested in said
application, and all remonsttances
against the said improvement that
may be presented in writing, and that
the Clerk of this Board is hereby directed to
publish in the official papers and to post in
the manner and for the length of time re-
quired by law notice of said application and
filing of preliminary sketch and of the APP
pointment of the above named time and
place for hearing,
Whereas. The awards made by this Board
for the opening of Pavonia avenue from Gar
rison avenue 70 West Side avenue have been
paid.
Resolved, That the improvement be made
and completed in such manner as petitioncd
for under the supervision of the Commission
ers of Assessment, who are thereupon di-
rected TO report the same to this Board,
together with the actual net amount of the
final assessments be made for said opening.
Whereas. An application and offer was
made to this Board on the seventeenth day of
July, 1898, by the National Docks and New
Jersey Junction Connecting Railway Com
panies, looking to the vacation of a portion
of Railroad avenue and the establishment of
grades in Wayne street and Railroad avenue,
all as shown on sketch accompanying said
application; and
Whereas, This Board met on the seventh
day of August, 1898, to hear, consider and
adiudicate upon all objections which should
be presented against said proposed improve
ments, and
Whereas, While no objections were pre-
sented in writing. all citizens who appeared
in the matter we're heard; and
Whereas, This Board having considered
all the objections that have been raised and
having adiudicated upon the same, does
hereby determine that neither all nor any of
them are sufficient; and
Whereas, Said companies have filed with
the Clerk of this Board an offer dated
August Z, 1898, supplemental to that pre-
viously presented. in which further conces-
lions are made to the city;
Whereas, The elevation of the railroad of
said company as proposed is necessary to
secure greater safety to persons aud property
in Jersey City and to facilitate the construc-
ton and maintenance of other than grade
crossings of streets. highways and other rail-
roads therein. and in the judgment of this
Board is best adapted to secure the safety of
lives and property and to provide for other
than grade crossings of streets, highways and
other railroads in Jersey City and to pro-
mote the interest of said city; and
Whereas. 1t is necessary for the purpose
that the portion of the street known as Rail-
road avenue and Academy street. hereinafter
mentioned. be vacated and the grade of
Wayne street be changed, as hereinafter
mentioned; therefore it is hereby
Resolved, That said proposition and offers,
dated July II, 1898, and August Z. 1893, be
and are hereby accepted by the Mayor and
Aldermen of Jersey City the municipal cor
| poration aforesaid, and that the National
Docks and New Jersey Junction Connecting
Railway Co.: may elevate their railroad in the
manner and as therein set forth, and a con-
tract is hereby entered into accordingly with
the said railroad company under the provisions
of the Act of the Legislature of the State oil
New Jersey, approved March 10, A. D.
1874, entitled, IAN Act to authorize any
city of this State to enter into contracts with
railroad companies whose roads enter theii
corporate limits whereby said companies may
relocate, change or elevate their railroads,
and when necessary for that purpose to va.
cate. change the grade of or alter the lines OF
any streets or highways therein" and the
supplement thereto, approved March 8. AID,
1893, and for the purposes aforesaid, and a.
part of said contract it is hereby
Resolved, That so much of the stree
known as Railroad avenue and Academ,
street. as is bounded northerly and southern,
by the side lines thereof, easterly by a line
drawn parallel with the easterly line of Ere
mont street, produced northerly and distant
400 feet easterly at right angles therefron
and westerly by a line drawn parallel with
said easterly line of Fremont street, produced
northerly and distant 1926 feet; ~easterly a
right angles therefrom as said Fremont stree
is shown on the official Title and Assessment
Map, dated 1882. Of that part of Jersey Cit
formerly constituting the CRY of Bergen, b
and the same is hereby vacated; also
Resolved, That the grade of Wayne
street for seventy-five feet along the sam.
between the side lines of the located route o
said Railway Company be SO depressed al
that at the center line of said located rout,
such grade shall be one foot and six niche
below the grade established April %, 1874
as shown on the plan and profile annexed tt
the petition, which form a part of this reso
luton, and that to accommodate the adjoin
ing parts of said street thereto the grade o
WAYNE street be and the same is hereb'
changed and established as follows: Be
ginning on the easterly curb line of Fremon
street, at an elevation of fifteen and forty
five hundredths feet above Jersey City bas
line, thence easterly on a uniform descending
grade to the west right of way line of sal,
located route of said Railway Company at al
elevation Of twelve and forty-three hundredth
feet, thence easterly on a level to the cas-
right of way line of said located route at tn
same elevation, and thence e~asterly on a uni
form ascending grade to the westerly cur
line of Merseles street at an elevation c
fifteen and seventy-three hundredths fee,
all as shown on said plan and profile heret
annexed, such being the change in the grad
of Wayne street required by the city /
order to carry into effect said contract.
Resolved, That $3.50 be paid to Franc
NJ. Rostwick, being return of money deposit
ed for preliminary expenses on sewer i
Arlington avenue, from Bay View avenue t
Myrtle avenue.
Charge improvement.
Resolved, That $3.50 be paid to Dodge
Co., being return of money deposited fl
preliminary expenses on improvement of 81
Paufs avenue. from Tonnele avenue
James street.
Charge improvement.
Resolved, That the following sums
paid to the persons hereinafter named fl
services as inspectors on improvements. :
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