Viracola v. Commissioners of Long Branch

This is an application for a writ of certiorari to review the award of a contract for the disposal of garbage and ashes made by the board of commissioners of the city of Long Branch to Norman S. Tice, trading as Norman S. Tice & Company. The-contract is for a period of five years. The payment for the first j^ear is $21,000. Thereafter there is an annual increase of $500.

The prosecutor contends, first, that under an amendment of article 11 of the Home Buie act of 1917, known as chapter 163 of the laws of 1918 (Pamph. L., ¶. 178), the'board of commissioners of Long Branch were without authority…