The Penn's Grove record., 1904-08-19
sCaRD OF FREE HOLDERS.
Reduce Tax budget.

Attic August meeting of Salem Coun-
ty Board OF FreeholdersIorthe 10th, bids
received for the $4,000 road inn
provement bonds to draw 4 per cent
were received as follows:
Farson Leach & Co., New York, SOLE
and accrued interest for whole issue; II.
l.. Crawford &Co., New York, Tor the
whole issue $l00. Al; Warren Davis, Salem,
$4,000 of 1915 issue $40S0; r. M. Grant q
Co.. New York, SOL. 81 for whole issue;
Bowen q Co. Philadelphia, for $500 OF
1914 issue par and $50 premium, for
$500 Of 1915 issue par and $l50premlum.
Koutze Brothers New York, for whole IS
sue $101.37l; Bioren q Co. Philadelphia,
for whole issue and $575.
The Board accepted the bid OF Il. M.
Grant q Co.
The sum of $2614.43 was paid Messrs.
Lloyd and Tuft, the contractors who are
building the PENIS Neck State road.
AT the June meeting OF the Board a res
o%lution was passed to pay no more team
hire of Road Engineers. Atthe last meet
ing Engineer Josiah Miller presented a
bill for 5000 for services; including N
this was SIS for horse hire. The bill was
not paid and it was again brought up at
this meeting. Mr.. Miller claimed that he
was entitled to horse hire and did not
think the Board was acting just III chang
ing his wages while on this road. Never
theless, the bill was ordered paid less the
horse hire.
Mr.. Hannah reported that the Penn's
Neck road was completed as far as the
Cox house, a distance of about five miles.
Only the one mile of causeway yet re-
mains to be finished and work is progress
ing on that very rapidly.
Mr.. Ayers reported that there was a
temporary hold up on the Woodstown
State road which is to be built of
Warren's bitulithic material. State Road
Commissioner Budd had not approved the
plans and specifications for its building
and a committee OF the Freeholders had
interviewed him to ascertain the cause
OF the delay and learned that the Com
missioner had received a visit from Mayor
Allen, of Woodstown, who protested in
the name of the people of that borough,
against the building of this expensive
road, as the matter had been mis-
represented to them. Commissioner Budd
had also received an anonymous letter
stating that the F%reeholders had no
right to build a road where the State did
iOU pay VIC iUll OllC-UlllId COSu VI OOII-
struction.
The Director stated that the Commits
sioner had informed Mayor Allen that
he was too late and that he would APP
prove the road. The Director also stated
that the Freeholders had a perfect right
to build any kind of a road irrespective
of cost.
Mr.. Griscom reported that the county
had purchased the shells from the captain
of the barge sunk in Salem river near the
Covered Bridge and that the obstruction
had been removed.
Mr.. Freas reported that he had been
paid the sun of 500 by the captain Of the
vessel, John R. Reese, which, in going
through the Penns Neck Bridge, some
what damaged it.
Mr.. Summerill reported that the work
of painting the Upper Canal and Hawkes.
bridges was finished.
Messrs. Edwards, Freas and Ayres,
the committee appointed to view the
Centreton bridge reported that it was
unsafe for travel and recommended the
construction of an iron bridge. Mr..
Edwards stated that the foundations
were in perfect order and the only cost
would be for the upper works. This
bridge is seventy-two feet in length.
The committee was given discretionary
power to prepare plans and specifications
and advertise for bids.
The Peoples Rural Telephone Com
pany had an ordinance before the Board
asking for a franchise to erect poles and
string wires in the roads and streets in
Pilesgrove township. The ordinance was
broad and misleading. While, no doubt, it
was the intention of the company to ask
for the privilege of erecting poles on the
State roads in Pilesgrove, should it have
been passed it would have given the COM
pany a very wide scope OF operation for
it contained the words /" to erect poles
and wires and lay cotrduits ON anyvor all
public roads, streets or highways in the
county of Salem. F" By a unanimous vote
the ordinance was laid upon the table.
A petition was received for the build
ing of the Warrington State road from
the Covered Bridge to the Pointers.
The petitioners desired a shell road
and as the township has agreed to pay
the ten per cent. cost of construction, it
was ordered built by a vote of eleven to
one. The committee, Messrs. Ayres,
Griscom, Briant, Fox and Freas, was in
structed to prepare plans and spec
iications for the building of said road.
The fixing of the tax budget then occu-
pied the attention OF the Freeholders.
1t will be remembered that two years
ago the budget was raised to 500, 900
owing to the building of the State roads
and because the new school law required
the county 10 pay a considerable larger
sum to the State. 1t was also fixed at
| the same amount last year, but the Free
holders contended that 800, 900 would be
| sufficient for the coming year, and at
this amount it was fixed. The budget
| is made UP as follows: