THE PUBLIC BUSINESS.

New York, 1895

WRETCHED CONDITION OF THE HEMPSTEAD PLANK ROAD.

The Board of Supervisors to be Asked to Take Proceedings to Condemn the Property — New Grade Map of the Village of Jamaica — Proceedings of the Highway Commissioners.

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

A communication from the Long Island real estate and investment company to have water mains laid on several streets on their property, Richmond Terrace, at Richmond Hill, was referred to Justices Lott and Kissam, and Town Clerk McCook, to report at the next meeting.

Action upon the petition of Felix Gunther, Ambrose Hayes, and others, to incorporate as the Columbia fire district the unincorporated portions of the village of Richmond Hill, was deferred until the next meeting.

Highway Commissioner Baker asked if there was not some way by which the Hempstead and Jamaica plank road company could be made to keep their road in order. The commissioners, after opening the toll gates, had notified them a second time that if they did not repair the road some other action would be taken. The highway commissioners, he said, had done all they could, going so far as to request the Attorney General to take action against the company. No work was being done upon the road, which was in a horrible condition and dangerous. No toll had been collected on the road since last March.

Justice Kissam said he had been informed by one of the directors that the company would spend no more money on it. They want to sell it.

Supervisor Everitt said that the board of Supervisors would meet on Tuesday, and he would then see what could be done.

The late Excise Commissioner Bauman appeared before the board relative to his bill for services, which was laid over from the last meeting.

Justice Kissam, to whom the bill was referred, said there was no record in the excise commissioners' books of some of the meetings charged for in the bill. The book does not show the names of the members of the board that were present at any of the meetings. It was wrong to make out a bill against the town in that way, and take the time of the town board to ascertain if it was correct.

Town Clerk McCook said that the excise commissioners' book had not been in his office for the past six months, as required by law.

The bill, $59, was returned for correction.

The bill of Abraham H. Wyckoff, for services as overseer of the poor from May 2nd to June 13th, at $2 per day, $80, was ordered paid.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 28, 1895, p. 1.