The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-03-14

CRY CouNu1-SEccND BRANcH.-ThO
Council met In regular monthly session
last night, Present in Second Branch al
roll.call: Adams, Campbell, Deiters,
Fisher, Forbes, Goodfellow, Hanson,
Horkheimer, Logan, MyleS, Pollock, Rid
die, Simpson, stoker, Wait, Yahn, Mr.,
President,
WATER.
The Superintendent Of the Water
Works reported bills aggregating $5l2GO;
the Committee on Water Works, bills
amounting to Sal 90. The bills were or
dered paid. The committee also made a
number OF recommendations In regard TO
the disposal Of petitions for reduction Of
water renta, which were adopted.
TIE CITY PRISONERS.
The Committee on City Prison report.
ed bills for the month OF February ag'
gregating 1922 TO-. The committee
recommended the appointment Of spe-
cial committee TO obtain the right Of way
to continue the eth street cut through the
hill without expense to the city. The
bills were ordered paid, and the report
adopted.
The Superintendent OF the City Prison
reported: prisoners received during the
month, 80; discharged, AZ; escaped, 3; now
confined, SO; tramps received during the
month, 8; discharged, II; now on hand,
Q; time made by prisoners, G3G days; by
tramps, 300 days; total, sos days. The
time was put in as follows: for Street
Commissioner, at loading stone, so
days; At Capitol building n days; Al city
building 2S days; the remainder Of the
time at the prison, quArrying and break.
ing stone. About 800 perch OF stone were
quarried and broken. The report was
adopted.
STREETS AND ALLEYS.
This committee recommended the pay.
ment Of bills aggregating $3.50 50. The
following are the most important recon-
mendations Of the committee: Instruct
ing the Street Commissioner TO pave the
guttersin all cases where curbing is set
by order OF Council, and in hia monthly
reports TO Council 10 state the amount Of
work done by him in the sew.
eral wards Of the city; ordering
the City Surveyor to furnish the
Committee on Streets and Alleys a plan
and specifications for stone arch bridge
over CaldwelPs Run on Chaplinc street,
the arch to be 20 feet clear in the span
and as wide as said street at the site Of
the present bridge, and that the commit.
Tee as soon as practicable procure bids for
building said bridge, at the point now oc.
cupied by the old bridge, and report
bids to Council; referring the communica-
ton Of the Street Commissioner in rela.
tion to certain parties trespassing on the
streets Of the city to the Board OF Claims.
The recommendation OF the committee
in relation TO the Caldwelps Run bridge
was discussed Mt length, and finally laid
on the table by the following vote:
IEAs-Adams, BOwn, Cowden, Ca.
rother, Fisher, Hanson, Logan, Myles,
Reeves, Riddle, stoker, yockler, Wait,
Handlan-l4.
NAYs-Deiters, Forbes, GoodielIow,
Horkheimer, Pollock, Ritter, Simpson,
Yahn-S.
This disposition Of the resolution il due
to the fact that the matter had been re.
ferred to special committee at the last
meeting Of Council, which committee had
notsubmitted report.
The report, with the above exception,
was adopted.
FINANCE.
The Committee on Finance, to whom
the First Branch recommitted portion
OF their report made Feb. 20, together
with their report OF the city's indebted
ness, with instructions from the City
Solicitor that it was their duty. to make
due inquiry and report the amount of the
debts that were to be provided for by the
1880 loan, together with the amount OF
bonds the city can sell in accordance with
the provisions OF the act Of the Legisla.
tnre governing the issuing OF bonds, re-
ported the total amount OF the bonded debt
Of the city as S5G7 1856; overcheck on Ex-
change Bank, bearing interest on monthly
balance Of s per cent $l04. 1G5 IS; interest
on the Capitol loan, S3,4GS rs; drafts in
transitu, S9,455 50; total, s6S5,O77 So.
They reported the value Of the city pro.
perty per assessors books for State and
county purposes, $3.50 so; FIVE per cent
on same, S870,594. From this sum should
be deducted $1,000 in the hands Of the
Collector, which leaves q constitutional
margin Of Sl2l,5l64S. The committee
offered the following resolutions, which
were adopted:
Resolred, That the Commissioners OF the
1880 loan be and are hereby authorized
TO sell $4,000 OF the bonds authorized
TO be issued by theordinance Of the city
Of Wheeling entitled IAN Ordinance to
provide for the issue and sale Of bonds Of
the city Of Wheeling" etc.
ResOlrcd, That the said Commissioners
are authorized and instructed out OF the
proceeds OF the sale OF said bonds to pay
off and discharge the over.check of the
Receiver Of the city on the Exchange
Bank Of Wheeling, in the sum Of SlO4,.
l6S IS, with the interest thereon until
paid, and also that OF the outstanding
orders OF the city to the amount Of
3d. 55 80, with the interest thereon.
The committee asked further time to
report upon the practicability Of funding
all or any part OF the bonded indebted.
ness Of the city with loan bearing less
rate Of interest.
SCALES.
The Committee on Scales recommended
that the scales in different parts OF the city
be awarded to the following persons
First Ward scales, Mrs. p. E. Beam, al
Sl26 so per annum; Second Ward scales
Geo. Robinson, $50 per annum; Fourth
Ward 10y scales, John Casey, S677 per an.
mum; Bodley scales, S. n. Herst, $50 per
annum; Fifth Ward scales, Jos. Parker,
sos per annum; Seventh Ward scales,
Thos. Gray, $3.50 per annum; Eighth
Ward scales, Edward Jones, SSi per an
mum.
The committee also recommended that
they be directed to purchase and erect on
some convenient place in the neighbor.
hood OF ID street city coal scales, and
that no weIghmaster be allowed to confer
his powers or duties as Wsighmaster on
another, unless such parties be sworn as
deputies.
The report was adopted.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.