Town Board Proceedings

New York, 1895

Brooklyn Hills People Still Kicking About the Lights.

The town board held a meeting at the Town Hall on Friday. Supervisor Everitt presided. Oyster land leases were granted as follows: Thomas Remsen, 2-1/2 acres, $12; George S. Munroe, 3 acres, $15; William M. Remsen, 3 acres, $15.

Some Brooklyn Hills people asked that the lamps recently put up in the village be so placed that they would be a benefit to all. They asked that the board fix a time to meet the citizens and go over the streets at night with them. The committee also wished to know why the tax for the light was on the tax bills for 1894.

Supervisor Everitt explained that the tax for the lights must be collected in advance, as the lights are paid for under the contract semi-annually.

On motion of Justice Lott, Supervisor Everitt designated the board a committee of the whole to meet the citizens at Stroh's hotel, Brooklyn Hills.

The committee on desks for the town board room reported in favor of purchasing oak desks, double, with flat cloth covered tops.

The Town Hall committee were empowered to have the side walls in the room papered and the ceiling and wood work painted.

The following bills were ordered paid, Jamaica electric light company, electric light for Town Hall for the month of January, $41.66; Stephen Wright, repairing portable house at Springfield, $17.68; Roberts and Bokee, books for town Clerk's office, $21; Joseph Barret, deputy sheriff, $15.50; James F. McLaughlin, legal opinion furnished Supervisor, $10; Abraham A. Wyckoff, services as Overseer of the Poor from January 1st to February 8th, $70; Hugh J. Swift, services as constable from January 23rd to February 14th, $53.60; Farmer, printing and advertising, $222.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 22, 1895, p. 12.