Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-11-01
LOCAL NEWS.
Board of Mayor and Aldermen.

MONDAY EVE, Oct. 80, 1854.
Petitions presented-Of William B. Fox and
others, for public clock on the Catholic meet
ing house. Referred to next city goverAment.
Reports of Committees Gdopted--The Com
mittee on Public Buildings, on petition of S.
V. Stone, Clerk of Police Court, for proper
Office accommodations, recommended that said
petition be referred to the next City govern
ment.
The Committee on Side Walks recommend
ed that the Commissioner on Highways be in
structed to notify the Worcester and Nashua
R. R. corporation, to provide some efficient
means of carrying off the surface water from
Bridge ST., which accumulates in consequence
of repairs made on the w. N. Railroad in
its passage over Summer st.
The Committee on Water reported that Will
lard, Williams & Co. have leave to withdra
their petition for aqueduct and hydrants on
Union ST.
The Committee on Side Walks recommend
ed that the petitions of Hemenway and Wall,
and Dexter and Baker, to have curb stones
set in front of their estates ON Main street, be
granted.
A list of all persons and firms who have
paid taxes since last year, was presented by
the City Treasurer and placed on file.
The Board voted to view the premises of
James Welsh, on Summer street, and Michael
Mem uray, on Temple street, next Wednes-
day, at 2 o'clock p. M, there to award COM
pensation to those petitioners for damage to
their estates.
The Committee appointed to confer with
VIM. B. Fox and Son, in relation to Mill
Brook, presented form of contract to which
the Messrs. Fox are willing to agree. If the
city will locate Mill Brook, from Temple street
to Union street. twenty feet wide, banking up
the same with stone walls, and will remove,
in three years, all buildings which come with
in tho said limits of the brook, except the
stone arched bridges, the Messrs. Fox will re-
lease all claim for damages OH account of city
buildings now thereon. The report was laid
on the table.
The decree locating Mill Brook, 20 feet
wide, and accepting it as a city appurtenance,
was taken from the files, and Mill Brook was
accepted.
The committee on water recommended that
the petition of Ruggles, Nourse, Mason, & Co.,
for the extension of the city aqueduct from
Thomas street to Lincoln square, be granted,
and the work commenced forthwith. Report
accepted, and referred to the next City Gov
ernment.
The petition of Allen & Thurber, for the
privilege of conveying water from Southbridge
street to their armory, was granted.
The ordinance appointing an inspector of
public schools, was discussed on its passage to
q second reading, and laid on the table.
On the petition of the inhabitants of Wal
nut street, that said street be made public, Or
der of notice was issued, made returnable 18th
of November at 3 o'clock, 2. M.
The usual warrants were ordered to be is
sued for the elections on the 18th of Novem-
Der next. The polls to be open from o'clock
A. NJ. to o'clock P. NJ.
A special committee, consisting of Alder
men ID. Williams, Harding, and Walker was
appointed to view Chestnut street from Cedar
to Bowdoln street, and to see the estate of
John Corey put in repair forthwith.
The sum of $442 was allowed to the mem
mers of military company d. 1877 to compa-
ny B; 1920 to company G.; and $144 to the
band of music.
DR.. John E. Hathaway was chosen city
physician. Drs. Whitcomb, Kelley, and Rice
were also candidates.
The Common Council concurred in the re-
moval of the stone trough and hydrant from
the City square, but referred the question of
removing the elm tree, to the committee on
shade trees. Concurred in by Board of AL
dermen.
A committee, consisting of the Mayor, and
Aldermen Harding and H. Williams, was ap-
pointed to meet the County Commissioners
and oppose the petition of Henry Denny and
others, for new highway between this city
and Leicester.