Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-15
County Commissioners.
SATURDAY, JuEe IS, 1874

SATURDAY, June Is, 1874.
Board met pursuant to adjourn
ment. 6 al.
Present. Commissioners Near
die. Redfield and Knight.
D.. McClelland, County Physi-
clan, reported twenty paupers re-
manning in the poor house.
Alease was ordered made to Hen
nv Ernst for the following described
school land, viz: Sc or of ne Or sec
Is, 7. 10, r. II east.
The following resolution was
adopted:
Resolved, That if the Union Pa
cifc Railroad Company shall COM
mence within twenty-five days from
this date, and prosecute to compile
ton without unnecessary delay, and
complete by the first day of No
vember, 1874, on the depot glOunds
of said company, in the city
of Omaha, conveyed to it
by deed Of Alvin Saunders,
Trustee, dated Jan. 20, 1872, its de-
pot building. according and equal
to the general plan adopted by said
Company, Aug. Is, 1873, as mOdi-
| fled by a resolution of the Executive
Committee of said Company, passed
May %, 1874, at a meeting thereof
i'm Boston; and shall, within the
same time, commence on lots l and
9, in block 231, in Omaha, a build
ing for its general offices, according
or equal to the general plan adopted
by tine Company Aug. Is, 1873, and
shall complete the side walls thereof
and put said building under roof by
the 1st day of January, 1878, and
| shall maintain said buildings and
offices OH said grounds respect.
| ably. Such acts on its part shall
constitute and be accepted by and on
the part of the county of Douglas
as a compliance by the said Union
Pacific railroad company with the
fourth clause of the agreement
made by said company and recited
in the deed from Alvin Saunders
above referred to, and thence for
ward no breach of said fourth clause
or failure to comply Herewith shall
be alleged by or on behalf of the
county Of Douglas, or parties in any
proceeding, or in any matter what.
ever.
Provided, this resolution shall moi
be construed to apply to or affect
said agreement except in respect to
the fourth clause thereof.
The Union Pacific railroad CON-
pany, by A. ]. PoppletOn, its attor.
ney, presented Q petition asking for
a reduction in the assessed valua:
ton for 1873, of the west half of its
bridge across the Missouri river.
Also a petition asking for the can
collation. of certain taxes upon real
estate embraced within the depot
grounds of said company. said
taxes having been levied prior to the
date when said real estate was con-
veyed to said company.
Ebenezer Archer, Jr. was ap-
pointed Constable for Omaha Pre-
precinct No. /, to fill vacancy, and
his official bond was approved.
A petition was received from
Clinton Briggs and others for a
county road running south from the
Platte river road to Geo. K. Smiths
addition.
GEORGE Smith was appointed con-:
missioner to view and report.
A petition was also presented,
asking for the location Of a county
road to run westerly from the south
west corner of A. H. Baker's field
to Big PapilliOn creek.
James u. Gridley was appointed
commissioner to view and report.
The following accounts were al
lowed;
Herbert pibhop, work at Poor
House, $500; Jacob Gish, collins,
and hurying paupers, $l2.5 so; Fred
Milius, goods for poor, S8.25; E. A.
Kelsey, lumber, S5.8s.
Adjourned to Monday, June 18th,
1874.
LEWIS II. REED,
Secretary.