The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-11-01
Council Proceedings.
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Saturday evening, Oct. 27, 1860.
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Ordered that u cash order for $4,000 bC
allowed to the Bank of the State of Indi.
ana, i'll payment Of the city's note due
November ID at that Bank
Ordered that a cash order for $50 be al
lowed TO the Bank of the State of Indiana
for the payment of the interest on Bonds
issued for the purchase of the Steam Fire
Engine, and due al that Bank on NoyemS
Der 9th.
Ordered that the City Surveyor be re-
quested to make surveys of the several
alleys heretofore ordered to be graded, so
that they may be put under contract.
Councilmen Decker presented n petition
which was read as follows
To the Hon. Mayor and
Common Council of the city of Evansville ::
We, the undersigned citizens and tax
payers, residing and doing business in the
city of Evansville, on Water street between
Main and Division streets, would respectfully
represent that during the night time It is
dangerous for citizens and strangers to be
found on said street that daily some inOt-
tenSive person is attacked and beaten 10y
row0ies and loafers who congregate on the
wharf and it is our earnest belief that rob-
berry and murder is no rare occurrence on
said wharf and street.
We deem it unnecessary to cite your hon.
orable body to individual instances as evil
dence of our statements, believing that to
some extent you arc advised of the numer-
Gus violations of the municipal and State
laws
And we further represent that the row.
dies, thieves, blacklegs and loafers general
ly, are daily becoming more numerous in
said wharf and street, and are more insolent
and daring in their unlawful practices than
ft,av Of
In view of these facts, we would urgently
ask the immediate appointment of some re-
liable person or persons whose duty it shall
be to protect citizens and strangers whose
business calls them on the levee during the
night time, and to arrest all suspicious per-
sons, as well us those who hourly violate
the laws Of the State or city, etc, etc.
BY giving this petition immediate atten-
ton, you place the undersigned under obli-
cations.
LSigned by George Mensinger and forty
others
And On motion of councilman Decker,
it was ordered that the Mayor be authorized
TO appoint three special night policemen, to
act temporarily and report as to the expense
at the next meeting OF the Council.
The Mayor presented report stating
that agreeubly to an order Of the City
COuuCll ut Utll ulIGClcu tiic ClJ1 lItUSuItIs
Soren Sorenson, to remit to the Phmnix
Bank Of New York City, funds to pay the
interest due Nov. Ist. 1850, on 500, 900 90
Bonds of the city of Evansville, the amount
of interest, commission, and exchange be-
ing 50, BIS, IS, and requesting the Council ,
to issue a cash order for that amount.
1t was ordered that the report be received /
and entered on the Minute Book, and that (
an order for the sum Of s., ,543,8 IS be issued |
and delivered to the Treasurer.
The Mayor then presented a report stating
that agreeably to an order of the Council /
he had directed the Treasurer, Soren SoreG- /
SON. to remit to the Phoenix Bank of New |.
York city, S4,Ol2 80, the amount of ex-
change being $l3O 10, to apply to the pay
ment of the principle of $4,000 90 Of /
bonds of this city issued to the L. G. !
Railroad Co, and due Nov. lst, 1860, and |
that he had directed that the money should |
be placed in the Bank to the credit Of the |
city until it shall have been determined /
whether to pay certain bonds in full, or part
rs we can receive the means, or to apply the |
money pro rata upon all Of the 33 bonds, /
and recommending the Council to allow an
order TO the Treasurer for the sum.
1t was ordered that the report be received /
and entered upon the Minutes, and that an
order for the sum of 81, ,042 GG be issued and /
delivered to the Treasurer.
The Mayor presented the agreement and I
bond of Wilhelm Micker, and Jacob Xim- ,
lnerman for the construction Of the Eighth |
street sewer from its present termination to
the upper line of Locust street, with the |
necessary side drains and inlets.
The agreement was ordered to be approv-
ed and signed by the Mayor aud sealed
with the seal of the city. The Bond was
also approved.
proposal was received from Wm ! eag
ley, for paving the alley from Sycamore to
Vine and between Sd and 4th streets, at the
prices:
81 80 per perch for Lime stone work 90
cents for gravel per yard % cents for exca-
yatiou per yard.
The contrrct was awarded to said Yeag-
ley at the prices stated in said proposal, pro
vided, he agrees to bind himself to use
stone of a similar quality, to those beng
used in the cutters on Main street, from Ca
nal to Eighth.
Ordered that notice be served on Kratz
lS Heilman to remove large iron screw
from the wharf near the Elm Tree
And ordered that notice Be served upon
Boyd Bullock to removed stump from Pine
street in front of his premises.
On motion Council adjourned.
2. BURKE, Clerk,
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