The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-19

Received and referred to the Committee
on Concurrent Resolutions.
From the City Collector.
Communication, That he has received in
his office for collection the following assess
ment maps:-
Sewer in Henderson street, Fifteenth to
Seventeenth streets, $1,875.
Sewer in Ocean avenue, Gator to Cedar,
S7,442.
Main sewer, Duncan avenue, Westside to
Hackensack River, $11,355.
Improvement, Halliday street from Com
munipaw avenue to N. and N. Y. r. R.,
$S,388.63.
Sewer, Arlington avenue, Bay View to
Myrtle avenue, $2,812.
Received and ordered filed.
From ethe Board of Aldermen"
Resolution to assign certificates of tax
sale.
adopted March 27, 1894.)
Received and referred to the Committee
on Concurrent Resolutions.
From his Honor the Mayor:
MAYORS OFFICE,
JERSEY Cry, N. j., April 4, 1894.
To the Honorable Board of Finance:
GENTLEMEN-I beg to inform your Honor
able Board that | lave this day appointed
Mr.. Jacob j. Detwiller a member of the
Board of Finance of Jersey City for the term
ending April %, 1895, under the provisions
of an act entitled "An act concerning the
government of cities of this State" approved
April 8, 1889, to fill a vacancy in said Board
caused by the operation of Chapter rs of the
Laws of 1894.
'sf FnTEn F. wAssrn,
Mayor.
Received and ordered fled on motion of
Mr.. Simpson.
The following communication from the
late Corporation Counsel was presented, re-
- - -l1-z GloI - T. ox.c Sub
mitted, referred to IN the mi were referred
to the Corporation Counsel:
JERSEY CITY, April IL, 1894.
To the Board Of Finance of Jersey City:
GENTLEMEN:-I herewith return to your
Board the concurrent resolution OF
the Board of Strickland Water Com
missioners, adopted December 4 1898,
requesting the Board of Finance to
make an additional appropriation of three
thousand dollars for necessary repairs to
public school buildings; also concurrent reso-
luton of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners, adopted March 5, 1894, ask
ing for an additional amount of thirteen
thousand dollars to increase the present APP
preparation of one hundred and eight thou
sand dollars for lighting streets and public
places during the present fiscal year, to-
gether with five claims of the New Jersey
Title Guarantee and Trust Company,
amounting in all to four thousand one hun
bred and ninety-one dollars and fifty cents,
tS4, 19I. 5O, being all the unfinished business
connected with the Office of Corporation
Counsel at the expiration of my term.
My opinion upon each of these subjects
was prepared for presentation at the next
meeting of your Board, but because of the
sudden termination of my official term, by
legislative action, I am precluded from for
warding the same to you.
The result of my labors in these partlcu-
lars I viii cheerfully convey to my success
sor, or to your Board, if required.
Very truly yours,
WIN. BRINKERHOFF,
Late Corporation Counsel. =
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.
The Committee on Finance, to whom were
referred the official bonds of Hugh FL.
Abernethy, as Police Commissioner, and of
John Brennan, as Fire Commissioner, re-
ported, recommending that the said bonds be
received, spread at large upon the bond
book and ordered filed.
The report was received, the recommended
tions therein contained adopted, and the
bonds each approved by the following vote
on the call for the yeas and nays by the
President
Yeas-President Hitler, Messrs. Bedell,
Detwiller and Simpson.
Nays-None.
Absent-Mr. Fraser.
The Committee on Concurrent Resolutions,
reported recommending, that che following
resolutions be cOncurred In
From the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners:
1. Awarding to Henry Byrne the contract
for the Improvement of Zabriskie street
from Central avenue to Summit avenue.
Passed March 10, 1S94.)
2. To pay awards for real estate taken and
damages sustained in the opening of Neptune
avenue from Ocean avenue to Bergen
avenue.
Passed April "a, 1871
8. Authorizing the improvement of Ogden
avenue from Bowers street to Congress
street.
Passed April 8, 1s94.)
From the Borard of Aldermen
Concurring in the resolution Of the Board
of Aldermen of Jersey City for assignment
of certificates of tax sale held by city,
under chapter 112, Laws 1886.
adopted March %, 1894
The report was received, the recommended
lions therein contained were each adopted.
and the resolutions were each concurred
in by the following vote ON the call for the
yeas and nays by the President:
Yeas-President Hitler, Messrs. Bedell,
Detwiller and Simpson,.
Nays-NOne.
Absent-Mr. Fraser.
The same committee further reported, rec
ommending that the following resolution
duOpbeu ny uu6 DUdIu VI ObIe0U dHu w dt0k
Commissioners, March 26, 1894, to witt
Resolved, That the Clerk of this Board be
and is hereby authorized and directed to adj
vertise for proposals for the furnishing and
delivering at Belleville and High Service of
about ten thousand 10000 gross tons Of
anthracite coal from either of the following
named mines, to wit: Packer, Jeddo Spring
Brook or Highland, be n-on-concurred in, for
the reason that the names of other good mines
should lave been named in the resolution,
thereby giving other companies an oppor-
tunity to compete. Your committee having
been informed that by the Board of Street
and Water Commissioners calling for bids
for coal from only the four mines named in
their resolution, all competition by pal ties
except the agent for the Lehigh Val
lev Coal Company will be shut out.
The report was received, and the resoIll-
ton of Inconvenience was adopted by the
nays by the President:
Yeas-President Hitler, Messrs. Bedell,
Detwiller and Simpson,.
Nays-None.
Absent-Mr. Fraser-1.
The Committee on Salaries and Claims re-
ported, recommending, resolutions ordering
paid the following claims:
j. w. Harrison, stationery supplies for
City Clerk, S72.50.
Jersey City News, for 500 copies of tax
sale No. 10 for City Collector, S155.
j.. G. News, for printing MARTIN Act"
notices, $40.
T. Y. Brown, for verifying and making
diagrams of land bought by the city at its
several tax sales, S6S.
n Nave for n,,bIichinr Martin ACT