162 FIRST COUNTY PARK SYSTEM 
The secretary was again excused. It was warm weather, 
and the temperature was soon increased inside the Park 
Board rooms. The minority members, when they came into 
the meeting, thought there would be no doubt as to the 
result. They were mistaken. Commissioner Murphy at 
once joined Commissioner Shepard in a repetition of the 
pleadings of a few months before. The time had “not come 
for the dismissal of Counsel Munn.” They would not vote 
for it. Commissioner Peck reversed his previous position 
and holding, as he then did, the deciding vote, gave the 
necessary majority to that side. The counsel was, therefore, 
retained. The incident was closed. 
When legal work of importance must be done, special 
counsel was employed. On February 11, 1898, W. B. South- 
ard was thus employed at an expense of $125 per month 
“to expedite condemnation proceedings.” At the Park 
Board meeting, March 11, following, a bill of $300, of 
Riker & Riker, attorneys, “for services in the 8. Howell 
Jones condemnation case,” was ordered paid. On July 7a 
bill of Robert H. McCarter for $500 in attending to “the 
park law mandamus case before the Court of Errors and 
Appeals,” was presented. October 1, 1901, Cortaand Par- 
ker’s bill of $184.45 in the Watkins insurance case—the 
property on Orange Mountain then in process of condemna- 
tion—was paid. April 8, 1902, a bill of Corbin & Corbin of 
$200 for an “opinion on the constitutionality of the park 
law” was approved. August 19 of the same year Robert H. 
McCarter was retained as associate counsel in the matter of 
the certiorari proceeding of the Forest Hill Association 
against the Park Commission,” and was paid $500 for that 
service. January 20, 1903, Henry Young was “retained in 
the litigation to test the constitutionality of the park act” 
and paid $250, with $250 more the following April. On 
the same day, April 7, 1903, Corbin & Corbin were paid 
$500 in the same case for services before the Court of Errors 
and Appeals. 
On November 10, 1903, Secretary Church was paid an 
extra $600 “for services rendered and to be rendered for 
