The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-17
TO SWEAR
TO BILLS
County Officials Must Hereafter
Make Affidavit Regarding
Telephone Bills
FREEHoLDERS OFFER REWARD

CdlIS 1TOu DIlG OUlCCS VI UIl6 SuCIlu,
county clerk and surrogate has been
settled, temporarily at least, by the
board of freeholders. At its meeting
Wednesday the board passed a resolu-
tion presented by Freeholder Reuben
H, Burchell that each of the officers
shall hereafter keep an account OF
every telephone call, having a book for
the purpose and to be ready for inspec-
tion by the board of freeholders. In
addition to this the officials must at
the end of each month submit an aft
davit that the calls were all on court
or official business. The telephone
company is to send a bill to each of the
officers mentioned for the service fur
nished his office and the bills are to be
passed upon and submitted with the
affidavits to the board for payment.
Freeholder John w. Fancher sub
mitted a resolution that was passed
without comment to the effect that
the counsel should give the board at
whether there is any law giving the
board the right to furnish the sheriff's
residence with coal and light and to
pay for telephone service furnished
county offices and also as to the right
of freeholder to put in bill for tele-
phone service on county business.
The freebolders. upon the recon-
mendation of Judge Alfred Elmer
Mills and Prosecutor Charles A. Rath-
bun, have offered reward OF $500 for
the apprehension Of the unknown man
who killed Guiseppi Salvatore at
Mendham on October 8th.
Mrs. Francis S. Hoyt and Mrs. AL.
bert S. Swords, of the State Charities
Aid association, recommended to the
freeholders that Mrs. Smith, matron
of the aims house, be given an assis-
tant during her i'll health. They as
serted that the work was too much for
her in her present condition and that
the slight assistance she was given
from inmates able to work was insult
ficient. The matter was referred to
the aims house committee.
Freeholder Ryersons Of. the finance
committee, reported bills amounting
to So 2,92804
There are at present forty one in-
mates in the county jail, according to
the report of Freeholder Burchell Of
tie court house and jail committee.
There were forty-three at the last re-
port, sixty-four admitted and sixty-six
discharged since. He reported bills
aggregating $4,473.24.
Freeholder Harry l. Prudden report
ed ITO inmates in the aims house at
his last report since which three have
been admitted and five discharged,
leaving its present population 108,
There are now seventy-five in the
children's home. one tot having been
discharged during the month. The
bills reported by his committee were
for So, ,569.6l.
The lunacy committee paid it's last
visit to the state hospital at Morris
Plains on October oath, reported Free
holder Oscar B. Smith, and found
eighty-four males and eighty-two fe-
males as wards of the county. Last
months bill OF S1,630.O9 was ordered
paid and new bill for Sl.592.10 was
ordered paid when approved by the
committee. Freeholder Smith for the
insurance and miscellaneous commit
tee reported bills of 81, l,860.15.
A visit of the road committee and
director to Philadelphia to investigate
the terra cola surface used on roads in
that vicinity, was reported by Free
holder Powers. He said that twenty
five miles of roads forty-five feet wide
had been constructed in Fairmount
park by the process at the cost Of two
and one-third cents square yard and
asserted that the process was protec-
tion to the roads and was cheaper than
repairing with ordinary crushed stone.
The process includes the use of stone
0uA QSRh6lu RlOQuCUos 4liO lOcbQ Olllo
amounted to S5, ,380.75.
Freeholder Davenport reported print
ing bills of $1,655.30 and stated that
the election bills were so many that
the committee had not had time TO
look them over and the board ordered
their payment when the committee
approved them.
The claim of John w. Smith for
damages was reported adversely by the
damage committee, the counsel having
advised that the county was not liable.
The contract for the tw0-county
bridge at Two Bridges was awarded to
John Stiles on motion of Freeholder
RyerSOn. The bid was $35 for nailerS,
S35 for wheel guard, $40 per thousand
feet for white oak, and SIS for the old
bridge. A bill of the @. w. Dean com
pany for $500 for work on the Pequan-
noe bridge was ordered paid when the
committee approved it.
Director Gustav A. Becker reported
visit TO Landing recently in company
with the bridge committee and finding
the bridge there endangered by the
work Of laying a third track by the
Lackawanna railroad. The immedi-
ate construction Of an abutment was
necessary and the work was ordered
done.
The next meeting of the freeholderS
will be held on November 18th when
the application of the Morris County,
Traction company for a franchise to
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