Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-10-29
IFREEHOLDERS ANSWER
QUESTIONS OF HAYES
Continued from Page 1

The use of soft coal and wood neces-
STATED practically a complete
change of the boilers and smoke
stacks at the county Jail and court
house and resulted in considerable
clogging up of the pipes. In adj
dition to this two sections of the
boilers blew out and had to be re-
placed, and some changes were no.
cessitated by order of the engineers
connected with the insurance COM
panies. AS far as the records show
the bills paid + as follows:
Prospect Boiler Company,
New Brunswick. Making
pipes 9S.75
George McKeag Company,
New Brunswick. Installing
new sections in boil
erS 228.25
Hamer e. Hamer, New Brunswick,
Sheet Metal Work $S3.O5
Daniel Donlin, South Amboy, Labor
for work explained herein, 1,091.65
Huston & Company, New Brunswick,
Sheet metal work, roofing, ETC.,
........ 91.66
These items are for labor as near
ly as they a be divided. Donlin
spent some weeks working at the
county jail and court house making
the necessary changes and repairs
caused to "a large extent by the fore
ed use of soft coal and wood, to
which tile county was obliged to re-
sort because it could not obtain hard
coal. The county is perfectly salts
fled with these items. The work
was necessary and the price paid
was not in xce of what it should
be for the work that was done.
Question No. g.. What was the
cost of repairing the Nash car that
was damaged while in the custody
of the sheriff? When was the car
damaged? When was the repair bill
paid?
Answer: The car damaged while
in the custody of the sheriff was
eve repaired. The estimated cost
of the repairs was $935.00 and in
asmuch as a new car could be had
in the neighborhood of from $1,000
to $1,400, the board decided that it
would not pay to have the car re-
paired. The car was damaged on
18th, 1928, and subsequent
ly sold for $4,000 less SIS for tow
ing and forage. This car, however,
has eve been replaced.
Question No. 8. Did you purchase
a Nash car for the use of the sher-
iff? When? Was is purchased on
receipt of public bids after adver-
tisement? If so, in what newspaper
and give the date of advertisement.
Answer. We purchased the Nash
a for the use of the sheriff on his
request. The resolution ordering the
purchase was passed on December
z, 1922. This a was not advertised
for advertisement not being neces-
sary where a particular type of car
is desired). The rule in this case
is where competitive proposals
work, an incongruity and are I'M
availing as affecting the final result,
or where they do not produce any
advantage, but the nature of the
supply requires that it be determin-
ed from inspection and test, which
are made from personal examination
and trial and depend upon special
knowledge and judgment, or where
the thing obtained is a monopoly, or
the requirement is of personal skill
or professional service, Or it is inn
possible to obtain what is required
and observe such forms, a statute re-
quiring competitive bidding does not
apply" If this were not the case.
municipal bodies would be obliged
to buy all Star or Ford cars, which
ever happened to be the lowest. We
might say, however, that uniform
practice Of the county has been to
advertise for the receipt of bids for
cars as well as anything else, and
in all other cases the cars purchased
were advertised for. In this particu-
lar case the sheriff's office desired a
Nash car and inasmuch as the price
of the Nash cars of the same type
are all standard, advertisement was
dispensed with.
Question No. 1. How much money
did you spend on the four following
named roads during 1923? (a) road
from River to New Market, known
as Metlar's Lane; (b) road from
Rogan's Corner to Perth Amboy;
(c) South River road which passes
Weston's Mills; (d) Old Bridge
road; (e) how was costs di-
vided as to cost of labor and ma
terial? =
Answer. (a) Maintenance, ST.
562.73 on a total mileage of 1913.
OBJ Maintenance, ~$1,498.00. Per
manent Improvement $14,343.1S.
Distance about one mile.
(c) Maintenance, $~5,394.06. Mile
age, 1913.
(d) Maintenance, ~$5,136.16. Per-
manent improvement, $3S,461.52.
Mileage 6.55.
(e) The accounts of the treasur-
er's office are not subdivided to this
extent. Hundreds of vouchers would
have to be examined and tabulated
in order to obtain this information.
These vouchers, however, can be ex-
amined by any person interested.
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