The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-08-22
New Resolution Passed By
Coyrd ofStreet and Water
Commissioners and Ar
rangements Satisfactory
TO TAP ClTYS MAIN
WHILE WATER COMPANY WILL
MAKE COLLECTIONS COUNTY
WILL REMAIN CUSTOMER OF
JERSEY CITY.

The Street and Water Board yesterday
passed the following resolutions:
Whereas, The Board of Chosen Free
holders of the County of Hudson, who
are supplied with water from the Jersey
City Water Works near Snake Hill,
complain that they have an insufficient
supply, and are greatly in need of a
larger supply, and desire that the same
be taken from the principle main laid
upon the new county road leading from
Seecaucus to Jersey City, through which
main the city gets IFS supply;
Resolved That the Jersey City Ma
ter Supply Company be requested to al
low the Board of ChSsen FreeBolders of
the County Of Hudson, at their expense,
but under the direction of the engineer
Of the Water Company, TO insert a tap
in said principal main, at a convenient
point on the new county road. near Snake
Hill, for the purese of providing larger
supply to the county for the public in
stitutions at Snake Hill and to place
metre thereon, satisfactory to the Water
Company, for the measuring of the wa
ter to be taken by the county, which
water shall be paid for by the county at
the rate fixed by this Board and now
paid by the county for the use of water,
and. on behalf of the city 1t is hereby
consented that the Jersey City Water
Supply Company may arrange with the
county to receive and collect the reye-
nues arising from the supply so furnish
ed to the county, and to credit them
upon any such that may be found due
from the Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey
City to the said Water Company, under
existing contracts between them. Any
deliveries made by the jersey City Water
Supply Company under this arrangement
shall be considered as deliveries Of so
much water under the terms of the con-
tracts with Jersey City and shall be
credited to the Jersey City Water Sup
ply Company as the same had been de-
livered on Bergen Hill into the city's
reservoir.
Resolved Further. That nothing in
these resolutions shall be held to %aive
any Of the rights of the city against the
water company or to constitute any ad-
missions on the part of the city of its OBJ
legation to pay for said water, or in any
wise to prejudice the city's rights under
existing contracts. or in the pending suits
and actions between the city and the
Water Company, and these resolutions
shall not take effect until the acceptance
of the same shall have been filed with
the clerk of this Board, executed by the
said Water Company and by the Board
of Chosen Freeholders of the County Of
Hudson. The Water Company is to care
for and read and record the readings Of
the meter above mentioned, but repairs
thereto shall be made BY the county. The
representatives of the company and the
coty shall have access to said meter at
all reasonable times. The amount Of the
bills rendered to the county shall be the
result of the joint readings by the agents
of the company and the city.
The specifications as filed by the Chief
Engineer for the construction of a sewer
in the fsterly sidewalk of the Hudson
Boulevsf ID, from forty feet south Of Me-
Adoo avenue to Terhune avenue and in
Terhune avenue to connect with Swampy
Creek at Spring street, were adopted and
ordered fled. The clerk was directed to
advertise for bids.