The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-09-22
CITY COUNCIL.

oO0tuSS al tue Olty COUNCIL @
tuesday evening, September 21s
: 1880, Mayor Little presiding:
. Ths committee on construction c
. the Jordan and Salt Lake City Cans
!. reported that 81, $50. 40 had been dia
e oursed during the month of Angus
? on account of construction, right @
way, guarding, interest on borroEel
money and other expenses pertaining
70 the canal. Referred to the com
mittee on finance.
The committee on finance reported
, that they had examined aud checked
; the accounts as sat forth in the
auditors quarterly report, compared
them with the books and vouchers il
the auditors Office, and found them
correct The receipts reported by the
auditor fully agreed with the amount,
received by the treasurer; the re-
ported disbursements correspopded
with the warrants of the auditor, and
DO warrant had been issued except
upon appropriation by the Council.
The committee, therefore. RECON-
mended that the auditors report be
ADOPTED as q correct exhibit of the
corporations financial condition fer
lhe quarter ending August 31st,
1851, and as such be published in
accordance with the requirements OF
the city charter. Adopted.
The committee on wsterWorks re.
ported On the petition of John Barnes
and others. which asked an extension
OF the waterwoTks down East Temple
street distance OF one block beyond
their present terminus, and recon-
mended, in consideration OF the peti-
TONERS not baviDg offered any assist
ance towards deiraying the expense
OF such extension, that the prayer Of
the petition be not granted. Adopted.
The same committee reported
upon the communications OF Joseph
A. West. sgen! of the American Pipe
Company, who proposed to furnish
the city with wooden piping for ex
tending the wa!erworks. The COM
miItee had concluded, alter giving the
matter consideration, that the
difference in cost between wood
and iron piping was no; sufficient to
iustify the city in making the change
and the proposition OF Mr.. West,
they therefore recommended, be rot
accepted Adopted.
The committee on streets and
alleys. to whom was recommitted e |
report 10 relation to Fruit street, with
instructions to have the street
surveyed, reported back the surveyors
statement "a follows:
SALT LAKE CRY, Sept Both, 1880.
M. 4. Il. Raleigh, Chairman of Com
mtttee on Streets and Alleys:
Fruit street, plot I, Sal. Lake City
Survey was originally surveyed five rod |
street IN width. This stone wall on the |
north side at the eat end of said street is |
on the original line, the board fence at
the west end on the north side is two and |
a half feet in the street, the cemetery
wall on the south eide is eight and a |
quarter feet in the street aud the lamt |
barn Is nine and a quarter feet in the
street. Very respectfully,
JESSE w. Fox, JR.,
City Surveyor,
Salt Lake City.
Accepted and placed On file
The committee on public grounds,
to whom was referred the petition OF
a committee on behalf OF the Chan |
cellor ard Beard of Regents OF the
University c: Deseret, asking the
Council t. donate them a piece of
and upen winch to cree: the Uni
gersity building for which an appro-
pristion Was made 10y the last Lagis-
Iature, submitted report in relation
to the matter, aud afterwards asked
cave to Withdraw 1t for the insertion
IF certain amendments. On motion,
he leave Was granted, ard the report
Ess Withdrawn.
The committee on claims reported
pack the respective quarterly reports
ii the street supervisor and water
master, with the recommendation
hat they be accepted and the expen-
litures approved, the committee
laviDg found them to be correct and
ocular. They also recommended that
be balance due each account for the
mounts expended in excess OF the
jouncil's appropriations be sppro-
iristed and applied to cancelling said
'slsnces. Adopted.
The street supervisor submitted an
of the cost of bringing
D grade. covering with ssphsltum
nd constructing the culvert OF the !
ideEslk on toe south side OF First
Outh between East and West Temple
treets, which report, after considera-
ion by the Council, wss Withdrawn
Or revision and the insertion OF an :
stimAte of the cost OF making a por- G
ion OF the culYert required of stone. {
Appropriations we're made as fol- 2
)ws: To tie contingent fund OF the {
$1,000. to be drawn upon
he orders of the superintendent
hereof; to the contingent fund OF the
lperviser, to be expended on street |
improvement account, and drawn 8
pom the supervisors orders, and TO !
be WatermRster's contingent fund
800, to be drawn upon his orders and
expended for the regulation and con.
-ol of the waters flowing into the
ity.
The bill foT an ordinance in rela-
on to water motors and elevators,
hitch was made a special order for
at this meeting, was L
4 motion, again laid over for one t
eek.
Upon ediourning. the Council
'ent into session as a Board of Equal
alton.
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