Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-03-25

tory. That Is the position TO which the
northerners. ON the M ST favorable snppo
sition, will DC brought.
Mayors Inaugural Message.
Gentlemen fine Common Council:
As is required by the city charter and in
accordance with established usage. | will
submit for your Consideration the f. nJwipa
facts and recommendati. ns
In looking over the current expenses IS
the city for the past year, | do not find
many subjects Tor retTenchment, bur am
gratIted to find that number cf old debts
and expenses have been paid Of and pro-
videt for during the past year and will not
again be charge upon the city. Among
these are the following. viz: Paid salaries
Of Engineers Of Fire Department accrued
under an old ordinance before the past
year, which ordinance has been repealed
during the past year, one hundred and
fifty dollars; debt accrued for a school
house lot purchased several years ago, but
title not acquired until during the past
year, amount OF order drawn I've hundred
and eighty two doliars; let condemned
several years ago for the extension If Sec
"nd Avenue through Campbe Is Addition
To Eastern Avenue, amount collected from
the property htl1ers on the street and paid
INTO the city treasury, which sum was
called for 10y the owner of the lots with n
past year, and order d. swn for tho same
amounting 10 the sum of for hundred and
htty dvIiars- Add to these sums two bot Is
due last June, the time of payment of VIII ieh
were temporarily extended ant which are
expected to be paid III few days, and two
bonds due IN the first Of June next, which
are expected to be paid IrIn taxes levied
and being collected, and the city dett will
have been redseod some I'VE thousand SIX
hundred dollars AMI the n ual interest on
tohned cebt lessehed between three and
four hundred d, liars
There has been no morey borrowed Tx
Inc city Tor any purpose during the past
year. Al interests on the city debt have
been paid promptly. and n case no ;,ii-
tonai buFth6n IS ihTewR upon US during
tia coming year, We NAV look for consider,
! aila reduction tfexpease.
There has been a careful Assessment
mace DUNG the past year and a thorough
revision %! the valuation ard 6escriulinn
| 81 real estate, SUBJECT 10 taxation, max ing
the iaxatI, ;auch more eaurl and fust
than The taxation # former Years. /. =
le!ievcd there Is stu room Cor re met; n If
. 3 e.
satIVn with members ur the 4 lard Of Sch,
INSPECTORS. | am sati, fea that ,ba, Bn,r5
Will cheerful 60 operate With al. C. mn, n
Council IN lesseL;ns .Is expense, :, IN, :
the same cal be cOna MItL-gt il i..rv -
the sChJuis
The caiiecjion cf county ara S,ste taves
Is d n mostly in tine ysii..-r season and A.
that l. the season when laDsrers are n,gsfi,
out OF employ ard less money i. i,-It.c
earned than az sny other reii ! of he
year; aud as Eastern markets are n, r,
closed ard produce Is at is west r.rjee
aud there Il far less money la circu,,ti,.r,
al that time than at ary o;her ..as-unftl.
year, 1t ,eem' peculiarly unfortunate hat
that particular time sh. uii have Le.o
selected Tor the collection If The city reve.
nue.. The bonded debt uF the CIV c,IIs
due on the first Of June. Under such cir
cumsa n eG | would r,cnm,BeI d thar per--
alter tie Collectors warrant issue later in
the seas and be made reiuinall, az such
time as thar the sale OF i. ] uqutnt lots 4, d
lands Tor taJcS will come IN the latter mart
! "t May. lille this will not INCONVENIENCE
the cry, 1t VIII, IN any judgment, mAteri-
ally lessen the burthen Of collection.
1t ought not to lie fsrgottpn that the
expenses OF the National Government dY.
ring the present var are very heavy. and
even IL tie war should be brought 10 a
/ successful 81 SO with n leG7 p,uutls !,
Will necessarily leave an extraordinary
National debt, aud that the burtben of
taxatl' must necessarily he higher for
years 20 come than they have been here;g-
teTe. Justice therefore requires that M
unnecessary bartbeos shouli be imposed
upon Uny one.
The costs and expenses of adrer,;s;r
and selling delinquent lots ara Ian5. -
city taxes are nearly three times a. much
as the costs and expenses of seIIing ,ba
same property foT the collection Of c5'rn,r
! and State taxes Much of this eInenss
TAILS upon meritOrious and unfortunate
class. persons in debt, minors. heirs ~
deceased persons, and persons absent
many VI "hom are IN the army, defending
the country. 1t seems rroner that ne
ordinances for the collection of ta.es shonId
he revised and such alterations and amsTd
be made.
1t is doubtful whether the nresent sv.
tenn of poll tax and stree, labor is tba be-,
tha; can be devised The poll tax ia three
Gays labor TO each able bodied man betUeen
JUG anu eIXiy, Qfemen
and others excepted. We pay our Street
Commissioner a salary. believe IL wonld
be better to reduce the poll tax to tw DAYS
work instead of three, leaving it optional
as row Tor the parties to pay in money
Instead OF salary would it not he better
Tor the Street Commissioner to be naid a
commission on the poll tax actually work ed
cut or collected. l commend this subject
to the wisdom of the Council.
There seems to be a well grounded hone
Oh the widening and deepening of the Iii
mons and Michigan Canal, through the
action OF u ngress. so as to make the same
oil sufficient capacity for steamboats, and
SAIL vessels. That 1t is work of prea,
National Importance will not be denied
particularly to the Western States and
Territories That this community is par-
tIcularly interested in what would so great
~ enhance the growth and prosperity of
The West will not be doubted. eubni,
whether any action is necessary bv the
C"uncil, or the people to give expression of
opInion or otherwise aid in accomplishing
that great and most desirable project.
s. w. BOWEN.
Joliet, March IL, 1862.
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