Letter from Mayor Peter McGavisk, Hoboken, to City Council, December 18, 1874, re veto of resolution to remove warehouse at foot of Third Street.
Entry/Object ID
2012.004.0081
Scope and Content
Letter from Mayor Peter McGavisk, Hoboken, to City Council, December 18, 1874, re veto of resolution to remove warehouse at foot of Third Street.
Single holographic letterhead. Full text is in notes.
Discusses extending Third Steet beyond River Street to the high water mark and requiring removal of a building of the Bremen and Hamburgh Steamship Co . [ the Bremen Line, actually North German Lloyd Steamship Co. or Line.)
City of Hoboken document with City Clerk file notations.
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Accession
2012.004
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Found in collection
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Found in Collection
Credit Line
Museum Collections.
Archive Details
Date(s) of Creation
1874 - 1874
Archive Notes
Date(s) Created: 1874
Date(s): 1874
General Notes
Note
Notes: Archives 2012.004.0081
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Mayor's Office
Hoboken, Dec 18, 1874
To the Honorable the Council of the City of Hoboken.
Gentlemen
I herewith return to your Honorable body without my approval the resolution directing the Street Commission to remove all obstructions from the Street line of Third Street between River Street and low water mark, or to speak more plainly to remove the buildings now used by the Bremen and Hamburgh [Hamburg] Steamship Company for warehouse and storage purposes.
It was held by the Court of Errors and Appeals at the June (?) term of 1873, that by virtue of the dedication by the map of 1805, the right of the City to the Streets was extended to the new water front. That is high water mark by the filling in. Your resolution directs the Street Commission to open up the Street to low water mark, which would be illegal.
It is now an understood fact that the City has the right to open streets to the River. No one that I know of denies us that right, and there is none more desirous than myself to have the City avail itself to the Same, in a manner which would be most beneficial to its interests.
But the immediate removal of the above named buildings without any notification to the present owners, I am of the opinion that such hasty action on our part would be ill advised, and might perhaps invoke the City in further complications, for the reason Stated, and being somewhat doubtful as ot the legality of the course proposed by your resolution. I return the same without my approbation.
Yours Respectfully,
Peter McGavisk
Mayor
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Communication from his Honor the Mayor relative to removal of warehouse foot of 3rd St.
Rec'd on Dec 22/74
J.R. McCulloch
City Clerk
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Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2012-12-06
