The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-15
City Council Proceedings.
COUNCIL CHAMBER


City Council Proceedings. =
Nsa COUNCIL CHAMBER,
Monday Evening, May IA =
Council met pursuant to adjourn
ment, His Honor, Mayor Baker, pre-
siding.
| Councilmen present-Messrs. Hun
! mel, Dean, Mills, Smith, Wiltshire,
| Terrence, Heilman, Miller and Reitz.
Minutes of previous meeting read
and approved. 9I
The following bills were allowed
and ordered paid:
Police bill, $140; VIM. Payne, for
hauling steam fre-engine, $40 80;
Straub 4 Son, for brass castings, $50;
I M. Archer, for coal, So; Elijah
Perkins, salary steam fire engineer.
800; Altering & Co.. for lumber,
$53 80; j. b. Johnson, for services as
contract physician, $25; VIM. John
| son, forremoying dead animals, ST 10;
Thomas Bullen, salary for hauling
steam fre-engine, $50; Conrad New
man, salary as laEp-lighter, $40 Peter
Zapp and others, for work on streets.
$72 80; Bach u Esslinger, for adver-
Using, $S5 90; j b. Mesker, for
stoye-pipe, &c. Sc 10; Hartman q
Young, for hooks, poles, &C., for
cleaning inlets, So so; Charles Grier.
for cleaning in1ets. ST s50.As -
Upper Market report for outside
collections, $24 35. 98le fos
Wharf report from May LIST to May
10th, $416 80
A petition of thirds Of the citi-
zens owning property on Fourth Street,
near the meat market house, asking
that the order for the removal of the
market house be rescinded, was read,
and, on motion the prayer of the petit
TONERS was granted. -
A cistern report, showing the con
ditlon of the water in the various els
terms IN the city, was read and or
dered entered. u q ssafrxg
The bond of A. T. Whittlesey, City
Surveyor, was received, approved, and
ordered to- be fled. s.syh..eu.rsa
(. The Evansville Journal Company
were granted permission to erect a
lamp post on Locust Street, between
First and Water. s.
CHI. Butterfeld. was allowed $12
for procuring signatures to the petit
ton praying that the market house.
should not be removed. IL
On motion it was ordered that no.
tice should be given that application
would be made,to the Board of County
Commissioners, asking privilege to
annex certain territory tothe city of
Evansville. IA
Permission was granted Mr.. He'd
drich to transfer his license to retail
spurious liquors to Richardson & Go.
George Adank was granted per
mission to build stairway to a house
on Lott los, Second Street, between
Main and Locust Streets.
A petition asking an order for the
grading ofparts of Seventh and Eighth
Streets, in the vicinity of First, Ave
nue., so that a pond of water be filed
IN that vicinity, was deferred one week
for the report of the City SURVEYOR.
w. IL: johnson asked to lease that
part OF the landing on the Ohio River
I from the Indiana Mills to the mouth
OF Pigeon Greek, for which he pro-
posed to pay 1925 per year. The
proposition was rejected, and the
Wharf Master was ordered ia collect
wharfage from all the boats living
or landing there.
A petition, asking the construction
of sidewalk on Maple Street, between |
Secondj!nd Third Streets, was deferred |
one week.
D. Il. Dannan was granted permits
sion to erect a frame building on Car
penter Street.
John Jarvis was granted permits
sion to remove frame building from
Main Street, and set it on Locust
Street, Lot B, subdivision of lot. III,
Sycamore Street. 81 lla401J
Various claims for damages for ex-
tending streets, were received, and or
dered fled $3.50 ~ -s
The City Marshal, on the petition
Of citizens interested, was ordered to
give notice to the owner of the estab-
lishment used for boiling dead ami
mails, situated on the Chic River, near
the coal mines, that it had been de-
clared a nuisance, and must be re-
moved.
Various orders for sidewalk i'm
provements were passed, all on and in
the vicinity of Sixth, Chestnut and
Cherry Streets. u