The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-03-29
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FOREVER
City Authorities and
Patrick H. Flynn
Agree Upon a Mo
dified Water
Contract.
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Full Text of the Agree
ment Endorsed by the
Street and Water
Board Today.
FAGAN'S POSITION
Declines to Say Whether He
Will Approve New
Arrangement
THE TEMPORARY SUPPLY
When the Present Obligations
of the East Jersey Com
pany Will Close.
Declines to Say Whether He
Will Approve New
Arrangement.
THE TEMPORARY SUPPLY
When the Present Obligations
of the East Jersey Com
pany Will Close.

Resolved, That by and with the con-
currence of the Board of Finance and
approval of the Mayor. the contract
heretofore made between the Mayor
and Aldermen of Jersey City and
Patrick H. Flynn, dated February
twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-nine. for new water supply.
as modified by the agreement dated
July eighth, nineteen hundred and one
be and the same is hereby further
modified, in accordance with the terms
of the contract hereto annexed. And
that his Honor the Mayor and the
President of the Board of Finance be
authorized to execute the modified
contract hereto annexed. under the
seal of the city, attested by the City
Clerk on behalf of said city
The above resolution was passed this
morning at a special meeting Of the Board
of Street and Water Commissioners called
at $50 o'clock.
It settles the tangled water question for
ever. The resolution and the contracts
referred to were read then at a special
meeting of the Board of Finance and ap-
proved and spread on the minutes in full.
This is concurrence by the Financiers, so
that now it is up to- Mayor Fagan.
The Mayor refuses to say what he will
do. When questioned this morning he re-
Piled
81 do not know what action shall take
until the matter comes to me officially. :"
"Win you wait until the SOP acres at
Longwood Valley are decided to the city
by Flynn before approving?"
q don't know"
Flynn has agreed to deed his Longwood
Valley property to the city so there will
be no hitch about this
The contracts follow zTEGlKF.
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This agreement made the
day of March, A D. nineteen hundred
and two, between THE MAYOR AND
ALDERMEN Of Jersey City, municipal
corporation Of the State of New Jersey.
party of the first part, and PATRICK H.
FLYNN of Brooklyn, in the State of
New York, and the JERSEY CITY
WATER SUPPLY COMPANY, a ccr-
poration of the State Of New Jersey,
party of the second part, witnesseth:
WHEREAS. A contract in writing was
entered into between the Mayor and Alder
men of Jersey City and Patrick H Flynn,
dated February twenty-eighth, one thou
sand eight hundred and ninety-nine,
whereby said Flynn was to provide a
supply of water for said City and to con-
struct water works for said City, which
the City had the option 10 buy, as by
reference to said contract. which is here
to annexed and made a part hereof, will
more fully appear; and
WHEREAS, Afterwards the said con-
tract was by the said Patrick H. Flynn
assigned to and his obligations thereun-
der assumed by the Jersey City Water
Supply Company; and
WHEREAS, By another agreement dated
July eighth, nineteen hundred and one,
between the parties hereto, the said con-
tract was in divers respects modified and
changed as By reference to said con-