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The secretary was again exc-used. 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 Connnissioner 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, AV. 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 

 Eiker & Biker, attorneys, "for services in the S. Howell 

 Jones condemnation case," was ordered paid. On July 7 a 

 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, Cortisnd Par- 

 ker's bill of $184.45 in the AYatkins 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 iipril. 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 iSTovember 10, 1903, Secretary Church was paid an 

 extra $600 "for services rendered and to be rendered for 



