The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-22
BOARD OF
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EHsME l0ODtlIluSu.l
Absent--Mr. Quinn.
A motion to proceed to the election of
Clerk of the Board was adopted.
Mr.. Daily nominated Alvin H. Graft.
Mr.. Mersheimer nominated James J.
WiSeman.
on the first ballot MI. Graft received
eight 80 votes, whereupon the President
declared Mr.. Wiseman Clerk for the en-
suing year.
BY MIR. Miggins:-
Wiseman as Clerk of this Board be and
the same is hereby fixed at fifteen Isl, 5OO)
hundred dollars per mum.
The yeas and nays being ordered and
taken, on motion of Mr.. Mersheimer, the
resolution was unanimously adopted.
By Mr.. Mersheimer:-
Resolved, That the Clerk of this Board
be instructed to notify the Superintendent
of Public Instruction of the Organization
of this Board.
Adopted.
On motion Of Mr.. Mersheimer, the rules
o. the old Board We're adopted until
three 81 members was appointed to
draft, rules for the government of the
The President appointed as such com
Allen.
On motion Of Mr. Mersheimer. it was
adopted that, when We adjourn we adj
journ to meet Thursday evening, May 6,
me Board then adlourned
JAMES j. WISEMAN,
An adjourned regular meeting of the
Board of Education, was held in the AS
sembly Chamber. City Hall, Thursday
evening, May 6, 1897.
ROLL CALL.
PresentEPresident Firm, Messrs. DAILY,
Mooney, CoWleS, Degnan, Broderick, Finn
Dewitt, Mersheimer, Allen and higgins.
Absent.-Mr. Quinn.
PRESENTATION OF coMMUNIcA-
From His Honor, the Mayor, notifying
the Board of the appointment of John E.
Muller as member of this Board from the
Ninth Ward of this city.
Upon the presentation of his credentials
Mr.. fuller took his seat.
From His Honor Mayor Wanser, in
forming the Board of the appointment of
William F. Douglass as Corporation At
torney of Jersey City, N. J..
From the Board Of Street and Water
Commissioners
Hon. Board of Education:=
Gentlenlen-The following is a copy of
a resolution adopted by the Board of
Street and Water Commissioners at its
meeting held April %, 1897, and approved
by His Honor the Mayor April 80, 1897.
'SeDS' GEoKseE 7. BouToN,
Whereas, The several contracts for the
erection of public school building No. 9
Ild q Ot6u COlAlDlClGu& dIlQ lIdl DdVne0G
made therefor.
Resolved, That the said building be and
IS hereby turned over to the Board of
Education for the uses n purposes for
which it was erected.
Received and on motion filed.
From the Board of Finance
Hon. Board of Education
Conference.-The following resolution
was adopted by the Board Of Finance of
Jersey City. N. j. at its meeting, held
April e, 1897, and was approved by the
Mayor May /, 1897.
Marlin FINcK,
Whereas, The Board of Education have
made recuisition upon this Board by res
olution adopted April %, 1897, for three
thousand five hundred 5 3,5O0 dollars. to
be used by said Board of Education to al
ter and repair the old City Hall building,
in order, that it may be used as a tenn
porary building during the construction
Of new School Building No. /; and
Whereas, This Board deems it proper
that an appropriation of said sum Should
be made. to assist the Board of Educa-
ton in accommodating. the scholars, who
are deprived of attending School No. 1
owing to the fact that the said school
building is about to be torn down to make
place for a new structure; therefore
Resolved, That this Board hereby APP
propriates the sum of three thousand FIVE
hundred l($3, 5000 dollars. to be used by the
Board Of Education to alter and repair
the old City Hall Building, in order that
the same may pc used as a temporary
school. and in order to raise the sum Of
three thousand five hundred (S, 5O0) dol
lars, temporary loan bonds in aid sum
be issued by this Board, at a rate of in
terest net to exceed AZ % per annum. and
that. the proceeds from the sale of such
bonds shall be set aside for the use of the
Board OF Education for the purposes
above stated, and that said sum Of three
thousand 1--WE hundred (s3. 500) dollars be
placed iii the next tax levy.
Received and on motion filed.
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