Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-01-07
City Hall Doings

lueSuay AFTERNOON, January Attn. The
regular routine of business went along
+ moothly in the main. and had it not
been for a tri6ing occurrence near The
close of the session the observers of city
hall doings might have been deluded
into thinking that two majority
commissioners were trying to turn
over a new leaf.n This happened when
they announced their intention of ap-
peaIing from the decision of the Su-
preme Court in the opinion recently
handed down, restoring to the mayor
the dictatorship OF the department of
public safety and ccatrol over the
police force of the city. The merest
tyro who read the opinion could I'M
derstand that the Supreme Court deci-
sion was based On common ems and
right, and that for any one to try and
reverse it would be slike butting his
head against d stone WALL" Thu
modification and surprise were ex-
pressed at the move made.
The city clerk hadtwo sets of minutes
to read, those of the last regular meet
ing on December 28th. and Of the
regular adjourned meeting on Friday
afternoon, December 81st. AT the
latter meeting City Treasurer Kay in.
formed the con missioners that in
fourteen of the expense divisions of the
city hall there were pended
balances amounting to $899.44. A
resolution was passed authorizing the
city treasurer to transfer these various
balances to the 1920 surplus revenue
account.
In the water department there was
an unexpended sum of $544 81. A
resolution was passed authorizing the
transfer of this money from 1920 to 1921
water account.
The approval OF both sets of minutes
followed.
Monthly reports were called for next.
The report Of the city electrician for
December was the first one to be read:
One. permit was Issued at S.; six at
81. so each; ten at 5 l.50 each, and six
al rs cents each-lotal value of permits
for December, $3.50.
Plumbing inspectors report was the
second one to be read: One permit at
81; one al So; one at $3.50; one at S.. so;
two at 1915, and one at So. There
were nine registrations at 81 each
total receipts for permits and registra-
tions, $31.75.
In the month of October the building
inspector issued Z permits; in Novem-
Der 25, and Ia December 10. The cost
or value of the building operations for
which the permits were granted
amounted in October to S $500; in No
vember to $50, 400, and in December to
S45, 1OO-total for last quarter of 1920,
sos, O9O. The fees paid for the 81 per-
mits issued in the last quarter Of the
old year were $135.
The report of searches made In De-
cember by City Tax Collector Campbell
totaled tw~enty-four, and the fees col
lected therefor we're $48.50: For Hand
g. Byrne 1 search was made; for VIM.
H. Bright, a; Robert Bright, 2; Palmer
M. Way, 2; Thomas l.. Wilkinson, l;
Jesse D. Ludlam, d; Thomas Goslin, l;
I. T. Woolson, 1: Real Estate and
Search Company, Z, and Ocean City
Title and Trust Company, /.
The city clerk reported total receipts
in his department for December as
1862 so, distributed as follow: Mercan-
tile licenses, $805; street permits $50;
Rebecca Degree, 1. %. o. F., $25; and
L. o. o. F., Stashell Encampment,
$3.50.
When the weekly tax receipts were
read it was learned that for the three
wards So, 552.69 had been paid in and
interest charges in addition were
1921. AT; franchise tax receipts were
1927. so; railroad tax, 1868 SO; and poll
tax, 81, making a total for the previous
week of S. 8 .16. The water rent re-
ceipts amounted to only 1925. OF. There
were IL more turn off services in the
past week, showing that some real
winter is still anticipated. Thirty-two
stopped meters were repaired. Four
new connections to the city's water
system were made at the following
points: On Ninth avenue, west Of New
York avenue, for Mrs. Shaw; ON Six
teenth street, east Of Pennsylvania
avenue, for 8. Godfrey; on Spencer
avenue, east of Pacific, for Joseph
Bowling; and on Montgomery avenue,
west of Pacific, for Gustav Anderson.
Mayer Hendee announced the reap
pointment of Adolph B. Anderson as
a member of the Sinking Fund Com
mission.
ua olso announced the apnOintment