Letter from E.V.S. Besson, President, Board of Police Commissioners, Hoboken Police Dept., to Hoboken Land & Improvement Co., May 18, 1882, re request of company for added police at Ferry terminal.
Letter from E.V.S. Besson, President, Board of Police Commissioners, Hoboken Police Dept., to Hoboken Land & Improvement Co., May 18, 1882, re request of company for added police at Ferry terminal.
Entry/Object ID
2012.004.0079
Scope and Content
Letter from E.V.S. Besson, President, Board of Police Commissioners, Hoboken Police Department, to Hoboken Land & Improvement Co., May 18, 1882, re request of company for added police at Ferry terminal.
Two holographic leaves, Mayoral letterhead. Besson served as Hoboken Mayor, 1878-1880, 1881-1883. Full text is in notes.
City of Hoboken document with City Clerk file notations.
Acquisition
Accession
2012.004
Source or Donor
Found in collection
Acquisition Method
Found in Collection
Credit Line
Museum Collections.
Archive Details
Date(s) of Creation
1882 - 1882
Archive Notes
Date(s) Created: 1882
Date(s): 1882
General Notes
Note
Notes: Archives 2012.004.0079
Mayor's Office
Hoboken, N.J. May 18th, 1882
To The Hoboken Land Improvement Company:
[Yours of 16th, instant, received.]
The Ferry Grounds are covered within a post of this Department and regularly patrolled by our Force. The post is limited in extent on Ferry account.
Should you desire special policemen to be detailed to serve at or upon the Ferry premises, solely, it will afford the Board of Police Commissions great pleasure to appoint such proper persons as you may elect to authorize them to wear the uniform of the Department and to vest them with the full powers of regular policemen; as in accordance with Act of Legislation approved Mach 27th, 1874, - See Police Manual, (a copy, please find enclosed) page 9, section 3.
The Board of Police Commissioners does not feel authorized to constitute the premises of any private person or corporation as a post of the Department, nor to assign a regular member of the Force to such permanent duty.
Respectfully
E.V.S. Besson
Pres't, Board of Police Commissioners, H.P.D. [Hoboken Police Department.
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2012-12-06
