Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-05-04

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City Clerk received, aud ordered printed !:
To tie Mayor and Aldermen Of the City 81
Daeenport, IN Council assembled.
Your Committee to whom was referred
the settlement Of the matters of Christian
Kaufman, late City Clerk, with the City,
beg leave to report the following q his usual
report of moneys received for the City and
paid over to the City Collector, viz
Moneys received on licenses .Sl0s 90
:" " City Cemetery
| Total. Observation-Disclosures. $l2S W
Paid over to City Marshal, As per
| receipt in cash book .S12S OO
Which leaves no balance in his hands.
y =. IL II: AspsEsEs. As%.s Finance
JAMES CoULrnARr,
Report Of City Sexton, showing nine in
tcrments in April, received and ordered
filed.
| Aid. Champion presented the assessment
list. The assessment and plat books show
the names Of the owners up to this evening,
according to Scott county records
| Aid. Andersen offered the following,
which was adopted
Resolred, That the Mayor be and is here
by requested TO appoint an Equalization
Board, two outside of this Council, and one
in; that said Board shall take the assess
ment books Of 1865, and examine each and
every assessment, and correct all errors, re-
ccive all complaints and oqualize - nesr -
possible the whole assessment, and after ad-
vertising TO be in session ten days from the
18th of May, 1866, and when that time ex-
pires, to hear no complaints, but to return
said assessment books to the City Council
after correcting all errors, and posting and
extending each page, entering the exact
amount Of the whole on the last page Of the
assessment book. for the approval Of the
Council. And for the fulhllment Of the
above named services, the City Clerk is
hereby ordered to issue orders to each per
son comprising said Board, the sum Of three
dollars per day.
Aid. Davis offered the report Of the Com
mittse on Public Grounds on leasing Of the
city warehouse At $3.50 to j. Yantis, paya-
BILE in advance
Notion to adjourn lost.
The Finance Committee presented the
following bills, which were ordered paid:
$2o.35 salary for April to late Clerks
administrator shall be paid.
$51.26 to A. Corbin, tax refunded
and entered, provided said Corbin gives the
city quit claim deed for lots 3 and 4, block
8, Mackintosh's Cd addition.
Police fees to T.. Clark k... SIC 10
Gas and Coke Company, costs in two
| SultS Oh 20
VIM. Poole, serving road poll tax no.
ticcs. 40 Is
Ackley, boarding prisoners. ........ 50 IS
Teagarden, serving road poll tax no.
tees. 6 45
Do, serving road poll tax notices for
1868. IL 10
High Brothers ................... 20 90
Bill for posting 800 bills for clean
ing aHeyS. D w
City Marshal, moving safe, ETC.,
expenses. 90
H. A. Rungc, for tin box. ... 80
Clerks sign. l %
Removing nuisance e Z 90
The report Of the Committee on Public
Grounds was presented
10 the Hon. Mayor d aldermen Of the
Ei'y Of Dauenport, in Council assembled.
The committee to whom was referred the
communication Of +. W. Watson in relation
to wha, ,lage;
Report that they have had the same under
| consideration, and recommend that the
wharf master be directed to enforce the or
dinance against persons landing steamboats,
within the bounds Of the city, who refuse to
| pay wharfage, in accordance to its provs-
| ions.
| JOHN l.. DAWES.
JoHN W. THOMPSON.
| NJ. Z. DAVIS.
| j. HoRxBy
| G. NJ. MATrHEs.
| Report adopted.
. Adjourned until to. morrow evening at 4
\ clock.
Attest A. C. BILLION,
City Clerk.
MlLlrARY.-Col Grier has received or
ders to muster out all patients in the mill
tary hospitals here who have passed from
under the Surgeons care.
Describes who have Ieturned to military
quarters are to be mustered out wherever
they may be without pay, emoluments or
transportation.
Five hundred rebel prisoners were ship
ped south last evening. The rebel Bar
racks on the Island will be vacated in few
weeks.
BARRAcKs.-It has been suggested to the
Government by officers here that instead Of
going to a heavy expense to purchase lum-
ber, for the extensive Arsenal and Armory to
be erected upon the Island that the lumber
bcr now used for barracks on the Island and
on this side be. used as far as practicable.
The Government can save many thousand
dollars in that way and undoubtedly will do
so. This is time to economze in national
expenditures. The rebel barracks will soon
be vacated, and the barracks on this side
will be in year or so. The idea is uD-
doubtedly capital one.
Extensive preparations are being made to
prepare the hospitals for the reception Of
any number Of patients. Uncle Sam will
not muster out his boys in blue who are
suffering from wounds or disease incurred
in his service.
1t is thought probable that the military
offices in this city will all be vacated in three
or four months at farthest. Some Of them
will be at an earlier period.
CiTY AssEssMENr.-The City Assessor,
Francis Ochs, Esq, has completed the work
Of taking the assessment, and turned over
his books to the city authorities for equali-
zation. These books come from his hands
in most perfect order, accompanied with
carefully drawn plat book, which is deci-
ded improvement on any hitherto made.
The most extensive assessment made in one
entry and Of one mans property, is that Of
the south half Of the block on which Lee
Claire Row is situated. That property,
owned BY Mr.. vielc, is assessed At $lOO, OOo.
Mr.. Ochs has reduced the unknown list
to four eutries-a feat never before approxi-
mated in the history Of the CITY,
SAD AccrpExr.-MAN KILLED.-Thls A.
ternoon. at about half past four o'clock =
man who has been employed At the depot IN
cutting wood for the Railroad Company.
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