The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-21

which viii require week or ten davs, further
ume They therefore report the following:
Resolved, That the Oity Controller is hereby au-
thor!zed TO transfer from item seven i'm the ammo.
p1ietion to the Board OF Health for the year 1897
10 me following items, viz:
To item 1, For the salaries Of ten sanitary in
hpectors Tor three months, 1885, for the salary Of
one at assistant clerk, $780, in all S2i5O.
To item g. For the salaries OF ten permit clerks
for three months, 1920.
To Item s. For disinfectants, $500; for the care
and treatment of cholera patients in the event Of
cholera, 1880, in all s2l3O.
The resolution was agreed TO.
Mr Potter read in place an ordinance empower
ing lhe Park Commission for the purpose of ex-
lending Paramount park to take possession Of all
that plot OF ground lying between the Spring Gar
den water Works and Columbia bridge and the
Reading Railroad and the SchuylkiiI Agreed to-
Mr smith read in place an ordinance making
an appropriation Of three hundred dollars to the
Ooroner for the recovery of the remaining bodies
lying under the debris caused by the late explo-
sion in Samson street. Agreed to.
Nr Harper offered resolu ution that the assistant
clerks Of Councils be instructed hereafter to fur
nish the newspapers of the city with copy Of the
Mr. Harper said that the debates were published
when they were OF no in terest TO the public.
MT Hetzell moved to postpone for the present.
Mr. Hetzell offered the following:
Whereas by the act of February 2, 1856, consoli-
dating the city of Philadelphia 1t is provided that
.'no member Of Councils during the term for which
he is elected shall hold any office employment,
herein created or provided for, Of municipal
character" and by the act of March 49, 1853, IL is
further provided that "no member of Council of
said city shall be eligible TO any office, employ
ment or agency directly or indirectly chosen by
Councils either branch of them, during the term
for which he shall have been elected TO Oouncils;
And whereas it is manIfestly the Intention of
said acts TO prevent the members Of Councils from
using their positions as such to the obtaining,
upon resignation therefrom, Of any such office,
employment or agency mentioned in said acts in
asmuch section as of the Consolidation act
already expressly forbids a salared officer, under
Councils from being member thereof;
And whereas, r. A. Van Oleve, Esq, has re-
Gently been appointed Assistant Solicitor for the
city, an office created by these Councils, under
thorty of the act of Consolidation (section 15), du
ring the term for which he had been elected
member of Select Council said appointment hav-
ing been procured and made upon the recommen-
datioa Of number Of his colleagues, while an-
other appointment to he said position had been
rejected by the same influences and for the same
purpose prior to the resignation of the said f. A.
Van OleVe; therefore,
Resolved, By the Select and Common Councils
of the city OF Philadelphia, That in the opinion of
these Councils F. A. Van Oleve, Esq, Is not ELL
gbe to the position of Assistant City Solicitor, to
which he has been recently appointed.
The resolution was discussed until the hour Of
adjournment.