The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-11
Meeting Of Council.

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Meeting Of Council.
The regular monthly meeting Of City
Council was held last evening. In the
Second Branch, the President being
absent, Mr.. VIM. Miller was called to
the chair.
Members present: AchisoR, Amick,
Baer, Battelle, Clark, Cocayne, Darrah,
Eoff, Hamilton, Brockunier, Shauley,
White, Wheeler, Keim, Nolan, Miller,
and Yenke.
The minutes of the previous meeting
were read and approved.
Report on accounts amounting to
S7231s was read and adopted. Report
of j. NJ. Bickel, Commissioner, in rela-
tion to receipts and expenditures con-
nected with the Peninsular Cemetery,
was referred to the committee on Gem
etery. The Street Commissioners re-
port for November, together with bills
amounting to 1850, was received, and
the appropriations asked for granted.
The report of the Superintendent of
Water Works for last month, presenting
bills to the amount of Ss66.l3, was read
and approved. The petitions of various
citizens for reduction of water rents
were granted; other applications for
reduction were refused.
The Committee on Streets and Alleys
reported in favor of opening Centre
street to Fulton street. The report was
approved. The same Committee re-
ported adversely to Fulton street i'm
provement. The proposition to cover
the cutters at the south end of Market
street in the Second Ward, which had
been adopted in the Second Branch,
was sent to the First Branch for con-
currence, aud then disapproved and
returned to the Second Branch for
action was read, and on motion, the
action of the First Branch was concur
red in.
The reports of committee on Appeals
recommending the correction of various
assessments was read, and with some
amendments was adopted.
The petition of Reid & Co., asking
for reduction of water rent was referred
to committee on Water Works for re-
port.
The petition of Louis Weisgaoer ask
ing reduction of tax for 1866 was re-
ceived and laid on the table.
The petition of the citizens of the
First Ward for a crossing on Main
street, at the foot of Mcclure street, was
referred to the committee on Streets and
Alleys for report. ..-y
The petition of the residents of North
Wheeling, asking that a lamp-post be
placed at the South end of the bridge
over Jonathan's Gut was granted, and
committee on Lights instructed to CON-
ply with the prayers of the petitioners
The petition of George Wheiner for
second class license for Coffee House in
the Fourth Ward was granted. The pc,
tition of William White to be allowed
to transfer Coffee House license to Mi
chael Walsk ives granted. The petition
of V. B. Mathews for reduction of water
rents was recsived and referred to com.
mittee on Water works for report. The
petition of thinner and others for cross.
ing OH First and Chapline streets wa:
received and granted. .s
The resolution asking the West Vir'
ginia Legislature to so amend the City
Charter as to authorize tho municipal
authorities to permit the building o.
coal railways through the city was
adopted, and the Mayor and the Presi
dent of the Second Branch were empow'
cred to make the application. .. ~
A resolution was offered asking the
appointment of new Registrar for th'
Fourth Ward. 1t provided for the
appointment of . Joint Committee Il
wait on the Board of Registration anG
make the application in question. Th'
resolution was amended, on Mr.. Eotfi
motion, 81 as to include oil the Ward
IN which negligent omissions of names
from the Registry, similar to thos'
made in the Fourth Ward, have occur
red, and thus amended was adopted.
A resolution, by Mr.. Hughes, that th'
Mayor and President of Second Brancl
be authorized to appoint committee
to distribute coal to the poor during tn
winter, was passed. Et-
4 A resolution instructipg the commit
tee on Lights to place a lamp-post oil
the corner of Seventh and Qninc,
streets, also on the corner Of Fifth an
Union streets, was adopted.
A resolution instructing the commit
tee on Fire Department to sell all th
old apparatus belonging to the variou
fire companies was adopted.
A Aresolution appointing . committe
of two from each Branch to settle wit
. the heirs of. Joseph CaldwelPs estate
was received from First Branch an