2005.005

Muller, Roger

Donation

Gift of Roger Muller.

1859 - 1861

Date(s) Created: 1861 Date(s): 1859-1861 Level of Description: Item

Display Value: Fair Notes: Archives 2005.005.0010 ==== Water Commissioners' Office, Hoboken, June 4th, 1861 To the Water Consumers of Hoboken: Your attention is particularly called to the following Rules and Regulations of the Board of Water Commissioners. The Commissioners deem it their duty to exact a strict compliance with these Rules, and call upon all citizens to check, as far as in their power, all unnecessary waste. The quantity of water now daily wasted throughout our city is amply sufficient to supply more than double the present population, and is already seriously taxing the present capacity of the works. With proper care on the part of the consumers, much of this waste may be prevented. By a resolution of the Board, passed at their last meeting, June 3rd, 1961, I am directed to impose a fine of $5 for each known violation of any of the following Rules; and if upon presentation the same is not instantly paid, and the offence discontinued, to cut off the supply in all cases, without any further notice. You will, therefore, consider this a personal matter and endeavor on your own part, and by the caution and oversight of servants and employees, to check the waste on your premises. The Rules and Regulations will be rigidly enforced, and the penalties exacted for every known violation. By order of the Board, Chas. Clinton, Registrar ==== [page 2] The Board of Water Commissioners of Hoboken, By the authority conferred in the "Act to Authorize the Water Commissioners of the City of Hoboken to Contract for and Introduce Water into said City, and to Provide for the Payment thereof, approved March 20, 1857, and the Amendments thereto, approved March 1st, 1859, have established the following Rules, Regulations, and Penalties Respecting The Use of Passaic Water N.B. - THE ATTENTION OF CONSUMERS IS PARTICULARLY CALLED TO THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS: As all Violations hereafter will be promptly Punished by the Infliction of the Penalties therein prescribed. 1. No person will be permitted to tap any water pipe, or lay down any service pipe to convey water from the pipes in the streets to any house, building or manufactory, or for any purpose whatever, without written permission first obtained from the Commissioners, specifying the name of the person or persons for whose use the water is required, and the street and number where it is to be taken - the size of the stop-cock and service pipe - the purpose for which the water is intended to be used, and the name of the plumber, or other person authorized to tap the street pipe. 2. No plumber or other person not licensed by the Water Commissioners, will on any account be permitted to tape any street pipe, or lay down service pipes in streets. And every plumber employed to fit up pipes, water closets baths, or other apparatus for the distribution and use of Passaic water, in any house, manufactory, or other place where it may be used, shall, within five days after the same is finished, fill up and return to the office of the Water Commissioners, such blanks, in a printed form of report, (which will be furnished,) as will enable them to ascertain the general character of the apparatus and arrangements for using the water in every case. 3. No owner or tenant will be allowed to supply water to other persons or families: if found doing so, the supply will be stopped, and the amount of payment forfeited. 4. No addition to, or alteration whatever, in or about any tap, conduit, pipe or water-cock, shall be made or caused to be made, by any persons taking the water, without notice thereof being previously given to, and permission had in writing from the Board. 5. All persons taking the water, shall keep their own service pipes, stop-cocks, and apparatus, including the tap in the street , in good repair, and protected from frost, at their own expense, and shall prevent all unnecessary waste of water. 6. STREET WASHERS must only be used between the hours of 5 and 7 a.m. and 5 and 7 p.m. from the 1st of April to the 15th of October, and not more than one hour in the day at any season of the year, under a penalty of Five Dollars, for each offence; and if found out of order, cap off, or leaking, or if converted into jets, or suffered to run when not used, or used to wash the filth of the gutters down upon their neighbors, or into the receiving ==== page [3] basins of sewers, the supply will be cut off without previous notice. Persons are not allowed to attach hose to pipes within the buildings, and use the same for watering streets, under a penalty of Five Dollars for each offence, without permission first had from the Water Commissions, and the payment of the rate fixed for Street Washers. 7. It will not be permitted to use a hose or jet to wash carriages or horses, in any case or under any circumstances. 8. No hydrant will be permitted upon any side-walk, or in any front area, and if standing in a yard or alley attached to any building, must not be permitted to be left running, when not actually required or in use; and if the drip or waste from such hydrant overruns the sidewalk, and from freezing becomes dangerous in winter, the supply will be shut off. 9. Taps at wash basins, water closets, baths, urinals, or any other places, must be kept closed in like manner. 10. Applications for water must state fully and truly all the purposes for which it is intended to be used; and when paying the annual charges for it, parties must frankly and without concealment, answer all questions put to them relating to its consumption. In case of fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of the applicant, or of uses of the water, not embraced in this bill, or of willful or unreasonable waste of water, the Water commissioners shall have the right to forfeit his payment, and the supply of water shall be stopped, unless the part shall promptly pay such additional charge as the Board may impose. 11. No yard, fountain, or jet, in any porter-house, grocery, or other building, shall be in use more than six hours in each day, without a special permit first obtained in writing, and additional payment therefore beyond the established rate. And the Water Commissioners reserve the right to suspend the use of, or to abolish all private fountains and jets, whenever in their opinion the public interest requires such proceeding. 12. No ferry boat, or vessel of any kind, shall transport Passaic water to any other place for sale, or for the use of any individual or family - nor shall any person attached to any ferry, transport it for his own use, or the use of others, or for sale. 13. The Water Commissioners, personally, and, every person by them delegated for that purpose, shall have free access, at all proper hours, to all parts of every building, or steam vessel, or other place where Passaic Water is delivered or consumed. 14. Persons requiring the water for building purposes must make application therefor, and pay in advance for such permit. (As all the above penalties remain liens upon the property liable therefor, owners will advance their own interests by preventing their tenants infringing the above rules.) The penalties for violating any of the preceding rules, will be - first, the prompt stoppage of the supply of water, without any further or other preliminary notice; nor will its use be again permitted, except upon payment of the expense of shutting off and putting on, and satisfactory assurances that no cause of complaint shall afterwards be given; second, such, as may be awarded by the Courts, on complaint by the Water Commissioners, under the 20th and 21st sections of the "Act to authorize the construction of works for supplying Jersey City and places adjacent with pure and wholesome water"; and the subsequent amendment referred to above; and in the event of the water not being again let on, the forfeiture of all payments made for the use of the water, or for which the party offending may be liable on account thereof. By order of the Board, Chas. Clinton, Registrar Wm. W. Shippen, President ==== ==== Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2005-06-08