The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-09-05
CITY AFFAIRS.
Monthly Meeting of City Council.

Monthly Meeting of City CounciI
The regular monthly meeting of the City
Council was held last evening and the follow
ing business transacted.
BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN.
An invitation was received from the Peaks
Island Steamboat Company to accompany the
directors on an excursion to Cousins Island,
Thursday, and accepted.
communication was received complaining
of the bad condition of Washington street, and
asking that it be repaired. 1t was referred.
Abial Curtis and Rensselaer, Greeley were
drawn as grand jurors, add Charles W. Mason
and Henry A. Davis as petit jurors.
The report of the committee on the continu-
alton of Cumberland street was read and ac-
cepted, and an order passed for the payment of
land damages as reported.
An insane person was sent to the State Asy-
lum.
Patrick Foy and Margaret Mclaughlin not
flied the city that they claimed damages for in
jures received on Fore street.
The annual report of the commissioners of
the Portland & Rochester railroad was received,
which was read and ordered on file.
The committee on claims made long report
relative to the exemption of the Forest City
Sugar Refinery from taxation for a term of
years. Since this abatement was promised it
has been discovered that it it is demonstrations
al,but the committee favored the city's keeping
its promise and an order was passed abating
the taxes as asked for.
The Mayor appointed and the board con-
frmed j. S. Bailey and Calvin B. Phillips as
auctioneers.
The COMMITTEES to whom was referred the
matter of Investigating the Portland & Ogdens
burg and Portland & Rochester Railroad Com
panies, made report and presented the fol.
lowing order, which was passed:
Ordered-That the Mayor appoint, subject to
the approval of the City Council, commission
to consist Of five citizens, who shall, on behalf
OF the city, make an investigation into the af-
fairs of the Portland & Ogdensburg and Port
land & Rochester railroads, and report to the
City Council the purposes for which the pro-
ceeds of the city bonds, loaned to these corpor-
ations, have been expended; the existing con-
dition and future prospects of those railroads i;
what policy should be pursued by the city With
reference to its interests in those ENTERPRISES
whether the city should relinquish all connec-
ton with them and realize upon its interests in
them. and if SO in what manner; what legal
rights the city may have in those railroads;
what portion. if any, of the principal and in
tereSt of the loans to those railroads will prob
ably be paid by them, and what course shall
be taken by the city to provide for the paw
ment of the principal and interest of the city's
ind ebtedness arising from its loans to those
roads; and the said commission is authorized
to employ such assistance as it may deem nee.
essary.
Petitions Presented and Referred-Of E,
Holmes for damages incurred Dy the removal
OF the steps from his house on Bracket street,
the steps being on the sidewalk, which land is
claimed by the petitioner; of John Fits for
permission to erect a wooden building on the
corner of Oxford and Anderson streets; of G,
w. Strout for sidewalk on Owen street; of w.
5. Trefethen ct ais asking that the fence across
the highway on Peaks Island be removed.
Orders Passed-That the grade of CONNER
cial street. from the westerly side line of Plum
street lane to Gross street, be and is hereby es-
tablshed according to the plans of the CITY
Engineer; that the sum of $500 be appropriated
for the entertainment of the Soldiers and Sail
ors on the 9th and 10th ult that the Congress
street sewer entering easterly from the head of
Mellen street be lowered and extended; that
the extension of the sewer on State street
southerly, from Cumberland street to within
100 feet of Deerng street. be and the same is
authorized; that the committee on drains and
sewers are authorized to continue the construc
ooh u eho OiuAn obiCCt scWcE d utSGaUCo OF
II rods and Sc inches westerly from its present
terminus; that the contract of the CITY with
Gardner Dyer & Co. for building a wall on
Free street be authorized; that c. D. Bearce
be paid the sum Of $500 for taking the census
OF the city; that Exchange street from the
Post Ohce to Congress street be paved with
granite; that the children of officers of the U.
5 Army stationed at the forts in this harbor be
allowed to attend the city schools; that so
much OF Vaughan's bridge as requires it be re-
planned; that gas lamp be erected between
Park and State streets. on Danforth.
Papers from the lower board were passed in
concurrence.
COMMON COUNCIL.
Papers from the upper board we're passed in
concurrence.
A Communication was received from the
City Engineer in regard to the position of the
Eastern depot. The Engineer was unable to
decide whether the building was in the street
proper or not, and asked to be relieved from
further consideration of the case.
q. ID. Boyd ct ais. represented that Grav
street is not properly lighted and asked for an
additional gas light on that street Referred.
Line order Tor the market house was taken
from the table on motion of Councilman Cum
ningham and refused passage, 10 to 6. He
also moved that the vote at the last MEETING
tabling the order for committee of conference
in relation to the said market house be taken
from the table, and that the Board concur with
the Aldermen on such committee This mo.
ton was agreed to mem con.
President Small appointed the following as
conference on the part of this Board:
Cunningham, Cousens, Andrews, Marsh and
Leach
IN JOINT CONVENTION.
George Whitehouse was elected pound keep
er; Benz. Cushing, fence viewer; Thomas Muir
ply, constable, and Moses E. Berry, surveyor
of wood.
The convention then dissolved,