The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-06
MAYOR NOTIFIES
 ALDERMANIC BOARD
AGAIN THAT MEMBERS FROM
 OUTLYING WARDS

Question Again Before the Board- Other Business Transacted-SpeciaI Meeting Held Afterwards to Arrange
 for Baseball Game With the Press.
 The regular monthly meeting of the board of aldermen was held in city hall last evening, the entire board be- ing present with the exception or AL dermen McKerness, Healy, Hotcnkiss' Woodford and Smith.
 The first business to come before me meeting was the acceptance or the journal by the board, which was ae- cepted unanimously. .
 City Clerk Street next read the fol- lowing communication from Mayor Studley, which was accepted and ta- bled for printing:s
 New Haven, Conn.,, Sept. 5. 1905. The Honorable Board of Aldermen,
 City of New Haven.
 Gentlemen:
 Because my attention has been called to the matter feel it may duty to re- mind your honorable board of the pro- visions of the charter in regard to the rights and duties of the representatives in your board from the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth wards. The provisions of Sections 216 nd PIT of the charter are as follows:
 ', The aldermen or councilmen repre- sentlng the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth wards of said city shall not vote. either as a member of either of said boards, or as member of a com mittee of either of said boards, upon any question pending before either of said boards in which their wards have no right or interest until their respect i've wards shall have come under full jurisdiction of the city in the manner described by section 2ls of this act.
 No property in the Thirteenth, Four teenth and Fifteenth wards of said city shall receive any service, protection, cr improvements from the government Of said city except such as were, prior to December, 1897, furnished by the town of New Haven;. and none of such prop erty shall be subject to burdens by as sessment, taxation, or otherwise, for sidewalks, curbing, sewers or any pub- lie work that can be properly describ- ed by the term city Improvements ex- cept such as might have been laid or enforced by the town of New Haven or by the seIectmen of the town of New Haven. None of said property shall be taxed by said city more than four mills on the dollar,a exclusive of the school tax and none of the oyster grounds In New Haven harbor not In state juris- dietion, which have not heretofore been subject to city taxation, shall be taxed more than four mills on the dollar"
 submit herewith for your consider alton transcript of two opinions rem dered by MT. William H. Ely, when cor- | poration counsel, because these opfn- ions seem to cover the ground as fully perhaps as can be done by general statements.
 Respectfully submitted,
 1 ,(Signed) ~. John P. studley, Mayor.
 After the reading of the communica- tion from the mayor, the city clerk read the two old opinions on this sub- ject, which were fully published at the time the matter came up for discussion l in 1898.
 The following communication was next submitted by Alderman-at-Large Nathanson, and on motion of Alderman Devine the matter was referred to the | committee on bath houses:
 To the Board of Aldermen of the City of New Haven.
 Resolved, That the board of aldermen of the city of New Haven should have 1 facilities for sea water bathing, with the use of bath house free of charge.
 That the board of aldermen requests the board of park commissioners to appear before the board of finance and ask for an appropriation, for the pur- pose of establishing suitable bathing facilities at Fort Hale park.
 Introduced by
 Samuel J. Nathanson. 1 Clerk Street next read the reports of several of the minor committees all of which were tabled for printing.
 The report of the special committee of the board of aldermen having in charge the dedication of the Broadway monument submitted it's report as to how the $1,0OO donated by the city had been spent. The report was accepted and tabled for printing.
 The report of the special committee whose duty it was to fix salary for a city building inspector was next read and tabled for printing. As previously published the amount fixed by the com. mittee is $2,500 per annum.
 The reports of the sub-committees as printed in the journal relative tc streets, sewers, lights, damages, etc., were adopted, with one or two minor exceptions.
 President Townshend called the at tention of the board to the fact that the tax commission for 1905 would soor have to meet and examine the city's books. It was therefore necessary that petitioners for the extension of Frank commission, and Alderman Curtiss was unanimously chosen.
 Alderman Courtney moved that the petitioners for theextension of Frank street be given leave to withdraw aE the city has owned the land since 1896 and has fulfilled all requirements since that time. The motion was carried.
 Before the board adjourned President Townshend announced that there would be an informal meeting of the board held after adjournment to arrange fol | the baseball game with the newspaper