The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-12-08
City Affairs.


The regular monthly meeting of the Board
of Mayor and Aldermen was held last evening.
Jurors.-Bethuel Sweetsir, John Sparrow
and Benz. Stevens, Jr., were drawn as grand
Jurors for the Superior Court for the ensuing
year.
The joint standing committee on DAMAGES
for grading streets reported on the several De.
Middle street, between Franklin and India
streets, in favor of paying Alfred Robertson
$500, Mary j. d. Oates S75, James A. Foss
800, j. @ Brown, Administrator, $500. and
Isaac S. Stevens $50. The reports were &C.
cepted and orders passed to pay the several
persons named said amounts for damages sus-
tanned by them.
The joint standing committee on LAYING ont
new streets, on petitions of j. @. Brown, Ad-
ministrator, and George Warren, asking dam
ages for land taken in widening Middle street.
reported in favor of paying the petitioners rs
cents per square foot for the land taken for
that purpose. Reports accepted.
A communication from N. Webb, ESQ. chair
man of the School Committee, in relation to
the alarming prevalence of truancy. and re-
questing the appointment, for three months, of
additional truant officers, was read and laid
upon the table until there is meeting of both
Boards
The petition of F. w. Clarke, in relation to
damages for overlooking his land, SC. was
withdrawn from the Committee on Judicial
Proceedings and referred to the Committee on
Damages for Grading Streets.
The report of the committee on lavino ont
and establishing the line of Deerin9 street.
from State to Mellen street, was accented
Communication from the City Auditor. stat
ing the appropriation for water expenses"
for the purchase of hydrants, &c., is expended
was read, and an order was passed authorizing
the City Treasurer to hire $4,000 on one wear.
the same to be appropriated to the payment
for hydrants, and to be assessed in the taxes
for 186970.
An order was passed transferring $1,000 from
any appropriation from which it can be SHARED
to the appropriation for public BUILDINGS
Bill OF +. Z. Moody, for photographs OF
steamer Falmouth. was referred to the Com
mittee on Accounts with instruction to allow
the same.
License was granted E. H. Gillespie as inn.
holder and James Nettles as yictualer.
Petition OF j. O'Donnell ct ais that s. D.
Hall may be appointed constable was laid on
the table.
An order was passed to place a street lamp
on Fore street, in front of the Bethel Church.
Various papers from the Board of Common
Council were acted upon in concurrence.
An order passed authorizing the Overseers
OF the Poor to lease Tor a term of time not ex
ceedlng three years, certain lots of land on
Portland, Weymouth and Congress streets, for
the purpose of erecting barracks upon said
lots-the rents to be collected by the Overseers
and to be paid into the city Treasury to the
the poor.
The Board joined Aldermen Gould and Fes.
sender to the committee of conference upon
the petition of Chas Richardson for land tax
en- IN widening, Pearl street, the two Boards
having disagreed.
Petitions presented and referred; of Joseph L.
Baker for permission to keep fish market on
Oak street, between Free and Congress streets /;
of N K. Whorf & ais, that w. b. Chapman
may be permitted to keep fish market at SO
Of T.
auctloneer, laid on the table; of George Brock
q ais for street lamp on Park street near the
residence of Mrs. j. b. Carroll; of Moses Gould
Tor remuneration for land taken in filling up
Sebastopol of G. M. Elder for remuneration
Tor expenses in being obliged to raise his store
consequent upon raising the grade of Middle
street; OF James O'Reilly & Son for damages
caused their property by the filling I'D of
Hampshire street; of John D. Chase & al for
remuneration for damages caused by raising
tne grace OF fearl street,; of Moses Gould &
ais that Turner street be land out and extended
from Merrill street. to North street in lieu of
the laying out of Cumberland streetfrom North
street to East Commercial street; of EIiphalet
Elark, PRESIDENT Of Portland Union Railway
Back Bay Land Co., that the city will fill up
portion OF land at the foot of Smith street, and
tor the grading OF portion of the northerly
side OF Lincoln street between Smith and Mayo
streets; of the Building Loan Commissioners.
that their salaries may not be placed at less
ohau ~oVoj vi HuWdru w alUo JnaC the CITY Will
sell him portion of a lot of land on Congress-
street near the Casco Engine building.
Alderman Gould offered resolution that
the custom of permitting concerts to be held
in the City Hall on the Lords day does not
meet the approval of this Board, and we have
reason to believe it is repugnant to the con-
vlctlons OF our best citizens; and we, therefore,
request the Committee on Public Buildings
and the Mayor, to grant no further permits for
any such entertainments upon the Sabbath.
After some discussion upon the resolution,
in which Messrs. Gould, Deering, Fessenden
and the Mayor participated the resolution was
adopted by vote of yeas to nay, alderman
Fessenden)
An order passed directing the Committee on
Judicial Proceedings to report at the next reg
ular meeting on all matters which have been
committed to them
An order passed appointing the Mayor, and
as committee to cause all the records of the
civil Engineer to be completed upto the pres
ent time. Adjourned. =