The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-05-19
CITY COUNCIL.

Pursuant to adjournment the City
Council convened for the transaction
Of business Oh Tuesday, May 18th.
1880, Alderman Sheets presiding:
A petition from John Read, Eight
eenth Ward, vas received, asking the
privilege of using water for domestic
purposes from a small pipe which
conveys water 20 his premises from
the Twentieth Ward water ditch.
Granted, under the direction Of the
Wstermaster and subjec! to limi!a
ton by the Council.
A petition was submitted from
President John Taylor, in behalf OF
the Council of Apostles of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
making application for water from
the city mains foi use upon the
Temple Block for baptismsl and
other purposes. Granted.
A petition from JOS. S. Richards
vas submitted, asking permission to
put q shingle roof upon a One-story
dwelling house located on South
Temple, between East and West
Temple streets and within the fire
limits. II the prayer should be
granted, the petitioner pledged him
self to have the roof thoroughly
painted with the so-cRlled mineral
paint or painted and ssnded, as the
Council might consider best. A dia-
gram accompanied the petition, show
ing the relative position of the con-
templated tuilding to other property
in the vicinity. Referred to the COM
mittee on fire department.
J. NJ. Coyner. by petition, asked |
the privilege OF placing building ma
lerIsl on portion of the street on the |
n eel side Of the lot owned by the
Presbyterian Church, on Second East,
First and Second South
streets, for period Of three months.
Granted under the usual restrictions
n such cases.
JIM. Russell asked By petition the
light TO purchase some land lying on
he north bench OF the city. Referred
o the committee on public grounds.
The city watermaster submitted a
communication stating that be had
Tot complied with the instructions
,ivep him by the Council as regards
urning the water into the ditch Oh
truCted by a building belonging to
dr. Albert Young, in the Eighteenth
Ward, from the fact that the water,
I so turned, would damage property
ther than Mr.. YouDg's, and would
lot accomplish the object in getting !
be water into itg original channel. !
he communication set forth that
ir. Young could not change the
-ater ditch from Its present course
nd still have it located upon his
md, as his building now in course
( Construction covers all the land
wned by him, with the exception of
few inches, but that he had offered ;
} pay for the construction of a ditch
/ the street, if the Council would be
filing to have it located there. The /
atermaster asked instructions as to I
hat course to pursue in the matter. t
a general discussion upon the sub 8
ct was entered into by the Council, !
le prevailing opinion of those men,
ars who had investigated and were !
" III the facts in the case,
eng that the ditch could not be c
)csted in the street from the fact |
lat said street already has the city [
'ater mains located underneath it,
nd IS too marrow to admit of the
ropOsed water ditch and preserve r
De present wagon read. Finally the :
communication Of the watermaster
as ordered to be placed or file, and
lat officer wag instructed to notify
Re parties whose supply of water
ones from the ditch in question, b
, clean the same out and remove c
lerefrom all distractions az required Q
: the irrigation law. 0
George III. Ottingsr, chief engineer {
the f.e department, 10 a Commu- Q
presented the bill Of NSylor a
Tos' for three hose carts, amounting [
1910, ED asked an appropriation
pay for the same, conditionslly
lat the sum so appropriated shall be
,funded to the city treasurer, or as
.uch thereof as possible, from the I
roceeds Of the street sprinkling a
lring the summer months. Bill
lowed and amount go appropriated.
Alderman Piper, chairman OF the :
)mmittee on municipal laws, re- :
JIted back the Dill for an ordinance q
-oviding for q local tax for water
Mks without recommendation, and '
ked that the following opinion of 2
e city attorney upon the legality of
e ordinance be read: 81
CITY ATTORNEYS OFFICE,
Salt Lake City, NAY 18th, 1880.