The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-10
BOARD OF FREEHoLDERs.
CONCEAL Proceedings.)

Official Proceedings3
Regular meeting of the Board OF
Chosen Freeholders of Hudson County
held in the Court House on Thursday,
Present at Tpil-caal-Director Heller.
and Freeholders Cronin. Cullen, Dietz,
Kenny, Heating, Kelly. Klein, McNally'
Mccomb. Riordan and Rippe-17.
Absent-Freeholders B~indernagel, Eich-
horn, Maefarlane and Percy
On motion of Freebooter Cronin, Free
holder Macfarlane was excused from
the meeting.
Freebooter Cronin moved that, the min
uteS of the meeting held Thursday, sept.
5, be approved as printed.
Adopted.
PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS.
To the Honorable the Director and mem
bers of the Board of Chosen Freehold
ers of the County of Hudson
Gentlemen-I hereby tender my reslg
Thanking the Board for past favors
shown. l remain.
Eliza FoTTERL.
On motion Of Freebooter Cronin the
same was received and accepted.
From Charles A.. Darts. asking per
Public Road. south of Tower Hill ave-
nue., in the Township of Union.
F~reeholder Groth moved the commu-
nication be received and referred to the
vi 4 oOiiS 1SOdo.
REPORTS OF OFFICERS.
From Hon. Job H. L%ippincott in the
matter of application for payment OF
compensation to Herman Kreitler, ar
chitecs. WHIP vas appointed by this
Court to supervise, etc. the erection OF
County under the act. and granting
him an allowance of 81, 0s5.5 80.
Freebooter Jordan moved the commu-
nication be received and ordered filed.
From Il; Kreitler. architect, present
and fixtures for new asylum. and also
specification for furnishing the wood
floor to the new asylum in oil and var
nish was received. and on motion OF
Freebooter Ripe approved.
Question being. taken on the motor
Yeas-All the members of the Boar
p~resentt-17.
Observation-Disclosures Bindernagle. Eich.
horn, Macfarlane and Percy.
The Director declared the motion adop-
ted.
From Hugh Dugan, Esq; County Col.
lector, presenting opinion of A. Q. Gar
retson, as follows
Jersey City. Aug. u. 1895.
Hugh Dugan, Esq, County Collector:
Dear Sir-You have requested my
opinion as to your duty as County Col
lector under IAN act to provide for the
erection of monuments commemorative
of the services of the soldiers and sail
ors of the late war, inc author. zing ap
preparations for such purpose" approved
May 8. 1883. with respect tot the dis
bursements of moneys appropriated by
the Board of Chosen Freeholders OF
Hudson county under said act. This &C
which is Chapter 21 of the Laws o.
1889, in the first section authorizes ths
Board of Chosen Freeholders of Hudson
county to appropriate 5000 for the
erection of such monument. The sec
ond section expressly limits the ex-
penditure of such appropriation unit
the veteran associations of the county
have raised at least s., $500. and by i'm
plication prohibits the expenditure OF
any money appropriated by the count
for the purchase Of a ste for sucf
monument, by providing thatt any par
of the money 50 raised by the veterans
may be expended in the purchase of &
site.
monument h be located and erected
namely by a committee to consist of no
more than six members, three of whom
h be members of the Board of Free
holders and three by the Grand Army
posts in the county and approved by thu
board.
The act has been executed in part
5000 has been appropriated by thu
81, 500 has been raised by the associations
of soldiers and sailors. A COMMITTEES
has been appointed in conformity witt
the direction of the third section of tbs
~. ' SitS OcClt PuTCldS6Q anu Id
moneys yet authorized to be expended
towards the erection of such monument
but as I understand, you are now re
quested to pay over the whole amour
of such appropriation to one designated
as the treasurer of the committee.
1t seems to me that you are not au
thorized to make such payment. Tht
act nowhere provides for any person tt
and disburse the same. The propeI
disbursing officer of the county, t.
wit. the County Collector, is tn,
proper disbursing officer of the money,
under this act, and 1T should be dis
bursed by him only to carry out the pro
visions of the act, namely, towards the
erection of the monument provided fol
in the act, and for nothing else.
1t seems to me that the method in
which this should be don is the same
method that is pursued with regard tc
other work undertaken by the county
where work and labor is furnished to the
county without contract a bill must be
made out and sworn to, passed by a pro
drawn by the Board of Chosen Free,
holders: where work is done under con-
tract the contractor presents his claim
for payment, and when the same Is pass.
work, the Board orders a warrant and
payment is then made.
Work is frequently done under super
vision of joint committees of the Board
of Hudson county and adjacent counties,
ard it seems to me tina the plan adopted
for ~thepay1nent of such work under the
authority of sue practice would be be
a proper precedent to follow in his case
If the monument is erected by contract,
upon presentation of acclaim by the con-
tractor and approved by the committee
appointed under this act, the Board
should order a warrant drawn which
YOU would then be required to pay. If
no contract for the work is made, then
whoever furnished the work and labor
should makeout a proper bill for the
same and swear to it as required by law
committee and a resolution by the Board
for a warrant to DAY the same, you
should then make payment of that war
rant. Yours respectfully,
Counselor at Law.
Freebooter Groth move the report be
received and printed in the minutes and
a copy given to the Committee on Monu-
ment.
Adopted.
From E.. w. Harrison, Chief Engineer:
Jersey City, September 10, 1895.
To the Honorable Director and Members
of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of
the County of Hudson
Gentlemen-In response to your request
that / report to thte Board whether or
not the New Public Roard is being con-
structed according to specifications, l
have the honor to say that, to the best
of my knowledge and belief, confirmed
by close observation Of the work, that
the specifications are being adhered to
on the this work as closely as it Is prac-
ticable to make labor and material con-
form to the letter of thee ontract. Dur
ing this season about 100000 worth OF
work has been done. OF course, in such
a large amount careless work or ma
terial will get in. The whole extent of
this careless work has not exceed in
n00. oil of this removed when condemned