Evening star., 1869-07-13

hCTION OF The CIT1 COUNCILS LAST NIGHT.
BOth Boards of the City Councils were in sss-
sion last night until o'clock a. m and a. less
time was consumed in talk and dila:o-y mo-
tions than rsual, a grea, ceal OF business was
transacted. TIE Mayors annual message was
notreceiyed, the labor of prepa-Irg z the s'a.is.
tIcsl portion causing him 10 postpone its
TRANSMISSION until next Monday. The most
important business under con liberation was
the tax bill for lSs9, whicn passed both X Iard<
Inc rates are: Tax for general purposes, 6j
cebtsi gas, 10 cents; Metropolitan P0lIce, L.
cents, school purposes. p cents: erection OF
school houses, IS cents: sinking fup1, l. cents.
making an Aggregate of - 30 on each hundred
dollars of taxable propeIty-lssessed value
The bill is ideIticl, with the law imposing
taxes Tor the year l-5S, except that the TAX for
the sinking fund is reduced Ion twenty to
twelve csrts on each hundred dollars worth
OF taxable property, ard the tax for the police
furd is reduced from fftssL % thirteen cant.
on each hundred dollars, the aggregate of TAX
aion being thUs reduced ION one dollar ana
fify Gems 10 ore dollar aud forty cents en- tha
hundred dollars; and xCspt also that instead
of an abatement for early payments, an
addition OF Two and half per cen.
per month on all taxes due is impos ed
q penalty for tariiness IN p.ymen:
Mr. Moore offered various amendments for
reducing the = ates, I'd striking out the section
Tor imposing penalty for tardincss in making
payment, but they were all voted down. Mr.
Emery also favored q reduction of the rates
and thought an aggregate of sl.25 on the hun
dred dollars would be sufficient. The bill was
finally passed by yeas 10, nays 4; Msssrs.
Emery, McCsthran- Moore and Morsell voting
against 1t. The bill as pissed will yield a
revenue OF considerably more than II ,OOO. 600,
the assessment hav-Lg be en- increased
from s'5,U0CO0 to more than S75,OOO,OD
Alderman Clark Introduced bills for the es
tablishment of four sIdiuonal secondary
schools-one in each school distinct and six
teen additional primary sc lools-four in each
district; also. bill to consiituts a committee to
select sites for school houses, all OF which were
referred; as were also q bill looking to the es-
tablishment of a house of correction, and bill
TO exempt the public schools under the control
of the Board of Trustees OF CoIored Schools
from the pay ment OF all SPECIAL taxes now due
or that may become due. Mr.. Caase intro
duced bill authorizing the Mayor TO retain
from Corporation contractors )ney - pay
their laborers, and a bill aholishiug the con-
tract system on ali Corporation work, and
providing for doing il by days labor, b1th of
which were referred. The case OF the colorsd
printer Douglsss was not reported on. in m
sequence Of the absence of Mr.. stewart, of the
SPECIAL Committee. A bill for the appointment
OF q disbursing ofic-r OF the Corporation was
also passed by the Aldermen.
In the COmmsn Csuncil, Mr.. Hall introduced
bill to construct bridge ever the clnal az
sixth street-that street having been opened
across the maitland il was referred 10 the
Committee on Improvement, as also bill ID
prevent the shooting of birds within the corpo-
rate limits. Mr. Hatton introduced q bill to
abolish the ONCE OF Superintendent and In.
spector of Sewers, &c, " hich was referred. A
bill for doing all grazing and gravelling OF
streets by days labor was passed, as also the
tax bill, and an effort was made 10 pass the
Aldermen's bill providing for the appoint
ment Of Q disbursing officer, which, ho wever,
was referred