The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-04-28
CITY COUNCIL.

Pursuant to adjournment the CITY
Council conveaed for the transaction
of business on Tuesday, April 81
1880, Mayor Little presiding:
a petition was received from ]. L.
Rawlins and six others, residents o.
the Eighth Ward, asking the extern
sion Of the water mains from their
present terminus on First South street,
one block south and one block east,
and Offering 70 advance in the sggre-
gate about $3.50 towards the improve
ment, to be refunded to them in
water rates after said pipes shall have
been extended. Referred to the COM
mlttee on water works.
A communication wac received
from Rev. R. NJ. Kirby, stating that
on Monday afternoon, May 81, the
corner stone of st. Psul's Episcopal
Chapel will be laid under the auspices
of the Masonic fraternity, and inviting
the City Council to be present on the
occasion and take part in the cere,
mOny as guests. The invitation was
accepted. and the recorder requested
to acknowledge the courtesy ex-
tended.
Bill of Davis, Howe & Co., 1920,
for Installing a new lamp post in the
place of one broken By accident, vas
allowed.
The street supervise was instructed
to ascertain the amount of the assess
ment necessary to bring to the es-
tablished grade and pave or gravel
the sidewalks, heretofore reported
upon as requiring said improvement.
and report at the next meeting of the |
Council.
The committee on finance, to
whom was referred the report of the |
committee on construction OF the
Jordan and Salt Lake City Canal for
March. reported the same back, with
accompanying vouchers, as correct,
and recommended that said report
be accepted and placed on file.
Adopted.
The feasibility OF the two routes
proposed for the Jordan and Salt
Lake City Canal from Big Cotton
wood to this city was considered, and
the relative merits of each discussed,
after which it was moved and carried
that the committee on construction OF
the canal be instructed to make an
OF the cost of both the
lines suggested and report their re-
spectlVe advantages TO the Council.
The committee on irrigation, 10
whom WAS referred the petition OF
d. G. Young and others, asking that
the stream of water running through
the premises of Bishop LID. Young,
in the Eighteenth Ward, be renewed
to the public street, reported unfavor-
ably upon the proposition to remove
the stream 10 the street for the rea.
sons that such removal would not
only injure the road for travel and en-.
danger the main pips of the city
which is laid in said
street, but would also deprive q por-
ton OF the inhabitants of the Eight.
zenith Ward OF the water to which
they are entitled for irrigation. The
committee, however, recommended
that petitioners have the privilege of
changing the course Of said stream
10 suit their accommodation. on con-
iition that the new ditch be
at their own ex-
Dense, On their own land, the
right of way to be
secured to the city in writing, and {
hat the work thereon be executed
lnder the direction and to the &c
3ep!auce of the city watermaster;
,iso that another stream sufficient TO
supply t2e residents above mentioned. L
De permitted to cross said land, and
The right of way to this likewise Sc
cured in writing TO the city, and I
work thereon be done subject to the |
approval OF the Wate.master. Report l
adopted.
On motion. the mayor was author
zed to appoint a standing COMMITTEES
IN enrolment.
The committee on municipal laws 6
back the preamble and reso- 6
utions authorizing the issue of coupon i
bonds, which were read, and pending |
action on their passage. the Council I
Adjourned until next Tuesday even {
ng, at the usual hour. II
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