The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1911-01-10
FREEHOLDERS
END LAB0RS
The Board Of 1910 Holds Its
Final Session and Hears
Report Of Finances.
PAY OFF $4,000 ROAD BONDS

The 1910 board of freeholders went
out of office and left behind them a
fine balance sheet.
According TO the report ofthe finapce
committee, as presented by Freeholder
George Estler, the county's receipts for
the past year were 1881, ,5S6.98, bor-
rowed In anticipation of taxes, $780,
900, making the total amount received
S77l ,536.96. The disbursements were
S473,082 o6. leaving a balance in the
hands of County Collector Joseph e..
Mclean of s1aS, 504.92.
The total apportionment of appro-
priations assessed and levied in the
TAX rate for the year was S3l3,S00, OF
which $3.50, ,92s has been paid and Sl23,-
s72 is still outstanding.
There was received from the state
and credited to the state and road tax
account $50, 716 40 from state school
funds. s12l, 5000 and from what is
known as the : state school fund ap-
preparation, S13, ,5S5.SI.
There are the following balances IN
the various accounts of the county: In
eidentals, S1,S7919; bridges, S55.06 !:
sinking fund, s7798; county road re-
pair, 1880. As; state aid road account.
$4,259.6S; not including d. warrant re.
ceiyod by Mr.. Mclean for $4,000 for
the Pine Brook road repair work.
The past year the county has paid
$4,000 in road bonds and in the past
six years has paid off $4,000, leaving a
balance Of $4,000
The committee recommended the
creation of large Incidental account,
then to keep charging off as many bal
ances from the different appropria-
lions TO this fund as possible at the
end of the year, and then the carrying
of the balance Of the Incidental fund
to the credit of uhe sinking fund.
There are no unfinished road con-
tracts and the county's only outstand
ing Indebtedness is about $500 on cleo
tions and $500 on bridges. The amount
of So. 600 is also due from the state aid
road account.
Freeholder Charles K. Johnson.
chairman of the road committee. sub
mitted the annual statement OF his
Department.. There were sections of
road ina proved during the year under
the state aid act The Gladstone and
Chester road, in Chester township,
was improved for 81 ,053 feet, fourteen
feet wide, ten inches deep, by the tel
ford aud amiesiue method, for S43, ,228-
a.. Morris Plains and Parsippany
road. in Hanover township, IL, lis feet,
fourteen feet wide, six inches deep, by
macadam and amiesite, for S35, 03.
The other road was the Pompton and
Newark turnpike in Pequannoc town
ship, l5,515.5 feet, fourteen feet wide,
SIX inches deep, of macadam and am
jesite with asphaitum binder, for 81,
14l..36.
The county received 1913, ,523.6S of
state aid funds and disbursed Sd
264, leaving balance of 81 ,259.60 For
road repairs Sl20,654.29 was received,
$l2a, ,273.9l expended and balance on
nand of s3S0.4s. The snow account
expenditures aggregated 81, ,735.4o.
Director Gustav a Becker, whose
term as freeholder expired Saturday.
thanked the members of the board for
their courtesy TO him during the year
He said that he had been member of
the body since May, 1895, and the only
man in the board at this time who
was a member then is Freeholder
Michael 2. Norris, of the Third ward,
Morristown.
There was raised in 1895 Sl36,000
for county expenses, said DR.. Becker
There were no county roads then,
and despite the difference in the
amount expended that year and the
amount this year l believe the affairs
of the county baye been economically
conducted