The First County Park System: A Complete History of the Inception and Development of the Essex County Parks of New Jersey |
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Page 270 - ... many believed this to be an obligation under the trust imposed and accepted by the commission under the law for establishing the park system," and under their oath of office, which prescribed that they were to "preserve and care for, lay out and improve, any such parks and places," as provided in their charter; "and that the appropriations voted by the people had been made with the expectation that the commission would preserve as well as create the desired parks and designated parkways.
Page 72 - ... and impartially to perform the duties of his office, which oath or affirmation shall be filed with the clerk of the county wherein the commission of which he is a member is appointed ; every such commission shall annually choose from among its members a president and treasurer, and appoint a clerk or secretary and such other officers and employees as it may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this act...
Page 21 - Said commissioners shall consider the advisability of laying out ample open spaces for the use of the public, in the towns and cities in the vicinity of Boston, and shall have authority to make maps and plans of such spaces and to collect such other information in relation thereto as it may deem expedient, and shall report to the next general court, on or before the first Wednesday of February, a comprehensive plan for laying out, acquiring and maintaining such open spaces.
Page 287 - ... and ratables of the county. "If in any year the park commission shall certify to the board of chosen freeholders that an amount less than the minimum hereinbefore prescribed is needed for the maintenance of the park system during that year...
Page 287 - B holders, in the county tax levy each year, of "not less than one-half of one mill on the dollar, nor more than threefourths of a mill on the dollar, of the assessed valuation of the taxable property and ratables of the said county...
Page 211 - Whenever, either by constitutional or legislative requirement the president of the United States, the governor of a state or the mayor of a city is required to approve an act of congress, or of a legislature, or of a court of common ' council, the word 'approve...
Page 166 - ... the office should seek the man, not the man the office," has a narrower currency among all manner of persons.
Page 153 - Commission can expend the balance still on hand in completing, as far as possible, the land purchases within the areas already selected, and in bringing the city parks to such condition as will make them useful in a measure to the public. But for more perfect development of the parks, for the acquirement of some further lands to improve the outlines of these parks, and especially for the expense of parkways, the need of which becomes more obvious as the system is developed and appreciated, the commission...
Page 292 - ... there have been many excellent and public-spirited men who have served as Commissioners there. The Fairmount Park Commission of Philadelphia is composed of sixteen members: Five are appointed by the District Court, five by the Court of Common Pleas, and six members of the city government — the Mayor, presidents of the Select and Common Councils, Commissioner of City Property, the Chief P]ngineer and the Chief Water Works Engineer — are members ex-officio. While the appointees have usually...
Page 268 - ... has been done"; that the action of the courts in setting aside the trolley grant in East Orange "does not alter the attitude of this board" ; that it "was bound to respect the action of the Common Council and the Board of Chosen Freeholders" as "the direct representatives of the people...