The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-16
CITY C0UNcIL--oFFICIAL.
CITY COUNCIL Room,

, Rock ISLAND, April 15,1S74.
Council met in special session. Present
Mayor Gait, and Aldermen Don, Carse,
Churchill, Bailey, Bell, Woodruff, Warner,
Butler, Engel and Davis,
The minutes of the last meeting, April
+, were read and approved.
The Mayor stated that the object of the
meeting was to consider several petitions
handed in for the action of the Council.
A petition from many Of our business
men was read, requesting the Council to
fix the license for auctioneers at 800 per
annum and that such licenses be not
granted for a less period than one year,
and that the license be made not transfer
able.
The Clerk read an ordinance to amend
an ordinance entitled, An ordinance to Ii
cense and regulate auctioneers, passed
December 10, '73.
Alderman Butler moved the adoption of
said ordinance emitting section 2, and 1t
was passed 1t increases auctioneers Ii
censes to 800.
Aldermen Warner moved the adoption
of the following ordinance which was pass
ed unanimously.
An Ordinance 10 Amend An Ordinance, entitled an
Ordinance rela ing to the Steam Boat Landing
Be IL ordained by the city Council OF the ctty 9T
Rock Island, that an ordinanc. entitled an "Ordi-
nance relating t. the Steam Boat Landing, passed
March 49, 1874, be so amended to include only
| that portion OF the public levee lying between the
east line of Washington street and line sixty feet
west OF the west line of Jefe son street
The Clerk read a petition of r. R.
| Gable, General Manager of the Coal Val
ley Mining CO., asking the Council to
release to him the two coal lots -one on
each side of Jefferson street, from April |,
1874, to April /, 1875, and to have all the
rights and privileges granted to the Goal
Valley Mining Co. by ordinance passed
February I, 1870, under the same restrict
ions and upon the same terms as set forth
| in said ordinance.
The following resolution, on motion of
Alderman Engle, was passed:
| Be it reSOtced By the city Council of Rock
Island, That The petition of the Coal Valley Min
| ing Company asking renewal of the lease by the
city to it Of the two certain lots the levee Zone
on each side of jefferson street, for the period of
one year from the first day of April A. d. 1874 I'M.
der the same restrictions and upon the same terms
as set forth in ordinance of said city, lea ing
said lot to the aid Coal Valley Mining Company,
passed February I, A. D. 1870, be, and the same
| hereby is granted, and the Mayor and Clerk are
| hereby authO lied TO execute to the Coal NaleV
Mining Company under the seal of said city a lease
of said lots for the term above mentioned in accord
| ance with the terms OF said ordinance.
Alderman Warner moved that the
steamboat landing be so improved that
teams can easily haul thereon. Adopted.
An ordinance to authorize the extension
and construction of the tracks of the
Moline & Rock Island Horse Railroad
Company to the passenger depot of the
Chicago, Rock Island 4 Pacific railroad
was unanimously adopted. The route is
along Illinois street to Arsenal, from
thence along Orleans to its end, and from
thence along Rock River street to and along
Gable avenue, where it joins theJ present
track on Moline avenue
| Adjourned S. I. Cooke, Clerk.