The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-05-22
LOCAL LEGISLATION,

regular session, Mayor Cabell presid'
Ing and all the aldermen present
The minutes Of last meeting were
read and approved
The mayor delivered "A messuage
relating 10 the market ordinance,
Alderman Newa0m moved that II
be referred 10 tho committee on
markets.
Bids for CITY printing were received
and read, and Aldermen Darlington,
Shone, Holland and Sheldon appointed
on the committee. The bidders were
tho Volks Hiatt, Commercial and THE
HERALD.
Alderman Newsom moved that the
committee DO allowed further time In
which 10 make their report, Carried
A communication was read from W,
II. CASTOR, president OF the Dallas and
wichita railroad.
DALLAs, TExAa, May n, 1878,
10 tho Mayor aud board of Aldermen
GENTLEMEN undersigned would
beg 10 call your attention 10 my nppli'
cation presented 10 your honorable
| body sometime since, IN regard To H.
suing and delivering the city bonds TO
the Dallas and Wichita Railroad com,
pany. II seems that the point named
In said application IN Indefinite and
not fully Understood 10y your board aud
the company, and that tho company
might fully understand M 10 what
point the rOnd shall be completed IL
before tho bonds shall or Will DO dellv'
cred. We have requested that your
railroad committee go upon the
grounds and designate the point, and
M learn they have done this, ! would
ask their communication or report be
heard.
[Slgned1 W. II. dAsT0N,
President OF the Dallas and Wichita Rail
road Company.
Report OF committee on ways ant
means asking that Marshal Morton b'
allowed twenty dollars for keeping o
his horse read and adopted.
Report of committee on streets ant
bridges read and adopted.
The report OF the committee on tn,
petition OF G. n. and w. j. Keller, ask
Ing for right OF way for street railwa,
along Preston, Swiss and Ervay street
to Pacific avenue, recommending tina
II be granted, was read.
Protest OF Colonel John M. Stem
mons, protesting against grant
Ing the same, was read.
Alderman Holland moved that tn,
report be received and further actor
upon the report OF the committee b,
postponed until the next regular meet
ing. Carried.
The report OF the committee or
streets and bridges, in reference to tn,
petition OF Mr.. Ewell, and recon-
mending that the same be not granted
was read and adopted.
The report OF the committee on tn,
petition Of w. N. Orr, granting tn,
same, was adopted.
The report of the committee In ref
erence to the exchanging OF city prop
erty with Mrs. s. IL, Cockrel, ana rec
ommending the adoption Of the same
was read and adopted.
Alderman Mcintyre moved that the
Judgment recovered by Josiah Curtis
against the city be paid as coon as sufii.
Client funds accrue in the treasury.
Adopted.
The report of the committee on jour
nails was read and adopted.
The committee on fire department
asked for further time in which to re-
port, which was granted.
The report of the committee ON rail.
roads was read.
10 the Honorable Mayor and Board OF AL.
dermen, OF the city OF Dallas:
Your committee on railroads would
submit the following communication
BY request OF the president of the
Dallas and Wichita Railroad company,
we visited the terminus of the road,
for the purpose of designating some
point rs the Highlands"
On reaching the cambridge we find
1t to DO one-half to three fourths of q
mile In width, at the point crossed by
the railroad.
We are of the opinion that this place
Is nineteen and one.half miles from
Dallas, and is the point that should be
designated as the "Highland;" and
that the track Of the road should be
laid to a point designated by post
oak stump on the west side of the rail-
road marked Ike" which ia about
four hundred feet beyond section
lOOlx3l5, rs shown on profile OF said
road.
Your committee would recommend
for adoption the following resolution
Resolved, That on the completion of
the Dallas and Wichita railroad to "A
point designated by mark "XCn on
a stump on the west side of the road,
about four hundred feet beyond sec,
ton 1O0lxSl5 of said road, that the
mayor authorize the trustee, w. III,
Thomas, to deliver to the president of
the Dallas and Wichita railroad com,
pany the city of Dallas bonds now
held in trust, provided that If by the
10th OF June, 1878, the iron now held
by the president or contractors has
been laid by them, and there has not
been sufficient quantity furnished to
carry the road to the point designated,
hen the mayor shall order the bonds
delivered to the president Of the Dal>
as and Wichita railroad cOmpanS.
p. b. SHELDON, Chm'n,
NJ. NJ. NEwSoM,
j. II. CALDWELL,
Alderman Darlington moved that
he report be amended so as to read
hat the bonds will be delivered when
hey reach the twenty-mile point, II
cached In time to save the charter.