The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-07-18

DuIeJC, EWdn, Joyce.
A resolution signed by nearly all the
members was adopted requiring the com
mittee on court house and grounds to
publish statement of its expenditures.
The publication is to be made in the pa
per authorized to print the county col
lector's report.
On motion of Mr.. Darnell the solicitor
of the board was directed to proceed
against the New Jersey Pavement and
Construction Company for its failure to
keep the Bridgeboro and Riverton stone
road in proper shape
Mr.. Evan withdrew petition offered
some time since asking for a stone road
between Mount Holly and Smithville,
and offered a new petition making the
road longer, starting at Davis hotel,
Mount Holly, and continuing through
Smithville to the South Pemberton road.
The director appointed as committee
Messrs. Evan, Darnell, Joyce, Colby,
Mathis
On behalf of the committee appointed
to consider the purchase of turnpikes,
Mr. Darnell reported progress
| The bill of John B. Davis for supervis-
ing the stone road between Mount Holly
and Burlington was offered. It was sign
ed by two members of the committee
| Mr. Colby explained why his signature
was withheld He said the bill included
every working day since the road was be-
gun, and on some of the days there was
nobody at work except the men in charge
of the roller The city of Burlington
pays the supervisor 81 per day for looking
after their road, which is being built in
connection with the county road Mr.
Goldy contended that it took the super
visor third longer to do the work on ac-
count of the additional overseeing, and
he thought the county should only pay 50
per day while the work was progressing
inside the city limits of Burlington.
Further discussion was cut short by
Mr.. Mathis approving the bill, thus max
ing a majority of the committee.
Mrs. William B. Abbey, of Mount Hol-
ly, was given the privilege of the floor,
to speak on matter about which a com
munication had been received by the
clerk of the board.
Last winter the Legislature passed
law giving the New Jersey State Board of
Children's Guardians control over all
children in the aims houses or other pub
lie institutions of the state. The State
Board is empowered to secure homes for
these waits, and if the latter are able to
do work, or if there are people so chart
tably disposed as to give them homes
free of expense, it is all right. If this
cannot be done the State Board must pay
all expense of board and clothing, and
each county must reimburse the board to
the amount of $3.50 per week for each
child that expenditure is made for
The matter was referred to the standing
committee.
Mr.. Darnell called attention to the fact
that this board is acting without rules.
He moved the adoption of the rules of the
previous board, with one additions re-
quirement that the standing committee
shall, at the meeting after the election in
November, present an inventory of all the
property at the Aims House.
In support of this proposition Mr.. Oar
nell called attention to the fact that the
taxpayers are ignorant of the amount of
personal property owned by the county on
the aims house farm, and he doubted if
single member of the board knew thing
about it. He considered his proposition
strictly business one The motion was
adopted.
A communication was received from
Joseph J. White, John Graf and William
H. Reeves, who offered to build tele-
phone line connecting their properties
with the Burlington county line at Penn
berton The standing committee was in
structed to take the subject under consid-
Grafton.
Joseph Engle, Jr., presented claim of
$50 for injuries done to horse which
caught its foot in hole on Lumberton
bridge The matter was referred to Mr..
| Bartlett
Mr.. Jennings rendered his resignation as
member of the committee on Personal
bills and Mr.. Higgins was appointed
Nathan Conrow, the new freebooter
from Delran, was appointed a member of
the committee on Coroners' bills in place
of DIR. A. E. Conrow, deceased.
Mr. Higgins reported that the tangle
on the stone road from Bordentown to
! Trenton, which was discussed at the last
meeting, had been settled by citizen of
Bordentown purchasing piece of land
at the disputed point and giving it to the
township.
AS there was possibility of trouble if
new maps and surveys were not made, a
resolution was adopted authorizing the
committee in charge to have them made.
Mr.. Colby offered the report of the
committee on court house and grounds.
He asked if the order to publish an item
lied statement meant that he should
publish every bill in full.
This led to discussion over the acts in
general of the committee. Mr. Tallman
said there was an impression among the
taxpayers that the expenses of the court
house and Jail were too heavy. In the
last report there was an item of nearly
$4OO for drugs, and this report has SINH
lar item for $50. The expenditure of $500
for drugs within six months is rather
heavy.
After a passage of words between
Messrs. Colby and Tallman the matter
was dropped.
Isaac E. Antrim asked that the con
tractor on the stone road between Borden
town and Trenton be paid the percentage
on his work that other contractors are
given.
II Samuel S. Taylor, supervisor of the
! road, explained that the percentage had
been withheld because the contractor had
not lived up to his specifications.
A motion was offered that the commit
! tee in charge of the road be directed tc
investigate the matter, as there seemed tc