Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-03-23
The following:

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To the Senate and General Assembly
of the State of New Jersey.
The petition of the city of Perth
Amboy, by it's governing body, the
council, respectfully shows that the
State of New Jersey is the owner, by
deed from John r. Watson, of a tract
of land in the city or Perth Amboy
! adjoining the City Hall, purchased By
the said, the State of New Jersey,
from John K. Watson on or about
the seventeenth day of September,
1852, by deed recorded in the Mid
dlesex county clerks Office in. book
1862 of deeds, pages ia, etc, as a
site for the surveyor generals office
of the P%roprietors of East Jersey, and
which property is described as fol-
, lows:
Beginning at the northerly corner
of said City Hall lot and in the east
erly line of Market Square and run
ming from thence northerly, along the
easterly line of Market Square, TWEEN
ty-two feet in width and the same in
the rear and from said easterly line
of Market Square extending easterly
by the northerly line of said City
Hall lot and the line distant north
erly therefrom twenty-five feet and
parallel thereto the distance or length
of the northerly line of the said City
Hall lot, being fifty feet, more or less.
That the city of Perth Amboy is
the owner of all the land surrounding
said lot on the north, east and south,
that it is DESTROYS of building an eX-
tension to the City Hall on the north
for the purpose of charging the
building and, with that end In view
wishes to purchase from the State of
New Jersey the above described lot,
provided the Board of Proprietors of
East Jersey consent thereto, and that
in consideration of a grant from the
state of the said lot, that the said,
the city of Perth Amboy, will grant
and convey to the State of New Jersey
a lot, equal in size with the lot in
question, at the northeast corner of
Market Square and will move the sur
veyor generals Office to last said lot
without expense to the said Board of
P%roprietors or the State of New Jer-
sey.
Your petitioner therefor prays that
the senate and general assembly of
the State of New Jersey will take
such steps as may be necessary to
authorize the proper authorities to
grant and convey the above described
lot to the city of Perth Amboy for the
above mentioned consideration.
And you petitioner as in duty
bound will eve pray, etc.
On motion this petition was referred
to the assemblyman from this DISTRICT
to be presented to the Legislature,
The following:
The clerk reported that his honor
the mayor had returned approved the.
following: A resolution asking, the.
Board of Proprietors of East Jersey,
TO consent to the transfer of prronerty.
adjoining the City Hall; a resolution
empowering the committee on streets
Il sewers to treat with G.. Pardee'
Company for right of way for Sheri-
dan street wv
was filed.
The committee on taxation, to
whom was referred the communica-
tlon from h Raritan Realty Com
pany regarding the personal taxes on
the property of Thomas Redhing, re-
ported as follows: "RecommendI&hat
the petition be granted, which
adopted by the following vote: YEA
Aldermen VanPelt, Stacey, Garland,
Dalton, Schultz, Acknowledging
Pfeiffer. Nay-None.
The comptroller having audited
bills to the various accounts, on mo-
ton warrants were ordered drawn for
the several amounts by the following
vote: Yea-Aldermen VanPelt,
Stacey, Garland, Dalton, Schultz, AL
derman-at-large Pfeiffer Nav-Nona
The following report from the
superintendent of police was read and
ordered placed on file:
Gentlemen-I hereby submit for
your consideration my fifteenth an
nual report of the operations of the
Police Department for the fiscal veal
ending February IS, 1907. The
numerical strength of the department
at present is seventeen men. They