The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-16

!ue ieBular WeeGlnB or COUNCIL was neld lae
evening. Present-The Mayor; Aldermen Ravene
Wragg, O'Neill, Willis, steinmeyer, Olney, Oakei
Honour, Earle, Courtenay, Marshall, Enston, Viii
den, Cosgrove, Small and Pringle.
A number Of applications for Tavern License
/ Nos. l and were presented and referred to tn
/ Committee On Licenses.
communication from the Board Of Commis
sioners Of the Orphan House was read, stating th
officers elected, &C. Received as information.
communication from the Board Of Firemae
ters, nominating Mr.. C. P. Aimar to fill the va
cancy occasioned by the resignation Of MIR. Jung
blutl, was received as information.
The resignation Of mir. a. N. Pundt was &C
ccpted
the Poor l..4s received.
petition from Mr. J. L. Yates, praying That I
pavement be laid before bis house in Water street
was referred to the Mayor, who was having
several pnvements relid.
The Report of the 'aptain Of Police for Decem
ber was received as information.
The Mayor stated that he had received q lette
from Huntsville, which said that there would be
meeting of the stockholders Of the railroad, ani
Mr Campbell, ono of the city proxies, being dead
new election was necessary.
The petition of the street city laborers for In
creased pay, was referred to the Committee on Re-
trenchment and Relief.
The Committee on Licences reported favorably
mings and Samuel Burns. Report adopted.
The Committee on Retrenchms mt and Relief, r
regard to the petition of Eliza Lee requesting tha
her son be placed in the Asylum, consider that he
is not crazy, and if he should become worse the
City Hospital is amply sufficient.
The same Committee, on the petition OF Ed.
Laftte, ON the payment Of taxes recommended
that the same bo adopted.
The Committee on Lighting the City on the
11ak
not relying on the theory, they had examined the
practice; and in the Main Guard House, the Mills
House. and the Daily News Office, this patent had
been tested, and it was proved by the metre to
Lave lessened the consumption OF gas 39 per cent;
therefore, it was
Resoiued, That the Committee be empowered to
make arrangements with the Gas Company and
with MIR. Poznanski to light one thousand street
lars, and also to apply his principle to the public
buildings. -5
that the demand for moro light was imperative.
There arc now four hundred and twenty-five
street lamps, and under the new principle it would
be advisable to increase the number.
Alderman Marshall moved postponement Of
the subject to tho next regular meeting.
Roper Fund.- reported that the petition Of memo
rialists be not granted
Alderman Wragg offered o minority report and
moved that consideration be suspended. Carried.
Alderman Lum Ol dCcOUuL6,
presented several bills, &C. Adopted.
The Mayor mado q report Of the facts and cir
cumstances connected with the death of Thos.
Frean. The verdict Was read, and the consure of
Jury But one witness had been examined, who was
porter in an opposite store, and not on the spot
at the time. The circumstances were such as
completely exonerated the city from blamo.
Alderman Wragg presented report OF the past
two weeks from the Keeper Of the Tidal Drains.
Bill to establish the Office OF City Steam Engi-
neer came up for second reading, but, on motion
Of Alderman Enston, was postponed.
A Bill to establish the Office Of City Civil Enei-
noer came up for second reading. On motion Of
Alderman Marshall, the Bill was postponed to the
next regular meeting.
On motion OF Alderman Marshall, Alderman
Willis was nominated to fill the vacancy in the
proxies to the NJ. & G. r. R., occasioned by the
death of Mr.. Campbell.
The bonds of tho different city officers having
been executed and presented, we're approved.
Council then went into an election for Chimney
Contractors, which resulted as follows: In the
Lower Wards, Mr. III. Nixon in the Upper Wards,
J. l.. Roumillat.
A petition from S. D. Kirk and j. II. Eason, resi-
dents of the Upper Wards, asking that Hampstead
Mall be enclosed was referred to the Committee on
Public Institutions and Grounds.
Alderman Pringle, from tho Committee on En-
crossed Acts, reported an Ordinance to establish
tho Office Of German Teacher in the High School
Of Charleston. Tho Ordinance was ratified by the
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