The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-07-15

CITY CoUNCIL.-In the First Branch
of the City Council ON Tuesday eve
ming, the Mayor being absent, on mo-
ton, Mr.. Quarter took the chair. The
roll was called and the following men,
bers answered to their names: Messrs.
Blair, Carnahan, Culbertson, Hall,
Mcclure, Pannell, Rinehart, Shallcross,
Sweeney, Schambra and Wilson.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read, approved and signed.
The resolution appointing q special
Committee to employs competent en-
Rineer to make examination, DC, of the
stone bridge, and estimate cost OF per-
manently repairing the same, passed
by majority vote ct last meeting, was
considered, and on motion the action
Of the Second Branch in passing said
following vote: Yeas-MessrB. Carna-
han, McLure, Q1arrier, Rinehart and
ShailcroBs-6. Nays-MessrB. Blair,
Culbertson, Hall, Pannell, Sweeney,
Schambra and Wilson,. .
The resolution instructing the City
Sergeant to enforce section 5 ofOhapter
16, In relation to doRs, came up as un:
Mr.. Pannell, was laid on the table.
MIR. Blair offered the following, which
was adopted and sent to the Second
Branch:
RESOLVED, That the Committee on
Ordinances be directed to report an.
ordinance amending the 9TH section OF
chapter is Of the printed ordinances,
making it the duty of the Mayor OF the
city to issue hfs proclamation req uiring
ali persons 10 confine their dogs or to
have the same securely muzzled, when
ever, in his Judgment, there Is danger
from hydrophobia. or when requested
to do so by an order of Council.
The first and second sections Of an
ordinance assessing taxes on real and
personal property, for the year 1869,
laid over at former meeting, was
taken up, read twice, passed and sent
to the Second Branch.
The monthly report Of the Committee
on Accounts was received from the
Second Branch, offering the following
resolution, which was concurred in:
ReSoIVed. That the bills, amounting
to 81, S7s 20, be paid.
The report of the Committee on Lights
was received from the Second Branch,
and Its action thereon concurred in,
except that the resolution recommend
ing gas post to be placed at the south
east corner of Chapline and Marshall
streets, was amended, on motion of Mr..
Hall, by adding the words "provlded
gas is on the street where the post 10 to
be placed"
The report of the Committee on Mar
kets was received from the Second
Branch, and the resolutions recon-.
mending the payment OF bills, and au-
thorizing the committee to have the
windows in Second Ward market house
repaired were concurred n,-that nam.
ing $4,000 as the sum required for the
expenses of the market house during
the year, was non~concurred in.
hIu NJ
on Water Works was received from the
Second Branch and the resolutions re-
commanding the payment of bills and
rejecting D. Cushing's application for
reduction of water tax for the year 1883,
were severally concurred in.
The monthly report Of the Street
Commissioner recommending the plac-
ing of about ffty-tive feet of new curb
In front of Mr.. Reid's property, Fourth
Ward, and asking an appropriation to
pay bills for labor, &C., was received
from the Second Branch, and Its action
ordering the report to be received and
filed and the appropriation made, was
concurred in.
The reports of the City Sexton and
Wharf Master, sent up from the Second
Branch, and its order that they be re-
ceived and filed was concurred in.
A report from the special Committee
appointed to examine the road leading
from the Second Branch, accompanied
by the following resolution, which was
concurred in by a majority vote:
ReS0Lved, That q sum not exceeding
one thousand dollars be appropriated
to make the repairs recommended by
the Committee-the money to be ex-
pended under direction OF the Street
Commissioner.
A second report of the Committee on
Water Works in relation to extending
the water pipes to the town of South
Wheeling, was received from the Sec
ond Bro nch, accompanied by resolu-
ton which is published In connection
its adoption by the Second Branch was
non-concurred In.
The Health Ohicer'A report was re-
ceived from the Second Branch, and
the resolution offered by Mr.. Sweeney
and adopted in that Branch in relation
to be in existence on the property of
the Odd Fellows Hall Association, was
concurred in.
The bids for renting the City Scales
were received from the Second Branch,
and the resolution offered by Mr.. Swee-
ney in that Branch, and adopted by 1t,
(which we published in full, yesterday
morning,) was concdrred in.
The petition of George E. Wickham
for auctioneer's license; also of David
TdcManRWRy for license to keep coffee
l., use of first class; also OF w. F. Good.
';Jlp g. Co. for license to keep four bill
lizard tables, were received from the
Second Branch, and its action granting
the prayers OF the petitioners was con-
CURED In.
The petition OF Horace Gray to be
released from pGy p1ent OF taxes and
water rent, he being IN INDECENT circum-
stances, was receive. from the Second
Branch, and on motion was referred to
the Committees on Finance and Water
Works.
On motion the First Branch adj
journed.
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