The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-10-17
Proceedings Of the City Council.
COUNCIL CHAMBDR, Oct. Is.


Council met. Present, his Honor the Mayor
and Councilmen Foster, Scantlin, Rathbone,
Cook, Orr, Setchell, Venneman, johnson, Hun
mel and Kinney. Minutes read and approved.
Allowed s. NJ Archer 81 60, cash order,
amount overpaid for city taxes, on E. l. & c.
Railroad tax, as per duplicate.
The bill of Messrs. Eggleston & Good was,
on motion, referred to committee on fire de-
partment. The bill of Messrs. Bacon Sc Co.
for ice furnished the city during the season.,
was referred to the City Clerk for adjustment.
Allowed DR.. J. C. Wood SO, cash order,
for portable gas lamp and gutta percha tube,
for City Clerks office. The question of al
lowing Nathan Rowley, Esq, for $40 plank at
10 cts. each, was taken up and lost by vote
of to l.
The following bills were read and allowed
as read, sufficient evidence having been given
as to the nature and reasonableness of the
same:
Bill of Messrs. Hallock & Stoddard for
paints, &C., for 0. H. Cemetery House, $13;
J. Turnock, for painting Sections house in O.
II. Cemetery, Sc so; Thos Conyngton & Co.,
for frames and glass for O. H. Cemetery Or
dinance, 81 so; P. McGurk, for hauling ami
mails, 81 of the same to be collected by the
Marshal off the owner of one horse hauled out
of the city, 81 %; A. johnson & Co., for
hauling earth on street and leveling same, SIS;
Hallock & Stoddard, for 10 feet section of
hose, ordered by Chief Engineer Howes, for
Washington Fire Co., and paid for by Hallock
& Stoddard, SIS; Jacob Frank, for labor on
% days, So so; A. Redmier for same, 81 so;
R. Green, for hauling lumber, 81; Rev. A.
Deydier, for damages sustained during fire on
Main ST., as per verbal report of committee,
Sc so; E. H. Mosley, for experimenting work
and furnishing Is lbs nails, So Is; G. Bus
ker, for % yds of earth on lot No 2, block II,
E. E., at 1870, to be charged to said lot, So so.
The following bill was ordered to be charg-
ed to lot No. II, subd'n Of o. L. No. j, Upper
Enlargement:
To 566 feet lumber at 81 90 per 100 feet.. So 95
" days work at 81 per day.. ........... 90
" Hauling lumber ..-......-.............. l co
Superintending....... .'................... l SO
Total..... .-..................., $I7 90
r. Fisher made report of the condition of
Fire Cisterns and Engines for week ending
Oct. 18th, 1856, showing the same to be in a
good condition, which report was received and
placed on file.
The bill of B. Nurre & Co. was laid over for
investigation until next week.
Ordered that the City Collector be and he
is hereby instructed to correct the value Of
the n. E. half of lot No q block 81, and to
make the same $500 instead of $500, as it
now reads.
On motion Of Councilman Orr, Messrs. Eos
ter, Scantlin and Hunnel were appointed a
committee to enquire Of the County Commits
sioners of Vanderburgh county, as to the pos
sibility OF using portion of the old Jail for a
City Lock Up, and report the same at the
next meeting of the Council, when the SUBJ
ject will be brought up.
The paving Of the market house having been
brought up, the matter was, on motion, refer
red to committee on streets and alleys.
Ordered that the gutter on Fourth street
be cleaned so as to allow the water to pass
freely, and the same to be done under the di-
rection of Councilman Hunnel.
On motion the Mayor was instructed to Cir
culate the o. Fl. Cemetery Ordinances, now
framed, in the most conspicuous places in the
city. On motion the Council adjourned.
WELL. H. WALKER, Clerk
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