Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-11-17
EMERGENCY FUND. ESTABLISHED
BY. BOARD Of. FREEHOLDERS.
Money to be Used to Re-
pair Bridges Which
are Badly Damaged
BY Storm.
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New Brunswick, Nov. 17:-The
Board of Freeholders at a meeting
held here yesterday afternoon, by a
vote of four-fifths of the members,
crented an emergency fund for the
purpose of defraying the expenses
of repairing and rebuilding bridges
throughout the county which were
damaged by heavy storms.
Under the law vote Of four.fifths
of the entire membership is necessary
to establish such fund and the reso-
luton making the fund provided
that the amount which the board
should raise by having notes dis
counted for bridge purposes should
be 50, 1862. 81.
The finance committee reported the
bridges to be rebuilt under the emer-
genoy law, this matter having been
discussed by the board at the caucus
hold during the morning. Director
Fountain stated to the board that the
list as submitted of bridges needing
repairs had been carefully examined
by the finance committee and in every
case 1t hnd been found that the emer-
gency lnw covered the expenditure.
The list of bridges covered by the
amount to be scared is as follows:
Appleby's bridge, $96 80; Reform
School bridge, $50; Raritan lake
bridge, wo dtridge, $500; Cooks
Bridge, PIscataway, $l,975; East
Bound Brook bridge, $3,575; Port
Readiug railroad bridge, $si2; Hoff-
man station culvert, Monroe, $s,440.-
70; Tracy station bridge, Monroe
$l60.S5; Lake street bridge, James
burg, $50; Forge street bridge, James
burg, $1lO; Tioe' S bridge, $72. SO; Suy
dam street culvert, New Brunswick,
S225.
The hoard passed resolution direct
ing TINT the work on al of these
bridges shonld be commenced as soon
as possible and that the county collec-
tor should borrow money as he needed
to meet the expenses, the understand
ing being that in next years levy a
sufficient amount would be placed
therein to meet the obligations in
CARED in making these repairs.
When the matter was brought to a
vote it was found that there were but
nineteen members present and one
more vote was needed to make four
fisths vote Clerk Clayton announced
that Freeholder Vandenbergh would
be there later and the board waited
until he arrived ut 3 80 o'clock, when
mis- vote was recorded aud the resolu-
ton passed.
A contract for q new bridge at
Bound Brook was awarded to the New
JERSEY Bridge Company for $3,698.
A petition was received at the meet
ing for this bridge, which is near
South Bound Brook.
County Solicitor II. Brewster Willis
reported that lie had had three co1-
ference with State Road Commissioner
Henry Butd, at Trenton, and that
Mr.. Budd had spoken very favorable
to MIddlesex county getting State
money for roa is completed This year.
Money will be pld on the ~ miles
of the Iselin- Dunham's corner road,
the K kingston road in full, two and q
half miles Of the franklin Park road,
the Landing Bridge-Stelton road, The
SayreviIle road, the Lawrence Harbor
road, the Sonth Amboy road, the
Plansboro road and the Reform school
road. There might be money held in
reserve on some IF these roads which
we're not finished by November 1. par
ticularly the Plainsboro road and the
South Amboy road, as they were not
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