The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1872-12-04

them of bond and mortgage to said city OH
the said engine house premises to secure to
said city the repayment to 1t by said Arab
Fire company Of the amount of said order I'm
three years from the date thereof, the said
order to be so delivered to said Arab Fire
company upon the execution and arrange
mcnt of said bond and mortgage TO the salts
faction of the committe Oh finance.
An Ordinance TO amend Section 3 Of Ordi-
nance No. II.
BE II ordained blythe city council of the city
Section i. That said section of said ordi.
nance No. IA, be amended by adding at the
end OF said section the words ''or out Of the
general fiind, or snch other fund applicable
thereto. us said city council may direct"
PETITIONS.
Councilman Taylor presented a petition
of upwards of two hundred legal voters of
the city of Cairo, praying the council
to submit to vote of the electors OF said
city, the question as to whether said city
shall become incorporated under the act
entitled ian act to provide for the incor.
ror"tion Of cities and villages" approved
April 10, 1879.
In connection with the petition Coun.
Gilman Taylor offered the following reso-
lutions which were, on motion Of council.
man Wood, adopted, viz:
Resolved, That the question 10 to
whether the city of Cairo shall become in.
corpornted under the act entitled IAN act
to provide for the incorporation of cities
and villages approved April 10, 1872,
and in furce July !, 1872, be submitted to
Of ha MI - a
Resolved, That ut the same election at
which the question shall DO submitted IS
to whether the city of Cairo shall become
incorporated under the law referred TO in
the preceding resolution, there be also
submitted for adoption or rejection the
question of "minorlty representation" in
the city council of said city as provided
for by section 6, article 4, Of said act en-
ton Of cities and villages"
Resolved, That the election to be held
for the purposes of the preceding resolu-
day of January next, and that for the pur-
pose of said election the city shall be d.
vided into two election districts one of
which shall comprise all the territory
south and east Of the center line Of
Twelfth street extended to the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers, and the other all of the
territory north ard west Of that line, and
and that the place at which the votes shall
be taken in the district south and east Of
the center line of Twelfth street extended
as above shall be the engine-house Of the
Rough and Ready Fire company, No. 8,
and the place at which the votes shall be
taken in the district north and west Of said
line shall be the courthouse, and that the
mayor be and he is hereby instructed to
give the proper notice of such election by
publishing the same in the Cairo Daily
BULLETIN, Cairo Daily Sun and Cairo
Gazette.
Resolved, That the mayor be and he is
hereby requested to nominate for confirm
alton by his council three persons to act
as judges Of election at each voting place
during said election.
The mayor nominated as judges Of said
election, for the north election district,
John II. Robinson, r. Fitzgerald and G.
F. Nellis, and for the south election dis
trict, Jos. Mckenzie, Peter Saup and A.
Eschbsch. Said nominations were con-
frmed by the following vote; Ayes
Cunningham, Halliday, Burd, Me.cslf,
Phillis, Taylor, Valdez, Wood and Wood.
ward-.9. Nay-Robinson-l.
BILLS.
Ths following bills were presented, and
on motion of Councilman Taylor referred
to the committee on claims, viz:
Cair, Box and Basket Co., lumber tor
,, pest mouse. ..;..,.;...,'... w 70
Barclay Bros, vaccine virus. ..... 100
a Hally, hardware fer pest house,
Nicholas Feith, burying four small
pox cases. acknowledgements. % 20
DR. ii Wardner, professional services
on account Of smallpox patients. &c 90
Nick illiams, meat, etc., for pest
house for November ............... IL 40
V Riser, IL prs. blankets and 3 cots
for pest house. ....,...........,... Al 25
NJ J McGauley, drugs and prescrip.
tons for pest house ............... IG 50
JOS smith. beds and bedding. ....... l6 05
McManus, bedding for pest house. 10 40
+ VI Warren l. Bro, stove and hard
ware for pest house ............... "a 20
James Ross, y tons coal for pest
mousse. 80. .......... ............... ii %
DR. q u Parker, vaccinating 81 per-
sons..... ...............,. - "a
DR. j { sullivan, yaccinatins 100 per, per. -
Geo schelimel, rent of pes, house, pro-
visions furnished, etc ,........'.... 80 IS
l. Jorgen.en, groceries for pest house 80 80
Stafford, Morris Il Candee, insurance
OF corn OF John Sack berger in build
ing near pest house. 9 so
w w Wooton, superintendent of
pest house 80 days in November. 80 90
Henry Dickerson, labor at pest house
III November. ............ . 40 10
jackson Gum, labor at pest house
Nov. ~ days. :..,......,.......... % IL
Sandy White, labor at pest house
John Gladney, hauling 40 loads Of
lumber ;.......e,....,..,.... 20 90
u Conlan, % days work in Nov .... So 20
ThOs, Fitzgerald, 20 days work in
VIM Mciale, % days work in Nov. 80 90
X Ii Cunningham, rent Of Council
Chamber in Nov .............. 40 90
John II Oberly, publishing proceed.
ings in Nov, and other advertising 81 2s
VIM Mclialc, jailcr, dieting prisoners
. in Nov, 43e days 49,, .,,,...,..,, 22s 90
Patrick Cahil, hauling drunken man
TO jail ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 30
Cairo City Gas company. gas con.
sumed in 81 street lamps in Nov 304 so
Caro- City Gas company, gas con-
sumed at II, and X and X engine
houses, city Jail and council cham
Der, three mos to Dec. l.........., "a 80
John McNulty, goingto courthouse
for desk acknowledgements. so
caino Box and Basket company lum.
Morris, Rood i Co., 5000 feet of lum. 40 %
Parsons, Davis 4 Co.. queensware ior 'i0 \"
pest house. Observation-Disclosures. 80
Newl! a Farm, lumber at 81 . 100 IS
Nj lahill, hauling drunken man IN iail Sn