The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-27
CITY INTELLIGENOE.
iron ADDIFIONAL LOCAL Irnns SEE OUTSIDE rAeEs..


Cry Councils met yesterday afternoon.
select Brdnot-Presiding Sperng In the chair
An invitation from the committee of Fenian5
having in charge the funeral memorial proposed
TO takei pace on New Years Day was accepted.
The ordinance appropriating $l36,90O for the
support OF Girard College Tor 1868 was passed.
The bill merging the Departments of Markets
and Wharves and Lanlngs with that of City
Property was amended to take effect on January
l, 1868, instead OF February 49, aud was then
passed. The Law Committee reported an ordi-
nance creating the Department of the City Car.
penter, providing for a carpenter at q salary OF
$4,000, clerk AZ $1,000, aud messenger at $500,
was postponed. The bill from Common Council
providing that all warrants presented at the
City Treasurer's Office shall be stamped with
the date and number, and to be afterwards paid
in rotation, was laid over under the rules. Tne
following bills from Common Council were
read:-Allowlng Company b, Fire Houaves, the
use OF the hall over the KensingtoH Water Works
for drill purposes. Transferring $4,000 to the
city ice-bOat trustees. IusUructing the Commit
tee on Poor, relative to the emUoymeut OF
pauper labor to remove the snow and ice from the
foCtways Of the city property. These were con-
CURED in. The ordinance relative to placing
stoves in the new court house, instead of the
present heatlng apparatus, was postponed, the
contractors insisting that the heaters were i'm
properly managed and that they could make
the heat satisfactory. Tue bill appropriatug
1904, ,773 80 for the support of the Pol &c Depart
ment for 1868 was taken up. motion to strike
out the item OF $4,000 for the buildlug OF Il new
passed bnaly.
Common Branch. - The supplementary bill
from Select Council, fixing the salary of the
Chief Inspector OF Steam Boilers at $4,000, and
TeQues sting further legislation to all the Coml
mission in the work assigned them, was amended,
the salary being nXed at $1,000, and one of the
sections in reference to fees stricken out. The
bill then passed. The bulls from Select Councl,
authorizing the mining of coal on the land of
the Girard estate, and to make an approprl9-
lion out of the income of the GIrard estate,
were called up and concurTed in. The subject
Of paid fire. department was then taken up,
and the majority and minority reports were
read, The hIst report contends for a paid de.
partment, while the latter recommends the
creati ID of \ commission 10 manage and control
the present system. The consideration of this
subject was indefinitely postponed. A bill
making new election division in the Twenty
sixth Ward was passed. Adjourned.
THE GERMAN SOCIETY of Pennsylvania, for
the relief of distressed Germans held its one
hundred and third annual session Yesterday, at
the Hall OF the Society. in Seventh street, near
Chestnut, Mr., William J. Horstmann, the Presi-
dent, presiding. Quite large attendance of the
mem bers were present, Tue annual reports OF
The Board of Managers, Treasurer Librarian,
Agent, School Committee, Historical Committee,
and Special Building Committee we're read and
adopted. The reports are quite vouminous,
embracing much interesting matter. A number
OF new members were elected, and the election
OF officers for the ensuing year was held result
Ing as iolloWs:-
President William j. Horstmann.
Vice President-Loreuz Herbert.
secretaries-J. Hen and A. Kusenberg.
Solictor-F. Heyer.
TreasuTer-L. GrosshOf.
Directors - George Doll, Joseph Kinke,
Joseph NJ. Reichard. Il. Schafer, Frederick
steeb, and Jacob Zaun.