Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-31
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gutter at the intersection Of Franklin ant
Hopkins streets.
Mr.. Reading said such petition should b
granted, as this was particularly bad ant
dangerous place, and therefore moved tina
the request be granted. Carried.
On motion. 81 900 check of Gas, Electric
Traction Company, placed as security, wa
ordered returned
Councilman Reading said that both fire
companies were sadly in need of new hose
as that now in use was becoming rotten
and at the last fire several lengths hat
bursted. He thought that 500 feet would
not be more than was needed, but $50 feet
would answer the purpose for time. Or
motion $50 feet of new hose were ordered
purchased and distributed between the TIVE
companies at the discretion of the com
mittee.
On motion of Mr.. Reading, the appro
priations of $50 for Good Will and $50 fo
Friendship Fire companies were ordered
paid on receipt of certificate of the condi
ton of the two companies.
On motion, Wood street ordinance was
placed on second reading.
M. F. Cattell was granted the floor, and
said he hoped that Council would not pass
this ordinance as he considered it very I'M
fair to the owners of property on Wood
street. While owners on other streets were
only required to pave their gutter four feet
wide, the ordinance provided for foul
foot sidewalk and six foot gutter. He said
it was not right to make a sewer, and that
was what it amounted to, Of Wood stree
at the expense of the property owners, al
though the city do half the paving.
Mr.. Reading who aided in framing the
ordinance, said that a sewer was at first
thought Of but was found to be too expen-
sive, and thought such gutter would
answer the purpose.
On motion, the ordinance was placed OF
final reading and passage, and unanimously
adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Best, $635.98 wa
ordered transferred fIom the water to the
sewer account.
On motion of Mr.. Best, Mr.. Henry'l
certified check was ordered returned.
Adjourned.
Important to Parents.
During the meeting of the Board of Edu
cation on the evening of the oath, mum
Der of cases of truancy were reported, and
also the fact that there seems to be mum
Der of children of school age on the streets
during school hours. Upon full discus
sion of the matter by the members of thu
Board, it was determined to appoint {
truant officer; and it was found that the
following are the powers granted to thai
officer by law:
Any truant officer may arrest without
warrant any child between seven and fifteer
years of age found away from the home o.
such child during school hours, and who
shall then be a truant from school upor
which he shall be lawfully required to at
tend.
In cases of habitual incorrigible truant
the officer may bring him before the proper
authorities for commitment to juvenile
reformatory or a truant school.
Every truant officer shall inquire into
cases of truancy when requested to do SC
by the Board of Education, and shall warn
such truants, their parents or guardians,
in writing, of the consequences of truancy
if persisted in. If such parent, guardian
or other person having legal control of such
child shall refuse, fail or neglect to cause
such child to attend school within said
named period five days., said officer shall
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against said parent, guardian, or other
person. For such refusal or neglect, and
upon conviction thereof, said parent, guard
ian or other person shall be punished by
fine of not less than one dollar nor more
than twenty-five dollars; or the person SC
convicted may be required to give bond
in the penal sum of one hundred dollars,
conditioned that said person SO convicted
shall cause said child to attend school
within five days thereafter; provided, that
if it shall be proven satisfactorily that said
parent, guardian or other person is unable
to cause said child to attend, then said
parent, guardian or other person shall be
discharged and said child sentenced to a
juvenile reformatory or truant school; pro-
vided further, that no child under the age
of nine shall be sent to a juvenile reforma-
tory.
The Board has concluded to invest thu
officer with the utmost powers prescribed tc
him by law.