The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-17
BOARD OF

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Adjourned regular meeting of the Board
of Finance was held in it's rooms at the
City Hall on Wednesday, December 8,
1887, at s o'clock P. M.
Present = President Brautigam and
Messrs. Bailey, Kellers, Midlige and Simp-
Sor-5.
Absent-None.
The regular order of business was then
PETITIONS, ETC.
The following petitions were presented
and received and they were each dis
posed of as follows:-
turn of S11.50 for payment of water rents,
in error, for year 1897.
Petition of Otto Koehler. for cancellao
ton of sale and taxes on Lots rear 81
and 81, Block 92S-929.
Referred to the Committee on Salaries
and Claims.
The following communication was pre-
sented and received from Robert carey,
attorney for E.. Woolley, and the same
was referred to the Corporation Counsel
Jersey City, MI, Dec. Z, 1857.
Gentlemen-On the third day of De
cember 1 obtained judgment in Hudson
Circuit Court for Edward Wooley gains
the city for $515 and costs.
The basis of the claim was Mr.. Wool
ley's services in connection with the
spring election for 1896, which he has not
yet been paid. Under the election law
the City Clerk is entitled to extra COM
IOAlDhbiO41 IL 5oSA
since the passage of the election law of
1890, the sum of $500 has been appropriated
and paid by the city to the City Clerk at
each election, with h exception of the
spring election of '96. Mr.. Wooney's pre-
decessor. Mr.. Scott, and his successor,
Mr.. O'Donnell, received this amount.
There was a balance in the electlon 1uho
of the year in question of over st, 1000.
l herewith submit to your Honorable
Board a statement of the judgment and
costs. and most respectfully ask that q
warrant be ordered drawn IN aymen Oh
the judgment. l am,
Very truly yours,
CLAIMS. .
The following claims were presented and
received and they were each referred TO
their appropriate committees.
The Jersey City News, s27 ana 800 A. J..
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OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS.
From His Honor the Mayor
Jersey City, N. j., Dec. 2. 1897.
To the Honorable Board of Finance.
Honorable Board, without my approval,
the resolution adopted at your meeting
held November II, 1887, wherein your
Committee on Finance is authorized to
anticipation of the redemption of lands
bought by the Mayor and Aldermen of
Jersey City. at the ale of the City Col
~lector, made November !, 1897, OF lands
for unpaid adjusted taxes, assessments
and water rents; said bonds to be payable
at the option of the city, with interest at
the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, pay
able with the bonds, and the proceeds to
be applied for the certificates of sale of
the property purchased by the Mayor and
Aldermen at said sale, etc
! cannot approve of the practice of is
suing bonds for property purchased by
the city at tax sales. 1t is SO purchased
because private parties are not willing to
pay their liens for which the property is
sold. To make the purchase by the city
a basis for increasing our bounded debt
is not, in my opinion, commendable. If
the law does not compel this course and
l am advised that it does not, it seems
the better policy would be to let the pur-
chase stand without further action until
the time comes for absolute sale. Reso-
lutions of this kind are but the first step
the issue of subsequent tax
bonds concerning which 1 have already
-mmunica my views to your Board.
EDWARD HOGS,
Laid over until next regular meeting of
Board of Finance.
From His Honor the Mayor
Jersey City, December 8, 1897.
TIC the Honorable the Board of Finance
Conference.-The Board of Street and
Water Commissioners having passed, with
a single alteration. the specifications for
d. Lew WsltGL S[PEhS SShSi a NCNOSd, etllQ
their resolution being now in your hands,
I am induced to notice a report made
BY Jour member of your Board and
given publication in the daily press. 1t
says tina to confine the bidding to Plan
"a would prevent competition with the
East Jersey Water Company. This sug-
gestion is sufficient. if true; but it is
met by the fact that Plan IA" is the
only one inserted in previous specifica-
tons, and tina the bidding under those
specifications was not confined to the
East Jersey Company. II it was the in
tention of those who adopted those speci-
fcations to so confine the bidding, it was
not successful. l have no prejudice for
or against this company, and would GER
tainly veto any award of q contract if
there was only one bonafide bidder.
Your insistment upon the clause con-
corning abandonment of CONTRACT is
sufIicient evidence that you nave been
poorly advised. The city could not, upon
abandonment of the work by the con-.
tractor. undertake the completion of it
as provided In this section. While under
obligations for your view of what ..the
ulerest tyre in law knows about this pro-
vision, / must confess my doubt that
YOU consulted q lawyer before expressing
this opinion. And you say, the section
is the one usually inserted in city con-
for improvements. II the city was
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