The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-07

Anu tnal the Clerk OF this Board be dir
reeted to notify tine Board Of Street and
Water CormanissieneIs of these payments.
From the selme Board
transmitting resolution adopted by said
Board, December ~. 1896, and approved by
the Mayor, December ", 1886.
Resolved, That supplemental to the reso-
luton passed by this Beard at its meeting
held September IL, 1896, the sum of two
Thousand dollars S2,00ol. be and the came
IS hereby appropriated and set aside with
the consent Of theM Mayor oit of the one
half OF Liquor License Money available
for the repairing ard repaying of paved
streets, to a cost Of work done by com
tract IN ~repaying First and Second streets,
said appropriation being supplemental to
the appropriation of five Thousand dollars
@5,001 made by this Board by resolution
at its meeting held November q, 1896.
Resolved, That a warrant be ordered
drawn on the City Treasurer in favor Of
that officer To transfer said sum Of two
Thousand dollars from Liquor License
Account to Special Street Account" to
be expended for the purposes as aforesaid
From the same Board
transmitting resolution passed by said
Board, December ", 1896, and approved by
the Mayor, December %, 1886.
Resolved, That supplemental to certain
resolutions heretofore adopted by this
Board the SUM of $500 be and the same is
hereby set aside with the consent of the
Mayor from Liquor License Monies re-
eefved on and after July I, 1896, to "Spe-
cfal Street Account" to pay claims incl
dental to the repairing and repavinx CT
paved streets, etc; and
Resolved, That a warrant be ordered
drawn upon the City Treasurer In favor
of that officer in the sum Of $500 to trans
fer said amount as aforesaid.
From the same Board
Transmitting resolution passed by said
Board, December II, 1896, and approved by
the Mayor, December %, 1886.
Whereas, This Board did by resolution
adopted October q. 1884, appropriate the
SLIM nf Riy h11ndrad 10lTopo {1en0l a,7< 80
the one-haf of liquor license money re-
ceived and available on and after July j,
1895, to pay cost Of carting crushed stone
from county erushers al Snake Hill, and
to repai the road known as Paterson ave-
nue., forming the boundary line DeIween
Jersey City and the township of North
Bergen, from Tyler Park to- Penn Horn
Creek; and
Whereas. It appears tina Of the 1900 cubic
yards OF crushed stone which the county
has agreed to furnish the city only about
$50 yards will be necessary to repair the
road referred to. and the balance can be
esed to advantage upon streets Of Jersey
City under the direction of the Board of
Street and Water Commissioners.
Resolved, That this Board hereby con-
sents that six hundred dollars $500 be
used to pay the costs of earting said
crushed stone from Snake Hill to wher-
ever the Beard of Street and Water Conn
miss.oners may desire for use upon streets
under their direction in addition to the
purpose already designated in the reselu-
ton of October p. 1856.
From the same Board
transmitting resolution passed by said
Board November %, 1896, and approved
by the Mayor. December 2, 1885
hereby concurs in the following resolu-
tion adopted by the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners, November 16, 1896,
Appointing certain employees to repair
water main between Belleville and High
Service and fixing their salaries.
From the am Board
Transmitting resolution adopted by said
Board November %, 1896, and approved
by the Mayor December @, 1885,
Resolved, That the Board of Finance
adopted by the Board of Street and Wa
ter, Commissioners November 8, 1896, to
wit
That the Committee on Pumping and
Reservoirs be authorized to employ such
additional force as may be found neces-
sary for the purpose of repairing the
main water pipe between Belleyille and
named hereafter.
From the same Board
Transmitting resolution adopted by said
Board, December q. 1896. and approved
by the Mayor, December %, 1896.
Resolved. That the Board of Finance
hereby c0ncurs in the following resoI1-
tons adopted by the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners, December q, 1871.
to witt
Ordering paid the following salaries for
the month of December. 1896. when due.
as per payroils:-
Water Registrar, ETC., S3,048.31.
Laborers on meters, $40.
Received and ordered fled.
From the Board Of Fire Commissioners:
Transmitting resolution passed by said
Board, December 23.-1S96, to Wit
Whereas, On August 26. 1896, a resolu-
ton was adopted by this Board requesting
the Board of Street and Water Commits
~sioners to purchase a suitable plot of
ground in the Marion section for the pur-
pose of erecting thereon a new engine
house; and
Whereas, 1t has come TO the knowledge
of this Board that a suitable plot of
ground, % feet wide in front and rear and
100 feet in depth on the northwest corne
of Garrison and Sip emu can be Sc
cured for the sum of nine hundre dollars;
therefore
Water Commissioner be and are hereby
requested to purchase said plot of ground,
it being in the opinion of this Board a
most desirable site for the location of the
new engine house.
Received and ordered filed.
The Chief Engineer reported certificates
in favor off,
4: z, Smith, $500, on account of con-
NJ. T. Connolly, $500, on account of
contract No. SS4.
James Harrington, s3s. so, on account of
contract No. S24.
Thomas Harrington, $44S.55 on account
of contract No: $50.
Thomas Harrington, s64s.44. on account
of contract No. SS6.
Thomas Harrington, $499.24, on account
of contract No. SAG.
Bernard Feeney, $S55.4S, on account of
contract No. 845.
Andrew. Shaw, s1s5.7S. on account of
contract No. 1854.
Andrew Shaw. $500, on account of con-
tract No. 912.
Joseph Il. Jones, $500, on account of
contract No. 917.
Joseph II, Jones, $500, on account of
eontracANo. 1923.
P. L. Reh3ll, 81 900, on account of con-
tract No. 924.
Thomas r. McCabe, $500, on account of
contract No. $40.
Thomas F. McCabe. $685.. AZ, on account
OF contract No. 921.
Refill & Edwards, S466.09, on account of
contract No. 943.
Refill & Edwards, $780, "a, on account of
contract No. GAG.
Jacob Du Bots, $1,267.S0, on account of
contract No. $3.50.
Barber Asphalt Paving Co., SECS so, on
account of contract No. 961.
Henry Byrnes, $1,000, on account of
contract No. 94.
Henry Byrnes, $500. on account of con-
tract Nc. 975.
From the same officer
Submitting specifications for the i'm
provement of Runyon avenue, from Hud-
son Boulevard to Morris Canal.
For the improvement of Garfield ave-
nue., from the north side of the N.a& N.
r.. r. Co.'S lands to Myrtle avenue.
For an 1S-inch vitrified pipe sewer in
avenue, from q point about $40
feet north of Newark avenue. to and cof-