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had to talk before the people's representatives, and they heard 

 some things to their interest. Dr. Headlee had his little talk, 

 which should have convinced them that they were just about the 

 last bunch of Freeholders to wake up to this thing, and that 

 they ought to take notice. Well, they didn't bring it to a vote. 

 Of course, they had adjourned. They had another session in 

 the afternoon, but no notice was taken of it. That meeting was 

 in March. They had another meeting in March, and they didn't 

 take it up. They had a meeting in April, and they didn't take it 

 up. They always had a lot of fox bills or road bills to pay, and 

 they didn't have time to do it. 



About the first of May it seemed to us that time was ripe 

 to have something done if the Board of Freeholders were going 

 to stay as a body much longer. Our patience had long been ex- 

 hausted. On the clay on which they met the President of the 

 Long Beach Board of Trade went down there and told them 

 that they had been approached in an orderly and courteous 

 manner. This thing had been brought to their notice by persons 

 representing a large portion of the people of Ocean County, the 

 papers had taken it up, a good deal had been said, and that they 

 should either vote it down or up, one or the other, get themselves 

 on record so we could know where they stood. He made this 

 speech with the proper kind of argument and put it plainly. 

 When he finished the Director turned around to one of the Free- 

 holders and said, "Where are those road bills you want paid?" 

 That is as much notice as was taken of it at that moment. Later 

 on, however, it was taken up and voted on, and by a close vote 

 we got the magnificent sum of three thousand dollars. They 

 adjourned without making the money available. They met again 

 in June and they didn't make it available. We supposed they 

 had, but they said they didn't know who they were to pay it to. 

 The work was commenced in- Ocean County with the three thou- 

 sand dollars about the middle of June, and to pay the first ditch 

 cleaners it was necessary for one of the members of the Com- 

 mission to endorse, personally, the Commission's note. In July 

 the money was made available, and by the twenty-first day of 

 July we had our ditches given their first cleaning. We have in 



