The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-12-17
HOARD OF STREET AND WATER
COM AIIsSIONERS.


BOARD or STREET AND MATER
COMMISSIONERS.
lOfleial PROCEEDINGS :
f~Continuea.l
Ayess-AH the member Of the Board.
five 10 in number.
The COMMITTEES on Engineering and Sur
yey presented the following
Resolved That the services OF E. S..
Emerson, Byron S. Fairchild and Joseph
F. Mclean. as assistants IN the Bureau OF
Survey, be and are hereby dispensed with.
Resolved, That Byron Fairchtld be-
ana Is hereby appointed chairman in
the Bureau OF Engineering and Survey
at q salary IF $40 per month.
The foregoing were each separately
ADOPTED by the following vote on the call
for the ayes and nays
Ayes-An the members Of the Board,
five % in number
The Comrnittee on Assssmenta and Ex-
tensionSspresented the folioWing:-
Resolved, That E. S. Giberson and Jos
eph r. Mclean be and are hereby APP
pointed as general clerks in the Water
Department of this Boafd.
Adopted by the following vote ON the
call for the ayes and nays
AyeAComInissioners Kaiser. Harding
and President Brown.
NaysGComnissiolers Boltwood and
Heintze.
Resolved, That the salaries Of general
clerks in the Water Department appointed
ILLS q Dc Liz DIRE ffeTeDy uNed dL go
per month each. &c. s. Giberson and
Joseph P. McLean.l
Adopted by the following vote on the
call for the ayes and nays:
Ayes-Al the members Of the Board, five
| % in number.
Commissioners Kaiser moved that the
Board nov adjourn to meet Thursday, De-
cember 9, 1886, at ten O'clock A. NJ.
GEO. +. BoUToN.
Clerk.
Street n Water Commissioners held
Thursday, December 3, 1886, at ten o'clock
PresentAAIl the members Of the Board,
| five f1 in number
Commissioner Kaiser moved
THAT a recess be taken for Is minutes,
and that during said recess the Board re-
solve itself into q Committee OF the
The motion was put and carried and the
President designated Commissioner Kaiser
| Whole.
the Board We're present. :.
Commissioner Kaiser, as Chairman OF
Committee of the Whole reported pro
Commissioned Kaiser moved
THAT the Board do now adjourn to
meet Friday, December 4 1886, at ten
the Committee of the Whole be contin-
Carried.
The President declared the Board adj
GEO. T. BoUToNs
Adjourned meeting OF the Board Of
Street and Water Commissioners, held
Friday, December 4, 1896, at ten o'clock
A.. NJ.
Commsssioner Kaiser, as Chairman Of
ana on behalf Of the Committee OF the
Whole, presented the following report,
Jersey City, December 4, 1895.
To the Hon the Board Of Street and
Water Commissioners.
Gentlemen-Your Committee Of the
| Whole TO whom was referred on August
"a. 1895, the several proposals for a supply
of water and the communications received
that day on the same subject. respectfully
report that they have carefully and de-
liberately examined, compared and con-
sidered the same, and they find that the
proposals We're made after due and lawful
/ of Jersey City, and that the East Jersey
Water Company is a responsible bidder,
and that the proposal of said company,
entitled Port Dram and Beach Glen bid
on plan B, with one fifty million gallon
pipe" Is in due form and contains the
terms most advantageous to the city of
all the proposals offered: and they are of
opinion that said proposal ought to be
accepted and the contract awarded to said
bidder. They therefore recommend the
adoption of the following preamble and
resolution
Whereas, This Board did duly advertise
in the official spa of Jersey City
for a new water supply for Jersey City
to be presented on August "a, 1895, on
which day proposals were accordingly pub
licly presented, received and opened ac-
cording TO law, and the East jersey
Water Company g responsible bid
the terms most advantageous TO the city
by its proposal below mentioned.
Resolved, That the proposal in writing
presented to this Board by the East Jersey
Water Company, entitled Proposal for a
new water supply for Jersey City" pre-
scented August "a, 1896, Port Dram and
Beach Glen bid, under plan p, with one
fifty million gallon pipe be and the same IS
hereby accepted, and a contract awarded
to said company accordingly; and the Cor
poration Attorney with the approval of
the Corporation Counsel is hereby d.
rected to prepare a contract to carry into
effect this award ard the specifications
upon which said proposal is founded.
Respectfully submitted.
RICHARD BROWN,
JOHN C.. KAISER.
GEO. w. HARDING,
Committee of the Whole.
Commissioned Kaiser moved that the
report be received and ordered filed, and
that the preamble and resolution therein
| contained be adopted
Adopted by the following vote on the
call for the ayes and nays
observation-disclosures Kaiser, Harding
and President Brown.
observation-disclosures Boltwood and
During the call of the ron, commis-
sieners Heintze, Boltwood and Kaiser
severally explained their votes.
On motion the Board adjourned:
GEO. T. BoUT0N.
Clerk