Jamaica Town Board

New York, 1895

Water Main to be Laid on Linden Street, Morris Park.

The Town Board held a meeting at the Town Hall on Friday. Supervisor Everitt presided. Justice Lester was absent, being still sick. Justices Lott and Kissam, committee to ascertain if it was necessary that a water main be laid on Linden street, Morris Park, reported favorably, and the petition was granted.

Village Trustees Wyckoff, Van Allen and Foley, committee to ascertain if the village could procure a better and larger room in which to hold board meetings, asked if the town board could not give them a suitable room in the Town Hall.

Supervisor Everitt said the board felt disposed to fit them out with a room, and appointed Justices Kissam and Hendrickson, and Town Clerk McCook, to confer with the committee of trustees.

The following bills were ordered paid: Samuel N. Searing, officer at polls, $3; John W. Murphy, 3 months' salary as janitor, $125; Joseph McNiff, inspector of election, $6; Charles Muller, deputy sheriff, $27.85; Adam Bush, deputy sheriff, $49.30; Abraham A. Wyckoff, overseer of the poor, March 31st to May 2nd, $78; Jamaica gas light company, gas for month of April, $26.25 Jamaica electric light company, light for Town Hall, month of April, $41.60; Edward W. Schriber, work on portable house, taking down, moving and putting it up, $22.50; James J. Goldner, inspector of election, $6; Ernest Keller, deputy sheriff, $13.80.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 10, 1895, p. 1.