Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-05-11
Increase This Year Over 1904
Amounts TO sI4,S26.86 Not
as Large as Increase Last
Year Over 1903.
HOSPITALSGETS $4,000
FreehO|der Haney Made Earnest
Appeal Before the Financel
Committee and Secured the
Additional $1,000.
Sbeeiai 10 the Evenfug Ne4Us.


New Brunswick, May 11:-Connty
Auditor Frank II. Pownall read before
the Board of Freeholders, at the ses-
sion Wednesday afternoon, the new
budget for county expenses, for 1906
1906, which had been prepared by the
finance committee and approved by
him. When all the items had been
explained the board adopted the bud
get unanimously.
The county expenses amount to
S25I, 6s6. 10, which is $ll, 1856 more
than last year. This increase, how
ever, is not as great as the increase Of
the budget of 1904 over 1903. The
state school tax to be raised by the
county this year is S6l, 932. 6s, exceed
ing that of last year by $3, 108.2l.
The total amount of the budget, in
Guiding the amount for county ex-
penses and the state school tax, is
1919, 6lSS3, an increase of $l4, 826. So
over last year.
One of the increases is the donations
for the hospitals of this city and Perth
Amboy which is 81, 900. Last year the
appropriations were S4, 900, while this
year they are $1,000 each. The free
holders made this increase after the
urgent plea for it made before the fin
ance committee yesterday morning BY
Freeholder Haney, of Perth Amboy.
The increase in salaries for bridge
tenders is made necessary, it was ex-
planned, because of another bridge
tender that must he engaged this year.
The Incidental expense increase is
due to the settlement of suit made
this past year.
The increases in this years budget
over the am cunts appropriated last
year are as follows:
Maintenance of lunatics. $1,000:
salaries of bridge tenders, $500; fees Of
coroners and burials, 5000; advertis-
ing, printing and publishing, $1,000;
incidental expenses, $3.50; interest
on bonded debt, 81, 462. so; bridge re-
pairs, Woodbridge creek bridge, 80,
$50: Albany street bridge, New
Brunswick, $500; South River draw
bridge, 81, 300; Woodbridge township
bridges, $500: South Amboy borough
bridges, 5000; New Brunswick
bridges, $40; Monroe township and
Jamesburg borough bridges, $3.50;
Pfscataway township bridges, $500;
Cranbury township bridgesA $3.50;
Raritan township and Metuchen bor-
ough bridges, 1900; Madison township
bridges 5000; Perth Amboy city
81, 7Oe; Sayreville township
bridges, 1900; South Brunswick
township bridges, $500; Wells Mem
oria hospital. New. Brunswick, 81, 900;
Perth Amboy city hospital, $1,000;
board of.children in orphan asylum,
5000; Amboy bridge, $1,000.
The decreases are as follows:
Election expenses, 81, 900; bonded
debt falling due, $1,000; court house,
county buildings and grounds, $500;
Cheesequake creek bridge, $500;
Landing bridge, $500; New Bruins
wick, fourth ward bridges, s75; Dun-
ellen borough bridges, 500.
The new items in this years bud
get are as follows:
Emergency fund debt and interest,
resolution of November 16, 1904, Sl0,
096. 10: emergency fund debt and in
terest, resolution of December 5, 1904.
1915; Lime kiln bridge, Sayreville
and Old Bridge road, $500; census
for 1905. 81, 900; repair of bridge on
Metuchen macadam road in Wood
bridge township, $1,000; Weston's
Mills bridge, 81, 200
The items in last years budget and
not in this year are as follows:
Cranbury bridge, $500; Cooks
bridge, Woodbridge township, 81, 250;
amount to pay notes given to pay for
macadamizing county roads, $4,000.
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