Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-03-29

| IsG9: Center Market, to March LIST, 1870,
| So ,303.66; expenditures, Ssso.3S. Northern
| penditures SIC. Eastern Market, to January
/ ist. $50. S6s5.jo; expenditures, 1886 Western
Market, receipts TO January LIST, 1870, s5s5. so:
/ expenditures, S202- Also, one trans hitting
| copies of contracts with Arthur PanneIl and =.
/ Jeffries for improvement OF Center Market
i amounting to 5000. Also, statement OF account
OF the Cooperation with the First National
| Bank, showing balance due from Corporation
| of S2i, S1504. Also, one enclosing a statement
/ from the Register, in detail, of the contingent
| expenses of the two Boards since the second
| Monday in June, 1sts, showing the expenses OF
| the Board of Aldermen to have been 81 40 ~
| and those of the Common Council to have bee
- &c; all of which were referred.
| The CITY Surveyor submitted an estimate for
| grading and graveling north street: Grading
1924 cubic yards, at Il cents per yard SIC 49,
Os-gravelng IS, 2BS square yards at Il cents per
yard S6-Hsi.ei; total, SO, 62612. Fourth street
| east Grading 3d. "a cubic yards, at IL cents per
yard, s52Zi0s-grayeling II ,s44 square yards, at
Is cents per yard s., 151.92; total. 81 55. Water
street; Grading 30 ,oi3k cubic yards, at u cents
cents per yard 81 $685.; total, So l02e2 Thir-
| teenth street west: Grading ,aj03 cubic yards,
at Il cents, 81 ,2i1.5l-graveling 3,342 s,luare
| ferIed.
Mr.. Stewart presented petition of John Will
| son. praying that certain moneys pa d for sewer
| age taxes be refunded; referred
| Mr.. Davis offered a resolution requesting the
| Mayor to furnish this Board with report of
| the amount OF money expended during his term
| for building school-houses, hre-engine and sta
| ton houses repairing market buildings clean
ing streets and alleys; ALSO to furnish detailed
statement of the amount of work done in the
| several wards in grading and crawling streets,
| building sewers, bridges and arches, LAYING
water pipes and mains, paving streets and al
leys, sidewalks and cutters, laying flag foot
ways, and to state what number of street lamps
| have been erected within that time. Mr.. Moore
moved TO add the words land also expenditures
| on all other accounts which was agreed to and
| the resolution was passed.
Mr. Davis introduced an act authorizing III q
Mayor TO erect public scale in the vicinity of
| the Western Market; referred.
Mr. Chase presented petition of W. G.. God
dard for the remission Of a fine; also, remon-
| STRANGE of citizens residing on l. street north
west against the construction of a sewer in that
vicinity; also, remonstrance of property-holders
on SCUM Sapltol street against the proposed
change in the grade of said street; all OF which
were referred.
Mr.. Moore offered resolution requesting the
Mayor to inform this Board under what au
thorlty OF law Sidney Mcfarland, clerk OF the
Center Market, made the contract with La
fayette Jeffries, submitted to the Board this
day, for certain improvements recently made in
said market, and also whether said contracts
were approved by the Mayor; adopted He also
moved to reconsider the vote by which this
Board passed Common Council bill to set the
eurbstones and pave the foOtways and cutters
on the south side Of Boundary street, from 1itn
street westward TO street; but, upon ascer-
tanning that the bill had become law, he intro
duee1d an act repeating that bill; which was
passed.
Mr.. Emery presented petitions of A. o. Daily
tor relief, amounting to Sl62.15, for use of his
wall; and of j. &. Lewis and others for exemp-
ton from taxes on certain property belonging to
the National Theological Institute; referred
Mr.. Clark presented petition Of VIM. Noting
ham and others for the passage of Ia bill for the
construction of a sea-wall from the west side OF
the canal to BarthOlOw's wharf. Also, an act
making An appropriation for the publication of
10 Of q CNunciI. of
which were referred. He also offered a resolu
ton appropriating sil9.19 to cover deficiency
appropriation for construction OF a sewer in
squares 3:4 and 1856; passed.
Mr.. Champion presented bill to grade and
gravel south A street. between 9th and 9Th
streets east; referred. Also, resolution asking
certain information of the City Surveyor in re-
gard 10 his scheme of sewerage, proposed some
time since and embodied in a bill now pending
IN the lower Board; laid on the table. Also,
Board with a copy of all the bids made for the
setting of curbstones. paving of ioOtways and
CUTTERS tor the Sixth Ward.
Mr.. Emery moved to amend by making the
resolution cover all the wards OF the city for the
present year. After debate by Messrs. Stewart,
Chase Davis and Connolly against 1 and Mes; ,0
the resolution. SIr. Connolly moved to add,
provided that said information shall not be
Prejudicial TO the public welfare;" which was
adopted, and the resolution was lost by the fol-
lowing vote: Yeas-Messrs. Champion, Emery,
Knight, Moore, Morsell, McCathraR, and the
President. Nsys-Messrs. Baker, Chase
Clark, Connolly, Davis, Stewart, and Slater.
Mr.. Baker introduced an act to authorize the
erection of lamp-pOsts and lamps wherever, in
the judgment of the Mayor, he may deem it
necessary. provided said streets are first graded
and sidewalks laid: referred. Also. an act to
authorize the erection OF lamp-pOsts and lamps
wherever, in the judgment OF the Mayor, he
may deem il necessary, provided said streets
are first graded and grayeled and the sidewalks
are paved, and repeating all acts or parts of
-" I'll istAnt viii, this act; referred.
this Board on the erection of the school-house
in the Seventh Ward: Messrs. Baker. Knight,
and Clark.
The special order-bili making An appropria-
ton to pay for extra work incidental to grading
and graveling certain designated parts OF *, q !,
and NJ streets north, and p street east, known
| "a the Donovan contract, was taken up, and
MI Moore spoke at length against the bill, de-
nouncing the same as An impOsture, claiming
that Donovan was disinterested in the matter
except so far as he was q laborer employed by
the real contractors, Gleason, O'Beirne, and
Fry. Mr.. Emery also spoke at length against
the bill, and offered a resolution requesting
General Micher TO detail two competent engi-
neers to measure the work done under the
Donovan contract, but afterwards withdrew
the same, and the bill was not ordered To a third
reading by the following vote :-Nays-Messrs.
| Moore, MorselI, McCathran. and the Presi-
dent-9. Yeas-none. Mr.. Moore then moved
| to reconsider that vote, which was lost The
Board then adjourned.
nO0fO Oh OOmmOm COumc1I.
President Williams in the chair, and all the
| members present except Mr.. Holden.
message was received from the Mayor an
nouncing his approval of certain acts. Also,
estimates Of the Surveyor, as follows For
erecting a sea wall from Canal street to Halt
street, on south side of Georgia avenue, ten feet
in height, tve feet thick at the bottom and
three and half at the top, f25 ,0O0 grading and
crawling 10th street west. from street to the
Boundary, $5 1899; Vermont avenue, from O
| street to Boundary, SlI ,53l9l; trimming and
| gravellng Sd street east, from South Carolina
| avenue to Georgia avenue, So $3.50.
BUSINESS FROM THE ALDERMEN.
The following from the Alder men were passed:
Bills for foOtways and cutters on the outer side
| OF the carriageway around the Circle at the in
| tersection OF Connecticut, Massachusetts and
New Hampshire avenues and 18th and P streets
| northwest; west side of Cd street west between
/ and II south; west side OF 18th street west be-
| tween y and south; east side of 10Th street
| west, between y and L north; north side of
| maryland avenue, between u and Sd streets
| Mest; 10 pave the carriageway OF 18th street
| west, between III and nerth; to curb and pave
1ne east side OF 18th street east, between T. and
| - sousn, 10 grade and gravel X street south,
| rum oth west 10 Water street.
| naE bALIiAoeE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD.
| .ne JON, resolution requesting Congress to
| autnG - VIC Eor Poration to aid the Baltimore
i and Potomac Railroad was received from the
| Aldermen and considered, ON motio,, oT NJ
i Pardon, and passed-yeas 10 navI MI 49,
/ EEw BUSINESS
i The following were introduced. ~ Az
Il ThOmpSOn-Biu for lamps on 4 straa. - 49,. -,