The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-12-01
organization meeting which will begin at
noon, will be attended to-
END OF THE OLD BOARD.
Freeholders Wind Up Affairs
and Get Their Finances
In Shape.

The Board of Freeholders, which will
be succeeded by the new Board of nine
members at noon on Monday next, he'd
its final meeting before its sine die adj
journment at the Court House yesterday
afternoon.
Two sessions were held. AT 4.90 the
something over $2l,0J0 remaining in the
different appropriations and about $500
yet to be received from the State for the
support of the patients at the county
asylum were ordered transferred to the
| incidental appropriation After this was
done a resolution offered by Freeholder
keating was adopted that $111.96 be re-
tanned from any moneys due by the coun-
ty to Contractor Ignatius Noonan. This
amount represents the difference between
| the bid of the contractor for certain ar
ticles in the dry goods line awarded to
him on December 4, 1899, and the amount
the county was obliged to pay for the
| goods purchased in open market after
Noonan had refused to furnish them.
After this business had been transacted
recess was taken to enable the Free
holders to sign the remaining claims that
were to be paid. OF the amount in the
| incidental appropriation, about one-half
was required to pay the salaries of coun-
| ty employees, and the remaining $1,000
was used to pay a portion of the out
| standing claims against t he county.
! 1t was SIS when the Board reconvened.
In the absence of Clerk John P. Egan,
who was attending the caucus of the
| newly elected FreeholdeIs in Jersey City,
his assistant, John P. Noonan, occupied
! the Clerks desk
| In a report Engineer William S. Logan,
who is in charge of the Passaic avenue,
| Kearny improvement, stated that while
| the work was practically completed, it
would be advisable to have some addi-
tional rolling done to the newly construct
l ed macadam.
He suggested that thirty days longer be
allowed the contractor to do this work,
and a resolution granting the extension
of time was adopted.
Engineer Ralph D. Earle reported the
completion of the work of improving the
Paterson Plank Road from Central ave-
nue., Jersey City, to Homestead Station.
He certified that the total value of the
work done was sss,os752 of which per
cent, or s445.3S, must be retained for a
year until any defects that may appear
ready been paid to Contractors Gallery
and Murphy, and the balance due. s12,-
6S3.14, was ordered paid
The final report of the Finance Com
mittee was
'Gentlemen-In obedience to the duties
devolving upon your committee to audit
the accounts of the County Collector and
Clerk of your Board for the fiscal year
commencing December l, 1899, we would
respectfully report that we have ex-
amined 3,7S7 vouchers.
1.-THE County Collector had on hand De-
cember l, 1899, ss2. 2.9s which added to ST.
$40, 322.25 collected by the County Collector
from all sources, amounts to the sum of
| 81, Al, e5.23. The disbursements made dur
| ing the fiscal year as shown by the vouch-
! ers amounts to the sum of s., ,159. 20,
leaving a balance in the hands of the
County Collector on November 80, 1900,
of s222. $685.
1.-THE entire accounts, receipts and dis
bursements of the County Collector,
which your committee investigated and
found correct and exact in every particu-
lar, extent of course, far beyond those in
which the clerk has concern
The report is signed by Freeholders
Keating, Kenny, Riordan, Dashe and
Schmitt
/ A third complaint from the Meyerhoff
Brick Company stated that the attend
ants employed by the county the Pat
erson plankroad bridge over the Hacken-
sack were guilty of gross negligence. The
| communication said that on Novembtr
| 13 vessel belonging to the writers was
| obliged to stand back three times before
it could pass through the draw of the
/ bridge.
A resolution offered by Freeholder Keat-
ing and adopted authorized the County
/ Collector to issue three and a half per
| cent. temporary loan bond for $1,000 to
meet the county's shortage in the con-
tract for the improvement of Passaic
/ avenue Kearny.
! A resolution to pay the long standing
| bill of the Palsade Construction Com
| pany, amounting to $3.50, for Sprinkling
/ the western loop of the Boulevard for a
/ time before the Boulevard Commissioners
| took charge of the road, was passed
| Warden Ryan, of the AlmsnouSe, re-
ported for the month of November 66s
! inmates and q employees. The total cost
of maintenance for the month was $5,-
1882. an average of s7.65 per each
| mate.
A large batch of claims was then or
/ dered paid by vote of 19 to l, Freeholder
Higgins casting the negative vote. He
/ offered no explanation for SO doing.
1 The Board then adjourned until Mon
1 day morning next, when the official terms
| of the members will expire at noon and
the new Board of nine, elected on No
vember last, will take charge of county