Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-05-06
!. Common Council Proce edinxs.

Regular meeting. MAY 3, 1880.
Present-His honor, the Mayor, ane
Aldermen Wilbour, Giles, Page, Phillips
Proceedings of last meeting were read
and approved.
PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS.
The following bills were approved and
ordered to be paid:
| D. O'Leary, labor erecting street lamps.$ Sc
Patrick Geraghty, labor as street COM
Thomas Riley, salary as chief Of police
Olsen 8 Malmberg, painting St. lamps. o.
NICK kolle, nightwatchman for April" 20 00
nan ali ana . Anderson, rent room for Coun- 80 M
Gil. April May June IL 90
d. II: Stimson, fees as deputy sheriff
ana boarding prisoners 80 Al
+. A. Engle, judge March election third
The following bills were referred to
committee on bills: H. B. Corey, sheriff s
fees, $40; b. F. Jones, witness fees, case
l.. Geraghly, SLIP; Taylor & Bali, oil
and sundries, $4.O5; E. j. Griffith, witness
fees, suit Heffner, $500; Edwin Ingells,
witness fees, suit Heffner, $3.12; Benz.
Eyre, witness fees, suit Heffner, $3.12.
REPORTS OF OFFICERS.
l.. N. Griffith, J. p, reported $37. 10
nnes collected three months to April 3,
with City Treasurer's receipt for the same.
Report accepted and ordered on file.
Street Commissioner Geraghty reported
by Treasurer's receipt 80 cents collected
for repairing sidewalk lots "a and 25,
block SO, Austin village. Accepted and
ordered on file.
REPORTS or srANn1Nc cor,,,rrprs
Alderman Page, of committee on fin
ance, to whom was referred on April 10,
! 1880, the bids by Fl. O. Basford, w. A.
! Hotchkiss and G. H. Davidson to do the
city printing for the ensuing year, report.
ed as follows:
"The Finance Committee, to which was
referred the bids for city printing, have
examined the same, and find that the bid
Of G. H: Davidson, publisher MOWER
COUNTY TRANSCRIPT, IS, in their opinion,
the lowest, and they recommend the
acceptance of his bid"
HARLAN W. PAGE,)
f faSn r; a M5s'00n' Finance Com.
report accepted and ordered on file
ana, on mo,ion,C. H. Davidson, publisher
OF the MOWER COUNTY TRANsCR1PT, was
declared to be the city printer for the
ensuing year.
Alderman Page, Of said com mittee, also
reported on coupons as falling due during
the present month, and moved that an
Greer be drawn in favor of First National
Bank Tor $6O, to pay coupon due the 9Th
on bond No. II. Carried. Also moved
that an order for $3.50 be drawn upon til,
maturity of coupon due the 18th, on bono
No. IL, to pay said coupon. Carried.
Alderman Wilbour reported the ap
proval of the committee on bills upol
the following referred bills:
L. Dettelbach. Sec. 81. & L. Co., salary
one year, to March, 1880. 0
one year, to March, 1880 ...........,'. a O
a.; w: Klmball, fees clerk court, suit
4e1 ner: OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
G. H. Davidson, city printing ............... A 8
Reports accepted, and bills ordered t,
be paid.
| MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS.
} AldermaniGles called up for considers
tlon the matter of lighting the stree
lamps: Thereupon Alderman Pag
moved that it is hereby declared to b
the duty of the nlghtwatch of the 1st an
"a wards to light the street lamps" Ca
ried
BY Alderman Phillips, that the chic
Of police employ Nick Kolle, or som
proper person, to FIJI and clean the stree
lamps, at compensation not to excee,
81 per month. Carried.
f by Alderman Page, that the City r.
corder be instructed to advertise for pre
posals to furnish oil for the street lamp
to April l, 1881, bids to state by the ga
Ion. Carried.
Street Commissioner Geraghty GALE
the attention of the Council to the flool
ing of Bridge Street bridge as being in
. Worn condition. Thereupon the matte
was referred to the Committee on Side
walks and Bridges with power.
And the Council adjourned.
ROBERT GRIFFITH, City Recorder.