The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-04-12
CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
SECOND BRANcH.

Council was nelQ lkst uixns, Iesioeus
Logan in the chair.
fressut-,Messrs. Beltz, Erskine, Goer-
IND. Horkhsimer, Hanke, Hansen, He'll,
Kfnghorn, Nyies, AcGaw, McCourtney,
Pollock, Pryor, Reitz, Harden, Trsyn,d
Vogler, Wilkinson, Warner and Water
house. 49,
The minutes Of the last meeting were |
read and spprosed-A q q ~ -
The. Second Branch concurred in the
made by the First Branch
in relation to paying Contractor Curran.
The bilrof the Gas Trustees against
the City ofWheeling amounting to $l,-
231 As for gas, was referred to the COM
mittee on Lights.
The bill of Il. r. Warner, for rooms
used by the State Senate in the Mcclure
House, was ordered paid 7srso.
; 80. ACCOUNTS.
The committee on Accounts reported
that the balance due the Exchange Bank,
oyerdrawn, was $54,110.43. Also re-
the payment OF bills
amounting to $6246S. The report was
WATER WORKS.
TIE committee on Eatsr Works
recommended the paybashta OF bills
amounting to $4,000 for labor
mentioned IN the SuperinteIdants report
and S42l. go for other expenses. The report
was adopted. with the exception OF that
portion IN regard to laying new water
water pipe IN the Fourth Ward,
which was recommitted to the committee.
The committee on Police reported in
favor of paying bills amounting to
$65.45. The report was adopted.
CITY PRISON. b..
The committee on City Prison reported
the following resolutions, which they
asked to be adopted.
Resolved, That the bills enumerated in
the Superintendent report, amounting
in the aggregate to two hundred and
sixty-eigbt dollars and fifty-seven cents
(268.57,) be paid.
Resoiesd, That committee of three
members IRON the Second Branch end
two members from the First Branch, be
Az pointed to confer with the Commits
sioners of Marshall, Ohio, Brooke, and
Hancock counties as to the ACCESSIBILITY OF
building or erecting workhouse, house
of correction and house of refuge COM
bined, for the joint use of the city OF
Wheeling and the four counties named,
said committee TO make report to this
Council.
Resolved, That the committe on City
Prison be instructed to advertise for pro
posals for the erection of frame or wood
building, of similar size and style as the
present city building, said buisding to be
erected on site to be selected by the
committee on City Prison and the COM
mittee on Streets and Alleys, near the
city Peninsula bridge.
The first two resolutions were adopted
and the third rejected.
The report of Caleb Sylvis, Superin-
tendent of the City Prison, showed that
the number OF prisoners on hand was 20;
received during the month, 40; escaped,
3; average number of inmates per day,
AZ; current expenses for the month,
$26s.57; average cost per head per day,
including expense for cooks wages, pro-
visions, coal and light, 193c. The report
was adopted
STREETS AND ALLEYS.
The report of the Street Commissioner
for the month of March, asking An ap-
preparation of S1,Ol4. so for the payment
of hands for work done on the streets
and alleys, was adopted
The report of the committee on Streets
and Alleys, recommending the payment
of bills amounting to $255.l3, was
adopted. The resolution adopted by the
committee in favor of building foot
path across Caldwelps Run, on Eohf
street, was rejected.
The sum of $500 was allowed Mr..
George Crumbscker for work done on
the Twenty. third and Main street sewers,
on account.
PETITIONS.
OF the Belmont Nail Company for
permission to tap the Main street water
pipe and erect ATTIRE plug, was adopted.
Of Louis Gaus and others, asking that
two classes Offences, one for the sale OF
ale, wine and beer and the other includ..
log all kinds of drinks, was referred to the
committee on Ordinances, to report upon
the expediency Of the same.
OF merchants on Twelfth and Main
streets, requiring the builders Of the
Peoples Bank structure to use some
remedy to prevent the screening of lime,
&C., on the streets, was referred to the
committee on Ordinances.
or E. M. Davis, city Sergeant, and
Elwood Martin, deputy Sergeant, for e1-
penses incurred in the case OF Jerry
NJ les, for illegal arrest, was referred to
the committee on Accounts.
Of John Roebrecht Herman Reimer
and others, asking that reduction be
made in cotfee-house licenses, was refer
red to the committee on Ordinances.
OF Matthew McNabb, for the use of
water for street sprinkling purposes, was
granted.
OF McLain Bros. and others, mer-
chants, asking an ordinance to be enact
ed to prevent loa6ng on streets and
Ordinances, with instructions to prepare
an ordinance TO meet the views OF the
petitioners. A smaller petition from
other parties took the same course.
Ofthe widow Of j. e. Oliver, of Phila-
delphia, who was killed al the Washing
ton Hall fire, asking for assistance, as
she was in needy circumstances, was re-
ferred to the committe on Ordinances.
RESOLUTIONS.
Resotred, That the Street Commissioner
be authorized to reset the curb stone on
the east side Of Byron street, from Twelfth
street to the alley in front Of the Baptist
church, and pave the gutter with stone.
Referred TO committee on Streets and
Alleys.
Resoired, That the Street Commissioner
be instructed to cause the Citizens
Street Railway Company 10 put
their track on level or grade
with the street between 9th and 3lst
streets, on Chspline, said track being
about fifteen inches below the level Of