The Portland daily press., 1875-10-05
CITY AFFAIRS.


Regular Meeting of the City Council.
Last evening both branches of the City Coun-
Gil met to attend to the usual business.
BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN.
All the members of the Board were present.
The report of Messrs G. e. Barrett and s. E.
Spring, Commissioners of the Atlantic s. st.
Lawrence railroad sinking fund, was presented.
The fund amounts, principal and interest, to
$160, 1913, July 81, 1876 invested as follows:
Mortgages on real estate $31 900; City of Port
land bonds $123, 500; other city bonds $500;
cash on hand $2,264.25. From this SO, OO4. 81 is
deducted as ''credit balance of premium &C.
count" The report was placed on file.
The report of Messrs. E d. Daveis and q.
E. B. Jackson, Commissioners of the Portland
& Rochester railroad sinking fund, was pre-
sented. The principal and interest of the fund
amounts to $51, 713.22; principal and interest
on the city loan of 100000; and $1O,441 on the
loan of $450,OOO. The sinking fund is invested
in city bonds. The report was placed on file.
Orders passed-Authorizing the building of a
brick sidewalk in front of Mr.. Flaritys brick
house on Madison street; also from No. Is
Washington street to Marion street; also on
the eastern side of Emery street, from East
mans lot to Spring street; order locating street
lamps on Neal street; also at the corner of
Avon and Deering streets; an order fixing a
hearing on the petition of s. J. Anderson ct
ais, for sewer in Prospect street, on MONDAY,
Nov 1, at p. m.
Petitions presented and referred-Of Deering
heirs ct ais, to widen Sherman street by add
ing five feet, and to widen Grant street BY add
ing ten feet; of N. o. Cram ct ais, for lamp
post at corner of Danforth and Tate street, Of
W. 81. Purrington for permit to build an eli, to
his house on Danforth street; of Ed Moore to
move wooden building on Cumberland street,
near Washington street; of Cyrus Lowell for
victualler's license; of j. W. Chandler for side
walk on west side of Smith street, between
Cumberland and Oxford; of T. W. Rich ct ais.
for lamp on Elm street, between. Cumberland
and Congress; of occupants of city market
that the city lot embraced between Market
Silver, Milk and Fore streets, be cleared Of rub
bsh: of Barnard Daily for compensation be-
cause he bid too low for putting in sewer on
Free street; of w. 81. Phillips ct ais, for sewer
in Salem street, between Bracket and Clark
streets; of Patrick McGinchy & 20 ais. for
of Florence Mccarthy that tax laid upon COOP
erage business in 1873 be abated, on the ground
that he was not in business at that time; of
Samuel Gribben for recompense for damage
sustained by reason of change of grade on La
fayette street.
His Honor nominated and the Aldermen con-
firmed s. D. Ring as special policeman without
pay, and John Mulloy as undertaken.
Cyrus Lowell was licensed as victualler.
COMMON COUNCIL.
Petitions presented and referred-Of W. D.
Mariner for lamp on Congress street, near
Ellsworth; of VIM. Allen, Jr, for lamp post
on corner of Avon and Cumberland streets;
an order providing for street lamp at corner
of Wilmot street and Dyers Lane, was referred
to the Committee on Street Lamps.
The papers of the upper Board with the or
dinance relating to the shipment of dead bodies
were passed in concurrence
IN CONVENTION
Willard F. Hicks was elected weigher of
grain, and Joseph 81. Poor, Ed. B. Poor, R.
Williams and Addison Goodhue were elected
weighers of coal.