The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-29
Council Proceedings.
Z Council CHAMBER,
MONDAY EVENING, May %

MONDAY EVENING, May q.
Council met pursuant to adjourn
ment His Homer Mayor Baker pre-
siding. Councilmen present--Messrs.
Hunnel, Dean, Smith, Terrence, Wilt
shire, Miller, Reitz, and Heilman.
Minutes of previous meeting read
and approved. -
The following bills were allowed
and ordered to be paid: Parsons, SEQ
vile & Co., feed bucket, &c.; Venue
man & Benin, for rope, 81 So; Ed
ward Haney, cleaning and repairing
ciistern, $17 90; S. McClain, cleaning
eulvert, 81 CO.; Durham & Snyder,
street pins, $28 05; VIM. Green, two
months salary as Wharfmaster, 800;
Boyle & Smith, for wood, So %; John
Gabril, work on street, 81; John +.
Glover, for fencing, SO so; Peter
Zapp and Others for labor on streets,
$152 %; police. bill, $140; Liant &
Bro, on contract, 81 300; John Mer-
chant, special police at election, S.;
Stokely 4 Dean, for earth, $43 81.
The report of the committee APP
pointed to purchase the southeast
half of Lot 149, Donation Enlarge
nient, was received and .concurred in.
/. The price to be paid is $4 300.
Mrs. Grothe asked permission for
frame building to remain, that had
been erected contrary to the City Or
dinance. The request was granted,
after which notice was given that no
more motions of a like character
would be entertained. ~
The Upper Market report. showed
that $63 80 had been received from
soutside collections for the. Two weeks
ending this date.
The Wharf report showed that 40
steamboats, had landed and paid
wharfage for the week ending with
this date, to the amount of $195 90.
Various reports from the City Mar
shal, for filling lots, were presented,
accepted, ordered entered, and the
amounts ordered assessed up against
the owners of the property.
Various petitions to the County Com
missioners, asking the annexation of
certain territory, to the city, We're
signed by the Councilnen.
Various sidewalk reports were read
ordered entered, and the costs as
sessed up against property owners.
Notice was given that prosecution
| had been commenced against the city
for allowing the upper market house
| to remain where it now is. The
.Councilmen and His Honor, the
/ Mayor, gave bond in the sum of $50
! each TO answer in the case.
It was ordered that Governor Ba-
ker and Judge Iglehart be employed
as counsel to defend the city.
i Reports of the cisterns) were re-
ceived and ordered fled.
of water situated near Armstrong
factory be allowed to remain for the
space of three weeks, which request
was granted FL FL <s.a 800
Philip Decker presented the peti-
1 ton of Mr.. James Mullen, praying
that his soap factory, below Pigeon
Creek, on the Ohio River, might re-
main, which was referred for furthel
consideration.
"A petition was presented asking
that William Street and corner Of st
John Street be brought to proper
grade; and that a. pond of water. IL
that vicinity be drained. The petition
= was referred to committee CONSISTING
of Messrs. Terrence and Dean.
Mr. Lavender asked permission tt
occupy a portion of the Lamascc
wharf with the Evansville Dry Dock
The request was granted for the pres
ent, or till such time as. the Counci
shoUld give notice to the contrary.
q On. motion of Mr. Hunnell, tn,
street railway ordinance was taken III
and passed to second reading. TIL,
ordinance provides that the right o
way shall be granted for the full tern
of fifty years from the passage of tn,
ordinance, with certain restrictions
among which are: 1st, That the Com
pany shall complete one mile and
, half OF the railway as early as Janu
airy lst, 1868, and another mile agains
the LIST of January, 1870. = Is
Mr.. Reltz was in favor of grantins
a liberal charter, but he thought tina
! fifty years was too long. He stated
that he had examined the ordinanc,
OF Cincinnati, which was not so liber
al. He, Of course, did not expec
such terms would be acceptable to tn,
company proposing to build the rail
. ways IN this city but in other respect
he thought the charter was too liberal
Mr.. Chandler spoke in favor of tn,
ordinance He had taken pains tC
, enquire into the probability of tn,
railway paying. AS far as he was ablt
to learn, no street railways were pay
ing now If such stock did not pa.
in Cincinnati, it could not be ex-
pected to pay here in Evansville. NJ