The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-10-10

Ing CONSIDERED, tue lOllOWluS WAS iSt'u,
and the recommendation adopted:
To tie Council Of the City of Wheeling:
We would respectfully recommend
the appointment OF Robert Simpson, B.
F. Caldwell and Thos. j. Blair on the
committee on Accounts.
G. w. JEFFERs, Mayor
GEO. FORBES,
President, Second Branch.
The following resolutions were Of
fered:
Resolved, That $4,000 be and are here.
BY appropriated, to be expended. under
the supervision Of a committee Of three
members OF each branch Of the Council,
in purchasing provisions, to be sent to
Chicago, for the relief of the sufferers
from the fire now raging in that city.
Resolvsd, That the Mayor be re-
quested to call meeting Of the citizens
tomorrow morning, at 10 o'clock, to
give them an opportunity to subscribe
to further fund, to be expended for the
same purpose.
On the passage OF the resolution the
yeas and nays were demanded. Those
voting in the affirmative were Messrs.
Baird, Clator, Caldwell, r. Crawford,
Hazlett, Howell, Hobbs, Logan, Nc
Adams, OBrien. Phillips, Simpson,
Weisgarber, Waterhouse and President
Forbes-l5.
Those voting in the negative were
Messrs. Hubbard, List, Steger, j. 6.
Smith, Sheppard and View &c.
So the resolutions were adopted.
Petition of John Ramsey, for license
to sell liquor in Centre Wheeling, was
granted.
Petition of Mrs. Z. Smith for privilege
to transfer the license OF John Smith to
Godfrey Price was granted.
Petition of Philip Heller to keep up
fence around city grave yard was
granted.
DR.. Hazlett asked permission to have
his vote recorded in favor Of donat-
ing $4,000 to Chicago sufferers.
Granted.
Petition Of Jesse S. Wheat to have
Water street, Eighth ward, repaired,
was referred to committee on Streets
and Alleys for report.
Petition of Philip Enrich to have
part OF water tax refunded was referred
to committee on Water Works.
Petition of w. A. Watson to have
curbstone set on Mcclure street was re.
ferred.
Petition of Lewis Britt and others
asking to have grading on Clay street
stopped and have new grade established
was referred to committee on Grades.
Petition of j. H. Hobbs and others
for a four-inch pipe in Eighth ward,
was referred. to committee on Water
Works.
Petition of w. II. Morton to have
board walk near Female College re-
paired, was referred to committee on
Streets and Alleys with power to act.
Petition of J. w. Shultz to have val
uation of lots Nos. IL and Is, Sprigg
Row, reduced, was referred to the Board
of Appeals.
Petition of Aug. Pollack and others
to have fine of James Hubeck, of five
dollars and costs, for resisting an officer
and like sum for intoxication, who the
petitioners assert was duly sober and
did not resist. The petition not being
in form was laid on the table.
Petition of George Crumbacker and
others to have gas pipe extended on
Clay street to Seventh, was referred to
committee on Lights.
Report Of Wharfmaster for September
was referred to the committee on
Wharves.
The report Of the City Sexton was re-
ceived and filed.
The following resolution was laid on
the table till next meeting:
Resolred, That the City Sergeant be,
and he is hereby directed, to see by
what authority P. L. Kimberly weighs
coal in defiance of the lesees of the
Fourth ward scales, and contrary to the
order OF the Council.
The substitute for the first resolution
passed by the Second Branch in regard
to the Chicago sufferers, was received
from the First Branch and concurred in.
RESOLVED, That the Street Commits
sioner be authorized to reset the curb in
front of Henry Kraft's property on
Main street below Third street
On motion the Second Branch ad.
journed.
FIRST BRANCH.
The First Branch was called to order
BY the Mayor. The following members
answered to their names at roll call {:
Messrs. Allison, Boring, Butterfeld,
Kelly, Pannell, Schramba, Stanton,
Weidebusch and Wilson.
The minutes Of the last meeting were
read, approved and signed.
Mr.. Wilson offered the following as
substitute for the first resolution, which
was adopted:
WHEREAS, The city of Chicago has
been visited with calamity that is un-
paralleled in the history Of the country,
whereby almost the entire city has been
destroyed, and not less than one hun
dred thousand persons have been turned
into the streets into a state OF total des-
titution; therefore, be it
Resoped, That five thousand dollars
be and the same is hereby appropriated
for the relief Of the destitute population
of said city.
Resolved That the Mayor and the
President of the Second Branch Of the