The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-12-07
. City Affairs.

The regular monthly meeting of the Board
of Mayor and Aldermen WAS held last eve
ming.
Order OF notice was voted upon petition of
H. u Sioley to erect steam engine at Nos. Is
and II Union street.
:, hector McCannOn was appointed special po-
Iceman for the Grand Trunk depot, and Geo.
nan Tor the Portland Company-without pay
from the city.
An ordinance concerning registering of city
ponds was passed to be engrossed.
Leave to withdraw was voted on petition OF
Henry Fox for permission to sink a cesspool in
State street.
relating to the pump on the corner of Spring
ana South-that the order for replacing the
pump should have passage-was rejected
without count.
The Committee on Streets, on petition OF U:
Gard, tor extension of the grade OF Oxford
street, near Washington street, reported the
same to be nexpedient
Orders Passed-Establshing the new laying
out of Newbury street, from Market to Han
cock streets; extending Brattle street to Ken
nebec street; establishing the lines of Fore
street, between India and Mountfort streets;
to pay A. d. Brown and j. Coolidge $112.50
each, and l. Washburn, Jr., 98, for DANA
ges to their property by the new running of
Spring street; to pay Portland Mechanic Blues
$500 tor expenses incurred in fitting up their
armory; establishing the southerly line of Con-
grees street, from Vaughan street westerly;
authorizing a loan of $5075 on one year, the
chased last year; transferring $464. 80 from
the reserved fund to pay bills on the Vaughan
street sewer; 10 repair Hammond, Fox and
Anderson streets; to establish lamps posts and
lamps on the corner of Neal and Bracket
streets; on Spring street. between Thomas and
Emery streets; on the corner of Vesper street
and the Eastern Promenade; to paw John
PARIS and Chas. HI. Chase $500 for land taken
in 1866 in extending Federal street (this order
was passed by yeas AID. Curtis, Rounds,
thompson and Carter, to nays-Ald. Wright
and Strout); extending the time for setting by
drants in the streets q days
Petitions presented and referred-Of j. B.
Skliiings for permission to erect a wooden
!r., u ais, for lamp-post and lamp at the
Junction OF Spring and Neal streets; of Almi-
"a staples for compensation for injuries sus-
tanned by her on Oak street, between Spring
and Pleasant streets, Dec 49, 1867
Aid. Curtis, from the Committee on Streets.
reported orders establishing the grades of the |
following streets, which were laid upon the ia.
BILE until the next meeting: Spruce street, from
Bracket to Emery street; Vaughan street, |
from Congress to Danforth; Hampshire. from |
Congress to Middle; Congress, from Neal to
Vaughan; Qubec, from North to the Eastern |
Promenade; Melbourn, from North to Eastern |
Promenade; Carroll, from Thomas to Vaughan;
Neal, from Pine to Spring; Bramhall, from
Vaughan to Western Promenade; Western
Promenade, from Arsenal street to Vaughan;
Clark street, from Pine to Spring; Bracket,
from Pine to Spring; Emery, from Pine to
Spring; Arsenal, from Bracket to Western
Promenade; Bowdoin, from Neal to Western
Promenade; West Commercial, from State to
Danforth streets; Pine, from State to Western
Promenade: Temple, from Congress to Middle
streets; Thomas, from Spring to Pine; Garlic
ton, from Congress to Pine; Newbury, from
Market to Mounttort; Pearl, from Congress to
Commercial; Danforth, from Vaughan street
to Vaughan's bridge; Oxford, from Washing
ton to Portland; Lincoln, from Anderson to
Preble. Adjourned.