The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-03-20
CITY COUNCIL.
second Branch.

EUTue5 III tno Ohuus ES9-
ent Messrs. Baird, Clator, Caldwell, Haz.
lett, Hobbs, Hubbard, Lancaster, List,
Logan, McAdams, Phillips, Sheppard,
Smith, j. g., Waterhouse and Wcisger.
Der. l.ti4HI t.IHl UsE Je.lif Il V
The minutes Of the last meeting were
read and approved. aY E.9'Tg 4
The President announced Messrs. Phil.
lips, Waterhouse, andSalisbury as the Com.
mittee on Health on behalf Of the Second
Bfanch-said appointments having been
made under authority oil o resolution
at recent meeting OF Council.
They were confirmed. a.l1.
An ordinance TO amend an ordinance
entitled IAN ordinance in relation to the
prevention and extinguishment OF fires,
and Tor other purposes; also an ordi.
nance entitled IAN ordinance in relation
to tho appointment and duties oil the
Board of Equalization and Appeals"
were received from the First Branch, and
after the adoption Of an additional section
o,the latter, both ordinances were adopted.
Aresolntion providing for the reassess.
Inent Of all the real and personal proper:
ty in the city during the present year, was
received from the First Branch. The fol-
lowing was offered as substitute:
WHEREAS, The Council by the estab.
lishment Of a Board Of Equalization has
made provision for an equitable assess
ment Of the real and personal property
Of the city, and in the opinion Of the
Council the time Is too short 70 enable
the assessors to make o Thorough assess
ment; therefore be 1t ResOlBadj Tlat the
CITY Assessors BIO anu are hereby ordered
70 proceed at once TO make the usual an
nual assessment. Adopted, - !.
2 Tho City Sections report for the month
of February was read and placed on file.
. Proposals for furnishing coal at the
Water Works and city offices for one year,
were opened. They were as follows:
V III. Capehart proposed TO furnish coal at
OF cts. per bushel Of so lbs; Thos. Meyer,
clean at 8 cts. or o. cts. for mixed; Joseph
Werner, clean SO 95 per 100 bushels,
mixed OF s. 95; Walter Marshall, u cts.
for merchantable coal, or 81 cts. Tor mixed;
N. thinner, mixed, o. cts; Kimberly &
Co., nut in limited quantities, 8 cts; mixed
o cts, mixed, nut and clean, with slack
taken out 6sc, clean 2 cts.
Referred to the Committee on Water
Works with instructions TO report cost Of
coal obtained from the mines belonging
to the city.
The petition of Bailey, Woodward &
Co., for permission TO put down horse
railway track from their mill across Cald-
well and Denny streets, thence on Sixth to
Pine, and down Pine TO the river was
read. They ask whether, in case they
should erect u blast furnace near theiI
present mill, the city could and would
furnish supply Of water tor the same
and II the city could not, they asked per.
mission to lay water pipe down La
Belle avenue or Catharine street, to obtain
supply Of water direct from the river.
That part Of the petition relating tC
the railway track was granted on condi'
ton that the streets be not obstructed
and that relating to waterpipe was refer
red to the Committee on Water Works
The petition of D. Frank and j. P
Brockardt for permission to place a cross
ing from the west side Of Market street
between Adams and Jefferson, to the eas
side, in front Of their brewery, was reat
and referred for report. "
Petition Of residents In the Sixth Ward
10 have nuisance on the alley back d
Coal street abated was read and referred
10 the COMMITTEES on Streets and Alleys
with power to oct. a.
Petition Of ]. P. Gilchrist, for reduction
Of city taxes and water rent, was read, and
that portion Of it in relation 10 water rent
referred TO the. Committee on Water
Works, and that in relation to city taxes
TO the Board OF Appeals. Hags ftHt
A resolution authorizing the Committee
on Water Works TO sell the frame house
on the Long lot in the Eighth Ward, was
received from the First Branch and its
action Concurred In. ID.
The report Of the Special Committee on
Remaining the Streets and Alleys and
numbering the houses, with the substitute
offered therefor alta previous meeting, was
taken from tho table, and after being read,
a motion was made and seconded to adopt
the substitute Cocoon.
Mr.. Forbes or. Clator in the chair
made the motion that the Substitute DO
laid on the table, but Il. did not receive a
second. ~ -i'! fsis--...s---l 800
The question recurring on the adoption
oil the substitute, it was voted down. j.
The report Of the committee was then
taken up and after being discussed, mo-
ton was made to recommit the report to
the committee, with instruction 10 report
q plan for numbering the houses in the
City.-Adoptcd. 4 III { nd ~
The ordinance establishing q Board Of
Equalization was returned. from the First
Branch, with the message that the action
Of the Second Branch was not concurred
In, and a Committee Of Conference asked.
The PRESIDENT appointed Messrs. Lo-
gan, huGbo and MoA dana aaid oonnnaittaa
on behalf of this Branch. ,.g "a .
The committee retired and after DELHI.
Grating, reported, recommending that the
Second Branch recede from It's action
adopting the resolution providing for q
revaluation Of the property OF the city;
also that the additional section adopted
by the Second Branch be amended by
requiring the Board Of Equalization and
Appeals shall notify all persons whose
returns by the assessors, in their judgment,
require 10 be increased, by advertisement
in the daily papers, provided that where
an increase is made n the assessment OF o
ward, or district or portion thereof, q
general notice thereof by advertisement
shall only berequired. 2. lfSfS a K 3 p
The Srsport Edf the Committee was
adopted. a
Aresolhtfon authorizing the Committee
on Fire Department TO inquire and report
on the expediency of selling the horses
belonging TO the Atlantic Engine and
puTchasipg offers, was received from the
First Branch and Its action concurred in.
ResOlred, That the Street Commissioner
BIO directed to place single crossing on
Centrestreet, at the alley between Sixth
and Seventh. Referred. - ~ ! E'ft
RtSOlUed, That the Committee on Streets
and Alleys and the Street Commissioner
be and are hereby directed to have q COP,