The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-08-02
City Affairs.
The regular meeting of the City Council was
held last evening

The regular meeting of the City Council was
held last evening.
IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN.
John NJ Daley and John L. Short were
drawn as grand jurors for the September term
of the Superior Court. Warren Badger was
appointed and confirmed special policemen.
Papers from the Common Council The or
der directing the payment of S7O615 from the
reserved fund on account of bills for the foun-
tam in Lincoln Park, was laid on the table, as
was also the order for sidewalk ON Deer street.
The order thanking the various associations
who took part in the celebration OF July 4th,
was amended so far as the same relates to the
Portland Fire Department, limiting the thanks
of the city to the Portland Company No. 2,
Cumberland No. g. Casco No. and the Wash
ington Hook and Ladder Company.
All other papers from the Council were dis
posed of iu concurrence.
Presented and referred of Ira Bsr-
~ for sidewalk on Brown street; proposition
of John c. Tukesbury for the purchase of
lot of land on the corner of Franklin and New
bury streets; OF Reuben Waite for damage
from change Of grade of Fore street; of NJ l..
Woodman for compensation for land taken to
lay out the marginal way; appeal Of Nath'l
Deering from award of committee on LAYING
ont of Cutter street; communication of Thos
Richardson in relation to the contract for paw
ing Congress street in front of City Hall with
wooden pavement; petition of VIM. LanJrigan
that the sidewalk on York street be replaced;
Portland streets; proposition to straighten Lo-
Gust street; petition for the raising of sidewalk
on the corner of Wilmot and Cum berland Sts
of Thomas .. Goold for compensation for blast
ing rock on new High street; OF Thomas f.
Carney for permit to erect wooden building
on Green street adjoining tho Portland House
Of John Fisk for sewer in Oxford street; petit .
ton for street lamp in front of entrance to
Fluent's Hall; of Moses Gould for change in
N for nar IN,
wooden building from Cumberland to corner
India aud Federal streets, referred with au :
thority; of William H Fesseuden for permit
to open Market street; of Levi Green for per-
NIT to erect wooden dwelling house on the
corner of Federal and Fremont streets, also
referred with authority.
The minority reports upon the water ques-
ton were taken from the table and indefinitely
postponed.
The order appropriating $1,000 for payment
for celebration OF July 4th, wasitaken from the
table, amended by reducing the amount to
$500, and passed.
E. A. Moves was granted permission to erect
wooden dwelling house on Dantorth street
near Vaughan.
Upon inquisition from the Probate Court
Thomas j. Sparrow was adjudged non conlpss
naentis, and fit subject for a gurdian.
Leave to withdraw was reported upon petit
ton for band concerts in the open air in the
evening; petitions for street lamps on corner
of Hill and Bramhall streets, corner Western
Promenade and Branhall streets, at foot of
Arsenal street and on corner Clark and Cush-
ing streets.
The petition of Thomas c. Brown for lot
in Evergreen Cemetery was tabled.
An ordinance for the protection of bydrants
was passed to be engrossed.
An order directing the building of twenty
four inch sewer in Emery street gave rise to
some discussion ard was tabled.
The designations of John Z. Donnell and of
George s. Barstow, declining to act as valua-
tion commissioners were received The Coun-
Gil voted to fill the vacanies next Monday eve
nsng.
Alderman Wnship resigned his position as
chairman of the Committee on Drains and
Sewers.
Orders Passed-To hire $4,000 for the benefit
of the contingent fund; to abate $36 Is of the
tax of Smith & Burnham for the year 1867; to
hire $4,000 to pay coupons in gold upon bonds
issued in aid of the Atlantic & St Lawrence
r. r. Co. in the year 1851; authorizing the
Committee on Hydrants to place hydrant in
In the yard at the Poor House; authorizing the
sale Of the engine house on Congress street
near Green, and of the present ward room in
Ward 8, and the erection of a new ward room
and engine house combined on the hay-scale
lot on Green street; Tor the location of street
lamps on Gushing street at the head of Lewis
street, on corner of Emery and Pine streets, on
corner of Vaughan and Bramhall and Pine
and Neal streets; directing the removal of the
pump on the corner of Federal and Franklin
streets; directing the relaying of sidewalks
around hydrants lately set.
IN COMMON COUNCIL.
The order for the payment to the Water Co.
OF money for water used for non-municipal
purposes was amended by limiting the expen-
diture to $4,000 per annum and making the
payments semi-annual, to commence Jan. l.
1871.
The order providing for the erection of q
combined engine house and ward room was re-
committed.
An order was passed exemptipg the proper
ty of the Glass Company from taxation for five