The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-23
Council Proceedings.
2 COUNCIL CHAMBERS,
,vANSyuIE. April % IS6'

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Present, His Honor, Mayor Baker, and
Councifmen Miller, Dean, Muhlhausen,
Reitz, kolie, Wiltshire, Heilman, and
Absent, Councilman Cook.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved. &
The following bills We're read and al
lowed: ssfss
Peter Zapp, ct al, work on streets, sl72 IS !:
Da NAM McT cagsh pad sa7a 5
Orphan Asylum allowance. $50; A. T..
nsh Xisn Mis Poce sIs VIM
Williams, Wharfmaster, $50; Thomas Sci
pr1tz, hauling engine, SIS; Nicholas Rich
ert, earth, sll Is; q. Mnrsenna, steel tape
Klein, as Wharfmaster, $l4.
& Rafroaa ' s Be pe n3S
Thessordlnance concerning dogs" sub
mitted by the mayor, was taken up and
fixed as the time for the ordinance to go
into effect. The price of License for dog
was fixed at So for one year, from the first
of January, 1857, to January lst, 1868. The
license for a bitch was fixed at SO for one
year. 80. ss5e5
fixed at fifty cents each.
Dogs to be muzzled upon order of Coun-
Gil to be fnuzzied for a period of not les
than thirty nor more than ninety days.
The fine for keeping dog without taking
out a license to be not less than Sic or more
than $50.
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-cOunterfeiting checks, the fine to be not
less than So or more than $50.
! y For Violating any other secs ion the fine
TO be notless than SO. or more than $50.
The .propr1ety OF poisoning dogs was dis
cussed, Kraft, Kolie, Muhlhausen, Miller,
man and Wiltshire could see no differ
eDce between poison and shooting, If ju-
diciously applied.
laid over I'll the ieth Of May, after which
the ordinance was unanimously passed.
Ordered that the ordinance be published
in the two English and two German news
!. The bonds ofConrad Newman, as lamp
lighter. with James Wiltshire as security,
was submitted and approved.
The Mayor submitted an ordinance
designating what articles shall be licensed
and not returned for specific tax.
The report Of the Central Market showed
Sc 10 collected.
The wharf report showed 81 boats land
ed and Il passed without landing. Total
collections S3l7 80. -
The report of the Upper Market showed
S36 on outside collections and 81 from sale
The Mayor submitted an exhibit of final
SestlsT e 1p,si SEltH Philip Kline wharf
An order was passed taking Younglove's
Enlargement inteF4les city. ksa - =
The Mayor submitted the following com
closing a report 81 a survey made OF
Railroad line on each side of the river
from this citsF,tO Henderson: -4aExs
10. R.,
GENERAL OFFICE, ~ S's|
4a -ESASSyILLEss Ind.i "A pri y. 1857 J
r To The Honorable, The lzagoys and C0RtReu Of
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have the honor to submit copy efIthe
report made to me of a survey which I
from from the F Ferry House, Opposite the City,
r. r. Depot at Henderson, and from the
ferry Opposite Henderson, on the Indiana
side, to the e. & G. r. r. Depot at Evans
the highest water levels of the late. flood.
in the Ohio, the highest in forty years,
and proximate estimate of the amount
of earth work necessary for a Railroad
remban kment-o each surveyed side. A4,,r
L. The difference in kembankment and
other earth work on the two sides is not
very material.g But the difference in the
distance is three miles and a half in favor
of the line, on the Kentucky side Of the
would add, this fact of difference in
distance forever. settles the question
OF where this RAILROAD, when built, must
ticoe sbonab the shnp ro PENN be
greatly more expensive, no Railroad Com
pany would ever dareto construct a Rail-
great line Of which the Evansville, Hen
derson and Nashville sisalroad is to-oe
: Il had intended to submit my views on
the PROPOSE ion of Gen. Boyle ior the City
subscription butlest possibly y might DO
nyni aeeiine az pressnt 10 90 so, az leaso
ton of his plans from Gen. Boyle. w
' cry respectfully, JNo. 1NGLE., JI- =.
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.John 1i,gfe. III, President and ssaperinten1-
estes Ts
have to report the result of a random
-dsrsois ..'s K ttsst siie Of the oSIo
River aad from HentserSo d to Evansville,
on the IndiaAa side. on the 18th and 18TH
CoinfllefIciag az Il p3iitat Kings 9efry.al
opposite 4ATSin street. Evansville, running
nearly Hlusz south three miles, tffenceis
south .A4sf four i9e, fbas7sfee sodeAHTe
the Depot Grounds at tbe fOo5 zsfz fsai1Ffyal
Surekt ID ssntie rsoii tasfssing o1fsse Gi-tance
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