Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-11-24
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REPORT FROM
CAPT. PARKER
Aldermen Receive Dissentin0
Statement Anent Smith
Street Wood Block.
DlSAGREES ON FIGURES
PRESENTED BY OTHERS
Wants Matter Adjusted
Badges for AIdermen--
Specifications Approved.

Captain James Parker submitted
minority or supplementary report
On the Smith street wood-block pave
ment at an adjourned meeting of the
Board of Aldermen last night. The
report, which was accompanied by
assessment lists and maps, is given
In full below. In it he disagrees with
the majority report and asks that the
matter be referred back to the COM
missioners.
The report after being read was re-
ferred to the committee on streets
and sewers, who will confer with the
city surveyor in regard TO the mat
ter. Recently the council received a
report from the other two commits
sioners, so Captain Parker's is real
ly @ninority statement.
Badges for Aldermen.
Alderman Larson moved that
badges be purchased for the alder
men, as such had been the custom at
one time. The aldermen have power
to make arrests under the city char
ter and Mr. Larson thinks that in
view of this fact it would be advis-
able to purchase badges at a cost not
to exceed s25. Accommodations
composed of Aldermen Dalton and
Larson, to secure them.
Specifications Are Submitted.
Specifications for paving East ave-
nue., from Washington street to New
Brunswick avenue, and Smith street,
between High and Water streets,
were submitted to the council by City
Surveyor S. j. Mason. They were
x.ofn -
and sewers, and will later be submit
ted back to the council for approval
BY resolution, the street commits
sioner was instructed to notify prop
erty-owners on Market and McC1el-
Ian streets who have not already
done SO to pave and curb their side
walks. At a subsequent meeting the
council will order similar notices
sent to property-owners on other
streets where sidewalks and curbing
are needed. This is done in accord
ance with recent ordinance.
Exemption papers were granted to
Michael and William Fitzpatrick,
members Of Mcclellan Engine Com
pany.
City Clerk LaRoe reported that the
$1,000 bond of Constable William
Walters had been received. 1t was
referred to the judiciary COMMITTEES.
Several bills were paid and the
board, after being in session about
ten minutes, adjourned to meet again
next Tuesday night Alderman Gar
land was the only absentee.
Report of Captain Parker.
Captain Parker's communication
was as follows:
To the Honorable the Common
Council of the City of Perth Am
boy:
The undersigned would respectful
ly represent to your honorable body,
that, on the eighteenth day of No
vember inst, he accidentally learned
that William P. O'Hara and Henry
loft, who were together with the
undersigned, appointed commissions
ers of assessment to assess the cost
and expenses of paving Smith street.
between the easterly side of State
street and the easterly line of she
tracks of the Perth Amboy and = liz
abethport Railroad Company, with
creo-resinate wooden blocks, and the
cost of re-setting the curbs on said
street, had filed on 18th inst, re-
port, assessment and assessment
map, in the Office of the clerk Of this
city.
These have been prepared by said
William P. O'Hara and Henry loft
without any consultation with the
undersigned, who never saw either
until this day, when he examined it
In the clerks office.
Under these circumstances the un-
dersigned deems it his duty both to
the city, and those who are to be
assessed, to protest against the ac-
ton of the said other commissioners
of assessment; and for the reasons
following:
l. That by said report it appears
that various sums stated on the
comptroller's certifcate( attached to
said report), which consist OF ex-
penses incurred under former assess
ments and are, for that reason,
plainly inapplicable to the present
assessment, and should be excluded,
are, nevertheless, included in the
amount assessed by the said assess
meRt These amount TO the sum of
$S40.2S
Continued on page 4.