The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-03-20
The following was adopted without a

ator and Members of Assembly from Bur
lington county be requested to vote agains
J all bills having for their object the in
crease of salaries of public officials"
A resolution was offered to have tn
stone roller insured. This was rather in
definite and somebody wanted to know
what it was to be insured against, but no
body seemed to be able to give the desired
information. Mr.. Russ thought the bes
thing to do with this piece of property
would be to sell it. Mr.. Tallman did MOI
but he thought something should be done
with the machine, which is lying idle
down in Tom Matters orchard"
The resolution was adopted, the stone
road committee to take charge of the mat
ter
/ Messrs. Birkhead, Bovine, Ebert, Kim
BILE and Evans were appointed to prepare
amendments to the rules to conform tU
recent legislation.
The bridge committee recommended the
building of new bridge at Forked Land
ing at a cost not to exceed 81 800
| The advisory bridge committee recon-
mended the building of new bridge at
South Pemberton at cost not to exceed
| Sc, 800, also new abutment at Little Mill
pond on the Juliustown road In Pemberton
township.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Brick
to the effect that, at the special meeting
to be held on the 18th of April, the Bell
Telephone Company be given hearing
on proposition to run their wires under
the new concrete pavement in front of the
County Collectors Office, for the purpose
OF installing an underground system of
condults.
The Director thought this resolution
was not in order, as the special meeting
was to be for the purpose of discussion of
the trolley subject, the trolley people being
at the expense of the gathering.
Mr.. Hilton did not favor the resolution
because he felt that the pavement is still
in the hands of the contractor who Is
under bond for its preservation. If the
telephone company could make any ar
rangement with the contractor that would
satisfy him there would not be any obiec-
ton on the part of the county to having
appliances placed In the court house ward
or on the buildings for the furtherance of
the telephone work The matter was left
in that shape.
bill for numbering machine in use
at the Clerks Office was presented Mr..
Tallman objected to payment He did
not think 1t was anything In which the
county was especially interested. This
machine was undoubtedly for the benefit of
the Clerk and he ought to foot the bill
He got fees enough for his work Mr.
Tallman said he had some work done
which took about ten minutes for which
he was taxed 90 cents
Mr.. Sooy was allowed to explain. He
said the machine was for the purpose of
expediting search for papers.
The explanation was not sufficient. how
eyer, and the bill / was laid on the table.
The bill for payment of the improve
ments at Browns Mills was again brought
up. Mr.. Wittmeyer said he thought the
expenditure was more for the benefit of
the property owners than for the county.
Mr.. Birkhead said the drain saves the
improved road and if it had not been at
tended to when it was the county might
have been put to greater expense.
Mr.. Brock thought it a very bad pre-
c9dent to establish to let private individu-
ais fix any piece of road that might seem
to need attention and then send the bill to
the county. He had a bad piece of road
near his farm and if this was to be the
custom he would get busy there.
Mr.. Tallman also objected to the bill
He thought there was more need for
sewers in the towns and cities than in the
pines. and if the county has money to
spend in that direction he would be able
to get any number of jobs for considera
ton.
The roll was called and the bill was or
dered paid by the vote of IS to IL. Mr..
Wittmeyer explained his affirmative vote
by saying he did not approve the action,
but as the committee had reported favor
ably he wanted to sustain it.
A bill for an accident to an automobile
was presented. 1t was claimed that the
machine was damaged by running into a
broken culvert result of washout on a
load in Lumberton township. A motion
to empower committee to settle the bill
W as lost
A petition was offered to increase the
board of prisoners at the jail. The pres
ent price is % cents per day for each pris-
oner. The move was to make the price
35 cents.
In order to get it before the Board,
Mr.. Wittmeyer moved the adoption of a
resolution favoring the increase
Mr.. Brick called attention to the fact
that while provisions may have advanced
in price it would be just as well to go
slow on this question. The Board and the
courts had thrown safeguards around the
Jail to such an extent that there is not as
much profit In the boarding of prisoners
as heretofore. but that was not the countys
lookout. He thought no harm could arise
by letting the matter rest awhile.
Mr.. Wittmeyer again announced that
he 'only wanted to get it discussed" and
moved that the matter be referred to
committee who should report at the May
meeting.
The committee is Messrs. Brick, Wood
ward, and the committee on court house
and grounds.
The following bills were ordered paid: