The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-26
BOARD OF
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS

and simpsons.
The President here directed the Clerk to
cali the name of John d. Fraser, and the
latter not being present, the Clerk was in
structed by the President to record iir.
Fraser as an absent member.
OF THE U
The reading of the minutes of the special
meeting Of April 10, 1904, was dispensed
with and said minutes were approved as en-
crossed in the minute book on motion of Mr..
Simpson.
PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS.
Petition of CarscaIlen & Cassidy for the
return of $A overpaid in error for taxes for
1894.
Received and referred to the Corporation
Counsel.
Communication from James A. Gordon,
attorney for John w. and James Peach, re-
questing payment of judgment of 1884. 81,
and costs 500 46, obtained against the city
for goods furnished the Police Depart
nient,
Received and referred to the Corporation
Counsel.
Resolution from the Joint Outlet Sewers
Commissioners, requesting that 1929. 81 be
paid to Patrick O'Neill for work done, etc.,
in the construction of joint outlet sewer be-
tween Jersey City and West Hoboken.
Received and referred to the Committee
Oh Concurrent Resolutions.
The following official bonds. duly ap-
proved by the Corporation Counsel, were pre-
sented, received and referred to the Com
mittec on Finance:
Of James H. Lord, Tax Commissioner,
in the sum of $40, 900. with Horace H.
Farrier and Andrew Mcknight as s~ureties.
And of the following constables, each in
the sum of 81 900:
Joseph Locke; s%ureties, John McCarty
and Ernest j. Leonard.
William Hogan; s%ureties, John Sheridan
and Henry Byrne.
John Glynn, IT,, s%ureties. Philip Tumulty
and Henry Ewald.
Daniel T. Barrett; s~ureties, Jurgen H.
Adelung and George Bannon, Jr.
Edward H. Martin; s%ureties, Frank Roch-
| renbeck and Thomas Cogan.
Frederick P. Budden, Jr.; s%ureties, Philip
E. Martin and Horace II. Farrier.
Michael A. Shannon; s%ureties, Jacob Faller
and Herman Friese.
PRESENTATION OF CLAIMS.
The following claims were presented, re-
ceived and referred to their appropriate COM
mittees:
Jersey City Printing Company, 1926 so:
| Jersey City Herald, $429;; Collins & Corbin,
IS. 092. Al; New Jersey Stats Zeitung Com
pany, $429;; Kent K. Stearns. $116.50;
James S. Erwin, $50. "a.
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS.
From His Honor the Mayor:
Mayors Office.
JERSEY CRY, April 10, 1894.
To the Honorable Board of Finance:
Gentlemen-I herewith return without my
! approval the resolution passed by your Board
at its meeting held March 16, 1894, to wit:
Resolved, That warrants be ordered
drawn on the City Treasurer in payment of
salaries for the month of March, 1894, when
due, as follows:
''$416. IS to William Brinkerhof, Cor
poration Counsel.
1921 Sc to James S. Erwin, Corporation
Attorney
have given in previous communications
to your Board a sufficient number of reasons
why these alleged claims should not be paid.
Very respectfully,
PETER f. WANsER,
Mayor.
Laid over until the next regular meeting.
The following resolutions from the Board
of Street and Water Commissioners were
| presented, received and referred to the Com
LultlGC On SOuCuIICul NcSOiullOuS.
/. Ordering paid certain claims.
Adopted April 16, 1894.
q. Awarding contract to James !. Harring-
ton for the improvement of Wilton street,
between southerly line of Communipaw ave-
nue. and a point $50 feet southwesterly there
from.
Adopted April 16, 1894.
8. Awarding contract to Henry Byrne for
4Lo ,1.c+~,,,F.o, &c 4, Oh ,,1b I~,oIr oval au,ar
in Manning avenue, from a point about So
feet from Johnston avenue to and connecting
with sewer now being built in Grand
street.
4. To advertise for about 10, gross
tons of anthricite coal from either of the
following named line :-Jeddo, Glenwood,
Highland, Parker, Consolidated or Spring
Brook, to be delivered at Belleville and High
Service Pumping Stations.
5. To rescind the resolution adopted No
vember 20, 1894, ordering paid the claim of
the ]. G. Supply Company for $240.
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.
The Committee on Finance, to whom were
referred the following official bonds, reported,
recommending that they be received, spread
at large on the bond book and ordered
filed.
Bonds of the following Constables:-Mich-
ael A. Shannon, Frederick P. Budden,
Jr., Edward H. Martin, Daniel L. Barret,
John Glynn, Jr., William Hogan and Joseph
Locke. :
Bond of James H. Love, Tax Commits
sioner.
The report was received. The recon-
mendations therein contained were adopted,
| and the bonds were each approved by the
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