The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-08-11

AS"At 1AoSoSss.
FREsENr:-The Mayor and Aid. Becker,
BAIL. Cave, Fuller, Larpenteur, Mobiles and
Schurmier.
REPORTS
The City Marshal made report of receipts for
month ofJuly 1855, for dray. liquor and bill.
lard licenses. for rent of stalls in market and
from sale of hogs impounded, $500. Referred
to Comptroller.
The Comptroller reported the following bills
duly audited:
Owens & Moore against LIST ward for
printing S2O,25
Same agt. I'd ward for printing 1850
Same agt. Sd 9: 1850
All ordered paid.
The Committee on Claims and Accounts re-
turned the following bills as correct:
Messrs. Owens and Moore two bills, S62,5O
and Sl7S.96. WIN. II. Shell y, Assessor LIST
ward, $500. Thompson Connolly. Assessor
I'd ward, 5000. Hiram Stilwell. Assessor Sd
ward, $500.
Referred to Comptroller.
The Committee on Licenses reported favor
ably on application of Howard and Halford
for license to retail liquor. License granted
on compliance with Ordinance.
BILLS PRESENTED.
VIM. Dahl against the I'd ward. services as
Clerk OF Board of Street Commissioners &c.
SIS. Referred to Street Commissioners said
ward.
J. A. NJ. Hoisington, folding and binding
Ordinances DC, S32. Referred to Committee
on Claims and Accounts.
Aid. Mobiles presented bill in favor of NJ.
Cummings and against LIST ward. tor lumber
&c, for Cu!vert Oh Jackson street, S26. Re-
ferred to Comptroller.
Aid. Becker asked leave to introduce s.An
Ordinance prescribing the duties and liking the
salary of City Clerk" Which was granted
and Ordinance read first aid second time I'M
der suspension of rules, and passed uuani-
mously.
The committee appointed 10 examine the
Assessment Rolls and to ascertain the amount
OF tax necessary to be raised for the current
year, presented the following report:
The Committee on assessments report that
they have examined the Assessment Rolls and
find that the amount assessed in the First ward
to be S7l2O0O in Second ward S74s,OOO; in
Third ward SSl3 600. And would recommend
the adoption of the FLOWING resolution
Resolved, That a tax Of four mills on the
dollar be levied for city purposes, two mills on
the dollar for the liquidation of the present
Indebtedness Of the city; and that tax of
mil n,, fho 1oll, ;,,t
three mills on the dollar in the third ward be
1t LED for ward purposes,
Report accepted and laid on table.
On motion of Aid. Becker, it was
Resolved, That it is hereby ordered that the
Assessment Rolls reported TO the Common
Council by the Assessors for the year 1855, be
aud the same are hereby accepted and con-
firmed as correct.
On motion of Aid. Cave the resolution re-
ported by COMMITTEE to examine the Assess
ment Rolls was taken up and adopted.
By Aid. Fuller
Resolved. by the Mayor and Common Coun-
Gil of the City of ST. Paul. That all persons
acknowledgements or demands on claims against
the town of Saint Panl, are hereby notified and
required TO present the same for payment to
the Common Council on or before the LIST day
OF September next ensuing the date hereof and
if not presented on or before that time INTER
est on the same will cease from and after that
date. And that the City Clerk be hereby d.
rected to publish notice to this effect in the
official paper of the city until the first of Sep
tember next. Adopted.
AID. Mobiles gave notice that at the next
meeting Of the Common Council be would in
troduce an Ordinance to effect loan for the
purpose of making certain improvements With
in and payment of existing liabilities OF the
City of st. Paul.
On motion tie Council adjourned until Tues
day next at o'clock PM
ALEX. RAMSEY, Mayor.
SHERWOOD HoUGH, Clerk.
rs Fix Governor Farwell, of Wisconsin,
has recently placed several hundred brook
front in the Fourth Lake at Madison. 1t is his
Intention to introduce the Maokiuaw trout also
to those waters.
|sr -Four persons died of cholera at Cincin-
natl on Sunday last. They were attacked
on board steamer, and died in the hospital
The city is free from the disease, except few
occasional cases.
Ns- The CaddO La.) Gazette gives an ac-
count of negro boy in that parish who has
horns like those Of young deer. they are
full six inches long. well covered with velvet.
and on one of them two spikes have made their
appearance. and are still growing remarkably
fast. Pro -di-giOusl
NEW ORLEANS. August 2.
d. Nc Farlane. one of our most distinguished
physicians. has declared in a letter to the True
Delta that the fever here is epidemic.