The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-06-21
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CITY AFFAIRS.

A special meeting of the City Council was
held last evening.
IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN.
Adams & Paul were licensed as inn-holders;
Michael Smith as a vctualler; M. Pot as
lnn-holder; l.. b. +. ZtkOv as inn-holder; John
T. Davis as inn-holder; e. w. Hunt as inn
holder and A. +. Barnum as victualer.
&C. Hayes was appointed special police
man, without pay, and Joseph o. Gentleman
as regular policeman in place of Otis Puring-
ton, resigned.
The Joint Special Committee, who have had
under consideration the Auditors estimates of
appropriations for the ensuing year, reported
the same with amendments, increasing the sum
for sidewalks to $75,OOO which is $4,000 more
than the estimate of the Auditor; and striking
ont the appropriation of $10,500 for a market.
The report was accepted.
An order was passed making appropriations
Ior the current year amounting to $762 ,06112,
ana assessing tax upon the polls and estates
OF $6S5 ,o6l.l2. The tax last year was $741,-
| Petition of Henry Kingsbury. ESQ. Super
lntendent for the erection of the new buildings
| for Custom House and Post Office, praying for
the use OF the city lot ON Market street for the
| purpose OF preparing materials for said build
I ings, was read, and it was voted to grant the
prayer OF the petitioner.
| Mr.: hIngsbury agrees to vacate the lot at
any time upon thirty days notice from the city
authorities ~
r An order was passed authorizing the City
Treasurer to hire. temporarily. a sum not ex-
ceeding $5o,O0O, in anticipation of the taxes. y
| The Committee on Judicial Proceedings re-
ported in favor of paying Octavia M. Beckett
u ais. the sum of $75 for damages to their
property on Franklin street, by tearing down
an adjoining wall, and an order was passed to
| that effect. tIilGA- -ss - 81
An order was passed to pay Peter Small $25
addltlonal to the amount awarded him for land
taken In the extension of Federal street.
| Permission was granted Delano & Quinn to
| erect two and a half story house on Poplar
| street; Horace Harvey to erect a one story
house with brick basement on Middle street;
Manuel Peterson to erect q work shop, Is feet
| posts, on Union street. ~. &
Petition of Charles Jordan g. ais. for the
widening of the lower part of Park street was
referred to the Committee ON Streets &c.
An or,ler was passed directing t Commit
tee on Streets &c. to widen that portion of
| Park street from York to Commercial street to
the same width of that portion of the street
above this point, if they deem the same expe-
dent. ~ =. II, .Ile a IN 9
Remonstrance of Jacob Mcclellan g. ais
against the proposed grading OF Congress street
at East Commercial street, was read, and laid
upon the table, in order to give the remOn-
strants an opportunity to be heard in the mat
ter, if they so desire.
The ordinance in relation to meetings of the
City Council, passed to be engrossed in the
lower Board, was refused a passage to be en-
crossed in this Board. -
William Il. Gould was elected Gas Agent on
the part OF this Board. The Common Council
| cOncurred.
The Joint Special Committee upon the cele-
bratiOn of the 4th Of July reported, recon-
mending National salutes to be fred and the
Dells rung morning. uoOn and evening. That
there Do an grafton delivered, and the Decla.
| ration and Emancipation Proclamation be read
In the morning, and that there be an open-air
concert by the Portland Bond in the evening
sn 9 not to exceed $500 to be appropriated
for the purposes of the celebrati0n.t The re-
port was accepted, and an order was passed
apprOpriating a sum not exceeding $500 for the
purposes of the celebration. NJ ~ lal'b
Remonstrance of r. A. Deblois s, ais, also,
remonstrance of Oliver Gerrish & ais. against
cutting down Congress street from Munjoy
street to East Commercial street, and praying
that the present grade may be abolished and q
new one ordered, was referred in concurrence
to the Committee on Streets Sc. q 4 90
The remOnstrance Of Jacob Mcclellan & ais.
against the same was taken from the table and
referred to the same Committee
subsequently twas voted to form q Conyen-
ton Of both Boards in order to afford the re-
monstrants above named an opportunity to be
heard.
| - 80 al e In CONVENTION. se Fh~4e
| Both Boards having assembled in Coriyen-
ton, William H. Fessenden, Esq. addressed it
in opposition to the further cutting down of
Congress street, and in favor of revision of
the grade OF that street from Munjoy street to
East Commercial street, cOntending that the
present grade if carried out would destroy the
Promenade. E ~ -Ss ~ ~
William Curtis, Esq. spoke in favor of cut
ting down the street to the proposed grade, and
contended that the business interests of the
city required it.
After brief speeches from DR.. Robinson and
Mr.. Mari of the Common Council against
further cutting down the street, the matter
subsidized, being in the hands of the Committee
on Streets &C.
Thomas Condor was elected Surveyor of
lumber.
The Convention was then dissolved, and the
, Board of Aldermen returned TO their room and
adjourned. E4tsRs.