Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-09-17
PAUlSBORU BOROUGH LOUkCIL.


Mayor and all Council were present.
The following bills were ordered
paid:
Samuel Cole, police duty....... S 900
J. Paul Ireland, police duty. 800
Garrett Thompson, storing
voting machine ........... SEQ
w. C. Turner, road work. 1880
Mr.. Shines objected to paying $500
per ton for stone to repair the road.
The Mayor thought the price reason
able, but Mr.. Turner thought oyster
shells would be cheaper. Mayor Adj
amson recommended making Delaware
street of stone Mr.. Shines asked how
soon will the gas pipes be laid? Why
not lay the pipes before sstoning?
Mayor: believe by the time the
stone are on the ground the pipes will
be laid.
Shines DO we not have to adver-
tise this work according to our bor-
ough laws? Do We not have to put
it out to bids?"
Mayor No, we can do il"
Young According to our borough
law we have no right to do any work
of this kind without first advertising
lOT DIQS luS4 S1NlllS q OOAeAo St " eA]S
lowest responsible bidder"
Councilman Shines recommended the
Imperial Road, the kind that never
wears out.
Young: What is it made OFF,
Jester: Made of dust of the earth
the same as you and II
Mayor: am of the opinion that
we can make contract without adj
vertising it,
Clerk: What has the printer
done?"
Trainer: -" According to borough
law you must first advertise then go
ahead with your contract"
Young:-ssWhat l am most inter-
ested in is the deed for the gas plant
lot and search here"
Clerk:-'I do not know anything
about it. l have not got it."
Mayor: Mr. Avis informed me
that the deed is of no value as John
o. Adams did not own it and that he
had no right to sell it without first get
ting the signatures of the other heirs.
| have a new deed all properly signed
by the five members of the Cole fam
ily and upon the advise of Mr.. Avis
| returned the old deed and got my
money back and now the borough can
have the new deed as soon as they
nav the money to the Cole family l
have my own money back but the
100000 from the bonds have not been
mentioned. AS to the search Mr..
Avis was to have them here tonight
but would just say for the members
I,ot q will state that
about 30 years ago j. 0. Adams pur-
chased from Charles and Elizabeth
Parker, nee Mullin, this property and
on the same day J. 0. Adams decided
it to his mother, Mrs. Coles, who IS
now dead and no settlement has been
made of her estate. AS to the search
il is on the desk of the County Clerk
and according to a new rule IN that
Office money on delivery is the order,
and l guess it won't get out until It
is paid for"
Shines: sThen, Mr.. Mayor, do you
really mean to say that the lot that
our gas plant is on belongs to the Cole
family?"
Mayor: yes
Shines: What steps must we take
to get the search from the clerk?"
Mayor: DRAW draft for the
money from the gas fund
Young: How much is it?'
Mayor: do not know
The correspondent took pity on the
Mayor and Shines, who both knew, and
told them 1880.
A motion was made to draw draft,
when Trainer asked for the bill and
stated that it could not be paid when
they did not know positively as to the
price, as the Mayor had $3.50 when the
search was first spoken of.
.sStines: Nov, Mayor, | thought
you told us the deed was legal deed,
and the title was all good. You IN
formed us at the time you wanted US
to accept that deed, that you person
ally had investigated it."
Mayor:-s'I thought it was"
Jester:-"Now, I do not want to in
terrupt, but how about the price OF
this Imperial Road How much is 1t
a yard, or how much will it cost from
Main street to the railroad? / move a
committee be appointed to find out.
Carried but no committee was ap-
pointed.
Young:-"Now to go back to the
getting the search Don't you think
our solicitor will get it for us and
send bill?'
Mayor do not know, but I dc
not believe he would. or he would soon
be in the same fix that l am"
Trainer: the bill.'
Young:-As the money has to come
out of the gas fund, l move that we
pay it if we can get the money. Can
we do that?"
Seconded by Shines.
Trainer:-'I am not ready. I am
not in favor; there is no bill; we got
our information from outsiders and
have no right to pay the BILL"
Lost
Ex-Judge Cox then got UP and said:
Gentlemen, whenever you are ready
would like to ask a couple of CUES
TONS"
Mayor Now, Mr.. Cox, you may
proceed"
Cox: Now I understand you to
cav fhara are five heirs tn that nron.