Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-02
BIC BOND ISSUE
BY FREEHOLDERS
Amount TO S339,00O to be
Sold at Public SaIe-0th-
er Business of Board

NEW BRUNSWICK, March g.
Bonds to the amount of S339.000 are
to be issued by the freeholders and
sold at public sale. to pay for I'M
provements that have been recently
completed or are now unuer way.
The authorization for this sale,
which will comprise four distinct Is
sues, was made yesterday.
Road improvement bonds viii
form the largest part Of the total
Under this issue $242.000 is to be
raised and used for the payment of
work on roads built or for which
contracts arc let,
General Improvement bonds to the
amount Of s45,000 will be sold and
the proceeds applied to the purchase
of two motor trucks for Use on the
county roads, tractor for the coun-
ty farm, and the installation of the
new index system in the county
clerks Office.
For the construction and recon
struction of bridges during the last
year a $4,000 bond issue will be
sold.
On the certifcation OF the coun-
ty vocational school board of esti-
mate $4,000 is required for the pur-
q
school at Perth Amboy, and q sep
afate issue for that amount will also
be provided for.
Councilman William Hoy OF
woodbridge presented 10 the board
a map of the New Dover road from
Middlesex avenue to the Raritan
township line, which was required
nv the county fathers before they
would take any action In acquiring
the road as a part of the county
road system. This road is about
one and a fifth miles In length and
will probably be given slight tenn
porary repairs by the freehoiders
during the coming season.
Mrs. Kate Hess, secretary OF the
North Raritan Improvement Asso'
citation, who for the past year has
been advocating the taking over and
Improvement of the New Dover roat
by the county, was in attendance and
expressed surprise to learn that the
freeholders were not including per-
faanent repairs to the road in the
present years budget.
The residents of that locality have
been insistent that the freeholders
give them an improved road that
would serve as an outlet to that sec
tion of the county and Mrs. Hess
lost no opportunity TO remind the
freeholders OF the fact that FTorth
Raritan is Ia Middlesex county.
The contract between the Board
of FreehoIders and the Public Ser
vice Street Railway Company, pro-
viding for the repayment to the
county by the trolley company. the
cost of laying the pavement between
the tracks on Bordentown avenue,
South Amboy, was approved.
Plans for a concrete bridge across
Sucker brook, at kuhlthau avenue,
Milltown, were presented by County
Engineer Schneider and approved by
be board. Bids for doing the work
rrS to be Immediately asked for so
that construction may be started rs
soon as faVora BILE weather arrives.
Piscataway township is providing
FOR a lookup within its confines.
Application was made to the fra
holders by the township committee
FOR the purchase Of one of the cells
in the basement of the county court
house unsed except for the storage
of confiscated LIQUORS. The sale will
be made. the freeholders agreeing
to part with the relic for fifty dol
lars.
A Selden truck purchased by the
freeholders some years ago is to
be disposed of to the highest bidder.
This machine has not been used re-
Gently and is in storage at the gav-
age of John Belloit on Albany
street, where it may be Inspected
by prospective bidders.