Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-04
LOCAL NEWS.
Board of Aldermen.

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 Regular Monthly Meeting-PetttiOnl
 Head and Referred-SeWers Ordered
 -Pavements to be Laid and Repaired
 Other Matters.
 A regular monthly meeting of the Board O Aldermen was held last evening, His Homo Mayor Bigelow presiding.
 Petitions were read and referred as follows Of Thomas Forsyth for a sewer on Stat, street, between East and Mill River streets for Q sewer in Lombard street for grading O Lincoln street for paving of Congress ave nue :; for grading of Hedge street; for side walk on Chestnut street for lamp corner o Hedge and Eddy streets; for sidewalk on Car lisle street; for paving of Spireworth squar with concrete; of Anson Hatch for relief iron assessment
 Recommendation of the Board of RoaG Commissioners for grading of Carlisle street Referred.
 Petition for repairs on Hazel street. Rs ferred
 Resolution instructing the Court of Com mon Council to apply to the next Legislature to limit expenditures on East Rock Park al $6, GOO year was read and tabled temporarily
 Resolution appointing a commission to in quire regarding repairs on the old State House Passed
 Report of Committee on Claims rscom- mending that assessment on Thomas Baggotte property for opening of Veto street be abate d. Report accepted and order passed.
 Alderman Drisoon called from the table the resolution appointing Michael Fitzpatrick a member of ths Board of Compensation.
 Alderman Baldwin nominated Willis G. Judson for the position.
 The roll was called and Michael Fitzpatrick received 14 votes and Willis G. Judson 3.
 Mr. Fitzpatrick was declared elected.
 Resolution calling for the purchase of land for 0 city dumping ground near Neck bridge HUn fakGY }ha fphIA and motion of Alderman Robertson the report of the commit tee wns rejected.
 His Honor the Mayor appointed Aldermen Shelton and Waddock committee on the old State House.
 Report of the Committee on Claims In favor of paying Ann Doherty $1OO for dam ages by fall on the sidewalk. Passed.
 Report of Committee on Claims in favor of abatement of taxes of Horatio N. Prindle. Passed.
 Report of Committee on Claims de petition of John Coghlan. Passed.
 Report of Committee on Sewers in favor of a sewer on Union street, from Wooster to Court street. Passed.
 Report of Committee on Sewers in favor of a sewer on Elm street 235 feet sastsrly from Park street Passed.
 Report of Committee on Sewers in favor of a sewer on Whalley avenue from Garden street to westerly line of land of John Gilbert Street. Passed.
 Report of Committee on Lamps in favor of gas lamps on east side of East street, between Locust and Myrtle streets; for @ lamp on Cedar street, entrance to Hospital ground; for lamp on Norton street between Whalley avenue and Elm street. Passed.
 Report of Committee on Nominations in favor of appointing Nathan A. Myers Sunday watchman at the Jewish cemetery. Passed.
 Report of Committee on Nominations ap- pointing John 0. Ritter director of the City Burial Ground was read
 Alderman Robertson said he was in the minority regarding the appointment of Mir. Ritter because he, the applicant, was in the marble business, and he thought no one en- gagged in this business should be on the Board. He moved that it be tabled until next meet ing. It was so voted
 Report of the Committee on Sewers in fla vor of Q sewer on Lafayette street was read and laid on the table temporarily.
 Report of the Committee on Sewers in favor of sewer on Whalloy avenue, between Ooun- ty and Norton streets :; passed.
 Report of Committee on Sewers in favor of rebuilding the sewer in Grand street, from East to Franklin streets passed.
 Report of Committee on Sewers in favor of a sewer on Lyon street, from Jefferson to Bradley streets passed.
 Report of Committee on Streets in favor of a Belgian pavement on Water street, from Bridge street to Custom House Square, or If the appropriation is not sufficient, from Bridge street tn Franklin street, WAS read and passed.
 Tho vote restricting the expenditure of $6,- 900 for East Rock park was taken from the table on molten of Alderman Woodhouse.
 Alderman Woodhouse remarked on the mo ton. He said the charter as 1t now stood gave the city 8 minority representation. As 1t WAS evident that the city was to appropriate the largest amount of the money, they should have majority of the directors or commis- -sz Axr- charter be amended so that the city have 8 majority Of the commission. He said the donors commissioners were really appointed for life, and they could on the simple donation that they had made really control the whole matter fer life. He did not think this was right. He called for tho reading of the park charter.
 Clerk Morse obtained the charter and read 1t to the Board.
 Alderman Armstrong asked how the charter came to be passed by the Legislature different from that agreed upon by the Court of Con- mon Council.
 His Honor said there was some mistake about it, but he did not know how it arose.
 Alderman Harmon said there was proviso, es passed by the Court of Common Council that not more than SC, 900 should be appro- priatsd in any one year, and by some "Ghen- nanigin" 1t was left out. While favoring the park project, he would not vote dollar un- loss that proposition was complied with.
 His Honor replied that in his opinion it was purely mistake that the proviso was not in- corporated in the charter.
 Alderman Baldwin said he had no doubt that there had been an honest mistake made on the part of the Corporation Counsel in drafting the charter.
 Alderman Shelton said the charter would never have been approved by this court unless the proviso named had been incorporated in 1t.
 Alderman Drisoon inquired if the St, 900 proviso, the charter as whole, was spread upon the records.
 He was informed by the clerk that such was the case, but that no certified copy of the charter was provided the Corporation Counsel, as he did not request it.
 The following resolution offered by Alder man Harmon was passed.
 Resolved, That the Corporation Counsel be instructed to apply to the next General As- sembly for such legislation as will amend the East Rock Park charter, so as to limit the expenditure of money by the city of New Haven for the East Rock Park to the sum of $6, ,OOO.
 Report ot the Committee on Nominations recommending that Patrick Smith and others be appointed special constables was read, and they were 80 appointed.
 Report of Committee on Streets in favor of indefinitely postponing the petition of the Rapid Telegraph Company to erect telegraph
  ter be referred to the road department with instructions to see that suitable poles are erected, and to cause all unsightly poles to be removed and the poles to be painted, was passed.
 Report of the Committee on Streets In fla vor of a sidewalk on Kimberly avenue from land of D. L. Daggett
 Report of Committee on Streets in favor of grading and curbing Wilson street, both sides. Passed.
 Report of Committee on Streets in favor of relaying sidewalks on George and other streets Passed.
 Report of Committee on Streets in favor of cobble gutter and curb on Washington street, east side, to West river. Passed.
 The matter of a sewer in Lafayette street, from Prince street to Silver street, was taken from the table.
 Alderman Dillon spoke In opposition to the sewer. He stated that the majority of the re- monstrants had been treated with perfect in- difference in the whole matter, and the com mittee had seen fit to recommend the sewer in opposition to them.
 Alderman Bartlett in reply said the petition was signed by two-thirds of the property owners on the street, and the committee were