The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-05-24
StrOut g. Gage,
Pulsifer.

A special meeting of the Board of Mayo
and Aldermen was held last evening.
Permission was granted e. M. Lang to ere :.
stationary steam engine in the Clapp block
on Kennebec street.
An invitation from Post Bosworth, No. 9. G.
A. H., for the City Government to participate
in the exercises of Memorial DAY. Monday
May Both, also requesting that the CITY bells be
tolied and minute guns fired during the NOV
ing of the procession to the Portland g. Rocb-
ester depot, and that the citizens be requested
TO close their places of business during the af-
ternoon OF that day, was read and accepted.
An order was passed that the Mayor be
th0rlzed to make such arrangements as he may
think proper for the proper observan ce of Me-
mortal Day, as requested by Post B osworth,
any expense attending the same to be charged
to the contingent fund.
John Coffin was appointed special policeman
without pay.
Licenses as victualers were granted Oliver
Stenborn and Patrick TobiD, and to James
Herbert as an innholdar.
The City Auditor presented his report of the
appropriations and expenditures for the year
ending March 81. Read and placed on file.
., The City Treasurer presented his report for
the financial year ending March 81.
of Samuel Haskell.
An order for the grading of Merrill street
and laying cutters was referred with power.
Aid. Mccarthy moved to reconsider the vote
passed at the last meeting for sewer in EN-
cry street. After some debate reconsideration
was refused, yeas 3, nays 8; the Mayor giving
the casting vote in the negative.
a committee consisting of Aldermen Bailey
Wesc0tt and Mccarthy, with such as the Com
mon council as may join, was raised to report
proper celebration of the ensuing 4th of July.
Permission was given Randolph c. Themes
to erect wooden building on Smith street,
and to II. w. Worcester to erect two blocks of
wooden houses OF two tenements each, on the
corner OF Clark and Danforth streets.
Orders Passed whenever coupon bonds
OF the city dated prior to Feb Is, 1862, shall be
surf endered and Cancelled, and registered
bonds shall be issued for the same the regis
tered bonds SO issued and the interest on the
same shall be payable in the same way, wheth-
er in gold or currency, in which the coupon
ponds and interest on the same would have
been payable if they had not been surrendered;
authorizing the City Treasurer to sell from
time to time, under direction of the Committee
on Finance, the State of Maine bonds ON hand,
as the means may be required for the payment
of the city's subscription for Portland & Og-
densburg railroad stock; directing the City
Treasurer to pay in gold or its equivalent all
bones or coupons issued for municipal purpos-
es issued prior to Feb. %, 1862; to lay brick
sidewalk on Vaughan street, from Congress to
Bracket street; to construct brick sidewalk
on Cushman street, N. side, from Clark to EN-
cry street; to construct brick sidewalk on
Clark street, from Spring street to Charles H.
Hospital a lot of land ON BramhalPs hill known
as the Arsenal lot; to erect fountain in Lin
coin Park, cost not to exceed $1,000; authoriz-
ing the Committee on Hydrants, Sc, to en-
ter into contract with the Portland Water
Company, for the term of five years, for such
amount of water as may be desired for drink
ing fountains and watering streets, &c., and to
paw not to exceed $4,000 for the first year,
$4,000 for the second year, and $4,000 per
annum for the succeeding three years.
Petitions presented and referred-Of Deer
ing, Milliken & Co. & ais. for the paving of
Middle street, from Market to Pearl street; of
5. b. Thrasher & ais. for lamp-post ON the
seutherly corner of Pine and Emery streets;
OF Josiah Held & ais for a br ick sidewalk on
the N. K. side of Locust street; of Godfrey
Massey for permission to remove about SO feet
OF tombstone from the dump, in order that he
may erect a sidewalk in front OF his house; of
Thomas Shaw & ais. for sewer in Gray street;
OF Prentiss Loring 81 ais. for same; of Cyrus
Sturdivant & ais. for lot in Evergreen Gem
etery tor the use of Allen Mission OF this city;
of e. II. Dunn & ais for the removal of rub
bish and distractions on Lincoln street; of
John 2. Smith s. ais. that said Smith may be
allowed to keep his bathing rooms and barber
shop open on Sunday forenoons. This petition
was endorsed by many of the leading citizens
of Portland, and was referred to the Mayor.
Adjourned.