The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-10-27

OOINtIL OHANBEk,
MondaE eEeninr. Oct. 22i. $500. [

aF names OF tue owners OF real estate dulOIn
ing or abuttiug upon the alley extending
from First to Second street, and situated be
i tween Main and Sycamore streets, who hav
/ given their obligations to the contractor
5 for their respective shares or proportion @
the costs and expenses of grading and paw
> ing the alley, and also the names of thos
who have not so given their obligations, an'
Y reporting that the amount of the cOntrac
a price Of the improvement is 93G7 05, ant
r that the contractors DusOuchet Il Tibbetts
have received obligations of the owners o
real estate amounting TO $2I7 934 and
? that there is therefore yet Cue to the con-
; tractors the sum Of Slt9 III on account o.
their contract.
The report was received and it was or
dered that the balance due Dusouchet &
Tibbetts on their Contract be allowed them,
and that separate p1ecepts be issued and de-
lvered to the Collector against those parcels
OF real estate for the amount due from them
as their proportion of the cost ofpaving the
alley.
The certificate OF the City Surveyor foI
the grading Of certain alleys WAS then pre-
scented and read by the Mayor, giving list
of the alleys aud the cost OF grading aud
stating that the contractor, Thomas Snow
den had completed his contract upon them.
~! The certificate was received and entered
upon the Minutes.
r The Mayor then presented report stat.
ing that the City Surveyor having certified
! that Thomas Snowden has completed his
contract for the grading of the alley ex-
! tending from Walnut to Chestnut street,
and situated between First and Second
I streets, and that by reason OF change
made in the plan of the work deduction
is 10 be made from the contract price,
viz: contract price, 339 30 deduct 35 Gu
bic yards of grading at 1880, Sc 81 there
is therefore due Thomas Snowden the sum
fS32 80 in payment for his work, and
also reporting that none OF the owners OF
real estate adjoining or abutting on the
alley have given their obligations to the
contractor for their proportion Of the cost
of the Improvement.
The report was ordered t0 be received
and directed to be entered on the Minutes,
and that the credit or deduction of Sc 81 be
apporti0ned among the several lots or parcels
OF real estate, according TO their proportion
of the cost Of Improvement.
1t was also ordered that Thomas Snow
den be allowed the SUM of $50 80 in pay
ment for his work, aud that separate pre-
cepts be issued and delivered to the Collect
or for the several sums assessed and charged
against the several lots and parcels of real
estate As their share or proportion Of the
cost of grading the alley.
4 report was also presented by the Mayor
stating that the City Surveyor having certi-
fed that Thomas Snowden has completed |
his contract for the grading Of the alley sit F
uate in block 2 in the Eastern Enlargement,
there is due to Thomas Snowden the sum of (
SIT 78 in payment for his work also re-
porting that none of the owners of real es-
tate adjoining or abutting upon the alley /
.tI 4r FL,
or for their proportion of the expense Of the +
improvement.
Whereupon it was ordered that Thomas
Snowden be allowed the sum of $I7 IS in
for his work and that separate
precepts be issued and delivered to the Col
lector for the sums assessed and charged
against the several lots and parcels of real
estate as their share or proportion of the
cost and expenses Of grading the alley.
The Mayo" then presented similar reports
upon which the like action was taken, res
pecting the central alley in block No. Is,
StockwelIs Enlargement, Snowden being
allowed S27 so the southeastern alley in
block,I5 Stock wells Enlargement Snowden
allowed Sal 81; the northwestern alley IN
block , Stockwelrs Enlargement, Snowden
allowed $50 81; and the southeastern alley
in block II Stockweu 5 Enlargement, Snow
dcu allowed $50 ~.
The Mayor presented a report or she final
of the contract of G.. Fuitz for
bouldering Main street from Third street to
the Canal, the consideration OF which Eas
for one week
Conncilmen Cook and Rocker were ap-
pointed a Committee to purchase lumber
and nails for the fence ut Oak Hill Cemete-
ry, and the Clerk was ordered to advertise
for bids for hanlng the materials to the
4 & -, l..
be received up to Saturday next (Oct 20,
and it there be no meeting Of the Council on
evening, the committee to he en-
powered to open tine bids and award the
J. $. Tihbetts, the contractor for macad-
amizing Main street, suggested to the Coun-
Gil that in the construction OF the cutters on
each side OF the street the plan should he
changed the specifications requiring All the
stone in the cutters 10 be laid longitudinal
~ Tibbetts suggests that from the center
Of the gutter to the curb the stones be laid
longitudinaly, and from he center of the
gutter toward the street th,. stones he laid
-rosswisp.
Referred to Councilmar Rocker and Dam
ae1teI.
The question of removing the gas post
from SilaS stephens warehouse at the Ga
nal, TO the opposite side of the Canal was
referred to the same committee.
The same committee were directed to
confer with Edward Ingle relative to fence
around the Locust street Engine house lot.
Ordered that Mrs Q. L. Lewis be RENTED
cents Tor taxes over charged on
five feet of lot l3o, Original Plan.
An order was passed requiring the own
ers of all lots or parts OF lots fronting on or
adjoining the northwest side of Walnut
street, from Sixth to Seventh street, to cause
the sidewalks thereon to be brought to the
proper grade, and to cause brick side walk
to be laid down within thirty days from
the official publication of the order.
Orders were likewise passed requiring
the owners of all lots or parts of lots 'front.'
ing or adjoining the west side OF Second
Avenue, from Seventh street to Franklin
i r.r,11n On the wei side of Sacnnl \ Terue