The national Republican., 1867-05-10
!. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
SPECIAL snssIoN.
Hoard Of Aldermen.

In the several wards 10 afford better facilities
Tor the voters at the coming municipal election.
Mr. Given, from the joint committee pre-
yiously appointed on the subject, reported bill
TO divide the several wards Of the city into cleo.
| tion precincts.
The bill having been road, Mr.. Given stated
that u was the unanimous consent Of the Joint
Mr.. Tait also favored the report. tY.F
Mr.. Barr offered q concurrent resolution as q
substitute for the bill, as follows:
Resofped, DC, That committee Of three mem.
bers Of the Board Of Aldermen, and three NOM
bsrs Of the Board Of Common Council, be ap-
pointed to confer with the registry judges, and
In onjunction with them to request the Judges
Of the Supreme Court Of the District Of Colum.
bia to appoint three additional commissioners Of
election In each Of the several siectiOn precincts
Mr.. Barr stated that the concurrent resolution
presented, in his judgment, tho most feasible
voting. ~ I
The Chair thought differently, and stated that
IL would be necessary TO have additional pre-.
cincts In order 10 secure additional judges. ..'
Mr.. Barr thought with the Chair that the bill
reported by the committee was the best plan n
there was time to carry Il out. .sIl d
Mr.. Given objected TO the concurrent resoiu.
tion saying that II would practically defeat the
oh3sct desired TO DO accomplished. He believed
tHt with sufficient additional clerical force the
55.try judges could prepare tho lists for the
sfiIs people il iSs sss.rsi w.rss would jus. hu
tfy these boards In incurring tho extra expense
Of the work.
Mr.. Gulisk suggested that the lower Board wa,
already considering the bill, and had already
| made several amendments to IT, and suggested
that would DO well to wait and see what
On motion the Board took q recess for fifteen
minutes. . ~. 1... L.HL-
On reassemblng the bill was received from the
lower Board with certain amendments. The
amendments are to make Sixth street the divid-
Ing line Of the new precincts In the Seventh ward;
strike out the third and fourth sections Of the
bill, and making new section as follows: THAT
II shall be the duty Of the Mayor to obtain from
tho judges Of election one or more complete
copies Of the names and residences Of all persons
who shall have been duly registered and have q
right 10 vote In each election precinct and fur.
nish copies of the same to the commissioners Of
election TO guide them In receiving the votes Of
the electors" . ."F
Mr. Turton moved to amend tho second sec.
tion Of the bill BY making six precincts In the
First ward, and stated In the same conn tion
that in his opinion II would be impossible to get
all the votes polled In one day with less than
that number Of precincts in that ward.
The Chair suggested that II would be disas.
trous to carrying out the objects sought to be
obtained In the bill by imposing any additional
labor other than that already proposed to be i'm
posed as 1t now stands.
The question recurring upon adopting the
amendment, It was lost, under call Of tho yeas
and nays, as follows: .... ''.
YEA-Mr. Turton-1.
NAYs-Messrs. Barr, Gulek, Given, Lewis,
| MoCathran, TAFT, and the President-7
Mr. Given opposed the action OF the lower
Board in striking out the fourth section Of tho
bill in relation the d. ties Of the election COM
| missioners.
| Tho Chair stated that tho provisions of the
section referred to are already In force in the
present law, and arc therefore not necessary In
this act.
Mr.. Turton moved to amend the bill so as to
provide for three precincts on the north side Of
Pennsylvania avenue, in the First ward Lost.
The bill, as passed by the lower Board, was
then road third time, and passed.
Mr.. Given offered the following resolution:
ResoiUsd, That q committee Of three members
OF each Board bo appointed to confer with the
judges Of election for this city aud request their
cooperation in facilitating and making opera
tive the action Of the Councils as expressed In
the passage Of the act entitled IAN act to divide
the several wards Of the city into election pre-.
cincts.'
The resolution was considered and adopted;
and the committee appointed on the part Of this
Board, consists Of Messrs. Given, Barr and 7. Z.
Lloyd,
The Board then adjourned.
Board OF Common Council.
Ths Board Of Common Council met in special
session last evening, pursuant to adjournment;
all the members present, except Messrs. Bryan,
Marehe, simms, Stewart, and Walker.
Tho president laid before tho Board q message
from the Mayor, transmitting Q communication
from W. D, Davidge, esq, in relation to his COM
pensation under joint resolution In relation to
wharf sites, approved November 10, 1865. Re.
ferred.
Mr. Bakor, from the joint committee appointed
last Monday evening to take into consideration
the question Of an additional number Of election
precincts, reported bill to divide tho several
wards Of the city into election precinctsi which
was read twice.
1.-THE bill was published in full in the REruDLI-
Mr.. Wright moved to strike out the words
!" Seventh street" in the clause defining tho
boundaries Of the precincts Of the Seventh ward,
and insert "Sixth street, so as to make + and
Sixth streets the dividing lines In that ward;
which was agreed to.
Mr.. Moore Gubmitted the following as a sub
stitute for section 3: "That II shall be the duty
Of the Mayor to obtain from the judges Of cleo.
tion one or more complete copies Of tho names
and residences Of all persons who shall have been
duly registered, and have a right to vote In each
election precinct, and furnish copies Of the came
W eho oonmitbionerb OF eloctl0n TO Ruluo tnom
in receiving the votes of the electors" which
was agreed to.
Mr.. Wright moved to strike out tho fourth
section for the reason that tho provisions Of that
section were already provided for In existing
| laws which was agreed to.
The bill and the amendments were debated at
| considerable length, after which the bill was
passed without q division
An amendment was submitted by Mr. Peugh
70 tho Dill, before its passage, to add, ''and the
Mayor be, and he Is hereby, authorised and
directed TO- cause this act to be printed in hand
bills Of large type and posted in every portion Of
the city and sum sufficient to pay the expense
hereof be, and the same is hereby, appropriated
out Of the general fund"
Mr.. Anderson also moved to amend the amend.
ment of Mr.. Peugh by adding, "That the Mayor
be requested to have printed daily In the news
papers Of the city the boundaries OF the election
precincts in the different wards at least two weeks
previous to the coming June election"
The President suggested that tho amendments
were not germane to the bill, but could DO acted
| on separately.
The amendments of Mr.. Peugh and Mr.. An.
derson were then referred to the Committee on
| Elections.
The bill TO set the curbstones and paye the
footways and CUTTERS on the west side Of Second
| street west, between II and I streets north, and
the bill to set the curbstonss and pave the foot
ways and cutters on the west side Of Nineteenth
street west, between X and L streets north were
returned from the Board Of Aldermen with