Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-23
Board Of MAYOR and AIdermcn.

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MONDAY EVENING, June %.
Petition of Peoples Insurance Co., for leave to
enter the sewer from their block on Main street,
granted by paying 1854.
Petition of Dexter Page, to keep an intelli-
gence at 233 Main street, granted.
Petition of Barnes & Lewis, to run a hack and
omnibus, granted.
Petition of John Q. Adams, for license to keep
billiard saloon, corner of Maine and Foster sts.,
granted.
Petition of John o. Ware, for the same, was
referred to the Committee on Finance.
Petition of Sands, Nathans & Co., for exhibit
ton of their circus, on the 18th of July, was
granted, on consideration of paying 500, with
privilege of using the new Common, free.
Petition of!Rivers & Derirous, for the same, to
exhibit on the 9TH of July, was granted on the
same terms.
Petition of Thos. Leadworth, to keep a bowl.
ing saloon on Exchange street, was not granted.
Petition of Clarendon Harris, in relation to
to the surface water in front of his estate on
Elm street, was referred to special committee
Petition of. r Pierce, for sidewalk in front
of his estate, was laid on the table.
Petition of S. C. Head, to have the division
fence between his estate and the school house
lot on Pleasant street, was referred to special
Committee with power to act
Petition of S. V. Stone, in relation to the side.
walks on Orange and Plymouth streets, was
referred to the Committee on Sidewalks.
Various petitioners were granted leave to sell
fireworks during the coming Fourth of July
Petition of E B. Dana and others, for new
road in the Easterly part of the city. An order
of notice was issued, returnable the first Monday
in August.
The act amending the city charter, in relation
to the school committee, accepted, Alderman
Goulding alone voting in the negative. Unani-
nous in the other Board.
Decree laying out Ranks's Lane, by the Coun.
ty Commissioners, with an order that the road be
completed by Oct l, was referred to special COM
mittee, with authority to act.
The Committee on Lighting Streets reported
in favor of lamps on Pleasant street, between
Main and West streets, on the corner of Main
and Wellington streets, one opposite Sycamore
street, one on Temple street, and lamps on Ply
mouth and Washington streets. Adopted.
The petition of Pratt & Inman and others, for
Draper & Clark's estate, was referred to Commit
tee on Sidewalks.
The paper from the other Board, appropriating
twenty five dollars to pay expenses of the use of
Mechanics Hall by Peter Sinclair in addressing
the children of Worcester on temperance, was in
definitely postponed.
The report Of the Committee, favorable to the
petition of George Bushnell, Superintendent of
Schools, for a sidewalk on the East side of the
High School House on Walnut street, came up
from the other Board, and was concurred in.
The report of the Committee on the petition of
7. S. Stone and Others, for sidewalk and paving
of cutters on the East side of Main street, be-
tween Park and Myrtle street, came up from the
other Board, and was concurred in, on condition
that AUDITORS relinqush all damages. walk is
also to be laid across Southbridge street.
The remonstrance of Draper & Clark, agaIns4
the contemplated location of the bounds of Mill
Brook, was referred to Committee on that sRb-
ject.
The petition in relation to Seaver street, was
then taken from The table. Mr.. Stephen Harring-
ton addressed the Board in favor Of the OBJ
ject of the petition. The street was accepted. ON
condition that AUDITORS relinquish all claims for
damages.
Aldermen Prentice Earl and Goulding, were
appointed Committee to draft Decree
Adjourned for one week, at halt-past seven
o'clock.
In the Common Council, the order from the up
per Board, appropriating one hundred dollars for
the celebration of the fourth of July, was amend
ed, on motion OF Councilman S. V. Stone, by the
substitution of seventy five cents, to be appropri.
ted for raising the flag on the Common The or
der was indefinitely postponed Councilman Dra-
per then moved an appropriation of eight hundred
dollars for celebrating the fourth which was lost
on its second reading.