The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-03-04
BOARD of Freeholders.

TAT meeting yesterday, Win all the mem
10 bers present. Bills occupied large por
q ton of the morning session, some of then
demanding explanation.
The bridge tenders bills for salarie
> were drawn to the 18th of the month. 1
was ordered that they be paid to the frs
of March and that hereafter all bills reaC
to the last day of the month, the checks
q to be mailed directly to those to whom
the money was due.
: Abner W. Lamb presented a bill which
had occupied attention several times priol
to this meeting. He is a rural mail car
q rier and claims he was compelled to drive
f several miles out of his way daily owing
4 to bridges being up while being construct,
ed or repaired. AS there was no precedent
for paying any such charge the bill was
refused consideration.
/ The bills of justices and officers fol-
] committing persons under the disorderly
, act resulted in the exhibition of law
which had been overlooked for a long
time. The law was enacted by the legis-
lature of 1906 and provides that it shall
be the duty of all magistrates in all cases
Of summary convictions had before them,
to file the complaint, warrant and record
of the proceedings and conviction of the
offender in the Office of the county clerk
within ten days after each and every con-
viction. In case the magistrate fails to
do this he, in the words of the statute,
shall be deemed and adjudged a disor-
derby person"
Then the fees of the officials are related
In the same act and they are somewhat
lower than the magistrates have been
charging. For arresting and committing
disorderly persons the magistrate is en-
titled to charge 25 cents, and the police
officer gets but so cents, and there is a
proviso that not a cent of these costs
shall be paid unless the magistrate has
filed the record of the arrest and convict
ion as recited above.
Another section of law was read which
is open to discussion. 1t says that in all
cities having police courts or recorders
courts, the recorder or police justice
must take charge of all criminal cases or
such as are usually heard by justice of
the peace. The latter official shall not
have power to try or determine such cases,
any law or custom to the contrary not
withstanding. In the definition of Getty
or township" the law says that term shall
apply to any municipality having an over
seer of the poor. This law also provides
that where the recorder and police Off
GERS making arrests are under salary all
fees must go into the municipal treasury
There Is some question whether this law
applies to Mount Holly and that point is
to be looked up. For the present the fees
will be held and if it is discovered they
must go to the treasury the check will be
so drawn. In the case of justices who
fall to file the certificates required within
the ten days, the fees will not only be
withheld, but the official will be pro-
ceeded against under the disorderly act.
The managers of the Chautauqua As
sembly asked permission to use the lot In
rear of the prison, the same as last year,
communication was read from the
War Department in which attention was
called to the fact that the Hainesport
drawbridge is not working properly and
that the steamboat Vansciver cannot get
through easily. Engineer Logan said that
bolt or two had been broken. He had q
machinist at work and expected to have
the bridge in perfect condition by this
morning. He said the bridge did not turn
right and in order to help it along the
Vansciver's nose was run against the
bridge. The strain was too great and
something gave way.
Mr.. Russ thought it would be good
idea to look up the law on turning draw
bridges and find out what notice has to be
given tender when boat wants to 90
through. At Delanco he claimed the Van
solver ties up to wharf very near the
bridge and when she wants to 60 through
she blows her whistle for the draw and
starts right of, getting to the draw before
the tender has time to open 1t. Mr.. Russ
thought reasonable time should be given
to make the passage clear.
Some bills for killing foxes were pre-
sented. DR.. Lejambre objected to their
being paid, but as they dated prior to the
passage of the resolution which said no
more money was to be expended on that
score 1t was thought best to settle these
bills and not pay any more.
At the afternoon session the o. g. l.
Company, of Philadelphia, presented
bill amounting to So. 1923 GA, which repre-
sented the cost of the tar, material, freight
and other work performed on an expert
mental piece of road on the Jobs town
pike. which the county put down by order
OF the state. AS Road Commissioner Col.
A. E. Stevens had sent to Clerk Hawkins
a check to cover the amount the bill was
ordered paid
DR.. LeJambre called attention to the
fact that Contractor LeCompte, who is
building three roads in the upper part of
the county, is being held up because there
are some culyerts to be placed, the pipe
having been on the ground for several
weeks. The doctor said he would have
the matter attended to at once There
are three large bridges to be built on these
roads that will cost at least $50, 900. and
the board will not proceed in the matter
before 1t has some assurance of state aid,
as it would nearly exhaust the bridge
budget and leave but little for other parts
of the county. William Miller, former
freeholder from North Hanover, said that
some of the bridges would have to be
erected before next summer.
The board passed a resolution RENTING
the $500 fine of George Taylor, of Browns
Mills, whose sentence for his assault upon
Mrs. Mary Harker with rotten eggs ex-
pired on the first Of March, and recon-
mended his liberation, subject to the APP
prevail of Judge Homer
furnishing screens for the county asylum
Porter Screen Manufacturing Co., Phila-
delphia, $715 90; ]. P. Severns' Sons,
Burlington, $906.00. Robuck Weather
Strip and Wire Screen Co., n Y, 1886. 90;
Kane Blind and Screen Co., Atlantic City,
1881 90; E. T. Burrowes Co., Portland,
Maine, $751; 90.
As they were the lowest bidders the
Board was inclined to award the contract
to the Porter firm, but when it was con-
sidered that the board could not contract
bill for over $500 without advertising
the matter. all the bids were rejected. An
advertisement for bids will be made in the
Riverside Press and New Jersey Mirror
Bids were then opened for printing
1000 index filing cards as follows: Mirror,
$1,000; Herald, $3.50; News SO; River
side Press, 1855. The latter paper re-