The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-14

jOhn u. hogan. SIKH WaFQ. Will Ratiet
Lewis and Thomas Welsh as suretics.
George T.. Stanton. Twelfth Ward. with
William #. Kern and Patrick II. Nugent
as sureties.
Henry Byrne and David Harper as sure
ties.
Joseph o'DonnelI. First Ward, with Pc
ter j.. Giligan and Joseph p. Hennessy as
8 j. Hanlon, Second Ward. with Mi
chac Farley and James Clements as sure
Martin f. Foley. First Ward, with Pa
trick coyle and Peter j. German as
William Hogan, Fourth Ward, with
John Sheridan and Henry Byrne as sure
Frederick w. Castle. Ninth Ward, with
John p. Landrine and George Johnson as
Philip NJ. Kaiser. Eighth Ward, with
Michael Nolan and Frederick fl. SPENCE
Patrick II. Leddy. Eleventh Ward, with
Timothy G. Cagney n James M. De-
John Fl. osBrien, Third Ward, with S.
C. Baldwin and Albert Losel as sure
John IT. Mitchell. Tenth Ward, with
James H. O'Neil and Nathaniel o. smith
as sureties. ~
owen FItzsimmons. Fifth Ward, with
Henry Byrne n Patrick Baxter as
Thomas Enright, Twelfth Ward, with
Patrick Nolan and George G. L. Macs
as sureties
The following claims We're presented,
received and referred to their approprl-
ate cornnlittees.-
s2as.i Is: corbin & corbin IN. 7; Connolly
judgmenD. S4.522.SS James 3. HILL S54.50,
$3.50 and s1s.5 so: Frank Meyer, go; the
\: Z. & I \; J; Tel c T;t, sag G&,s :; NJ; Haf &
Trust Co.. IS, $40. s1.5o and $3.50
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS.
The following communications were
presented, received ana disposed Oh as loi-
From the Commissioners Of Appeal,
etc.
GER Clerk, notifying the Board Of FL
nance of their organization. with MORT
mer Lampson as President and Alexander
Schlesinger as CLERK.
Received and ordered filed.
MAYORS Office,
Jersey City. April %, 1888.
To the Honorable n Board of Finance
Gentlemen-I herewith return without
MY approval a resolution adopted by your
Honorable Board at the meeting hela
April ~. 1898, and providing for the expen-
allure Of five hundred dollars to be paid
10 Howard c. Grifiiths "to codify and an
notate the Martin Act / have taken
This action LOT the lOllOWlIS ItdSoAio. IL
resolution appears to be supplementary
10 one passed in 1896. wherein 1t was de-
ermined that the city needed, for the m
forma ton of its officers and prospectlys
purchasers at tax sales. a codification and
arnotation of the laws under when such
sales are made. The necessity for such
work is apparent, but it is difficult to ma
a reason why. the necessity being ascer-
tanned two years ago, the work was not
lone by the Law Department, consisting of
u counsel, an attorney ana an assistant
D.. ,I~ rs oil Ffhr n oil
thousand dollars a year. and | suggest
that TIE proposed work be done by that
department. The payment of extra fees
for legal work has grown 10 the point OF
abuse in this city, and | decline to sane
ton any further expenditures of his sort
unless there is a necessity of more urgent
i am advised BY the Corporation Coun-
sci that the work will be done by the Law
Department If a resolution requesting i
is passed by your Board, In the ilne q
to the fact that your Board has, on two
or more occasions. ordered. prepared a
volume showing the laws relating to the
government of this city. The first reso-
luton was passed several years
ago, and a payment made on ac-
count of the work. Subsequently another
rayrent was made, the amount thus far
expended being about one thousand dol
lars. There was not any reason why this
work should not hay been done by the
Law Department. It is absolutely neces-
sary. but seems unobtainable by the em-
pioyment of others than city officials. J.,
therefore, recommend that if the work is
within twenty days. the resolution direct
ing it be rescinded, and the Law Depart
ment of the city directed to prepare the
Respectfully submitted,
EDWARD HOGS,
Mayor.
Laid over until the next regular meeting
of this Board on motion of Mr.. Mldlige.
From His Honor the Mayor
Jersey City, May 2, 1898.
Honorable Board of Finance
Gentlemen-I desire to inform your Hon.
orable Boar that under and by virtue of
the provisions of Chapter CXLVII. of
the Laws of 1892, approved March "a, 1892.
have appointed the following named
persons as member of the Board of Com
r~nissioners of Assessment for the term of
three years, from May "a, A. d. 1877
Mr.. Cornelius J. Cronan, to succeed him
self.
Mr.. James N. Davis, to succeed Mr..
Humphrey w. Carr.
Mr.. Edward Barr, to succeed Mr.. Mi
Also, by virtue of the provisions of an
act entitled AN act providing for Boards
of Appeal in Cases of Taxation in cities of
the first class" approved February 25.
1892. I have appointed the following
named persons as members of the Board
of Appeal in Cases of Taxation, for the
term of three years beginning on and at
self.
Mr.. Charles H. Dayton, to succeed him
self.
EDWARD HOGS.
Ordered filed. ON notion of Mr.. Ringle.
From the Corporation Counsel
Jersey City, May 2. 1898.
Board of Finance, Jersey City, N j.
Gentlemen-I enclose copy of communi-
cation from Corbin & Corbin, attorneys
Of the Morris Canal & Banking Co.
Yours truly,
(Comnunication.9
Jersey City. N. j., April 20, '9S.
Hon. A. L. McDermott, Corporation
Counsel, Jersey City, n. il
Dear Sir-In reply to your verbal re-
quest recently submitted, asking for a
more definite statement of the rights of
the Morris Canal & Banking Company
in the waters tributary to the Passaic
River, to which the Company called the
attention of the City in February last,
we would say that it would be irnprac-
tIcable to set down in detail all the
rights of the Company in those waters.
or precisely how they would be affected
by a diminution of the flow in the streams
by the taking way of the waters for
other uses.
The Morris Canal, as constructed, is a
complicated piece of engineering work,
involving dams, aqueducts, reservoirs,
pumps. sluices. feeders, overhows,
syphons, outlets, planes, locks, water
wheels, slack-water navigation and
Of supply a flow of water in the
canal suficient for navigation. and yet