Daily national Republican., 1863-05-12
LOCAL NEWS.


CoUNcn PRocEEbNcs. s.-Bodrd Of Alderman.
Tho following bills passed. al b..
Hll to curb sixth street west from street north
10 the canal. ...
Bill to refund to steven Bogart sum paid for an
unissued license.
Bill to take up and relay the nag footing across
fourth street west on the south side Of Z street,
north.
Ril for the Improvement Of Fifth street west, be-
tween and Hstreets north.
Bill to lay pavement on sixth street wsst and
Seventh street, market house square.
Bill 70 grade and gravel D street north, from
First street 10 Third street west.
Bill authorizing . gorge J. Han to erect frame
building.
BILL for the relief Of Ernest Lonsr.
Bill from the committs on schools, making an
appropriation for contingent sHpsnsss in certain
cases,
BILL to lay Gag footwsy across street north.
A bill for the relief Of Leonard Grover was made
the special order for Monday night next.
VIM. n. Hinea and Joseph Williamson were con-
nrmed aI county constable.
The following resolution was adopted;
Received, That the COMMITTEES on Polies be, and
lAton n any, IL necessary for the protection OF the
drivers Of hacks in the legitimate pursuit Of their
business.
Adjourned.
from the Mayor notifying the Board that he had
approved and signed certain acts. go
The special order for the evening bill known
as the GAs-ight bill-was taken up.
Several amendments were proposed and adopted
after considerable debate. The billhnallY passed.
1.-THE main features Of this bill are that It lights
the streets twenty-four nights per month instead
OF seventeen, as At present, and provides for the
extension Of the territory lighted with gas.
The following bills passed.
Bill TO grade and pave the unpayed portions Of
street north, from Seventh to Ninth streets west,
and to build four sewers.
Bill to trim and gravel New York avenue from
Ninth to fifteenth streets west, and for other pur-
poses.
Bill making an appropriation to repair stone
pavement on ID street north, from sixth to Tenth
streets west.
Bill to repair public alley insquAre No. 49,
bill to grade and gravel First street west.
Mr.. Murtagh presented q joint resolution pre-
scrIbing oath Of allegiance for the commission
ers at the ensuing June slsctioui adopted.
BILL 10 grade and gravel South street.
Bill for the construction Of an engine house for
the Western Hose company.
Bill remunerating squires Drury and Thompson
for services at the second ward station houses.
Bill AppropriAting $4,000 from the different
wards, to enable the Mayor to clean the avenues
streets, and cutters, and for can u repairs.
Aresolution was passed thanking c. II. Anderson
for the handsome manner in which he had gotten
up the Mcclellan resolutions.
Mr.. Utermehle presented the petition OF William
Dalton, J. G. MRtlook, and James Kelley, n COM
mittee representing the Hackmen's Association
complaining of the low rates prescribed by law for
carrying persons in hacks, viz: % eents for one
nile and half Mr.. U. accompanied the petition
with bill advancing the rates to 90 cents per mile
for one passenger; rs cents for two; 81 for three,
and 20 for four. For greater distance the in
crease is proportionately large. At night so per
centum Is added to the above charges.
Mr.. RApley asserted that the present regulations
were not complied with by the hackmen. He had
never paid less than fifty cents, and more FREQUENT
ly as high as S2, to ride from WlllArdS' to sixth
street wharf The bill passed.
Adjourned