The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-11

supply.
Received and ordered filed.
Invitation from the Rockaway and Hud-
son Company inviting the Board OF FL
nance to visit and inspect certain features
water to Jersey City.
Received and ordered fled.
On motion Of Mr.. Simpson, the Board
MARTIN FINcK.
Regular meeting of the Board of Fl
nance was held in its rooms; at the Cily
PresentWPresident Brautigam and
Messrs. Bailey, Kellers, Midlige and
Simpson.
Absent-None.
APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.
The minutes of the regular meeting of
March l6, 1888, and of the special meeting
of March 20, 1898. were approved as en-.
Mr.. Simpson.
PETITIONS. ETC.
The following petitions were presented
and received and they were disposed as
Petition of Henry Wild, for the return
Of IS. Is for o~ver-charge in taxes OF year
Petition of Wallis, Edwards & Bumsted,
attorneys for Isaac F. Williams, for the
return of $117.2 Is, being duplicate payment
of taxes for year 1897-9Ss
IlclcIicQ " IL OOAiullll00 eOA dldiuS
Request from James H. and Charlotte s.
Clark for the return of application for deed
1888.
Received and ordered filed.
Application of the West Side Land AS
for deed No. 514, lot 2, Block $40, LOS
West side avenue. Sale No. 3,617, sold by
City Collector April %. 1898.
Application of Amelia Nicoll, by G. F.
NjcOII- ATTORNEY for deed No I 2tl lot 414
Block 975, Tonnele avenue. Report No. Y,
sale No. $3.50, sold by City Collector, Oc-
tober Is, 1892.
Referred to the Committee on Finance.
CLAIMS.
The following claims were presented and
received and they were each referred to
their appropriate committees
lanes F.. Norton; s1o6; John ]. Nevin,
Datz. sac; J. B. Hill, $74.95, sS0.75. $62 and
$67. 80; Rachel G. Butler, $95, $50.19 and
$3.50; Postal Tel. Gable Co, $3.50 and
S1.15; George B. Fielder, $3.50; Frank
Meyer. s27.
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS.
From His Homo the Mayor
Jersey City, N. j., April 1, 1898.
Honorable Board of Finance
Gentlemen herewith inform you that
by virtue of the provisions of an act en-
titled AN act to establish a Law Depart
ment in cities of the first class in this
State, to provide for the appointment and
4 dul1ES " l. III Id OllCGIS ll1E1elll, dilQ "
their compensation and terms of office,
passed May 16, 1894, l nave appointed AL
Ian L. McDermott, City or Corporation
unexpired term Of John A. Blair, resigned.
The salary which said officer will receive
is fixed at five thousand dollars Cs5, 0OO per
annum, payable monthly.
Yours respectfully,
EDWARD HOGS,
Mayor.
Received n ordered filed.
From the City Comptroller
The City Comptroller submitted the an
nual report of his office. with a statement
of the receipts and disbursements of the
City Treasurer for the fiscal year ending
| November 80, 1897, also showing the fnan-
cial condition of the city on December 1,
1887.
Received and ordered filed. and copies
Of same ordered printed in pamphlet
form.
From the city colleetorMm j ,so.
Honorable Board of Finance, Jersey
City
Gentlemen-Herewith I transmit for
your consideration and orders Schedule
No. 2, containing a list of lots, pieces and
parcels of land, in the First, Second and
Third wards of the city, on which taxes
and assessments, one or both, remain "un-
paid for the space of two years, from and
after the time, when due and payable"
as per section thirteen q3), Chapter 112.
Laws of 1886, and supplements and
amendments thereto.
S. H. SMITH.
City Collector.
Referred to the Committee on Finance.
From the Corporation Counsel
Jersey City, April 6, 1898.
To the Honorable the Board of Finance
Gentlemen-Mrs. Susan Berrian. widow
of John Berrian, an honorably discharged
soldier, petitions for a return of S14.45
taxes paid by her, upon the ground that
she is entitled to exemption upon $500 of
assessed property under the act of 1888.
The act provides that the person desiring
exemption under its provisions must sub
NIT the evidence of her right to the AS
SCISSOR or the Commissioners of Appeal,
application to the latter being allowable
only if the claimant was prevented by
sickness or other unavoidable cause from
delivering her evidence to the Assessor.
Mrs. Berrian not having made the applica-
ton provided by statute, your Board has
not power to grant her petition.
ALLAN L. McDERMoTT,
Corporation Counsel.
Received and ordered filed, and the
Clerk of the Board directed to notify the
From the Board of Tax Commission
erS:-
Jersey City, April 4, 1898.
To the Honorable the Board of Finance.
Gentlemen-We do hereby certify that
we have examined the unpaid personal
tax list for the year 1896. as returned to
the City Comptroller by the City Col
iSCtoI, dHu Wouiu ISCOilillitHu 1HdI lu6
amounts as shown on this list should be
cancelled from record.
JAMES H. LOVE,
JAMES C. CLARK,
aJOHN E. MACARTHUR,
Board of Tax Commissioners.
JAMES E.. CONNOLLY.
Clerk.
Received and referred to the Committee
on Finance.
The following resolution requiring the
concurrence of the Board Of Finance was
presented and received from the Board OF
Street and Water Commissioners and re
ferred to. the Committee on Finance:-
Resolved, That the Board of Finance be
and is hereby requested to fix the amount
of bond to be furnished by the Chief
Engineer of the Bureau of Engineering
and Survey OF, this Board, appointed this
day (Charles A. Van Keuren).
adopted April 4, 1885,
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMIT
TEES.
The Committee on Finance reported
recommending the adoption of the follow
ing resolution
BY Mr.. Bailey, on behalf of the Com
mite on Finance
Resolved, THAI the amount of the bono
to be given by Charles A. Van Keuren
Engineer of the Bureau of Civil Engi
neering and Survey, of the Board of Stree
and Water Commissioners Of Jersey City
appointed April A, 1883, be and the same
is hereby fixed in the sum of $25, 900.
The report was received and the resolu
ton was adopted by the following vots
on the cali for the ayes and lays by TIN
PRESIDENT
vesAPresiden Brautigam and Messrs