Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-06-01
Meeting OF City Council.

The regular monthly meeting of the City
Council was held on Saturday afternoon.
Petition of G. w. Jones for bounty on ac-
count of his son-Thomas p. Jones, who en-
tered the navy at the commencement of the
war, served till the end of the same; was at
the capture of Forts Jackson and St. Phillip
and the city of New Orleans; who never re-
ceived any prize money, having been station
ed out of the way of prizes; who never re-
ceived one dollar bounty; who was assigned
on the quota of Augusta under the call of 1868
when he might have been assigned to some
other town and received 500 bounty the pc
titoner asks that said Thomas P. Jones be al
lowed Communication bonds equal to the amount
paid for men under the call of Oct. 1868.
The petition was referred to the Committee
on Finance in concurrence.
Petition of f. II. w. Smith and fifteen 9TH
ers, ''citizens and tax payers residing on Cres
cent ST., ''for the construction of new side
walk upon said St. was referred to the Com
mittee on Highways in concurrence.
Petition of Eliza Ann Clark by her attorney,
month of March last, in the city of Augusta,
was thrown from her seat in sleigh and Sc
verely and dangerously injured in consequence
thereof, by reason, as she says, of an obstruc-
ton and defect in the highway leading from
Bolton Hill northwesterly to Vassalboro', in
said city of Augusta, on account of which she
says she has suffered much in body and mind
and been put to great trouble and expense,
and ever since the time of said injury has lost
the entire use of one of her limbs. The pc
titioner, therefore, respectfully asks that said
injury be faithfully and diligently inquired
into, and that she may be paid fair and rea-
sonable compensation therefor. The petit
ton was referred to Joint Special Commit
tee, consisting of Aldermen Baker and Cross,
and Councilman Bicknell Cony and McFar-
land.
Petition of Messrs. Hiram Choate, Moses
Choate and George B. Choate, asks that
sidewalk be laid out on the south side of York
street from its junction with Washington
street to the east line of land owned by Moses
and Hiram Choate, provided said work be
constructed by the said Moses and Hiram
Choate without expense to the city. 1t was
ordered that the sidewalk be laid out as prayed
for.
Remonstrance of S. w. Lane, against the
appropriation of any sum of money by the
city, ''for the benefit of the State Agricultural
Society, or for the purpose of aiding in de-
fraying tho pynensas of an Apricultural or
other Fair, to be held in this city or county
under the auspices of said Society,"" alleging
that such an appropriation ''would be illegal,
and an unjustifable tax upon the citizens of
this city" The remonstrance was referred
to the Special Committee on State Fair.
1t was Ordered, That the street commits
sioner on the east side of the river be directed
to open and make the road recently laid out
in the third mile on the east side of the river
west of the Greeley Pond
Petition of j. M. Plummer and 100 others,
asking that the City Council ''cause tax to
be assessed and collected on each dog Tor the
owner thereof in the city, and in default of
payment that the City Marshal be instructed
to destroy such dogs. The reason the petit
TONERS assign for making the request is that
the city has become infested with worthless
dogs, and that they are nuisance is obvious
to all" Concerning the matter twas Order
ed, That the petition of j. NJ Plummer and
others be referred to the assessors, with in