The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-10-26
Council Proceedings.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
Monday evening, Oct. 22d, 1860.

CouncilWen Bischmann, Chandler, Cool
Dannettell, Decker, Foster, Rocker an
Sauer-S.
The Minutes of the previous meetini
were read and approved.
Street Commissioner Smyth submitte;
his report of work done during the weel
ending Oct. goth, and bills for the same t;
the amount of STA Al were allowed.
/ The following bills were also presented
and allowed:
I Thomas Dean, watering street from Marcel
/ 2lst to Oct. 18th, 80 weeks at 35c $40 80
| Seantlin & Stephens, months office rent
| to Oct 20, $37 so; repairing water cooler
50 90; 10 lbs. zinc 81 so; setting up stove
/ soc; g. feet gutter and pipes, and two ell
I bows, for engine house, IS 20; one cistern
bucket for Lookup Zoe; one dark lantern
for Steam Fire Engine, 81 90. G+ cubic
yards of earth on Third street, between
Division and Elm streets, Sc 40. Michael
Hahn, l48t cubic yards of earth on Fourth
street between Oak and Gum sts., $l4 l.
8 cubic yards of earth on Walker street bet
Third and Fourth Streets So 10, attested by
City Surveyor Zimmerman and Mieker,
G2 cubic yards of earth excaVated from
Eighth street Sewer, in addition to that al
rendy allowed, $l2 O9 John 5. Goodge,
services as Sexton of Oak Hill Cemetery,
from April lst to November lSt 1860, Z
months salary 500 90 per annum, S58 33j
Elijah Perkins, one months salary as En-
gineer of Steam Fire Engine, ending Oct
I4th 1860, $83 80 Edward Ingle, Ice for
Council rooms, 4 months at So 90, Sl2 90
Kratz & Heilmau, pipes and taps for cisterns,
$l4 IA; VIM. StOrton, hauling dead ami
mails, 81 90; John O'Brien & Co, l84 feet
1o,,, z
glass for six lamps, $5 90, six lamp cocks,
$6 90, six patent burners, 81 80, six Ian
terms, $27 90, coal tarring six lamp posts,
81 so, two patent burners, 81 so, one lamp
post cock, 81 90 Evansville Gas Company,
Main street extension, $3.50 OOi John
Greis "a It's of cistern rings, 81 so Hugh
Duffy, fourteen days work at gutter across
the Wharf at Let street, S22 05; John S.
NcCorkle, repairing Steam Fire Engine
House, s. so SoutheEa Canal Company,
use of water from Canal, from April lst to
October Ist 1860, for Fulton Avenue. Leet,
Bond, Sycamore, Main, Canal, and Eighth
streets, 1882 so; Total, 1858 G7.
One motion of Councilman Chandler it was
ordered that the City Clerk and Clerk OF the
Canal Board make out the bills of all per-
sons who procure water from the city pipes
Dr. cisterns, and that those persons be noti-
led that if the bills are not promptly paid
he water will be shut off.
Ordered that G. l. Battel be allowed $50,
n payment for interest on SIX Lamasco
uharf coupons, due June lst, 1860, Nos %,
81, 81, T3, lOl and IO2, the order not to be
,reSeated to the Treasury 70: payment, but
nay be used for the payment of the cash
portion OF city taxes by any person holdingit. |
Ordered that the Mayor remit to the Ph9
lix Bank of New York city, all the money
q the hands of the Treasurer and Collector
" the city, to be used :, the payment of in
crest due Nov. lst, 1850, on 100000
,ouds of the city, and on account of princi-
,al of $33, 900, OF bonds, due Nov. lst, 1860;
nd also ordered that the Comnittee OF
finance and the Mayor be authorized to bor-
ow $40, 900 for sixty days, the proceeds &c
,e remitted to the Phoenix Bank in pay
nent of bonds.
A communication was received from John /
stocks, asking the Council to appoints COM I
nittee to examine the cis;ern built by him |
IA Water street between Mulberry and |
ium street and report to the Council wheth- 7
r the cistern is built according to contract. (
The Mayor appointed CouuGilmsp Cook I
nd Rocker.
The Mayor presented report showing /
hat Karl Gottman and John AcInuerny, to +
whom was awarded the contract Tor laying I
Iown a brick sidewalk with stone GGrbing, I
IN certain lots of ground situate on the I
outh-west side of Third street, between
lain and Locust streets, bad completed I
heir work, giving the extent and cost of [
heir work, and apportiOning the cost of the
Improvement smong the several lots charge
bile Herewith, with description of the
OTIS and the naues OF their owners, and re-
orting that Karl Gottman and John McIn-
erny having completed their work accord
ng to their contract are entitled to receive
rom the city the sum of one hundred and
ine dollars and ninety-live cents, viz: Karl
Iottman 500 II aud Johz McInnerny S43-
g: Total los S5.
Whereupon it was ordere ! tast t4le report
nd apportionment be approved, and E9cord-
d in the Minute Book of the Council, and
hat the Sums set opposite the several lots
nd parcels Of real estate be assessed and
harged against taem as their share respect
gely of the cost Of tke side walk improve
lent, and that the sGm OfSG6 2 be allowed
D Karl Gottman, and the san of $43 SO to
ohm McEnnerny, in fasyHent for their
Tork.
ssThe Mayor presented similar report re-
Decting certain lots situated oR Cherry
.reet, between Canal and Ninth streets,
lrnished with stone curbing by Kari Gott-
ian, upon which like action was taken,
he sum of $29 &c being allowed to Karl
iottman in payment for his work.
The bond of Soren Sorenson, City Treas
rer, with Lewis Howes, H. D. Allis, r.
.aleigh, j. p. Elliott, and II. Q. Wheeler,
i the sum of 1000, was presented and
pproved.
TO BIZ CONTINUED,