The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-20
TO SIZE UP CITIES
Hudson Consolidation Com
mission Seeks Facts
and Figures.
BASIS FOR COMPARISONS
Efforts to Secure Uniform In
formation From All the
Municipalities.
COMMITTEE ON PLAN AT WORK
Financial and Physical Condi-
tions and Methods of Ad-
ministration the Subject
of Inquiry.
ON PLAN AT WORK

The committee appointed by the Great
er Jersey City Commission to prefer d
plan for work met yesterday afternoon
and adopted a report which Will be sup-
mitted to the commission at its next reg
uar meeting The report is in the nature
of blank which will be sent TO
each municipality asking for certain
information. In order that there may pc
greater uniformity in the answers the
same questions to which answers are ex-
pected will be sent to each municipal divl-
sion of the county. The blank first asks Tor
the name of the municipality. the special
or general charter governing the same
and the laws relating thereto The popudo.
lation by the United States census or 1871
and that of New Jersey Tor 1880 Is aisd sss9
taxable property, both real and personal,
for the years 1S71-1S9S, inclusive, with the
tax rate for the same years. Next comes ess
the total area of the municipality III
acres, both upland and meadow, land un.
der water, the miles of open and dedicated
streets, streets laid out but not open OF
dedicated and paved streets not including
County Road, and the number OF miles
paved in cobble, Belgian or granite, as
phalt and macadam. Also the number OF
and not paved and unimproved. The
number of miles of trolley railroad, single
track is also asked for, as well as the
number of miles of main and outiet sew,
ers, lateral sewers acres tributary 10
main or outlet sewers, acres unprovided
with main or outlet sewers ana the names
and locations of outlet sewers Names.
locations and acres in public parks;
names and locations of public docks, 10,
gether with the number or electric, OH
ard gas lamps, name of company FURNISH
OF expiration OF contract and total cost,
fiscal year of 1898, are also requested.
The plans next deals with the numpsf
IL Ntk- d1.rn M
their saceOlnmodat tions, total number oi
school children per last census, totai
school accommodations average senooi
attendance total appropriation for school
purposes last fiscal year, exclusive OF
building and furnishing new schools, cost
per child on average school attendance,
total number of school teachers, inciud-
ing principals, total salaries paid tedca-
ers and head of school system.
In the police department the blank asks .sk:
houses, list of personnel connected with
department, with salaries (names not re-
quired). total annual salaries. Is there a
pension fund? Is there tenure OF office?
Much the same Is asked of the fire de-
partment:-Is department volunteer or
paid? Number Of fire houses list Il
salaries, total annual salaries. Is there
pension fund and tenure of office? Total
exemptions from taxation claimed by AM
General officers with salaries and
clerks. is next asked for, such as May
or's secretary, stenographer and messen-
ger and clerks for City Clerk. Appro-
priations in detail, and brief analysis of
tax levy as now made, by what Board or
authority, when made, from what date
to what date, when does collection begin,
how much has been collected to date
thereon and how much is raised for
school, police, fire, public lighting, street
cleaning and removing garbage, for in
public debt, for other city purposes for
county purposes and for contingencies
of collection come next
The next item is liquor license moneys,
total number of places licensed. total re-
ceipts and what disposition is made of
license fees. Other license moneys and
what disposition is made of them comes
next. The next thing asked for is the
amount received from railroad and canal
tax and State School tax and the ds--
position made thereof. A statement of
tail, the year issue, its character, when
due, total amount, amount of general
debt and of assessment debt, average
rate of interest, how interest IS provided
for temporary loans outstanding. sink
ing funds, their names, how much cash
and how much securities, and how are
sinking funds created, maintained and in
vested. Water account Is next taken up
and source of supply, by whom furnish
ed, who owns pipes in streets. total miles
of pipe line owned by municipality, who
owns distributing reservoirs, and brief ac-
count of terms of contract and prices paid
and expiration are asked for, also who
collects the water rents, municipality Or
company and list of prices charged con-
sumers. The receipts and disbursements
of water account are also asked for. The
issue when due. rate, purpose and amount
of water bonds are also requested, to-
gether with amount of cash and securi-
ties in sinking fund for water account and
how sinking funds are created and sus-
tanned A list of city property Is re-
ouested, exclusive of water property and
what is allotted to each department.
The last item asked for is a list of re-
sources and liabilities of each munici-