The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-31
CITY COUNCIL.

At the appointed hour on Tuesday
evening, March SOth, 1850, the CITY
Council convened for the transaction
OF business, Mayor Little presiding:
A petition from Joseph Pollard snC
eight others Vas read, asking that the
stagnant water collected on Sixth
West street, between South Temple
and First South street, be removed.
z lerred to the Matchmaker, with IL
at actions 20 remedy the evil. if the
facts prove to be as stated.
A petilicn vas submitted from
James and Joseph Wato1, setting
forth that they were the lagluI and
only claimants 10 a certain lot in sur
vey plot Q, of which they h2d been
in undisputed possession fer twelve
years. bat upon waich they neglected
to tle at the proper time. The nett
t;ol was accompanied 10y certificate
from the clerk Of the Probate Court,
to the effect that the let specified had
never been claimed By any person, or
filed upon in bis office, under the
townsite act. Referred to the com.
mittee on public grounds.
The same petitioners asked that q
bridge be put across the gulley at the
intersection OF Ounce and Pea streets.
IN the Nineteenth Ward. Referred
to the street supervisor, with instruc
tons either TO put 10 a bridge or q
cClgert whichever an examination of
the locality may prove most advan-
tageOus.
Frank Stanley, by petition, repre-
eented that the county had graded
the road in front OF bis residence on
Second West bstTeen Sixth and Sew
eLtn South streets, leaving a hollow
extending about ten reds, in which
the water accumulaies and in the hot
summer molths becomes stsguant,
an eyesore to the neighboring resi-
dents, and a detriment TO the health
Of his and other families in that
snd asked that the super
visor of streets be instructed 10 fill the
same. Referred to the committee on
streets and alleys.
a petition was received from Thos. |
Aatlmer and otheTs, presenting the |
north bench water committee, askino
hat the action taken by the Council |
lpon former petition presented by
hem, be reconsidsred. inasmuch as by
virtue of said action tire city attorney |
lad prepared a document which they
we're required to sign, before being
assessed as other citizens and having
heir waller distributed by the water
master, the purport OF which docu-
nent WAS to compel the residents of
he north bench to sign away the
lights to the use of water acquired by
actual possession for a period OF
hirteen years. The petitioners were
Wiling to sign an agreement to the
fleet that by reason of Salt Lake
jity receiving their money, IS Prov
led by law, 1t shall not be any further
to them for water, but COLI
idered the document requiring
hem to acknowledge that the waters
Ised by them were surplus waters
rom Red Butte, to be an unreason-
bile requirement ard absolutely
Oreign to the prayer of their petition.
On motion, the action taken on
be former petition of Thos. Latimer
nd others, was recensidered and re-
erred, in connection with their latter
ietltion, to the committee on irriga-
lon-
The bill of the janitor at the City
Iall for March, 1S80-Si5-Wss
flowed.
The bill Cor medical attendance at
be city prison, and other services in |
be marshaPs OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
lso allowed.
An appropriation Of $500 was made
D the Mayors contingent fund, to
e drawn upon the order Of the
1ayor.
The committee on streets and alleys
unlimited a report upon the petition
I Jesse West in relation to the open
Dg of Eighth West street. The COM
nittee recommended that the cor
oration acquire title, by purchase,
D such portions OF the street referred
D las it is not already in possession OF,
nd that the petitioner - Mr..
Vest-be paid for his land at the
anne rate as may be paid to other
and owners in the same locality.
The report was received and laid
pom the table.
4 motion was then made, and car.
led, that the Mayor be authorized to
rocure a title, in the manner pro-
ided By law, to such portions of
Eighth Yves. street as the city has
ot already acquired.
Adjourned till next Tuesday even
lg at the usual hour.