Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-08

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held last evening. The petition of Loring
Goes and others, praying for five more lamps
on Maine street between May street and Web
ster square, and one in front of the residence
of Hon. Isaac Davis, was referred to the
the committee on lighting streets.
The petition of Charles Wilder, praying
for some remedy for the damage caused to
his estate, No. 20 Lincoln street, by the wash
from both cutters on said street, by drain
age from said cutters to Mill brook, was re-
ferred to the highway committee.
On the petition of John Goulding and 9TH
ers, to have Cypress and Foster streets made
81, at . O'Clock p. NJ.
The committee on public buildings, to
whom was referred the communication of
Hon. Stephen Salisbury, president of the
board of directors OF the free public library,
in relation to the dangerous and leaky condi-
ton of the skylight upon the library building,
communicated to the city council series of
votes passed by the trustees of the library, in
reference to the proposed remedy for the de-
tects in said roof and skylight, and recon-
mended the adoption of the following order:
Ordered, that the committee on public
buildings be authorized to cause to be altered
the skyGght on the public library building,
by removing the thick glass, and substituting
light wooden roof, covered with tin, accord
ing to the recommendations of the directors,
and to sell the thick glass now on said city
skylight. Adopted.
1t was also ordered that the commissioner
of highways, under the direction of the COM
mittee on sewers, cause the drain on Pleasant
street, between Oxford and Crown streets, to
be relaid, as to connect with the drain on
Crown street.
A communication was received from the
highway commissioner, calling attention to
the condition of Pleasant street between Main
and West street, in which it is contemplated
to lay the track of the Worcester horse rail-
road. If the track is laid as the street now is,
it will in his opinion render it very inconve-
nient, if not unsafe, for the public travel, the
street being but thirty feet wide between the
curb stones, and very browning from the gut
tiers to the center. The horse railroad will
take up ten feet of tine center of the street,
leaving but ten feet on each side includingth
gutter, for the large amount of travel that
daily passes over said street. The commits
sioner recommends the paving of the whole
street between the curb stones, and that it be
done when the track is laid.
The following order was adopted in refer
ence to this matter:
Ordered, that the committee on highways be
authorized to make the agreement with the
Worcester horse railroad company, to cause
Pleasant street to be paved as far as the rail,
road track may be laid; and any expense
which may be incurred by said cOmmitte be
charged to the appropriation for highways.
1t was ordered that the city clerk be in
structed to procure suitable books of records,
one for recording deeds to the city, and one
for recording deeds from the city, and that
hereafter all deeds of property or rights in
which the city is interested as grantor
or grantee be duly recorded in said books of
record, with references to the book and page
in which said deeds are recorded in the regis
try for deeds in and for the county.
Ordered, that the city clerk be instructed
to cause to be copied into said books of re-
cords all deeds that have heretofore passed to
or from the city, the originals or copies of
which are now on file among the city docu-
ments.
In the common council the president being
absent, councilman Barton was elected presi-
dent pro ten.
On technical grounds, after an animated
debate, the council non-concurred in the order
appropriaiing $50, 900 to aid the families of
drafted men who enter the service.
Both boards adjourned for two weeks.