The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-11
POLICE COMMISSIONERS.
official Proceedings

POLICE COMMISSIONERS.
Official Proceedings.)
Regular meeting of the Board of Police
Court. Thursday, March %. 1895.
Present-All the members.
Minutes of last meeting approved as
PRESENTATION OF coMMUN1cA-
T1ONS AND PETITIONS.
and disposed of as follows
Communication from Chief of Police.
enclosing letter from Directors of the
ton and the detectives and officers sta
toned there for the good and efficient
service during said show.
Communication from Corporation Coun-
sci, giving his opinion in relation to PEN
sion law.
Ordered spread on minutes.
JERSEY. CITY. March 81. 1896.
To the Honorable Board of Police Com
m-issioners:-
Gentlemen.-The Clerk of your Board
as to the meaning of the first and second
sections of an act entitled, San act
providing for the pensioning. of police
officers and policemen in certain cities@of
the State, and regulating the method
by which the same may be accepted
and become operative in said cities"
question has been accepted by a vote
of the people of this city in accordance
with the last section thereof, and is
therefore, in full operation here. There
able constructions of these sections, and
| give you that which appears to me
70 be the only one allowable. By the
hrst section your Board may, at your
pleasure, and without any action on
the part of the member of the force.
retire any member upon half pay, pro-
vided he has attained the age of sixty
years., and shall lave honorably served
pom such force twenty years.
The power IS entirely discretionary
with you, and you can retire such mem,
Der whether he desires to be retired or
not. or whether he is still competent to
10 the required service. The retirement
is made without any action being taken
on the part of the member SO retired,
The age he has attained and the char
acter and length of his service being the
only necessary conditions required for
The second section of the act makes
It mandatory upon you BOARD to retire
any member of the force who had at
tanned the of fifty years. and who
for twenty years upon his making VOL
untary application to the Board asking
for such retirement under this section,
The question of retirement is a matter
for the member of the force himself to
determine until he passes the age OF
sixty.
the right of a member to be retired who
has complied with ITS provisions, is not
confined to the point of fifty years, but
runs thereafter. After the age of sixty
years he would come under the provi-
sions of the first section, and then your
Board might, at its discretion retire him
without application. or do so upon his
application.
There is to my mind no force in the
suggestion that The membe of the force
should make application for retirement
dftieth year or within a year thereafter,
or else his right to be retired under sec
ton two of said act. Very truly yours,
Communication from Veterinary Sur
geon Autenreith, recommending that the
three sorrell horses be sold as unservice-
able.
PRESENTATION OF CLAIMS.
Claims were presented and referred te
the proper committees, as follows
5ss. 80; pay rolls of Police Justices and
Court Clerks for March, s61S.66; pay roll
If sick and pensioned officers. March,
g94.50.
Referred to Committee on Salaries,
Gopsill & vanderhoof. coal. to First
Referred to Committee on Fuel.
G. H. Ss5par,ingsted, feed to department.
Referred to Committee on Feed of
Horses.
prison and First precinct, March, $142. IS.
Deferred to the Committee on Feed and
Prisoners.
gs, ! m Mug 81 2 <; incidentals' February
Referred to Committee on 1~ncfdentale
for Chief.
Western Union Telegraph Company,
o April S4;The United Gas improvement,
Co., SUPPLIES, January to March, $3.50
E. Louke, one seal and press, March, IS;
Wood & Asanagh. supplies, February, $l4
Referred to Committee on Supplies TO,
Peter H. Taylor cleaning at It'll Precincr
station, March, s1s: Brinkman & Hauk.
repairs to wagons, March, $500; William
Andre, repairs at 9Th precinct, station
February and March SIS. 50; Fred unger
$3.50. Referred to Committee on De-
pq3rtImIennt Repairs and l Inciasatalsim .ror
Hospital. March. $3.50. Fred Schober
meat to Hospital, March, $199.57; A. A.
lsnyth, groceries to Hospital March,
a So. 81 sa march. B!sssks .Syy:: Morrow Hfasa sF Z pas
bread to Hospital, February and March
S6o.5 NJ. Abernethy, medicine to Hosptta,
March, s22o.s4; e: @; o sse sge p Inei s en- { 3
Hauck, repairs to wagon, FEBRUARY and
March, sl4.so: D. Steele & Son.
supplies to Hospital February, ss.S5
December and February, $50. rs.
T. C. Brown & Van Anglen Co., dry
goods TO Hospital, January and Feoru-
j. P. Landrine. supplies to Hospital
John f. Clarke, printing and stationery
March, $99 40.
Referred to Committee on Printing and
Stationery.
AUDITING CLAIMS.
TIL following claims having been re.
ported correct by the committees tx
whom they were referred and on motion
warrants were ordered drawn on City
Treasurer for the following Mount by
the following vote. the yeas and nays
having been ordered and taken:-
Ayes-All the members present.
Committee on Salaries
Pay rolls of Department. 27,5S3.63.
Pay rolls Police Justices and Court
Clerks, $616.66
Pay rolls sick and pensioned. s944.50.
Committee on Fuel
BIOS ms.A siEs;o. SIS. ss7, and $3.50, Hoboker
| Coal Co, 800; GopsiM & Vanderhoof, 81. so
Committee on Feed of Horses
C. H. S~pringSted, $97.2l.
Committee on Feed of Prisoners
Alex Watson, $142.6 5; Peter Began, S2S. so
Committee on Inc.dentals for Chief
benjamin Murphy, $1,000.
Committee on Photographs of Prison
ers:-
j. H. Kern, $50.
Committee on Putting in Metallic Cir
n. Y. and N. ]. Telephone Co.. s21.04.
Committee ON Supplies for Station
yanderbeek & Sons. s7O.s2; s. NJ. Jen
sen, S10.63; Western Union Telegraph Co.
81; The United Gas Improvement Co.
$3.50 r. Soekle. IS; Wood 6 Menash
- - Go be continued.)