The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-12-24
CITY 6oUsUIL PaoCEEDEHGs.
MONDAY EVENING, December %.

SECOND BRANCH.
The Second Branch met in special
session,
Present-Clator, Caldwell, R. CraW-
ford, List, Logan, Lancaster Long,
Phillips, Steger, J. G. Smith, Simpson
Salisbury, Sheppard, Tolivar and Prs'l'
dent Forbes.
The bond of Andrew Sweeney, Assist
ant Fire Marshal Of the First District
was approved.
Petition of Eugene List, President OF
the Board of Supervisors, to have water
tax on Court House and Jail reduced
from 5000 to $500, was referred to COM
mittee on Water Works.
Petition signed by Thomas Pollock
J. R. Botsford and others to have the
use OF Hope Hall free of rent for Sun
day school, was referred to the Commit
tee On Fire Department, with power 10
act.
The Committee on Cemeteries re-
ported having received the following
bids for a new fence at the Peninsula
Cemetery: J. NJ. Brodie at 1895 per
panel Benjamin Exley Il Co. at n. 40 !;
Edward Claton at $40. Also that
they had received the following propo'
sails for the labor of building said fence,
the city furnishing the materials: Ed
ward Clator, $l.60 per panel; J. L..
| Martin, 95 cents; Benjamin Exley q
Co., 20 cents. Also, that they had
received'.'the Following proposals tor
lumber Free & Robinson, Manning
ton, pickets at $45 per 1000. and $50
per 1000, locust posts $40 per 100. Tue
com mittee reported resolutions recon-
mending that Benz. Exley q Co.. be
awarded the contract TOR building the
fence; that the contract for furnishing
lumb ,r be awarded to Free & Robinson;
the payment OF John Gators bill for
plasterng, $40, and in favor OF purch:s-
ing W. D. Euglish's vault at Peninsula
Cemetery, at fair price, as q receiving
vault. The subject OF building fence
was indefinitely postponed, Mr.. CIator s
bill was ordered paid and the question
of buying the vault was rejected.
The special order being the consider
alton OF the ordinance dividing the city
into wards and making an spportion'
ment OF mem bers OF Council was taken
up. 1t has been published 10 these
columns SO lar as it makes a change in
the boundaries of the wards, and the
changes made in the representation OF
the several wards in the Second Branch
of the Council, which is hereafter to be
composed Of twenty-five members. 1t
was read three times and without
amendment.
The Committee on Ordinances also
reported "An ordinance to amend and
reordain the first section Of an ordl-
nance entitled an Ordinance in relation
to the election Of Mayor, Council and
other officers by the voters OF the city
of Wheeling" 1t provides for the
election of Mayor, Council and other
city officers, now voted for by the people,
on the fourth Thursday OF January,
1873, and on the same day bi-annually
thereafter, commencing at 9 o'clock A.
NJ. and closing at o'clock P. NJ. The
places for holding the election are the
same as now provided by law, with the
addition OF providing voting place in
the Eighth ward at the store of NJ.
Heller. The ordinance vas read three
times and passed.
The following resolution was adopt
ed:
Reso'vsd, That the Committee on
Finance be authorized to procure books
necessary for keeping the accounts
and records Of the city.
On motion the Second Branch ad-
jcurned