, 1904-09-28

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us important meeting. Mayor
paker and a full council were present,
viz. Councilmen Banks, Bright, Cobb,
nnnham. Hamilton and Harris. So
I;e;tor Teller and the clerk were also
present. A. Loaf moo+;,ne
June IA, July II, ID and 10, August ID
and September ID, were approved as
read. MI. Durham, chairman of the
lighting committee, submitted the new
winter schedule of street lights, report
ing that eighteen lights had been cut
out. leaving thirty-three arc lights to
bnrn all winter, four of which are on
the boardwalk. The report was accep-
ted.
THE PARK PROJECT.
Az the result of the discussion at the
last meeting on the disposition of the
mark grounds between Wildwood and
Dak avenues and between Oak and
Cedar an ordinance was in
troduced by Mr.. Hamilton which pro-
yides that in consideration of Baker
Brothers filling in the low places of the
mark. known as the lake, certain of the
lots are to be decided back to them.
Before council proceeds in this matter
the question will be submitted to a vote
of the people at the general election on
Tuesday, November s, 1904. The Or
dinance passed first and second read
ings and reads as follows:
PROPOSED ORDINANCE NO. 92.
An Ordinance relative to the vacation of GER
tain lands situated in the Borough OF
Wildwood, n. j., dedicated to the public
use, and the extinguishment of all pub
lie rights therein.
Whereas, in laying out Blocks Nos. Thirteen
Q3l and Fourteen Q4 on a plan of lots of the
Wildwood Beach improvement Company,
made by Marcus Fry, Engineer, 1898, and duly
filed in the Clerks Office ofCape May County,
at Cane Nav Court House, New Jersey, a plot
oflandi in Block number Thirteen Q3l, bounded
by Cedar and Oak avenues and by LOIS NOS.
10, 20, 81, %, %, "a and 25 in said block, and a
plot of land in Block number Fourteen u4),
bounded by Oak, Philadelphia and Wildwood
Avenues and by Lots Nos. l and z In salu
block, were laid out and designated for the
public use as PARKS, and
Whereas, By reason ofdeep natural depress,,
ions in parts of the respective areas In SAID
plots which are filled with stagnant water,
causing them to become deleterious to the
public health, it is necessary that the same
shall be filled and graded at considerable cost
to the public, now
Therefore, In pursuance of the provisions
of an Act of the Legislature of the State of
New Jersey entitled sAn Act relative to the
vacation by the governing body of any city,
town, township, borough or other municipal
ity of this state of ANY land situated in such
municipality and wholly or partially dedica-
ted or devoted to the public use and the ex-
tinguishment of all public rights therein"
approved March 30, 1904,
BE II ordained and enacted by the Council
ofthe Borough of
Section l. That the said plots of ground are
in their present condition not suited to the
public uSp of marks. and that to mt them in
such condition as they should be would be
burdensome to the municipality of the Bor-
ough of Wildwood.
Section 2. That in consideration of the
holder of the legal fee thereof, at the expense
ofthe said holder filling and grading to the
established grade the low places in the said
plots of ground, and of covering with top
earth and seeding the same in grass, the
rights of the public and of the municipality of
the Borough of Wildwood, and of all persons
or corporation claiming any rights, or inter
est IN said lands, other than the holder OF the
legal fee, be and they hereby are vacated and
extlnguished in and to the following parts of
sne SAID land, to wit: All that part of Block
No. Ii, included between Cedar and Oak ave-
naes and between Lots mber 10, 20, 81,
~, y, q, and 25 in said block; and all
mat certain strip of land in Block Number
~, lying adjacent to the southeasterly
side line of Lots Numbers l and pin
sald block, containing in front or breadth on
lne Northeasterly side of Oak avenue one
hundred and twenty 400 feet; and ex-
= VI thbt N1dIn db IlSnb ahSlCS
10 SAID Oak avenue between parallel
lines in length or depth enthusiastically a
SSlahce OF Two. Hundred goo feet to the
Southwesterly side of Wildwood avenue; and
mat the same be and hereby are restored to
sne holder of the legal fee thereof freed and
anu discharged from all public rights therein,
as If such public rights therein had never
existed.
Section 3. That the proposition contained
IN ire two preceding sections ofthis ordinance
snail not operate to effect said vacation and
eAtlhgulshment of thepublic rights in the said
iase uescflDed lands, until the sames shall have
peen submitted to and approved by the
nta1oflty OF the qualified voters ofthe Borough
70 " ndWood voting at the general election
III tl members OF The Assembly to be held on
sne oth day of November A. ID. 1904, public
holee of submission of which proposition
3bha,i pc given by advertisements signed by
lne Clerk of the Borough of and
Pos1ed IN al least ten public places in the said
through, and also published in two newspa-
puls printed and circulating in the said Bor-
ton. S N"'9 ' sui NV
section 4. That the proposition to be so
bbannnlltted shall be worded and printed on the
ssE4aaooes USED at the said election as follows:
MI NJ OF against the vacation and eXtinguish-
n nM OIL The public rights in and to the fol-
SVSNlng described land: All that part of block
n ETl 10, included between Cedar avenue and
% " A. avenue and between lots Nos. 10, 20, q,
=, %, "A and % in said block; and all that
ssSd,eoauih strip of land in block No. IA, lying
NH9aoeht 10 the southeasterly side line of lots
nr r. ~ = III stlu DOCK, containing IN lrOnJ
y uneadth on the northeasterly side of Oak
ana a one hundred and twenty 120) feet;
t a. extending of that width at right angles
len saiH oak avenue between parallel lines in
o NfItslh or depth enthusiastically a distance
s a" hundred 900 feet to the southwesterly
Nueoi W lldwood %aVenue.n
etfroeoettlon D. That this ordinance shall take
hayooe tWhen the foregoing proposition shall
hsraS peen so submitted and approved as
Hereinbefore set forth.
Inc above ordinance will come up
meeting.