Letter from Mayor August Grassmann, Hoboken, to City Council re appointment and cost of a Building Inspector in the Fire Department, July 29, 1890.
Entry/Object ID
2012.004.0071
Scope and Content
Letter from Mayor August Grassmann, Hoboken, to City Council re appointment and cost of a Building Inspector in the Fire Department, July 29, 1890.
Two page holographic letter. 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
1890 - 1890
Archive Notes
Date(s) Created: 1890
Date(s): 1890
General Notes
Note
Notes: Archives 2012.004.0071
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Mayor's Office
Hoboken, N.J. July 29th, 1890
To the Council.
Gentlemen
By the authority of an act of the Legislature you have over two months and a half ago, appointed a Building Inspector in the person of our Chief Engineer of the Fire Department at a salary of $1200 per annum.
Said officer has been voted his pay for two months and a half and he has received it; yet he has not been able to perform the duties of his office properly however through no fault of his own, but simply because the council failed to prepare and adopt the proper ordinances, whereby the duties, powers and responsibilities of said office are defined and under which he is authorized to act.
Not knowing upon whom rests the blame for the delay, through which pay away $100 00/100 per month without receiving a proper equivalent in return. I herewith earnestly request your honorable Body to instruct the proper committee, in conjunction with the Corporation Attorney to move in this matter with all due diligence, as the urgency of the case requires an efficient administration of said office under suitable regulations will be of corresponding benefit to our city and under the same said office may even be made self sustaining.
Respectfully
August Grassmann
Mayor
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Communication from His Honor the Mayor relative to ordinance for Building Inspector
Aug 13/90
Presented read and received
M.V. McDermott
City Clerk
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Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2012-12-06
