The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-10
cry COUNCIL.


Application Other Matters.
second Branch.
Council met In regular monthly session
last night.
On motion, Mr.. Alfred Caldwell was
called to the chair.
Present: MeSsrs. Arkle, Caldwell Alfred,
Ewing, Fisher, Handlan, Haller, Hamil.
ton, jefferson, Kimberly, Larkin, McNasbt
Reeves, Simpson, Vockler, Walt, and
Warehouse. -
The minutes OF the last meeting were
read and signed.
REPORTS.
Ciy Ctsrk.-The following 10 the report
OF Alex. Updegratf, City Clerk:
~ respectfully report to your honorable
body that during the current fiscal year,
commencing on the lst day Of May, 1870,
and up to the 1st day OF December, 1879,
the expenditures on account OF the DIFF.
ierent committees have been as follows:
Streets Alleys aud Grades .......,... ...s20a21 "
Fire oog Y
Water V,3lS u
F90 "
Which amounts, when compared respec'
lively with the amounts as fixed by orli'
nance as necessary TO meet the expense o.
the city on the said accounts during the
current fiscal year, shows q balance still
standing to the credit OF the different
committees, as follows:
Streets, Alleys aud
Fire Department" go q
Water Works.. $3.50 y
IUVJ "
There will be presented to Council thil
evening bills amountingto about 81 900 fol
work done on the streets, alleys ant
grades OF the city for November, 1870. II
will be noted that when $2,672 A shal
have been paid upon such bills the whole
amount Of money appropriated for thu
use OF the Committee on Streets, Alley
and Grades for the current year will have
been absorbed. A. UPDEGRAFF.
Findnce.-The committee reported tina
they had examined the accounts Of J
j. Jones and others, as commissioners o
the 1890 loan and believe the same 10 b.
correct. Four hundred and forty.fou
coupons, amounting to 81, 900, being the in
terest on said loan due and paid by him
March /, and September ], 1879. Tht
committee authorized the mutiation O
five bonds Of 81, 900 each, by Mr.. Jones, o
said loan, and to return them thus mutt
lated 10 the City Clerk, to be placed will
the other bonds in the bond book.
The committee further reported settle
ment with Mr.. ]. j. Jones and other Pub
lie Building Commissioners, and that the,
had received twenty bonds, OF $500 each
| o.I ono nn,onYn ,,,l,sol, 6nj Hoo. 4
over to the City Clerk,
The committee also reported that theS
had arranged with the Exchange Bank 70
further loan OF such amounts as Coun
Gil may order, on the same terms rs befort
reported, viz: 30 days at 9 per cent. In
terest.
accounts This committee reported tina
they had examined the accounts OF til,
City Receiver and City Clerk for Novem
Der, and found them correct. The com
mittee recommended that the ordinanc,
in regard to the payment Of bills be fol
lowed out, as some bills were paid direct
~ and others indirectly. Such payment
should be uniform.
Bills amounting to S0S0l were ordered
paid. The committee asked for addition
al compensation for ". D. English, Cit,
Assessor, and j. B. fancy, City Collector
for extra services.
Water Uorks.-Certain persons were al
lowed a reduction OF water rents.
The petition Of James McAdams ant
others, as to the statue OF the coal con
tracts of ?. L. Kimberly with the city, wa
considered by this committee, which re
turned that it would be improper for an,
change TO be made. Adopted.
Equalization and AppeaLs-This com
mittee made supplemental report of re
ductions allowed.
City PriSon.-This committee reported
bills amounting to S225 O., for November
which we're ordered paid.
Accompanying this was the report of TIT
Superintendent, Thomas Stanley, for tn
month OF November, showing the nnmbe
Of prisoners 10 be IS.
Cemeteries. committee made thei
usual report and presented bills amount
ing to SIPS, which were ordered paid.
Real ESidh.-This committee presented
bills amounting to $40 10, which wer
ordered paid.
City ScrtOn.-P. HeiSer presented his re
ports Of burials and receipts for inter
ments for November, which were orderet
filed.
MarktE.-This committee made its usua
report.
HeaM.-This committee reported q
usual, with bills amounting to ST. 50
which were ordered paid.
SPECIAL GAS INVESTIGATION.
This committee made the following re
port, which was adopted:
To his Honor, The Mayor, and members Of IL
City Council,
GENTLEMEN.-Your Joint Special Com
mittee, appointed to investigate the affair
Of the city gas Office, etc., beg leave to re
port their labors so far advanced that OF
the 9th inst. they were able 10 dispens,
with the services of their clerk, Major NJ,
B. Q. Wright. Since their last report t
Council he has been of duty forty.twC
days, for which period, OF course, he was
not allowed pay-the actual number o
days employment between July Sth anC
December 9th, being 100 days, for which
his bilis herewith returned. It is proper
TO state that during the last six weeks o.
his labor, the clerk was under direction o.
the city's attorneys in view OF the proba
BILE trial OF Maxwell & King at the recent
term OF the Circuit Court.
In the civil suit OF the city vs.. Maxwell
and King, attachments have been levied
on certain real estate and mill stock oil
King, which are OF considerable value,
though not one half, perhaps, the amount
Of the losses suffered by the city.
The said defendants moved to postpone
the hearing OF this case until after the trial
Of the criminal case, because Of tho effect
Of verdict in the civil case might have
on the jury in the criminal case. This
motion was extensively and ably argued,
and for some time considered and then
overruled. The defendants have since
secured the continuance Of the civil suit by
swearing TO the absence OF their material
witnesses.
The case Of the State VS.. Maxwell and
King has been called to the attention Of