The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-18

hict with the provisions of the old law. The
sections agreed to empower the high constr
bles to visit the stables Of owners of coaches
and impose n penalty of five dollars If they
are obstructed by them; also empowering
them TO order away from stands any coaches
as may not be supplied with suitable horses
or harness; requiring the driver 10 give his
passenger card with the number of. the
carriage, and requiring police officers to ar
rest for all violations of the law. The bill,
as reported to the Chamber, passed.
The Highway Committee, through Mr..
Ray, reported resolution to pave Pale
thorp, Fortieth, Penn, and other streets.
Agreed to. H....
Also, aresolution to pave and grade ortho-
dox street. Agreed to.
Also, a resolution to grade Ninth street
from Jefferson to Oxford.
Also, resolution authorizing the transfer
of contract for the building of a sewer on
Locust street, west of Nineteenth, from Mr..
Mr. e. Mooney to Mr,E. S. McGlue. Agreed
to.
Mr.. Willis, chairman of the Committee on
Markets, reported an ordinance authorizing
the butchers in the Eleventh street markets
to sell all kinds of flesh meat from the same
stall. Agreed to.
The Chair named Messrs. Jenner, Evans,
and s. p. Huhn a committee of conference 10
confer with the Select Chamber in reference
to the suspension of the South Penn Hose
Company.
Mr.. Bardsley, from the committee of con.
ference, reported favorably to the concurrence
of the Chamber in the amendments of Select
Council on the bill relative to the erection
of schoolhouse in the Twelfth Ward
Agreed to.
Mr.. Shoemaker member from the Thir-
teenth Ward, rendered his resignation, to
take effect January 1, 1870. Accepted.
Mr.. Wagner presented resolution for the
closing of the offices of the various city de.
partments at two o'clock during the months
of July and August. Agreed to.
Mr.. Bardsley offered a resolution directing
the Committee on Law to confer with the
Commissioners of South-street Bridge as to
the possibility of the city being allowed to
construct it. Agreed to.
The resolution providing for the ad iourn-
ment of Councils on the first Thursday in
July and the reassembling on the 10th of
September was called up by Mr.. Hall, and
passed.
Mr.. III. HUM called up the ordinance rela-
tive to stands for market wagons, and moved
to recommt to the Committee on Markets.
Agreed to.
A resolution, offered by Mr.. Bardsley to
change the place of voting in the Twelfth Di-
vision of the Seventh Ward, was debated and
lost.
Bills from Select Council were concurred in
as follows:
Resolution to lay water pipe on Lombard
and other streets.
Resolution to discharge the Committee on
Law from the consideration of of abuses
in the collection of the militia tax.
Ordinance refunding overpaid water and
other taxes.
Resolution to discharge the Committee on
Schools from the consideration of a certain
subject.
Ordinance appropriating $1,000 for repairs
to the tobacco warehouse.
An ordinance appropriating $4,000 for the
purchase of lot o. ground on Wood street,
east of Seventeenth.
The ordinance from Select Council appro-
priating $1,000 for a new roof on the Lincoln
Grammar School was referred to the Com
mites on Schools. Its passage was opposed
by Mr. Hetzell, who said that he was not in
favor of appropriating money for labor that
should have been properly done by the con-
tractor. The schoolhouse was a new one.
Mr.. Kline offered resolution for the ap.
pointment of a joint special committee of
three from each Chamber, to act with the
Finance Committee in the consideration of
taxing personal property for municipal pur-
pose. Agreed to. Adjourned.