New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-26
Nesa4 1ork daily aribn,te
PUBLIC MEETINGS.
BOARD or ALDERMEN.


~ IBvRsDAY, jane 23.-Aid- JoBs CLAscY, President,
N tie chair.
Si1erf Ckaning-Ald HanRl. offered a reso,u'' ,,,
that ne City Inspector do not advertise Tor con'rs IT. 4.
clean the streets, until committee Of this Boa I'd
pare the specifications. Adopted.
The jerity of the ComInttee on Pub n Health
presented report on the communicable az the Cty
Insptc.cr, in relation to the filthy condition Of the
safe that the streets in question - ,;,br nm -
grayeed, or severed, and the <fsrs in the vcinty
teDiiOn of the CITY Inspect IaA Conri,,a, eta.e
that Roosevelt street is in 5;'; 81 -"
guires the immediate M etion OF the Civ Inspector
10 guefu .,,s, ,pdeigc in that locay. They
A.! ~ - tist i,nme fate action be taken
subject The = ,s,1e, he az. il nei.ber nayed nor
gieutu' ehu = very irregular condition. lie found
NO. zee. in an extremely filthy condition, and
uhI' ~ y human being 10 live IN, the garbage
ana MN are some twelve inches deep in the street,
~ <c2yed state, producing an absolute stencil.
Ire 6rst case Of yellow fever last year occurred in
u' & immediate vicinity and was in n great degree
FUSED by the filthy condition of the street " Your
Committee he eoncudes thinks there is great re-
"sponsbility restiDg upon the Street Cleaning Com
uttee to whom was referred the contracts Tor clean
Ing the streets the 26th of last March, acted upon
"by this Board few nights ago; and also upon his
'Honor the Mayor, who did not sign or veto the reso-
"Iution passed by this Board last week June TO- thus
alowing these streets to remain for ten days longer
" in such filthy and dangerous condition"
Aid SrEtRs commended that the report Of the ma
jority covered the difficulty complained OF.
The majority report was adopted.
Several communications received from Street.
Morton in relation to sundry street nusances
Referred 10 the Committee.
AID. Fuimcr on Bad Bodds-Ah. FULNER of
fered the following resolution. We give it rerbatim
at HteToftn:
"whss the Appropriation r Roads for 1851 Seventy
'Whr A. the Roads in Very Bad Way and Very fall
Of Ruts and Holes ana there IS SoT pleasure to be h,d IN
and Mhr As the Riding Public Require Something for thieT
Bet Resolved that the Road Master Be and he hear
BY ReqUi,d to have the Blooming Dale Road % Ave put in
dpe1 Re To- R. pot to TIL Bord the Reson of the
Delay at his Earliest CONVEYANCE Possible"
This was adopted.
The Street Departaent-The ordinance adopted by
the COuncimen, organizing the Street Commission
ers Department, was reported favoraby by Com
mttoe of this Board.
Aid. FUIMrR complained that he, although a mem.
her of the Street Committee conferred with
regarding the report. The report as drawn by the
other me1nbers put before him for his signature,
but be refused to sgD for the reason that he was not
notified 10 meet with the COMMITTEE
Aid TUCKER denounced the ordinance as an out
rage OH the public and urged that it be laid over and
printed Ii gave the Street Commissioner extraordi-
nary powers and privileges, and it was due to the
tax.paying citizens that action upon IT be deferred
Aid MCSPEDON cOntended that the ordinances, a.
now presented, in regard to the Street Department,
were hight under the present circumstances. The lIe-
risature took advantage last Winter, and now that
The Common Council had the power TO pass an ordi-
nance organizing the Departments as the Charter re-
quired they felt justified in arranging these matters
~ suit their views of what was required.
AID TUCKER complained that the ordinance here
presented was in manu- cipt and not the printed pa
per adopted 10y the other Board bat altered from it,
After further debate the ordinance was passed by
vote OF ID 10 D.
The Relief Of BrOoduay-Ald. WILSON announced
that this the evening for the special order the
opening of new avenue; but az the Board was not
ready for ii, the subject was postponed for week.
THE Deoth Ot eI-AH. Corael-Ald. COULTER Of
fered resolutions regretting the death Of exAld Cor
nell of the Seventeenth Ward, which We're, after APP
propriate remarks adopted.
The Board adjourned TO Monday next.