The Portland daily press., 1877-02-06
CITY AT FAIRS.
Regular Monthly Meeting of City Conn
Gil.


es OF the city government was held last even
Ing and the following business was transacted
BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN.
John Bradford asked permission to build al
addition to building on Commercial street FOL
an office and it was referred.
line Committee on Judicial Proceedings ant
Claims reported that they were unable to agree
as to whether the house of Bishop Healy on
Congress street should be exempt from taxa
ton, and asked to be discharged from further
consideration of the case.
The Portland & Rochester Railroad Com
pany having failed to pay the interest on bonds
issued by the city for payment of interest on
city bonds in aid of said company, amounting
to the sum Of $685., it was ordered that the
| City Treasurer be and he is hereby authorized
to hire sum sufficient to make good the estl
mated income of the present financial year.
and to issue bonds for the amount required, not
to exceed the sum of $4,000, to be dated March
1st, 1877, and payable twenty years from said
| date with interest at the rate of six per cent
| per annum, payable on the first days of March
| and September each year.
Charlotte Hammett reported that she should
claim $4,000 from the city for injury Incurred in
| falling upon the sidewalk.
| The petition for laying out Charles street
was taken from the table and after a sharp dis
cuss;on the street was laid out
Susie L. Davidson reported that her husband
| fell ON The sidewalk on Exchange street recent
| ly and broke his leg, and she asked the city to
pay him what was proper for the injury.
A communication from the City Auditor in
formed the Board that the appropriation for
contingent expenses is exhausted.
An invitation from the Samaritan Associa-
ton to attend their assembly was accepted by
the Board.
The tax on the property of the Portland Wa.
ter Company was abated for the years 1874 and
1875, agreeable to an order passed in 1870.
Orders Passed-The City Treasurer was
authorized to sign lease with Messrs. Kendall
q Whitney for the use of the store under the
Old City Hall for $1,000 per annum for three
years; that the auditor be authorized to
transfer to the credit of the Street Departure ct
the sum agreed upon between the Street fire
department for hauling the engines to fires, the
amount being 81 800; that all subordinate city
officers who are required to make an annual
report except the city treasurer and auditor be
directed to submit their reports, on OF before
the fifth day of March next; that the Joint
standing committee on finance be directed to
request at the next regular meeting of the
City Council such amendment Of the provision
OF existing ordinances as required not less than
per cent. of the existing city debt, to be raised
Oh the annual tax as in the opinion of said
committee will best enable the city to provide
a sinking fund for all its liabilities and to meet
the interest on all its obligations by the annual
tax; that the assessment upon the property of
the Portland Shovel Company for the CLARK
street sewer be abated and 10 lieu thereof, an
assessment be made for the payment of the
Canal street sewer; that the joint standing
committee on streets, sidewalks and bridges is
hereby directed to report at the next regular
meeting of the City Council, such amend.
ment to Section y of the ordinance on streets
relating to paving as in their opinion the in
terest of the City requires; that the City
Treasurer be and he hereby is authorized to
pay the interest coupons due on the first day
of March next on bonds of the City, issued in
aid OF the construction of the Portland &
Ogdensburg Railroad, and for that purpose he
is also hereby authorized to hire on the credit
bonds to said amount either coupons or
registered payable in twenty years from the
first day of March, with interest at the rate
OF SIX per cent. per annum, pay able on the
first DAYS of March and September.
The following ordinance received its first
reading:
1t shall be the duty of the Commissioner of
OtrtotS U6iOro purchasing new prop 3rty OF QnV
kind for the city, when the cost of such proper
ty exceeds the sum of $25, or before procuring
any repairs costing more than said sum upon
the property OF the city, to first obtain the ap-
prevail an writing of the chairman of the Joint
Standing Committee on Streets, Sidewalks and
Bridges, and all such purchases or repairs ex-
ceeding the sum of $500 shalt first be authoriz-
ed by vote of the City Council, and any ex-
penditure upon any street at any one time ex-
ceedipg the cost of $50 in labor or material
shall firsS be authorized by SAID committee, and
any such expenditure which will exceed the cost
of $500 shall first be authorized by vote of the
City Council, and it Shall be the duty of the
Commissioner Of Streets when thereto requested
to report t. the said committee the number of
men employed by him, the nature of each
mans employment and the amount of his
wages, and the said committee is authorized to
require the discharge from service of any indi-
viduals employed by the Commissioner of Streets
or to reduce the rate of wages if in the opinl ION
OF said committee the good of the city requires
such discharge or reduction in pay.
The following ordinance received its first
reading:
Be it ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen and
Common Council Of the City of Portland, an
City Council assembled, as .tolloaos:
SECT. Amy person, persons or corporation
desiring to manufacture, refine, mix, store
ship, or keep for sale any fluid or oil CO imposed
wholly or in part of any of the product of pc
city of Portland, shall make an application in
writing to the Board of Mayor and Alderm en-
for license therefor, and shall state in such
application the locality, building or part of a
building for which he desires license and the
purpose for which he desires such license. Such
application shall be referred to the Chief En-
gineer of the Fire Department, who snail by
himself, or Assistant Engineer, examine said
building and report in writing his opinion of
the propriety of granting the license applied
for.
SECT. 2-No license shall be granted for man
ufacturing, refining, mixing, storing, shipping
or keeping for sale any of the articles enumer-
ated in Section upon any alley, street, side
walk or wharf within the limits of Portland,
nor in any building used in whole or in part as
a dwelling house, nor upon any floor Of a build
ing above the first floor. And any of said ar
ticles kept in any building above the cellar
shall be kept in metallic vessels securely closed,
and no license shall be granted for the sale of
any of said articles which has not been inspect
ed (by an officer appointed for said purpose by
the Board of Mayor and Aldermenl nor unless
said articles will bear fire test of at least one
hundred and twenty degrees Fahrenheit with
out ignition or explosion.
SEC. st shall be unlawful to keep in any
one building any of the articles enumerated in
Sec. l, or any explosive or dangerous illuminat-
ing substances in greater quantity than 30 bar
rels of 45 gallons each, that will not bear fire
test of.at least 1900 Fahrenheit, and no greater
articles shall be kept in any one building upon
the first floor thereof and none of said articles
shall be kept stored in front of any building or
on any street, alley, wharf lot or sidewalk for
longer time than IS sufficient to receive ia
store or in delivering the same: provided such
time shall not exceed six hours.
Sec. All of the articles enumerated in
Sections 1 and 8 may be broaght on the cars
entering the westerly end of the city as far as a
point 500 feet northwesterly from the Rolling
Mills bridge and may be stored or shipped be-
tween that point and the P. & O Railroad
bridge; and such articles may be brought on
the cars entering the Easterly end of the city
as far west as Fish Point and no further, and
may be stored or shipp-d between Fish Point
and the Grand Trunk Railroad bridge on the
northeastery side of Munjoy's Hill: provided
hewever that until the 31st of December 1877,
such articles may be brought as far west as
Galts wharf for i'm Immediate shipment, from the
lower end of said wharf, between the hours of
a. N. and 6 p. m., in quantities not exceeding
six car loads at time, or three car loads on
each track, none of said articles to be left upon
any wharf after 6 p M, nor after business
hours, and all vessels as soon as loaded to be
hauled out into the stream.
SEC. Especial permits may be granted by
the board of Mayor and Aldermen for shipment
of the aforesaid articles from other points in
the city subject to the restrictions as to quanti
fins mo 2ro in no dipero