The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-28
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL

MONDAY, August 81.
FIRST BRANcH.-Present, j. c. BLACKBURN, Esq,
President pro tem., and all the members, except
Messrs. Irons, Spicer and Baugher. Mr.. CALLS
presented petition from C. f. Maltby & Co., and
others, oyster packers, asking that the ordinance
forbdding the bringing of oyters into the city pre-
vious to the 18th of September, be changed
to allow them to be brought to the city after the
first of September; referred.-Mr. EVANS pre-
sented petition from j. T. Bankhead and others,
asking the changing Of the grade of Hampstead
street at Chester street; referred.-Mr. TAYLOR
offered resolution directing the Committee on
City Property to inquire into the expedency of
purchasing Federal Hill to be used as a public
park; adopted. Also resolution appropriating
$50 to erect an extension to the Cross street
ket; reterred.-Mr. ROBERTS offered resolution
granting permission to +. II. B. Fusselbaugh, to
continue in use frame bnilding on his premises on
Chase street; referred.-Mr. SpEDDEN offered
resolution directing the superintendent of lamps
to have the gas lamps in front of the different
steam fire engine buildings lit every night through
out the year; adopted.-A message received
from the Mayor er obfcio, Samuel G. Spicer,
Esq,) transmitting the report of the Board of
Commissioners appointed to re district the wards
of the city published elsewhere); read and laid on
the table. Also message (from MIR. Swami )vetoing
the ordinance appropriatng money to the different
military companies of the city; read and laid on the
table.-Mr. SMMs presented an ordinance direct
ing the City Register to pay to the Association of
the Defenders OF Baltimore the sum of fifty dollars
annually; read and laid on the e.-Adiourned
Second BRANCH.-Present-WTL McPHAIL
Esq, President, and all the members, except
Mr. SEwALL-Mr. MCCOMAs presented the peti-
ton of Joseph Judik and others, asking the repeal
of the ordinance prohibiting the unloading of live
stock from the cars the Sabbath day: referred
to the Committee on Police and Jail-Mr ELL
CoTT, from the Committee on Internal Improve
ments, presented the following report and resolu-
luton IN relation to the running of the City Passen-
ger Railway cars on West Baltimore street:
The Joint Standing Committee on Internal Improve
ments having had referred to them the memorial of Geo
Williams and others, asking the enforcement of the ord
nance relating to the running of the Passenger Railway
cars beg leave to report that they have carefully examin
ed the subjects and find that by section of the ordi
nance creating the Passenger Railway Company and ap
proved March 2S 1852 the company had twelve months
from the passage of the ordinance to compee their track
to the city limits West Baltimore street and in case of
failure they should forfeit pay the sum of five hun
dred dollars for every month until the track s compIetpd
to the western limits of the city And your Committee
further lind that the representations of the
are true; that the track West Baltimore street has not
been completed and laid down provided in the sec
ton above referred to- the time limited in the ordinance
aving expired the 2Sth of March last The following
resolution is respectfully submitted Resoced by both
branches of the City Council That the Mayor respect
fully requested examine the section of the ord
nance approved march rs 1859 authorizing the City Pas
senger railway Company to lay down tracks along
beds of the streets of the city Baltimore and if in his
the provisions of the section have been violated
hat he have the same enforced Also, to inquire if the
sixth section of the ordinance relating to the running of
forced.
The resolution was read and laid on the table
Mr.. COTTON obtained leave to introduce an ordi-
nance, authorizing the Register to pay annually
to the Treasurer of the Association of Defenders
OF the city of Baltimore in the year 1872, the sum
OF $50, to pay the services of band of music for
the Association on the 18th of September of each
year.-Mr MCCoMAs moved to amend by insert
ing the words "and for other purposes" adopted
MIR. CATHCAET moved to give the ordinance
second reading.-Mr. MCPHAIL (Mr. Van Nos
trand in the chair) moved to amend the ordinance
by inserting Sl0O instead of $50; carried-The
ordinance was then passed.--A communication
was received from the Mayor, vetoing the sordi.
nance authorizing exhibitions of fireworks on par
tlcular occasions, &C." The Mayor says:
"The feature introduced into this ordinance would
operate in my opinion restriction upon trade-being
confined to fireworks of home manufacture exclusively
The principle, if carried out must prove embarrassing in
other respects Trade must be left free
and any attempt to interfere with it, by municipal re-
sricton in favor of any particular class Individual
cannot fail to prove oppressive in its consequences
MIR. McCoMAs then moved that the vote by which
the ordinance was passed be reconsidered and that
the ordinance lay upon the table; carried.-A
resolution directing the City Comptroller to erect
a wharf at the foot of Eutaw street, Spring Gar
dens, was received from the First Branch and read
The ordi nance fixing the compensation of the
Mayor for the next two years at So, 500, was re-
ceived from the First Branch, read a first and
second time and passed.-Adjourned until to-
morrow at o'clock