The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-20
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
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FIRST BRANcH.-Present Samuel G. Spicer, Esq.
President, and all the members except Messrs
irons, Baugher, Evans, Mace and Ban.-Mr.
SIMMs presented petition from Louis Jones' asking
permission to continue in use a frame addition
to his premises, Nos. l66and les Light street wharf
referred.-Mr. CALLS presented a petition from
Moses Sanders and others, praying that Goodman
alley, between Cross street and Williamson allev
may be condemned and opened; referred Mr..
CALLS presented petition from John Wells &
Son, asking permission to erect a frame shed on
their premises, corner of Eastern avenue and Eden
street; reerred.-Mr. TALBOT, of the Joint
Standing Committee on Police and Jail, presented
a report, with resolution directing the Comp
troler to place gas mains through Barry Lee
Davis and Mill streets; adopted.-Mr. A. NJ
PRICE offered resolution granting permission to
any parties to suspend flags across the streets dur
ing the present political campaigns; lost.-Mr.
CALLS offered resolution directing the
clerk of the Fe's Point market to place
ropes at the ends of the market-house
to prevent horses from being driven along
the street during market hours; referred -
A resolution was received from the Second Branch
granting permission to William A. Van Nostrand
and James G. Davis to erect frame extensions to
their houses, Nos. 10Y and 100 Eden street;
adopted.--Mr. BLACKBURN offered a resolution
that when the Branch adjourn on Friday next, it
adjourn sine die.-Mr. TALBOT moved to Law the
| resolution on the table; lost.--Mr. TALBOT
moved to strike out the words ''next Friday" and
insertF "Friday one week." lost.-The resou-
| tion was then adopted.-Mr. SPEpDEN called up
| the ordinance giving the permission of the Mayor
and City Council to the Curtis Creek Coal and
Railroad Company to lay down railroad tracks
| through the streets of the cty.-Mr. NORRIS
opposed the bill the ground that it gave the
company the power to lay railway tracks through
any street.-Mr. BLACKBURN moved to lay the
bill on the table; carried.-Mr. TALBOT called
up the ordinance granting permission to William
Bond and others to give exhibitions of fireworks
on public occasions, providing they get the assent
of the Mayor.--Mr. BLACKBURN opposed the reso-
luton on the grounds that the exhibition of fire.
works was one of the foles of the age, productive
OF no good and likely to result in much injury;
passed. mir POLLOCK called up the ordinance
granting permission to dealers to remove live stock
from the cars on the Sabbath day, ,and remove them
| to the neal est pen; passed.-Adjourned.
SECOND BRANCH.-Present Villa IN McPhail, Esq
President, and all the members except Mr.. Sew
| all.-The resolution requesting the Comptroller
| to have the Mayors communication in regard to
the finances of the city published in each of the
! daily papers was read the second time.--Mr Cook
| thought before that resolution passed the
members ought to look into the cost of such pub
| cation; he believed it would put the CITY to an
expense of eight hundred a thousand dollars.
He, therefore, moved to lay it on the table; adopt
| ed.-Mr. COTTON offered resolution au-
thorizing the Board of School Commissioners
to select lot in the 7th ward, for the purpose
| of erecting male and female primary school,
which was referred to the Committee on Edu-
cation. n.-The ordinances to pave Robinson
alley, between Baltimore and Lombard and Bond
and Bethel streets; Boyd alley, between Caroline
and Dallas streets; Chestnut alley, between Ogden
and Fremont and Franklin and George streets,
were each read the second time and laid on the
table.-On motion of Mr.. Cook message was
sent to the First Branch, asking the return of the
resolution in favor of Edward Kearney.-Mr
ELLICoTT. from the Committee on the Fire Depart.
ment, offered resolution granting permission to
John S. Maker to erect frame bath-house on his
premises, n o. $50 Camden street, which was read
a second time and adopted. CATHCART of
fered resolution, directing the City Register to
return an immediate to the resolution OF in
qury, passed by this Branch on the 9TH day of
| September, in relation the collection and
disposition of port tonnage, which was
adopted-Mr MCCoMAs called up the or
dinance to condemn and open Park street, from
Richmond to Grundy street, and to change the
name of Grundy street to Park street, which was
| read the second time and passed by the following
vote Yeas-Messrs. President, Van Nostrand Cook
Cotton, Musselman and McComas-6 nays-Messrs.
Cathcart, Taylor, and Elcott-3.-The reso
luton granting permission to Edward Kearney to
join his buildings by throwing iron girders across
Little Courtand street, returned from the
First Branch The resolution appropriatine
$4,000 additional to the Board of Public Schoo
Commissioners for the purpose of rebuilding
school house No. l, corner of Fayette and Greer
streets, received from the First Bra1cf
and read.-Mr. MUssELMAN, from the Com
mittee Education, offered a resolution au
thorizing the Board of School Commissioners tt
select suitable lot of ground in the 7th ward, anc
erect thereon a building for a Male and Female
Primary School, and appropriating $4,000 for th
object; which was read.-A resolution giving
S75 to James Kerr, for damages sustained by hin
in the loss of horse on York avenue, was re
ceived from the First Branch and read.-A re
solution adverse to the claim of Richard Middleton
was also received, read a second timeand adopted
Adjourned.