Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-08-18
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
Proceedings of the Board of Aldermen
of the City of Perth Amboy, N. j.
August 18th, 1910,

Adjourned meeting held August 18th,
igl0 adjourned from August eth. 1910
The members present were: Aldermen
Hornsby, Seaman, Calvin, Larson, Dali
ION, sandbeck and Alderman-at-Large
Voorhees,.
The following resolution:
Whereas; P~ursuant to g resolution
attorney to apply to the Chancellor
for an order to sell any interest the
City OF Perth Amboy has in the Cove
was made, and the said Chancellor, by
an order, dated August 9, 1910, ordered
and directed that the said property
shall and may be sold by the said City
to such person or corporation as viii
purchase the same at public or private
s savsr az a price to be fixed by the
proval of the Chancellor before a CON
veyance shall be executed; such sale
10 pc authorized and the price to be
naea by said governing body, and re-
ported to the Chancellor for approval
all in accordance with the provisions
OF said Act Of March twentieth, A. D..
nineteen hundred
NOW, therefore, be II resolved, by
the Board of Aldermen of the City Of
Perth Amboy. which is the governing
BODY thereof, that the said City Of
Perth Amboy sell the lands known as
the Cove or Wet Dock property de-
scrtbed as follows: Beginning in the
westerly line of Water street at the
Instance OF one chain on a course north
twenty~rour degrees and fifty minutes
east from the northerly line of South
DOCK street and at the n~ortheasterly
corner of a slip of lane containing
IouT-tenths of an acre returned to John
brown on the twenty-frst day of April,
1iI6, and recorded among other tracts
In Book Az, page 81; thence / North
Bixty-hve degrees and twenty-five min
utes west four chains; thence Q south
twenty-four degrees and Atty minutes
west one chain; thence 3 north sixty
Ave degrees and twenty-five minutes
WeSL three phainQ m tho ltnn Of yha
lots formerly patented to George Will
locks, Samuel Gibson and others, thence
along said line North twenty-five de-
grees and fifty minutes east seven
Chains to North Dock street; thence 5
South sixty-ave degrees and twenty
ave minutes east one chain, more or
less, to the Northwesterly corner of a
slip of land patented to Thomas Cor
don, on the first day of April, 1903, and
recorded in Book c, page 65; hence
twenty-four degrees and fifty minutes
west one chain and eighty-one links
TO the Marsh or Meadow Ground"
thence z south slxty-aye degrees and
twenty-five minutes east nine chains to
Low Water Mark in the Sound; thence
southerly along Low Water Mark -four
chains, more or less, to a point bearing
and twenty-five minutes east from the
beginning; thence from said point
north sixty-fve degrees and twenty
nye minutes west three chains, more
or less. to the place of beginning, to
Adrian Lyon, Receiver OF The Perth
Amboy ShipbuildinR and Engineering
Company, who win purchase the same,
for the sum Of Ave thousand dollars,
which is hereby. hxed as the price to
be paid therefor; that the said sale be
reported on oath to the Chancellor for
his approval before a Conveyance shall
be executed, and that upon the approx
al of the same by the said Chancellor
that a deed be given for said lands,
5igne by the mayor and attested by
the city clerk, with the common seal
OF the city affixed; and that thereupon
the said deed be delivered 10 said
purchaser by the treasurer of this city
upon paymen to him Of the sun of five
thousand dollars.
WA read.
After the reading the Chairman an
nouneed that the public would be
given an opportunity to discuss 1t at
his time.
Adrian Lyon stated tina the party
who wished to purchase the Cove or
Wet Dock property was the Roessler &
Hasslaeher Chemical Company.
a discussion was then engaged in by
Wm. III. Mccormick, Adolph II. Koyen.
Emil Frey, George S. Walker, II. c..
Reiiley, d. p. Olmstead and Albert
Leon representing the Board OF Trade.
In behalf of the Board OF Trade Mr..
Leon presented the following resolu-
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