Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-03-09
THE COUNTY
BOARD OF FREEHOLD[RS.
Proposals for the Construe-
tion Of the "Terrapin" Road.
SUPERINTENDENT ELECTED FOR COUNTY ROAD
OUR COUNTY DADDIEs MET AT MAYS
LANDING LAST WEEK, AND TALKED
OF "TERRApIN" ROADS, RECORDS,
CONTRACTS AND SALARIES.

The County Board of Freeholders
met at Mays Landing, on Wednes-
day, March 2, every member being
present except Mr.. Dinkelspiel, OF
Buena Vista. After the reading and
approval of the minutes of the last
meeting.
Mr.. Shinn reported that the Com
mittee appointed to consider the
subject of indexing the Court Records
had visited Trenton and recommend
ed the adoption Of the system in use
by the State for the indexing and
preservation of public records.
Mr.. Irving favored the state sys-
TEN, and thought work should be
commenced at once. There would
be no extra cost to the County after
the system was once adopted.
Mr.. Jackson moved that suitable
file cases be provided and the work
be commenced Immediately.
Two bids for cases were submitted
but no choice made.
A long discussion ensued upon the
petition requesting the railing OF the
narrow causeway of the Tuckahoe
Road-and the petition was received
and filed. The cOncensus OF opinions
expressed was that the County
should not be compelled to put up
rails along all the narrow tcause-
ways as a wider road would in
most cases be a proper safeguard.
Proposals for the construction of
the "Terrapin" Road were then re-
ceived. There were nine proposals
in all, and on motion of Mr.. Shinn
they were referred to the Committee
on Roads for consideration, the same
to report at-an adjourned meeting OF
the Committee to be held at Atlantic
City, on Thursday, March 10, at IL
O'Clock a. m. when the successful
bidder will be announced and the
contract awarded.
Mr.. Schuhardt read letter from
State Road Commissioner Budd,
recommending that the legislature
pass the pending bill appropriating
$30O,00 for Roads and suggesting
that the Board favor it. Motion OF
Mr.. Schuhardt in favor carried. The
Report of the County Treasurer re-
lating to balances of appropriations
on hand was read and accepted.
The motion of Mr.. Jackson to pro-
ceed to the election OF a Supt. for the
new County Road brought on long
and lively discussion as to the con-
dition of the Road. Mr.. Jackson
and Mr.. Jeffries claimed that con-
tractor Bartilucci had fulfilled his
part of the contract and had put the
road in good shape at the date speci-
fed in the contract, and that he
could not be held responsible for the
present bad. condition of the road
which was OccasiOned by heavy
rains since that date.
Mr.. Irving thought he should keep
the road in repair until it was accept
ed by the Committee.
Mr.. Jackson said the weather had
been such that there had been no
opportunity to scrape the road since
the last meeting OF the Board.
On motion of Mr.. Souder the salary
of the Supt. was fixed at $500 per
year after opposition on the part OF
Mr.. Irving who thought $l50 was
enough. After the salary had been
fixed Mr.. w. H. Burgess. OF Ham
monton was unanimously elected
Supt.-his salary to commence when
the Road is accepted by the Commit
tee. At 12.15 the Board adjourned
until 1.30 p. m.
At the afternoon session, on
motion of Mr.. Irving bill for 1857 80
for books was returned because it
was not properly itemized. Several
others were returned for correction
or rejected and many paid amount
ing in the aggregate to $41S.O7.
On motion of Mr.. Souder the three
sections of the County Road that
have been satisfactorily completed
were accepted.
On motion OF Mr.. Jeffries it was
voted to pay George Ripley $3.50 for
moving two houses on the line OF the
"Terrapin" Road.
Mr.. jackson moved to condemn
such land as may be needed. Adopt
ed.
At $50 p. m. the Board adjourned
to meet at Hotel Royal, Hammon-
ton MAY TO-