The Portland daily press., 1872-01-06

A special meeting of both branches of the
City Council was held last evening.
In Board of Mayor and Aldermen. of
P.Feeny for permission to erect a wooden build
ing ON Washington street was referred with
power.
NJ S. Gibson (Preble House) was licensed as
an inn-holder.
An order was passed requesting the Mayor to
attend the annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad on the
10th inst, and act in the interest of the city,
and vote for the reelection of the present
Board of Directors and against the acceptance
of the second section of an act entitled San
act additional to and amendatory Of an act to
incorporate the Portland and Ogdensburg rail-
road Co., approved Feb. Is, 1871
The joint special committee on the union
passenger depot on Back Bay, made report of
the result of their meeting, and in accordance
with the report the following resolution was
passed:
ReSolUed, That in the event of the erection of
Union Passenger Depot for the use of the
railroads centering in Portland on or snear the
Marginal Way, at Back Bay, the city authori-
ties will, in the judgment of the City Council,
provide the necessary streets to accommodate
said depot, whenever they are needed for that
purpose.
Leave to withdraw was granted on the Pc
tition of John M. Emmons for lease from the
city of a lot of land on Hanover street; same
on petition of Knight & Whidden, proprietors
of the Portland Plaster Mills for exemption
from taxation; same on petition of Patrick
Gormley for abatement of taxes.
The committee to whom was referred the
subject of granting a lease of the tide power at
Tukey's bridge to the CumberlandAir Power Co.
for thirty years, reported a draft of lease to
said company, with clause authorizing the
execution of the lease The report and lease
were accepted
The lease provides that within five years
from the date of the execution of the lease
said company shall enter upon the premises
and expend the sum of $25,O0O in machinery
and apparatus adapted to the purposes designa-
ted; that the natural flow Of the tide shall not
be abated nor INSTRUCTED; that no portion of
the premises shall be sub-leased; and that if
after said five years said company shall cease
to use the devised premises for the purposes
designated, or shall abandon the same, then
the lease shall be void.
Petitions presented and reterred.-Of Eben
n Perry for compensation for damages done
to his sleigh by boy coasting on Boyd street.
Orders Passed-To pay Elizabeth Chase $275
for damages received in a change of grading
Green street; to pay Thomas Donahue $25 for
damages to his property by the defective drain
age of Washington street; directing the Com
missioner of Streets to remove all distinctions
on Maple street south of Commercial, and if
resistance is made, that the City Solicitor be
instructed to institute legal proceedings at
once; appropriating $1,000 to be expended under
the direction of the Board of Manufactures,
and suitable and convenient room in the
City Building for the use of said Board Sc
long as said Board shall use the same for the
encouragement of manufacturing interests
requesting the Maine Central and Portland and
Kennebec railroad corporations to cause suit
able sgn-board, as required by the Statutes, to
be erected at the crossing on Congress street
also that they provide a gate or aag-ma al
said crossing, whose duty it shall be to warn all
travellers ON said street of approaching engines
and trains; directing the whistle on the City
Building to be blown in case of an alarm Of
fire so long during each season as steam is re
quired to heat the building
In Common CounciL-In the absence of the
President, Mr. Tolman of Ward7 was chosen
President pro tenn.
The petition of VIM. 7. Jones and al, for {
survey of Peaks Island, which the Board Of
Mayor and Aldermen authorized to be made b!
the City Engideer, was taken from the table il
this Board and referred to the Committee OF
Laying out New Streets, in non-concurrence.
The order appropriating $1,000, to be expende
under the Board of Manufactures, was, OF
motion, laid on the table until the next regula
meeting.
An order authorizing the City Treasurer +
hire $4,000 to build the bridge across Washing
ton street, over the Marginal Way, was passed
in concurrence.
In Conueaation. = In Convention of bot
branches, Edward Lanergan, james earle, jr.
Warren O. Carney and Palmer Duly, wer
elected Surveyors of Lumber.
Lewis L. Thurston was elected Surveyor o
Wood and Bark brought by water and rail.