The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-06-06
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
MONDAY, May 81, 1872.

MONDAY, May ~, 1872.
ADJOURNED MEETING.
Council met pursuant to adjournment.
Present. the Mayor, Councilman Hunts
man, Hurst, Wray, LeSeur, Beatty. Per-
due and Williams.
The minutes of previous meeting were
read and approved.
The Street Committee through their
chairman, presented deed for that por.
ton of Mrs Jno R. Needham's lot, pro-
jecting into Main street.
On motion the deed was accepted and
the chairman of Street Committee request
ed to have the same recorded and proper
transfer made.
The commi ttee on annexation of terrific
ry to the city limits offered the following
resolution as report:
Resotued, That the City Attorney be authorized
and is hereby requested to proceed with the petit
ton and suit for annexation OF territory TO the
cor porate limits OF Oskaloosa, and present the
same to the Circuit Court at lite next session, And
be it further
Resolced, That the city will pay all costs and
expenses in the prosecution OF the same, and hold
the persons named IN SAID petition he prosecutors
fully free from all expense or costs in said cause
on the part OF the petitioners.
On motion the resolution was adopted.
The members of the Council who went
to Marshalltown to witness the test OF
Babcock's self-acting fire engine, reported
that the test was not satisfactory.
An Ordinance requiring certain residents
of the city to perform labor upon the
streets, alleys or highways of the city, was
presented, and on motion receiving its first
and second readings.
On motion the blank clause in sect IN 2,
was filed by inserting the words 1.-TWO dol
lars per day"
A motion to suspend the rules and read
the Ordinance the third time, was carried
by the following vote:
Huntsman, Hurst, Williams, Perdue,
LeSeur, Beatty and Wray, voting in the
affirmative.
Absent, and not voting, Councilman
Rounds.
On motion the Ordinance was read the
third time, and passed by the following
vote;
Perdue, LeSeur, Williams. Hurst, Hunts
man, Wray and Beatty, voting in the af-
firmative.
Absent, and not voting, Councilman
Rounds.
The Mayor announced the Ordinance as
passed.
The following claim was presented, read
and its payment recommended by the Com
mittee on Claims
w. N. Buchanan, killing and removing
dogS....... CIV
The Committee on Streets and Alleys to
whom was referred the petition of George
Tuthill and others, reported that they had
examined the same, and find that an alley
cannot be opened through said lot without
the payment of damages, and they do not
think it of sufficient importance to take any
action in the matter.
The following resolution was offered by
Councilman Williams, who moved Its
adoption
ResolUed, That a committee of three, (the May
or being one) be appointed 10 present 10 tht
Board OF County Supervisors of Mahaska county
at their June term, 1872, the subject OF sinking
an artesian well within the Public Square of the
city, and that said committee be instructed tt
propose to said Board that the city by appropria
ton ont of the city treasury will provide for one
half the county will raise one-half of its cost
and that if said Board of Supervisors shall accep
| and agree to the proposition that this Council
will as speedily as practicable put the work IN
der contract the same to be prosecuted and man
| aged by three Commissioners, two of whom shal
be appointed by the Council and one by the coun
| ty.
The motion was carried.
On motion the Council adjourned t.
Monday night, June 3d.
FRANK KELLY, w. Il. SMITH,
City Clerk. Mayor.