Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-04-01
Meeting Of the City Council.


council was holden on Saturday afternoon.
The Twenty Second Annual Report of the
Auditor of the city of Augusta for the year
ending March Is, 1872, was received and ac-
cepted in concurrence.
Roll of Accounts No. /, amounting to
Sl.36S.7S, was repo rted and ordered to be
paid in concurrence.
In Joint convention, Samuel w. Lane was
elected City Auditor for the current year.
A. w. Hall was elected Pound Keeper for
the west side of the river and F. S. Severance
for the east side.
Daniel T. Turner and f. 2. Shaw were
elected surveyors of Wood, Bark and Stone.
James Folsom was elected Surveyor of
Lumber.
The following order was passed in concur
renee:
Ordered, That one thousand copies of the
twenty second annual report of the Auditor
of the city of Augusta for the municipal year
ending March Is, 1872, with the Mayors ad-
dress, the reports of the Experimenting
School Committee, City Treasurer, City
Marshal, City Solicitor, Sup't of Aims House,
sioners of Eastern and Western Districts, and
Joint Standing Committees of 1872, be print
ed for the use of the city council and general
distribution.
Ordered, That the Street Commissioner for
the Eastern District be directed to construct
plank sidewalk on the north side of Cedar
Street. commencing at Middle Street and rum
ming to Hospital Street. This order was re-
ferred to Committee on Highways in concur
renee.
Petition of H.. A. Dewitt, Thomas Lam
bard, John B. Dyer, j. N. Parker, Hiram X.
Choate, Joseph Farnham and w. w. Curtis,
representing that the street and sidewalk on
Northern Avenue between the cotton factory
and the upper factory boarding house is in
very bad condition and a portion too narrow
to accommodate the travel, and asking that
the same be widened and proper water
courses made to convey the water to the
stream known as Bonds brook: Referred to
Committee on Highways.
The following communication was received,
read and referred to the Committee on City
Buildings:
To the Hon. Mayor and city council of
Augusta The undersigned respectfully rep
| resent that after a careful examination of the
city Poor House they have become convinced
that its accommodations are enterely made
quate and unsuitable to meet the wants and
convenience of its inmates. They therefore
urgently recommend that an addition twenty
(2O) feet square and two stories high, be con-
structed on the west side Of said building, at
the earliest practicable day. They further
represent that reliable estimates have been
made, showing that the whole expense of
said addition will not exceed the sum of $500.
(Signed) O.. C. WHIrEHoUsE,
For Overseers of Poor.
March 80, 1872.
The following was passed in concurrence
Ordered, That the Mayor inquire into the
case of enc Daily, a State pauper, now at
tn e Insane Hospital at the expense of the
city and take such measures to have the
city relieved from the further support OF
said Daily, as he may find necessary.
The Joint Standing Committee on High
ways, to VIII ON was referred an order of the
23d inst, reported that they had agreed upon
the mode prescribed in the following order
Ordered, That there be furnished to the
Commissioners and Sub.Agents of Streets
and Highways, suitable blank books for
keeping an account of the expenditures in the
several districts; and it shall be the duty of
the Commissioners and Agents to enter in
such books correct and separate account of
all labor performed, the number of days, and
the wages per day or hour to each person en-
ployed; also an account of all materials pur-
chased, from whom, and the amount. Said
book, containing true account of labor per-
formed and materials furnished shall be pre-
scented to the Committee on accounts by each
Street commissioner on Friday, by two
o'clock p. NJ, preceding each regular monthly
meeting, and by each Sub-Agent as often as
once in four months, that the same be copied
by them and reported for allowance; and the
amount allowed in each Sub District to be
paid by the Treasurer, to each person the sum
allowed to him, taking his receipt therefor,
and the Mayor to draw his warrant for the
gross amount thereof; said books at the end
of the year to be all returned previous to the
first day of March, to the city clerk for ex-
animation by the Finance Committee.
This report was read and accepted.
The following order was passed in concur.
renee.
i Ordered, That the Committee on Cit!