The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-15
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS

OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS.
From the Corporation Attorney
TIC the Honorable Board of Street and
Water commissioners
Gentlemen herewith submit to your
honorable Board a form of contract
for a new water supply for Jersey City
Water Company, in accordance. with the
terms of the resolution adopted by your
Board at your meeting of August Is.
1895. which resolution was in
by the Board of Finance at its meeting
held September S, 1895, and approved by
his Honor, the Mayor, on September 16,
1895. have submitted a opy of this
form of contract to the counsel of the
East Jersey Water Company, and he
has agreed to accept the same.
Respectfully submitted.
SPENCER WEART,
CORPORATION Attorney,
Jersey City, N. j., October 8, 1896.
The foregoing was endorsed as fol-
I have approved of the form of com
tract submitted to me by the Corpora
ton Attorney as stated in his communi-
your Honorable Board for its action.
Very respectfully,
Cooperation Counsel.
FORM OF CONTRACT.
The following is the form of con
This agreement made this - day
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called cales the comp Seay,V witpn hess hleinAi' -
l. The Company agrees to provide a
new water supply for Jersey City, for
Of delivery Of water hereunder. d
Pequannock water taken from the Pc
quannock bpipe line noy carrying water
that Is to say, the water available Is
the Pequannock water to the capacity of
said pipe above the requirements Of the
the extent of their contract requirements
at the time of the making of this con-
water by a pipe line or lines, which they
will construct from a point on the said
Of 9BeiIe1iile. P Essex ne County 1T IN n. j.. acrose
the Passaic River, to q point at or near
the reservoir b%elonging e the City in
N. T., and will there deliver the water
into existing water mains belonging to
the the City dSa near Ear tie Rsli eSTner of KenfFny a tbe
Company for the performance of this
contract is to have the right to make
Iaads ef i the the esis cify R RI fhe ana nei @alnT aod
of the City's said reservoir, SO far as the
same are appropriate and available for
Tie puTpOSS, dliQ UPON liO y
the contract such use shall terminate.
and the .City's said pipes, mains and
lands shall be restored by the Company
as far as the same can be done to their
present condition. The Company will
give to the City. the advantage of the
full pressure and head which now ex-
lists in said Pequannock pipe at or near
Belleville, being a head of about three
hundred and fifty feet above tide water.
which win average a head Of about three
undred and thirty-five feet at the point
of delivery, at the corner of said Kearny
avenue and Belleville Turnpike. The
Company will deliver water under this
contract within six months from signing
of this contract, unless delayed BY It'll
cations, strikes or other unavoidable ac-
cidents, and in case of such delays, the
time lost thereby shall be added to said
term of six months.
8. The city agrees to take the water
aforesaid as soon as the ompan is
ready to deliver the same and to use
the same for a new water supply for The
term Of one year from the beginning
Of the delivery Of water hereunder. It
being understood that the city is to take
only so much OF said water as the City