Getting Ready to Improve the Annexed Town Hall Land.

New York, 1895

The town board held a meeting at the Town Hall, Jamaica, on Friday. Supervisor Everitt presided. Justice Lester was absent.

Justices Lott and Hendrickson and Town Clerk McCook were appointed a committee to prepare specifications for filling up the excavations on the Town Hall land and grading the same, and to advertise for bids for the work. The committee were also empowered to sell the fence on the property, the bids for the work to be opened on Friday, the 14th.

The following bills were ordered paid: Dow S. Lott, services as Assessor, $288; John B. McCook, services as Town Clerk, $62; Jamaica Electric light company, light furnished in Town Hall for month of May, $45.

On motion of Justice Lott, the sum of $4,000 was appropriated for the support of the poor out of the excise money.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 14, 1895, p. 8.