Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-03
IN COUNCIL-JUNE l, 1880.

A communication from the Judge of the Or
phans' Cont was received and read.
A petition from Phineas and Samuel NJ. Jan.
ney was received and read.
Ordered, That the petition of Phineas and
Samuel Nj. Jannev be referred to Messrs. Davis,
Hough, and Mcclure, with instructions to re.
port to Council the measures which may be most
e1pedient to- preserve the navigation of the Poto-
mac within the Jurisdiction of the Common Coun-
Gil, and for the regulation of the public wharves,
docks, and basins; and that the said Committee
be authorized to have the soundings of the river
taken opposite to the Town, at the expense of
the Common Council.
Ordered, That a commission of two and one.
half per cent. be allowed for all monies collected
and paid into the Treasury on account of the
Corporation, for the present year, by the Col
~lectOrs.
On b~alloting for Collectors, Charles Scott was
elected for the Northern District, and William
Fox for the Southern District.
The Committee to whom the subject was re-
ferred, reported a bill, entitled {" An act to in
crease the compensation of the Police Consta.
bles," which was read a first and second time,
and, the 9th Rule being suspended, it was read
a third time and passed, by ayes and noes, as
follows:
AYES-Messrs. Taylor, Davis, Mason, Hough,
Brockett, Gardner, +. Jacobs, Johnston, San
ford, Preston, P. Jacobs. Anderson, Lee.
NAYS-Messrs. Fendall, Smoot, Mcclure.
Ordered, That the Mayor, President of Coun.
Gil. Hugh Smith, A. c. Cazenove, and Thomson
F. Mason, be a committee to represent the Com.
mon Council of Alexandria at General Meet
ing of the Stockholders of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company, to be held on Monday
next, and, at said meeting, to do all legal acts on
behalf of the Common Council, in right Of their
stock in the said Company; and to vote for a
President and six Directors of said Company al
the next election, of which committee a majority
shall be competent to act.
Ordered, That the Report and Drawings, re.
ported by the Surveyor to the last Council. be re.
ferred to Messrs. Mcclure, Taylor, Davis and
Johnson, with directions to report to the Council
the situation of the property mentioned in the said
Report-the title by which the Common Council
holds 1.-THE subsisting contracts or conveyances
made by the Commsn Council. or the late Mayor
and Commonalty, in relation to it: And that the
said Committee do procure, and deposit with the
Clerk, any evidences of the title of the Corpo'
ration to the said property not heretofore procur'
ed and in the possession of the Clerk.
The following persons were appointed a Board
of Health for the ensuing year, viz:
North of King street-James Douglas, Joseph
B. Laid. Samuel Bartle. Between King and
Princc-John Creighton, Ezra Lunt, James D.
Kerr. South of Prince-James Entwisle, John
Harper, Jonathan %Janney.
Leave was granted MIR. Hough to bring in a
bill entitled IAN act making an appropriation
for the use of the Poor Aims House for 1902
a. IL 49,
on motion, the 9th rule bein. suspended, it was
read a third time and passed.
Ordered, That the petition of Nathaniel Her
ryon and Jefferson Fitzgerald be referred to
Messrs Hough and Mason, with authority to re.
port to Council, upon the said cases, by bill Oh
otherwise.