The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-23
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS

Chambers. City Hail, tuesday. Deem
o Der u, iss5, The ron was Called at {
Present-President Simpson and Alder
men Cainon. Connolly Dohrunann. Gui-
SHa' hlsfl'7 Wilson a0 snda w Mtieaeh' Ross
Alderman Mccarthy was absent at the
calling Of The roll, but subsequently, APP
The minutes of the regular meeting
OF November 26, 1885, were approved as
printed In manuel form.
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS. ETC.
Presentations. etc. were presented and
Remonstrance of Peter B. Kendall and
others against the franting of a restaur-
ant license at n. ". corner Boulevard
Referred to- Committee OF Excise.
c s1ye % ppli ation ! for n H.
transfer Of 9 %restaur Ssl P p ! LOT
(See reports subsequently, made.
Referred to Committee on Excise.
peddie and one d application for public
posters license.
lSee repor subsequently madel.
Referred to Committee on Excise Lii
Communication from District Assembly
ne. aS, Order Of Knights Of Labor. ask
Ing an surface railway, cars. etc.
Received and ordered filed.
PRESENTATION OF CLAIMS.
Claims We're presented. received and
disposed of as follows:-
s11.75; Hammers & Tedemann, sas.5 So: II.
Leonard. So. As; Ernest Smith. $50; VIM.
H. speer, $3.50; Charles H. Clark. s11.7e
Referred to Committee on Aims.
United Gas Improvement Co., $73.9
Referred to COMMITTEE on Baths and
ArmorieS.
of VIM. H. Allen, 81; John Masker. s24;
John H. Mitchell, $24.
Referred to Committee on District
OF Henry Atkinson, s21; A. C. Dieterle.
81; E; r. Dunlap, 81; David j. Gibson,
SIG; VIM. .Kremer. 81.
81 osfs Wms f. E GaGlIm en' e. Sao glset M* Bl,z-
ard, $25; John Chatham, 1885; ]. C. Print
ing Co, $S: United Gas Improvement Co.,
Referred to Committee on Printing,
Stationery n Supplies.
OF ]. c. Electric Light Co.. s115.51 and
$l431.
Referred to Committee on Public
Grounds n Buildings.
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS.
h following Communication from
the Coronation Counsel was presented,
tered in run on the minutes and placed
on file:-
TO the jersey gssr = City y A] y. J.. Deg fsr1 70; 1872 49,.
GentlemenI am in receipt Of your
resolution of the 18th of November last
asking my opinion whether your Board
ment has the right to pass an ordinance
limihsr TO- the ordinance existing in
the city of Newark. which imposes a
Consolidated Traction Company. The
Consolidated Traction Company is a com
pany organized and existing under an
act of the Legislature of 1893, and is the
owner and successor of the rights, privil-
eyes and franchises of the Jersey City
and Bergen RAILROAD Company as Lessee;
The nrdinan0 nf 1870 a1bfhnTiNinr TINT
company to lay tracks on certain streets
in jersey City, contained the following
clause:-
Section 7. That after the construction
of the said single tracks and urnou it
shall be lawful for the said ompan
% 81 r more sn acree o oafS So se Sc u pra~n obt nx Gng
from the Clerk of the Common Council
a license for each carr; and In consider
municipal advantages the said company
shall pay annually to the said Clerk
the. sum of ten dollars for each car,
and before such car shall be permitted
All subsequent ordinances authoriz-
road COMPANY to lay tracks through the
streets of Jersey City contained practi-
cally the same clause.
part of the consideration to be paid by
the company to the city for the privi-
leges granted under such ordinances.
L lAO ief AAf0 V4 NLAS SthS AAAl 49,
ion Of the work by the company was an
acceptance of the ordinance and an its
conditions and provisions. This is true
of all subsequent ordinances as well
Traction Company as lessees assumed all
the original lowers and liabilities of the
Jersey City and Bergen Railroad Com
pany, and under such assumption they
ought to be required to pay a incense fee
of ten dollars per car.
Outside of an agreement between the
companies to pay such a license fee as
part of the consideration for the prfvi-
leges granted and the protection afford
ed. I doubt if the city has the power
pecially with the object of raising rev.
enue.
The power to enforce the payment of
this fee. by, resolution OF Otherwise, is
of this city. 1t was placed there by the
act Of 1891.
Very respectfully.
JOHN A. BLAIR,
The report of the inspector Of Build
ings for November, 1896, showing the
the aus's0ee erection new buildings, al
teatations etc-. valued as fol-
Second ward, 8. $1,700.
Third ward, 1, SITS.
Fifth ward, 6. $751;
Sixth ward, 4, 81 1895
Seventh ward, IS. SIG, S8S.
Eighth ward. 2. $2,235.
Ninth ward. 5. $3.50.
Tenth ward, II, $31, 800.
Eleventh ward, 8, $3.50.
Twelfth ward, s, $12, go.
Total, 81; amount, $115, 643.
The report of the Inspector of Scales,
Weights and Measures for November, 1896
showing the inspection of s. scales,