The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-10-22
CoUaCIL PROCEEDINGS.

COUNCIL CHAMBERS, Oct. II. 1876
Regular meeting Of city council
Present-MsyOr BAY, Messrs. Baker
Epstein, Hibben, Bancroft, Watson anG
Nichols.
Minutes OF meetings held Sept. 18th anG
2OIh, Oct. Attn and 9Th read and approved
Reports Of city clerk, and treasurer, fol
quarter ending Sept. 18th, 1879, were reAC
and referred to committee on ways and
means.
Police judges report for August anC
September were read aud ordered filed.
Committee on claims reported An OrdI
nance providing for the payment Of thu
following claims.
E. T. Nichols, salary, $40; E. d. Forde
salary, $25; E. Epstein 4 Co.. for feed
e11.25; n. Mcleod, services as special Pc
liceman, $i4; Ii. B1rdsall, services a
policeman, $40; James Leslie. shoeing
horses, 1895; w. Fl. Gilchriest, street
commissioner, S23; n. BIrdsalI, salary
etc, for August, $4S; Day, Egbert s. Fid'
Ter, blank books, 1856; e. Upton, city
teamster, $40; CoppOck D Co.. hardware
$t0.23; Halleck, Gilchriest & Co., lumber
e12.11.
The committee reported Informally in
presentation Of following claims and they
were referred back for correction, to-wit!
E. j. Jones & Co., water, S14.45; N. Ryno
services at dre, $1.25; E. T. Nichols
claim for boarding prisoners, cit.
The following report was read and laid
on the table temporarily:
To the Mayor and Councilman of The
City Of Ensporid:
Your committee TO whom was referred
the matter Of building and location Tor
. city building, respectfully report:
!. We have received the offer to sell to
the city, lot 2O2 on Commercial street, tor
2. In the opinion Of your committee the
site is desirable and the property cheap.
3. Your committee recommend that
the oder be accepted.
above referred to.
J. e. EPsTEIN,t ro,,
=. NICHOLS
To ths Mayor and Councilman OF tkG
City Of EmpoFiG:
will sell and execute 9 warranty deed
to the city, for my lot, No. 202 on Com.
mercial street corner Of It'll avenue. with
all the material on the same for $500, in
Sept. IS, 1875. Ed. MORRIS.
The ordinance providing for the pay
ment OF claims was then taken up anJ
considered by section under . suspension
Ofthe rules and adopted by unanimous
vote.
Engineers estimate for the construction
OF sidewalks, under ordinance OF July Sth
1875, was read to the council.
The bids for constr uction OF sidewalk
were then opened and read to the eoun
ell, and that Of James Means to do it q
q cents per foot, was accepted, with thG
understanding that il before the actua
construction OF the sidewalks by him,
parties lay . stone sidewalk approved by
the committee on streets and alleys, the
lots where such sidewalks are construct
ed are not to be included in the contract
with Mr.. Means.
An ordinance repeating the ordinance
making tax levy for 1875, and providing
for the following levy was ADOPTED unds
. suspension Of the rules by 3 unanImOu.
vote, to-wit: General purposes, I'VE mills
for payment Of interest, i've mills; fol
paying judgments against the city, on,
and One-half mills.
NJ hiooon " a mere excused from tn
council.
Report Of Messrs. Epstein aud Nichols
in regard to city building was then tn
ken up.
Mr.. Watson moved that the report b,
adopted; motion seconded by Mr. Ep
stein. The motion was carried by tn
following vote.
YeAs-Aessrs. Epstein, Watson, Mich
oils.
NAys-Messrs. Bancroft and Baker.
Mr.. Bancroft introduced the following
resolution which Was adopted:
| Res0lCed, That the committee o.
streets and alleys be instructed 20 inquIr'
and report At the next meeting Of tn
council the cost Of repairing the flag ston
| gutter on Commercial stree8 between 81
and 9th avenues. L. II. FOKDE,
City Clerk.