The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-14
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CITY coUNCIL.

THURSDAY, september 10.
FIRST BRANCH.-Present Samuel G. Spicer, ESQ.,,
President, and all the members except Messrs.
lrons Baugher and ROberts.-Mr. Balm present
ed a petition from William Ii. Ryan, asking the
return of taxes paid in error; referred.--A com
munication received from the Mayor giving
his assent to certain ordinances and resolutions
laid on the table.--Mr. LINTON presented an or
dinance directing the City Commissioner to have
Chestnut alley, between Ogden and Fremont streets
graded and paved.--Mr. TAYLOR presented pc
tition from Miburn, Adams McGee, skiing per-
mission to continue in sign their premises,
from the fourth story of No Light ST.; referred.-
Mr. SPEDDEN called up the ordinance regulating the
sale of coal in the city. The bill provides that it
shall be lawful for any person who suspects that
fraud is being practised in the sale of anthracite
coal, to stop any cart and compel the person in
charge of it to drive to any public scales, and if
the load should weigh less than ,240 pounds, the
person selling the same shall be liable to fine of
-. The party stopping the coal shall tender to
the driver of the cart the of rs cents as
pensaton for his trouble, and if the driver refuses
to 60 he subjects himself to fine of not less than
81 nor more than S5.--Mr. TAYLOR moved to
amend by giving any person who thinks that he is
being defrauded and not allow any person who may
choose stop the car. He said that one dealer might
use the law for the injury of another dealer.-
Mr.. SPEDDEN contended that it would DESTROY the
very effect of the bl the amendment was lost.
Mr.. Norris moved to strike out IS cents, the
amount to be paid the driver, and insert So
Mr.. MACE moved as a substitute that 81 be the
amount; lost.-The amendment of Mr.. Norris was
put and lost-The bill was then put upon its
passage, when, on motion of Mr.. BAlN it was laid
on the table, and made the order for Monday next
Mr.. TALBOT offered a resolution enduring of
the City Counsellor as to the right of property the
city has in what is known Battery Square;
adopted. MIR MACE called up the resolution
granting permission to Andrew Graham to continue
in use frame bathhouse his premises, No.
81 Aisquith street; adopted.-Mr. Balm
called up the resolution directing the City Com
missioner to place flag and stepping-stones across
Carey and Holiins streets. at their intersection;
granting permission to VIM. j. Albert to construct
a verandah from the second story of his house.
ner of Holiday street and Orange alley; adopted.
MIR; Balm called up the ordinance directing the
Water Board to remove all the useles pumps within
the city limits.-Mr. Balm moved to lay it on the
table and make it the order for Tuesday; carried.
"A supplementary ordinance was received from
authoring Elisha F. Lupton, Charles G. Ridge
ly, Samuel j. Pentz and others to lay down
City Passenger Railway through certain
Streets repeating that portion of the original ordi
nance which requires license to be paid of $40
on each car, and making it $50 instead thereof
Extending the period at which the road must be
completed twelve months, and granting permission
to them to lay two tracks through the streets
as they may deem advisable. Read and laid on the
table.-Adjourned.
SECOND BRANCH-Present-Al the members
except William McPhail, Esq, President.--On
motion of Mr. CATHcART, Mr.. McComas was elected
President pro ten.-Mr. ELLIoorr presented the
remonstrance of Samuel Brown and others against
the passage OF any ordinance permitting butchers
to keep hogs on their premises for the purpose of
consuming the offa from the slaughter houses; re-
ferred TO the Committee on Heath.-The follow
ing resolutions of the Board of Water Commission
ers, and communication from the Chief Engineer
were then read:
Resolved, That the communication Of C p Manning
Chief Engineer, addressed to F. Lttig Shaer member
of the Water Board be forwa together with blank
copy Of contract to the Second Branch City Council
reply far goes the several queries propouuded
by said Branch to the Water Commissioners dated August
2Sth, 1860.
Resolved, That in reply to the last query "ifin their
judgment such change is necessary for the public good
and necessary to put the lake in complete order the
he returned to said query, that in the judgment
said Board, all that to be DONE particularly
the grubbng and excavation of the lake. is included
the contract of Messrs James H. Hoblitzell Frederick
c. Crowley and Wm l. Hoblitzell, and that the Board
will see that said contract be complied with
THos. SWAMI, Chairman.
J. W. RANDOLPH. Secretary.
[The communication of Mr.. Manning estimates
that the additional cost of excavating the lake
reservoir at the Relay House, as some propose,
would be $50 000 and the probable time required to
do it by the present contractor, with his small sup
ply of men, would be nine months. MIR. Cook
presented petition from William H.. Hayward
and others, asking that privilege be granted to
Thomas Harkness to erect frame building on
his premises; referred.-The ordinance to close
Etting alley, and open a street northwestward-
~ from it, was taken up and passed.-An ord
nance to change the name of Garden street, north
OF biodie street, to Linden street, was received
from the First Branch and read.-An ordinance
relating 10 the members and clerks of the City
Council, was also received, read a second time and
passed--The supplementary ordinance in favor
Of Elisha F. Lupton, and others, in regard to Law
ng tracks for city passenger railway, was taken